Patents Examined by Ankur Jain
  • Patent number: 11290292
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for improving of audio conversations and displaying of visual representations among mobile devices. For example, a method comprises determining a first user accesses a mobile application on a first mobile device of a first user; determining a second user accesses the mobile application on a second mobile device of the second user; initiating audio communication between the first mobile device of the first user and the second mobile device of the second user; and streaming the audio communication, either as a substantially live stream or as a recorded stream, to a third mobile device of a third user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Stereo App Limited
    Inventors: Sergey Frolovichev, Andrey Ogandzhanyants, Artur Nugumanov
  • Patent number: 11290142
    Abstract: A grip is provided that includes a base defining a longitudinal cavity and is connectable with a mobile communication device. The base includes at least one bracket defining at least a portion of the cavity. A longitudinal member is disposable within the cavity and defines at least one finger opening. The member is movable relative to the at least one bracket. Device systems and methods of use are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventor: Frank S. Ferrantello
  • Patent number: 11283914
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit acquires first information regarding another side device. The controller performs first processing based on first information in response to a transmission instruction from a user regarding a first telephone communication with the another side device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Akihito Hatanaka, Tomoki Iwaizumi, Youji Hamada, Hisae Honma, Kousuke Nagase, Tomohiro Sudou
  • Patent number: 11284354
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for uplink power control based on power spectral density are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method for use by a terminal in a satellite communication system, the terminal having an antenna, a modem and a controller, the method comprising: determining the scan and skew of the antenna; obtaining, using the controller, a value representing a maximum allowed Power Spectral Density (PSD) for the determined scan and skew; determining, using the controller, a maximum allowable modem power based on the value representing a maximum allowed PSD, where the maximum allowable modem power is that which ensures that transmissions from the terminal do not exceed the maximum allowed PSD if the maximum allowable modem output power is not exceeded by the modem; sending, using the controller, an indication of the allowable modem output power to the modem; and performing one or more transmissions from the terminal based on modem outputs in accordance with the maximum allowable modem output power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Turner Noel, Mark Opfell, Eric Bjorn Hultman, Steven Michael Ziuchkovski, Lekshmi Priya Ravindran Subhadramma, Daeup Chang, Steven Charles Borchers, Ron Radko
  • Patent number: 11277802
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling uplink power in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). An NTN station transmits a reference signal at a first time having a defined transmission power and the reference signal is received by non-terrestrial user equipment. The user equipment evaluates the reference signal and determines a first downlink loss of the reference signal by calculating a difference between a measured power level of the received reference signal and the defined transmission power. The NTN station transmits a communication signal at a second time and is received by the user equipment, which estimates a second downlink loss of the communication signal based on the first downlink loss and a power level of the communication signal. A first uplink loss is estimated based on the second downlink loss, and the user equipment adjusts a transmission power of its transmitter based on the first uplink loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mehdi Alasti, Siddhartha Chenumolu, Mariam Sorond
  • Patent number: 11275162
    Abstract: A method for radio measuring applications, wherein a first radio node functions as an initiator and a second radio node as a transponder, each radio node has its own timer and a data interface, in a first step, the initiator transmits a first carrier frequency as an initial signal and the initial signal is received by the transponder during a first reception period, in a second step, a response signal with a second carrier frequency is transmitted by the transponder and the response signal is received by the initiator during a second reception period. The initial signal and the response signal are coherent at least during each sequence of steps, the carrier frequency of the initial signal is changed within one predetermined frequency domain with each repetition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Metirionic GmbH
    Inventor: Dietmar Eggert
  • Patent number: 11276928
    Abstract: A monitoring/calibrating system is provided based on the amplitude and/or phase of electric and/or magnetic fields measurements. In transmitter mode of AUT, one or more probe sets are placed very close to the AUT around the radiation aperture of AUT to prevent probes effects on the AUT performance. For each amplitude/phase state of AUT controller, the near field data are measured and compared with a previously stored dataset. A successive method can reduce the error by changing the amplitude/phase of AUT controller. Moreover, a machine learning method can be used to classify the errors in near field data, errors in amplitude/phase of AUT controller, and automatically tuning the AUT controller. In receiver mode of AUT, the system is the same but the probe sets are working as transmitters to make a known near field around the AUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventors: Rashid Mirzavand Boroujeni, Pedram Mousavi
  • Patent number: 11277506
    Abstract: A cradle for a mobile device includes a base; sidewalls extending from the base and defining, in combination with the base, a cavity for receiving the mobile device; at least one contact extending out of the base; and at least one biasing tab. Each of the at least biasing tab includes a first portion biased to extend out of the base and arranged to engage the mobile device during loading of the mobile device prior to engagement of the at least one contact by the mobile device to protect the at least one contact during the loading of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: National Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Carnevali
  • Patent number: 11277804
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, specifically, to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting a physical signal via one or more symbols; and performing a procedure for transmitting an SRS through each symbol over a plurality of symbols for beam alignment with a base station, wherein when the physical signal and the SRS overlap in a time domain and the physical signal has a higher priority than a priority of the SRS, an SRS transmission power of each symbol is equally reduced in all the plurality of symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11277726
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a battery includes a housing, a power terminal, a power cell, a switch, and a circuit. The power cell is disposed within the housing, and the switch is disposed within the housing and is coupled between the power cell and the power terminal. And the circuit is disposed within the housing and is configured to receive a control signal from a source external to the housing and to control the switch in response to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: PB Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Daoura, Nicholas R. Pearson-Franks
  • Patent number: 11272369
    Abstract: A radio frequency radiation shield device may comprise a receiver for detecting a near field radio frequency signal at target frequencies. The shield device may further comprise a signal processor that samples signal characteristics of a detected signal and determines a nullifying signal in response to detecting a signal characteristic of the detected signal meeting a trigger threshold. The nullifying signal may comprise a modulated version of the detected signal. The shield device may further comprise a signaler for generating the nullifying signal. The shield device may further comprise a transmitter for transmitting the nullifying signal at target signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ivan J. Reedman
  • Patent number: 11272463
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hanqing Xu, Yajun Zhao, Xincai Li, Ling Yang, Juan Liu
  • Patent number: 11265403
    Abstract: Systems and techniques, including computer software, for retrieving information to a mobile device involve installing a data retrieval application on the mobile device. The data retrieval application includes instructions for presenting a structured data display on the mobile device, defining a structure of the structured data display, requesting selected hyperlinks included in the structured data display, and rendering markup language information received in response to the selected hyperlinks. A user request to retrieve data through the data retrieval application is received, and data is retrieved in response to the received user request. The retrieved data is displayed according to the structure of the structured data display, and a user can select a hyperlink in the displayed data to retrieve and render markup language information using the data retrieval application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Elad Gil, Shumeet Baluja, Maryam Garrett, Cedric Beust
  • Patent number: 11265685
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for connecting users and speakers via audio conversations on a mobile application. For example, a method comprises: providing speaker information associated with a speaker, wherein the speaker accesses a mobile application on a first mobile device of the speaker; determining a user accesses a mobile application on a second mobile device of the user; initiating an audio conversation between the speaker and the user; broadcasting, using the one or more computing device processors, on the mobile application, to a listener, a first audio conversation involving the speaker and the user, wherein the listener accesses the mobile application on a third mobile device of the listener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Stereo App Limited
    Inventors: Sergey Frolovichev, Andrey Ogandzhanyants, Artur Nugumanov
  • Patent number: 11265094
    Abstract: A method for decoding the name of detected radio stations, the method being implemented by a receiving system including at least one radio receiver, each of the received radio signals including a digital datum corresponding, at least intermittently, to the name of the radio station, the method including the following steps: for each radio station belonging to a list of radio stations preselected from the detected radio stations, a first decoding of the digital datum at a first sampling frequency, in order to determine a probable name; for any detected radio station not belonging to the list of preselected radio stations, a second decoding of the digital datum at a second sampling frequency lower than the first, in order to determine a probable name; and measuring a quality of the radio signal and inhibiting the first and second decodings if the quality of the signal drops below a preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: David Lefrançois, Aymeric Moureau
  • Patent number: 11259347
    Abstract: An audio reproduction device, a system, and a method for allowing a first user, who is listening to a first audio signal though a first headset, is provided to invite a second user, who is listening to a second audio signal through a second headset, to quickly start listening to the first audio signal. To this purpose, the first headset sends a signalling message to the second headset and relays the first audio signal to it. Both the audio signals emitted by the audio sources and that relayed by the first headset may be transmitted by means of a Bluetooth technology enabling a device both to receive a Bluetooth signal as a slave in a piconet and to transmit a corresponding Bluetooth signal as a master in another piconet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Saronikos Trading and Services, Unipessoal LDA
    Inventor: Robert James
  • Patent number: 11252673
    Abstract: A communication method, a terminal, and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a downlink reference signal sent by a network device in a first cell, and determining a downlink path loss estimate between the terminal and the first cell based on the downlink reference signal; and sending, by the terminal, an uplink signal in a second cell, where uplink transmit power used by the terminal to send the uplink signal is determined based on the downlink path loss estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junchao Li, Hao Tang, Liwen Zhang, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 11252269
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device includes a main framework, back cover, expansion box, card reading module and battery module. The main framework has a motherboard. The back cover is disposed on the main framework and has an expansion window. The expansion box covers and closes the expansion window. The expansion box has therein an expansion chamber, a power chamber, and a communication opening whereby the expansion chamber and the power chamber communicate with each other. The expansion box has a wire connection opening in communication with the power chamber and with the expansion window. The card reading module and battery module are disposed in the expansion chamber and power chamber, respectively. The card reading module is connected to the motherboard by a signal wire via the communication opening and the wire connection opening. The battery module is connected to the motherboard by a power wire via the wire connection opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Getac Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Hsi-Yang Yeh
  • Patent number: 11246012
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for improving establishment and broadcasting of communication among mobile computing devices. For example, a method comprises determining a first user accesses a mobile application on a first mobile device of the first user; determining a second user accesses the mobile application on a second mobile device of the second user; and initiating the audio conversation between the first user and the second user, wherein the audio conversation is broadcasted to a third user who accesses the mobile application on a third mobile device of the third user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Stereo App Limited
    Inventors: Artur Nugumanov, Sergey Frolovichev, Andrey Ogandzhanyants
  • Patent number: 11240738
    Abstract: In a base station, a setting unit for setting the number of detections sets at least one search space that includes plural control channel candidates to be targets of detection of a control signal in a terminal, and a transmission unit transmits the control signal that is mapped on any of the plural control channel candidates in the search space. Here, the number of detections in the search space by the terminal is determined based on settings of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki