Patents Examined by Farid Seyedvosoghi
  • Patent number: 11122423
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for authenticating a user through a voice assistant device and creating an association between the device and a user account. The request is associated with a network or federated service. A user account can be implicitly authenticated based on proximity of a client device to the voice assistant device. An association between the user account and the voice assistant device can then be created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Erich Peter Stuntebeck, Kar Fai Tse, Ravish Chawla, Chaoting Xuan
  • Patent number: 11115796
    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: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NORCOM
    Inventor: Nathan Way
  • Patent number: 11109348
    Abstract: A method of transmitting paging information to a terminal in a telecommunications system via a wireless interface, wherein the terminal is operable to decode received messages transmitted at a first repetition level or at a second repetition level. A message transmitted at the first repetition level is repeated a number N1 of times and a message transmitted at the second repetition level is repeated a number N2 of times, with N1<N2. The method includes: transmitting a first paging allocation message to the terminal in a downlink search resources space and at the first repetition level; and transmitting a second paging allocation message to the terminal in a downlink search resources space and at the second repetition level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shin Horng Wong
  • Patent number: 11102640
    Abstract: A network function performs a method to identify an invalid subscription concealed identifier, SUCI. When the network function receives a message containing a SUCI, it determines a size of the SUCI contained in the received message, and also determines an expected size of the SUCI in the received message. The network function then determines whether the size of the SUCI contained in the received message satisfies a criterion associated with the expected size. If the size of the SUCI contained in the received message does not satisfy the criterion associated with the expected size, the network function determines that the SUCI in the received message is invalid, and it rejects the SUCI in the received message if it is determined to be invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Pasi Saarinen
  • Patent number: 11089562
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with first and second antennas and satellite navigation receiver circuitry. The first antenna may receive first satellite navigation signals in a first satellite navigation frequency band such as the L5 band. The second antenna may receive second satellite navigation signals in a second satellite navigation frequency band such as the L1 band. Control circuitry may process the satellite navigation signals received in the first and second satellite navigation frequency bands to identify a geographic location of the electronic device with a high degree of precision and accuracy. The first and second antennas may transmit radio-frequency signals in non-satellite frequency bands such as cellular telephone bands using a multiple-input and multiple-output scheme. The antennas may include antenna resonating elements formed from segments of peripheral conductive housing structures for the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11089469
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating service sharing (e.g., voice services, data services, multimedia services, etc.) in a network environment (100). In one example arrangement, upon receiving an input at a host subscriber device (302), a request is generated (306) to a host subscriber's service provider network (304) for instantiating a virtual subscriber identification module (vSIM) populated with the host subscriber's service profile with respect to a service. A guest user's authentication information is provided (354) for performing guest registration and remote provisioning (354, 502) for the vSIM, the remote provisioning including allocation of a temporary phone number and an IP address, which may be used in a mapping relationship for routing calls or sessions engaged by the guest (352) using a service shared with the host subscriber (302).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Alexander Bachmutsky, Srinivas Kadaba
  • Patent number: 11082846
    Abstract: Methods, devices, non-transitory processor-readable media of various embodiments provide for routing Misbehavior Detection Reports from vehicle-to-everything (V2X) onboard equipment to an associated entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Philip Michael Hawkes, Anand Palanigounder, Michaela Vanderveen, James Alan Misener
  • Patent number: 11081009
    Abstract: Novel techniques are described for usage tracking for shared dockless personal transport vehicles (PTVs) over one or more communications networks. Features encourage desired interactions between consumers and PTVs, such as by encouraging consumers to park the PTVs in a desirable condition and in desirable locations. For example, embodiments obtain location data from at least one sensor (e.g., a camera of a smart phone) indicating a parked location of a PTV of a fleet of shared PTVs. A set of parked location attributes is computed in accordance with the obtained location data, and an arbitration determination is computed indicating whether the set of parked location attributes meets a stored set of acceptance criteria. In accordance with a favorable computed arbitration determination, embodiments can output lock control data for a vehicle lock of the PTV (e.g., to lock the PTV in its parked location).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: Chris Bruhn
  • Patent number: 11076377
    Abstract: A base station transmits, in a repetitive first sequence of transmission frames of a wireless channel, first positioning reference signals. The base station transmits, in a repetitive second sequence of transmission frames of the wireless channel, second positioning reference signals. The first positioning reference signals and the second positioning reference signals each facilitate determining a time of arrival of signals communicated on the wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Basuki Priyanto, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Beale
  • Patent number: 11076450
    Abstract: The invention provides method and associated user equipment for improving versatility of a cellular network in a network system. The network system may have a packet core which may include a security gateway for facilitating an unlicensed network to interwork with the packet core. The method may include: by a user equipment, accessing a multimedia subsystem via the security gateway over the cellular network, instead of the unlicensed network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Kai Chang, Po-Yu Liang, Jen-Chih Chang
  • Patent number: 11076262
    Abstract: A method at a network element within a Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Communications Domain, the method including receiving a tracking request at the network element for a target vehicle, the tracking request including identifying information for the target vehicle; creating a target vehicle list based on the tracking request; distributing the target vehicle list to at least one V2X endpoint; receiving at least one sighting report from the at least one V2X endpoint; and forwarding the at least one sighting report to a second network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michaela Vanderveen, Nicholas James Russell
  • Patent number: 11070943
    Abstract: Systems and methods for allowing separate parties to identify each other through the use of matching computer-coordinated identifiers are discussed. In some cases, the methods include using a processor of a computer system to identify a first computer device configured to provide a first perceptible identifier, using the processor to identify a second computer device that is configured to provide a second perceptible identifier, and using the processor to send the first perceptible identifier to the first computer device and the second perceptible identifier to the second computer device, wherein the first and second perceptible identifiers correspond with each other to provide a two-sided, computer-coordinated verification. In some cases, the described methods include modifying the first and second identifiers as the first and second computer devices come into proximity with each other. Other implementations are discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: J2B2, LLC
    Inventors: Spencer Brown, Joseph Almasy, Jason Baty
  • Patent number: 11069015
    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: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NORCOM
    Inventors: Nathan Way, Ron Tiedeman
  • Patent number: 11070937
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: recording position data for a mobile device over time, the position data being associated to an identifier of the mobile device; outputting to a user an identification code associated to the identifier; receiving input data from a user, the input data including the identification code and user identifying information from a user; responsively to the receiving the input data from a user associating the identification code and the user identifying information; based on the associating processing the position data and user profile data associated to the user identifying information; sending a message to the user based on a result of the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Greenberger, Zachary M. Greenberger
  • Patent number: 11064441
    Abstract: An accessory for a mobile device includes a battery pack comprising a battery, battery pack memory, and battery data stored in the battery pack memory. The battery is an auxiliary power source for the mobile device when the accessory is electrically coupled to the mobile device. The accessory additionally includes accessory memory and accessory data stored in the accessory memory. The accessory data and the battery data may be obtained by the application on the mobile device when the accessory is electrically coupled to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: The Code Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer Braun, John Deal
  • Patent number: 11057527
    Abstract: A system for providing emergency telephone call solutions for wireless devices using a voice over data network, the system having the voice over data network to recognize an emergency call from one of the wireless devices, to determine whether a cellular network is available to receive the emergency call, and to transmit the emergency call to the cellular network, a gateway for converting the emergency call between a first format for the voice over data network and a second format for a public switched telephone network associated with the cellular network, a mobile virtual network operator to communicate information associated with the emergency call to the cellular network and to the voice over data network, and the voice over data network and the cellular network to route the emergency call and the information associated with the emergency call to an emergency authority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TracFone Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Theodore Vagelos
  • Patent number: 11057758
    Abstract: A system for location verification and enforcement receives an authorization request to access content from a content access device. The authorization request includes and/or is associated with location information obtained from a gateway device via a local area network and determined using multiple communication networks. The location information is compared to a record indicating that the content access device and the gateway device were both present at a location. When the location information matches the record, an authorization is transmitted to the content access device. The content access device may be operative to access the content upon receiving the authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Chris A. Cholas, David M. Fellows, Charles A. Hasek, IV, Jeffrey Binder
  • Patent number: 11057864
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a paging method, a device, and a system, and relate to the communications field, so as to reduce signaling exchange performed when an access network device pages UE, save a network resource, and improve data transmission efficiency. The paging method includes: receiving, by user equipment (UE), paging information sent by an access network device, where the paging information is used to instruct the UE to send a paging response by using an uplink data sending resource; and obtaining, by the UE, the uplink data sending resource according to the paging information, and sending paging response information to the access network device by using the uplink data sending resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Tianle Deng, Hongzhuo Zhang, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Li Yang
  • Patent number: 11057512
    Abstract: A system and method for augmenting a graphical user interface by filtering options within a text message displayed within the graphical user interface includes determining that a content of the text message includes a plurality of options, receiving a location information of the sending device, the location information of the sending device being used to determine a venue corresponding to a physical location of the sending device, determining that the venue corresponding to the physical location of the sending device is relevant to the plurality of options, retrieving a contextual information from the venue about the plurality of choices, and augmenting the graphical user interface of the sending device by appending the contextual information to the plurality of options of the text message, such that the graphical user interface of the sending device simultaneously displays both the contextual information and the plurality of options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thembani Togwe, Zachary Greenberger, Jeremy A. Greenberger
  • Patent number: 11057797
    Abstract: A method for processing information and a device for processing information are provided. The method for processing information is applied to a first node. The method includes: receiving, by the first node, an indication message from a network side, wherein the indication message indicates a user equipment under the first node to hand over to a second node; and negotiating, by the first node, with the second node to reserve radio link layer control protocol (RLC) status information and cached data of all bearers of the user equipment, so that the second node provides a continuing data service to the user equipment based on the reserved information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiamin Liu, Fangli Xu