Patents Examined by Angelica M. Perez
  • Patent number: 10251051
    Abstract: A method for providing a multi number service using a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) comprises the steps of: according to a command received from the outside of a UICC, selecting any one subscriber identification information set among a plurality of subscriber identification information sets stored in a memory allocated to a subscriber identification information set managing application; and activating the selected subscriber identification information set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: KONA I CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chung Il Cho, Sung Hwan Kim, Young Min Son, Chang Yong Choi, Joo Yeol Oh, Hyun Sung Hong
  • Patent number: 10244377
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for reversing the conventional roles of central and peripheral devices in a BLE network. Doing so includes implementing an end node (EN) as the sole initiator of a connection between a particular EN and other components within the network. Such initiating is controllable by the network so as to effect a transfer of EN functionality among one or more of the other components. Implementation of the transfer depends on a network controlled timing determining functionality of all network components. Accordingly, the network is enabled to effect the power consumption of those components in an effort to optimize use of their respective power resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: LINK LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Bloechl, Scott Wohler, Ricardo Luna, Jr., Patrick Li, Brian Emery Ray
  • Patent number: 10237799
    Abstract: A wireless network control apparatus including a receiver configured to obtain a network information of a first-standard network, a processor configured to determine an instruction information which includes the network information that is of the first-standard network and that is obtained by the receiver, and a transmitter, configured to send the instruction information determined by the processor to a second-standard network, so that the second-standard network sends the network information of the first-standard network to a terminal, where the terminal works in the second-standard network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xun Yang, Rui Ni
  • Patent number: 10236928
    Abstract: A protective case for a mobile device having a molded multi-layered construction is disclosed. The case includes a mobile device cavity that is configured to receive and retain the mobile device and a storage cavity that extends internally from an upper portion of the case to a lower portion of the case. The lower and upper portions of the case are hinged to one another to facilitate access to the storage compartment. The exterior back surface of the case is configured to conceal the existence of the storage compartment. Other and various unique aspects relating to the construction, configuration and manufacture of the case are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Incipio, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Tu, Timothy Hemesath
  • Patent number: 10231185
    Abstract: A device operation method and an electronic device for supporting the same are provided. The method includes establishing a communication channel with an external device, receiving request information for requesting to activate a sensor of an electronic device in connection with executing a function of the external device, and activating the sensor in response to the request information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Soo Lim, Hyuk Kang, Dong Hyun Kim, Tae Gun Park, Jae Bong Yoo, Jong Ho Choi, Jeong Min Park, Seung Young Jeon, Duk Ki Hong
  • Patent number: 10225703
    Abstract: There is provided a communication circuit through which it is possible to acquire information about a service available in an active communication mode and a passive communication mode if a connection of near field wireless communication is established in the active communication mode, the communication circuit configured to have an active communication mode and a passive communication mode that are provided as communication modes of near field wireless communication, and configured to, when a connection of the near field wireless communication is established in the active communication mode with another device, receive information about a service that uses the passive communication mode from the other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Teruyama
  • Patent number: 10225714
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for transmitting, storing receiving and/or retrieving identification information or data and/or pairing information or data between accessories or associated products and smart electronic devices into and/or from any distinct server or storage media. Accordingly, the present invention enables the user to transmit and/or store all identification information or data and/or pairing information or data of accessory or associated products that have been connected or paired to an existing smart device into a distinct server or storage media, and enables those information or data to be retrieved and/or received from the said server or storage media, into the same or another smart electronic device for the purposes of establishing and/or maintain connection and/or communication with the said accessory or associated products without the need to reinitiate the pairing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SALUTICA ALLIED SOLUTIONS SDN. BHD.
    Inventors: Yoon Shing Pan, Kean Hoo Chong, Wee Yeoh Tan, Chang Tih Ho
  • Patent number: 10217044
    Abstract: A method for tuning a radio transponder having an antenna, a transceiver unit and a resonant circuit connected to the antenna, wherein the resonant circuit includes a plurality of capacitors arranged in parallel, where each capacitor is arranged in series with a fuse, where a capacitor is switchable via a fuse arranged in series to tune the resonant circuit, and where a control unit associated with the resonant circuit is configured to produce a switching signal for a respective fuse of the resonant circuit based on a control signal transmitted by a radio transponder reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Janos Gila, Martin Jahn, Martin Schiefer
  • Patent number: 10212657
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein relate to broadcasting on a wireless channel. An example method includes generating, based on data, a data signal including one or more data packets, where each of the one or more data packets is a non-connectable and non-scannable data packet. The method further includes generating a plurality of RF signals of different frequencies using an oscillator circuit, directly modulating at least one of the RF signals, based on the data signal, to generate a modulated RF signal, amplifying the modulated RF signal, and broadcasting the amplified modulated RF signal on the wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventor: Robert Francis Wiser
  • Patent number: 10212666
    Abstract: Disclosed is a UE and a method for controlling the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Bi, Dageng Chen, Rongdao Yu
  • Patent number: 10212755
    Abstract: A wireless access point controls Discontinuous Reception (DRX) parameters for User Equipment (UE). The wireless access point wirelessly exchanges wireless communications with a plurality of UEs comprising High Power UEs (HPUEs) and non-HPUEs. The wireless access point determines a number of the HPUEs and determines a number non-HPUEs experiencing RF interference above an RF interference threshold. The wireless access point compares the number of non-HPUEs experiencing RF interference above the RF interference threshold to the number of HPUEs and when the number of non-HPUEs experiencing RF interference above the RF interference threshold exceeds the number of HPUEs, then the wireless access point modifies the DRX parameters for the HPUEs to a low DRX parameter setting. The wireless access point wirelessly transmits an instruction to the HPUEs indicating the modification of the DRX parameters for the HPUEs to the low DRX parameter setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Hemanth Balaji Pawar, Krishna D. Sitaram, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas
  • Patent number: 10177796
    Abstract: A receiver has a receiving unit to receive a radio signal, a signal detector to detect a reception signal in each of a plurality of set periods shifted in time to be overlapped in a partial period, and a demodulating unit to perform demodulation processing based on the reception signal. The signal detector has a smoothing unit to smooth the output signal of the receiving unit in each of the plurality of set periods, a comparing unit to output a signal obtained by comparing a level of the smoothed signal, with a threshold value, and an initializing unit to initialize the signal smoothed by the smoothing processing unit, every time the comparing unit compares the smoothed signal with the threshold value, and the demodulating unit performs the demodulation processing based on the smoothed signal determined to be the threshold value or more by the comparing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Junya Matsuno, Hidenori Okuni, Masanori Furuta, Tetsuro Itakura
  • Patent number: 10172167
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device for making a connection with an external electronic device and a method of operating the same. A method of operating a first electronic device includes acquiring virtual device information associated with a second electronic device and connection information between the second electronic device and one or more third electronic devices, which is generated based on the virtual device information, and making a connection with the one or more third electronic devices through short range wireless communication by using the virtual device information and the connection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dong-Hyun Yeom, Tae-Ho Kim, Seok-Hyun Yoon, Ju-Ah Lee
  • Patent number: 10171639
    Abstract: An electronic device with extendable strap and different communication modes depending on the state of the strap comprises a shell, at least one rotating mechanism, a strap, a sensor, and a processor. The shell defines at least one first receiving cavity, the rotating mechanism is received in the first receiving cavity. One end of the strap is wound on the at least one rotating mechanism. The rotating mechanism is able to rotate and store spring force under a driving of the strap. The sensor communicates with the processor to determine the state of the strap according to a rotation direction of the rotating mechanism and thus determine whether the strap is retracted to allow touch screen input by a user, or extended to switch to voice communication with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian-Dong Hu, Zhi-Jun Shi
  • Patent number: 10165486
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose a multiple-communications-standard transmission method and apparatus. The method includes when both a WLAN communications standard and a wireless cellular communications standard are available, sending, by a transmit end supporting multiple communications standards by preferentially using the WLAN communications standard, a service flow of a service session to a receive end supporting multiple communications standards. The method also includes in response to that a first switch condition is met, switching, by the transmit end at a data link layer, to using the wireless cellular communications standard for continuous transmission of the service flow, where the first switch condition includes at least that a WLAN communication link fails in communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yungang Li, Rui Ni, Chenghui Peng
  • Patent number: 10165454
    Abstract: A radio communication system, a radio station, a network operation management apparatus, and a network optimization method are provided that can optimize a performance of the entire system even when network optimization is performed individually. In the radio communication system including multiple radio stations (10, 20, 30) and network operation management apparatuses managing the radio stations, network optimization is autonomously performed. A first radio station (10) notifies first optimization information regarding network optimization in a cell (10a) of the first radio station to at least one of another second radio station (20/30) that is different from the first radio station and a network apparatus that manages the second radio station (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Yoshio Ueda, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10158751
    Abstract: A method of performing a notification event at a headphone device includes receiving, at the headphone device, a wireless notification signal. The wireless notification signal is received from a transmitting device including a camera sensor, a display and a touchscreen interface. The headphone device is selected to receive the wireless notification signal in response to a touchscreen event occurring at the transmitting device. An image including a representation of the headphone device is composed by the camera sensor and is presented on the display. The touchscreen event includes receiving a touch input via the touchscreen interface. The method further includes determining the notification event to be performed at the headphone device by decoding the wireless notification signal. The method further includes performing the notification event indicated by the wireless notification signal at the headphone device in response to receiving the wireless notification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vitor Henrique Leal Mesquita, Lucas Correia Villa Real
  • Patent number: 10142007
    Abstract: A device a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: an antenna configured to operate in a plurality of operation modes; a receiver configured to receive a first channel signal and a second channel signal using the antenna; and a mode switching circuit configured to switch an operation mode of the antenna if the first channel signal fulfils a first channel specific criterion or configured to switch an operation mode of the antenna if the second channel signal fulfils a second channel specific criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Christian Drewes, Pablo Herrero, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 10142137
    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of full duplex compensation with a self-interference noise calculator. The self-interference noise calculator may be coupled to antennas of a wireless device and configured to generate adjusted signals that compensate self-interference. The self-interference noise calculator may include a network of processing elements configured to combine transmission signals into sets of intermediate results. Each set of intermediate results may be summed in the self-interference noise calculator to generate a corresponding adjusted signal. The adjusted signal is received by a corresponding wireless receiver to compensate for the self-interference noise generated by a wireless transmitter transmitting on the same frequency band as the wireless receiver is receiving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Jeremy Chritz, Jaime Cummins, Tamara Schmitz
  • Patent number: 10136307
    Abstract: A method for providing a multi number service using a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) comprises the steps of: according to a command received from the outside of a UICC, selecting any one subscriber identification information set among a plurality of subscriber identification information sets stored in a memory allocated to a subscriber identification information set managing application; and activating the selected subscriber identification information set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: KONA I CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chung Il Cho, Sung Hwan Kim, Young Min Son, Chang Yong Choi, Joo Yeol Oh, Hyun Sung Hong