Patents Examined by Chuong Ngo
  • Patent number: 11722345
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of parameters for estimating tone reservation (TR) subcarriers, based at least in part on energies of data symbols of a communication, having tone reservation applied for the communication. The UE may receive the communication having the tone reservation applied to the TR subcarriers. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
  • Patent number: 11716705
    Abstract: A user equipment and apparatus receive from a base station, configuration information configuring the user equipment to provide assistance information indicating a preference of the user equipment to leave RRC connected state, and transmit to the base station, assistance information indicating that a preferred RRC state of the user equipment is an RRC state in which an RRC connection is suspended. A base station transmits to a user equipment, configuration information configuring the user equipment to provide assistance information indicating a preference of the user equipment to leave RRC connected state, and receives from the user equipment, assistance information indicating that a preferred RRC state of the user equipment is an RRC state in which an RRC connection is suspended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Kugo Morita, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 11716589
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and program products for providing services to a user by a mobile device based on the user's daily routine of movement. The mobile device determines whether a location cluster indicates a significant location for the user based on one or more hints that indicate an interest of the user in locations in the cluster. The mobile device can perform adaptive clustering to determine a size of area of the significant location based on how multiple locations converge in the location cluster. The mobile device can provide location-based services for calendar items, including predicting a time of arrival at an estimated location of a calendar item. The mobile device can provide various services related to a location of the mobile device or a significant location of the user through an application programming interface (API).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Dal Santo, Lukas M. Marti, Ronald K. Huang, Lili Cao
  • Patent number: 11711868
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a radio frequency band selection service is provided. The radio frequency band selection service may include a default service band, a default coverage band, and a threshold value that allows an end device to select a radio frequency band to camp on when in an idle mode, select a radio frequency band to obtain service when in a connected mode, and select stand-alone or non-stand-alone services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Susan Wu Sanders, Brian T. Mecum, Monte Giles
  • Patent number: 11711702
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism capable of reducing a burden on a beam selection procedure on a plurality of frequency bandwidths. A communication device includes: a setting section (151) that performs setting of beam groups defined in a plurality of frequency bandwidths, respectively; and a notification section (153) that notifies a terminal device of information regarding identicalness between the beam groups defined in the frequency bandwidths different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11706652
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system. The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to an application layer network architecture providing an edge computing service in a cellular wireless communication system. According to an embodiment, a method of an EES comprises receiving, from an EEC, a first message including information used to determine matching EAS, and triggering an EAS management system to instantiate the matching EAS in response to receiving the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jicheol Lee, Hyesung Kim
  • Patent number: 11706832
    Abstract: A method and system to control configuration of dual-connectivity service a user equipment device (UE), wherein the dual-connectivity service including the UE being served concurrently by a master node (MN) over a first connection and by a secondary node (SN) over a second connection. An example method includes (i) identifying multiple pairs of access nodes as candidate pairs of access nodes to be the MN and SN for the dual-connectivity service, (ii) for each identified pair, determining an inter-access-node communication delay, (iii) comparing the determined inter-access-node communication delays of the identified pairs and, based on the comparing, selecting one of the identified pairs to be the MN and SN for the dual-connectivity service, and (iv) causing the dual-connectivity service to be set up for the UE with the selected pair of access nodes being the MN and SN for the dual-connectivity service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11706335
    Abstract: A method and system for discovering and locating the source of unwanted communication origination in a communications network, the method comprising compiling a communication campaign database storing data of one or more communication campaigns along with automatically identified instances of those campaigns, and simultaneously or sequentially matching those instances against known communication traffic of a set of cooperating telecommunication carriers. The one or more communications campaigns include a grouping of related fingerprints and patterns that identify a sequence of characters, audio or video associated with instances of a same likely campaigns, either legitimate or illegitimate/fraudulent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: YouMail, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander E. Quilici, Michael J. Rudolph
  • Patent number: 11683783
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for network mode selection based on positioning system information blocks (SIBs). An example method for measuring positioning reference signals with a user equipment includes receiving one or more system information blocks containing positioning reference signal information, determining band and frequency information for positioning reference signals based on the one or more system information blocks, determining at least one operational constraint for the user equipment, determining a network mode for the user equipment based at least on the band and frequency information and the at least one operational constraint, and measuring one or more positioning reference signals based at least in part on the network mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Amit Jain
  • Patent number: 11677454
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to beam management procedures in wireless communications systems. Some implementations of the present disclosure more specifically provide techniques for reporting measurements for proposed beams (such as beams predicted to be the best beams for communications to and from a UE and a network entity) and other beams detected by the UE. The techniques may be used, for example, to identify mismatches between a proposed set of beams and actual best beams for communications to and from a UE and a network entity and allow for the retraining of machine learning models used to identify the proposed set of beams for communications to and from a UE and a network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Taesang Yoo, Jingchao Bao
  • Patent number: 11678174
    Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting section that transmits capability information indicating a first number being equal to or greater than 1; a receiving section that receives configuration information indicating a second number being equal to or greater than 1 and being equal to or less than the first number; and a control section that performs a report of a measurement value of the second number being obtained by measurement of a reference signal associated with a beam. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the number of beams to be reported can be determined appropriately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11678325
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to support resource selection for a sidelink transmission based on a priority of available resources. A physical (PHY) layer of a user equipment (UE) may report different subsets of available resources to a medium access control (MAC) layer. Each subset may be associated with a different priority and the MAC layer may use the subsets to select a resource for the sidelink transmission. The MAC layer may additionally or alternatively maintain a list of UE identifiers (IDs) and may provide the list of the UE IDs to the PHY layer for resource identification. The PHY layer may use the list to implement different reference signal parameters for UEs associated with the list of UE IDs than for other UEs. The PHY layer may report the set of available resources to the MAC layer, based on the list of UE IDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaojie Wang, Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Junyi Li, Piyush Gupta, Xiaoxia Zhang, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11678204
    Abstract: Various aspects pertain to a method for a UE to unilaterally initiate a request to a serving base station to change or enhance beam coverage at the UE. The UE may measure one or more characteristics of a directional beam transmitted by the base station and determines whether channel reliability for the beam should be improved. If channel reliability is below a threshold, then the UE may transmit a request to the base station seeking to adjust coverage of the beam (such as coverage enhancements). Such request may seek to adjust one or more transmit or receive parameters associated with the beam or channels transmitted therein. The UE may switch to using a pre-defined set of coverage enhancement parameters or procedures either automatically after transmitting the request or upon receipt of a grant by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Jelena Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11671819
    Abstract: A communications management system for implementing a freeze on electronic transactions. For example, a device management system provides a means of preventing the porting of at least one communication device account—such as a cellular phone number—from one carrier to another through a list of identifiers that include phone numbers, device identifiers, or personal identifiers that have been enrolled in the device management system through an interface by an authorized user. Advantageously, the device management system provides a revision to the existing phone porting architecture and enables fraud detection and prevention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: PROVE IDENTITY, INC.
    Inventors: Rodger Desai, Jeffrey Naujok, Christopher Cunningham, Greg Bonin
  • Patent number: 11671838
    Abstract: There is provided a method in a first network node (e.g. CBSD) for negotiating AAS antenna pattern and for radio planning. The method comprises: determining (310) one or more cell shaping parameters; sending (320) the determined cell shaping parameters to a second network node (e.g. SAS or CxM); receiving (330) an allocation of resources based on the determined cell shaping parameters. Another method is disclosed as well and may comprise: receiving (160) an envelope of radio frequency power for maximizing a coverage area, from a second network node (e.g. SAS); determining (170) a beam pattern based on the received envelope; sending (180) the determined beam pattern to the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Virgil Cimpu, Junying Liu, Mats Buchmayer, Fredric Kronestedt, Magnus Lundevall, Chris Williams, Gary Boudreau, Kumar Balachandran
  • Patent number: 11670012
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for encoding information in a graphic image. The information may be encoded so as to have a visual appearance that adopts a particular style, so that the encoded information is visually pleasing in the environment in which it is displayed. An encoder and decoder are trained during an integrated training process, where the encoder is tuned to minimize a loss when its encoded images are decoded. Similarly, the decoder is also trained to minimize loss when decoding the encoded images. Both the encoder and decoder may utilize a convolutional neural network in some aspects to analyze data and/or images. Once data is encoded, a style from a sample image is transferred to the encoded data. When decoding, the decoder may largely ignore the style aspects of the encoded data and decode based on a content portion of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Drake Austin Rehfeld, Rahul Bhupendra Sheth, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 11671961
    Abstract: A scheduled entity receives a communication from a scheduling entity that facilitates a configuration on how to connect with a plurality of candidate cells. The scheduled entity then exchanges information about the plurality of candidate cells with the scheduling entity via Layer 1 (L1)/Layer 2 (L2) signaling, and connects with at least one of the plurality of candidate cells based on the L1/L2 signaling and the configuration. In another example, a scheduling entity transmits a communication to a scheduled entity to pre-configure the scheduled entity on how to connect with a plurality of candidate cells. The scheduling entity then receives information about the plurality of candidate cells from the scheduled entity via L1/L2 signaling, and dynamically selects via the L1/L2 signaling at least one of the plurality of candidate cells to serve the scheduled entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11665763
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for extending coverage of a telecommunication network includes a user device and a cell site. The cell site includes a node management system communicatively coupled to the user device. The node management system is structured to receive one or more signal strengths associated with one or more target nodes, determine the one or more signal strengths are within a delta range threshold, determine one or more multi-technology thresholds associated with the one or more target nodes, determine a lowest multi-technology threshold based on the one or more multi-technology thresholds, and assign the user device to the one or more target nodes associated with the lowest multi-technology threshold determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11665502
    Abstract: A system and method for using super geo-fences to improve efficiency of geo-fences is disclosed. A system determines a geo-fence density based on a number of geo-fences in an area around a client system. In response to determining the geo-fence density is greater than a predetermined density value, the system selects a number of geo-fences that is greater than a fixed number of geo-fences that the client system is capable of handling. The system groups the selected geo-fences into a first and second group of geo-fences and generates a super geo-fence that encompasses the first group. The system transmits the first and second group of geo-fences and the super geo-fence to an application stored at the client device. The application adds geo-fence data corresponding to the second group to the client system in response to detecting the client system crossing a boundary of the super geo-fence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Rui Kong, Chintan Jain, Rajkumar Chinnakonda
  • Patent number: 11659518
    Abstract: Provided herein are various techniques and solutions to paging user equipment (UE). In particular, paging at higher levels of granularity, such as a beam level, for low mobility or stationary UEs in inactive and/or idle states are described. An apparatus may be configured to receive, from a network, a message configuring at least one beam notification area associated with positioning of the apparatus. The at least one beam notification area may include a set of beams corresponding to a set of cells identified by the network as candidates for carrying a paging message for the apparatus in the at least one beam notification area. The apparatus may be further configured to receive the paging message from the network via one of the set of beams corresponding to one of the set of cells in which the apparatus is positioned based on the at least one beam notification area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Linhai He, Jelena Damnjanovic