Patents Examined by Farid Seyedvosoghi
  • Patent number: 11337264
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, control information sent by a first network device, where the control information is used to indicate information about a second network device, the second network device and the first network device use different radio access technologies, the terminal device camps on a cell of the first network device, and a cell of the second network device does not support camping of the terminal device or does not support initial access of the terminal device; and displaying, by the terminal device, a first sign based on the control information, where the first sign is a sign corresponding to a radio access technology used by the second network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junren Chang, Jiwu Liu
  • Patent number: 11330732
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a method for manufacturing a metal housing can be provided, comprising: a step of forming a metal base made of a metal material; a step of pretreating the surface of the metal base such that the surface has a predetermined gloss and flatness; an anodizing step of forming a predetermined oxide film on the flat surface of the metal base; a step of coloring the oxide film by using a colorant having a desired color; a sealing step for maintaining the performance and characteristics of the colorant on the colored oxide film; and a step of laminating at least one deposition layer on the upper part of the sealed oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hakju Kim, Se Jin Kim, Hosoon Lee, Seon-Jung Kim, Wanju Sin, Kyuin Lee, Jiwoon Lim, Jong Wan Jeong
  • Patent number: 11330095
    Abstract: An emergency kit (10A), including an apparatus (38A) including: a long-range communication device including a unique identity module (30A), for receiving (24) a status of the apparatus (38A) from another long-range communication device (26B); and a visual/vocal/transmitting device (16A), for being turned on once the status is active, thereby the apparatus (38A) indicates a first location of an emergency event setting the active status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: Yossef Biton
  • Patent number: 11323557
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes at least one communication module; a display; and a processor. The processor may receive, from a server through the at least one communication module, first data relating to an activity result previously performed by one or more users in connection with a specified type of activity; receive, from one or more external electronic devices corresponding to the one or more users, through the at least one communication module, second data which is obtained by the one or more external electronic devices and relates to the state of an activity being performed in connection with the specified type of activity; and display, on the display, the first data, the second data, third data relating to the activity result of a user of the electronic device, and fourth data relating to the activity state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Seong-Ho Cho, Byung-Hoon Seo
  • Patent number: 11316653
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is a terminal apparatus for communicating via a primary cell and a secondary cell, the terminal apparatus including: a receiver configured to receive an activation/deactivation MAC CE indicating activation of the secondary cell; and a medium access control layer processing unit configured to: activate a first downlink BWP in multiple downlink BWPs in a case that the activation/deactivation MAC CE is received and the secondary cell is not activated; and not to activate the first downlink BWP in a case that the activation/deactivation MAC CE is received, the secondary cell is activated, and a second downlink BWP of the secondary cell is activated. The first downlink BWP is different from the second downlink BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11317376
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving a system information block SIB1 broadcast by a network device, wherein the SIB1 comprises frequency point information of an uplink carrier; and the terminal device determining, according to the frequency point information of the uplink carrier, an uplink bandwidth part (BWP) associated with a downlink BWP for broadcasting the SIB1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11310357
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request from an occupant in a first transport to initiate a voice communication with an occupant in a second transport, determining the occupant in the second transport is available for the voice communication based on a length of time the occupant will remain in the first transport and a length of time the occupant will remain in the second transport, and responsive to the determining, enabling the voice communication between the occupant in the first transport and the occupant in the second transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri
  • Patent number: 11310763
    Abstract: A method and a device for indicating and receiving paging control information, a storage medium, a base station, and a user equipment are provided, and the method for indicating paging control information includes: determining whether a first type of paging control information and a second type of paging control information are to be carried, wherein the first type of paging control information includes a system information update notification indicator, an ETWS notification indicator, and a CMAS notification indicator, and the second type of paging control information includes a paging message scheduling information indicator; and configuring a first predetermined bit field in DCI in accordance with a determined result, wherein the first predetermined bit field includes 2 bits. Embodiments of the present disclosure may support UEs in different states to simultaneously receive and acquire their required paging control information, which saves resources and improves paging efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING UNISOC COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinghang Gao, Su Huang
  • Patent number: 11304200
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, network device, and apparatus for transmitting a preemption indication and a method, terminal device, and apparatus for receiving a preemption indication. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method of transmitting a preemption indication may comprise transmitting a preemption indication to a terminal device, wherein the preemption indication indicates information on a portion of resources allocated to a first transmission which is preempted by a second transmission, and wherein the preemption indication is associated with information on structure of the current slot. In embodiments of the present disclosure, by means of information on structure of a subframe, the indication monitoring and overhead for the preemption indication can be reduced remarkably, thereby providing a much more efficient preemption indication solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhaobang Miao, Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11277732
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing online access to multiple mobile station international subscriber directory numbers (MSISDNs), or mobile numbers, with compatible internet-connected user equipment (UEs). The system can include a web portal through which users can send and receive voice calls, video calls, text messages, e-mails, and other communications via multiple authorized mobile numbers. The system can include a graphical user interface (GUI) to enable users to select a mobile number to place a call or send a text, for example, with the call or text appearing to be sent from the mobile number. The system can also route incoming calls and texts to both the UE associated with the mobile number and the web portal. Thus, an incoming call, for example, can ring on both the UE and a tablet or laptop computer substantially simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Prakasa Bellam, Gurpreet Singh, Frederick Andrew Lien, Nitin Kumar, Taylor Edwards, Mikhail Fridman
  • Patent number: 11272497
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication apparatus is described. The method includes receiving, a repeated physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a base station, performing blind decoding on a plurality of candidate PDCCHs, performing a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), comparing the at least two pieces of control information with each other, and determining whether to terminate the blind decoding based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sinyong Choi, Jaewon Kim, Wonseok Jeong, Ilmuk Choi
  • Patent number: 11265938
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a computer readable medium are provided. The apparatus is configured to transmit and/or receive control plane signaling related to the control of radio resources of a sidelink communication system to/from a user equipment (UE), wherein the control plane signaling is carried over a user plane, in particular through IP encapsulation, of a second communication system between the apparatus and the UE. Moreover, embodiments of the disclosure relate to a corresponding UE as well as corresponding methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Serkan Ayaz, Daniel Medina, Prajwal Keshavamurthy, Markus Martin Dillinger
  • Patent number: 11265412
    Abstract: A cooperation system is a cooperation system including a mobile terminal and an in-vehicle apparatus that can be coupled according to a plurality of cooperation schemes by using one or more physical couplings, wherein the mobile terminal includes: an app that outputs at least one of an audio signal and an image signal as output data; a cooperation control section that determines the cooperation scheme to be used for transmission of the output data, based on the cooperation scheme that is operatively functioning; and a library that transmits the output data to the in-vehicle apparatus by using the cooperation scheme determined by the cooperation control section, and the in-vehicle apparatus includes: a protocol control section that receives the output data from the library by using the cooperation scheme; and an output section that reproduces the output data received by the protocol control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Maiko Yoshiura
  • Patent number: 11265864
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a single downlink control information (DCI). The user equipment may identify, based at least in part on the single DCI, a set of downlink resources allocated to the UE for a downlink communication and a set of uplink resources allocated to the UE for an uplink communication. In some aspects, a base station may allocate a set of downlink resources to a UE for a downlink communication and a set of uplink resources to the UE for an uplink communication. The base station may transmit a single DCI including information associated with identifying the set of downlink resources and the set of uplink resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Hamed Pezeshki
  • Patent number: 11246118
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for downlink transmission using preconfigured downlink resource in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device transmits, to a network, a message to request downlink resource for downlink transmission, wherein the message includes traffic pattern information for the downlink transmission. A wireless device receives, from the network, a configuration for the downlink resource. A wireless device receives the downlink transmission based on the downlink resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunjung Choe, Youngdae Lee, Sunghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 11246140
    Abstract: The core network accessing method includes: transmitting PLMN indication information about a base station to a UE, the PLMN indication information including information about PLMNs connected to a core network of a first type and information about PLMNs connected to a core network of a second type; receiving information about a target PLMN selected by the UE in accordance with the PLMN indication information and matching the UE, and determining a target core network to be accessed in accordance with the information about the target PLMN; and interacting with the target core network and the UE, so as to enable the UE to access the target core network via the target PLMN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiyang Quan, Jing Liang
  • Patent number: 11234238
    Abstract: Provided are a method for resource configuration, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes that: first information is transmitted to a network device, the first information including capability information for indicating a capability in simultaneous transmission and reception on multiple carriers, the multiple carriers includes a first-type carrier and a second-type carrier, the first-type carrier is for transmitting data on SL and the second-type carrier is for transmitting data on at least one of UL, DL and the SL; and second information from the network device is received, the second information being for indicating a first transmission resource, allocated by the network device, for the first-type carrier and the second-type carrier and a valid time of the first transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11229073
    Abstract: A network connection configuration method and related products are provided. The method includes: a first user equipment sends a first message to a network device when the first user equipment determines that a network connection needs to be established or modified; wherein the first message is used for applying for establishing or modifying the network connection, a connection type of the network connection includes a Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) and/or a Data Radio Bearer (DRB), and the first message is further used for indicating that a device served by the network connection applied for by the first user equipment is at least one user equipment except the first user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11223959
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for using unlicensed assisted access aggregated band to improve direct communication channel bandwidth reliability in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. The techniques include a (wireless communication) device that uses a first licensed band to perform a cellular network communication through a first interface (e.g., Uu), and further uses a shared spectrum to perform the V2X communication through a direct communication channel interface. The device then monitors and compares a bandwidth requirement of the V2X communication with a bandwidth of the shared spectrum. In response to the bandwidth that is less than the bandwidth requirement, the device selects at least one second licensed band to be aggregated with the shared spectrum to generate the unlicensed assisted access aggregated band. In some embodiment, the device adjusts the first licensed based on the selected least one second licensed band to avoid channel interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Gaviphat Lekutai
  • Patent number: 11212657
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides a device control method and a device, so that efficiency of controlling a wireless device to disable or enable a wireless transmit capability of the wireless device or to be powered off can be improved. One solution includes at least: establishing, by a first device, a wireless short-range communication connection to a second device, and sending, by the first device, a first control command to the second device through the wireless short-range communication connection. The first control command is used to instruct the second device to perform a control action, the control action includes disabling a wireless communication capability, enabling a wireless communication capability, powering on, or powering off, and the wireless communication capability includes a wireless transmit capability, or the wireless communication capability includes a wireless transmit capability and a wireless receive capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Xiangyang Wang, Feng Chen, Guangze Zhu, Xiong Shen