Patents Examined by Dung Hong
  • Patent number: 11122534
    Abstract: A communication method and system converges a 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology. The system and method may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments provide a scheme for efficiently operating an UP connection of a session in case where a terminal has a plurality of sessions in a mobile communication system, such as a 5G system, having a network structure in which an AMF for mobility management and an SMF for session management are separated from each other. A terminal (UE) can optimize a non-access stratum (NAS) signaling message, and can perform data transmission/reception with low latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungshin Park, Jinsung Lee, Jicheol Lee, Kisuk Kweon, Sangjun Moon, Beomsik Bae, Hyungho Lee
  • Patent number: 11115956
    Abstract: A method includes: adjusting a paging parameter and/or a paging calculation formula to obtain an adjusted paging parameter and/or paging calculation formula; and determining an adjusted Paging Frame (PF) and/or Paging Occasion (PO) based on the adjusted paging parameter and/or paging calculation formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 11115926
    Abstract: Methods, a user node and a network node are provided. The user node is configured to determine an indication of at least one wake-up latency of the user node, the at least one wake-up latency being a time period for the user node to wake-up and start to monitor a downlink channel transmitted by the network node of a wireless communication network; determine a message comprising the indication; and transmit the message to the network node. The network node is configured to receive from the user node a message, and set a wake-up offset for the user node based on the at least one wake-up latency comprised in the message, the wake-up offset being a time period between a wake-up signal transmission and a subsequent downlink channel transmission from the network node to the user node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oleksandr Puchko, Kari Heiska, Johan Christer Qvarfordt, Petteri Kela
  • Patent number: 11109220
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) solution are disclosed. In one example, a method for providing an eSIM solution to enterprises includes receiving, by a network server operated by a network operator, a request from an enterprise device management system requesting an eSIM profile for a communication device. The method also includes transmitting, by the network server, information to a discovery server associated with the communication device to register the communication device with the discovery sever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mehul Shah, Babak Namiranian
  • Patent number: 11107242
    Abstract: In various examples there is an apparatus for detecting position and orientation of an object. The apparatus comprises a memory storing at least one frame of captured sensor data depicting the object. The apparatus also comprises a trained machine learning system configured to receive the frame of the sensor data and to compute a plurality of two dimensional positions in the frame. Each predicted two dimensional position is a position of sensor data in the frame depicting a keypoint, where a keypoint is a pre-specified 3D position relative to the object. At least one of the keypoints is a floating keypoint depicting a pre-specified position relative to the object, lying inside or outside the object's surface. The apparatus comprises a pose detector which computes the three dimensional position and orientation of the object using the predicted two dimensional positions and outputs the computed three dimensional position and orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew William Fitzgibbon, Erroll William Wood, Jingjing Shen, Thomas Joseph Cashman, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton
  • Patent number: 11096150
    Abstract: A method including: establishing a first set of radio resources available for use by a terminal device for transmitting uplink data to a first network access node; establishing a shared set of radio resources available for use by the terminal device for transmitting uplink data to the first network access node and a second network access node; determining uplink data has become available for transmission; selecting radio resources to use for transmitting the uplink data from within the shared set of radio resources if it is determined the terminal device is in a boundary region between a first communication cell and a second communication cell; and selecting radio resources to use for transmitting the uplink data from within the first set of radio resources if it is determined the terminal device is within the first communication cell and not in the boundary region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Covida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 11089435
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of units each having a short-range wireless communication function capable of measuring position information relative to each other. A specification part specifies a positional relationship between the plurality of units, using information obtained by using the short-range wireless communication functions, a determination part uses the information obtained by using the short-range wireless communication functions to determine orientation information indicating orientation of a predetermined unit included in the plurality of units, and a generation part generates a layout chart of the plurality of units, based on the positional relationship between the plurality of units specified by the specification part and based on the orientation information. A display displays the layout chart, wherein information for enabling identification of a side of the predetermined unit that is to be operated by a user is indicated for an item of the predetermined unit included in the layout chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11089485
    Abstract: A system identifies first areas of a multiple areas of a wireless network for wireless site installation and determines geographic locations within each of the identified first areas for prospective wireless site installations. The system performs machine learning to associate measured network performance parameters within the wireless network with empirical data related to population, population densities, housing growth rates, housing densities, and building growth rates. The system determines, based on the machine learning, geographic locations within each of the identified first areas for installations of prospective wireless sites, and forecasts improvements in network performance parameters associated with building each of the prospective wireless site installations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua H. Wainer, Paul Kerl, Michael Antony Raj
  • Patent number: 11076383
    Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting paging information in a cellular system. An object of the method is transmitting paging information which can improve applicability of a limited radio resource by variably and flexibly setting up and mapping a transport channel and a physical channel in order to transmit information notifying start of downlink information from a base station to a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The method includes the steps of: forming a paging channel (PCH) in a transport channel corresponding to generation of paging information; setting a paging indication channel (PICH) based on the paging information and forming the paging indication channel in a radio resource of a physical layer; and allocating the paging channel to the radio resource of the physical layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Inst.
    Inventors: Jae Heung Kim, Jung Im Kim, Kyoung Seok Lee, Soo Jung Jung, Seung Chan Bang, Byung Han Ryu
  • Patent number: 11076258
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method of creating a geofence for a first location comprising receiving a time that a first vehicle was at the first location from a fleet management system, receiving a time that the first vehicle was at a second location from an on-board telematics unit of the first vehicle, determining if the first vehicle was at the second location for a predetermined period of time before or after being at the first location, and creating the geofence for the first location as including the second location if it is determined that the first vehicle was at the second location for the predetermined period of time before or after being at the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Tracematics Limited
    Inventor: Thomas Brady
  • Patent number: 11071119
    Abstract: An apparatus (1 or 3) adjusts a bandwidth, throughput, or radio resource used for device-to-device (D2D) transmission from a remote terminal (1) to a relay terminal (2), based on an amount of pending uplink data in the relay terminal (2) to be transmitted from the relay terminal (2) to a base station (3). In this way, for example, it is possible to contribute to avoiding inconsistency of performance between sidelink transmission from the remote terminal to the relay terminal and uplink transmission from the relay terminal to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Inokuchi, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11039804
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus (26) and a method for determining a fractional flow reserve. For this purpose, a new personalized hyperemic boundary condition model is provided. The personalized hyperemic boundary condition model is used to condition a parametric model for a simulation of a blood flow in a coronary tree (34) of a human subject. As a basis for the personalized hyperemic boundary condition model, a predefined hyperemic boundary condition model is used, which represents empirical derived hyperemic boundary condition parameters. However, these empirical hyperemic boundary condition parameters are not specific for a human subject under examination. In order to achieve a specification of the respective predefined hyperemic boundary condition model, specific human subject features are derived from a volumetric image of the coronary tree of the human subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Mordechay Pinchas Freiman, Liran Goshen, Hannes Nickisch
  • Patent number: 11044586
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the presence of an asset or person at a particular spot within a location. The asset or person is provided with a beacon transmitting a beacon signal. A plurality of receivers are disposed throughout the location. In one embodiment, two or more adjacent or nearby receivers are grouped together to define a receiver cluster. The receiver cluster having the highest average signal strength from the signal being transmitted from the beacon of the asset or person as determined by an electronic identification and location tracking system determines the particular area within the location where the asset or person is present at.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: COLLATERAL OPPORTUNITIES, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Howard Kusens, Michael Kusens
  • Patent number: 11032712
    Abstract: A method for carrying out data integrity protection on a communication network. According to an implementation, a wireless communication device indicates, to a wireless network, the maximum data rate up to which integrity protection is supported for user plane data. A network node (e.g., a node of the core network, such as an SMF) receives this information and determines whether or not to enable integrity protection for user plane data based on the information (possibly in conjunction with other information such as the minimum data rate to be supported, etc.). The network node then communicates the decision to enable or disable integrity protection to a RAN node (e.g., a wireless base station).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Eswar Kalyan Vutukuri, He Huang
  • Patent number: 11032668
    Abstract: Methods and devices useful in performing precise indoor localization and tracking are provided. By way of example, a method includes locating and tracking, via a first wireless electronic device, a plurality of other wireless electronic devices within an indoor environment. The method also includes performing front-back detection, performing stationary node detection, performing angle of arrival (AoA) error correction, and performing field of view (FOV) filtering. Performing indoor localization and tracking of the plurality of other wireless electronic devices includes providing an indication of a physical location of the plurality of other wireless electronic devices within the indoor environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Amit S. Sant, Alejandro J. Marquez, Indranil S. Sen, Mohit Narang, Shang-Te Yang
  • Patent number: 11031677
    Abstract: A multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the multifunction wireless device including an upper body and a lower body, the upper body and the lower body being adapted to move relative to each other in at least one of a clamshell, a slide, and a twist manner. The multifunction wireless device further includes an antenna system disposed within at least one of the upper body and the lower body and having a shape with a level of complexity of an antenna contour defined by complexity factors F21 having a value of at least 1.05 and not greater than 1.80 and F 32 having a value of at least 1.10 and not greater than 1.90.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Fractus, S.A.
    Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Josep Mumbru, Jordi Ilario
  • Patent number: 11031790
    Abstract: A system for verifying the identity of a user is disclosed. The system has a door that selectively opens to allow access to a cavity and selectively closes to block access to the cavity, a lock configured to selectively lock and unlock the door when the door is closed, a camera configured to image a user area adjacent to the door, computing memory having associated therewith code, and a processor communicatively coupled with the computing memory. The processor communicatively coupled with the computing memory is configured to execute the code and to control the camera to record a first image data of the user area that includes a plurality of first image sets recorded at a plurality of first times, store the first image data, and control the camera to record a second image data of the user area that includes a second image set recorded at a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: ChargeItSpot, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Baldasare, Sheri Tate, Robert Kay, Jeffrey Bergeland, Mikayla Wickman, Charles Williams, David Andreasen, Saran Singh Sound, Michael Weinberg
  • Patent number: 11026044
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to determining an estimated number of people at a geographic location who may be exposed to an outdoor display unit, such as mobile display unit, configured to display information in an outdoor environment. The determination may involve identifying, based on obtained data relating to unique mobile device users identified within a predetermined distance of the mobile display unit, a first number of people within the predetermined distance. The method may also involve correlating the first number of people with a previously determined total number of people within the predetermined distance of the mobile display unit at the geographic location and associated with a previously determined number of unique mobile device users within the predetermined distance of the mobile display unit at the geographic location, and determining, based on the correlating, an estimated total number of people within the predetermined distance of the mobile display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: FIREFLY SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Vedat Taylan Yildiz, Kaan Gunay, Onur Kardesler
  • Patent number: 11025761
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal capable of indicating the position of a force sensor arranged inside a side case using the shape of a non-conductive mold disposed between conductive members to sense pressure. For the mobile terminal, a user input unit and an antenna may be arranged to overlap each other, and a bump and a recess may be formed using a non-conductive mold that is easy to process. Accordingly, uniformity of appearance may be maintained without forming a bump and a recess on the conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hongjo Shim, Sunwon Yoo, Jungwhan Kim, Hyunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11026093
    Abstract: Provisioning a requesting device is provided using extended identity attestation for the requesting device. A provisioning request is received at a device provisioning system. The provisioning request includes a registration identifier provided by the requesting device. A plurality of extended attestation components is accessed in an enrollment datastore of the device provisioning system. Each extended attestation component identifies an external computing system. One of the extended attestation components in the enrollment datastore is selected based on the received registration identifier. Execution of the device attestation is initiated at the external computing system identified by the selected extended attestation component to yield an attestation result. Satisfaction of a validity condition by the attestation result is detected. The requesting device is provisioned from the device provisioning system, responsive to detection that the attestation result satisfies the validity condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Elaine Berdy, Alexander Tolpin, Tamer Awad, Rajeev Mandayam Vokkarne, Puneet Gupta, Timothy James Larden, Jelani Z. Brandon, SachinKumar Chandramohan, Mounica Arroju