Patents Examined by Erica Navar
  • Patent number: 11330041
    Abstract: A user terminal emulation server maintains a database identifying network addresses, UI capabilities, and locations of I/O user devices. Communication sessions are established between first and second user terminal emulation applications and respective first and second I/O user devices proximately located to respective first and second users and which provide acceptable combined I/O user interfaces to the first and second users. When a direct path criterion is satisfied for creating a direct traffic flow, a traffic flow that was from the first I/O user devices to the first user terminal emulation applications is redirected to now be from the first I/O user device to the second I/O user device without passing through either of the first and second user terminal emulation applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Hans Hannu, Tommy Arngren, Peter Ökvist, Stefan Wänstedt
  • Patent number: 11330605
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for allocation and/or preemption of radio access network (“RAN”) resources in a wireless network based on Quality of Service (“QoS”)-related metrics associated with User Equipment (“UEs”) that are connected to, and/or are requesting connection to, a RAN. QoS-related metrics may include a network slice, a QoS Flow Identifier (“QFI”), other suitable metrics. A Slice-Based Priority (“SBP”) determine one or more priority (e.g., SBP) values for UEs connected to the one or more RANs, and/or for UEs requesting connection to such RANs. In addition to QoS-related metrics priority values may be determined based on RAN-related metrics, such as Allocation and Retention Priority (“ARP”) values associated with a UE. RANs may accordingly be able to allocate resources, accept or deny connection requests, and/or perform preemption based at least partly on slice-related QoS metrics, thus preserving end-to-end QoS parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Yuexin Dong, Frank Jager, Kristen Sydney Young
  • Patent number: 11317326
    Abstract: A primary access node adds a secondary access node to deliver wireless communication service to a wireless User Equipment (UE). The primary access node comprises a radio and baseband circuitry. The radio wirelessly receives a measurement report from the UE characterizing a radio metric for the secondary access node and transfers the measurement report to the baseband circuitry. The baseband circuitry determines cell site density for the UE's location and determines an add threshold for the secondary access node based on the cell site density. The baseband circuitry determines an add value for the secondary access node based on the radio metric. When the add value exceeds the add threshold, the baseband circuitry transfers network signaling to the secondary access node to serve the UE and transfers user signaling to the radio. The radio wirelessly transfers the user signaling to the UE to attach to the secondary access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11304041
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique can include detecting, by a first computing device, a set of user communications at least one of transmitted to and received by from a second computing device via a first communication mode, identifying a second communication mode that is available for communication between the first and second computing devices, and obtaining an appropriateness score for the first and second communication modes based on a contextual feature of the set of user communications, wherein the contextual feature relates an appropriateness of a particular communication mode for the set of user communications, and wherein each appropriateness score is indicative of a level of the appropriateness of a particular communication mode for the set of user communications. The technique can also include selectively outputting a suggestion to switch from the first communication mode to the second communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 11272051
    Abstract: A method for notification reminder, a terminal, and a storage medium are provided, relating to the technical field of notification reminder. The method includes the following. A notification is received in a do not disturb (DND) mode, where the notification is at least one of: an incoming call notification, a short message notification, or an application notification. A contact corresponding to the notification is identified. Notification reminder is performed in a predetermined manner when the contact belongs to a preset contact group. Notification reminder is skipped when the contact does not belong to the preset contact group. The preset contact group is a group that allows notification reminder in the DND mode by default.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Qihu Liu
  • Patent number: 11249168
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for obtaining and using multiple timing advance measurements for positioning purposes. A first timing advance measurement is obtained. The first timing advance measurement is indicative of a measurement based on one or more signals of a first serving cell. A second timing advance measurement is also obtained. The second timing advance measurement is indicative of a measurement based on one or more signals of a second serving cell. A location estimate is determined based at least partially on the first timing advance measurement and the second timing advance measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Petri Rauhala
  • Patent number: 11218557
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a transmission controller. The receiving unit receives a notification to inquire about a state of a user of the information processing apparatus, which is portable, from a different information processing apparatus. If the notification is received by the receiving unit, the determining unit determines whether communication from the other information processing apparatus is acceptable in the state of the user. If the determination unit determines that the communication from the other information processing apparatus is not acceptable in the state of the user, the transmission controller controls transmission so as not to transmit the state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hideto Yuzawa, Takayuki Takeuchi, Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11206535
    Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating User Equipment (UE) are disclosed. The method includes a network obtaining a cross-registration status for the UE based on receiving a registration request from the UE. The network can execute a network registration response according to the cross-registration status that represents a permission given to the UE to register outside of an original network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua Finger
  • Patent number: 11206516
    Abstract: A system and method for the real-time management of a device, and more particularly to the establishment and enforcement of policies or rules associated with the feature or functions that may be performed with the device, such as making and receiving calls, exchanging data, playing games and music, sending and receiving email, accessing web sites, and paying for goods and services. If a child or employee is using the device, there may be a need to regulate how that device can be used and to determine who will pay for what goods or services. In addition to providing all of the features associated with a device, service providers need to be able to establish and enforce rules (policies) regulating how and when that device can be used and who will pay for a good or service requested by the user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: KAJEET, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Donald Baker, Steven Ira Geller, Douglas Owen Kesser, Daniel John Neal, Carol Ann Politi, Ben Julian Weintraub
  • Patent number: 11184823
    Abstract: Requests for roaming service agreements intended for an ANQP server to initiate offloading an ongoing voice call from a cellular network associated with a SP for the station to the Wi-Fi network are received. A connection is made if the SP matches a list of SP providers for which the AP has a roaming service agreement. Responsive to not matching the list of SP providers, the SP miss and location data of the station is stored. Statistics concerning stored AP misses and identifying a threshold being met for a particular SP are generated. AI identifies SP updates needed from statistics concerning SP misses for the particular SP for which no roaming service agreement has been established with the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravikiran Mahamkali, Sujith Sudhi
  • Patent number: 11178534
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for enabling management of a subscriber entity. A method is performed by the subscriber entity. The method comprises obtaining a message from a subscription server. The message comprises an event record. The event record is addressed to the subscriber entity and comprises a pointer to a primary entity. The method comprises establishing a connection to the primary entity for management of the subscriber entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Patrik Salmela, Kazi Wali Ullah, Abu Shohel Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11172458
    Abstract: This disclosure handles a registration procedure in a UE supporting registration to 5GC via untrusted non-3GPP access network and 3GPP access network. More specifically this disclosure defines a UE behavior when a registration procedure is not successful to 5GC via first access network type (e.g. untrusted non-3GPP network access) after transmitting maximum number of registration request message via the first access network type to the 5GC and the UE is registered to 5GC via other access network type (e.g. 3GPP access network (NG-RAN)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kundan Tiwari, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11122414
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting session management functions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a registration request from a user equipment (UE) device; sending access location information and allowed slice information associated with the UE device to a logical network database; receiving accepted slice information and associated slice information of a home network from the logical network database; and sending a registration accepted message to the UE device, wherein the registration accepted message comprises the accepted slice information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jinguo Zhu
  • Patent number: 11064426
    Abstract: A context-aware network service engine is employed to support integrated network. In one aspect, the network service engine can receive a message associated with the user's intent and/or situation via a standard and/or open application programming interface (API). Based on an analysis of the message with context data and/or defined policy data, the network service engine can establish procedures to provide integrated services. The integrated services can comprise multiple communication services that are initiated simultaneously (or substantially simultaneously) in response to receiving the message. As an example, the context data can comprise user-related data, real-time network resource availability, presence data, and the like. As an example, the network services can be initiated concurrently and/or in a specified order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Brian Daly
  • Patent number: 11044591
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for establishing communication between a remote device and a virtual machine on a computing node of the cloud-based services via the distributed network. The cloud-based services include multiple operating systems and one or more applications. In response to receiving an instruction from the remote device the virtual machine is accessed, where the virtual machine is associated with at least one of a user of the remote device and the remote device. When directed by an instruction from the remote device, the virtual machine identifies one of the operating systems in which to execute the one or more applications and transmits results, based on execution of the one or more applications by the virtual machine, to the remote device via the distributed network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Yazdani, Chen Tian, Lawrence Davison, Viet Trinh
  • Patent number: 11039307
    Abstract: A wireless device (16) configured to receive from a network node (20) a page (18) that includes a paging identifier (18A) 4 for the wireless device (16). The paging identifier (18A) may identify as a target of the page (18) a wireless device (16) associated with a particular subscriber. In fact, in some embodiments, the paging identifier (18A) is based on an encrypted subscription identifier for the wireless device (16) or is a pseudonym subscription identifier for the wireless device (16). In any event, the wireless device (16) is also configured to transmit to the network node (20) a response (22) to the page (18) that indicates the wireless device (16) was paged but that includes an identifier for the wireless device (16) that is different than the paging identifier (18A) included in the page (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Enrique Cobo Jimenez, Mats Näslund, Karl Norrman
  • Patent number: 10986476
    Abstract: Systems and methods for collecting data in a network of moving things. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide systems and methods for operating sensor systems and collecting data from sensor systems in a power-efficient and network-efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Veniam, Inc.
    Inventors: Joao Azevedo, Rui Costa, Roy Russell
  • Patent number: 10986607
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to the detection of one or more devices in zones, e.g., non-overlapping areas, are described. Individual device locations are made based on RSSI information. Whether a user is determined to be in a zone or not is determined based on location determinations corresponding to the device. Thresholds used to determine whether a device is to be considered as being within a zone differs depending on whether the device is newly detected in the zone or is already determined to be in the zone. In some embodiments it is easier to be determined to be in a zone than to be determined to have left a zone. A device may be determined to be in two non-overlapping zones at the same time thereby increasing the chance that devices in edge areas will be counted with regard to the number of devices for which resources should be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Cuong Ta, Randall Wayne Frei
  • Patent number: 10986484
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that receives a notification, from an identity proxy function, indicating an identity mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) is being registered. That is, a communication device sends a registration request that includes the IMSI to a first registration function. Further, the identity proxy function intercepts the registration request and sends the first notification to the device. Also, the system, sends a first registration message to the first registration function. The first registration function includes a first registry. Further, the first registration message indicates to the first registration function to add the IMSI to the first registry. The system also sends a second registration message to a second registration function. The second registration function includes a second registry. Further, the second registration message indicates to the second registration function to remove the IMSI to the first registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Stephen Emille Chin
  • Patent number: 10959135
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to devices, methods, and computer program products of communication networks in relation to, e.g., involved in initial access from an idle status, connection reestablishment, handover, or synchronization. A terminal apparatus may include: a control module configured to detect receipt of a group information indicative of a group of at least two network apparatuses, the group information being descriptive for a certain configuration of communication parameters enabling the terminal apparatus to communicate with anyone of the network apparatuses of the respective group, and request connecting to at least one of the network apparatuses of the group by use of the certain configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Richard Waldhauser, Hanns Jurgen Schwarzbauer, Bernhard Raaf, Juergen Michel