Patents Examined by Don N. Vo
  • Patent number: 12294551
    Abstract: In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, by a user equipment, at least a reporting configuration from a network, wherein the reporting configuration is associated with at least a first group of channel measurement resources to be measured by the user equipment and a second group of channel measurement resources for which beam indexes or beam measurements are predicted by a machine learning model comprised at the user equipment; providing, as an input to the machine learning model comprised at the user equipment, at least a first set of measurements on the first group of channel measurement resources; and reporting, to the network, channel measurement information, wherein the channel measurement information contains at least an index representing a channel measurement resource of the second group of channel measurement resources. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu, Qiping Zhu, Andrea Bonfante
  • Patent number: 12289784
    Abstract: To manage configuration, a UE receives, by processing hardware and from a radio access network (RAN), conditional configuration information including (i) a conditional configuration related to a base station operating in the RAN, and (ii) a condition to be satisfied before the UE applies the configuration (702). The UE receives, by the processing hardware and from the RAN, a message including an indication that the UE is to add, modify, or release a radio bearer (RB) (704), and determines, by the processing hardware, to ignore the conditional configuration in response to receiving the message (706).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 12289136
    Abstract: A method for testing antennas, an apparatus for testing antennas, and a storage medium are provided. The method is applied to a test device connected to a terminal device through a test instrument, and instrument ports of the test instrument have a mapping relationship with the antennas of the terminal device. The method includes: obtaining configuration information in a non-volatile memory (NV) of the terminal device, where the configuration information indicates communication modes respectively corresponding to the antennas of the terminal device, and the communication mode indicates a mobile communication system type and a communication frequency band; and performing performance test on the terminal device by using the test instrument according to the communication modes respectively corresponding to antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongsheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12282851
    Abstract: A method for generating an object includes: providing a dataset having object data and condition data; processing the object data to obtain latent object data and latent object-condition data; processing the condition data to obtain latent condition data and latent condition-object data; processing the latent object data and the latent object-condition data to obtain generated object data; processing the latent condition data and latent condition-object data to obtain generated condition data; comparing the latent object-condition data to the latent condition-object data to determine a difference; processing the latent object data and latent condition data and one of the latent object-condition data or latent condition-object data to obtain a discriminator value; and selecting a selected object based on the generated object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: INSILICO MEDICINE IP LIMITED
    Inventors: Aleksandr Aliper, Aleksandrs Zavoronkovs, Alexander Zhebrak, Artur Kadurin, Daniil Polykovskiy, Rim Shayakhmetov
  • Patent number: 12276735
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enhance the navigation function of navigation/map applications or systems when GNSS signals are weak or sporadic. In one aspect, a UE monitors a position of the UE based on GNSS communication, where the position of the UE is monitored using at least one first map layer of a plurality of map layers associated with a map. The UE detects that the position of the UE corresponds to a predefined location when the GNSS communication is below a communication threshold. The UE switches to monitoring the position of the UE using at least one second map layer of the plurality of map layers upon detecting that the position of the UE corresponds to the predefined location, where the at least one second map layer is associated with the predefined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Danlu Zhang, Kevin Dao, Arnold Jason Gum, Bala Ramasamy, Kuirong Wang, Damir Didjusto
  • Patent number: 12278676
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first antenna, a second antenna segmented from the first antenna, a switch selectively coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna, a front end module connected to the switch, and a radio frequency (RF) communication circuit, wherein the RF communication circuit controls to communicate using the first antenna, determines whether radiation power through the first antenna is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and if the radiation power through the first antenna is greater than or equal to the predetermined value, checks the in-phase quadrature phase (IQ) value of the first antenna, determines whether the IQ value corresponds to a switching condition of the second antenna, and if the IQ value corresponds to the switching condition of the second antenna, may switch the first antenna to the second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Duho Chu, Myeongsu Oh, Hojin Jung, Changmin Kim
  • Patent number: 12273155
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data regarding interference detected in a received communication signal, and performing polarization adjusting for one or more orthogonally-polarized element pairs of an antenna system such that an impact of the interference on the antenna system is minimized. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ISCO International, LLC
    Inventors: Amr Abdelmonem, Igor Goodman, Pablo Tacconi, Guenadi Miliavski
  • Patent number: 12267671
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, accessing registration information that includes a criterion for allowing receiving notifications based on location information of a communication device, accessing a location request of equipment of a location requestor that includes a notification location, accessing encrypted information representative of identification information, the location information, and time information of the communication device that has been stored in a database where the time information corresponds to the location information, identifying a positive result for the location request, and causing a notification to be provided to the communication device responsive to the positive result, where the notification is associated with the location requestor, and wherein the notification is provided to the communication device without providing the identification information of the communication device to the equipment of the location requestor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Paul Giura
  • Patent number: 12267115
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for determining a target initial phase, including: acquiring a voltage amplitude of a system direct-current offset signal of a phased array system corresponding to N target channels to be calibrated; respectively acquiring voltage amplitudes of a total direct-current offset signal under different initial phases; and calculating voltage amplitudes of a mixed direct-current offset signal of the N target channels under the different initial phases, and taking an initial phase of the N target channels, when the voltage amplitude of the mixed direct-current offset signal reaches the maximum value, as a target initial phase of the N target channels. The present disclosure further provides a phase calibration method, an apparatus for determining an initial phase, and an antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SANECHIPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chengwei Jia
  • Patent number: 12265167
    Abstract: A method includes receiving wireless fingerprint data identifying multiple locations within a specified area and, for each location, one or more signal strength values associated with wireless signals received from one or more of multiple wireless transmitters. The wireless fingerprint data is missing signal strength values for one or more transmitters at one or more specific locations. The method also includes generating a training dataset by adding filler signal strength values in place of at least some missing values. The method further includes training a machine learning model using the training dataset. The model is trained to receive a specified location as input and generate predicted signal strength values as outputs. In addition, the method includes using the trained model to generate additional signal strength values. At least some additional signal strength values are to be used in place of at least a portion of the missing values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tianwei Xing, Wenjun Jiang, Xun Chen
  • Patent number: 12262341
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit a registration request to a first base station of a cellular wireless network, wherein the first base station operates on a first frequency band, the registration request including a first indication of one or more preferred network slices and receive a registration response from the first base station, the registration response including (i) a second indication of whether the one or more preferred network slices are accessible on the first frequency band and (ii) a third indication of where the UE can access any unsupported one or ones of the one or more preferred network slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Prakasam, Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar, Krisztian Kiss, Nirlesh Koshta
  • Patent number: 12250038
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured with a set of beamforming weights, each beamforming weight corresponding to a transmit beam of a set of transmit beams that may each include a same primary lobe and one or more different side lobes. The UE may then perform a beam training procedure to determine which transmit beams cause more or less interference at one or more nearby UEs. The UE may transmit signals using one or more of the transmit beams, and the nearby UEs may determine which transmit beams and corresponding beamforming weights cause more or less interference. The nearby UEs may then indicate those transmit beams or beamforming weights that cause more or less interference via different options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12250029
    Abstract: A device for RF sensing includes communication circuitry configured to communicate over an unlicensed frequency band and a licensed frequency band, the communication circuitry configured to transmit a unique signal over the unlicensed frequency band using at least one antenna of the one or more antennas and receive a corresponding return signal from at least one antenna of the one or more antennas, the at least one receiver configured to process the corresponding return signal to determine at least an amplitude and phase (td) of the corresponding return signal, and a look up table (LUT) having characterization information relating to the amplitude and phase (td) of the corresponding return signal, wherein the device is configured to use the characterization information to determine a use state or a gesture of the device and alter at least one operating parameter of the device based on the determined use state or gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrew Puayhoe See, Sudeepto Roy, Ramesh C. N. Rao
  • Patent number: 12245192
    Abstract: A method for avoiding sending duplicate notifications for overlapping subscriptions includes, at a network function (NF) repository function (NRF), detecting an event relating to an NF. The method further includes identifying a plurality of subscriptions having a subscription condition corresponding to the event. The method further includes generating a list of the plurality of subscriptions having a subscription condition corresponding to the event. The method further includes iterating through the list of subscriptions and identifying overlapping subscriptions. The method further includes removing the overlapping subscriptions from the list. The method further includes sending notification messages to NFs corresponding to subscriptions remaining in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yesh Goel
  • Patent number: 12237870
    Abstract: Joint estimation of the framer index and the frequency offset in an optical communication system are described among various other features. A transmitter can transmit data frames using pilot and framer symbols. A receiver can estimate the framer index and frequency offset using the pilot and framer symbols, and identify the beginning of a header portion of a data frame. By identifying the beginning of the header portion of a data frame, the receiver can then process data received from the transmitter in a manner synchronous to the manner in which the data was transmitted by the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Mehdi Torbatian, Yuliang Gao, Ahmed Morra, Han Henry Sun, Yeongho Park
  • Patent number: 12231175
    Abstract: Joint estimation of the framer index and the frequency offset in an optical communication system are described among various other features. A transmitter can transmit data frames using pilot and framer symbols. A receiver can estimate the framer index and frequency offset using the pilot and framer symbols, and identify the beginning of a header portion of a data frame. By identifying the beginning of the header portion of a data frame, the receiver can then process data received from the transmitter in a manner synchronous to the manner in which the data was transmitted by the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Mehdi Torbatian, Yuliang Gao, Ahmed Morra, Han Henry Sun, Yeongho Park
  • Patent number: 12232019
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device and method for controlling a communication function in an electronic device. An electronic device comprises: a wireless communication circuit for supporting first communication and second communication; memory; and at least one processor, the at least one processor configured to: check identification information about a network when connected to the network through the first communication, determine whether the network supports the second communication, on the basis of the identification information about the network and network information related to the second communication, set, on the basis of whether the network supports the second communication, whether a function, related to the second communication, of the electronic device is activated; and transmit, to the network information related to whether the function, related to the second communication, of the electronic device is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngkyu Park, Gwangho Lee, Changhun Lee, Daejun Kang, Inshik Kang, Janggun Bae, Dongsuk Jung
  • Patent number: 12231599
    Abstract: Systems and methods of location-aware caller identification via machine learning techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may include: utilizing a trained call annotation machine learning model to determine one or both of an annotating condition and annotating location granularity, and associate one location of a user with one phone number of the user based at least on one or both of the annotating condition and the annotating location granularity; receiving second transactional information of one transaction associated with a first user; extracting second location information from the second transactional information of the one transaction; utilizing the trained call annotation machine learning model to automatically annotate one phone number record of one phone number of the first user, with the second location information at the annotating location granularity to form at least one user-specific location-specific annotated phone number record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Asher Smith-Rose, Lin Ni Lisa Cheng, Joshua Edwards, Tyler Maiman, Shabnam Kousha
  • Patent number: 12232009
    Abstract: A method for interacting of a PSAP with a portable network device includes detection of a trigger signal of an eyewitness-button and storing call log data of the call by the PSAP. A signaling connection between the portable network device and the PSAP can be set up and a geographical area of interest close to the actual location of the portable network device can be determined. At least one external portable network device of a list can be scanned and the scanning result from the at least one external portable network device of the list can be forwarded to the PSAP via the signaling connection after it is protected by the PSAP. Systems and devices can utilize embodiments of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: UNIFY PATENTE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Vasileios Giatilis, Ioannis Kolaxis
  • Patent number: 12225400
    Abstract: A method for a beam reporting for a communication apparatus, comprising: receiving a plurality of reference signals (RSs) from a wireless network; taking a measurement on the plurality of RSs, to generate a measurement result; performing a sorting on a plurality of beams according to the measurement result, to generate a plurality of sorted beams; detecting a risk of a ping-pong of beam to be reported according to the plurality of sorted beams to generate a risk result, when each measurement is done; and reporting at least one of the plurality of sorted beams to the wireless network according to the risk result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Guo, Yaochao Liu, Mingjun Xu, Fei Xu