Patents Examined by Ayodeji Ayotunde
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Patent number: 9521020Abstract: It is disclosed to insert an anti-whitened data block, which is obtainable from a specific data block by anti-whitening, into a data block that is to be whitened by a whitening to yield a whitened data block, wherein the anti-whitening compensates the whitening so that the whitened data block will comprise the specific data block in non-whitened form. It is further disclosed to output, in a first operating mode, an output data block generated by one of whitening and de-whitening an input data block in its entirety, and outputting, in a second operating mode, one of: an output data block generated by one of whitening and de-whitening all parts of an input data block under exclusion of a specific data block contained in the input data block.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Antti Paavo Tapani Kainulainen, Ilari Aleksi Teikari, Ville Valtteri Ranki
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Patent number: 9510185Abstract: An embodiment method includes receiving, by a virtual card server from a first terminal, a request for enabling a virtual SIM card, where the request for enabling the virtual SIM card includes a virtual SIM card identifier, where the first terminal stores data of the virtual SIM card and a second terminal stores data of the virtual SIM card and determining whether the second terminal has enabled the virtual SIM card in accordance with the virtual SIM card identifier. The method also includes enabling the virtual SIM card for the first terminal when the second terminal has not enabled the virtual SIM card.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yingying Xiong
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Patent number: 9503030Abstract: A radio frequency power amplifier comprises an input and output terminals, a main and peak amplifier stages, and an output power combiner for combining a main output signal and a peak output signal into an output signal. The output power combiner comprises a first combiner terminal electrically coupled to a main output terminal, a second combiner terminal electrically coupled to a peak output terminal, a first transition structure extending from the first combiner terminal in a first direction to a first end, a second transition structure extending from the second combiner terminal in the first direction to a second end, a first electrical conductor arranged between the first and the second ends, and a second electrical conductor arranged between the second combiner terminal and the output terminal. The first electrical conductor extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second electrical conductor extends in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventor: Igor Ivanovich Blednov
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Patent number: 9479268Abstract: A first device may receive a parameter to identify interference associated with a frequency; identify the frequency based on the parameter; filter signals associated with the frequency to prevent a second device from receiving the signals associated with the frequency; and provide information identifying the frequency to the second device to cause the second device to prevent a data flow from being assigned to the frequency.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Martin G. Guldberg, Jim Hunter, Timothy Lee Roco Carter
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Patent number: 9474975Abstract: A controller 20 transmits a unique ID to a console main unit 10 when starting communication with said console main unit 10. The console main unit 10 determines whether the received unique ID has already been registered in a wired controller No. registration table, and when it has already been registered, sets already registered correspondence for corresponding a virtual controller No., a wired controller No., and the unique ID. Otherwise, if it is not yet registered, a wired controller No. and the unique ID are corresponded, and new registration and correspondence setting for corresponding them to a virtual controller No. is conducted. The virtual controller No. corresponded to the unique ID is associated to predetermined information processing if the already registered correspondence setting or new registration and correspondence setting is completed.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Takanori Shimizu
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Patent number: 9479631Abstract: A mobile system includes a Near-Field Communication (NFC) reader, a sensor, a memory arrangement, and a processor. The NFC reader is configured to communicate with an electronic device within a predetermined range. The sensor obtaining data related to a state of the mobile system and external conditions of the mobile system. The memory arrangement storing a mode application configured to determine when a mode of the NFC reader is to be changed as a function of the data. The processor executing the mode application and changing the mode when at least one of the state and the external conditions changes beyond a respective predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Benedict Kennedy, James Morley-Smith
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Patent number: 9479207Abstract: A device and method for tracking a signal of interest from a signal transmitting device, in the presence of cross-polarization or adjacent emitter interference, is provided. An antenna, which may have a beamwidth greater than an angular spacing of geo-stationary transmitting device, is used to receive the signal of interest from a transmitting device. The received signal of interest is analyzed to determine a frequency characteristic of the received signal of interest, and a filter of a plurality of filters is selected based on the determined bandwidth of the signal of interest. The selected filter is applied to the received signal of interest.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: ThinKom Soultions, Inc.Inventors: William Henderson, Talat Kiani
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Patent number: 9479242Abstract: A communication network is optimized using modal antenna techniques, wherein a plurality of communication nodes are synchronized with each other along with mobile and fixed wireless communication devices which comprise the user base. With one or more of the communication nodes and wireless communication devices including at least one respective modal antenna, the network is adapted for dynamic optimization of communication links amongst the wireless users. Node to user throughput, node to node throughput, as well as interference characteristics among the nodes and wireless users are each optimized as a network system to increase communication system network capacity and reliability. The multiple radiation patterns provided by the modal antennas provide a parametric for network-level synchronization to improve communication system performance.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: ETHERTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Laurent Desclos, Jeffrey Shamblin
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Patent number: 9473258Abstract: A method is provided for aligning RF signals of a first channel bank and additional channel banks in a test platform. A plurality of correlators is used to correlate a reference code signal carrying a particular code at a particular chip rate with a received code signal carrying the particular code at the particular chip rate from the first channel bank to establish a first timing offset. The plurality of correlators is used to correlate a continuation of the reference code signal with additional received code signals carrying the particular code at the particular chip rate from the additional channel banks to establish additional timing offsets. The first timing offset and additional timing offsets are applied to the first and additional channel banks. The plurality of correlators includes 72 correlators, and a timing offset established in a correlation interval having a shorter duration than a length of the particular code.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS PLCInventors: Neil Christopher Pearse, Steve Michael Moroz, Mark Geoffrey Holbrow
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Patent number: 9467799Abstract: An apparatus includes an NFC tag to which information about at least one near-field communication (NFC) service, from among NFC services that are provided based on NFC, is written; a user interface to receive an input of log-in information from a user; a control unit to determine an NFC service that is allowed for the user in response to log in of the user; and an NFC module to update information that is written to the NFC tag according to a result of the determining.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Byoung-yue Kim
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Patent number: 9451642Abstract: A method for securing wireless communication between an in-vehicle system and multiple portable devices brought into a vehicle. The method can include receiving a communication request from a portable device, and determining whether a primary device has authorized wireless communication between the in-vehicle system and the portable device requesting communication, where such authorization can be provided via near field communication (NFC). The method can further include establishing wireless communication between the in-vehicle system and the portable device requesting communication when the portable device requesting communication is the primary device, and when the portable device requesting communication is a secondary device and the primary device has authorized wireless communication via NFC.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Denso International America, Inc.Inventors: Doua Vang, Bilal Alasry
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Patent number: 9450638Abstract: Device antennas may be allocated such that a non-LTE module (e.g., GSM module or 1x module) shares the same antenna with an LTE DRx module. This may lead to degradation of a non-LTE voice service when the LTE DRx module performs LTE transmit antenna selection causing the non-LTE module to be switched to a different antenna during reception/transmission of voice slots, resulting in a loss of slots. Accordingly, a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for controlling antenna switching are provided. The apparatus facilitates a first radio module to use a first antenna for performing a first operation, detects that a second radio module will attempt to use the first antenna during transmit antenna selection for performing a second operation, and determines whether to switch use of the first antenna from the first radio module to the second radio module based on a type of the first operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hongbo Yan, Brian Clarke Banister, Daniel Filipovic, Mingxi Fan
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Patent number: 9432102Abstract: Provided is a device and a method for eliminating inter-cell interference in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system. The method for operating a user equipment for eliminating the inter-cell interference includes determining one or more optimum bands among bands not requested to be restricted from a neighboring cell, determining at least one of band and Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) to be requested to be restricted to the neighboring cell among the determined one or more optimum bands, and feeding back at least one of the band and PMI to be requested to be restricted to the neighboring cell to a serving base station.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Woo Lee, Hee-Won Kang, Shuangfeng Han, David Mazzarese
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Patent number: 9432087Abstract: A communication system includes an HCE application module and a security module. The HCE application module can carry out NFC and transmit an NFC signal in software format. The security module can provide a secure storage for storing at least one NFC applet, receive the NFC signal from the HCE application module, and carry out a process corresponding to the NFC signal. A communication method includes the steps of activating the HCE application module; enabling connection between the HCE application module and the security module; waiting for an NFC signal from an NFC reader; receiving the signal; processing and transmitting the signal to the security module; storing at least one transaction-related key and transaction-related data of the NFC signal and executing a process corresponding to the signal by the security module; and transmitting a responsive signal to the NFC reader.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: GOTRUST TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Tien-Chi Lee, Jeng Lung Li, Yi-Hsiung Huang
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Patent number: 9432800Abstract: A wireless magnetic field communication system working within the range of less than 1.5 m without induction induced interference during listening mode is proposed. The system comprises at least a transmitter and a receiver. Several novel transmitter designs using either active-connection-control solenoid or spin-orbit torque (SOT) based patterned thin film element(s) are proposed. The system has intrinsic high data security level due to its limited working range, as well as large data transfer rate. The system is suitable to establish a temporary off-the grid magnetic field communication network. It also provides a new data communication approach among modules instead of data cable in industry equipment. The system can be used as a standalone or built-in system for communication between devices or modularized components of a system.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Inventors: Ge Yi, Jinwen Wang, Dujiang Wan, Shaoping Li
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Patent number: 9425838Abstract: A system and method for receiving a signal, comprising an input adapted to receive a radio frequency signal having a strong interferer; a signal generator, adapted to produce a representation of the interferer as an analog signal generated based on an oversampled digital representation thereof; and a component adapted to cancel the strong interferer from radio frequency signal based on the generated analog signal to produce a modified radio frequency signal substantially absent the interferer. The system typically has a nonlinear component that either saturates or produces distortion from the strong interferer, which is thereby reduced. The system preferably employs high speed circuits which digitize and process radio frequency signals without analog mixers.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Hypres, Inc.Inventors: Deepnarayan Gupta, Amol Inamdar
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Patent number: 9420077Abstract: A combined cellular telephone and wrist watch including a wrist watch having a housing provided with a fixed and rigid shape, and a flexible wrist band attached to the housing; and a cellular telephone located at the housing and spaced from the wrist band. A user of the cellular telephone is permitted to selectively generate, send and receive text and telephone messages while the cellular telephone is at the manual response operating mode (not within an operating vehicle). Conversely, a user of the cellular telephone is prohibited from selectively generating, sending and receiving text and telephone messages while the cellular telephone is at the automatic response operating mode (within an operating vehicle).Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Inventor: Florence Nakiranda
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Patent number: 9408252Abstract: Electronic devices are disclosed. The electronic device includes a circuit board. The circuit board contains a first transceiver module pad configured for soldering a first transceiver module thereon; and a second transceiver module pad configured for soldering a second transceiver module thereon. The first transceiver module is different from the second transceiver module, and layouts of the first and second transceiver module pads are the same.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.Inventors: Jie Chen, Ting-Huan Lee, Jian Wu
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Patent number: 9408222Abstract: In a method of interference mitigation in a multi user detection capable radio base station in a communication system, which radio base station comprises a set of confined detection modules, at least one of which is capable of handling multiple user connections, first and at least a second subset of detection modules are formed from said set, wherein the second set comprises at least one interference mitigation capable detection module. Interference information from the first subset is communicated to the second subset, interference originating in user connections of the first subset are then mitigated from the user connections of the second subset. Subsequently, interference is mutually mitigated between the connections within the interference mitigation capable detection module.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Bo Hagerman, Fredrik Gunnarsson
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Patent number: 9408022Abstract: A communication system that includes a base unit and one or more end units that communicate over a primary communication link using a first communication protocol and a secondary communication link using a second protocol. The secondary communication link may be a shorter range communication link than the primary communication link. The secondary communication link may be used to transmit and receive registration information, configuration settings, and status information between the end units and the base unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: HM ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventor: David O'Gwynn