Patents Examined by David Q Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10594873
    Abstract: In a method of payment for service of a portable communication unit, a customer prepays a dealer for said service, the dealer forwards transaction order information about the pre-payment to a prepaid management center (PMC); and the PMC provides a bank the transaction order information. The bank, upon receipt of the transaction order information from the PMC, determines whether there are sufficient funds in the dealer account to cover the transaction. If there is insufficient cash on hand, the dealer is notified and is provided an opportunity to replenish the account so that the transaction may proceed. If there are adequate funds in the dealer account, the bank automatically transfers the amount of the purchase transaction in the SPS account, less the dealer's fee for the purchase. After funds are transferred from the dealer account, the PMC is notified of the transfer, at which time the PMC generates codes and issues the codes to the dealer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Precis Group LLC
    Inventors: Peter D. Wendt, Daniel S. Karvonen
  • Patent number: 10587623
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for facilitating a primary account holder (PAH) of a client account to control access privileges of service features that are accessible by secondary account holders (SAH), via the client account. More specifically, an Access Privilege Control (APC) system is described that enables the PAH to generate access privilege rules that control the use of service features by a SAH, that are accessible via the client device(s) associated with the client account. The APC system may associate a set of updated access privilege rules with virtual profile data for clients associated with the client account. The virtual profile data may be transmitted to client devices, or subset thereof, associated with the client account. Further, the APC system may monitor an operation of client devices associated with the client account and provide one or more recommendations to update access privilege rules based on monitored service feature usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Kanakrai Chauhan
  • Patent number: 10582035
    Abstract: Techniques for automatically initiating the transmission of a silent emergency message via a mobile computing device are provided. A mobile device may receive a plurality of indications of a plurality of external buttons of the mobile computing device being pressed over a time interval. Based on the plurality of indications, the mobile computing device may determine that two or more external buttons have been pressed in a fixed sequence over the time interval. In response to determining that the two or more external buttons of the mobile computing device have been pressed in the fixed sequence, the mobile computing device may silently transmit a message to a computing device associated with an emergency contact, without activating a display screen of the device or making sounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventor: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang
  • Patent number: 10575128
    Abstract: A determination unit refers to position information of a terminal device registered in a given base station device to determine ease of connection to another base station device. A generator generates, for the terminal device, guidance information to prompt the terminal device to move to a position where a likelihood of connection to the other base station device is increased, based on a result of determination in the determination unit. A transmitter transmits the guidance information generated in the generator to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuminori Suzuki, Ichiro Shishido, Tomonori Nagahama
  • Patent number: 10567945
    Abstract: A cell broadcast emergency services delivery mechanism for vehicular Internet of Things (IoT) communication is provided. A method can comprise receiving, from a federal emergency management agency device, first data representing federal management emergency event data, aggregating second data representing an emergency event associated with a vehicle with the first data to form third data, based on the emergency event data and the third data, determining a commonality between the first data and the second data, in response to determining the commonality between the first data and the second data, generating metadata, and broadcasting the metadata to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak, Reza Hussaini
  • Patent number: 10560561
    Abstract: The communication device comprising a wireless communication implementer, a route displaying implementer, and a multiple language mode implementer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 10560948
    Abstract: A method for supporting a vehicle communication (connected car or vehicle to everything (V2X)) service in a wireless communication system and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes receiving threshold information for reporting a channel busy ratio (CBR), measuring the CBR for a resource pool, identifying whether a reporting condition is satisfied by comparing the measured CBR with the threshold information, and reporting the measured CBR if the reporting condition is satisfied. The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with an Internet of things (IoT) technology, and may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngjoong Mok, Hyunjeong Kang, Sangwook Kwon, June Hwang
  • Patent number: 10547974
    Abstract: To obtain a relative localization between a plurality of mobile devices, a first mobile device observes a second mobile device within a field of view of the first mobile device's camera at time t1, determines a first position of the first mobile device at t1, and receives from the second mobile device a second position of the second mobile device at t1. The first mobile device determines information about the first mobile device's orientation with respect to the second mobile device at t1 based at least in part on the first position and the observation of the second mobile device. The first mobile device identifies two constraints that relate the mobile devices' coordinate systems based at least in part on the second position and the orientation information. The first mobile device's pose relative to the second mobile device may be calculated once at least six constraints are accumulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Marc Andre Leon Pollefeys
  • Patent number: 10547725
    Abstract: The communication device comprising a wireless communication implementer, a map displaying implementer, and a multiple language mode implementer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 10547721
    Abstract: The communication device comprising a wireless communication implementer, an email producing implementer, and a multiple language mode implementer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 10547724
    Abstract: The communication device comprising a wireless communication implementer, a navigation implementer, and a multiple language mode implementer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 10547722
    Abstract: The communication device comprising a wireless communication implementer, an email transferring implementer, and a multiple language mode implementer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 10547723
    Abstract: The communication device comprising a wireless communication implementer, an auto time adjusting implementer, and a multiple language mode implementer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 10536975
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may identify a potential collision between a scheduled legacy transmission time interval (TTI) communication and a scheduled shortened TTI (sTTI) communication, the legacy TTI communication having a legacy TTI duration that is longer than an sTTI duration associated with the sTTI communication. The apparatus may determine whether the legacy TTI communication is within a threshold time of being transmitted. The apparatus may transmit at least one of the sTTI communication, the legacy TTI communication, or any combination thereof, based at least in part on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Amir Farajidana, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 10536282
    Abstract: A mobile computing device that supports cost-aware application components for operation over a metered network. A current basis for computing usage charges over one or more networks may be made available to the cost-aware application components through an application programming interface supported by an operating system service. That service may receive a policy for charging for data usage over a network and may also obtain information defining data usage for the mobile computing device. Based on this information, the service may determine a current basis for charging for data usage. With this information, the application component can determine a manner for executing network operations that involve data transmission over the network, such as deferring the operation or selecting an alternative network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pascal Menezes, Marco Piumatti, Upshur Parks, Ravi Rao
  • Patent number: 10536832
    Abstract: The present invention utilizes an application which is loaded onto the mobile devices of attendees who will be attending festivals, concerts, etc, where the large crowds attending the event will create wireless and mobile network congestion. The application will be preloaded with a plurality of presentations which the presenter will utilize during the event to enhance the experience for the attendee. Each presentation will have a triggering mechanism encoded in the app which will initiate the presentation to begin and will synchronize the presentation on the phone with event. In addition to displaying preloaded presentations to the attendees at crowded events, the application can also track the activities of the attendees at the event to see what portions of the events they attended and when, and display real time text messages on the screen of the phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Inventor: Glen Wheeler
  • Patent number: 10528316
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting requested content on public display devices are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eric H C Liu, Kenneth Wayne Dauber, Michel Weksler, Jeremy Lyon
  • Patent number: 10531280
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first communication module configured to establish a communication channel to an external electronic device based on wired communications or short-range communications, a second communication module that supports a communication service provided via a base station; a control module configured to obtain a communication profile required for operating the second communication module using the external electronic device connected through the first communication module, and a memory configured to store the communication profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Soon Hyun Cha, Sun Min Hwang, Tae Sun Yeoum, Duckey Lee, Sang Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 10524277
    Abstract: The apparatus for wireless communication includes a processing system. The processing system is configured to establish a first radio link with a master base station, establish a second radio link with a first cell associated with a secondary base station, wherein the second radio link comprises a SRB, and receiving a RRC connection reconfiguration signal from the second radio link SRB to establish the second radio link with a second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Keiichi Kubota, Gavin Bernard Horn, Aziz Gholmieh, Soo Bum Lee, Ozcan Ozturk, Ajay Gupta
  • Patent number: 10518175
    Abstract: Apparatus and method related to projections and/or computing devices are described. Projections may be made from multiple computing devices to create a presentation. Various other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Miller