Patents Examined by Angelica M. Perez
  • Patent number: 10470130
    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: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY IP, LLC
    Inventor: Alberto Gutierrez, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10469130
    Abstract: Techniques related to wireless communication of an input device are described herein. An apparatus may include a display at the input device, a wireless transmission architecture, and a wireless receiver. The wireless transmission architecture is to broadcast a signal to the display, and wireless receiver to receive the broadcast signal at the display. The broadcast signal is configured to provide a power signal to initiate operations of the display, a data signal to provide content to be displayed at the display, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Anand Konanur, Steven Gaskill, Ayeshwarya B. Mahajan, Ulun Karacaoglu, Sukanya Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10461408
    Abstract: An electrical tilt apparatus is provided, to ensure that when a quantity of serial ports on a remote control unit (RCU) is limited, independent electrical tilt on RF signals is provided. The apparatus includes: an RCU, and at least one combiner unit and multiple phase shifters connected to the RCU. Each of the at least one combiner units is connected to a different serial port on the RCU and connected to at least two RF modules; receives, at each time, an electrical tilt signal from one of the RF modules, and sends the electrical tilt signal to the RCU. The RCU receives the electrical tilt signal from each combiner unit, and drives, according to the electrical tilt signal, a first phase shifter that corresponds to a first RF module to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Honggang Xu, Yun Feng, Jian Shen
  • Patent number: 10462746
    Abstract: A setting information configuration method, a terminal, and a server, belong to the field of information processing technologies, where the method includes obtaining an analysis result, displaying improper setting information of a user and a setting suggestion, receiving a setting instruction entered by the user according to the displayed improper setting information and setting suggestion, and configuring local setting information according to the setting instruction. Because the local setting information can be analyzed and the improper setting information and the setting suggestion that are obtained by analysis can be displayed, the user can purposefully configure the local setting information. Therefore, setting information configuration flexibility is relatively high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanhui Yu, Cong Xiao, Shizheng Yang
  • Patent number: 10431090
    Abstract: Pedestrian terminal device that can save power consumption. The pedestrian terminal device carried by a pedestrian is provided with an operation mode selector for selecting one of a principal terminal operation mode wherein a pedestrian-vehicle communication with an in-vehicle terminal device is performed representing other pedestrian terminal devices, and an in-group terminal operation mode wherein a short-range wireless communication of a shorter range and a smaller power output than the pedestrian-vehicle communication is performed with another pedestrian terminal device operating in the principal terminal operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Shirosaki, Hiroaki Sudo, Yoshiyuki Okubo, Tsuyoshi Ueno
  • Patent number: 10432244
    Abstract: A system with one or more transceiver antenna assemblies for installation in vehicle side-view mirrors to enable communication with nearby vehicles. Each transceiver antenna assembly may have one or two antenna arrays implemented on a single printed circuit board, protected by an antenna housing used to mount the transceiver antenna inside the mirror assembly. Each antenna array in a dual-channel transceiver antenna may transmit and receive data over one of two DSRC channels. One channel may be used to transmit and receive vehicle data only and the other channel may be used to transmit and receive both vehicle data and audio/video (A/V) data. Each antenna array is connected to a radio in the vehicle that processes received signals and prepares signals for transmission. Such a transceiver antenna system may be especially useful for communication in truck platooning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: PELOTON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Charles A. Price, James T. O'Keeffe, Thomas J. Birnbaum, Ganymed B. Stanek, Joshua P. Switkes
  • Patent number: 10390252
    Abstract: A user terminal comprises a receiver configured to receive, configuration information configuring measurement for a queuing delay of data packet in an uplink, from a radio base station in a dedicated manner; a controller configured to perform the measurement; and a transmitter configured to report a result of the measurement to the radio base station per unit time. The configuration information includes information indicating length of the unit time and threshold information indicating a threshold related to the queuing delay. The controller is configured to perform the measurement per unit time. The transmitter is configured to report the result of the measurement upon measuring the queuing delay exceeding the threshold within the unit time. The transmitter is configured to not report the result of the measurement upon measuring the queuing delay not exceeding the threshold within the unit time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Fukuta, Masato Fujishiro, Akinori Iwabuchi, Yushi Nagasaka, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 10375756
    Abstract: A communication device is arranged for three main communication states: a detached state, an idle state, and an active state. The communication device connects to the cellular communication network such that a transition from the detached state to any of idle state or active state is made, performs scheduled operations in the active state or idle state, determines, when a transition from the active state to the idle state occurs, a time instant for a next operation in the active state, disconnects from the cellular communication network such that a transition to the detached state is made, and, when the time for next operation in the active state is approaching, connects to the cellular communication network again. A transceiver and a computer program are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Anders Wallén, Leif Wilhelmsson
  • Patent number: 10340748
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a transmitter circuitry, receiver circuitry, and controller circuitry. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit a first wireless signal for a wireless communication to a first terminal via a first frequency. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive a second wireless signal for the wireless communication from the first terminal via the first frequency. The controller circuitry is configured to detect position information of the first terminal based on the second wireless signal and form a beam pattern of radio waves of a second frequency different from the first frequency based on the position information, the beam pattern having directivity to the first terminal. And the transmitter circuitry is further configured to wirelessly supply power to the first terminal via the second frequency during the wireless communication with the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kentaro Taniguchi, Ryoko Matsuo, Toshiyuki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10334431
    Abstract: Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for offloading process or application from a near field communication (NFC) master device for proxy delegation to a proxy NFC device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Oleg Pogorelik, Shahar Porat, Gennady Goltman, Sergey Sofer, Alex Nayshtut, Avishay Sharaga, Miguel Ballesteros
  • Patent number: 10334421
    Abstract: Disclosed is a near field communication device which includes an antenna, a transmission amplifier, a matching circuit connected between the antenna and the transmission amplifier, and a transmitter. The transmitter transmits a transmit clock to the matching circuit through the transmission amplifier, extracts an extraction clock from a waveform formed in the matching circuit, stores a phase difference between the transmit clock and the extraction clock, and controls transmission of an information signal through the antenna, the transmission amplifier, and the matching circuit based on the phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongpil Cho, Youngjoo Lee
  • Patent number: 10327144
    Abstract: A communication apparatus displays connection information for an external device to perform wireless connection with the communication apparatus, determines whether a wireless connection based on the connection information is established, and hides the connection information according to establishment of the wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoya Kakutani
  • Patent number: 10321297
    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: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Liang-Yun Wang, Martin Ünsal
  • Patent number: 10312958
    Abstract: A communication system for a vehicle that includes a transceiver having a transmit antenna disposed adjacent to an exterior component of the vehicle, the transceiver being configured to transmit at least one signal to a receiver external to the vehicle. The communication system also includes a controller having a processor and a memory storage device, the memory storage device being configured to store the at least one signal and to output the at least one signal to the transceiver. The communication system also includes a remote receive antenna disposed within an interior of the vehicle and communicatively coupled to the memory storage device, wherein the remote receive antenna is configured to receive the at least one signal from a training transmitter and to output the at least one signal to the memory storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Horia-Eduard Pilat, Carl L. Shearer, Douglas C. Papay, Steven L. Geerlings
  • Patent number: 10313447
    Abstract: A system comprises a first peer sensor tag configured to sense first sensor data using a first local sensor of the first peer sensor tag and a second peer sensor tag configured to sense second sensor data using a second local sensor of the second peer sensor tag while the second peer sensor tag is not within a communication range of the first peer sensor tag. The second peer sensor tag is configured to detect a first beacon signal of the first peer sensor tag, the first beacon signal including at least a portion of the first sensor data, the first beacon signal being transmitted according to a first network communication protocol. The second peer sensor tag is configured to obtain the at least a portion of the first sensor data from the first beacon signal. A base station is configured to detect a second beacon signal of the second peer sensor tag, the first beacon signal including the at least a portion of the first sensor data and at least a portion of the second sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Shoof Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: George H. Flammer, III, Elad Gottlib
  • Patent number: 10312959
    Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor device and an operating method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a mode controller configured to output a first control signal in a first communication mode, and output a second control signal in a second communication mode which is different from the first communication mode; and a configurable circuit configured to generate a first output signal to be transmitted to a first type analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in the first communication mode, and generate a second output signal using a second type ADC in the second communication mode, wherein the configurable circuit comprises a switching circuit configured to change a circuit configuration to a first circuit configuration for generating a first output signal in the first communication mode or to a second circuit configuration for generating a second output signal in the second communication mode, depending on the first control signal or the second control signal received from the mode controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jong Woo Lee, Jae Hoon Lee, Jong Mi Lee, Thomas Byung Hak Cho
  • Patent number: 10313027
    Abstract: A wide band through-body communication system communicates data through the body ultrasonically. A MEMS device such as a CMUT transducer is configured to transmit and/or receive ultrasonic data signals within a broad band of operating frequencies. The transducer transmits the ultrasonic data signals through the body to a similarly configured ultrasonic receiver, and/or receives ultrasonic data signals which have been conveyed through the body from a similarly configured ultrasonic transmitter for decoding and processing. In a preferred implementation a CMUT transducer is operated in a collapsed mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Sotir Filipov Ouzounov, Neil Francis Joye, Christianus Martinus Van Heesch
  • Patent number: 10312749
    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: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Koeppel, Tyler Locke, David Wurmfeld
  • Patent number: 10302763
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device and method for detecting the proximity of an object. In an embodiment, the electronic device includes a communication module, a sound emitter, a sound receiver, and a processor. The processor receives at least one part of a voice signal from a calling party through the communication module, and determines whether there is a voice idle time in the at least one part of the voice signal. When the voice idle time is present in the at least one part of the voice signal, the processor outputs a sound wave in an inaudible frequency band through the sound emitter during the voice idle time. Then the processor receives, through the sound receiver, sound wave in the inaudible frequency band reflected from an object. Next, the processor may detect whether the object is proximate to the electronic device using the reflected sound wave in the inaudible frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunggoo Kang, Jaehwan Lee, Yongjun Park, Gihoon Lee, Dongil Son
  • Patent number: 10306043
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with another information processing apparatus, a display unit configured to display an image received from the another information processing apparatus by the wireless communication unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire operation to a region indicated in control information received from the another information processing apparatus by the wireless communication unit in the image displayed by the display unit, and a control unit configured to perform control to perform processing indicated in the control information according to the operation acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Osamu Yoshimura