Patents Examined by Chuong A Ngo
  • Patent number: 11558160
    Abstract: In an aspect, an initiator transmits a positioning reference signal. The initiator receives a plurality of responder positioning reference signals sent from individual responders of a plurality of responders. The initiator transmits a measurement message comprising a first set of measurements that are determined based on the positioning reference signal and the plurality of responder positioning reference signals. The initiator receives responder measurement messages sent from the individual responders of the plurality of responders. The initiator receives updated map information from an anchor and updates pre-existing map information based on the updated map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chang-Sik Choi, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11553453
    Abstract: A method in a wireless device (WD) is described. The method is performed for determining a geo-location of a target station using round-trip times (RTTs) of a plurality of signals transmitted by the WD to the target station and a plurality of response signals received from the target station. The method includes determining expected time domain symbols of an expected response signal, and, for each transmitted signal of the plurality of signals, determining a first time, opening a reception window for receiving a response signal, receiving the response signal within the reception window, frequency shifting the expected time domain symbols, and cross-correlating the time domain symbols with the frequency shifted expected time domain symbols. In addition, the method includes determining a peak correlation value, a second time, and the RTT for each one of the transmitted plurality of signals based at least on the first time and the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SR Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Graham K. Smith, Ryan Busser, Olivia Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11553451
    Abstract: A two-way signal positioning method and a two-way signal positioning system thereof are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: controlling a locating device to be measured to transmit a plurality of positioning signals of a plurality of transmission powers; causing a plurality of known locating devices to receive the plurality of positioning signals and return a plurality of response signals to the locating device to be measured; recording the strengths of the plurality of positioning signals, the strengths of the plurality of response signals, the plurality of corresponding receiving times and the coordinates of the plurality of known locating devices to a database; identifying the known locating devices corresponding to the stronger signals; and obtaining a signal strength-distance function and a signal strength-distance standard deviation function from the database so as to identify the device location of the locating device to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Gunitech Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Chee Tseng, Ting-Hui Chiang, Huai-Wei Peng, Chien-Ju Hung, Huan-Ruei Shiu, Chung-Liang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11546967
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to determine a radio access technology availability indicator to present. A wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular network via a cell that operates according to a first radio access technology. The wireless device may determine if access to the cellular network is also available via a cell that operates according to a second radio access technology, by configuration by the serving cell or from another standalone cell. The wireless device may select a radio access technology availability indicator to present based at least in part on determining if access to the cellular network is also available via a cell that operates according to the second radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sofheem Mohammed, Rohit Thareja, Vijay Venkataraman, Shivani Suresh Babu
  • Patent number: 11546749
    Abstract: A method for communication processing, applied to a terminal device having installed therein multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) cards including a data primary card and a data secondary card each supporting a New Radio (NR) communication function, includes: conducting statistics on cell information of cells supporting the NR communication function; and determining, according to the cell information, whether a cell to which the data secondary card is registered is a cell supporting the NR communication function, and in response to the cell to which the data secondary card is registered being the cell supporting the NR communication function, enabling the NR communication function of the data secondary card and controlling the data secondary card to perform cell measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi Gao
  • Patent number: 11546733
    Abstract: A method for determining a transportation mode acquires magnetometer and speed data from a mobile device, correlates the magnetometer to the speed data in groupings, and performs spectral analysis on the groups of magnetometer data. Energy calculated for each of a set of frequency components obtained from the spectral analysis is compared to a baseline value to generate a difference, and a transportation mode type is assigned to the vehicle based on the difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MOBILE TELEMATICS INC.
    Inventors: Brad Cordova, Sushrut Karnik
  • Patent number: 11532396
    Abstract: A method of data collection of stool data via a mobile device operable to enable monitoring of gastrointestinal function. A related method of long-term monitoring of patient gastrointestinal function, using one or more signal processing tools (e.g. machine learning algorithms) for automatically interpreting patient stool data, including real-time patient-assessments, in order to detect an adverse clinical event from patient stool data. A system for facilitating real-time monitoring the gastrointestinal function, the system comprising: a camera on a mobile device, a user interface that facilitates self-monitoring of stool characteristics, so as to create health-monitoring data; mobile device storage, server storage, and remote storage (with at least one communication link between them) for storing some or all of the health-monitoring data; and a processor for interpreting such health-monitoring data for clinical or other health-monitoring application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Mind Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R Karlin, Peter Dubec, Martin Majernik, Vladimir Boza, Lucia Kvapilova, Dana Rajtarova
  • Patent number: 11523394
    Abstract: A UE may be configured to select narrower or wider beams that may be suitable for use with a current UE mobility, scattering environment, etc. The UE may track changes to an identified beam of a certain width, and so may recover from tracking or other radio link failures by switching to a beam that is spatially adjacent or to a beam of a different width. The UE may identify a first beam associated with a first beam width based on at least one reference signal received by the UE. The UE may further determine a set of beams based on the first beam width that is associated with the identified first beam, and the determined set of beams may include at least one beam corresponding to the first beam width. The UE may further measure respective channel qualities associated with each beam of the determined set of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Jun Zhu, Mingming Cai, Yong Li, Ruhua He
  • Patent number: 11523320
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling transmission of signaling between a first access node and a second access node, in a system where the first access node and second access node are each configured to provide respective wireless coverage and service. An example method includes monitoring a total volume of data communication between the first access node and the second access node and, based at least on the monitoring, controlling a rate of periodic control signaling between the first access node and the second access node. In a dual-connectivity implementation, the method could apply, for instance, to control a rate at which the second access node transmits data-usage reports (e.g., second-RAT usage reports) to the first access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11523268
    Abstract: A communications method includes determining a session management function entity based on at least one of a data network name, slice information, and an application function service identifier, and sending a first message to the session management function entity, where the first message is used to subscribe to a terminal event, the first message includes service description information, and the service description information is used to indicate a service corresponding to the terminal event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yizhuang Wu
  • Patent number: 11516620
    Abstract: A device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to select a vehicle attached to a base station; determine a speed and a vehicle type associated with the vehicle; and calculate an estimated braking distance for the vehicle based on the speed and the vehicle type. The processor may be further configured to generate a geofence for the vehicle based on the calculated estimated braking distance; use the generated geofence to identify at least one relevant Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) message to be forwarded to the vehicle; and forward the identified at least one relevant V2X message to the vehicle via the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Hoo Dennis Ong, Julie Nicole Vogelman, Brian Peebles
  • Patent number: 11496910
    Abstract: An electronic equipment, a user equipment, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium. An electronic equipment configured in a wireless communication system that comprises a single base station equipment comprises a processing circuit and is configured to: estimate the distance between a network side equipment and a user equipment according to a downlink signal arrival angle measured by the user equipment and an uplink signal arrival angle measured by the network side equipment; and determine the position of the user equipment according to the distance between the network side equipment and the user equipment as well as the uplink signal arrival angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bin Sheng, Pingping Xu, Penshun Lu, Wenbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11484199
    Abstract: A method of predicting a blood glucose level of a user, comprising: obtaining, by an image capturing device, an iris image of the user; training a first convolutional neural network of a computing device using the iris image as an input to obtain a classification of the iris image; training a second convolutional neural network of the computing device using the classification and the iris image to extract an iris feature vector; and predicting, by the computing device, the blood glucose level of the user based on the iris feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventor: Bryan Hau-Ping Chiang
  • Patent number: 11477841
    Abstract: Event triggered network parameter manipulation can include detecting a trigger to collect data associated with a connection between a user equipment and a cellular network; triggering delivery of a radio resource control message to the user equipment by the cellular network; and receiving, from the user equipment, a report that can include operational data associated with the user equipment. Data from the cellular network can be obtained. The data can include the report and operational data associated with the cellular network. The operational data associated with the cellular network can include connection parameters associated with the connection between the user equipment and the cellular network. The data can be analyzed to determine one of the connection parameters that is to be manipulated, and a command that instructs a recipient of the command to manipulate the one of the connection parameters can be issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Wen Yang, Hongyan Lei
  • Patent number: 11477837
    Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating one or more first RSs, on a first cell, as candidate RSs for a BFR procedure of a second cell. The wireless device triggers, in response to a number of beam failure instances on the second cell, the BFR procedure for the second cell. The first cell is deactivated. Based on the deactivating the first cell, the BFR procedure for the second cell is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Youngwoo Kwak
  • Patent number: 11430108
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving a defect map from a defect scanner, wherein the defect map comprises at least one defect location of a semiconductor workpiece; annotating the defect map with a reference fiducial location of the semiconductor workpiece; determining a detected fiducial location within image data of the semiconductor workpiece; determining an offset correction based on comparing the detected fiducial location with the reference fiducial location; producing a corrected defect map by applying the offset correction to the defect map, wherein the applying the offset correction translocates the at least one defect location; and transferring the corrected defect map to a defect reviewer configured to perform root cause analysis based on the corrected defect map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Ko Liao, Ya-Hsun Hsueh, Sheng-Hsiang Chuang, Hsu-Shui Liu, Jiun-Rong Pai, Shou-Wen Kuo
  • Patent number: 11425538
    Abstract: Event monitoring methods and apparatuses are provided. One method comprises: receiving, by an exposure function apparatus, a first message for configuring one or more monitoring events for a user group that comprises a plurality of members; obtaining, by the exposure function apparatus, member information of the plurality of members; determining, by the exposure function apparatus based on the member information, that one or more reports of the one or more monitoring events for each of the plurality of members are received; and deleting, by the exposure function apparatus, a monitoring event configuration of the one or more monitoring events generated based on the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fenqin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11419140
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more messages. The one or more messages may comprise a first RNTI for a first SPS and a second for a second SPS. A downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to one of the first RNTI or the second RNTI may be received. The DCI may be validated, at least based on a cyclic shift value associated with the DCI, if the DCI corresponds to the first RNTI. Otherwise, the DCI may be validated without considering the cyclic shift value. One of the first SPS or the second SPS, corresponding to the DCI, may be activated in response to the validating being successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11405805
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides a link maintenance method and an apparatus in a relay system, to reduce a service interruption latency, or to avoid service congestion. The method includes: determining, by a first node, one or more candidate neighboring nodes to be measured; measuring, by the first node, the one or more candidate neighboring nodes; determining, by the first node based on a measurement result, whether to establish or delete a backup backhaul link between the first node and the one or more candidate neighboring nodes; and sending, by the first node, a request to a second node, where the request is used to request the second node to establish or delete the backup backhaul link between the first node and the one or more candidate neighboring nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shitong Yuan, Mingzeng Dai, You Li, Jing Liu, Yuanping Zhu
  • Patent number: 11405928
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sidelink communication device that includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver includes a plurality of antennas and is configured to communicate, using one or more of the plurality of antennas, with at least one neighboring sidelink communication device using one or more sidelink radio resources of a plurality of sidelink radio resources allocated by a network entity. The processor is configured to determine a measure of the ability of the sidelink communication device to suppress interference to and/or from at least one other neighboring sidelink communication device using one or more of the plurality of antennas. The transceiver is further configured to transmit, to the network entity, information about the measure for the ability of the sidelink communication device to suppress the interference for allocation of the one or more sidelink radio resources by the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Medina, Konstantinos Manolakis, Samer Bazzi, Serkan Ayaz