Patents Examined by Fatuma Sherif
  • Patent number: 10063266
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a baseband cross-bar may comprise receiving one or more radio frequency (RF) signals in a wireless communication device via antennas coupled to a plurality of receiver paths in the wireless device. The received RF signals may be converted to baseband frequencies. One or more of the down-converted signals may be coupled to receiver paths utilizing a baseband cross-bar. The baseband cross-bar may comprise a plurality of switches, which may comprise CMOS transistors. In-phase and quadrature signals may be processed in the one or more of the plurality of receiver paths. The one or more RF signals comprise cellular signals and/or global navigation satellite signals. A single-ended received RF signal may be converted to a differential signal in one or more of the plurality of receiver paths. The baseband cross-bar may be controlled utilizing a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Raja Pullela, Sheng Ye, Morten Damgaard
  • Patent number: 10014898
    Abstract: A radio housing (100) is formed of a front plate (102) having screw mount receptacles (222, 223, 224, 228, 229, 230) and first and second side plates (104, 106). The first and second side plates (104, 106) have a plurality of non-symmetrical, three-dimensional (3-D), dovetail sections (108, 110, 112, 114) for aligning and capturing the screw mount receptacles (222, 223, 224, 228, 229, 230) of the front plate (102). The front plate (102) and first and second side plates (104, 106) are formed of an injection molded thermoplastic material. The three pieces (102, 104, 106) are coupled together. The three-piece injection housing formed of injunction molded materials allows the housing (100) to be customized to specific customer requests not currently available with past overmolded materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Crawford, Jody H. Akens, Charles E. Kline, Eduardo J Moralejo, Adrian F. Rubio
  • Patent number: 9998200
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, or apparatuses that provide a fronthaul architecture that facilitates high fidelity and low latency communication between a radio processing unit, such as a baseband unit (BBU), which may be located a central office (CO), and a remote transceiver, which may comprise a remote radio head (RRH) or a remote radio unit (RRU), which may be located at remote cell site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.
    Inventor: Paul A. Kennard
  • Patent number: 9991927
    Abstract: A protective case for a mobile electronic device is disclosed, the protective case comprising a receiving part for fastening the device, and a covering part, which is arranged relative to the receiving part such that it can be folded into a closed position, for covering, in the closed state, the device which, in the fitted state, is fastened at the receiving part, wherein the receiving part and the covering part are connected to one another in a pre-tensioned fashion via at least one elastic member in such a manner that the receiving part automatically moves from an opened position into the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Inventor: Andreas Berres
  • Patent number: 9980223
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing, transmitting and displaying data received from an analyte sensor, such as a glucose sensor, are provided. The data can be displayed on a hand-held display device having a display such as a key fob device including a user interface, such as an LCD and one or more buttons allows a user to view data, and a physical connector, such as USB port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth San Vicente, Hari Hampapuram, Eli Reihman, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Jacob S. Leach
  • Patent number: 9974018
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing, transmitting and displaying data received from an analyte sensor, such as a glucose sensor, are provided. The data can be displayed on a hand-held display device having a display such as a key fob device including a user interface, such as an LCD and one or more buttons 604 allows a user to view data, and a physical connector, such as USB port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth San Vicente, Hari Hampapuram, Eli Reihman, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Jacob S. Leach
  • Patent number: 9967018
    Abstract: A radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: a receiver configured to receive data using an antenna on a first carrier and a second carrier; an operation mode determination circuit configured to determine an active antenna operation mode based on information of the first carrier and information of the second carrier; and an antenna controller configured to control the antenna to operate in the determined active antenna operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Christian Drewes, Pablo Herrero, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 9955407
    Abstract: A wireless system (10) comprises an initiator device (11) and a plurality of responder devices (15-18) which can bind with the initiator device (11). The method comprises, at one of the plurality of responder devices, receiving (101) a discovery request from the initiator device and forming a discovery response and sending the discovery response to the initiator device. The step of forming a discovery response comprises: collecting (102) at least two parameters indicative of the initiator device wanting to bind with the responder device; computing (103) a score using the at least two parameters, the score being indicative of a likelihood of the initiator device wanting to bind with the responder device; and including (104) the score as an element of the discovery response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: GreenPeak Technologies N.V.
    Inventors: Bram Van Den Bosch, Wilhelmus Van Hoogstraeten, Jan Van Eetvelde
  • Patent number: 9941949
    Abstract: A method of managing wirelessly transmitted use-data in a wireless data transmission environment, the method comprising: Receiving the wirelessly transmitted use-data by a first receiver and estimating a reception quality of the use-data received by the first receiver by applying a quality criterion. In case the reception quality meets the quality criterion, the method moreover comprises using a second receiver for background scanning the wireless data transmission environment, and in case the reception quality does not meet the quality criterion, the method moreover comprises using the second receiver additionally for reception of the use-data, thus providing both receivers for a diversity reception of the use-data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Martin Kessel
  • Patent number: 9923592
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies related to an implementation of a system to measure and compensate non-linearity (e.g., echo cancellation) in a transceiver circuitry of a device. Particularly, the echo cancellation utilizes reduced number of components for power savings, and further increases efficiency of signal or data packet transmissions in the device. An echo signal is determined by sampling a power amplifier output signal. The output signal is split into signals with different delays. Down conversion and digital interpolation of the signal with the shortest delay is performed. An echo cancellation signal is calculated based on the output signal as received as an input signal to a receive chain. The calculated signal is subtracted from a received echo signal to generate an echo free signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Yang-Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 9924343
    Abstract: A semantic signature serving as an index to a cataloged core semantic concept, and an IPv6 address associated with an entity labeled by a Bluetooth 4.0 Beacon are added to the Beacon's Generic Access Profile (GAP) advertisement enabling direct semantic discovery of the entity and facilitating data transactions relevant to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventor: Robert Lee Livezey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9894507
    Abstract: A peer device has a proximity sensor that detects proximity to another object. Responsive to that detection, the peer device obtains a set of results that comprises results of different types of measurements. The set of results is sensitive to a location of the peer device and a time at which the measurements are performed by the peer device. The peer device configures itself to be discoverable by other peer devices. Responsive to wirelessly connecting with a target peer device that is also discoverable, the peer device determines an extent to which the obtained set of results matches a corresponding set of results obtained by the target peer device. Responsive determining that the sets of results respectively obtained by the devices match to a required extent, the peer device automatically transmits or receives application-specific data over an unauthenticated, non-persistent communication session between the peer device and the target peer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Saugata Chakraborty, Swapnel Shrivastava, Sudip Mitra
  • Patent number: 9893751
    Abstract: An antenna circuit which includes, a resonant circuit which is configured by at least first and second capacitors, and antenna coils; a transmitter-receiver circuit which has a transmission terminal and a reception terminal; and an adjustment circuit which adjusts an impedance between the resonant circuit and the transmitter-receiver circuit, in which a combination of capacitances of the first and second capacitors is set in a predetermined range of a composite capacitance of the first and second capacitors, and a signal from a terminal which is provided between the first and second capacitors is input to the reception terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Bando
  • Patent number: 9876521
    Abstract: A sliding stand assembly comprises a back cover, a sliding engaging member, a spring, a first stand and a second stand. The sliding engaging member is located at a first surface of the back cover. The sliding engaging member comprises first and second protruding portions. The first stand is slidably pivoted to the back cover. The first stand comprises first to third concave portions. The first concave portion has first and second sub-portions. The second stand is pivoted to the first stand and the back cover. When the first stand slides to a positioning location, the first protruding portion is engaged with the first sub-portion and the second protruding portion is located in the second concave portion. When the first protruding portion moves from the first sub-portion to the second sub-portion, the second protruding portion moves to the third concave portion to be positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Ting Lai, Shih-Wei Hung
  • Patent number: 9853677
    Abstract: A system includes an antenna, and a contactless component for receiving and/or transmitting information via the antenna according to a contactless communications protocol. An inductive-capacitive network is connected between the antenna and the contactless component and includes a configurable filter for filtering electromagnetic interference. A processor modifies an impedance of the configurable filter for filtering electromagnetic interference to control frequency tuning of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
    Inventor: Alexandre Tramoni
  • Patent number: 9832596
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes performing, by a wireless dockee (WD), a plurality of operations to wirelessly dock with a wireless docking center (WDC) such that the WD may access one or more peripheral functions (PFs) associated with the WDC. In this example, the WD includes a docking service, an application service platform (ASP), and one or more peripheral services that each correspond to at least one PF of the one or more PFs associated with the WDC. In this example, the method also includes interfacing, by the docking service and with the ASP, to perform a first subset of the plurality of operations, and interfacing, by the docking service and with the one or more peripheral services, to perform a second subset of the plurality of operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaolong Huang, Rolf De Vegt, Andrew Mackinnon Davidson, Vijayalakshmi Rajasundaram Raveendran
  • Patent number: 9794863
    Abstract: A wireless system (10) comprises an initiator device (11) and a plurality of responder devices (15-18) which can bind with the initiator device (11). The method comprises, at one of the plurality of responder devices, receiving (101) a discovery request from the initiator device and forming a discovery response and sending the discovery response to the initiator device. The step of forming a discovery response comprises: collecting (102) at least two parameters indicative of the initiator device wanting to bind with the responder device; computing (103) a score using the at least two parameters, the score being indicative of a likelihood of the initiator device wanting to bind with the responder device; and including (104) the score as an element of the discovery response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: GreenPeak Technologies N.V.
    Inventors: Bram Van Den Bosch, Wilhelmus Van Hoogstraeten, Jan Van Eetvelde
  • Patent number: 9779896
    Abstract: A signal input module includes: a key body; a key base coupled to a lower portion of the key body, and having fixing portions of different heights at both sides thereof; a flexible printed circuit board disposed such that an upper surface thereof is covered by the key base, and having a dome portion on a rear surface thereof, the dome portion configured to generate a signal when pressed by the key base; and a light emitting portion formed on one surface of the flexible printed circuit board, wherein the fixing portion and the key base are connected to each other by a connection portion, wherein the connection portion is bent from one end of the key base, extends toward the fixing portion, wherein the connection portion is provided with a hole, and wherein the flexible printed circuit board is disposed to cross the hole. Under such configuration, the number of components can be reduced and the signal input module can have a slim configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yuntaek Jung, Youngin Kwon, Hanseok Chae, Minho Park
  • Patent number: 9775046
    Abstract: An apparatus for wireless communications includes a processing system. The processing system is configured to turn off a first wireless interface configured to support communications within a first coverage area. The processing system is further configured to communicate with a second apparatus using a second wireless interface configured to support communications within a second coverage area greater than the first coverage area. The processing system is further configured to turn on the first wireless interface based on the communication with the second apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohammad Hossein Taghavi Nasrabadi, Hemanth Sampath, Santosh P. Abraham
  • Patent number: 9755765
    Abstract: A communication system and a method of fabricating a communication system are described. The communication system includes a transmit antenna including two or more symmetric coils wound around a closed-loop magnetic transmitter core, the transmit antenna configured to transmit an outgoing signal of very low frequency (VLF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy. The communication system also includes a receive antenna including two or more coils formed from two or more wires wound around a closed-loop magnetic receiver core, the receive antenna configured to receive transmitted VLF or ULF energy as an incoming signal. The communication system also includes a processor to process the outgoing signal and the incoming signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Benjamin Dolgin, Steven Cotten, James C. Zellner