Patents Examined by Angelica M. Perez
  • Patent number: 10128677
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, after a mobile terminal has recognized a type of a power adapter, the mobile terminal actively initiates a quick charging request, and negotiates with the power adapter via handshake communication to determine charging parameters. The power adapter charges a battery of the mobile terminal via a multi-stage constant current mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen Tian, Jialiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10122420
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for wireless communications between integrated circuits or integrated circuit dies of an electronic system. In an example, an apparatus can include a first integrated circuit die including a plurality of integrated circuit devices, a second integrated circuit die including a second plurality of integrated circuit devices, and a conductor device configured to wirelessly receive a signal from the first integrated circuit die, to conduct the signal from a first end of an electrical conductor of the conductor device to a second end of the electrical conductor, and to wirelessly transmit the signal to the second integrated circuit die from the second end of the electrical conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Thorsten Meyer, Andreas Augustin, Reinhard Golly, Peter Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 10123154
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus to utilized a network of wireless transmission units (PTUs) to communicate between devices connected to the network through each of the PUTs. In certain embodiments, a plurality of PTUs are interconnected into a Local Area Network (LAN) such that messages may be broadcast to all PTUs connected to the network. Each PTU may then relay the broadcast message to each of the mobile devices being under its charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Remi Laudebat
  • Patent number: 10097053
    Abstract: Using inductive currents to wirelessly charge a device via a device connected to a power source. This inductive charging may result when a first mobile device recognizes a second mobile device via a wireless connection (e.g., Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Near-Field Communication (NFC), or the like). An application stored on the first mobile device may recognize a second mobile device by transmitting an advertising packet when the first mobile device is connected to a power source. An advertising packet may be received by the second mobile device and the second mobile device may transmit a response to the advertising packet in order to generate a connection between the first and second mobile devices. The response may include data such as, connection strength, response time, connection preferences, and the like. Upon detection and connection, the second mobile device may be wirelessly charged by the first device via inductive charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Koeppel, Tyler Locke, David Wurmfeld
  • Patent number: 10091741
    Abstract: A power control method and a power control device for terminal device-to-device communications, and a parameter transmission method includes: determining at least one terminal which is outside a base station coverage range and interferes with a base station; acquiring, by the base station, signal strength information about a measurement signal sent by each terminal of the at least one terminal when the measurement signal reaches the base station, and configuring a corresponding power control parameter for each terminal according to the signal strength information; and sending, by the base station, the corresponding power control parameter of each terminal to a synchronization source terminal within the base station coverage range corresponding to each terminal, so as to send the power control parameter to a corresponding terminal by the synchronization source terminal, so that each terminal conducts power control using the corresponding power control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Nanchang Coolpad Intelligent Technology Company Limited
    Inventor: Yiqing Cao
  • Patent number: 10091638
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing connection latency are described herein. More particularly, this specification relates to shortening connection latency between devices operating according to a Bluetooth protocol. Connection latency can be reduced by using the receipt of a wireless packet as a trigger for selectively accelerating a transmission rate of advertising packets. By selectively accelerating the transmission rate advertising packets, a connection interval between two devices can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Liang-Yun Wang, Martin Ünsal
  • Patent number: 10064045
    Abstract: A method for managing subscriptions on a security element for a mobile end device comprises the following steps: for each subscription of a plurality of subscriptions a quality of service is determined. On the basis of the qualities of service determined for the individual subscriptions a subscription is selected. The selected subscription is subsequently employed for a data communication of the end device with a corresponding communication partner. The method is wherein the managing of the subscriptions is controlled at least partly by an external subscription management device which is distinct from the security element and the end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
    Inventor: Leif Östling
  • Patent number: 10028331
    Abstract: A user terminal transmits and/or receives downlink traffic through cellular/WLAN aggregation by using a first communication and a second communication. The downlink traffic is divided into traffic for cellular communication network and traffic for WLAN. The user terminal further transmits an uplink control signal through the cellular/WLAN aggregation by using the first communication and without using the second communication. The user terminal further notifies the base station of a report regarding the second communication by the first communication. The report indicates a radio link failure in the second communication and includes a reason for the radio link failure. The reason includes a first reason and a second reason. The first reason relates to a radio environment in the second communication. The second reason does not relate to the radio environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Chiharu Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Adachi, Yushi Nagasaka, Kugo Morita, Katsuhiro Mitsui
  • Patent number: 10028326
    Abstract: A method for setting up and operating a multiple communication link in a wireless communication apparatus, which includes a first wireless transceiver and a second wireless transceiver, includes setting up a first communication link according to an IEEE standard 802.15.1 using the first wireless transceiver. The method also includes setting up a second communication link according to an IEEE standard 802.11 using the second wireless transceiver, and setting up a third communication link according to an IEEE standard 802.15.1 using the first wireless transceiver, on a channel of the second communication link. Moreover, the method includes simultaneously operating the first communication link, the second communication link and the third communication link, wherein the second communication link and the third communication link are both simultaneously operated on the same channel of the second communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Kellermann, Martin Arend
  • Patent number: 10021649
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for modifying connected mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) cycle length based on mobility and signal conditions. According to some embodiments, a wireless device may establish a radio resource control connection with a base station providing a cell of a cellular network. A C-DRX configuration may be established with the base station, including selecting a C-DRX cycle length. One or more conditions configured to trigger the wireless device to request C-DRX reconfiguration may be detected. The one or more conditions may be based on mobility and/or signal conditions of the wireless device. A request for C-DRX reconfiguration to the base station may be transmitted based on detecting the one or more conditions. C-DRX with the base station may be re-configured based on the request for C-DRX reconfiguration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Venkateswara Rao Manepalli, Sarma V. Vangala
  • Patent number: 9980229
    Abstract: A method for operation of a battery consumption analysis server communicatively coupled to a plurality of mobile devices over radio channels to receive packages of data recorded at each mobile device containing application use, and battery charging and discharging events. By receiving independent sets of information from the mobile device wherein independent sets comprise at least one of wireless phone activities and battery use, combining this information in such a way that the battery consumption or over consumption of specific applications are identified, the apparatus and method configures a display to identify the correspondingly bad applications to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY IP, LLC
    Inventor: Alberto Gutierrez, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9979068
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, circuits and methods related to low-loss bypass of a radio-frequency (RF) filter or diplexer. In some embodiments, a switching network circuitry can include a first switch that has an input pole configured to receive a radio-frequency (RF) signal, a pass-through throw configured to be connectable to the input pole to allow routing of the RF signal to an RF component, and at least one dedicated bypass throw configured to be connectable to the input pole and at least one bypass conduction path. The switching network circuitry can further include a second switch that has a pole and a throw, and is connectable between an output of the RF component and the bypass conduction path. Use of the dedicated bypass throw(s) in the first switch allows implementation of low-loss bypass of the filter or diplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: David Scott Whitefield, David Ryan Story, Nuttapong Srirattana, Darryl Earl Evans
  • Patent number: 9947196
    Abstract: An asset tracking system that utilizes a wireless network system and has primary (main) and secondary (sub) tracking devices or ‘tags’ that are assigned to assets. The main tracking device acts as a coordinator and the sub tracking devices surrounding the coordinator act as end-devices. Each main device acts as a gateway network to long range communication while each sub device can only communicate in proximity profile (short range or nearby communication). Each sub device can communicate only with a main device. The main device passes data from the sub device to a remote host transparently. Each sub device sends its data when it triggered by a ‘ping’ from the main device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Senaya, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lee, Jahangir Nakra, Dadi Setiadi, Jamshed Dubash
  • Patent number: 9923658
    Abstract: A method and system for interference cancellation in a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device can include an interference estimator configured to generate one or more filter weights based on a transmit signal. The one or more filter weights can be generated based on one or more kernels generated by the interference estimator. The interference estimator can be configured to perform recursive linear square (RLS) estimations based on the one or more kernels. The RLS estimations can include one or more independent RLS estimations, one or more parallel RLS estimations and/or one or more cascade RLS estimations. The interference estimator can be configured to perform one or more orthogonally transform one or more kernels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Xue, Yang-Seok Choi, Shilpa Talwar
  • Patent number: 9917619
    Abstract: Disclosed are various examples for provisioning a client device through near-field communication (NFC). An administrator device can provide configuration parameters to a client device in a factory-reset condition through an NFC bump. A second NFC bump can be performed that provides enrollment parameters to the client device, after which the client device can complete enrollment with an enterprise mobility management (EMM) service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: AirWatch LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Turner, Scott Kelley
  • Patent number: 9918186
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a beacon message, the method generating, with a beacon generating device at least one beacon message, wherein the at least one beacon message is defined by a beacon message format, wherein the beacon message format comprises a preamble field, an access address field, a protocol data unit (PDU) field and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) field, wherein the PDU field comprises at least one electronic product code (EPC) encoded EPC-PDU field, and transmitting, with the beacon generating device, the at least one beacon message using a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless communication protocol to a transmission area within a transmission range of the beacon generating device for reception by one or more beacon receiving devices located in the transmission area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: EM Microelectronic-Marin SA
    Inventors: Mark Jakusovszky, Marc Morin, James Springer
  • Patent number: 9900083
    Abstract: A system and/or method for facilitating wireless communication in an area where it is difficult to transmit and receive signals may use a preexisting wired emergency communication infrastructure to transmit signals between elements of a radio repeater system. Optionally, the system may include synchronization of retransmissions. Analogue and/or digital signals and/or data may optionally be transferred over the preexisting network. Data and/or signals may optionally include audio and/or video signals, digital data, telemetry data, and/or synchronization data. The system may optionally include multiple wireless receivers and/or a voter to select a version of a signal from at least one of the receivers. A network for concurrent repeating of a direct mode simplex wireless signal may optionally include multiple receivers and/or a voter. The simplex network may optionally include a coloring circuit. The power of retransmission and/or the insulation between a receiver and a transmitter may optionally be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: HiRiseTech Ltd.
    Inventor: Itsick Ben-Tolila
  • Patent number: 9899735
    Abstract: An interface extension apparatus is presented, which includes N input interfaces and M output interface, where the input interfaces are connected to at least one base station, and the output interfaces are connected to an RET. The apparatus obtains device information of each RET control device in multiple RET control devices; creates an agent for each RET control device according to the device information, where a mapping relationship exists between each RET control device and the corresponding agent; then modulates, using the agent corresponding to the RET control device, a control signal that is received from the at least one base station; and further sends a modulated control signal to a corresponding RET. The embodiments of the present disclosure are used by the multiple base stations to simultaneously manage the multiband RET antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lixin Jiang, Jian Shen, Yanmin Yu
  • Patent number: 9894551
    Abstract: A user terminal according to an embodiment comprises a receiver; and a controller. The receiver receives, from a base station, a message including first and second information. The first information is information regarding to a configuration for reporting a power measured by the user terminal in the unlicensed band, and includes period information indicating a period of a measurement in the unlicensed band. The second information is information regarding to a configuration of carrier aggregation. The controller periodically measures the power in the unlicensed band according to the period information; reports to the base station on information classified according to the measured power as information indicating the measured power, based on the first information; performs a configuration for using the unlicensed band as a secondary carrier in the carrier aggregation, based on the second information; and communicates a communication with the base station by using the secondary carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Chiharu Yamazaki, Yushi Nagasaka, Katsuhiro Mitsui
  • Patent number: 9883337
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating sensor tag locations expressed in a three-dimension global coordinate system from sensor tag locations expressed in three-dimensional local coordinate systems of mobile readers that read each tag and for updating the paths of each mobile reader are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from one or more mobile reader agents, receiving tag location data that describes the location of one or more sensor tags expressed in local coordinates of the subspace of the mobile reader agent that read the sensor tag, converting the tag location data into a global coordinate system that is common to all mobile reader agents, and updating one or more paths of one or more mobile reader agents to increase the coverage of reading tags in the subspace of the mobile reader agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Mijix, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramin Sadr, Bandel Louis Carano