Patents Examined by Dominic Rego
  • Patent number: 9647740
    Abstract: A method, communication device, and computer program product mitigates Specific Absorption Rating (SAR) exposure to a user who is proximate to a communication device. The method includes an on-device measurement receiver of a communication device detecting a first complex reflected signal corresponding to transmit signals that are reflected by a first antenna. The method includes a controller determining a pair of first complex return loss values based on a first complex transmit power signal and the first complex reflected signal. The method includes the controller determining whether both the first complex return loss values differ from respective baseline values by respective Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) threshold amounts. In response to the controller determining that both the first complex return loss values differ by the respective SAR threshold amounts, the controller reduces an output power level of a transceiver that delivers power to the first antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Black, Dale Schwent, Andrew Pavacic, Armin Klomsdorf
  • Patent number: 9648063
    Abstract: Personalized content delivery using a dynamic network may include, using a processor, continually receiving, from each of a plurality of mobile devices, a location of the mobile device and a list specifying at least one RF device detected by the mobile device while at the location; and, estimating, using the processor, location information for the RF devices according to the locations and the lists. Using the processor, a determination may be made that a first RF device from the lists is proximate to a stationary presentation device. Responsive to the determining and using the processor, content may be provided to the stationary presentation device. The content may be selected, at least in part, according to the location information of the first RF device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noopur Gupta, Edmund D. Zink
  • Patent number: 9647775
    Abstract: A power amplification module includes a first input terminal arranged to receive a first transmission signal in a first frequency band, a second input terminal arranged to receive a second transmission signal in a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band, a first amplification circuit that amplifies the first transmission signal, a second amplification circuit that amplifies the second transmission signal, a first filter circuit located between the first input terminal and the first amplification circuit, and a second filter circuit located between the second input terminal and the second amplification circuit. The first filter circuit is a low-pass filter that allows the first frequency band to pass therethrough and that attenuates a harmonic of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal. The second filter circuit is a high-pass filter that allows the second frequency band to pass therethrough and that attenuates the first transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takayuki Tsutsui, Satoshi Tanaka, Hidenori Obiya
  • Patent number: 9622191
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device including a communication unit configured to make communication with one or more secondary communication nodes operating a secondary system using at least one of a frequency channel allocated to a primary system and a frequency channel adjacent to the frequency channel, a determination unit configured to determine an upper limit number of secondary systems or secondary communication nodes to be allocated with transmission power, and a power allocation unit configured to allocate transmission power to each secondary system or each secondary communication node in each secondary system based on the determined upper limit number and the acceptable interference amount of the primary system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai
  • Patent number: 9621987
    Abstract: A wireless speaker audio system configured to receive audio information wirelessly transmitted by an audio source including first and second wireless transceivers. The first wireless transceiver establishes a bidirectional secondary wireless link with the audio source for receiving and acknowledging receipt of the audio information. The first and second wireless transceivers communicate with each other via a primary wireless link. A wireless audio system including an audio source and first and second wireless transceivers. The first and second wireless transceivers communicate via a primary wireless link. The audio source communicates audio information to the first wireless transceiver via a secondary wireless link which is configured according to a standard wireless protocol. The first wireless transceiver is configured to acknowledge successful reception of audio information via the secondary wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Clarke S. Watson, Benjamin W. Cook, Axel D. Berny, Jason A. Trachewsky
  • Patent number: 9614569
    Abstract: A protective case for housing a mobile device is provided. The protective case comprises a top shell that seals against a top surface of a device and a bottom shell that cradles the bottom of the device. The top shell provides a downward extension along its perimeter that fits within a trench or pocket formed around at least a portion of the perimeter of the bottom shell. An underside of the top shell includes a permanently chemically bonded compressible and waterproof film layer. The waterproof film layer is configured to seal directly against the top surface of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Wimo Labs LLC
    Inventors: Keith Alsberg, Gary H. Paulsen, Scott H. Wilson, Dennis M. Puhalla
  • Patent number: 9615266
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a networking device comprises a first plurality of antenna means, a second plurality of antenna means, and means for controlling the first and second pluralities of antenna means to direct a communication towards a neighbor node of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Cheadle, Steven Anthony Granzella, John A. Bentley
  • Patent number: 9609491
    Abstract: A server apparatus, a communication apparatus, and a communication method are disclosed. Communication terminals forming a group are capable of performing push-to-talk group communication through the server apparatus. In reception of a call setting request from a first communication terminal of the group by the receiver, when the group includes a second communication terminal to which call setting fails, the transmitter transmits, to a communication terminal of the group, an instruction to execute a discovery processing of discovering a communication partner terminal capable of performing a direct communication with the communication terminal without passing through the server apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Susumu Kashiwase
  • Patent number: 9608745
    Abstract: To provide an information delivery system, a gateway device, a delivery control method and a program that can be used by various business entities to meet diversified needs for information delivery, an information delivery system includes an event detection device (10) that is configured to detect occurrence of a plurality of events and specify delivery area information of event information according to the events, and a delivery device (20) that delivers the event information to a delivery destination node corresponding to the delivery area information specified by the event detection device (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Hajime Zembutsu
  • Patent number: 9608718
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for demodulating a received signal containing modulated desired-signal digital data and relayed-interference that results from a nonlinear-distorted interference signal. Estimation of the nonlinear-distorted interference from a pre-distortion interference signal and subsequent cancellation within the received signal of the distorted interference produces a residual-interference signal that is subsequently demodulated to produce estimates of the desired-signal data. The estimation is adapted for changing nonlinear distortion effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Monsen, Richard Hollingsworth Cannon
  • Patent number: 9600056
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a touch panel and a near field communication interface. The information processing apparatus detects that an input received at the touch panel corresponds to a predetermined input when the information processing apparatus is in a suspended state; and controls the information processing apparatus execute a predetermined function via the near field communication interface and awake from the suspended state upon detecting that the input corresponds to the predetermined input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Ino, Kenji Tokutake
  • Patent number: 9603100
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal device (2) that communicates with a base station device, including: a reception unit (205) that receives information related to a first configuration and/or information related to a second configuration, and a grant; and a transmission unit (207) that, in a case of an uplink signal being scheduled based on the grant, transmits the uplink signal to the base station device in an earliest uplink subframe on or after a designated subframe from a subframe in which the grant was detected, wherein in a case of the first configuration and the second configuration being set, the transmission unit (207) configures a transmit power control method for respective subframe subsets according to the type of grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9596661
    Abstract: At a base station, a lookup table is prepared that for each index value among multiple different index values, associates repetition counts of different channels correlated with each other. The base station acquires reception information indicating a reception state of a wireless signal at a mobile station, determines a repetition count for each channel based on the reception information, and acquires from the lookup table, an index value corresponding to the respective repetition counts for the channels. The base station transmits to the mobile station, a wireless signal that includes the index value to notify the mobile station of the index value. The mobile station has a lookup table that for each index value among different index values, associates repetition counts of different channels correlated with each other and acquires the repetition counts of the channels from the lookup table, based on the index value from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hongyang Chen
  • Patent number: 9596023
    Abstract: The invention provides a computer-implemented system (and corresponding method) arranged and configured to manage, manipulate or monitor a plurality of devices provided in association with a unit. The unit may be a vehicle or structure, such as an automotive vehicle, a boat, a trailer or building. The vehicle or structure may be an incident command unit. The invention enables a user to monitor or manage the plurality of devices via a consolidated interface. The plurality of devices may include a satellite support mechanism supporting satellite-related equipment provided in association with the unit; and the system may comprise a satellite controller component to enable a user to manipulate and/or re-orientate the satellite support mechanism via the consolidated interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Excelerate Technology Limited
    Inventor: David Savage
  • Patent number: 9590767
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal processing method and device. The method includes: receiving soft information corresponding to encoded signals sent by at least two base stations and CRC check results of decoding results of first subflows in the encoded signals, where the soft information includes first soft information corresponding to the first subflows; obtaining a selective combining result of the first subflows by performing selective combining according to the at least two CRC check results of the decoding results of the first subflows; and if the selective combining result of the first subflows is that CRC check is incorrect, determining a soft combining result of the first subflows according to at least two pieces of the first soft information. The signal processing method and device provided in the embodiments can increase a signal gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Tang, Chunjie Yang, Ming Li, Yuejun Wei
  • Patent number: 9589512
    Abstract: A method, system, and device for controlling screen brightness of a mobile terminal are disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile terminal comprises a display unit, a sensing unit, and a controller configured to maintain a brightness of the display unit at a reduced level of screen brightness during a non-active state of the mobile terminal, and restore the brightness of the display unit to a normal level of screen brightness after a short timeout subsequent to a detection of an event configured to activate the mobile terminal via the sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yury Lozovoy
  • Patent number: 9586479
    Abstract: Disclosed is an interlocking system between content player devices. The interlocking system includes: a first mobile device; a second mobile device, in which an interlocking program is installed, interlocked with the first mobile device, and configured to receive and execute one or more contents executed by the first mobile device, and a vehicle head unit, in which an interlocking program is installed, interlocked with the second mobile device, and configured to receive and execute the contents executed by the second mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Il Seok Han
  • Patent number: 9591584
    Abstract: A method for controlling transmission powers by a communication apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting a plurality of component carriers; and a communication apparatus therefore are discussed. The method according to one embodiment includes controlling transmission powers for one or more channels per each component carrier; when a sounding reference symbol (SRS) transmission overlaps with a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a time domain, checking whether a total of a PUSCH transmission power for the PUSCH transmission on a first component carrier and a SRS transmission power for the SRS transmission on a second component carrier exceeds a maximum transmission power configured for the communication apparatus; and dropping the SRS if the total of the PUSCH transmission power and the SRS transmission power exceeds the maximum transmission power configured for the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Ki Jun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Min Gyu Kim, Jung Hoon Lee, Dae Won Lee, Suck Chel Yang
  • Patent number: 9572051
    Abstract: Certain features relate to systems and methods for jointly optimizing a radio access network (RAN) and distributed antenna system (DAS). A joint RAN-DAS self-optimizing network (SON) entity can determine target operations and management parameters based on operations and management parameters specific to the DAS and operations and management parameters specific to the RAN. The joint RAN-DAS-SON entity can optimize the RAN and DAS using the target operations and management parameters. Jointly optimizing the RAN and the DAS can improve the capacity characteristics, coverage characteristics, or the performance characteristics of the RAN and DAS. In some aspects, the joint RAN-DAS-SON entity can optimize the RAN and DAS by re-allocating power levels of downlink signals transmitted by remote units of the DAS to compensate for underutilized carrier signals in situations of low traffic load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Luigi Tarlazzi, Maurice D'Souza
  • Patent number: 9572118
    Abstract: A first base station is configured to be connected with a second base station via an X2 interface. The first base station includes: a controller containing at least one processor and at least one memory, and configured to execute processes of transmitting a message, which includes a first identifier, a change notification, coverage state information, and a second identifier, to the second base station before modifying a coverage of the first cell, the first identifier identifying the first cell, the change notification indicating that the first base station is planned to modify the coverage of the first cell, the coverage state information indicating that a state of the coverage after modification of the coverage, the second identifier identifying a second cell for compensating at least part of the coverage of the first cell; and modifying the coverage of the first cell after transmitting the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Mitsui, Masato Fujishiro, Kugo Morita, Fangwei Tong, Chiharu Yamazaki, Yushi Nagasaka