Patents Examined by Frank E Donado
  • Patent number: 12177732
    Abstract: A network handover method and a terminal device, the method including obtaining, by a terminal device, a link quality parameter of a data link of the terminal device, determining that a 5G system accessed by the terminal device is unavailable in response to the link quality parameter meeting a specified condition, and handing over from the 5G system to a non-5G system in response to the 5G system being unavailable, where the link quality parameter includes quantities of uplink and downlink data packets received in a duration, and here the specified condition comprises the quantity of downlink data packets received in the duration by exceeding a first threshold and a quantity of sent uplink data packets being 0, or a quantity of uplink data packets sent in the duration exceeding a second threshold and the quantity of received downlink data packets being 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lixin Lin, Yuwei Fan, Fengguang Qiu
  • Patent number: 12177385
    Abstract: A communication directed to a recipient is stored in a message box of the recipient. A forwardee is identified based on an analysis of the communication. A request is received to transmit the communication to the forwardee. The communication is forwarded to a message box of the forwardee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Nick Swerdlow
  • Patent number: 12176986
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for receiving an indication from a base station, at a user equipment having at least one antenna panel, to provide beam reporting information according to one of a plurality of beam reporting formats and providing beam reporting information to the base station according to the indicated beam reporting format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventors: Juha Pekka Karjalainen, Jari Yrjänä Hulkkonen
  • Patent number: 12170936
    Abstract: Techniques are discussed herein for efficiently supporting broadcast of location assistance data (AD) in a wireless network to assist in locating a user equipment (UE). A location server (LS) may send some location AD, which may be optionally ciphered, to base stations for broadcast in cells supported by the base stations. Capability information provided by a UE to the LS indicating a level of support by the UE for receiving broadcast AD and supporting ciphering may enable the LS to determine whether, and what type of, additional AD needs to be sent to the UE by point to point means. An LS may use capability information received from a large number of UEs to assist in determining the types of location assistance data to be broadcast and usage of ciphering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen William Edge, Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 12166716
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring PRS resources are provided. The method includes that UE receives configuration information for a PRS resource set from a network device. The configuration information includes a respective PRS muting configuration for each PRS resource in the PRS resource set, and different PRS muting configurations are configured for different PRS resources in the PRS resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Li Guo
  • Patent number: 12167503
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards facilitating intelligent mobility including session and handover management within communications networks. Handovers for user devices in a network are predicted, current and predicted status data of the network are obtained, and a tradeoff between a cost for pre-allocation of resources prior to predicted handovers and a gain in quality of service is analyzed based on the current and predicted status data to cause resource pre-allocation in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Paul-Andre Raymond
  • Patent number: 12149925
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a communication method and device. The method comprises: sending discontinuous reception (DRX)-related information of a second network device to a first network device; receiving a time interval configured by the first network device, wherein the time interval is obtained by the first network device according to the DRX-related information of the second network device; and carrying out an operation for the second network device according to the time interval, wherein the first network device serves a first type network of a first operator, and the second network device serves a first type network of a second operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dajie Jiang, Fei Qin, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12127006
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for allocating resources to users in a wireless network including a plurality of edge nodes that provide wireless network access and multi-access edge computing functions. Slice requests are received from the users for a type of resource, including one or more of networking resources, storage resources, and computation resources. A set of slice requests to be admitted is determined based on resource availability constraints among one or more of the networking resources, the storage resources, and the computation resources at each edge node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Salvatore D'Oro, Tommaso Melodia, Francesco Restuccia, Leonardo Bonati
  • Patent number: 12120565
    Abstract: Abase station apparatus acquires, for a cell formed by the base station apparatus, a list of area identifiers belonging to a tracking area the same as that of the cell and information of an area identifier of a neighbor cell adjacent to the cell, determines whether or not the area identifier of the neighbor cell is included in the list, and notifies a terminal apparatus of information in which information of the neighbor cell and a result of the determining are associated together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Takeda, Yanwei Li
  • Patent number: 12120591
    Abstract: An emergency system for sending outbound messages to emergency callers receives data signals related to emergency calls that have been answered at a public safety answering point (PSAP) and data signals related to emergency calls that have not been answered. A user of the emergency system can select a geographic area, e.g., an area with a high volume of unanswered calls, and configure a message to be sent to the phone numbers associated with unanswered emergency calls within the geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: RapidDeploy, Inc.
    Inventors: Reinhard Ekl, Steven Raucher
  • Patent number: 12114220
    Abstract: A wireless user device selects wireless networks. The wireless user device determines signal strength for the wireless networks and identifies candidate ones of the wireless networks based on their signal strength. The wireless user device obtains performance information for the candidate wireless networks that comprises data throughput, error rate, band fading, and/or intermodulation. The wireless user device selects one of the candidate wireless networks based on the performance information. The wireless user device wirelessly exchanges data with the selected one of the candidate wireless networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 12112183
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for contention window size adjustment are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Haipeng Lei, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 12101696
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling updating of information stored on a device, the information including information of a first type and information of a second type. The techniques include determining, using at least one processor, when a first item of information of the first type and a second item of information of the second type are to be updated, wherein the second item of information is to be updated more frequently than the first item of information; and causing the device to update the first and second items of information in accordance with the determination at least in part by wirelessly communicating with at least one other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Takashi Usui, Naoki Ide
  • Patent number: 12072348
    Abstract: A wearable device for detecting a user state is disclosed. The wearable device includes an accelerometer for measuring an acceleration of a user, a magnetometer for measuring a magnetic field associated with the user's change of orientation, a microphone for receiving audio, a memory for storing the audio, and at least one processor communicatively connected to the accelerometer, the magnetometer, the microphone, and the memory. The processor is identified to declare a measured acceleration as a suspected user state, and to categorize the suspected user state based on the stored audio as one of an activity of daily life (ADL), a confirmed user state, or an inconclusive event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Nice North America LLC
    Inventors: Ram David Adva Fish, Henry Messenger, Leonid Baryudin, Soroush Salehian Dardashti, Evgenia Goldshtein
  • Patent number: 12075303
    Abstract: A wireless communication network delivers a wireless data service from a source access node and a target access node. The network determines a source QoS for the wireless data service from the source access node and a target QoS for the wireless data service from the target access node. The network determines a QoS offset based on a QoS difference between the source QoS and the target QoS. To handover a User Equipment (UE), the network receives source signal strength for the source access node and target signal strength for the target access node from the UE. In response, the network selects the target access node for the handover based on the QoS offset and a signal strength difference between the source signal strength and the target signal strength. The network signals the UE and the target access node to handover the UE to the target access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Sanghoon Sung
  • Patent number: 12067636
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing location fencing within a controlled environment are disclosed herein. A location fencing server determines a location of a first inmate based on a first beacon device, and determines a location of a second inmate based on a second beacon device. Further, the location fencing server determines a proximity status based on the location of the first inmate and the location of the second inmate. Additionally, the location fencing server determines that the first inmate and the second inmate are in violation of a proximity policy based on the proximity status. In some embodiments, the location fencing server sends a notification to an employee device based on the violation of a proximity policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
  • Patent number: 12058576
    Abstract: A method is applicable to a terminal supporting a plurality of subscriber identification module (SIM) cards. The method includes that the terminal performs a cell reselection through a first SIM card among a plurality of SIM cards to obtain a cell reselection result. Additionally, the terminal sends the cell reselection result from the first SIM card to a second SIM card among the plurality of SIM cards. Furthermore, the terminal takes a cell indicated by the cell reselection result as a new cell in which the second SIM card is to reside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 12052648
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains location data indicative of a location of a mobile system relative to a base station of a wireless network. The device predicts, based on the location data, a drop in received signal strength indicator as the mobile system approaches the base station. The device determines, based on the drop in received signal strength indicator or throughput that will occur as the mobile system approaches the base station. The device prevents the mobile system from communicating with the base station during the ban.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gaetano Catalli, Alessandro Erta, Luca Bisti
  • Patent number: 12035212
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including a network device, a wireless base station, and a server device includes: a plurality of surfaces that is a plurality of logical network sections; and a control device connected to the network device. The network device has: a plurality of first NW-IFs connected to the server device; and a second NW-IF connected to at least one of a network and wireless base station and connected to any one of the plurality of first NW-IFs. The server device has: a plurality of applications; a plurality of network settings; and a plurality of SV-IFs connected to the plurality of first NW-IFs. Each of the plurality of surfaces includes an application, network setting, SV-IF, and first NW-IF. The control device selects a surface conforming to conditions, and causes the network device to execute surface switching for connecting the second NW-IF to the first NW-IF in the selected surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shibata, Nodoka Mimura
  • Patent number: 11991569
    Abstract: A system, method and non-transitory computer readable media for facilitating adaptive anchor layer mobility in a 5G NSA implementation. In one arrangement, a handover modulation criterion involving relevant trigger parametrics of an anchor cell node serving a UE and a target cell node may be compared against a tunable threshold parameter indicative of the effect of the target cell on the anchor cell quality. If the handover modulation criterion does not exceed the tunable threshold value, a quality degradation prediction with respect to the UE may be executed to estimate a likelihood of service failure for the UE. Responsive to determining that the likelihood of service failure does not exceed a probability threshold, handover of the UE to the target cell may be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Debasish Sarkar, Surajit Mondal, Shikha Singh, Ayan Sen, Aruna Mani