Patents Examined by Angelica Perez
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Patent number: 11836280Abstract: Mobile device cases are provided which, in a first embodiment, selectively limit a user's ability to control the user's own mobile electronic device. The case includes front and rear portions joined together and defining therein an opening for receiving a mobile electronic device, such as a mobile phone. A locking mechanism is provided for selectively securing the opening in a first locked position to prevent operational access to the mobile electronic device by the user until a predetermined condition is met. The case includes an indicia of time visible to the user during the period of time of prevented operational access. In a further embodiment, a case is provided with first and second polymeric shells each having an interior and an exterior surface thereon and connected together by at least one hinge portion. The first and second shell portions form a cavity of sufficient size to cover a mobile electronic device sufficiently to prevent access by its user.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventors: Connor Cronk, Brian Cronk
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Patent number: 11831062Abstract: A mobile terminal and a mobile terminal antenna production method. The mobile terminal uses an insulation film layer on an insulation rear housing as a carrier of a radiating element of an antenna, and the radiating element is located within the entire mobile terminal. A feed and an electric-conductor are disposed on a circuit board, and the electric-conductor is electrically connected to the feed. There is a gap between the radiating element and the electric-conductor, and the electric-conductor indirectly couples the radiating element in a capacitively coupled manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu Chan Yang, Chien-Ming Lee, Hanyang Wang, Dong Yu, Yi-Hsiang Liao, Xiaoli Yang, Jiaqing You
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Patent number: 11825428Abstract: Disclosed is a power sharing method, including: determining a transmit power of a UE on a first carrier and a transmit power of the UE on a second carrier; and receiving first uplink traffic transmitted by the UE on the first carrier according to the transmit power on the first carrier, and receiving second uplink traffic transmitted by the UE on the second carrier according to the transmit power on the second carrier. Further disclosed are a power sharing apparatus, a storage medium, and a processor.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Hanqing Xu, Yajun Zhao, Xincai Li, Ling Yang, Juan Liu
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Patent number: 11811961Abstract: An electronic device operation method and an electronic device, where the electronic device includes a first touchscreen and a second touchscreen, the first touchscreen and an earpiece are located on a first surface of the electronic device, the second touchscreen is located on a second surface of the electronic device, and the first surface is different from the second surface. The method includes displaying, by the electronic device, a first screen on the second touchscreen in response to receiving an incoming call, and displaying prompt information on the second touchscreen, where the prompt information prompts a user to answer the incoming call by using the earpiece on the first screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuxi Zhang, Xiaoxiao Chen, Xiang Han, Aihua Zheng
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Patent number: 11796621Abstract: Techniques are disclosed related to determining a modulation quality measurement of a device-under-test (DUT). A modulated signal is received from a source a plurality of times, and each received modulated signal is transmitted to each of a first vector signal analyzer (VSA) and a second VSA. The first VSA and the second VSA demodulate the received modulated signals to produce first error vectors and second error vectors, respectively. A cross-correlation calculation is performed on the first error vectors and second error vectors of respective received modulated signals to produce a complex-valued cross-correlation measurement, and a real component of the cross-correlation measurement is averaged over the plurality of received modulated signals. A modulation quality measurement is determined based on the averaged cross-correlation measurement.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: National Instruments CorporationInventor: Sartaj Chaudhary
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Patent number: 11792724Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver and reception signal control circuitry. The receiver, in operation, receives a first downlink data signal transmitted from a first communication station and receives a second downlink data signal transmitted from a first communication station, the first downlink data signal and the second downlink data signal being received over a first downlink channel and a second downlink channel that are at least partially overlapped in time and frequency domain. The reception signal control circuitry, in operation, demodulates the received first downlink data signal and a second downlink data signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventor: Yutaka Murakami
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Patent number: 11778569Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for scaling transmission power across transmit chains for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gokul Sridharan, Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Xiao Feng Wang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
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Patent number: 11758037Abstract: The present invention concerns a base station (12) having a DECT communication module (13) for wirelessly communicating with one or more registered portable DECT devices 10). The base station also has a virtual assistant module connecting over an IP communication channel (28) to a virtual assistant providing responses to user instructions, and a telephony module connecting to and accessing a remote resource over a telephony communication channel (27). A device manager (15) identifies and stores communication parameters of the DECT devices, and can implement a user instruction communicated from a DECT device via the DECT communication module and can route virtual assistant responses to a user instruction. A broker module (19) establishes a communication link between the DECT devices and the virtual assistant, and between the DECT devices and the telephony communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: MEIZHOU GUOWEI ELECTRONICS CO., LTDInventors: Richard Hall-Smith, Hongbing Liu
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Patent number: 11758034Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processors configured to: acquire a first address list stored in an external apparatus; and when synchronizing the acquired first address list and a second address list stored in the own apparatus, display a third address list in which information duplicated between the first address list and the second address list have been consolidated.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Hiroshige Nonaka
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Patent number: 11743743Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater may steer a narrow beam in a plurality of directions in a time sequence according to a beam sweep pattern, and retransmit one or more communications between a base station and one or more user equipments (UEs) using at least the narrow beam in the beam sweep pattern. A base station may determine a beam sweep pattern of the repeater based at least in part on feedback from the UEs. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jianghong Luo, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Ashwin Sampath
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Patent number: 11716694Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a method of estimating a transmit power of a UE. The method comprises determining, at a base station serving the UE, a received power for the UE, determining, at the base station, a path loss for the UE, and determining, at the base station, the transmit power for the UE as a function of the received power for the UE and the path loss for the UE. The method can be used when the first UE has reached or exceeded a maximum reported power headroom (PHR) for the UE and can be used for performing transmit power control for the UE as a function of the determined transmit power for the UE. Other embodiments are disclosed. The described embodiments can be used in a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) as well as other types of base stations.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventor: Gopikrishna Charipadi
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Patent number: 11689652Abstract: A hands-free apparatus includes a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to: perform a hands-free connection process of connecting to a mobile phone by using a hands-free communication protocol for performing a hands-free phone conversation; perform a first data transfer process of making a first connection with the mobile phone by using a data transfer protocol for transferring phone data related to phone, and causing the phone data to be automatically or manually transferred from the mobile phone; and depending on a status of a different data transfer process than the first data transfer process, perform transfer control related to transfer by at least one of the first data transfer process and the different data transfer process.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Chuntao Yu, Yusuke Saito
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Patent number: 11683760Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for detecting power consumption conditions to trigger transmission of user equipment (UE) assistance information (UAI) for a reconfiguration request. For example, an example method by a UE generally includes detecting one or more conditions associated with at least one metric related to UE power consumption; and transmitting UAI to a network entity, in response to the detection, to request a reconfiguration of the UE to operate according to a set of one or more parameters selected based on a value of the at least one metric.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Brian Clarke Banister, Daniel Amerga, Karthik Venkatram, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Jafar Mohseni
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Patent number: 11671919Abstract: 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 from the user according to the displayed improper setting information and the setting suggestion, and configuring local setting information according to the setting instruction.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanhui Yu, Cong Xiao, Shizheng Yang
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Patent number: 11659078Abstract: A method to present communications may include captioning, by a human assistant during a call between a first user using a first captioning telephone device and a second user using a second telephone device, words spoken by the second user into the second telephone device. The method may also include presenting the captioned words on a first display of the first captioning telephone device, receiving text typed into the second telephone device by the second user, and presenting the received text on the first display of the first captioning telephone device.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Sorenson IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Adam Montero, Ji Liang
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Patent number: 11656664Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to predict and mitigate thermal pressure. Status information for multiple parameters for the wireless device may be received. A predicted thermal status for the wireless device may be determined based at least in part on the status information for the multiple parameters for the wireless device. The wireless device may determine whether to perform thermal mitigation action based at least in part on the predicted thermal status for the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gencer Cili, Zhen Liu, Mahak Goindani, Sairam T. Gutta
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Patent number: 11652270Abstract: A point to point radio alignment system is disclosed. A voltmeter positioned at the first antenna measures alignment voltage that is generated from an alignment of the first radio component positioned on the first antenna. A transceiver positioned at the first antenna receives a second alignment voltage that is measured at the second antenna and generated from an alignment of the second radio component positioned on the second antenna. A controller positioned at the first antenna simultaneously monitors the first alignment voltage as the alignment of the first radio component is adjusted and the second alignment voltage as the second radio component is adjusted. The controller simultaneously displays the first alignment voltage as the first radio component is adjusted and the second alignment voltage as the second radio component is adjusted to enable a first user to track an alignment of the first radio component and the second radio component.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Xiber, LLCInventor: Stephen Hon
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Patent number: 11647351Abstract: A method of wireless communication locator station to be disposed at specific location includes: detecting rotation angle information of client-based portable device, carried or worn by user, according to specific wireless communication standard between wireless communication locator station and client-based portable device when client-based portable device is within signal range of wireless communication locator station; generating head pose direction estimation according to calculated rotation angle information; and when head pose direction estimation indicates that a user turns face towards wireless communication locator station, sending packet signal from wireless communication locator station to server-based portable device, successfully paired with and security-connected with client-based portable device, so that server-based portable device can transfer packet signal to client-based portable device after receiving packet signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventors: Shih-Feng Chen, Yen-Min Chang
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Patent number: 11632451Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal for minimizing waviness in a variable portion of a display. The mobile terminal may include: a first frame and a second frame configured to slide with respect to the first frame in a first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction; a flexible display comprising a front surface, wherein an area of the front surface of the flexible display is configured to vary according to a sliding position of the second frame; a rivet rail formed at the second frame and longitudinally extending in the first direction; and a slide rivet coupled at an inner side of the flexible display and configured to move along the rivet rail as the second frame slides.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Insu Song, Insun Lee, Changsue Park, Minsoo Kim
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Patent number: 11622035Abstract: A waterproof phone case includes a front shell and a rear shell. The front shell is rotatably connected with the rear shell. The front shell cooperates with the rear shell to form an accommodating space configured to accommodate a mobile phone. An area of the front shell corresponding to the accommodating space includes a viewing area. A rotating portion and magnetic portions are arranged on a rear surface of the rear shell. The rotating portion is detachably connected with a rear hanger. The magnetic portions are magnetically connected with the rear hanger. Two different positions of the rear hanger are magnetically matched with the magnetic portions through the rotating portion of the rear shell.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: GUANGDONG XIZHIONGXI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiuhong Deng