Patents Examined by Erika A Washington
  • Patent number: 11968601
    Abstract: A method includes, generating a schedule for an asset tag, the schedule defining: a unicast trigger time for transmission of a unicast trigger to the asset tag; a transmit time succeeding receipt of the multicast trigger; and a wake window intersecting the transmit time and the receipt of the multiact trigger. The method also includes transmitting the schedule from a node network to the asset tag and configuring the asset tag based on the schedule. The method also includes, at the node network, broadcasting the unicast trigger and, at an asset tag: entering a wake mode; receiving the unicast trigger; transmitting a ranging signal; and entering the sleep mode. The method further includes, at the node network: deriving location of the asset tag based on instance of the ranging signal received by nodes in the node network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZaiNar, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Feldman, Phillip B. Hess, Philip Adam Kratz, Srdjan Miocinovic, Jonathan Shiao-En Lu
  • Patent number: 11963105
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, computer readable media, and other various embodiments are described for location management processes in wearable electronic devices. Performance of such devices is improved with reduced time to first fix of location operations in conjunction with low-power operations. In one embodiment, low-power circuitry manages high-speed circuitry and location circuitry to provide location assistance data from the high-speed circuitry to the low-power circuitry automatically on initiation of location fix operations as the high-speed circuitry and location circuitry are booted from low-power states. In some embodiments, the high-speed circuitry is returned to a low-power state prior to completion of a location fix and after capture of content associated with initiation of the location fix. In some embodiments, high-speed circuitry is booted after completion of a location fix to update location data associated with content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, John James Robertson, Gerald Nilles, Jason Heger, Praveen Babu Vadivelu
  • Patent number: 11950259
    Abstract: To extend a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in wireless communications, an extended physical broadcast channel (EPBCH) transmission is generated with one or more legacy PBCH blocks and one or more EPBCH blocks within an extension window. A size of the extension window is determined based at least in part on a PBCH repetition number and a number of the legacy PBCH blocks relative to a number of the EPBCH blocks. The EPBCH transmission is transmitted by a base station (BS) to one or more user equipment (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Chunhai Yao, Haitong Sun, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Haijing Hu, Zhibin Wu, Fangli Xu
  • Patent number: 11943686
    Abstract: An information transmission system for at least one commercial vehicle includes at least one information sending module, at least one repeating module and at least one receiving module. The information sending module is configured and arranged to send signals defining a message to the repeating module. The repeating module is configured and arranged to enhance the signals and forward the signals to the receiving module. A commercial vehicle and a commercial vehicle combination utilize the information transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Bence Szemes, Huba Nemeth, Tamas Konya, Gabor Toereki, Kristof Hillier, Benedek Pour
  • Patent number: 11937217
    Abstract: A method for a relay terminal to transmit and receive signals in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a step for transmitting, in a first time region, a UL signal to an upper node through a backhaul link and a DL signal to at least one lower node through an access link; and a step for receiving, in a second time region, a DL signal from the upper node through the backhaul link and a UL signal from the at least one lower node through the access link, wherein different frequency resources are allocated to the UL signal and the DL signal in the same carrier in each of the first time domain and the second time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joonkui Ahn, Seonwook Kim, Changhwan Park, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11937180
    Abstract: Provided are a carrier activation method, apparatus, device and system and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of communications. The method includes: wake-up information is received on a predetermined carrier that is a carrier, configured to transmit the wake-up information, in at least two carriers allocated to User Equipment (UE); and the predetermined carrier and at least one other carrier are activated based on the wake-up information, or, at least two other carriers are activated based on the wake-up information, the other carrier(s) being a carrier(s) other than the predetermined carrier in the at least two carriers. According to the present disclosure, the problem that the UE needs to detect the wake-up information on each carrier and determine whether to activate the carrier based on the wake-up information is solved, and the energy consumption of the UE is reduced and the endurance of the UE is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yajun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11937319
    Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a distributed base station apparatus comprises a central unit for control plane signalling (CU-CP), at least one a central unit for user plane signalling (CU-UP), and at least one distributed unit. The CU-CP obtains information indicating whether a security configuration is supported by a CU-UP and selects a security configuration for an item of user equipment (UE) based on the obtained information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhua Chen, Sadafuku Hayashi, Hisashi Futaki, Jagdeep Ahluwalia Singh, Neeraj Gupta, Chadi Khirallah
  • Patent number: 11937191
    Abstract: This application provides a communications method and apparatus, to improve uplink transmission performance. The method includes determining, by a terminal device, capability indication information and sending the capability indication information to a network device. The capability indication information is used to determine a power scaling factor, the power scaling factor is a ratio of a sum of actual transmit power of n non-zero antenna ports to channel transmit power, and a maximum value of the channel transmit power is a rated maximum transmit power of a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xianda Liu, Kunpeng Liu, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11924713
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing timely location estimates when a user equipment initiates a call to an emergency number are disclosed. The system enables a user equipment to send the earliest available location that the user equipment can come up with, after detecting an emergency message (e.g., detecting a 911 digit string). This can be done by sending the current location of the user equipment via HTTPS protocol to a telecommunications service provider node (e.g., an end point in GMLC). In this manner, the system avoids a major overhaul of the existing 3GPP E911 location standard while allowing timely compliance of the NG911 mandate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Ming Lan
  • Patent number: 11923952
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to a distributed relay. The distributed relay may utilize beamforming and/or a specific physical arrangement of transmit and receive antennas to ensure a high isolation between antennas. The distributed relay may further facilitate the concurrent operation of two different intermediate frequency (IF) chains to support communications between a network entity and user device, receiving and transmitting data on each of the two IF chains independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Maltsev, Ali Sadri, Andrey Pudeyev, Liang Xian, Fatemeh Fazel Sarjoui, Cheng-Yuan Chin
  • Patent number: 11917454
    Abstract: A wireless communications method for connecting a base station with each of a plurality of terminal stations, the base station being equipped with a plurality of wireless communications units configured to be able to select a plurality of different transmission rates and connectable with one or more of the terminal stations, includes: a collection step of collecting information about a transmission rate and multicast transmission frequency from each of the terminal stations; a policy calculation step of calculating a setting policy for setting a unicast transmission rate and a multicast transmission rate for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations based on the collected information; and a setting step of setting those of the terminal stations which are to be connected, for each of the wireless communications units based on the calculated setti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11906645
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a certified location service enables a mobile device to access a location-based service when a determined location meets a location requirement and an overall confidence score for the determined location exceeds a confidence threshold. A data package is received including identifiers of beacons observed by the mobile device, and a location of the mobile device is determined based on a calculated location of one or more of the beacons. An overall confidence score for the determined location is calculated based on one or more individual confidence scores for the one or more beacons used in determining the location or composite confidence scores for types of the one or more beacons. The determined location and the overall confidence score are provided to one or more provider servers that allow the mobile device to access a location-based service based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Russel Jones, Christopher Steger, Nicolas Brachet, Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz, Andrew Broadstone, Joel Morrin
  • Patent number: 11910270
    Abstract: To prevent the spread of Covid-19 and other contagious diseases, a touchless handshake is able to be implemented using mobile devices. The touchless handshake is able to be performed by sending an ultrasonic signal from one device to another (or to multiple devices) which triggers the device to vibrate to simulate a handshake. Additionally, mobile devices are able to be used to send and/or display a wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Barbara Carey
  • Patent number: 11902814
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a control information transmission method. The method includes: User equipment UE sends report information to a base station, where the report information includes a detection result of one or more downlink reference signals of the UE or a status of a timer/counter corresponding to the one or more downlink reference signals; the UE receives feedback information from the base station, where the feedback information includes sending status information of the one or more downlink reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Wu, Jianqin Liu, Jiayin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11887206
    Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by a user device associated with a user to a transportation service provider, a request for a service comprising entry into a controlled area associated with the service. The method further includes receiving, by the user device from the transportation service provider, a token to allow the user device to connect with the service and to allow entry into the controlled area associated with the service. The method further includes transmitting, by the user device to a security device associated with the transportation service provider, the token. The security device restricts access to the controlled area associated with the service. The method further includes receiving, by the user device from the security device responsive to the transmitting of the token, the access to the controlled area associated with the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Ziv Haparnas, Talmon Marco, Igor Magazinik, Sunny Marueli
  • Patent number: 11889569
    Abstract: Pairing of multiple devices is initiated using a computer in an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. A command is received at a computer to perform a user activity at a location which includes pairing a user device to a selectable device at the location. The context of the command is analyzed including a historical corpus regarding previous pairings and connection preferences. A device at the location is selected based on the analysis and the determining of the user activity. Pairing is automatically initiated for the user device to the selected device at the location based on the analysis of the context of the command. The automatic initiation includes adjusting settings on the user device based on the analysis of the context of the command. The user device is automatically paired to the selected device at the location to perform the user activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Raghuveer Prasad Nagar, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Reji Jose, Gurunath Rampur
  • Patent number: 11882503
    Abstract: A low-power tracking device transmitting periodic beacons for nearby hotspots using wide-area wireless network, such as LoRaWAN hotspots. The hotspots estimate the tracking device's coarse location, relying solely on the hotspots' received signal strength and hotspots' geolocation information, in order to reduce the tracking device's power consumption. When the tracking device is considered as lost, one or a plural of finder units are deployed within tracking device's vicinity to provide high precision location tracking. Using finder's instruction, the tracking device can reduce the beacon transmission intervals, transmit additional sensor information and perform other operations, to assist higher precision location tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: Anthony Xu
  • Patent number: 11870503
    Abstract: An apparatus configured for wirelessly communicating in a wireless communications network includes a wireless interface configured for wireless communication and a controller configured for controlling a beam pattern of the wireless interface and at least one communication parameter of the wireless interface. The apparatus is configured for receiving a locking signal indicating a request for locking at least a part of the beam pattern and the at least one communication parameter. The controller is configured for locking at least the part of the beam and the at least one communication parameter responsive to the locking signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Haustein, Paul Leather, Ramez Askar, Leszek Raschkowski, Marcus Großmann, Markus Landmann
  • Patent number: 11871442
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable mediums for resource selection. The method comprises: receiving, at a first terminal device, a message from a second terminal device, the message indicating information associated with vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication during movement of the second terminal device; and determining, at least partially based on the message, a resource for the first terminal device to perform the V2X communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11871302
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to at least one vehicle UE, in accordance with a first update rate, a first set of position messages indicating position information associated with the UE. The apparatus may transmit a second set of position messages in accordance with a second update rate. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Saadallah Kassir, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati