Patents Examined by Farid Seyedvosoghi
  • Patent number: 11856127
    Abstract: A method and system for triggering hand-off of an incoming call event from a default first telephony application to a second telephony application on a device are disclosed, comprising receiving an incoming call event addressed to the device, causing a notification of the incoming call event using the default first telephony application on the device, during the notification of the incoming call event, and without answering the incoming call event using the default first telephony application, receiving a navigation input on a user interface of the device to navigate to the second telephony application on the device, and, responsive to receiving the input to navigate to the second telephony application on the device, causing the second telephony application to be displayed on the device, and accepting the incoming call event using the second telephony application, creating a telephony connection corresponding to the incoming call event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Vandana Thomas, Michael J. Davis, Abhilash Chandrasekharan Nair
  • Patent number: 11844042
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for automatically addressing emergency situations, customizing emergency user interfaces and options, and managing emergency communications. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems detect a transportation irregularity and generate an emergency assistance user interface based on an emergency severity associated with the transportation irregularity. Based on user interactions with the generated emergency assistance user interface, the disclosed systems generate and send an emergency communication to a remote third-party system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Preet Singh Anand, Rohan Ramkrishna Dhaimade, Alyssa Michelle Hitchcock, Andrew Li, Alexandra Elizabeth Michaelides, Kimberley Eileen O'Rourke, Prachi Sharma, Naomi Yarin
  • Patent number: 11843712
    Abstract: This application provides an address book-based device discovery method, an audio and video communication method, and related electronic devices. In the method, a personal device of a user is registered with a communication account system by using a phone number, and the communication account system is responsible for maintaining a binding relationship between the device and the phone number for capability discovery and query. A list of devices that meets a privacy policy is queried based on the phone number of the user, and a list of devices that can perform audio and video communication is displayed in an address book. Then, a Another user can reach different personal devices when calling the phone number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhiwei Ma
  • Patent number: 11836819
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. A data set including: (a) identifiers of a set of incidents occurring within a defined geographic region to which at least one service provider responded during a first time period and (b) address data identifying a location within the geographic region of each said incident of the set is retrieved over a network. An instruction to generate a heat map of the incidents occurring within the geographic region during the first time period is received from a user via a user interface generated to a display device. In response to the instruction to generate the heat map, the address data is converted to GPS data. A heat map of an aerial view of the geographic region based on the GPS data is generated. The heat map is displayed to the display device in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NORCOM
    Inventors: Nathan Way, Ron Tiedeman
  • Patent number: 11838435
    Abstract: An apparatus and/or method for displaying a multi-window on a foldable electronic device may be provided. The electronic device may include a display device having a display area having a shape that varies depending on first and second housing structures connected to a hinge structure, and a processor operatively connected to the display device, in which the processor may divide a first type display area into a plurality of areas and display information related to a plurality of applications when the electronic device is in an unfolded state, the processor may check at least one application set to be continuously used among the plurality of applications when the electronic device switches to a folded state, and the processor may set up a screen constitution in the folded state based on the at least one application and output information related to the at least one application through a second type display area based on the screen constitution. Other embodiments may also be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joonhwan Kim, Sangeun Lee, Jisu Kim, Kyungwook Ro
  • Patent number: 11831798
    Abstract: A method for generating an alert and an electronic message from a mobile smartphone comprising a display and various sensors including a GPS sensor, the method comprising the steps consisting of: —downloading, to a smartphone, a remote support application comprising the implementation of a service for controlling the microphone, even in the event of the phone being locked; —activating the sensors present in the mobile phone in order to collect information linked to the environment of the mobile phone; —carrying out a contextual analysis of the information collected by the sensors in order to determine an emergency situation requiring an alert to be triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Dupre
  • Patent number: 11831801
    Abstract: A communication device can have a main body with a persistent display, a processor, a memory, and a transceiver. The memory can be in communication with the processor and the persistent display. The memory can have a tangible, non-transitory computer readable memory with processor-executable instructions stored thereon. The processor-executable instructions can define a curated platform. The curated platform can have a plurality of modules. The plurality of modules, upon being executed by the processor, can render on the persistent display a purpose-driven graphical user interface (GUI). The purpose-driven GUI can include a plurality of interfaces with interactable objects. The transceiver can be in communication with the processor and the memory. The transceiver can be configured to permit interpersonal communication between a user of the communication device and a different user of a different device using the purpose-driven GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: THE LIGHT PHONE INC.
    Inventors: Kaiwei Tang, Joseph Hollier, Hugh Alexander Wilson Francis, Alicia Kathleen Willett, Conor Jordan Davidson
  • Patent number: 11818788
    Abstract: A base station device transmits a control signal for causing a transition from an RRC_CONNECTED state to an RRC_INACTIVE state and including connection parameter information to a terminal device. The terminal device performs uplink transmission to the base station device using the connection parameter information included in the control signal in the RRC_INACTIVE state to which the RRC_CONNECTED state has transitioned. The base station device performs uplink reception from the terminal device that is in the RRC_INACTIVE state to which the RRC_CONNECTED state has transitioned using the connection parameter information included in the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito Umehara, Issei Kanno, Takeo Ohseki, Yasuhiro Suegara
  • Patent number: 11805398
    Abstract: A method of tracking at least one emergency service provider is disclosed. An electronic history is compiled that includes at least one identifier of a service provider, at least one identifier of an event to which the service provider responded, and GPS data identifying the geographic location of the service provider at each time interval within the duration of the event. A user interface within which is displayed a first identifier of a first event is generated to a display device. A selection of the event identifier is received from a user. In response to the selection of the identifier, an aerial view of a geographic region within which the first event took place is generated. At least one icon is displayed in the aerial view representing the service provider at the geographic location corresponding to at least one time interval during the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Norcom
    Inventor: Nathan Way
  • Patent number: 11800343
    Abstract: Emergency monitoring application mobility management is provided. A portion of battery power on a mobile device is reserved for an emergency monitoring application between defined boundaries of a certain area based on analysis of a profile identifying battery consumption of each respective application running on the mobile device. A dedicated logical communication channel is established with the mobile device that the emergency monitoring application connects to in a detected emergency situation between the defined boundaries of the certain area. The dedicated logical communication channel is utilized to shut down a number of applications running on the mobile device during the detected emergency situation so that the reserved portion of battery power is retained to run the emergency monitoring application on the mobile device between the defined boundaries of the certain area during the detected emergency situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Craig M. Trim, Timothy Davis, Gandhi Sivakumar, Kushal S. Patel, Sarvesh S. Patel
  • Patent number: 11800573
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for a wireless device are provided. An example method includes establishing a first connection with a second wireless device. The example method further includes establishing a second connection with the network entity via the second wireless device based on a second credential. The example method further includes transmitting a first credential to the second wireless device, the first credential associated with relay of wireless traffic between the first wireless device and a network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin Bernard Horn, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 11800443
    Abstract: A power consumption control method, baseband unit (BBU), radio unit (RU), system, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: A BBU detects load of a to-be-detected cell. If the load of the to-be-detected cell is less than a first threshold, the BBU determines a first allowable power of a carrier corresponding to the to-be-detected cell. The BBU sends the first allowable power to an RU, to indicate to the RU to adjust, based on the first allowable power, a bias voltage of a power amplifier (PA) corresponding to the carrier corresponding to the to-be-detected cell. The first allowable power is less than a maximum allowable power of the carrier corresponding to the to-be-detected cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenghu Ding, Jiang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11799616
    Abstract: A method may include transmitting, by a base station to a wireless device via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) indicating for the wireless device to switch from a second bandwidth part (BWP) to a first BWP as an active BWP. The method may include receiving, in response to the first BWP being activated, a reference signal received power (RSRP) report for the first BWP. The RSRP report may include a reference signal index indicating a reference signal of the first BWP, and a value of an RSRP of the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park, Ali Cagatay Cirik
  • Patent number: 11792890
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system include intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of a user equipment (UE) for performing a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) sidelink communication is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Hyunjeong Kang, Hyunseok Ryu
  • Patent number: 11785440
    Abstract: A feedback based public safety method is provided. The method is implemented by a computing device and comprising receiving, from an external device of an individual, identification data of the individual associated with the external device, accessing from one or more databases, by the computing device of the user, ratings data specific to the individual, the ratings data is based on historical interactions of the individual, comparing the ratings data with one or more of a plurality of threshold values, determining, based on the comparing, whether the ratings data satisfies one or more of the plurality of threshold values, and initiating one or more of a plurality of action sets responsive to the ratings data satisfying the one or more of the plurality of threshold values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GS3 INNOVATION LLC
    Inventor: Georgio Sabino
  • Patent number: 11785128
    Abstract: A caller identification display method includes a terminal device sending a first request to a server of a first application, where the first request is used by the terminal device to subscribe to a first service. After receiving the request sent by the terminal device, the server of the first application sends a first response to the terminal device. The server of the first application sends a first number to the terminal device. The terminal device obtains an association relationship between the first number and the first application. When the terminal device makes a call or receives an incoming call, the terminal device displays a first call interface, where the first call interface includes prompt information, and where the prompt information includes the association relationship between the first number and the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Gao, Zhiyuan Hou, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 11785670
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for an integrated Wi-Fi Access Point and cellular network Radio Unit (RU) include a communication system interfacing with a wired network for communicating Wi-Fi traffic and cellular network traffic, the communication system integrating a Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) with a cellular network Radio Unit (RU). The Wi-Fi traffic and cellular network traffic can be processed in the communication system. The communication system can interface with at least one programmable Radio Frequency (RF) front end configured for wireless communication over one or more frequency bands for Wi-Fi traffic and one or more frequency bands for cellular network traffic (e.g., 5G, LTE, Wi-Fi).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred J. Anderson, Anand Oswal, Rajesh S. Pazhyannur, Arun G. Khanna, Paul Jeffrey Stager, David Stuart Kloper, Brian Hart, Qing Zhao, Jie Cheng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11769408
    Abstract: A method of tracking at least one emergency service provider is disclosed. An electronic history is compiled that includes at least one identifier of a service provider, at least one identifier of an event to which the service provider responded, and GPS data identifying the geographic location of the service provider at each time interval within the duration of the event. A user interface within which is displayed a first identifier of a first event is generated to a display device. A selection of the event identifier is received from a user. In response to the selection of the identifier, an aerial view of a geographic region within which the first event took place is generated. At least one icon is displayed in the aerial view representing the service provider at the geographic location corresponding to at least one time interval during the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NORCOM
    Inventors: Nathan Way, Ron Tiedeman
  • Patent number: 11764898
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication by a device includes detecting whether the device is in an outdoor environment in response to a start of a reevaluation timer. The method also determines a mobility level of the device in response to the start of the reevaluation timer. The method further includes enabling a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) pedestrian mode in response to the device being in the outdoor environment and/or the mobility level exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jayesh Bathija, Ralph Akram Gholmieh, Sandeep Saxena, Taoufik Tani, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam
  • Patent number: 11765707
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods for conducting multilink communications between a user equipment (UE) device and a remote device over a wireless local area network (WLAN). The UE device periodically transmits communications to the remote device over a first frequency band on the WLAN using a first radio. The UE device may determine to switch from transmitting communications to the remote device over the first frequency band to transmitting said communications over a second frequency band. The UE device then transmits communications to the remote device over the second frequency band on the WLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrie Kurian, Guoqing Li, Sudheer Konda, Tashbeeb Haque