Patents Examined by Erika A Washington
  • Patent number: 10694489
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a first access network node 411, for positioning of a wireless communication device 430. The method comprises obtaining a first and a second information relating to multilateration of the wireless communication device 430. The first information relating to multilateration comprises a first timing advance value, or a first indication of the first timing advance value, associated with the first access network node 411 and the wireless communication device 430, a Temporary Logical Link Identifier (TLLI) corresponding to the wireless communication device 430 and a first identity of a first cell 421, in which first cell 421 the first timing advance was obtained. The method further comprises mapping, based on the TLLI, the associated first and second identities of the first and second cells 421, 422 and the first and second timing advance values to a network layer protocol connection on a first interface 441.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Nicklas Johansson, John Walter Diachina
  • Patent number: 10687182
    Abstract: Methods and devices for a wireless accessory device (AD) comprising a cellular radio to communicate with a cellular network using the cellular radio. The wireless AD establishes a texting session with a network entity through the cellular network and using the cellular radio. The wireless AD initiates a countdown timer in response to establishing the texting session. The wireless AD determines that a companion device to the wireless AD is reachable by the wireless AD. The wireless AD refrains from pairing with the companion device until the countdown timer expires in response to determining that the companion device is reachable by the wireless device. After expiration of the countdown timer, if the companion device is still reachable by the wireless AD, the wireless AD may pair with the companion device and/or power down its cellular radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Utkarsh Kumar, Shashikant Tiwari, Abhilash Bhagyanagar, Ashwini Pradeep, Mirza Mohd Ahsen Baig
  • Patent number: 10684718
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for a wearable electronic device, such as a bracelet, watch, wristband or armband that includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which may include any type of components, elements, circuitry, etc.). One particular implementation of a wearable electronic device may include a strap portion and a display portion. The display portion may include a display; one or more input elements configured to receive one or more interactions that may be associated with: selecting a preconfigured message to communicate and selecting one or more other electronic devices to which to communicate a preconfigured message. The wearable electronic device may further include wireless communication circuitry configured to communicate a selected preconfigured message to one or more selected other electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Aleksander Magi
  • Patent number: 10681497
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to associate geographic locations with user devices. An example apparatus includes means for classifying a network that connects a user device to an audience measurement entity based on source identifying information transmitted from the user device, means for determining a geographic location associated with an impression indicated by media identifying information, and means for classifying the geographic location of the user device as a home location based on a timestamp associated with the impression, the timestamp retrieved from a database of user profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Splaine, Arun Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 10681639
    Abstract: A source device includes various sensors, such as a GPS receiver. The source device provides operation context data to a server that indicates movement of the source device. The source device may also provide a movement context. The server also evaluates usage of data from the device by other applications or devices to determine a usage context. Based on the movement, operation, and usage contexts, the server selects a frequency at which data is collected for a sensor and a frequency at which the data is transmitted to the server. For example, where the device is not moving or is indoors, less location data is collected. Where no user is tracking the device, location data may be transmitted less frequently and may also be collected less frequently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: HYPERTRACK INC.
    Inventors: Kashyap Deorah, Abhishek Poddar, Amit Rathi, Aman Jain, Utkarsh Ohm, Gunjan Gupta, Ravi Jain, Prajakt Deolasee
  • Patent number: 10674363
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an access control method, user equipment, and a network device. The UE is connected to the network device, and the method includes: receiving, by the UE, access control information sent by the network device; and determining, according to obtained first application information in a service establishment request and the access control information, whether to send non-access stratum signaling to the network device, so as to determine whether a first application corresponding to the first application information is allowed to access a network. In this way, network resources are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Chen, Lin Shu
  • Patent number: 10659459
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed that leverage multi-factor authentication features of a service provider and intelligent call routing to increase security and efficiency at a customer call center. Pre-authentication of customer support requests reduces the potential for misappropriation of sensitive customer data during call handling. A contactless card uniquely associated with a client may provide a second factor of authentication to reduce the potential for malicious third-party impersonation of the client. Pre-authorized customer support calls are intelligently and efficiently routed in a manner that reduces the opportunity for malicious call interference and information theft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Adithya Gadwale
  • Patent number: 10659987
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for transmitting a service in a wireless communication network. The service is transmitted by a terminal device to a base station. The terminal device receives from the base station, information of a correspondence between a data radio bearer (DRB) and a radio interface technology supported in a frequency range of a cell. The frequency range is one of N frequency ranges, wherein N?2. The terminal device also receives characteristic information of the radio interface technology, which includes a subcarrier spacing. The terminal device transmits the service on the DRB within the frequency range using the subcarrier spacing of the radio interface technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Lixia Xue, Qinghai Zeng, Yuanjie Li, Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 10645546
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The memory is configured to store desired conditions of desired services received from respective service consumer terminals. The memory is configured to store a providing condition of a providable service received from a service provider terminal. The processor is configured to read the desired conditions from the memory. The processor is configured to read the providing condition from the memory. The processor is configured to determine, from among the desired services, a recommended service to be transmitted to the service provider terminal based on exercise information on an exercise amount of a user of the service provider terminal and a degree of matching between the providing condition and each of the desired conditions. The exercise information is received from the service provider terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenji Nogami, Yasuhide Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10630629
    Abstract: A screen display method, an apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, an enabling instruction for activating a location sharing function; and generating, by the terminal, a location sharing layer according to the enabling instruction. The location sharing layer is used for sharing and displaying, on a map, a geographical location of at least one user in a dialogue session. The method also includes displaying, by the terminal, the location sharing layer as a background display layer of a session screen corresponding to the dialogue session. The session screen includes a message display layer and the background display layer, the message display layer being located above the background display layer, and the message display layer being used for displaying a session message between a local user of the terminal and a remote user participated in the dialogue session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaoyu Gao
  • Patent number: 10623911
    Abstract: An apparatus for predictive intermittent service notification for a mobile communication device is disclosed. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a device locator that determines a location of a mobile communication device during a communication session with a remote communication device, a service zone mapper that estimates a travel time between the location of the mobile communication device and a current boundary of an intermittent service zone, and a notifier that communicates a predictive intermittent service notification in response to the estimated travel time falling within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Mark Patrick Delaney, John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 10623538
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first device housing and a second device housing. A hinge couples the first device housing to the second device housing. The first device housing is pivotable about the hinge relative to the second device housing. The hinge separates a first chamber defined by the first device housing and a second chamber defined by the second device housing. A flexible substrate passes through the first chamber and the second chamber. The flexible substrate spans the hinge, either by passing through or around a hinge housing. The flexible substrate deforms to a curvilinear deformed state within one or both of the first chamber or the second chamber when the first device housing and the second device housing pivot about the hinge from a closed position to an axially displaced open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Carlson, Steve Emmert
  • Patent number: 10613192
    Abstract: A position detection system includes a transmitter that transmits a first beacon signal with a first strength and at a first incidence and that transmits a second beacon signal with a second strength, which is greater than the first strength, and at a second incidence, which is lower than the first incidence, a plurality of receivers that are installed at known positions different from each other and that measure signal strengths of the first beacon signal and the second beacon signal, and a calculator that performs first processing in which the position of the transmitter is detected on the basis of a signal strength of the first beacon signal measured by one of the receivers and second processing in which the position of the transmitter is detected on the basis of signal strengths of the second beacon signal measured by two or more of the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsu Nishimura, Nobumitsu Amachi
  • Patent number: 10614700
    Abstract: Techniques are described for establishing a two-way voice communication session with an alarm system. The alarm system may establish a two-way voice communication session with an operator associated with a monitoring service that provides monitoring services for alarm events detected by the alarm system. The alarm system also may establish a two-way voice communication session with a notification recipient that is interested in receiving notifications associated with events detected by the alarm system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Martin, Stephen Scott Trundle, David Saul Goldfarb, David James Hutz
  • Patent number: 10609205
    Abstract: Technology for a mobile device is described. The mobile device can include a vibration motor operable to generate a vibration, and a sensor operable to capture a plurality of vibration signals that result from the vibration. The mobile device can provide the plurality of vibration signals to a model running on the mobile device. The model can include a plurality of predefined patterns that correspond to vibration signals produced by mobile devices residing on different surfaces. The mobile device can identify, using the model, a predefined pattern in the plurality of predefined patterns that substantially corresponds to the plurality of vibration signals based on a confidence level that exceeds a threshold. The mobile device can determine a type of surface on which the mobile device resides based on the predefined pattern identified using the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jose Camacho Perez, Miguel Bernal Marin, Mario Alfredo Carrillo Arevalo, Hector Cordourier Maruri, Jesus Adan Cruz Vargas, Abraham Duenas De La Cruz, Paulo Lopez Meyer, Julio Zamora Esquivel
  • Patent number: 10587761
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software can be used to provide reminding information. In some aspect, a special event is determined to occur. In response to determining that the special event occurs, a network type currently used by a device is acquired. Historical network usage information corresponding to the network type is determined. The network type and a traffic usage situation is outputted based on the historical usage information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zijun Li, Jin Huang, Fen Yang, Guoliang Li
  • Patent number: 10587735
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first device housing and a second device housing. A hinge couples the first device housing to the second device housing. The first device housing is pivotable about the hinge relative to the second device housing. The hinge separates a first chamber defined by the first device housing and a second chamber defined by the second device housing. A flexible substrate passes through the first chamber and the second chamber. The flexible substrate spans the hinge, either by passing through or around a hinge housing. The flexible substrate deforms to a curvilinear deformed state within one or both of the first chamber or the second chamber when the first device housing and the second device housing pivot about the hinge from a closed position to an axially displaced open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Carlson, Steve Emmert
  • Patent number: 10582391
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an antenna system, including a barrel directional antenna array, a radio frequency transceiver, and a baseband signal processing and control unit. Based on the barrel directional antenna array, the antenna system can adjust the quantity of sectors in a 360-degree range based on a change in a service volume in the 360-degree sector, so that an adjusted sector service capacity threshold can accommodate the service volume in the 360-degree sector. In this way, resource scheduling flexibility is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehai Chen, Yingjiu Xia, Qiang Wang
  • Patent number: 10582453
    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: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, John James Robertson, Gerald Nilles, Jason Heger, Praveen Babu Vadivelu
  • Patent number: 10571546
    Abstract: An embodiment includes at least one computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed enable a system to: receive (a)(i) first radio signal location data for a first object from a radio sensor; and (a)(ii) first visual signal location data for the first object from a camera sensor; perform feature extraction on (b)(i) the first radio signal location data to determine first extracted radio signal features; and (b)(ii) the first visual signal location data to determine first extracted visual signal features; solve a first association problem between the first extracted radio signal features and the first extracted visual signal features to determine first fused location data; and store the first fused location data in the at least one computer readable storage medium. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mi S. Park, Lei Yang, Shao-Wen Yang, Myung Hwangbo, Shahrokh Shahidzadeh