Patents Examined by Dominic E. Rego
  • Patent number: 11829691
    Abstract: Disclosed is an atmospheric information network comprised of a group of low earth orbit satellite-based sensors providing global coverage of the earth, together with one or more ground-based sensor networks, together with one or more mobile sensor networks, all operating to collect near-real-time or real-time data, together with data gathering from other governmental and commercial atmospheric data sources, together with software algorithms and processes for data reduction, data analysis, correlation of information, data fusion, modeling, reporting of near-real-time or real-time atmospheric conditions of air pollution and wind, and prediction of future atmospheric conditions of air pollution and wind. Such information is presented in geospatial and infographic formats on computer or mobile device displays, or electronic billboards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SCEPTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Peter Rosti, Philip Father, Alex Ramia
  • Patent number: 11832159
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for wireless communication. The apparatus includes processing circuitry: configured to receive a relay establishment request from a source communication device; configured to acquire historical energy information and current energy information about a candidate communication device as a relay candidate, and to determine one or more relay communication devices to be used as a relay based on the acquired information; and configured to send information about the relay establishment to the one or more relay communication devices, the source communication device, and a destination communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Guilu Wu, Pingping Xu
  • Patent number: 11825436
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) comprising a processor configured to perform the operations that determines an uplink (UL) slot is described. In exemplary embodiments, the UE receives, from a base station, a scaling factor through a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) signal. The UE may further determines an offset through a second RRC signal. In addition, the UE may receive from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) that includes an indication of an initial time gap. Furthermore, the UE may calculate a new time gap by at least applying the scaling factor to the initial time gap and determine a slot of uplink transmission based on at least the new time gap and the offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sarma V. Vangala, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11804915
    Abstract: Provided are a broadcast beam weight determination method and apparatus, a broadcast beam weight determination network element, a storage medium and a communications system. The broadcast beam weight determination method includes: determining a predicted performance indicator corresponding to a candidate broadcast beam weight combination according to user information of a region; determining a first broadcast beam weight combination corresponding to an optimal predicted performance indicator; and applying the first broadcast beam weight combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bin Li
  • Patent number: 11805504
    Abstract: The present disclosure is a novel utility of a software defined radio (SDR) based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) that is field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. The present disclosure enables a high degree of flexibility to manage, control, enhance, facilitate the usage and performance of a distributed wireless network such as flexible simulcast, automatic traffic load-balancing, network and radio resource optimization, network calibration, autonomous/assisted commissioning, carrier pooling, automatic frequency selection, frequency carrier placement, traffic monitoring, traffic tagging, pilot beacon, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: DALI WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Lemson, Shawn Patrick Stapleton, Sasa Trajkovic, Albert S. Lee
  • Patent number: 11790491
    Abstract: A machine learning based image processing architecture and associated applications are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a machine learning framework is trained to learn low level image attributes such as object/scene types, geometries, placements, materials and textures, camera characteristics, lighting characteristics, contrast, noise statistics, etc. Thereafter, the machine learning framework may be employed to detect such attributes in other images and process the images at the attribute level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Patent number: 11792739
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink power control. One method includes receiving uplink power control parameters. The method includes determining a first transmit power for the first uplink transmission based on a corresponding first set of uplink power control parameters. The method includes determining a second transmit power for the second uplink transmission based on a corresponding second set of uplink power control parameters. The method includes performing the first uplink transmission using a first uplink transmission beam pattern or a first spatial domain transmission filter based on the first transmit power. The method includes performing the second uplink transmission using a second uplink transmission beam pattern or a second spatial domain transmission filter based on the second transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Vijay Nangia, Hyejung Jung, Hossein Bagheri, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 11783086
    Abstract: An example stationary tracker includes memory to store fixed geographic location information indicative of a fixed geographic location of the stationary tracker, and to store a reference feature image; and at least one processor to: determine a feature in an image is a non-displayable feature by comparing the feature to the reference feature image; and generate a masked image, the masked image to mask the non-displayable feature based on the non-displayable feature not allowed to be displayed when captured from the fixed geographic location of the stationary tracker, and the masked image to display a displayable feature in the image; and a wireless interface to detect a wireless tag located on a tag bearer, the at least one processor to determine the tag bearer is the displayable feature in the image based on the wireless tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Movidius Ltd.
    Inventor: David Moloney
  • Patent number: 11778559
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the disclosure, a network node is provided. The network node is configured to configure each wireless device in a first group of wireless devices comprising at least one wireless device with a first radio network temporary identifier, RNTI, defined to address a group of wireless devices for physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, based wake-up signal, WUS, operation, and cause transmission of signaling including a wake-up signal, WUS, for a first WUS monitoring occasion associated with the first group of wireless devices, where the WUS is configured to cause each wireless device in the first group of wireless devices to perform at least one action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Sina Maleki, Ali Nader, Andres Reial, Ajit Nimbalker, Yutao Sui, Niklas Andgart
  • Patent number: 11751046
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling device retry behavior. The method is performed by receiving an error code generated in response to a resource request from the wireless device, associating the error code with a timeframe for reseeding the resource request from the wireless device, and sending the error code and the timeframe to the wireless device in response to the resource request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Mariyani, Chris Jensen, Patrick D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11743841
    Abstract: A method for wireless power delivery, preferably including: determining transmitter-receiver proximity, assessing transmission parameters, and/or transmitting power based on a transmission plan. A system for wireless power delivery, preferably including a plurality of receivers and one or more transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Reach Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Gustavo Navarro, Varun Ramaswamy, Christopher Joseph Davlantes
  • Patent number: 11742936
    Abstract: An information processing device calculates a communication available period for communication between a satellite station and an earth station on the basis of orbit information regarding the satellite station and location information regarding the earth station, and performs reservation processing for reserving a communication reservation period for the communication between the satellite station and the earth station, among reservation target periods selected from the communication available period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Infostellar Inc.
    Inventors: Naomi Kurahara, Kazuo Ishigame
  • Patent number: 11737032
    Abstract: Channel state information (CSI) reporting may be used for wireless communications. CSI reporting may be activated or deactivated. During the activation of CSI reporting and based on one or more criteria, a scheduled uplink transmission may be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11737067
    Abstract: The present disclosure is a novel utility of a software defined radio (SDR) based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) that is field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. The present disclosure enables a high degree of flexibility to manage, control, enhance, facilitate the usage and performance of a distributed wireless network such as flexible simulcast, automatic traffic load-balancing, network and radio resource optimization, network calibration, autonomous/assisted commissioning, carrier pooling, automatic frequency selection, frequency carrier placement, traffic monitoring, traffic tagging, pilot beacon, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: DALI WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Lemson, Shawn Patrick Stapleton, Sasa Trajkovic, Albert S. Lee
  • Patent number: 11736604
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an alert on an eyewear device are provided. The systems and methods include receiving, by an eyewear device, from a mobile device, data indicative of a first combination of notification attributes that trigger a first alert on the eyewear device; determining that the mobile device has received a new notification based on additional data received from the mobile device; determining that a combination of attributes of the new notification matches the first combination of notification attributes; and in response to determining that the combination of the attributes of the new notification matches the first combination of notification attributes, retrieving, from a storage device of the eyewear device, a first visual indicator animation that represents the first alert; and activating a visual indicator of the eyewear device in accordance with the retrieved first visual indicator animation to generate the first alert on the eyewear device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: John James Robertson, Andrew Joseph Bartow, Samuel Ahn, Matthew Du
  • Patent number: 11737127
    Abstract: A multi-radio frequency anti-interference method includes a wireless device scheduling a terminal device and a plurality of analog radio frequency circuits, to prevent coexistence of a first signal and a second signal. The first signal is a signal from the wireless device, and the second signal is a signal from the terminal device to the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianping Xie, Fang Liu
  • Patent number: 11729727
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receives a reference signal from a base station and determines a pathloss based on the received reference signal. The UE further receive a downlink channel signal including an uplink resource assignment and a transmit power command. The UE transmits an uplink signal, wherein the uplink signal is transmitted using a transmit power level determined based on the pathloss, a format of the uplink signal, the uplink resource assignment and the transmit power command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas W. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11722866
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a connectivity control unit (CCU) to internetwork with a server through a wireless network to provide a connected car service and an integrated body unit (IBU) to perform low power communication with another vehicle to control the CCU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Won Ho Shin, Dong Hee Han, Hee Jun Lee, Dong Youl Lee, Jae Am Seo, Sun Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 11716101
    Abstract: One example discloses a multi-radio device, including: a controller configured to be coupled to a first radio that is configured to transmit a first signal, and a second radio that is configured to transmit a second signal; wherein the controller includes a detection element configured to detect a third signal generated in response to simultaneous transmission of the first and second signals; wherein the controller includes a decision element configured to modulate one or more information packets in the first and second signals in response to the third signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Ling Chao, Yiqing Shen
  • Patent number: 11700053
    Abstract: A repeater system includes a first repeater device to receive a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signal from a first network node, and a second repeater device to receive a second beam of RF signal from the first network node. The first repeater device controls the second repeater device to provide the first beam and the second beam of RF signal to a second network node. A plurality of signal parameters is selected at the first and second repeater devices for a first beam and a second beam of RF signal, respectively. The first repeater device establishes an additional link with the second repeater device, where based on the additional link, a first data stream carried by the first beam of RF signal is provided to the second network node through the first repeater device as well as the second repeater device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: AR & NS Investment, LLC
    Inventor: Alireza Tarighat Mehrabani