Patents Examined by Frank E Donado
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Patent number: 11968591Abstract: In a method of maintenance of a location fingerprint database for an area, signal measurement data is collected together with motion sensor data from each of a plurality of portable devices transiting a portion of the area of the location fingerprint database. The motion sensor data is collected by a sensor assembly in each of the plurality of portable devices. Offline non-causal processing is used to process the collected motion sensor data into reference positions associated with the portion of the area. The collected signal measurement data is employed together with the reference positions to update the location fingerprint database.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Inventors: Jacques Georgy, Chris Goodall, Gennadii Berkovich, Abdelrahman Ali, Zhengrong Cheng, Salah Abdelnaby
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Patent number: 11968587Abstract: Disclosed are a mobility management method, a radio access network, a terminal and a computer storage medium. The method includes: sending, to a terminal, a configuration message, and the terminal reports, according to the configuration message, neighbor cell signal strength or terminal position information; and after a measurement report, which is reported by the terminal and includes the neighbor cell signal strength or the terminal position information, has been received, according to the measurement report and position information of an NG-RAN, determining whether a specified condition allowing the terminal to carry out neighbor cell handover is satisfied, and if so, sending a cell handover message to the terminal, and the terminal is handed over from the current cell to a target cell, and the specified condition is a condition allowing the terminal to carry out neighbor cell handover.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiancheng Sun, Haiyang Quan
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Patent number: 11963080Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically generating intelligent alerts at a network edge based on coverage area characteristics. A central alert orchestrator within the network determines target edge locations and forwards alerts to regional alert systems at the target edge locations. The regional alert systems modify either content of the alert or the alert metadata or both based on characteristics of the alerts and the coverage area.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: Marouane Balmakhtar, Gregory Schumacher
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Patent number: 11956069Abstract: A multiplexer (1) used in a communication device (5) includes an antenna (21) for a first frequency band group including 5GNR and an antenna (22) for a second frequency band group and includes a filter (12) for a first communication band and a filter (13) for a second communication band. The second frequency band group is higher than the first communication band, the second communication band is lower than the first communication band, the filter (12) includes a resonant circuit (31), an inductor (L1) connected to a node (n1) in a series arm path, and an inductor (L2) magnetically coupled with the inductor (L1).Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotsugu Mori
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Patent number: 11943704Abstract: A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a session request from an application function (AF) device for a user equipment (UE) device and select a network slice based on the AF device. The computer device may be further configured to send a slice selection trigger to an Access and Mobility Function device for the UE device in response to selecting the network slice, wherein the slice selection trigger includes an instruction to UE device to request the selected network slice; receive a notification from a User Plane Function device associated with the selected slice, wherein the notification identifies a Packet Data Unit session between the UPF device and the UE device; and instruct the AF device to start a session with the UE device via the identified PDU session.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Ye Huang, Suzann Hua
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Patent number: 11937136Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for performing a UE-based handover in a next generation wireless access network. The method of a UE may include receiving, from a source base station, an upper layer signaling including information on UE-based handover command and information on conditions for handover execution; storing a target cell configuration by using the information on conditions for handover execution; and determining whether to perform a handover procedure to a target cell, by determining whether predetermined conditions for handover are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KT CORPORATIONInventors: Sung-pyo Hong, Woo-jin Choi
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Patent number: 11909843Abstract: A method for prefetching and caching data onto a device is disclosed. An association of a user with a travel to a destination location is determined. Data network availability in at least a portion of a likely future travel path from a current location of the user to the destination location is analyzed. Based on the analysis of the data network availability, a segment of the likely future travel path where data network is likely unreliable is identified. Data likely desired by the user when the user travels in the identified segment is predicted. A device of the user is caused to obtain and cache the predicted data.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventor: Louis Feng
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Patent number: 11902461Abstract: A method for cellular network outage detection including monitoring error rates associated with a network node of a cellular network for a first predetermined time period. The method includes determining a first baseline error rate for the network node based on the plurality of first error rates for the first predetermined time period, and determining a first threshold error rate for the network node based on the first baseline error rate for the network node. The method includes monitoring a plurality of second error rates associated with the network node for a time period subsequent the first predetermined time period, and detecting an excessive error rate of the plurality of second error rates associated with the network node, where the excessive error rate exceeding the first threshold error rate. The method includes, in response to detecting the excessive error rate, automatically executing a predetermined override rule.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventor: Shon Lonkar
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Patent number: 11894906Abstract: An apparatus including: at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: associate communication beams into at least two different groups, where at least one of the groups has at least two of the communication beams; based upon beam-group specific key performance indicators, where the beam-group specific key performance indicators have been based upon the association of the communication beams into the at least two different groups, use the beam-group specific key performance indicators to determine at least one beam-group specific mobility parameter for at least one of the groups of communication beams; and transmit the at least one beam-group specific mobility parameters to a base station.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Sina Khatibi, Ingo Viering, Umur Karabulut, Andreas Lobinger
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Patent number: 11889404Abstract: An architecture to avoid handover ping-pong for aerial user equipment (UE) operational in terrestrial fourth generation (4G) and/or fifth generation (5G) long term evolution (LTE) networks. A method can comprise receiving a request to connect to the network equipment from aerial user equipment; based on the request to connect, retrieving subscription data; based on the subscription data, determining that the aerial user equipment is aerial equipment; determining that the aerial user equipment is engaged in a ping-pong handover event with terrestrial based network equipment situated within a defined geographic area; and transmitting instructions to the aerial user equipment to confirm the ping-pong handover event, wherein the instruction comprises a delay value representing a back off time value for the aerial user equipment to refrain from gathering measurement data within the defined geographic area.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: AAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Beppler, Slawomir Stawiarski
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Patent number: 11886695Abstract: A notification processing method includes displaying a lock screen on a touchscreen, receiving a new notification, determining whether the notification is a specified notification, where the specified notification is a notification bound to a second area on the lock screen, and if the notification is a specified notification, displaying the notification in the second area on the lock screen or if the notification is not a specified notification, displaying the notification in a first area on the lock screen, where the first area and the second area are two different display areas on the lock screen.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jie Xu, Chunliang Liu, Bongwon Lee
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Patent number: 11882495Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish a first call associated with a first subscriber of the UE. The UE may establish a second call associated with a second subscriber of the UE, wherein the first subscriber and the second subscriber are active contemporaneously, and wherein the first call and the second call are associated with a first radio access technology (RAT). The UE may identify a mobility event that associated with an interruption to at least one of the first call and the second call, the mobility event involving switching the first subscriber to a second RAT. The UE may perform a mitigation action. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mona Agrawal, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Rishav Rej, Qingxin Chen, Reza Shahidi, Kuo-Chun Lee
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Patent number: 11871243Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, are provided for enabling coexistence between Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Fifth Generation (5G) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) Radio Access Technologies (RATs). Disclosed embodiments enable 5G and LTE to simultaneously operate on the same licensed or unlicensed band such as for spectrum sharing between 5G and LTE RATs. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Avik Sengupta, Alexei Davydov, Bishwarup Mondal, Yongjun Kwak
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Patent number: 11871294Abstract: A cellular communication network may be configured to use a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) base station and a New Radio (NR) base station to implement a Non-Standalone Architecture (NSA) configuration, in an environment in which the NR base station uses multiple frequency bands that provide respective bandwidths. During an NSA connection with a mobile device, LTE signal strength is used as an indicator of whether the device is within the coverage area of a given NR frequency band. When the LTE signal strength indicates that the device has moved into the coverage area of a frequency band having a higher bandwidth than the currently active NR connection, the device is instructed to release and reestablish its NR connection in order to reconnect using the best available NR frequency band. LTE A1 and/or A5 event measurements may be used to evaluate signal strengths and as triggers for NR release/reestablish operations.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Kun Lu, Egil Gronstad, Alan Denis MacDonald, Benjamin Sellers
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Patent number: 11855725Abstract: A solution presented herein enables a network node (500, 600) to send, and corresponding wireless device (300, 400) to receive, a physical downlink channel on either a first set of resource elements scheduled for that wireless device (300, 400), or on a set of 5 resource elements that includes all of the first set except for a subset that was also scheduled for interference measurement resources. In so doing, the solution presented herein avoids the issues caused by the overlapping signals, and thus improve scheduling flexibility, reduce complexity, and reduce overhead.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Shiwei Gao, Siva Muruganathan
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Patent number: 11849357Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile communication system sub-network comprising a macrocell base station, and a plurality of small cell base stations, the plurality of small cell base stations being in wireless communication with the macrocell base station, wherein each small cell base station is either in direct connection with the macrocell base station or is in connection with the macrocell base station via one or more other small cell base stations, wherein the macrocell base station is arranged to configure a UE device having a RRC connection to the macrocell base station with candidate small cell base station information for enabling the UE device to switch autonomously between small cell base stations, and wherein the macrocell base station is arranged to configure the small cell base stations with small cell base station configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: IPCom GmbH & CoKGInventors: Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans
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Patent number: 11843978Abstract: The present technology is generally directed to optimizing a non-3GPP untrusted Wi-Fi to 5G system handover followed by Evolved Packet System (EPS) fallback, more specifically, to delaying removal of the Wi-Fi session resources and creating a voice flow as part of the EPS fallback.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Raghunadha Reddy Pocha, Mantha Ravi Shankar, Jis Abraham, Sandeep Dasgupta, Mukesh Yadav
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Patent number: 11844134Abstract: A cell site maintenance system. The system comprises a plurality of data stores, a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a part replacement prediction application stored in memory. When executed by the processor the application extracts features based on data read from the data stores, executes a plurality of part machine learning models, where each part machine learning model analyses some of the extracted features by a multi-label classification model trained for a specific part associated with that part machine learning model and each part machine learning model outputs a probability that the associated part can fix the cell site associated with the trouble ticket, and, based on a probability output by a part machine learning model associated with a first part exceeding a predefined threshold, determining that the first part is to be pulled from a part inventory to make ready for a service truck.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventors: Diksha Agarwal, Hui-Lin Chang, Lance P. Lukens, Daqi Li, Leland John Garris, Wayne Alexander Thompson
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Patent number: 11838821Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for EPS fallback status report by the modem to the upper layers. In one embodiment, the mobile terminal (MT) initiates a 5G voice call, detects an EPSFB triggered by the wireless network, identifies one or more EPSFB status and sends one or more EPSFB status indicators to at least one upper layer based on the identified one or more EPSFB status. In one embodiment, the EPS fall back is a redirection procedure. In another embodiment, the EPS fallback is a handover procedure. In yet another embodiment, the one or more EPSFB status indictors comprising a redirection to EPS started indicator, a handover to EPS started indicator, a redirection to EPS failed indicator, a handover to EPS failed indicator, a redirection to EPS success indicator, and a handover to EPS success indicator. In one embodiment, the MT sends EPSFB status indicators using AT command.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventors: Yucheng Huang, Chun Hsu, Cheng-Yu Chen, Marko Niemi
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Patent number: 11832137Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive handover information associated with one or more neighbor cells. The UE may identify that a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle associated with a first subscriber identity module (SIM) of the UE at least partially overlaps with a second DRX cycle associated with a second SIM of the UE. The UE may identify that at least one of the first DRX cycle or the second DRX cycle does not overlap with a third DRX cycle associated with a neighbor cell of the one or more neighbor cells. The UE may transmit, to the neighbor cell, a message associated with a handover of at least one of the first SIM or the second SIM to the neighbor cell. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Uttam Vyas, Sumanth Kumar Kota, Rishika Tindola