Patents Examined by Eugene Yun
  • Patent number: 11960789
    Abstract: A device may include a processor, a receiver, and a transmitter. The transmitter may be configured to transmit an audible signal, an inaudible signal, or both. The inaudible signal may be associated with a content identifier of the audible signal. The transmitter may be configured to transmit the audible signal, the inaudible signal, or both, to a first electronic device, a second electronic device, or both. The receiver may be configured to receive a first message that includes a first input and a second message that includes a second input. The processor may be configured to determine whether the first input matches the second input. The transmitter may be further configured to transmit the first message to the first service on a condition that the first input and the second input are determined to match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventors: David D. Shoop, Dylan M. Wondra
  • Patent number: 11962985
    Abstract: A method for interrupt based pairing for wireless audio devices includes determining a colocation of a wireless audio device with a subsequent wireless audio device with one or more sensors. An interrupt is generated in response to determining the colocation. A pairing mode of the wireless audio device is enabled in response to the interrupt. The wireless audio device is paired with the subsequent wireless audio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P
    Inventors: Victoria Pires, Hua Zhao, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11956084
    Abstract: A communication protocol provides improved bidirectional communication performance between a wireless stereo headset (12) and a host device (19). The communication protocol provides communication paths between the host device (19) and each ear piece (12a, 12b) of the wireless stereo headset (12), as well as a communication path (17) between the two ear pieces (12a, 12b). In addition to receiving audio information from the host device (19), each ear piece (12a, 12b) may request audio information from the other ear piece (12b, 12a), thus obtaining path diversity in the downlink. One ear piece (12a, 12b) may acknowledge the host device (10) for a correctly received packet, which the other ear piece (12a, 12b) missed, avoiding retransmissions. The ear pieces (12a, 12b) may exchange picked-up voice content to send to the host device (19), providing for path diversity in the uplink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DOPPLE IP B.V.
    Inventors: Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen, Tjapko Uildriks, Aalbert Stek
  • Patent number: 11943840
    Abstract: An exemplary method relates to associating diverse devices each including a unique public media access control address (Public MAC address). In this exemplary embodiment, the method includes providing a plurality of devices with a shared private media access control address (Shared Private MAC address) such that the Shared Private MAC address is known to each of the devices and usable for initiating a learning interchange during which the devices exchange their unique Public MAC addresses with each other and are thereby associated with each other; and/or using a shared private media access control address (Shared Private MAC address) known to each of a plurality of devices to initiate a learning interchange that includes the devices exchanging their unique Public MAC addresses with each other and thereby associating the devices with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Cattron North America, Inc.
    Inventor: David Stagg
  • Patent number: 11943690
    Abstract: A method for adjusting an RF amplifier is provided. The method includes determining link statistics corresponding to wireless data received by a first device. The wireless data was transmitted by a second device, such as via a Bluetooth protocol. The method further includes adjusting an RF amplifier of the first device or the second device based on the one or more link statistics. The one or more link statistics may include RSSI, PER, buffer level, audio drop data, and acknowledgement packet data. The RF amplifier may be a low noise amplifier or a power amplifier. The adjusting may include increasing or decreasing a gain of the RF amplifier. Alternatively, the adjusting may include activating or deactivating the RF amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Casper Bonde, Kemal Kulovic
  • Patent number: 11936407
    Abstract: A communication system provides reliable wideband communications with reduced power consumption in a user equipment (UE) receiver. A UE may include receiver circuitry to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a wireless network and output an analog baseband signal. The RF signal includes M copies of a duplicated signal in a frequency domain. The analog baseband signal includes the M copies of the duplicated signal uniformly offset from one another in the frequency domain by a bandwidth F and including a gap between adjacent copies. The UE further includes an anti-aliasing analog filter an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC samples an output of the anti-aliasing analog filter at a sampling frequency selected to obtain a digital baseband signal comprising a combined digital copy of the M copies of the duplicated signal folded over each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yingqun Yu, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11930558
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing subscription profiles to a subscriber identity module, preferably an eUICC, by means of a subscription server, preferably an SM-DP, wherein: the subscription server has knowledge of a first subscription profile, which is installed in the subscriber identity module, has a first profile file structure and first profile data stored in the first profile file structure; and at least a portion of a second profile file structure of a second subscription profile is flagged in the subscription server and the second subscription profile is sent to the subscriber identity module, the flagged portion of the second subscription profile being sent without second profile data. The invention additionally relates to a corresponding method in a subscriber identity module, a subscriber identity module, a subscription server and a computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
    Inventor: Nils Nitsch
  • Patent number: 11923882
    Abstract: A hybrid communication device, an operation method thereof, and a communication system including the same are provided. The hybrid communication device includes a contact unit that includes an antenna for receiving a first communication signal and an electrode for receiving a second signal, a switch controller that includes a first switch and a second switch and controls the first switch and the second switch based on a change in capacitance of the electrode, and a signal processing unit that receives at least one of the first communication signal and the second communication signal from the contact unit via the first switch and processes the received signal. The first switch is connected to the contact unit, and the signal processing unit is connected to the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae Wook Kang, Sung Eun Kim, Hyung-Il Park, Jae-Jin Lee, Hyuk Kim, Kyung Hwan Park, Mi Jeong Park, Kyung Jin Byun, Kwang Il Oh, In Gi Lim
  • Patent number: 11916619
    Abstract: A tuning circuit for a near-field magnetic induction (NFMI) system suitable for near field communication (NFC) is disclosed. The NFMI system includes a tuning circuit that is configured to measure a phase across a series capacitor coupled between a resonant circuit and a transmit circuit in order to determine a resonant condition of the resonant circuit. When the resonant condition is above resonance or below resonance, the tuning circuit can tune an adjustable capacitor of the resonant circuit. The tuning can continue until the phase measurement indicates that the resonant circuit is at resonance. The phase-based tuning allows for the tuning to operate continuously and concurrently with NFC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Gareth Pryce Weale
  • Patent number: 11916290
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a display disposed to face a first direction, a back plate disposed to face a second direction opposite to the first direction, a support member disposed below the display and configured to be coupled with the display, a printed circuit board disposed between the support member and the back plate, and a first antenna and a second antenna disposed between the printed circuit board and the back plate and configured to emit signals in a radio frequency band, and the first antenna is electrically connected to a first ground region included in the printed circuit board, and the second antenna may be electrically connected to a second ground region included in the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minju Lee
  • Patent number: 11909426
    Abstract: A transmitter (1; 21) to transmit an amplitude modulated data signal (2) in an RF-Field (3) over the air to a receiver (4) of an RFID communication system (5; 22) which transmitter (1; 21) comprises: a wave generator (6) to generate a carrier signal (7) with a particular frequency and waveform; a modulation stage (15) to modulate the carrier signal (7) in relation to a data signal to be transmitted; an antenna (11) connected to the modulation stage (15) or wave generator (6) via an amplifier (9) and a matching circuit (10) to transmit the amplitude modulated data signal (2) in the RF-Field (3) over the air, characterized in that the transmitter (1; 21) furthermore comprises: a shape stage (16) connected to the wave generator (6) to select the waveform of the carrier signal (7) depending directly or indirectly on the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Renesas Design Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Jakob Jongsma, Michael Pieber
  • Patent number: 11909453
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a method for receiving a near-field radio wave, the wave being received using electromagnetic-wave conduction capacities of the body of a user who is able to make a validation gesture that modifies characteristics of the radio wave. The method includes detecting a first modification of a characteristic of the radio wave, the first modification being resultant from a start of the gesture, and detecting a second modification of a characteristic of the radio wave, the second modification being resultant from an end of the gesture, where the acquisition of a right for the user is dependent on the first modification and the second modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Javaudin, Philippe Dussaume
  • Patent number: 11910289
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed for systems and methods for supporting transmission of audio streams (e.g., streams of audio data or audio information) for different audio signals to different end-point devices. In one embodiment, a method comprises forming, with a Bluetooth® Classic or BR/EDR based master circuitry, a piconet with a plurality of Bluetooth® Classic or BR/EDR based slave circuitries through a respectively corresponding plurality of point-to-point wireless connections; and generating, from the master circuitry, a plurality of streams of packets respectively corresponding to the plurality of point-to-point wireless connections, wherein the plurality of streams of packets respectively correspond to a plurality of distinct transport identifiers; wherein the plurality of streams of packets carry audio data for different audio channels; and wherein the plurality of streams of packets are for BR/EDR transmission in compliance with revision 2.0 of the Bluetooth® core specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Srinath Arunachalam, Jagan Lokanatha
  • Patent number: 11903067
    Abstract: An audio forwarding method, an audio forwarding method device and a storage medium are described. The audio forwarding method comprises: establishing a first communication link with a sound source device based on a first wireless communication protocol; establishing a second communication link with an audio playback device based on a second wireless communication protocol; receiving first audio data from the sound source device through the first communication link; processing the first audio data to generate second audio data, and storing the second audio data into a second buffer; and transmitting the second audio data to the audio playback device through the second communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Zgmicro Company Limited
    Inventor: Bin Xu
  • Patent number: 11903056
    Abstract: In the present disclosure, a method comprising: receiving a first advertisement message for measuring a declination angle between devices; measuring each declination angle between a reference point set in the control device and positions of at least one device based on the first advertisement message, wherein the positions of the at least one device are respectively adjusted such that each declination angle satisfies a specific angle for receiving a voice signal, based on the measured respective declination angles; receiving each of a first voice signals based on the respective adjusted positions from the at least one device; and measuring a volume of the received first voice signal, respectively, wherein based on the measured volume, an audio signal output angle of the at least one device is adjusted such that an audio signal received by the control device is incident at right angles to the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hyeonjae Lee, Jinkwon Lim, Taeyoung Song
  • Patent number: 11889255
    Abstract: A communication method between earphones and a charging box is disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring a data packet to be sent from a sending queue; sending a data request message containing the data packet to be sent to the earphones; and when having received a reply message from the earphones, continuing to execute the step of acquiring a data packet to be sent from the sending queue until the sending queue is empty. In the communication method between earphones and a charging box of the present disclosure, when data is transmitted between the charging box and the earphones, the data transmission between the charging box and the earphones can be realized without switching the master-slave relationship between the charging box and the earphones, which is simple to realize and reduces the additional communication burden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOERTEK, INC.
    Inventor: Tao Li
  • Patent number: 11889420
    Abstract: A system and method for waking up a low-power wireless device is provided. The method includes: initializing a wakeup sensitivity to minimum of a wakeup circuit of the wireless device; searching for at least one beacon by the wakeup circuit; increasing the wakeup sensitivity of the wakeup circuit when the at least one beacon is not found; and setting the wakeup sensitivity to a value at which the least one beacon is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: WILIOT, LTD.
    Inventors: Alon Yehezkely, Sagi Kupferman, David Lipshitz
  • Patent number: 11889395
    Abstract: A method of communication between first and second controllers positioned in spaced relation along a length of a vehicle system includes establishing first and second wireless, parallel communication channels between the first and second controllers. The channels operate at different carrier frequencies. The first controller transmits common information in parallel on the first and second wireless communication channels to the second controller, and the second controller receives the information transmitted in parallel on first and second wireless communication channels. The first and second wireless communication channels are then deactivated Subsequently, a single communication channel is established for communicating other, different information between the controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Padam Dhoj Swar, Carl L. Haas, Danial Rice
  • Patent number: 11882509
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of vehicle, and discloses a virtual key binding method and system, including: when an input binding instruction is detected, a terminal device extracts a device fingerprint of the terminal device and generates a service key; and generates device feature information including the device fingerprint and the service key, and sends the device feature information to a service server, so as to enable the service server to store the device feature information in an on-board electronic device of a vehicle to be bound; and when it is detected that a binding result sent by the service server is a successful binding, the terminal device stores Bluetooth information in the binding result, the Bluetooth information matching with the vehicle to be bound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU CHENGXING ZHIDONG MOTORS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., GUANGZHOU XIAOPENG MOTORS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ziyao Cheng
  • Patent number: 11882186
    Abstract: A method comprising: establishing a wireless connection between a first medical device and a second medical device, comprising: receiving, by the first medical device, via a short-range wireless technology protocol, connection information related to the second medical device; and establishing, by the first medical device, a wireless connection with the second medical device based on the connection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: John Arrizza