Patents Examined by Diane Mizrahi
  • Communication coverage navigation
    Patent number: 9565571
    Abstract: A network device may predict the use of a mobile device and configure a network based on the prediction. The network device may provide instructions to display coverage indicators for the mobile device based on the predictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Venson Shaw
  • Automated messaging
    Patent number: 9565537
    Abstract: Techniques for automatically prompting a calling user to send a message to a called user, the calling user using a calling device and the called user using a called device, the method including receiving, at a processor in the calling device, an indication that a call from the calling device to the called device has disconnected, determining, at the processor in the calling device, whether the call connected before receiving the indication that the call has disconnected, and in response to determining that the call did not connect before receiving the indication that the call has disconnected, determining that the call was a missed call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: OnePIN, Inc.
    Inventors: Feyzi Celik, Marcin Nowak, Chris Degrace
  • Communication control apparatus, radio base station apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, and communication control method
    Patent number: 9565574
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus, in a wireless communication system having an area in which coverage areas of a macro cell base station and a small cell base station using different frequency bands overlap, includes a storage unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores small cell base station information indicating whether the small cell base station is present within a coverage area of a macro cell base station. The control unit instructs a radio terminal apparatus present within the coverage area of the macro cell base station to perform quality measurement in a frequency band of the small cell base station when the small cell base station is present within the coverage area of the macro cell base station based on the small cell base station information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Konishi, Toshiaki Yamamoto, Xiaoqiu Wang
  • Joint wireless and fixed network optimization for heterogeneous cellular networks
    Patent number: 9560531
    Abstract: A method and system for joint wireless and fixed network optimization for heterogeneous cellular networks includes performing a feasibility evaluation for an x-haul network comprising at least one of a fronthaul network and a backhaul network, after determining base station locations and radio frequency (RF) parameters. The feasibility evaluation may determine, based on a network graph, which small cell locations are accessible according to actual network demand and based on cost metrics for different types of network links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Rui Chu Chang, Ryan Pettijohn, Hiroyuki Seki, Yasuhiko Aoki
  • Emergency mapping system
    Patent number: 9541407
    Abstract: A unified, weighted, and common language mapping system and method for disaster response is described, with the ability to overlay infrastructure damage, responder assets, data source, and weighting factors including the ability to redact such maps for dissemination to media, the public, or the like. The system and method described herein also enable the real-time updating of maps with social media information and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventor: David S. Mohler
  • Network elements, wireless communication system and methods therefor
    Patent number: 9544826
    Abstract: The likelihood of dropping a call while a User Equipment (112) is moving quickly from a macrcell (C) into a small cell (B) and then out again because there is insufficient time to set up measurements in the User Equipment, is mitigated by forcing the User Equipment to enter compressed mode as soon as it enters the small cell (B). By immediately forcing the User Equipment to enter compressed mode rather than waiting until it reports that the serving cell is getting weak, it stands a better chance of finding inter-frequency (ie. non-co-channel) and inter-RAT (ie. different radio access technologies) neighboring cells ready to hand out to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: IP.Access Limited
    Inventors: John Yearsley Bromell, James Edward Brereton Harrow
  • Power management of a radio data transceiver
    Patent number: 9544845
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for operating a wireless mobile station configured to communicate with a wireless access point are described. A wireless mobile station can determine an interval of time between successive target beacon transmission times. The wireless mobile station can adjust, based at least in part on the interval of time, a period of time of an awake timer in response to having determined the interval of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tito Thomas, Pierre Vandwalle, Charles Francis Dominguez, Tashbeeb Haque
  • Emergency mobile notification handling
    Patent number: 9538006
    Abstract: Systems and methods for handling emergency notification messages. In an example scenario, a call center identifies a text-based message sent from a mobile communication device, detects that the text-based message is an emergency notification message, determines the geographical location of the mobile communication device, and sends at least some of the information contained in the text-based message to one or more other communication devices in proximity to the geographical location of the mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: GreatCall, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Williams, Pat Merritt, Krijn van der Raadt
  • Data transfer between wireless devices
    Patent number: 9538569
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may determine, from an input, pressure on a visual depiction of media on a touch display and a push across the touch display. Another WTRU may be detected with use of bluetooth. The media may be transferred to the another WTRU with use of WiFi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan G. Carlton, Alexander Reznik
  • Method for transferring information between base station and terminal, base station, terminal, and system
    Patent number: 9532300
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose a method for transferring information between a base station and a terminal, a base station, a terminal, and a system, which diversify manners for transferring information between a base station and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a broadcast channel, where the broadcast channel is not only used for transferring basic physical layer configuration information of a cell, but also used for transferring first specific content agreed between the terminal and the base station, and the first specific content is used for transferring configuration information required by the terminal to access a network; and parsing out the first specific content from the broadcast channel. The present invention is mainly applied to transfer of information between a base station and a terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiangdong Zhang
  • Inter-rat/frequency automatic neighbor relation list management
    Patent number: 9532283
    Abstract: A telecommunications system comprises a serving radio base station and a candidate radio base station which are different with respect to at least one of frequency and radio access technology. The serving radio base station comprises a radio base station to which a wireless mobile station provides measurement reports. A method comprises the serving radio base station allowing the mobile station to obtain information broadcasted by the candidate radio base station. The information is either information for locating Cell Global Identity (CGI) of the candidate radio base station or the Cell Global Identity (CGI) itself of the radio base station. The mobile station obtains the information from the candidate radio base station during at least one reading gap. The reading gap is a time period in which the mobile station does not receive information from the serving radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mehdi Amirijoo, Pål Frenger, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Harald Kallin, Johan Moe, Kristina Zetterberg
  • System and method for improving network access in machine to machine communication
    Patent number: 9525960
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a processor circuit and an adaptive access module operable on the processor circuit to schedule broadcast of random access resources to access a radio network and to adaptively adjust an initial backoff window size for access signaling to the radio network during an access period. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rui Huang, Honggang Li, Shantidev Mohanty
  • Server control of user equipment having a current access point name (APN) data set
    Patent number: 9516572
    Abstract: A mobility server receives a tracking area update from User Equipment (UE) indicating UE Identifier (ID) and current tracking area ID and responsively determines if the current tracking area ID is new tracking area ID. If current tracking area ID comprises new tracking area ID, then the mobility server updates a tracking area database with new tracking area ID. The mobility server translates UE ID and current tracking area ID into candidate Access Point Name (APN) data set and determines if candidate APN data set is a new APN data set. If candidate APN data set comprises new APN data set, then the mobility server transfers an instruction for UE to perform a wireless reattachment to obtain candidate APN data set and receives an attachment request from UE indicating UE ID and current tracking area ID and responsively transfers candidate APN data set to a data network gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Saravana Velusamy, Rajil Malhotra, Jasinder Pal Singh, Siddharth Oroskar
  • Mitigating no-service delays for LTE capable wireless devices without LTE access permission
    Patent number: 9516689
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to reducing or mitigating no-service delays for LTE capable wireless devices which do not have permission to access one or more LTE networks. According to some embodiments, a MME of a first PLMN may receive an LTE NAS request corresponding to a tracking area from a wireless device. The MME may determine to reject the request, and may send a rejection response to the request indicating that access to the first PLMN in the tracking area according to LTE is not available to the wireless device. The rejection response may further include extended cause information relating to whether or not the wireless device is permitted to access the first PLMN in other tracking areas according to LTE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Krisztian Kiss
  • Channel selection method and apparatus
    Patent number: 9510325
    Abstract: The present invention provides a channel selection method and an apparatus, relates to the field of communications, can improve channel scan and detection efficiency. The method includes: randomly selecting m channels from a preset channel page; determining, from the m channels, a working channel and a spare channel that meet a preset condition; scanning, the working channel of the first superframes and the spare channel of the first superframes in an inactive period of each of the n first superframes according to preset first scan duration, to acquire n energy levels of the working channel and n energy levels of the spare channel; and determining, in an inactive period of the nth first superframe, a working channel for sending a second superframe and a spare channel of the second superframe according to the n energy levels of the working channel and the n energy levels of the spare channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pei Liu, Jin Shuai, Weixia Zou
  • Gathering information for members of call
    Patent number: 9509850
    Abstract: Responsive to detecting a call from a first user into a call system, a user identifier associated with the first user to can be added to respective user information stored in an e-meeting data structure associated with the call. A determination can be made as to whether the call system recognizes the user identifier associated with the first user and, responsive to determining the call system does not recognize the user identifier associated with the first user, a determination can be made as to whether the call system recognizes a voice of the first user. If the call system does not recognize the voice of the first user, a location of the first user can be identified by processing the user identifier. The location of the first user can be added to respective user information stored in the e-meeting data structure. An e-meeting can be generated for the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew R. Low, Travis R. Winter
  • Wireless relay station for radio frequency-based tracking system
    Patent number: 9497728
    Abstract: System and methods of tracking a position of a mobile device with an electromagnetic signal-transmitting antenna include receiving electromagnetic signals from the transmitting antenna of the mobile device by a plurality of receiver antennae of a base station and by one or more receiver antennae of a relay station. The relay station transmits to the base station timing information associated with the electromagnetic signals received by the one or more receiver antennae of the relay station. The base station computes a position of the transmitting antenna of the mobile device based on timing information computed from the electromagnetic signals received by the plurality of receiver antennae of the base station and on the timing information received from the relay station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Position Imaging, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward L. Hill
  • Method and system for dynamic allocation of resources in a cellular network
    Patent number: 9490953
    Abstract: One example method is provided for dynamic allocation of air interface resources in a cellular network. The method can include at least three wireless cells located within a geographical proximity of each other. The method can include determining, by a central managing entity, one or more classification rules for classifying each of said plurality of mobile devices according to the one or more classification rules. The method can also include providing, by the central management entity, to a group of base stations associated with the at least three cells, information that can include, at least in part, information that relates to the determined one or more classification rules and information that relates to semi-static allocation of blocks of air interface resources for use by one or more specific members of the group of base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir Yanover, Ziv Nuss
  • Methods and systems for multi-directional time preservation distribution in multi-communication core devices
    Patent number: 9491797
    Abstract: A system and method for the distribution of time signals is available for devices with multiple communication cores. An embodiment may or may not use a centralized manager for the management of time preservation. When a communication core in a multiple communication core device requires timing information, it may request the time information from another communication core or from the centralized manager. The centralized manager, if present, can obtain time information from an external source or from one of the communication cores. The result can be reduced power consumption at a lower cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tirosh Levin, Yaron Alpert, Chandru Aswani, Gil Zukerman, Saket Jha, Haim Rochberger
  • Wireless communication user equipment on-board policy enforcement
    Patent number: 9491768
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE comprises a processor, a memory storing a usage policy, and an enforcement application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the enforcement application reads the usage policy, evaluates compliance of one of a UE configuration and a UE usage with the usage policy, determines that the UE configuration or UE usage are non-compliant with the usage policy; and presents a restricted screen on the touchscreen display, wherein the restricted screen provides touch input controls only for selecting to originate an phone call to emergency services (e911 call) and to at least one of restore the UE configuration to comply with the usage policy or adapt UE usage to comply with the usage policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher James Moore, Joao Teixeira