Patents Examined by Brian T Le
  • Patent number: 12267757
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to automate managing of relationships between IoT entities (e.g., devices, apps, users) and offloading the burden of managing these relationships from users. A Relationship Management Service (RM Service) is described herein for the autonomous establishment, modification, and tear-down of relationships between IoT entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Dale N. Seed, Catalina Mihaela Mladin, Quang Ly, Zhuo Chen, William Robert Flynn, IV, Lu Liu, Jiwan Ninglekhu, Michael F. Starsinic, Chonggang Wang
  • Patent number: 12262438
    Abstract: A wireless device (14) transmits, to a radio network node (12), a radio resource control (RRC) connection request (18) that requests the establishment, re-establishment, or resumption of an RRC connection (16). The RRC connection request (18) indicates a type of core network to which the wireless device (14) selects to connect. The wireless device (14) in some embodiments receives a response to the RRC connection request (18), based on the type of core network to which the wireless device (14) selects to connect. For example, the wireless device (14) may receive the response using a protocol stack determined based on the type of core network to which the wireless device (14) selects to connect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oscar Ohlsson, Gunnar Mildh, Malik Wahaj Arshad
  • Patent number: 12250681
    Abstract: A terminal includes a control unit that calculates a size of a transport block (TBS) to be transmitted on a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) by applying a TBS determination method in a case where a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) and the PSSCH are to be frequency division multiplexed in a portion of a time resource of the PSSCH; and a transmitting unit that transmits the PSCCH and the PSSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12247968
    Abstract: Inventions provided are designed to improve states of agriculture sites and crops, in relation to agricultural inputs and management practices. Some inventions covered are able to generate agronomic indices and execute actions in response to agronomic indices at an agriculture site. An example method includes receiving samples associated with the agriculture site; generating a sample dataset upon processing the samples with a set of sample processing operations; generating a set of microbiome-associated features upon performing a set of transformation operations upon the sample dataset, wherein the set of microbiome-associated features comprises taxonomic annotations, functional annotations and ecological indices; generating values of a set of agronomic indices based upon the set of microbiome-associated features; and executing an action for producing a desired outcome at the agriculture site, based upon the set of agronomic indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Biome Makers Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Acedo, Héctor Ortega-Arranz, Daniel Almonacid, Adrian Ferrero, Beatriz Garcia Jimenez
  • Patent number: 12242017
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for conducting formation analysis. Data from borehole logging tools is used to conduct a petrophysical analysis of the formation in order to determine (quantify) total porosity and formation matrix permittivity for an interval of the formation. Noninvaded zone water saturation and flushed zone water saturation for the interval of the formation is determined using a saturation model of the interval. The noninvaded zone water saturation is compared to the flushed zone water saturation, and the results of the comparison are used to determine that the interval of the formation contains movable hydrocarbon, immobile hydrocarbon or movable formation water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harish B. Datir, Jean-Marc Donadille, Oliver C. Mullins, Vladislav Achourov, Lalitha Venkataramanan
  • Patent number: 12241758
    Abstract: A ground surface estimation method includes: a continuous region recognizing step for recognizing, when a difference in altitude value between a representative point of one grid and a representative point of another adjacent grid out of the plurality of grids is equal to or less than a threshold, the one grid and the other adjacent grid as a continuous region that is a region where the one grid and the other adjacent grid are continuous; and a ground surface estimation step for estimating a continuous region having the largest number of grids among the continuous regions as a ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao Ishikawa, Takayuki Kosaka, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
  • Patent number: 12245132
    Abstract: This application provides example path switching methods, example communication apparatuses, and example communication systems. One example method includes obtaining, by a session management network element, a context of a first transport layer connection, where the first transport layer connection is between a source transport layer proxy network element and a terminal device. In response to determining that a protocol data unit (PDU) session anchor for the terminal device needs to be changed, the session management network element can send the context of the first transport layer connection to a target transport layer proxy network element, where the context is used to establish a third transport layer connection between the target transport layer proxy network element and the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang Yu, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 12235300
    Abstract: A method for power event notification includes (a) receiving, from a plurality of sensors at different respective locations within an area served by an electric power grid, a respective data set from each sensor, each data set including metadata associated with its respective sensor and electric power data generated by its respective sensor, (b) identifying, from at least one of the data sets, occurrence of an electric power event in the electric power grid, and (c) generating a notification of the electric power event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Joel Metts, Scott L. Caruso, Stephen Arendt, Scott H. Clearwater
  • Patent number: 12238539
    Abstract: System and methods include obtaining data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network having one or more access points and each Wi-Fi network being associated with a customer of one or more service providers; aggregating and filtering the data; analyzing the aggregated and filtered data for a condition of each of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks; determining one or more resolutions for the condition of a Wi-Fi network of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks; and initiating a customer outreach workflow to provide the one or more resolutions to the customer associated with the Wi-Fi network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: PLUME DESIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Nipun Agarwal, William J. McFarland, Yoseph Malkin, Na Hyun Ha, Yusuke Sakamoto, Sai Venkatraman, Sandeep Eyyuni, Rohit Thadani, Adam Hotchkiss
  • Patent number: 12231924
    Abstract: System and methods include obtaining Wi-Fi network data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network having one or more access points and each Wi-Fi network being associated with a customer of one or more service providers and obtaining customer data for each customer associated with the plurality of Wi-Fi networks, the customer data including call-ins made by customers; aggregating and filtering the data; analyzing the aggregated and filtered data including correlating the call-ins made by customers to the Wi-Fi network data; predicting customer call-ins based on correlations made between the call-ins made by customers and the Wi-Fi network data; and initiating a customer outreach workflow prior to a predicted customer call-in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PLUME DESIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Nipun Agarwal, William J. Mcfarland, Yoseph Malkin, Na Hyun Ha, Yusuke Sakamoto, Sai Venkatraman, Sandeep Eyyuni, Rohit Thadani, Adam Hotchkiss
  • Patent number: 12231923
    Abstract: System and methods include obtaining data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network having one or more access points and each Wi-Fi network being associated with a customer of one or more service providers; aggregating and filtering the data; analyzing the aggregated and filtered data for Wi-Fi metric based alarms, each Wi-Fi metric based alarm being associated with detection of one of an offline Wi-Fi network of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks, an offline node of the Wi-Fi network, instability of the Wi-Fi network, congestion in the Wi-Fi network, and interference in the Wi-Fi network; determining the Wi-Fi metric based alarms based on the analyzing; and performing one or more actions based on the determined Wi-Fi metric based alarms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PLUME DESIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Nipun Agarwal, William J. McFarland, Yoseph Malkin, Na Hyun Ha, Yusuke Sakamoto, Sai Venkatraman, Sandeep Eyyuni, Rohit Thadani, Adam R. Hotchkiss
  • Patent number: 12215570
    Abstract: A method of a drilling string assembly for drilling small-diameter branched channels, including installation of operating elements arranged in a dynamically perturbed section of a loaded part of the drilling string. Moreover, a drilling string assembly, comprising oscillators arranged as coupled oscillators, a bit, a spindle section of a bottom-hole motor, power sections of a screw bottom-hole motor, assemblies of rigid and flexible pipes, as well as a device for regulating the axial load, are installed on a test bench. Bench tests are carried out according to modelled programs of possible emergency or non-emergency operating modes of the assembly, both as a whole and of the separate elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Inventors: Ilia Liagov, Alexandr Lyagov, Marina Kachemayeva
  • Patent number: 12213182
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station supporting random access. The UE first transmits a first radio signal, and then receives a second radio signal. A first bit block is used for generating the first radio signal, the first bit block includes a positive integer number of bits, the first bit block carries a first identifier and a first data block, the first bit block lacks a field used for indicating RRC connection request cause information, a field used for indicating RRC connection reestablishment request cause information or a field used for indicating RRC connection resume request cause information compared with a Msg3, the first data block includes a positive integer number of higher-layer bits, the second radio signal carries a second identifier. The first identifier is equal to the second identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: XiaoBo Zhang
  • Patent number: 12212420
    Abstract: Disclosed is a base station in a wireless communication system. Each base station in wireless communication comprises: a communication module; and a processor. The processor generates a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-ACK codebook comprising one or more bits and indicating whether or not reception of a channel or signal is successful, and transmits the HARQ-ACK codebook to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12207326
    Abstract: A wireless communication unit for communicating with a wireless network node and one or more wireless remote communication units is described. The wireless communication unit comprises: at least one receiver configured to receive data content when connected to the wireless network node or a first wireless remote communication unit; at least one memory operably coupled to the at least one receiver and configured to store the received data content; at least one transmitter operably coupled to the at least one memory; and a processor operably coupled to the at least one memory and the at least one transmitter. When no longer connected to the wireless network node or the first wireless remote communication unit, the processor is configured to access the data content from the at least one memory and the transmitter is configured to transmit the accessed data content to at least one second wireless remote communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Veea Systems Limited
    Inventor: Alan Edward Jones
  • Patent number: 12185343
    Abstract: Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a method and an apparatus for determining a network allocation vector under multi-link communication situations, and a storage medium. The method for determining the network allocation vector under multi-link communication situations is applied to a first device, and the method includes: generating a first data frame for a first link in a plurality of links, wherein the plurality of links includes the first link; obtaining a capability information value of a second device in the plurality of links; setting a network allocation vector of the first device for the first link according to a capability information value of the first device and the capability information value of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 12177817
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node for wireless communications. A first receiver receives a first signal and a second signal; a first transmitter transmits a third signal in a first radio resource pool; wherein the first signal is used for determining first information, the first information being related to channel quality between the first node and a transmitter of the first signal; the second signal is used for determining second information, the second information being related to channel quality between a transmitter of the second signal and the first node; the transmitter of the first signal is different from the transmitter of the second signal; and the first information and the second information are used together for determining a magnitude of time-domain resources occupied by the third signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 12166698
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced bandwidth selection for wireless devices. A device may generate a request frame with at least one of a first indication of a bandwidth for which a second device is to measure a first noise level or a second indication of a resource unit for which the second device is to measure a second noise level. The device may send the request frame to the second device. The device may identify a response frame received from the second device, the response frame having a third indication of the first noise level or the second noise level and a fourth indication of the bandwidth or the resource unit. The device may determine, based on the first noise level or the second noise level, a parameter associated with a subsequent frame to send to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Nir Balaban, Daniel Bravo, Dor Chay, Xiaogang Chen, Feng Jiang, Thomas J. Kenney, Qinghua Li, Ehud Reshef
  • Patent number: 12160797
    Abstract: A base station (10) according to an embodiment includes a data processing unit (101) and a wireless signal processing unit (103). The data processing unit (101) generates a MAC frame. The MAC frame includes input data and an identification bit (CB). The identification bit (CB) indicates that data is extended broadcast data. The wireless signal processing unit (103) converts the MAC frame into a wireless signal to distribute the wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Inoue, Shoko Shinohara, Akira Kishida, Kengo Nagata, Yusuke Asai, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12160345
    Abstract: A replacement management apparatus includes a detection section which detects a first communication speed and first setting information of a physical port used for connection for each of a communication apparatus to be replaced and a communication apparatus to be connected, and detects a second communication speed of a physical port used for connection for a replacing communication apparatus, and a generation section which generates second setting information of the physical port used for connection for each of the replacing communication apparatus and the communication apparatus to be connected based on the detected first communication speed, the detected second communication speed, and the detected first setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sei Kou, Tomoya Hatano