Patents Examined by Danh C Le
  • Patent number: 11109316
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for establishing communication protocols between wireless devices in infusion pump systems. Infusion pump systems can include a number of components capable of wireless communication with one or more other components including an infusion pump, a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system, a smartphone or other multi-purpose consumer electronic device and/or a dedicated remote controller for the infusion pump. Communications among these devices can be coordinated to increase efficiency and conserve battery power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. Kruse, Michael Michaud
  • Patent number: 11109222
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technology, and provides an information processing method, an information processing device, a computer-readable storage medium and an electronic device, so as to reduce signaling overhead. The information processing method includes: receiving a registration update request from a UE; determining whether the UE has entered or left an MICO mode; when the UE has left the MICO mode, sending a first message to an associated SMF, the first message being adopted to notify the associated SMF that the UE has left the MICO mode or the UE is reachable; and when the UE has entered the MICO mode, sending a second message to a target SMF, the second message being adopted to notify the target SMF that the UE has entered the MICO mode or the UE is unreachable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hucheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11109296
    Abstract: A control device is provided, including: a relative-speed acquiring unit for acquiring relative speeds of a movable first mobile relaying apparatus and a movable second mobile relaying apparatus, which are camped on a cell of a wireless base station to relay communications between the wireless base station and a wireless communication terminal; and a determination unit for determining, based on the relative speeds, whether the second mobile relaying apparatus becomes a handover destination, from the first mobile relaying apparatus, of the wireless communication terminal camped on the first mobile relaying apparatus, or becomes a carrier-aggregation destination of the first mobile relaying apparatus for the wireless communication terminal camped on the first mobile relaying apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Patent number: 11102717
    Abstract: Provided are a network selection method and an apparatus for integrated cellular and drone-cell networks, where the method includes: acquiring a dynamic network model and a dynamic user model, generating a random event vector according to the dynamic network model and the dynamic user model; generating an action vector according to the random event vector; obtaining an individual utility of each user according to the action vector and the random event vector; constructing a first selection model; obtaining the value of the action probability according the first selection model to determine networks that the users choose to access according to the value of the action probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Xing Xi, Peng Yang, Zhenyu Xiao, Dapeng Wu
  • Patent number: 11102699
    Abstract: A wireless communication relay wirelessly serves User Equipment (UEs) with wireless data services. Relay circuitry tests data throughputs over a Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) network Transceiver (XCVR), Long Term Evolution (LTE) network XCVR, and wireline network XCVR. The relay circuitry selects sets of network XCVRs for the user XCVRs based on the data throughput testing. The relay circuitry indicates the selected network XCVRs to the user XCVRs. The user XCVRs wirelessly exchange user data with the wireless UEs and exchange the user data with the selected network XCVRs. The selected network XCVRs exchange the user data with one or more data communication networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Amrit Kumar Chandra, Liang Li, Charles Anthony Manganiello, Kristian Kai Johns, David Z. Sun, Jay Ronald Chernoff, Neehar Shrikant Kulkarni, Mayur Shirwadkar
  • Patent number: 11096030
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of operating an apparatus for providing a cell broadcast service. The operating method includes receiving, by a transmission device of a broadcaster, a cell broadcast service signal containing an emergency alert from a mobile carrier; converting, by the transmission device, the cell broadcast service signal into a public warning broadcast signal; and transmitting, by the transmission device, the public warning broadcast signal to a mobile switching center or a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Suk-Hee Cho, Byung-Jun Bae, Woong-Soo Na, Na-Yeon Kim, Dong-Joon Choi
  • Patent number: 11096103
    Abstract: Provided are a method of reporting measurement result and a device supporting the method. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for reporting measurement result in a wireless communication system includes: measuring an operating status of the UE; receiving a threshold for the reporting the measurement result, from network; and adjusting a report related time value by comparing the operating status and the received threshold, wherein the operating status is at least one of altitude of the UE and a number of detected cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Hongsuk Kim
  • Patent number: 11095731
    Abstract: A slice order system may receive a request to generate a network slice configuration for providing a service via a network. The slice offer system may determine a description template associated with a network slice type. The slice offer system may determine, based on the description template and a set of deployment parameters, a description profile for the network slice configuration. The slice offer system may generate, based on the description profile and a location, a slice deployment description for the network slice configuration according to location-specific characteristics associated with resources at the location and a service level agreement associated with the request. The slice offer system may deploy the slice deployment description to permit a network slice instance to be created according to the slice deployment description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kristen Sydney Young, Kalyani Bogineni, Hans Raj Nahata
  • Patent number: 11096065
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention describe a novel solution to enhance network service to devices with limited or no connectivity. Embodiments include network-aware nodes deployed by an end-user or operator which are configured by a network to achieve enhanced coverage, enhanced throughput, enhanced battery life, and mitigation of cell boundary experiences, etc. Embodiments provide these benefits to a specified or non-specified set of user equipment (e.g., neighboring user equipment). The service expansion terminal can be an available user equipment that is idle and that has been volunteered, assigned, or is a dedicated node with limited user interface and designed for carrying out enhanced coverage, enhanced throughput, enhanced battery life, and the mitigation of cell boundary experiences, etc. Embodiments may therefore provide low-cost, flexible deployment, and mobility thereby enabling boundaryless service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keyvan Zarifi, Mohammadhadi Baligh, Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Amine Maaref
  • Patent number: 11096102
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a user equipment in a radio access network. The method includes transmitting measurement reporting, the measurement reporting pertaining to a measurement time interval. The measurement time interval is determined based on a SS block configuration. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Muhammad Kazmi, Christopher Callender, Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Iana Siomina
  • Patent number: 11089564
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to 5G communication technology and IoT related technology-based intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, etc.). A method in which a transmitter estimates a position in a communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a receiver, a magnetic field signal generated from a single coil included in the transmitter; and receiving, from the receiver, position information estimated on the basis of a received signal strength of the magnetic field signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Yub Lee, Jun-Sig Kum, Young-Ju Lee, Do-Hyuk Ha
  • Patent number: 11076413
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide identifying a first set of time intervals for transmissions in a channel using a first wireless communications technology (e.g., a set of LTE-V2X intervals reserved for LTE-V2X transmissions) and a second set of time interval designated for transmissions in the channel using a second wireless communications technology (e.g., a set of DSRC intervals reserved for DSRC transmissions). A UE may determine whether one of the sets of time intervals is available for transmitting V2X messages using one wireless communications technology by performing energy detection for a threshold amount of time. The UE may then, based on the results of the energy detection, transmit the V2X message using the first wireless communication technology during a second set of time intervals or during a subsequent first set of time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shailesh Patil, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
  • Patent number: 11064455
    Abstract: Infrastructure equipment for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the infrastructure equipment operable to transmit a first radio signal to a terminal device located within one of a plurality of predetermined geographical regions, wherein the value of one or more predetermined parameters indicative of the one of the plurality of predetermined geographical regions within which the terminal device is located is determinable by the terminal device on the basis of the first radio signal, each of the plurality of predetermined geographical regions being associated with a different respective value of the one or more predetermined parameters which is indicative of that predetermined geographical region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong
  • Patent number: 11064561
    Abstract: A method for enabling autonomous emergency assistance for a communication device, CD, registered in a regular cellular network is presented. The method is performed in an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, and comprises directing the UAV to a geographical region connected to a preregistered position of the CD, emulating a cellular network in the geographical region, wherein the UAV and the CD are without connectivity with the regular cellular network, and providing autonomous emergency assistance for the CD in the geographical region. A CD, a UAV, a computer program and a computer program product are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Tommy Arngren, Jonas Pettersson, Ylva Timner, Min Wang, Stefan Wänstedt
  • Patent number: 11057785
    Abstract: A user equipment, method, and apparatus for controlling user equipment receive, from a base station included in a network, a radio resource control (RRC) release message that causes the user equipment to transition to an RRC inactive state in which context information of the user equipment is maintained in the network. The RRC inactive state is a different state from an RRC connected state and an RRC idle state, and the RRC release message includes information indicating a value of a timer used for performing an RRC resume procedure. The timer is started upon receiving the RRC release massage, and the RRC resume procedure is performed when the timer expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Henry Chang, Noriyoshi Fukuta
  • Patent number: 11051152
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A user equipment in a communication system, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, includes: a controller that determines at least one communication service to deactivate among communication services that are able to be provided and a transmitter that transmits, to a server, a message for identifying the at least one communication service to deactivate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Han Park, Duckey Lee, Sang-Soo Lee, Sung-Ho Choi, Sang-Bum Kim, Soeng-Hun Kim, Woo-Seong Kim, Ju-Ho Lee, Jae-Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11051226
    Abstract: Facilitating enablement of intelligent service aware access utilizing multiaccess edge computing advanced networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise determining a network service being utilized by a first user equipment device has not been instantiated at a distributed network device and based on the first user equipment device approaching a service range of the distributed network device. The method also can comprise deploying the network service, as a microservice, at the distributed network device prior to the first user equipment device entering the service range of the distributed network device. Further, the method can comprise removing the network service from being deployed at the distributed network device based on a determination that the first user equipment device is no longer within the service range of the distributed network device and a second user equipment device is not utilizing the network service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Zhi Cui, Brian Keller
  • Patent number: 11044752
    Abstract: A user equipment of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The user equipment includes a communication module, and a processor. The processor is configured to perform a first type channel access, which is a channel access based on a random backoff, for an autonomous uplink (AUL) transmission when a predetermined condition is not satisfied, perform a second type channel access, in which channel sensing for a predetermined single time interval without backoff, for the AUL transmission when the predetermined condition is satisfied, and perform the AUL transmission based on a result of the first type channel access or a result of the second type channel access. The AUL transmission is performed by the user equipment without an uplink (UL) grant received from a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Minseok Noh, Jinsam Kwak, Juhyung Son
  • Patent number: 11044688
    Abstract: The invention relates to a position-adaptive communication method which is carried out by a communication control module of a movable vehicle (1) in order to establish and maintain a communication connection (4) between the vehicle (1) and an opposite station (3). The communication method is a packet-based communication method, and a transmission pause (13) is provided between data packets and/or within the data packets. Position data of the vehicle (1) relative to a global coordinate system is ascertained, and a movement data set is received from at least one opposite station by means of a receiving device. Position data is extracted from the received movement data, and the position of the opposite station in the global coordinate system is determined. A directional vector (8) from the vehicle (1) to the opposite station (6) is ascertained, and a signal propagation time is ascertained from the length of the directional vector (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Atos IT Solutions and Services GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Slanina
  • Patent number: 11038583
    Abstract: An intermediate network for a radiocommunication system, the intermediate network includes one or more stations located on high-altitude platforms in order to connect a set of remote base stations to one or more ground stations. The high-altitude platforms are networked by way of communication links, for example high-speed free-space optical links. The invention also proposes to connect remote base stations positioned outside of the area of coverage of the stations located on high-altitude platforms via for example microwave-link relay stations or base stations at the edge of the area of coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventor: Jean-Didier Gayrard