Patents Examined by Fred Casca
  • Patent number: 11451291
    Abstract: A system may include an ad hoc satellite network including multiple satellites, a first terminal, and a second terminal. Each of the first satellite and a second satellite of the multiple satellites may include: a receive high frequency (HF) antenna configured to receive HF signals; a transmit HF antenna configured to transmit HF signals; an inter-satellite transmitter configured to transmit signals to another satellite of the ad hoc satellite network; an inter-satellite receiver configured to receive signals from another satellite of the ad hoc satellite network; and a processor. The first terminal may include an HF transmit antenna configured transmit an HF communication payload to the ad hoc satellite network. The second terminal may include an HF receive antenna configured receive the HF communication payload from the ad hoc satellite network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: John V. Thommana, Joseph Splean, II
  • Patent number: 11444663
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for orthogonal stream spatial multiplexing. In one embodiment, a method includes splitting and modulating a data stream into n MIMO RF spatial streams and coupling them to corresponding switchable polarization antenna elements controlled via orthogonal binary codes for transmission. Each transmitted stream manifests as time-varying-polarization-orthogonal to the other n?1 spatial streams. The method includes reception of the streams at their destination using corresponding antenna elements controlled by the same set of orthogonal codes. Thus, each of the n transmitted spatial streams is polarization-match-filtered, unambiguously separated and individually recovered from all the others upon reception for subsequent demodulation and MIMO spatial recombination into the original data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventor: Carlos A. Rios
  • Patent number: 11431402
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining beam search space by a user equipment (UE), including determining a geo-location of a base station and a geo-location of the UE at a current time instance, determining a relative angle of reception from the base station based on the geo-location of the base station and the geo-location of the UE at the current time instance, determining a beam search space comprising a plurality of beams, for measurement, centered at the relative angle of reception, and determining an optimal beam from within the beam search space based on the measurement of the plurality of beams in the beam search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventors: Anirudh Reddy Godala, Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva
  • Patent number: 11431854
    Abstract: Incoming calls are received from audio capable devices. A call processing server receives an incoming call from an audio-capable device to a destination number, and detects availability for an ancillary source device linked to the audio-capable device. A set of data is provided to the ancillary source device. The set of data specifies graphical menu options for functions supported by the call processing server. The ancillary source device provides an indication of a selection of one of the graphical menu options. In response to the indication, a call transfer for the incoming call is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Slade
  • Patent number: 11412361
    Abstract: A system, device and medium for providing internet to user devices are described. The system is designed to provide high speed internet using cellular networks. The system comprises exterior unit which is placed in open environment and router unit which is placed in proximity to the user devices. The exterior unit comprises the detachable cellular modem and antenna and modem housing arrangement. The detachable cellular modem includes SIM slot unit to accommodate SIMS, and connectors. The antenna and modem housing arrangement includes antenna arrangement to accommodate the antennas at slant polarization, and a modem holding housing to accommodate the detachable cellular modem. One may appreciate that the system is designed using detachable cellular modem, placed at outdoors along with antennas, to provision less complex and adaptable system for lossless transmission of signals to modem and efficient internet access to multiple user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: INSTY CONNECT, LLC
    Inventor: Nicolas M. Jolin
  • Patent number: 11405098
    Abstract: A Data Delivery Service (DDS) is described, which is a service in a multi-tenant environment that transmits satellite data between a satellite antenna and a user instance. The DDS transports the antenna data to a different region, which allows a user to reuse their infrastructure for multiple antenna sites, thereby, reducing their infrastructure footprint and costs. Gateway instances can be launched at scheduled times in different regions and a secure communication channel can be established between the gateway instances to establish inter-region communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Burns, Kevin Cheek, Michelle Lynn Dobbs, Matthew Sterling Leese
  • Patent number: 11394433
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing a quantity of data sent carrier aggregation (CA) related capability reporting by a UE operating in a cell using full dimension multiple-input multiple-output (FD-MIMO) techniques. In an exemplary method, a base station obtains a relative weight of baseband processing for a component carrier (CC) configured for full-dimension multiple-input multiple-output (FD-MIMO) communications for a user equipment (UE); determines, based on the relative weight, to enable FD-MIMO downlink (DL) transmissions to the UE via the CC; and transmits an FD-MIMO transmission via the CC to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Paul Pals, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Amir Farajidana, Honey Kakkar, Parastoo Kheirkhah, Nitin Pant, Umesh Phuyal, Wenshu Zhang, Manish Jain
  • Patent number: 11391812
    Abstract: A method and a device of positioning based on wireless signal indexes are provided by the present disclosure. The method takes the wireless signals sent by the target to be located and received by all the receivers as inputs in sequence, and considers influence of the wireless signal indexes received by the current receiver for a current time and for a previous time as well as the wireless signal indexes received by all the receivers in the predetermined historical duration during positioning calculation, so as to calculate a position offset value of the target to be located and finally obtain the current coordinate position of the target to be located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fei Zhou, Bin Lin, Jianming Xia
  • Patent number: 11385316
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for locating a wireless access device relative to a vehicle. The method can include receiving, from a wireless access device, a beacon message at each of two or more antennas positioned within a vehicle and determining, based at least in part on the beacon message received at each of the two or more antennas, a position of the wireless access device relative to the vehicle. One or more systems of the vehicle can be configured based at least in part on the determined position of the wireless access device relative to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventors: Maurizio Bocca, Benoit le Bourgeois
  • Patent number: 11387894
    Abstract: A satellite receiver includes: N reception antenna elements; N demultiplexing units; a correlation detection unit configured to perform correlation processing on each of reception signals demultiplexed by the N demultiplexing units with a reception antenna element that receives the highest power being set as a reference element so as to calculate a relative phase difference, and calculate an excitation coefficient for cancelling a phase difference between the N reception antenna elements for each of sub-channels based on the calculated relative phase difference; N phase compensation units configured to multiply the reception signals demultiplexed by the N demultiplexing units, respectively, by the excitation coefficient for each of the sub-channels; and a combiner configured to combine multiplication results from the N phase compensation units for each of the sub-channels to generate output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitomi Ono, Akinori Fujimura, Terumi Sunaga, Toshiyasu Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 11382059
    Abstract: A method for sending a positioning signal includes determining, by a first device, a first target access network useable to transmit the positioning signal. The first target access network includes at least a first access network or a second access network. The method further includes sending, by the first device, the positioning signal to a second device by the first target access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiantao Xue, Jing Han
  • Patent number: 11381956
    Abstract: A UE policy obtaining method includes receiving, by a first PCF network element in a VPLMN, a first URSP of an HPLMN that includes a first rule from a second PCF network element in the HPLMN, and sending, to a UE, a second URSP of the VPLMN that includes a second rule and a third rule. The first rule is used to indicate an association between first S-NSSAI, a first application, and a first DNN, the first DNN being used to identify a first DN, and the first DN allowing LBO and supporting the first application and a second application. The second rule is used to indicate an association between second S-NSSAI, the first application, and the first DNN. The third rule is used to indicate an association between the second S-NSSAI, the second application, and the first DNN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fangyuan Zhu, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 11368211
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for the granular network-based detection of UE location in a RAN that includes one or more mobile base stations using quantum computing. Mobile base stations may be, for example, affixed on vehicles (e.g., cars, trucks, drones, etc.), may be implemented by other UEs, and/or may otherwise be non-stationary. In contrast, fixed base stations may be mounted to towers, buildings, or other types of permanent or semi-permanent installations. Quantum computing techniques, as described herein, may aid in the precise determination of UE location using triangulation techniques and/or other network-based location techniques. Further, in RANs that include mobile base stations, the locations of both the UE and a reference point may change relatively rapidly. The use of quantum computing, as described herein, may aid in the fast and precise determination of UE location in situations where mobile base stations and/or UEs are moving rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Vamsi Krishna Boyapati, Kishore K. Guntuku
  • Patent number: 11356862
    Abstract: A measuring method executes an identifying procedure of measuring signal power of a beam from user equipment supporting beam-formed transmission, identifying a measurement antenna that detects a peak of the beam transmitted from the user equipment; a calculating procedure of calculating a first angle formed between a straight line connecting the measurement antenna detecting the peak of the beam transmitted from the user equipment to the user equipment and a straight line connecting a measurement antenna located in a direction of an azimuth angle rotation axis of the user equipment to the user equipment; and a rotating procedure of rotating the user equipment based on the first angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Furuta, Seiji Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11349583
    Abstract: A measuring robot (1) measures radio waves using a radio wave measuring unit (11) at a measurement point. A self-propelled route control unit (14) controls, in a case that reliability of communication using the radio wave at the measurement point is determined to be low based on one or more of a measurement result by the radio wave measuring unit (11) and information on an obstacle detected by a terrain/obstacle/position detection sensor unit (12), a radio wave measuring unit (11) to measure the radio wave more precisely compared to the measurement of the electromagnetic wave in a case that the reliability of the communication using the radio wave is determined to be high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Miyatake, Kohei Suzaki, Yusuke Asai, Hiroyuki Shiba
  • Patent number: 11336318
    Abstract: A transceiver device port configuration and monitoring system includes a networking device having a networking device wireless communication system, a port, and a wireless identification system associated with the port. A transceiver device is connected to the port and includes a wireless reader system that retrieves a port identifier for the port from the wireless identification system, and a transceiver device wireless communication system that the transceiver device uses to wirelessly advertise the connection of the transceiver device to the port. In response to receiving the wireless advertisement of the connection of the transceiver device to the port, the networking device uses the networking device wireless communication system to establish a wireless session with the transceiver device, retrieves configuration information from the transceiver device via the wireless session, uses the configuration information to configure the port for operation with the transceiver device, and monitors the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Padmanabhan Narayanan, Mohamed Hanif Kader Shiek Usman, Sridhar Mahadevan
  • Patent number: 11329737
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the use of artificial intelligence/machine learning (“AI/ML”) techniques to generate models for various locations or regions (e.g., sectors) associated with one or more radio access networks (“RANs”) of a wireless network. The system may further use AI/ML techniques to generate interference models to reflect types and/or amounts of channel propagation metrics measured within the RAN. The system may further determine, based on attributes of a given sector, a sector model and/or a channel propagation model associated with the sector. Based on the sector model and/or the determined channel propagation model, one or more actions may be determined in order to enhance channel propagation metrics within the sector, such as at portions of the sector at which increased demand for wireless service is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Farid Khafizov, Mark Ernest Newbury, Venkata Sambasivarao Dhulipalla
  • Patent number: 11323840
    Abstract: In some implementations, methods for selecting a set of beacons that are to be monitored by a mobile device may be employed. Specifically, an optimal set of beacons to monitor may be provided to a mobile device depending on particular groups of beacons that are in proximity to the mobile device, the distance from the mobile device to each of the particular groups of beacons, and the mobile device's position/movements as provided by a tracking service such as GPS. These techniques may ensure that the mobile device is not blind to the closest and/or most relevant beacons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Perfect Sense, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Morgan, Peter Dupris, David Gang
  • Patent number: 11323893
    Abstract: It is possible to realize wireless communication using a directional beam in a more suitable manner. A wireless communication device includes: one or more antenna elements that are configured to control directions of directional beams and perform wireless communication using the directional beams; a detection unit that detects an attitude of at least any one of the one or more antenna elements; and a control unit that sets a state in which a radio signal transmitted using at least a directional beam from a base station is receivable via any one of the one or more antenna elements as a reference state, and controls the wireless communication with the base station using the directional beam according to a change in the attitude from the reference state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11317239
    Abstract: Systems and methods for passive dynamic geofencing on a mobile device are discussed. For example, a method for passive dynamic geofencing can include operations such as monitoring a first parent geofence and a first plurality of child geofences; detecting crossing a boundary of the first parent geofence into a second parent geofence; loading the second parent geofence and a second plurality of child geofences encompassed by the second parent geofence; and monitoring the second parent geofence and the second plurality of child geofences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Nate L. Lyman, Frank Russo