Patents Examined by Dinh P Nguyen
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Patent number: 9883431Abstract: In one aspect, a wireless network management component can manage values for the generation of time to trigger parameters to handover requests between small cells and macro cells in a wireless network. In another aspect, a wireless management component can process various information to manage when handovers between small cells and macro cells should be disabled. In still another aspect, a wireless management component can process user equipment speed information and other network information to determine whether user equipment in communication with small cells should initiate a handover to macro cells.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shankarakrishnan Venkatraman, Khurram Parviz Sheikh, Rajeev Vokkarne
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Patent number: 9854501Abstract: The concepts relate to radio channel utilization. One example can monitor a location of a mobile device that has cellular capabilities. The example can identify a set of channels that are available to the mobile device at the location. The example can also send the set of channels to the mobile device with a suggestion for the mobile device to utilize one or more of the channels of the set to accomplish data communication rather than using the cellular capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Paul W. A. Mitchell, Paul W. Garnett, Amer A. Hassan
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Patent number: 9788150Abstract: A method of operating an electronic device when a disaster occurs and disaster information is received. The disaster information may be relayed by an external electronic device, a server, or could be detected by one or more sensors within the electronic device that detect a possible emergency such as the user has fallen, or there has been impact sensed consistent with an accident, etc. The method includes receiving disaster information, determining whether a rescue request will be made by analyzing the disaster information, and transmitting rescue request information based on the determination result. An electronic device is configured to perform the method.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kang-Ho Park
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Patent number: 9781763Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a radio link reestablishment method and a controller. The method includes: if after sending downlink signaling or downlink data for designated times, a controller receives no corresponding acknowledgment returned by a user equipment in a cell dedicated channel state, or the controller receives a radio link failure indication message sent by a base station corresponding to the user equipment, the controller instructs the user equipment to re-search for a cell to trigger a cell update procedure, thereby improving reliability of a communications service, and ensuring normal running of the communications service.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhichao Shen, Qinwen You, Yong Liu
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Patent number: 9781014Abstract: Techniques to configure quality of service (QoS) and utilize radio resources for a call in a WLAN are described. In an aspect, a station ensures that an access point in the WLAN is suitable for receiving service prior to performing registration to receive services via the WLAN. In another aspect, the station first requests for radio resources for traffic flows, then requests for radio resources for signaling flows, and sends signaling as best effort traffic if radio resources are not granted for the signaling flows. In yet another aspect, the station aggregates QoS for multiple applications and requests for radio resources based on the aggregated QoS. In yet another aspect, the station releases extra radio resources corresponding to the difference between the QoS granted by the WLAN and the QoS proposed by a remote terminal for the call. In yet another aspect, the station requests for the same QoS or lower from a new access point during handoff.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Srinivasan Balasubramanian
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Patent number: 9781570Abstract: An electronic device apparatus and method are disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a processor. The processor may execute the method, which includes detecting a first location and a movement velocity of the electronic device, estimating a second location of the electronic device based on the detected movement velocity of the electronic device, comparing the first location of the electronic device and the estimated second location of the electronic device to determine a location measurement error, and correcting the detected first location of the electronic device based on the determined location measurement error.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-Rae Cho, Chae-Man Lim, Tae-Yoon Kim, Dong-Ryeol Ryu
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Patent number: 9769652Abstract: A method for managing administrative relationship between an account and a device includes: receiving a device binding request sent from a first terminal, the device binding request carrying a device identifier of a target device broadcasted from the target device and a first account identifier corresponding to a first account that the first terminal logs into; determining a second account identifier corresponding to a second account bound with the target device and serving as a primary administrative account for the target device; transmitting a binding inquiry message to a second terminal that logs into the second account, the binding inquiry message carrying the first account identifier and the device identifier; and recording the first account as an auxiliary administrative account for the target device if a first acknowledgement message corresponding to the binding inquiry message is received from the second terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Enxing Hou, Mingjun Yin, Ziguang Gao
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Patent number: 9763048Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for obtaining secondary indications of locations of users for use by a location-based service. In one embodiment, a secondary indication of a location of one or more users is obtained from a source of secondary indications of locations of users. The secondary indication includes a location of the one or more users and timing information defining when the one or more users were or will be located at the location. The secondary indication of the location of the one or more users is then stored and utilized to provide the location-based service. In one embodiment, the secondary indication is utilized to store historical aggregate user profile data by location and/or to provide aggregate user profile data for crowds of users formed via a spatial crowd formation process.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Waldeck Technology, LLCInventors: Scott Curtis, Steven L. Petersen, Sean T. Purdy
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Patent number: 9749476Abstract: Toll-free application data network access is disclosed. In one aspect, there is a device for providing data connectivity. The device includes a connection detector configured to receive a data connectivity request from an application installed on the device. The device further includes an authorization transceiver. The authorization transceiver is configured to transmit an authorization request to a service provider associated with the application via a telecommunication connection, the authorization request including an application identifier for the application and an operator identifier for the service provider. The authorization transceiver is further configured to receive an authorization response indicative of operator specific billing for the application from the service provider. The device also includes a connection manager configured to establish data connectivity via the telecommunication connection based on the authorization response.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: ORANGEInventor: Subash Mandanapu
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Patent number: 9723590Abstract: A method for obtaining a monitoring frequency channel number, and an access terminal, where the method includes, when an Evolution-Data Optimized session of an access terminal is in a closed state or in an initialization process, and when a first expected frequency channel number obtained according to a first session seed and a first sector parameters message is different from a current frequency channel number of a signal currently received by a access terminal, generating, a second session seed, receiving, a second sector parameters message, obtaining, by the access terminal, a second expected frequency channel number according to the second sector parameters message, the second session seed, and a non-coherence parameter, and setting, the second expected frequency channel number as the monitoring frequency channel number when the second expected frequency channel number is the same as the current frequency channel number.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nengfu Tang
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Patent number: 9717036Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are for managing access to a femtocell coverage area. An exemplary method includes storing in a memory component a first identifier corresponding to a subscribed service of a communication device and a second identifier corresponding to a user of the communication device, and granting access to the femtocell coverage area using the second identifier.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: James Fan, Cheng P. Liu, Richard Kuo
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Patent number: 9705555Abstract: An apparatus comprises two or more SIM card connectors in a communication system configured to operate according to a plurality of communication protocols and coupled to at least one processor (610) for processing communication signals, a control unit (632) configured to generate a control signal to select a communication path (629-1, 629-2, 631-1, 631-2, 645-1, 647-1, 647-2) dedicated to an associated SIM card connector, and a switch (630) responsive to the control signal to switch the communication signals received from or transmitted to any one of the two or more SIM card connectors using the selected communication path. An apparatus comprises a plurality of radio frequency integrated circuit RFICs (640-1, 640-2) coupled to a plurality of RF interfaces of a digital baseband (600) of a communication apparatus, the plurality of RFICs includes a programmable state machine that executes programmed instructions to perform write to the RFICs, thereby enabling RF control.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Daniel D. Ezekiel, Srinath Ananthaswamy, John Jelonnek
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Patent number: 9692864Abstract: An attachable cosmetics case for a cellular phone including a substantially rectangular case having a substantially rectangular primary storage compartment and a U-shaped back side having a right wing, a left wing, and an elongated substantially linear middle portion. A top lid is hingedly attached to the case. A cellular phone charging connector plug is medially disposed on a middle portion of the back side of the case. A charging port is disposed on a right side of the case, and a headphone port is disposed on a left side of the case. A plurality of secondary storage compartments and an applicator compartment is disposed within the primary storage compartment of the case. The case is removably attachable to a cellular phone, with the cellular phone charging connector plug disposed within a charging port of the cellular phone.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Michael Arikat
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Patent number: 9686642Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a SIM card obtaining GPS location data, second location data and communication session measurement data; monitoring for a wireless network connection between a controller of a wireless device and a wireless network; and, responsive to a failure to detect the wireless network connection, providing the aggregated location data to a wireless communication circuit of the SIM card for wireless transmitting via an antenna of the SIM card to a wireless access point to cause the wireless access point to transmit the aggregated location data to a location server. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jonathan Drexel, William Drexel
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Patent number: 9680957Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for caching multimedia content. An example in-vehicle computing system that adaptively caches multimedia data, the in-vehicle system including a memory, a position sensor, a receiver, and a processor. The position sensor provides a position signal indicative of a present location of the system. The receiver wirelessly receives multimedia data from a remote multimedia data source. The processor stores the received multimedia data in the memory, transfers multimedia data in the memory to a queue for playback when an amount of multimedia data saved in the memory is at least a first threshold value, and adjusts a size of the memory when a wireless communication channel is not available between the system and a remote multimedia data source.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Harman International Industries, IncorporatedInventors: Carsten Bergmann, Krishnakumar Subramanian, Torrey Atcitty, Rafael Saavedra
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Patent number: 9668233Abstract: There are disclosed methods and access points for estimating a location of a user device in a wireless communications network. A plurality of access points define respective received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values for transmissions received from the user device. Each of the plurality of access points sends the respective RSSI values to the other access points of the plurality of access points. One of the plurality of access points self-elects to estimate the location of the user device. The self-elected access point estimates a location of the user device based, at least in part, on the RSSI values.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Xirrus, Inc.Inventors: Jack Horner, Dirk I. Gates
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Patent number: 9668189Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a handover management method and a base station having a smart antenna using the same method. A transceiver of the base station transmits and receives wireless data. An interface controller of the base station transmits a source beam-forming information and receives a target beam-forming information.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Chun-Chieh Wang, Guan-Hsien Du
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Patent number: 9665598Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing an image file in a mobile terminal using a file name automatically generated when an image that matches an input image file is already stored in a phone book are provided. The method includes comparing an input image file with phone book image files that correspond to contacts stored in a phone book, and storing the input image file using a contact name corresponding to a matching phone book image file if a phone book image file matches the input image file.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seung-Hwa Cho
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Patent number: 9654624Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method, a device, and a mobile terminal for performing automatic recording. The method comprises: obtaining content of an ongoing call; performing a recording operation on the content of the ongoing call, and saving a recording of the content of the ongoing call in a predefined region of a system ring buffer. The technical solutions provided in the present disclosure solve the problems of troublesome manual recording adjustments and excessive waste of system resources arising from recording valueless call content, thereby improving user experience.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Na Wang, Ling Zhu, Tianyang Zhou
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Patent number: 9621664Abstract: A pattern associated with a mobile device is determined based at least in part on time information and location information associated with the mobile device. A mobile device behavior to be associated with the pattern is determined. The mobile device is configured to exhibit the mobile device behavior automatically during at least a portion of a subsequent repetition of the pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Rowles Holdings, LLCInventor: Noah Tilman Rowles