Patents Examined by Amancio Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11265673
    Abstract: A method of providing location services at a location server for a venue includes: receiving a request for location service, where the request for location service comprises at least one of a first identification of at least one mobile device or an identification of a target area; and sending a response, where the response comprises at least one of a second identification of at least one mobile device or an identification of a geographic area, where at least one of the first identification of at least one mobile device, the second identification of at least one mobile device, the identification of the target area, or the identification of the geographic area comprises a venue-specific identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen William Edge, Andreas Klaus Wachter
  • Patent number: 11265792
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for aerial vehicle state transition configuration. One apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (902) a state transition configuration corresponding to an aerial vehicle from a base unit. The apparatus (200) includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (904) a state transition report to the base unit based on the state transition configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co. LTD
    Inventors: Jing Han, Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang
  • Patent number: 11265750
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for network management, device and system and a computer-readable storage medium, and belong to the technical field of communication. The method includes that: first measurement configuration information is sent to a target terminal device in a high-speed-railway dedicated network; first measurement report information from the target terminal device is received, the first measurement report information being obtained after the target terminal device performs cell measurement based on the first measurement configuration information and the first measurement report information including cell type information of a cell measured by the target terminal device; and a network management is executed on the target terminal device based on the cell type information. According to the present disclosure, functions of the high-speed-railway dedicated network are enriched, and the flexibility in the use of the high-speed-railway dedicated network is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11265783
    Abstract: Disclosed are a handover processing method, a network device, a terminal device, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: when a first network device located in a first system network or a first core network is connected to a terminal device, the first network device establishes a candidate connection between the terminal device and a target system network or a target core network, wherein the candidate connection is used for handover to the target system network or the target core network when the terminal device meets a preset condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhua Liu, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11259218
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for maintaining and transferring context information for a Dual Connectivity (“DC”)-capable User Equipment (“UE”) and a secondary Next Generation Node B (“gNB”) in situations where the UE is connected to a primary gNB and the secondary gNB and is handed over to an evolved Node B (“eNB”). The context information may be provided to the eNB without releasing resources or tearing down bearers at the secondary gNB, such that the UE may seamlessly continue communicating with the secondary gNB while a primary connection associated with the UE is handed over from the primary gNB to the eNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Jignesh S. Panchal, Frank Jager, Maqbool Chauhan
  • Patent number: 11259229
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an electronic device. The electronic device can include transceiver circuitry and processing circuitry. The transceiver circuitry can be configured to receive signals from wireless service provider networks. The processing circuitry can be configured to detect, from the signals, a high speed rail (HSR) signature of one of the wireless service provider networks. The HSR signature can indicate that the one of the wireless service provider networks is a first network for a high speed rail usage. The processing circuitry can also be configured to determine a mobility of the electronic device based on the signals in a time duration. Further, the processing circuitry can be configured to selectively camp on a first cell of the first network based on the mobility of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhang, Yen-Chen Chen, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yih-Shen Chen, Chi-Yuan Peng
  • Patent number: 11246078
    Abstract: A mobility management optimizing function in a wireless network receives geographic location information associated with a user equipment device (UE), wherein the UE is associated with a vehicle and generates a predictive handover schedule based on the received location information. Handover processing is initiated based on the predictive handover schedule, wherein initiating the handover processing comprises: transmitting one or more handover initiation messages to a plurality of cell sites in a service provider wireless network at times based on the predictive handover schedule, wherein, upon receipt of a handover initiation message, the plurality of cell sites will initiate handover processing based on the received handover initiation message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Egemen K. Çetinkaya, Frank Jager
  • Patent number: 11240775
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communications method and device to implement an inter-system network handover in the case of flexible registration modes of a terminal device. The method includes: determining, by a first network device in a first system, a registration mode and/or a supported registration mode of a terminal device, where the registration mode is a single registration (SR) mode of registration with a single system or a dual registration (DR) mode of registration with dual systems, and a first cell in the first system is accessed by the terminal device; and determining, by the first network device according to the registration mode and/or the supported registration mode of the terminal device, a procedure that needs to be performed or cannot be performed for the terminal device to access a second cell in a second system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11234210
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to determine by a network node of a serving cell of a communication network signaling including at least one parameter indicating that page reception on a paging channel of a neighbor cell can be performed by a network device without system information acquisition by the network device; and send the signaling toward the network device. Further, a method and apparatus to receive by a network device of a communication network from a serving cell signaling including at least one parameter indicating that page reception on a neighbor cell by a network device can be performed by the network device without system information acquisition by the network device; and based on the signaling, listen for a paging message on a paging channel associated with the neighbor cell without system information acquisition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Jürgen Hofmann, Hartmut Wilhelm, Muneender Chiranji
  • Patent number: 11234178
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for high data mode operation in cellular networks. A UE may determine, for an interface to a high-speed cellular network, a categorization from a plurality of categorizations, determine availability of the high-speed cellular network, and select, based at least in part on the categorization and availability of the high-speed cellular network, the interface for a data connection to the high-speed cellular network. The categorization may be one of expensive or not expensive and/or one of a first level associated with a higher compression codec rate or a second level associated with a lower compression codec rate. The UE may receive, from one of the a low-speed cellular network or the high-speed cellular network, carrier plan information for a cellular data service carrier and analyze the carrier plan information to determine desirability of a switch, e.g., from the low-speed cellular network to the high-speed cellular network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, Patrick L Coffman, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Ajay Singh, Faraz Faheem, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Lakshmi N Kavuri, Samuel J Miller, Najeeb M Abdulrahiman, Rajesh Ambati, Arun G Mathias, Vivek Ramanna, Divyaprakash P Bhojkumar, Vikram B Yerrabommanahalli, Rafael L Rivera-Barreto, Sergey Sitnikov, Oleg M Moskalenko, Bao Q Ho, Rohan C Malthankar, Samy Touati
  • Patent number: 11229007
    Abstract: The present application relates to the application field of communication technologies. Provided are a message transmission method, apparatus and system. The method comprises: obtaining two sets of paging transmission information, the two sets of paging transmission information comprising paging transmission information of a relay user equipment (UE) and paging transmission information of a remote UE, the paging transmission information being used for indicating the transmission position of a paging message, and the relay the UE being a relay device between a base station and the remote UE; and sending the paging message to the relay UE according to the two sets of paging transmission information. The present application can reduce the network signaling overheads. The present application is used for paging message transmission in a mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11228895
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for determining the mobility state of user equipment (UE), UE and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: when a UE enters a connected state for a short time, keeping maintaining a movement state evaluation variable, and determining a movement state thereof based on the movement state evaluation variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11223993
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for mobility handling during Vehicle-to-Everything (“V2X”) communication. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that communicates using a first V2X resource while in a first serving cell having a first radio access technology. The processor a processor detects a mobility event of the first cell and switches to a second cell in response to the mobility event, the second cell different than the first cell. The processor communicates using the first V2X resource on the second cell until a trigger condition occurs and switches to a second V2X resource in response to occurrence of the trigger condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Karthikeyan Ganesan, Joachim Loehr, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11218934
    Abstract: A base station switching method for a source base station includes: receiving a measurement report sent by the unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the measurement report comprises information used for indicating a target base station to which the unmanned aerial vehicle requests to switch; when determined to switch to the target base station according to the measurement report, sending a switch request carrying first information to the target base station, wherein the first information is used to indicate that a terminal requesting the switch is an unmanned aerial vehicle; when receiving a handover request acknowledge returned by the target base station, performing a switching operation from the source base station to the target base station. As such, the source base station achieves a base station switch for an unmanned aerial vehicle, ensures continuity of service for the unmanned aerial vehicle, and broadens the application range of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11218940
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cell reselection method and device, and a storage medium in the field of communication technology. The cell reselection method includes: a terminal acquires cell reselection parameters carried in a system message of a target cell. Since the cell reselection parameters of the target cell are set according to terminal speeds, the terminal takes its own speed into account when determining the signal quality of the target cell according to the cell reselection parameters. That is, the terminal selects one cell from a serving cell and at least one neighbor cell for residence after considering its own speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11206564
    Abstract: A method of processing measurement information, a terminal, and an access network node are provided. The method is applied to a multi-connection system. The method includes: acquiring, by the terminal, measurement information on at least one frequency other than a serving frequency of a second access network node; and transmitting, by the terminal, the measurement information on the at least one frequency other than the serving frequency of the second access network node to the second access network node, where the at least one frequency other than the serving frequency of the second access network node includes a serving frequency of a first access network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Yang
  • Patent number: 11197122
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a first notification of an unmanned aerial system (UAS) flying in an area. The method also includes sending a second notification to multiple mobile devices of multiple users located in the area, where the second notification requests the multiple users to look for the UAS. The method further includes receiving information about the UAS from one or more of the mobile devices of one or more of the users, where the information is obtained by the one or more mobile devices. The method also includes determining an assessment of the UAS based on the information about the UAS received from the one or more mobile devices. In addition, the method includes sending a third notification to at least some of the mobile devices, where the third notification includes information regarding the assessment of the UAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Moro, Jr., John M. Bergeron
  • Patent number: 11197215
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing core High Availability (HA) for a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: providing a first node, a second node and a third node; allocating a set of locally generated Tunnel Endpoint Identifiers (TEIDs) for UEs anchored on the second node; detecting, by a first node, a second node having a connectivity issue; and migrating a User Equipment (UE) connected to the second node to a third node which is accessible; using the set of locally generated TEIDs to identify the UE migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Manisha Sameer Gambhir-Parekh
  • Patent number: 11191112
    Abstract: The vehicle communication system includes a management server and an in-vehicle communication device. The management server manages a plurality of access points for communication relay. The in-vehicle communication device is mounted on a vehicle and is capable of wirelessly communicating with the access points. The in-vehicle communication device transmits, for example, travel route information indicating a travel route to a destination of the vehicle to the management server. The management server transmits access point information indicating the access points connectable, to the in-vehicle communication device using the travel route information transmitted from the in-vehicle communication device and a congestion level of the access point. The in-vehicle communication device connects to the access point using the access point information transmitted from the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Nishizaki, Shingo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11191054
    Abstract: An entity, such as a mobile device or base station, measures downlink position referencing signals (PRS) occasions or uplink position sounding referencing signal occasions for supporting estimating the position of the mobile device. The entity, for example, performs a plurality of positioning measurements from a plurality of consecutive PRS occasions received in a bundle from one or more base stations or from a mobile device. Each PRS occasion may include one or more slots and may be narrowband or non-narrowband. The bundled, e.g., consecutive, PRS occasions may be transmitted with a periodicity that is sufficient to maintain a desired throughput. Moreover, with the use of bundled PRS occasions, power consumption of the mobile device, as well as effects of clock drift and mobile device movement, may be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Saravanan Suresh Kumar, Tae Min Kim, Sven Fischer