Patents Examined by Ashish K. Thomas
  • Patent number: 9282494
    Abstract: A radio network node and method for improved control of handover decisions of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network. The UE is in a served cell and is moving towards a neighboring cell. The network node obtains neighboring cell characteristics and determines a mobility threshold based on the obtained neighboring cell characteristics. The handover decisions of the UE to the neighboring cell are then controlled based on the determined mobility threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mats Folke, Konstantinos Dimou, Harald Kallin
  • Patent number: 9281857
    Abstract: An apparatus for holding a cell phone or a mobile phone in a vehicle that includes a cradle to receive a cell phone or mobile device. The cradle includes a base plate, a latch button, and a latch mechanism. The apparatus also includes a triangular hold securement system connected to the cradle, wherein the triangular hold securement system includes a first grab post, a second grab post, and a third grab post. The first grab post and the second grab post are positioned to contact and engage on one of two long sides of the mobile device and the third grab post is positioned to contact and engage on the opposite long side of the mobile device. The three grab posts are connected by one or more arms and a linkage element which provides biasing forces to the grab posts to secure the mobile device to the cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Soren K. Lundsgaard, Joy A. Thomas
  • Patent number: 9277469
    Abstract: A method for cell reselection and cell handover in a wireless communication system. The method comprises performing a cell reselection or handover between a user equipment connected to a radio access node and a neighbor cell, said neighbor cell having a subscriber list of subscribed user equipments. Said user equipment is not in said subscriber list and the method further comprises: a. generating, said radio access node, a closed subscriber group (CSG) list containing said user equipment and at least one neighbor cell detected; b. communicating, said radio access node, said CSG list to a management entity; c. reporting, said management entity, to said at least one neighbor cell included in said CSG list an invited neighbor subscriber group list, or INSG list, containing said authorized user equipment; and d. performing said cell reselection or handover between said authorized user equipment and the neighbor cell if said authorized user equipment is included in said INSG list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.
    Inventor: Luis Cucala Garcia
  • Patent number: 9277354
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method provides for receiving commands within a mobile communications application running on a mobile communication device. The method includes monitoring text entered into a text input region of a touchscreen keyboard module within a user interface on the mobile communication device for an interrupt code, and detecting an interrupt code. The method also includes determining a command from a plurality of commands, based on user inputs following the interrupt code, identifying an action from a plurality of actions corresponding to the plurality of commands, and initiating the action corresponding to the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: John Gatewood, Kenneth Wayne Samson, Bhanu Prakash Voruganti, Matthew P. Hund
  • Patent number: 9270845
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage a device that provides a plurality of functions, and a utilization unit configured to utilize one function among the plurality of functions. In the apparatus, the management unit confirms whether a function different from the one function, among the plurality of functions, is available according to management and control data that includes information for constructing a management screen, which management screen being a screen configured to manage the device, and a setting unit sets an argument to an object indicating a link to the utilization unit according to a result of the confirmation. In the apparatus, the utilization unit is configured, if the object, which is displayed on the management screen, is designated, to set the device according to the argument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Abe
  • Patent number: 9270850
    Abstract: With a method for transmitting process-control data before and/or during a printing process for the production of printed products in a printing press, the data are detected at least with the aid of at least one print mark that is effectively connected to a printed product. The data obtained from the print mark are transmitted and/or transferred to at least one processing unit that is arranged downstream of the printing operation. Within the printing process, the data obtained from the print mark are subjected continuously to at least one redundant check in at least one downstream-arranged processing unit, with respect to the data determined during the integral printing process and/or with respect to a further processing location for the printed products which is specified ahead of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: MUELLER MARTINI HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Markus Bracher, André Schenker, Peter Kuenzli
  • Patent number: 9264574
    Abstract: An apparatus supplies power to a communication unit that communicates with an external apparatus, and manages history information for each communication sequence in the communication unit in a mode where power supplied to a control unit is stopped. At that time, the apparatus assigns identification information unique to the communication unit to the history information when the apparatus is in a mode where power supplied to the control unit is stopped, and makes control when power supplied to the control unit is stopped or when the apparatus returns to the mode in which power is supplied to the control unit so that continuity of the history information managed by the control unit is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Suga
  • Patent number: 9262112
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus having a file server function and capable of using a path notification function according to the way in which the image processing apparatus is utilized by a user. The image forming apparatus does not perform a URI notification, if an image data file is stored into a storage unit of the apparatus via the file server function, or if the file is stored via the file server function from an unregistered data storage source, or if the file was not created by an MFP job, or if the file is stored via the file server function and has a registered file type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuo Matoba
  • Patent number: 9247103
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including an image target separating unit that separates a read printed document into image targets, a page aggregation state determining unit that determines a page aggregation state of the read printed document based on a layout of the image targets separated by the image target separating unit, a printing direction determining unit that determines a printing direction of each of pages determined by the page aggregation state determining unit based on a features of each of the image targets separated by the image target separating unit, and a document format converting unit that converts a document format of the read printed document based on the results of the determination by the page aggregation state determining unit and the printing direction determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Niina, Toshiyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Hayashi, Kenji Ueda, Tatsuya Namiki
  • Patent number: 9240057
    Abstract: Whether or not a received drawing instruction is an instruction which needs an arithmetic operating process with a background portion is discriminated. When it is determined that the received drawing instruction is not the instruction which needs the arithmetic operating process with the background portion, the drawing instruction is converted into a drawing command and transmitted to a printing apparatus, and the received drawing instruction is stored as intermediate data. When it is determined that the received drawing instruction is the instruction which needs the arithmetic operating process with the background portion, the intermediate data which relates to the received drawing instruction is extracted from the intermediate data stored by the storing step, a drawing command in which the arithmetic operating process of the received drawing instruction has been executed to the extracted intermediate data is formed and transmitted to the printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsu Oishi
  • Patent number: 9232393
    Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising: establishing, by a first network node, a communication connection to at least one advertising device located in a geographically limited service area; establishing a communication connection to at least one advertisement-receiving device; generating at least one security key for encrypting and decrypting at least part of the data which is to be transmitted in D2D communication links, wherein each security key is valid for a predetermined validity period, and common to those at least one advertising device and at least one advertisement-receiving device within the service area which fulfill predetermined criteria; causing transmission of information indicating the generated at least one security key to those at least one advertising device which fulfill the predetermined criteria; and causing transmission of information indicating at least one of the generated at least one security key to those at least one advertisement-receiving device which fulfill the predetermined c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Vinh Van Phan, Ling Yu, Kari Veikko Horneman
  • Patent number: 9232080
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus reads an original to acquire image information, processes the acquired image information, and determines whether or not to form the processing result on the original. Upon determining to form the processing result on the original, the image forming apparatus forms the processing result on the original, and upon determining to not form the processing result on the original, the image forming apparatus forms the processing result on a sheet other than the original.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoya Kakutani
  • Patent number: 9232099
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a document conveyance section, a reading section, a determination section, an operation control section, a reading instruction request section, and a reading instruction reception section. The determination section determines whether a document sheet is an identifier sheet indicating identification information for identifying an information processing device that is a communication target. The reading instruction request section communicates with the information processing device identified by the identification information, thereby requesting the information processing device for an instruction pertaining to document reading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ariyoshi Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 9232103
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a terminal apparatus communicable with a plurality of external devices, which includes an input device and an output device, via a network. The terminal device includes a controller configured to execute a main function including an input function to be executed by the input device and an output function to be executed by the output device. When a cancel command is received, the controller may cancel execution of the input function or cancel execution of the output function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norihiko Asai
  • Patent number: 9213922
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a first acquiring controller which acquires a first file; a second acquiring controller which acquires area information to indicate a storage area on a predetermined storage medium, the first file acquired by the first acquiring controller being stored in the storage area; a generating controller which generates a second file having an additional information area capable of storing additional information, from the first file acquired by the first acquiring controller; and a storing controller which stores the area information acquired by the second acquiring controller as the additional information in the additional information area of the second file generated by the generating controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsutomu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9215562
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and system for optimized indoor position estimation. Specifically, the disclosure relates to indoor position estimation by considering the likelihood that an access point may be an outlier. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a system to determine a device location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Leor Banin, Yuval Amizur, Uri Schatzberg
  • Patent number: 9210280
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires data indicating duration for dispersing access to a management apparatus for each period of time, a specifying unit that specifies the duration corresponding to a time which is designated by a user on the basis of the acquired data, a selection unit that selects an access time to the management apparatus from a time range based on the designated time and the duration specified by the specifying unit according to a predetermined criterion, and a unit that accesses the management apparatus on the basis of the access time selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Machida
  • Patent number: 9210290
    Abstract: The present invention provides a destination setting apparatus for setting destinations used in communications based on a plurality of communication protocols, the apparatus including an input unit configured to input destination information including a destination and a communication protocol of the destination to a destination list which displays a destination as a communication target, a display unit configured to display a setting screen including setting items settable by each communication protocol, based on the destination information input to the destination list, a determination unit configured to determine if the destination information input to the destination list includes one type of communication protocol or a plurality of different types of communication protocols, and a control unit configured to control to generate a setting screen to be displayed by the display unit based on the determination result of the determination unit, and to display the setting screen on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki Koike
  • Patent number: 9199810
    Abstract: A sheet supply apparatus includes: a tray on which a stack of sheets can be placed, an air blowing section that blows air towards the stack of sheets to float at least a topmost sheet, a sucking and conveying section, above the tray, that sucks said floating sheet(s) and conveys said sheet(s) in a prescribed direction, and a first light source that emits a first stripshaped slit light having a vertically extending component such that the slit light crosses at least a first edge of a first floating sheet and a second edge of a second floating sheet. An image capture section captures an image of the first slit light, a calculating section calculates a vertical clearance between the first and second sheets, and an air amount adjusting section adjusts an amount of air to be blown by the air blowing section based on the calculated vertical clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Shimoyama, Noboru Oomoto, Hiroaki Umemoto, Hiroshi Mizuno, Ryo Oshima
  • Patent number: 9204001
    Abstract: An image reading device includes: a base member; an outer cover; a top plate member; a carriage; a reading unit; a first drive unit; and a first power supply cable. The base member has a bottom wall, and a peripheral wall defining a moving space in combination with the base member. The outer cover covers the peripheral wall such that the inner surface of the outer cover is opposed to and spaced apart from the outer surface of the peripheral wall. The inner surface and the outer surface define a housing space therebetween. The reading unit reads an image from a medium placed on a platen glass while the carriage is reciprocatingly moved inside the moving space along a moving direction. The first drive unit is supported at the base member and reciprocatingly moves the carriage. The first power supply cable is connected to the first drive unit and accommodated in the housing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiomi