Patents Examined by Angelica M. Perez
  • Patent number: 9647774
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are presented for transmitting a signal in accordance with an adaptive blind interference alignment (BIA) scheme in a wireless access system. A transmitter configures a first block including desired signals and interference signals on the basis of a number of receivers within a cell and a number of reception modes of the receivers. Further, the transmitter configures a second block including either the desired signals or the interference signals, and configures alignment blocks for each of the receivers by combining the first block with the second block. The transmitter transmits the alignment blocks to the receivers in accordance with transmission symbol patterns corresponding to the alignment blocks. Symbol vectors included in the alignment blocks for each of the receivers are configured to be overlapped between the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Jinmin Kim, Jaehoon Chung, Dongku Kim, Jinyoung Jang, Hyukjin Chae, Sungyoon Cho, Hyunsoo Ko, Hyunsu Cha
  • Patent number: 9648648
    Abstract: A wireless device system and method are disclosed herein, in which the wireless device system includes a wireless device and an electronic device. The wireless device includes an audio receiving unit and an encoder, in which the audio receiving unit receives a knocking wave, and the encoder encodes the knocking wave to a pairing request code. The electronic device includes an audio receiving part, a wireless transceiver and a processor. The audio receiving part receives the knocking wave, and the wireless transceiver receives the pairing request code. The processor encodes the knocking wave to a detecting code, and the electronic device connects with the wireless device when the pairing request code matched the detecting code. The wireless device touches the electronic device so that the knocking wave is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Cheng-Hsin Chen
  • Patent number: 9641208
    Abstract: A portable electric cigarette lighter or mobile device accessory with integrated portable electric cigarette lighter, the mobile device accessory including: (a) a protective accessory for a mobile device; (b) an electric lighter mechanism integrated into the protective accessory, the lighter mechanism including: (i) a heating element, (ii) a power source, (iii) an actuator, adapted to activate the heating element by operationally coupling the heating element to the power source and (d) a slide shutter adapted to reversibly expose the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Sagi Sela
  • Patent number: 9629070
    Abstract: A wireless access point search device improved in a manner of storing search results. A wireless LAN interface searches for a wireless access point. A result receiving section stores an access point information item on the wireless access point found by the wireless LAN interface. When the sum of the number of access point information items stored in the result receiving section and the number of new wireless access point items on respective new wireless access points found by the wireless LAN interface is larger than a predetermined value, a panel controller determines, whether or not to store a new access point information item on each new wireless access point in the result receiving section, based on radio field intensity of the new wireless access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kyohei Takeda
  • Patent number: 9628149
    Abstract: Communication device (T1) comprising—An antenna (A1) and physical circuitry (PHY) for receiving a poll command (PC) from a second communication device (T2).—A plurality of entities (D1, D2, D3 . . . Dn) emulating NFC devices,—An arrangement for deciding, for each entity of said plurality of entities, if a response should be sent and if so sending a response (LF1, LF2, LF3 . . . LFn) to said second communication device (T2), containing information related to the respective NFC device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Optis Circuit Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Constantin Socol, Frederic Goffin, Guillaume Jaunet, Amit Jhawar
  • Patent number: 9621232
    Abstract: A communication device may comprise a first interface used by executing a wireless communication. The communication device may perform: in a case where a first connection via the first interface is established with the portable terminal under a circumstance where the communication device is in an error state, sending related information to the portable terminal by using the first connection via the first interface, the related information being related to the error state; and in a case where a second connection via the first interface is established with the portable terminal under a circumstance where the communication device is in a non-error state, sending different information to the portable terminal by using the second connection via the first interface, the different information being different from the related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryosuke Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 9609535
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing a radio frequency index of an active antenna system are provided. In the method, a tested active antenna system is placed in a test cover for performing radio frequency index testing, wherein, the test cover includes an antenna array part and a passive network part, and the antenna array part and the antenna feeder part of the tested active antenna system are the same. The method for testing includes: monomer calibration of the test cover; near-field coupling calibration; and radio frequency index testing. With the above-mentioned method and apparatus for testing the radio frequency index of the active antenna system, the radio frequency index of the active antenna system can be directly and effectively measured without need of adding an extra test interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Boming Wang, Xiangling Li, Changjiang Cao, Xiangzi Han
  • Patent number: 9602226
    Abstract: A distributed spectrum analyzer and a method of spectrum analysis applying same. The spectrum analyzer adopts a separate design. A radio frequency receiver receives a signal, performs frequency conversion processing and AD conversion on the received signal, and sends the converted digital signal to a host. In such a structure, by a digital optical module, the radio frequency receiver is connected to a corresponding digital optical module on the host through an optical fiber, so as to implement a bidirectional data transmission. The host performs general control of the system as well as signal processing and spectrum analysis. Therefore, a multi-interface design is applied to the host of the spectrum analyzer, so as to support simultaneous access and control for a plurality of radio frequency receivers, thereby conveniently implementing multi-port measurement extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tao Duan
  • Patent number: 9591470
    Abstract: Various operations may be performed based on a distance-related function associated with two or more devices. For example, an association procedure for two or more devices may be based on one or more determined distances. Similarly, presence management may be based on one or more determined distances. A distance-related function may take various form including, for example, a distance between devices, two or more distances between devices, a rate of change in a relative distance between devices, relative acceleration between devices, or some combination of two or more of the these distance-related functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: David Jonathan Julian, Chong Uk Lee, Kamran Moallemi, Avneesh Agrawal, Manuel Eduardo Jaime, Robert Keith Douglas, Lu Xiao, Gregory Gordon Rose
  • Patent number: 9590702
    Abstract: The various embodiments herein provide a system and method for providing short range wireless communication. The system comprises a transmitting end, a first electrical circuitry provided at the transmitting end to generate a propagating EM wave on a connected wire according to an input data signal, a transmitting antenna provided at the transmitting end designed to maximize scattering of the propagating EM wave, a receiving end, a receiving antenna provided at the receiving end to detect the scattered EM wave and a second electrical circuitry provided at the receiving end to recover the input data signal from the signal received by the receiving antenna. Here a wireless link is established by means of the scattered EM waves generated by near field emissions from a surface of the transmitting antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KFX CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Nishil Thomas Koshy
  • Patent number: 9549280
    Abstract: Generally, this disclosure describes devices, systems and methods for wireless data transfer with improved transport mechanism selection. The device may include a near field communication (NFC) circuit configured to initiate a data transfer between a first communication device and a second communication device; a Soft Access Point (Soft AP) data transport circuit configured to transfer data between the communication device and the second communication device; one or more additional data transport circuits configured to transfer data between the communication device and the second communication device; and a transport mechanism selection circuit coupled to the NFC interface circuit and further coupled to the one or more data transport circuits, the transport mechanism selection circuit configured to select one of the data transport circuits for the data transfer, wherein the selection is based on a determination of the size of the data transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Somdas Bandyopadhyay, Pavana C. Kumar
  • Patent number: 9532163
    Abstract: When a predetermined cooperative application is activated, communication in a predetermined protocol used in the predetermined cooperative application is connected rapidly. A mobile communication terminal separates authentication information required for authenticating an application registered in a vehicle apparatus from a series of processing for connecting a profile to acquire from a vehicle apparatus. That is, the mobile communication terminal authenticates the application registered in the vehicle apparatus before a user performs an operation of start of the predetermined cooperative application. After the user performs the operation of start of the predetermined cooperative application by the vehicle apparatus, the authentication can be omitted, and the predetermined profile used in the predetermined cooperative application can be performed rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Ito, Hiroki Ukai
  • Patent number: 9521564
    Abstract: A wireless automation test apparatus for a mobile device includes a user setting unit, a test management and control unit, a test execution unit, a test result processing unit, and a communication interface unit. Also provided is a test method involving downloading a test case as well as a configuration file and an index file corresponding to the test case from a server; receiving a user custom test operation mode, and operating the test case according to operation mode information; collecting a site log, collecting and packing a test result, and uploading the test result to the server; and finally, after the test result is analyzed by the server, showing the test result and an error log on a Web interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: BORQS WIRELESS LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Zhao, Jin Wu, Wei Ding
  • Patent number: 9516452
    Abstract: Generally, this disclosure describes devices, systems and methods for wireless data transfer with improved transport mechanism selection. The device may include a near field communication (NFC) circuit configured to initiate a data transfer between a first communication device and a second communication device; a Soft Access Point (Soft AP) data transport circuit configured to transfer data between the communication device and the second communication device; one or more additional data transport circuits configured to transfer data between the communication device and the second communication device; and a transport mechanism selection circuit coupled to the NFC interface circuit and further coupled to the one or more data transport circuits, the transport mechanism selection circuit configured to select one of the data transport circuits for the data transfer, wherein the selection is based on a determination of the size of the data transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Somdas Bandyopadhyay, Pavana C. M Kumar
  • Patent number: 9509351
    Abstract: A method includes providing a highly linear front end in a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver, implementing a high Effective Number of Bits (ENOB) Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) circuit in the RF receiver, and sampling, through the high ENOB ADC circuit, at a frequency having harmonics that do not coincide with a desired signal component of an input signal of the RF receiver to eliminate spurs within a data bandwidth of the RF receiver. The input signal includes the desired signal component and an interference signal component. The interference signal component has a higher power level than the desired signal component. The method also includes simultaneously accommodating the desired signal component and the interference signal component in the RF receiver based on an increased dynamic range of the RF receiver and the high ENOB ADC circuit provided through the highly linear front end and the high ENOB ADC circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: TAHOE RF SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Shaw, Jonathan Lee Kennedy, Darrell Lee Livezey, Joy Laskar
  • Patent number: 9510383
    Abstract: Various operations may be performed based on a distance-related function associated with two or more devices. For example, an association procedure for two or more devices may be based on one or more determined distances. Similarly, presence management may be based on one or more determined distances. A distance-related function may take various form including, for example, a distance between devices, two or more distances between devices, a rate of change in a relative distance between devices, relative acceleration between devices, or some combination of two or more of the these distance-related functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Avneesh Agrawal, Chong Uk Lee, Kamran Moallemi, David Jonathan Julian, Manuel Eduardo Jaime, Robert Keith Douglas, Lu Xiao, Gregory Gordon Rose
  • Patent number: 9510215
    Abstract: An automated, computational, software tool for adaptable, real-time configuration of Live to Virtual (L-V) tactical communications for continuous training environments. In these types of cosite environments, this tool de-conflicts mutual interfering frequencies of antenna pairs against required antenna isolation, thus eliminating the need for expensive couplers and frequency confining tunable filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Diane Richie, Peter McCarthy, David Kotick
  • Patent number: 9510290
    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: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY IP, LLC
    Inventor: Alberto Gutierrez, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9502919
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including at least one two-way antenna for power recovery, a wireless block processing a wireless signal which the two-way antenna for power recovery transmits and receives, a power recovery block recovering electric power from a received signal of the two-way antenna for power recovery, and a connection switching part connecting the two-way antenna for power recovery to and switching the connection between the wireless block and the power recovery block. A duty ratio at which the connection switching part connects the two-way antenna for power recovery to the wireless block and the power recovery block is set so that the wireless block attains a desired communication speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 9484976
    Abstract: An assembly, a method of operating the assembly and antennas for use in the assembly, where two or more antennas (16, 18) each is adapted to output an output signal with one of two or more characteristics, only one antenna outputting a signal with a predetermined characteristic, such as a non-zero amplitude, whereby the output signals from the antennas may simply be added/summed while enabling selection of the signal with the predetermined characteristic using e.g. a simple filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Thrane & Thrane A/S
    Inventor: Svend Stave