Patents Examined by Dong-Chang Shiue
  • Patent number: 11221604
    Abstract: A split structure design for an internet of things (IoT) device including a control IoT device (CID) and a sensor IoT device (SID). An example of an apparatus provides a CID including a power transmitter to power a SID through a barrier and a control data transceiver to communicate with the SID through the barrier. The CID includes a power adjustor to increase a power transmission to the SID in steps, and an intermodule communicator to determine if communications have been established with the sensor IoT, and, if not, instruct the power adjustor to increase the power transmission to the SID by a step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporaion
    Inventors: Jakub Wenus, Cliodhna Ni Scanaill, Keith Nolan, Niall Cahill, Wael Guibene, Mark Kelly
  • Patent number: 11223937
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for improving radio system coverage and functionality by integrating and sharing the radio speaker microphone with a mobile device connected with a commercial carrier. The system and method allows: i) The radio system coverage to be seamlessly enhanced with the coverage area of the commercial internet and then to anywhere there is internet access. ii) Secondary audio paths provided over the same speaker microphone iii) Full duplex “hands free” communications provided for teams requiring the capability iv) Remote control of the user's communications device v) Remote programming of radios supporting a serial interface programming capability vi) Sensor alerts for individual users to be sent through communication channels to defined users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Gary Ruegg, Gregory Biltz, Glen Merrill, Xingshan He, Ernest Doyal
  • Patent number: 11218214
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of operating a user equipment, UE device in communication with a non-terrestrial communication system comprising a plurality of transmission points, the method comprising in the UE device triggering a transmission of a measurement report dependent on a measurement by the UE device of a received signal parameter (1) of a signal received from a transmission point of the system and a comparison of the measured parameter with a threshold (2), the threshold varying according to a predetermined function dependent on an expected position of the UE device with respect to the transmission point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans, Maik Bienas
  • Patent number: 11218846
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method for managing a floor request in a mission critical communication system. The method includes receiving a floor request message from a first floor participant and determining that a call type of the first floor participant is identical to a call type of a second floor participant, wherein a floor is currently occupied by the second floor participant. Further, the method includes managing the floor request of the first floor participant based on an effective priority of the floor request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nishant Gupta
  • Patent number: 11206620
    Abstract: A base station transmits a first transmission using a first directional beam and determines an equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP) relationship between the first transmission and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for a user equipment (UE). The base station transmits, to the UE, an indication of the EIRP relationship between the first transmission and the PDSCH. Then, the base station transmits the PDSCH to the UE using the second directional beam. The UE uses the indication of the EIRP relationship to receive the PDSCH from the base station over the second directional beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11206619
    Abstract: The method of the terminal transmitting the SRS on the basis of the aperiodic SRS triggering according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of aperiodic SRS configuration information from the base station; receiving an aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator from the base station; selecting the specific aperiodic SRS configuration information among the plurality of aperiodic SRS configuration information on the basis of at least one among a sub-frame index for receiving the aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator, a time relation between the aperiodic SRS transmission sub-frames, and an uplink channel state; and transmitting an aperiodic SRS for the aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator on the basis of the selected aperiodic SRS configuration information, the plurality of aperiodic SRS configuration information including the information about a resource for transmitting the aperiodic SRS corresponding to the aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim, Hakseong Kim
  • Patent number: 11202184
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technique for sensor network, machine to machine (M2M), machine type communication (MTC) and Internet of Things (IoT). This disclosure comprises transitioning to a first mode when a condition is satisfied connecting to at least one peripheral device, requesting status information from the connected at least one peripheral device and obtaining the same checking a connection state with a base station, transmitting, to the base station, the status information on the obtained at least one peripheral device when the connection with the base station is maintained, and transmitting host indication information to a peripheral device indicated by the host indication information when receiving the host indication information indicating one of the at least one peripheral device from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Yeon Han, Jun-Ho Koh, Tae-Jin Woo, Jong-Hyuk Jang, Yang-Wook Kim, Jae-Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 11196507
    Abstract: Disclosed is an anti-eavesdropping method for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) based on intermittent cooperative jamming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: CHANGSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xiaoshuang Xing, Gaofei Sun
  • Patent number: 11196506
    Abstract: An interference signal generation device includes a first converter configured to perform conversion on a frequency of an input signal based on a center frequency of a frequency band to be interfered, and a second converter configured to further perform conversion on a frequency of an output signal of the first converter based on the center frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Oshima, Shinichi Hori
  • Patent number: 11184861
    Abstract: A power control method, apparatus and system for short transmission time interval transmission, and a storage medium are provided, relating to the field of communication, so as to avoid introducing a new transient period definition with respect to the transmission with a short TTI, and ensure the power measurement to be completed according to the time template defined in the existing 3GPP 36.101 protocol. The present disclosure includes: determining a first target transmission power corresponding to a to-be-processed object in a subframe, in a case that the subframe includes a plurality of short transmission time interval TTI transmissions; and transmitting the short TTI transmission within the to-be-processed object according to the first target transmission power corresponding to the to-be-processed object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11177895
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission apparatus capable of more flexibly realizing a plurality of multiplexing systems in the same broadcasting system, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method. A transmission apparatus generates a physical layer frame multiplexed in a predetermined multiplexing system and including determination information capable of determining a multiplexing system, and transmits the physical layer frame as a broadcasting signal. On the other hand, a reception apparatus receives a broadcasting signal, and determines a multiplexing system of a physical layer frame multiplexed in a predetermined multiplexing system on the basis of determination information included in the physical layer frame acquired from the broadcasting signal, and processes the physical layer frame. The present technology can be applied to transmission systems for terrestrial digital TV broadcasting systems, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce Michael, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11178529
    Abstract: The present invention describes a gateway device (100, 100a) for wirelessly connecting IoT sensors, actuators or devices (150, 151, 152, etc.) and aggregating the sensor/actuator/device data into data packages (160); these sensor connections use short range (SR) wireless communication, which includes Bluetooth, BLE, Zigbee, NFC or similar wireless technology. The data packages (160) are then transmitted to a monitor centre (190) at predetermined time intervals via a low power, long range (LR), wireless wide area network (LPWAN), which includes NB-IoT, Sigfox, LoRa or similar wireless technology. BLE standard is modified to further reduce battery power consumption for use in the gateway device. In addition, scheduling of SR and LR transmissions averts wireless interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventors: Chieh Tseng Chong, Alan Hogg, Joseph Choon Koon Tey
  • Patent number: 11178712
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a method of establishing a secure vehicle network including a plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of nodes including a memory storing a leader/follower field, the method includes establishing a communication path between a first node with a value corresponding to “leader” in the leader/follower field and a second node with a value corresponding to leader in the leader/follower field; and communicating between the first node and the second node over the communication path to establish the secure vehicle network by electing one of the first node and the second node to assign a value corresponding to “follower” to the leader/follower field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: David Lindner, Jason Malarkey
  • Patent number: 11166192
    Abstract: Signaling strategies for an advanced receiver with interference cancellation (IC) and suppression is discussed. Upon enablement of an advanced interference cancellation procedure according to the disclosure, transmitters within the enabled area transmit according to transmission restriction configurations that provide transmission limits based on either frequency, time, or scheduling. The restrictions on the transmitters reduces the complexity of processing by neighboring advanced receivers for cancellation of interference from the restricted transmitters. At the advanced receiver, transmission information, such as scheduling, reference signal (RS), resource block (RB) allocation, and the like, may either be determined through blind detection or received directly through signaling. The advanced receiver may use this transmission information associated with each interfering signal to detect, decode, and subtract the interfering signals from the received transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyong Park, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Wei Zeng, Renqiu Wang, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji, John Edward Smee
  • Patent number: 11159259
    Abstract: A system includes a host device to provide a content signal, an end device to receive the content signal, and a branch of amplifiers connected between the host device and the end device to carry the content signal from the host device to the end device. The host device may receive a first signal from the branch of amplifiers connected to the end device, and extract, from the first signal, first characteristics of the content signal measured at one or more points in the branch of amplifiers. The host device may compare the first characteristics of the content signal to second characteristics. The host device may determine, based on the comparison, adjustments for one or more settings of a first amplifier of the amplifiers, and send a second signal to the branch of amplifiers to communicate the adjustments for the one or more settings to the first amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Aasen, Joshua H. Pulford, Leon P. Stoel
  • Patent number: 11160030
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for power control in directional beam environments. A user equipment (UE) may determine one or more power parameters on a beam-by-beam basis. Each directional uplink transmission beam in a communication link between the UE and the base station may be independently controlled using these beam-specific power parameters. Examples of these beam-specific power parameters may include a maximum output power for a given directional uplink transmission beam and a difference between the maximum output power for the given directional uplink transmission beam and an estimated transmit power for the given directional uplink transmission beam. The UE may report one or more of these beam-specific power parameters to a base station using a beam-specific report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Xiao Feng Wang, Bilal Sadiq, Sundar Subramanian, Muhammad Nazmul Islam
  • Patent number: 11146927
    Abstract: A computing method for transmitting data from an aircraft computing device on an aircraft to a ground computing device, comprises receiving, by an aircraft API executing on an aircraft interface computing device, an initial communication from an aircraft service executing on the aircraft computing device; determining, by the aircraft API, that a data file is to be transmitted from the aircraft computing device to the ground computing device; transmitting, to the aircraft computing device, a data signal configured to cause the data file to be transmitted from the aircraft computing device to a transient storage location associated with an aircraft interface computing device; and causing the transmission of the data file from the transient storage location to the ground computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Reynold Rullan Panergo, Lakshmi M. Puttaswamy, Mycah Mattox, Subramaniam Natarajan, Selvakumar Santharam, Timothy William Anstey, Nathan T. VanRheenen
  • Patent number: 11115935
    Abstract: A method and system for dynamically controlling service capability configuration in a system in which a UE is served concurrently on at least two air-interface connections including a first air-interface connection with a first access node and a second air-interface connection with a second access node and in which the UE applies a dynamic power sharing to control uplink transmit power of the UE respectively on each connection. In an example method, the UE's power headroom on the first connection is determined and is used as a basis to control service capability configuration for service of the UE on the second connection. For instance, based on the UE's power headroom on the first connection, second-connection capabilities data of the UE could be reconfigured to add or remove a service feature capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sougata Saha, Anurag Thantharate, Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11096100
    Abstract: A method and system for dynamically controlling coverage measurement in a system in which a UE is served concurrently on at least two air-interface connections including a first air-interface connection with a first access node and a second air-interface connection with a second access node and in which the UE applies a dynamic power sharing to control uplink transmit power of the UE respectively on each connection. In an example method, the UE's power headroom on the first connection is determined and is used as a basis to control a handover measurement threshold to be applied by the UE for evaluation of coverage strength for the second connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sougata Saha, Anurag Thantharate, Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11082126
    Abstract: A satellite communication device and a method therefor are disclosed. The satellite communication device includes a first processor that generates schedule data about a satellite communication asset, a second processor that is located on a mobile vehicle spaced apart from the first processor and generates a control signal based on the schedule data, and a mediator that dynamically switches a link between at least one antenna and at least one modem based on the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Intellian Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Young Hong, Chan Kim