Patents Examined by Dung Hong
  • Patent number: 11438753
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for a first user equipment (UE) to identify a supportable service in a wireless communication system, the method including transmitting, to a second UE, a request that is related to a first service and includes identification information related to the first UE, receiving, from the second UE, a response to the request related to the first service, and transmitting first service data to the second UE based on the response, and thus a V2X UE can stably provide ultra-low latency, enhanced mobile broadband, and massive connectivity required in the 5G communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Sungduck Chun
  • Patent number: 11418923
    Abstract: Disclosed is an asset tracking communication device, which transmits only essential information through a low power wide area communication during asset transport, stores remaining information, and then transmits the stored information at a position capable of a high-speed communication. The disclosed asset tracking communication device transmits all or a part of the freight transport information according to a communication environment in a process of transporting the freight, stores information not transmitted, and then transmits the information under a high-speed communication environment, thereby minimizing information lost upon asset tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: AMOSENSE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Sangyeoll Lee
  • Patent number: 11419087
    Abstract: Systems and methods of determining a location of a mobile computing device associated with a real-time locating system are provided. For instance, a mobile computing device can determine a first location of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device can then receive acoustic-contextual data that is correlated with the first location of the mobile computing device. The acoustic-contextual data can include data associated with one or more transmitting devices, and data associated with an environment proximate the one or more transmitting devices. The mobile computing device can receive one or more signals from at least one of the one or more transmitting devices, and can determine a more accurate second location of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the acoustic-contextual data and the one or more received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Sonitor Technologies AS
    Inventors: Wilfred Edwin Booij, Cyril Antille
  • Patent number: 11408833
    Abstract: A vehicle and a method of managing cleanliness of an interior of the vehicle that are capable of detecting whether the interior of the vehicle has been contaminated and managing detection information. The method of managing the cleanliness of the interior of the vehicle includes detecting indoor contamination using a contamination detector including at least a camera, analyzing indoor cleanliness based on the result of the detecting, and outputting guidance information based on the analyzed indoor cleanliness. The detecting the indoor contamination includes detecting at least one object in an indoor region of the vehicle subjected to contamination detection and detecting whether contamination has occurred in the indoor region subjected to contamination detection other than a region in which the at least one object is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Min Jae Park, Seung Hyun Woo, Anastasia Yarygina, Edvin Eriksen
  • Patent number: 11410406
    Abstract: A delivery server is connected to a device which uses an image analysis engine to perform an image analysis on image data obtained by a monitoring camera. The delivery server includes an analysis engine storage unit which is configured to store a plurality of image analysis engines for each of which at least one of a shooting condition of the image data appropriate for the image analysis or a target object to be detected among objects which are possibly included in the image data is different; and a supplying unit which is configured to supply to the device an image analysis engine corresponding to at least one of the shooting condition of the image data obtained by the device or the target object which is set for the device, among the plurality of image analysis engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Kojima, Atsushi Wada
  • Patent number: 11412346
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for tracking proximities of devices and/or objects. In one embodiment, the system operates by determining whether a plurality of devices of a tethered segment are inside or outside a predefined area. The system also operates by determining that a first device of the plurality of devices is outside of the predefined area based at least partially on the determination of whether the plurality of devices are inside or outside the predefined area. The system further operates by transmitting at least one alert notification to at least one device based at least partially on the determination that the first device is outside the predefined area, wherein the alert notification identifies the first device outside the predefined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Hollinger
  • Patent number: 11405854
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of operation of a wireless device to provide service gap control in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving a service gap parameter from a network entity in a mobility management sublayer non-access stratum message, the service gap parameter being indicative of a value for a service gap timer for the wireless device; and enforcing the service gap parameter at the wireless device in a non-access stratum layer. Also disclosed herein is a method of operation of a core network entity in a core network of a wireless communication system to provide service gap control, comprising: obtaining a service gap parameter for a wireless device, the service gap parameter being indicative of a value for a service gap timer for the wireless device; and sending the service gap parameter to the wireless device via a mobility management sublayer non-access stratum message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Hans Bertil Rönneke, Mikael Wass
  • Patent number: 11405786
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that include systems and methods performed by vehicle-to-everything (V2X) system participant to determine whether a misbehavior condition may have occurred based on the generation and/or receipt of a V2X message. The detection of a misbehavior condition may occur if the V2X message is generated and/or received too frequently or not frequently enough. In addition, a misbehavior condition may be detected if the generated and/or received V2X message does include the appropriate security credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Monteuuis, Jonathan Petit, William Whyte, Mohammad Raashid Ansari, Cong Chen
  • Patent number: 11395258
    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: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae Heung Kim, Jung Im Kim, Kyoung Seok Lee, Soo Jung Jung, Seung Chan Bang, Byung Han Ryu
  • Patent number: 11393272
    Abstract: A system comprising: a check Image Record (CIR) database configured to store, for each of a plurality of accounts, a CIR, wherein each CIR comprises feature information related to features extracted from a plurality of reference checks associated with the associated account of the plurality of accounts; memory configured to store instructions; and a processor coupled with the CIR database and the memory, the processor configured to run the instructions, which cause the processor to: receive an image of a test check associated with an account of the plurality of accounts, extract feature information from the image, compare the features with the feature information stored in the CIR database for the account associated with the test check, generate a fraud score, and update each CIR by determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MITEK SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Kriegsfeld, William T. Walker, Yuriy B. Okrugin, Michael E. Diamond
  • Patent number: 11393227
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and method for license plate recognition-based vehicle control is provided. The electronic apparatus controls at least one of a plurality of image capture devices to capture one or more images of one or more second vehicles different from a first vehicle. The electronic apparatus detects a license plate of a second vehicle of the one or more second vehicles in the captured one or more images. The electronic apparatus further determines a depth map of the detected license plate of the second vehicle of the one or more second vehicles with respect to the first vehicle. The electronic apparatus further detects one or more events related to the second vehicle based on the determined depth map and controls one or more operations of the first vehicle based on the detected one or more events related to the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nishimura, Nikolaos Georgis
  • Patent number: 11388711
    Abstract: Provided are a transmission method and device, and a computer readable storage medium. The transmission method includes: receiving, by a terminal, indication information of a maximum transmission block size (TBS) supported by a data transmission, and determining the maximum TBS supported by the data transmission according to the indication information; and determining, by the terminal, a TBS supported by the data transmission according to the maximum TBS supported by the data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Liu, Bo Dai, Huiying Fang, Weiwei Yang
  • Patent number: 11381952
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting warning information. The method includes: generating, by a centralized unit (CU), a warning radio resource control (RRC) message, where the warning RRC message is system information of a public warning system (PWS); and transmitting, by the CU, the warning RRC message to a DU through a public warning request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiren Han, He Huang, Yin Gao
  • Patent number: 11375361
    Abstract: Dynamic tuning of mobile network device configuration based on location is described. An example of a storage medium includes instructions for switching a mobile network device in a vehicle to a maintenance mode based at least in part on detection of a first location, the first location being a maintenance hub location; enabling administrative communications and disabling user communications for the mobile network device in the maintenance mode; receiving configuration data for the mobile network device from an external server in the maintenance mode, the configuration data being based at least in part on a route for the vehicle; switching the mobile network device to a service mode based at least in part on detection of a second location that is different than the first location; and enabling service communications and disabling administrative communications for the mobile network device in the service mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Sasindran Devaraj, Suman Samarthi
  • Patent number: 11368936
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method for use in a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving a plurality of weights for assigning paging physical resource blocks (PRBs) to a plurality of UEs. Each weight is associated with a respective paging PRB. The method further comprises determining a paging PRB for the UE using at least one weight of the plurality of weights, and receiving paging on the determined paging PRB. In particular embodiments, determining the paging PRB for the UE comprises assigning the UE to an artificial paging PRB of a set of artificial paging PRBs, and mapping the artificial paging PRB to an actual paging PRB of a set of actual paging PRBs using at least one weight of the plurality of weights. The set of actual paging PRBs includes a smaller number of paging PRBs than the set of artificial paging PRBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andreas Höglund, Ali Nadar, Béla Rathonyi
  • Patent number: 11363408
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generate metrics quantifying the mobility of a mobile device without persisting information related to the device's specific location at any given time. Specifically, at multiple intervals, a value of a mobility metric is computed based on the distance between the current location of the mobile device and a previously identified origin location of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Quantcast Corporation
    Inventor: Scott Michael Murff
  • Patent number: 11363565
    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: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae Heung Kim, Jung Im Kim, Kyoung Seok Lee, Soo Jung Jung, Seung Chan Bang, Byung Han Ryu
  • Patent number: 11349200
    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 F32 having a value of at least 1.10 and not greater than 1.90.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Fractus, S.A.
    Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Josep Mumbru, Jordi Ilario
  • Patent number: 11350321
    Abstract: Provided are a method for measurement configuration and a related product, which include that: configuration information is acquired, the measurement configuration information including a measurement configuration of a terminal in a disconnected state and the disconnected state at least including one of an idle state and an inactive state; and a measurement result is acquired according to the measurement configuration. According to the embodiments of the application, a signaling overhead in network configuration after the terminal is switched to a connected state is reduced, and improvement in efficiency of network configuration of the terminal is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Yang, Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11348328
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for graphical icon identification within an image or video stream. The systems and methods receive an image including a graphical icon. The systems and methods identify a set of proposed regions of the image, at least one proposed region of the set of proposed regions containing the graphical icon and extract a set of semantic features for each proposed region of the set of proposed regions. Based on the set of semantic features of the set of proposed regions, the systems and methods identify a set of proposed icons corresponding to the graphical icon included in the image and determine a match between the graphical icon and at least one proposed icon of the set of proposed icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Meng Song, Harsh Agrawal, Xiaoyu Wang, Xuan Huang, William Brendel