Patents Examined by Ganiyu Hanidu
  • Patent number: 10757715
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes selecting a first beam for a first frequency band and selecting a second beam for a second frequency band. The method further includes receiving scheduling information (SI) for scheduling at least one of an uplink (UL) transmission from the UE and a downlink (DL) transmission to the UE. The SI includes frequency information identifying a frequency band. The method further includes selecting a beam from a set of beams including the first and second beams. The selection is based on the identified frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Sven Petersson
  • Patent number: 10734738
    Abstract: A network device comprising, a first radio module configured to transmit and receive first radio signals in a first frequency band, a first antenna array configured to transmit and receive the first radio signals for the first radio module in the first frequency band, a second radio module configured to transmit and receive second radio signals in the first frequency band, a second antenna array configured to transmit and receive the second radio signals for the second radio module in the first frequency band, wherein, in operation, the first radio module and the second radio modules function concurrently using the first frequency band while at least 40 dB of antenna isolation is maintained between the first antenna array and the second antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Extreme Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Liangfu Zhang, George Gang Chen, Changming Liu, Zhenye Cao
  • Patent number: 10727888
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for proximity detection based on an electromagnetic field perturbation. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes an antenna array including at least two feed ports and a wireless transceiver coupled to the antenna array. The wireless transceiver is configured to generate an electromagnetic field via the antenna array. The wireless transceiver is also configured to receive energy from the electromagnetic field via the at least two feed ports. The wireless transceiver is additionally configured to adjust a transmission parameter based on the energy received via the at least two feed ports. The transmission parameter varies based on a range to an object that is present within the electromagnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Udara Fernando, Roberto Rimini, Mustafa Emin Sahin, Seunghwan Kim, Nikhil Anand Muthya
  • Patent number: 10724280
    Abstract: Two circular discs are collapsible towards each other and expandable away from each other by way of rotatable hinge(s) situated there-between which move the circular discs towards and away from each other. The rotatable hinge(s) are connected to the circular discs by way of living hinges. The rotable hinge(s) may be surrounded by a cloth or plastic cover which can be non-resilient or resilient, such a cover further connected in a circular manner to each disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUEST USA CORP.
    Inventor: Ikey Srour
  • Patent number: 10702236
    Abstract: A set of rotary joint components containing stationary part(s) and rotatable part(s) repositionable with respect to each other. The stationary part has a stationary base with means for holding a stationary carrier into a circular-shaped form. The stationary carrier holds at least a stationary transmitter coupler of a contactless data link, such as a strip line. The stationary carrier is made of sheet metal or plastic material, and therefore can easily be prepared on a plane work bench before it is bent to a ring shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SCHLEIFRING GMBH
    Inventors: Horst Knobl, Kathrin Wörl
  • Patent number: 10666311
    Abstract: A multi-amplifier power management circuit and related apparatus are provided. The multi-amplifier power management circuit includes a transceiver circuit and an amplifier circuit, which are physically separated (e.g., in different integrated circuits). The amplifier circuit receives a radio frequency (RF) signal from the transceiver circuit and splits the RF signal into a number of RF transmit signals. The amplifier circuit includes a number of amplifiers configured to amplify the RF transmit signals. In examples discussed herein, the multi-amplifier power management circuit can be provided in an apparatus (e.g., a mobile communication device). The amplifier circuit may be collocated with a number of transmit antennas closer to an edge(s) of the apparatus. By collocating the amplifier circuit and the transmit antennas closer to the edge(s) of the apparatus, it may be possible to reduce RF signal radiation distance, thus helping to improve radiation efficiency and reduce heat dissipation in the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventor: Nadim Khlat
  • Patent number: 10655775
    Abstract: An expandable socket for attachment to a portable media player or a portable media player case. The expandable socket generally includes a platform, a skin coupled to the platform, a button coupled to the skin opposite the platform, and a biasing element. The skin includes an outer wall, an inner wall spaced radially inward of the outer wall, and a cavity defined by the inner wall, wherein the skin is deformable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The biasing element is arranged within the cavity of the skin between the platform and the button, such that the biasing element is at least partially surrounded by the inner wall of the skin. The biasing element is configured to bias the skin into the expanded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: POPSOCKETS LLC
    Inventors: Molly M. Hobbs, David B. Barnett
  • Patent number: 10649233
    Abstract: An unobtrusive augmented reality (AR) system can be used to assist the wearer in every day interactions by projecting information from the contact lens display onto the retina of the wearer's eye. The unobtrusive augmented reality system includes a necklace and a contact lens display that are unobtrusive to the wearer and the wearer's surrounding environment. The necklace of the unobtrusive augmented reality system generates power and data for the contact lens displays. The necklace and contact lens display include conductive coils inductively coupled by a magnetic field. The inductive coupling allows data and power generated by the necklace to be transferred to the contact lens display. A projector in the contact lens display projects images generated from the data onto the retina of the wearers eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory David Miller, Brian Elliot Lemoff, Kuang-mon Ashley Tuan, Herbert John Kniess, Ion Opris, Michael West Wiemer, Drew Daniel Perkins
  • Patent number: 10644757
    Abstract: One example discloses a near-field communications device, including: a receiver configured to be coupled to a first near-field antenna having a first radiation pattern, and to a second antenna having a second radiation pattern; wherein the first radiation pattern and the second radiation pattern are not spatially aligned; wherein the receiver is configured to subtract a second signal received from the second antenna from a first near-field signal received from the first near-field antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Anthony Kerselaers
  • Patent number: 10631152
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes: a sensor device configured to perform communications through short-range wireless communication; and a communication device configured to receive data transmitted from the sensor device, wherein when wireless communication is mutually disconnected, one of the communication device and the sensor device determines a predetermined reconnection condition and notifies an other of the communication device and the sensor device of the reconnection condition, and then the communication device and the sensor device mutually disconnect wireless communication, and when the communication device and the sensor device each satisfy the reconnection condition, the communication device and the sensor device restart mutually the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10616400
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method of a terminal device and a wearable device, a terminal device, and a wearable device thereof. The control method of a terminal device includes receiving first information transmitted from a wearable device, the terminal device being in a first state, and the first information being related to data detected by the wearable device; determining second information, the second information being related to an input detected by the terminal device; and switching the terminal device to a second state if the first information corresponds to the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenchao Ma
  • Patent number: 10601492
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure provide techniques for detecting and recovering from beam-failure events. In some embodiments, motion sensor information generated by motion sensors on a UE is used to detect, predict, and/or recover from a beam failure event that results, or would otherwise result, from movement of the UE. The motion sensor information may be used to adjust a current beam direction used by the UE to transmit or receive a signal, or to determine a recommendation for adjusting a current beam direction of the base station. The motion sensor information may be generated by any sensor that detects a movement of the UE, such as a gyroscope, an accelerometer, a magnetometer, a global positioning system (GPS) sensor, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) sensor, or any other device that detects a change in position/orientation of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pengfei Xia, Bin Liu, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Patent number: 10594268
    Abstract: Monolithic microwave integrated circuits are provided that include a substrate, a transmit/receive selection device that is formed on the substrate, a high power amplifier formed on the substrate and coupled to a first RF port of the transmit/receive selection device, a low noise amplifier formed on the substrate and coupled to a second RF port of the transmit/receive selection device and a protection circuit that is coupled to a first control port of the transmit/receive selection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Smith, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10568049
    Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to perform channel state information (CSI) measurements in a License Assisted Access (LAA) system is disclosed. The UE can process information received from a base station in the LAA system. The information can be received within a downlink (DL) transmission burst from the base station. The information can indicate one of: a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) or channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) transmission power offset value for the DL transmission burst, one or more subframes in the DL transmission burst for which the UE is to perform CSI measurements, or a subframe boundary of the DL transmission burst. The UE can perform a CSI measurement for the DL transmission burst based on the information received from the base station. Subframes of the DL transmission burst can be associated with a substantially similar transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Hong He, Abhijeet Bhorkar, Jeon Jeongho
  • Patent number: 10542401
    Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle capable of changing an audio output mode according to audio streamed from a smart device connected thereto and a control method therefor. A method of changing an audio output mode in a vehicle Audio Video Navigation (AVN) system include setting a steaming channel through wireless connection to a smart device and the AVN system, determining whether navigation announcement voice is detected from streaming data received through the streaming channel, and if the navigation announcement voice is detected, changing the audio output mode from a mode in which the navigation announcement voice is not output through a vehicle speaker to a streaming mode in which the navigation announcement voice is output through the vehicle speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Seong Soo Yae
  • Patent number: 10536835
    Abstract: A system and method of wirelessly communicating data originating at a central facility between a plurality of vehicles using vehicle-to-vehicle short-range wireless communications includes wirelessly receiving, at a seed vehicle, one or more data files that have been encoded into data chunks from a central facility; storing the data chunks included in the received data file(s) at the vehicle; receiving interest messages for the data file(s) at the seed vehicle from each of a plurality of other vehicles via a short-range wireless broadcast, wherein the interest messages include one or more data file names and, for each data file name, the identity of the data chunks requested; identifying data files and data chunks existing in more than one received interest message; and transmitting the data chunks to the plurality of vehicles via the short-range wireless broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Bo Yu, Hariharan Krishnan, Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Robert Bordo
  • Patent number: 10523797
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a bar-type terminal body having a front side and a rear side; a mobile communication module transmitting and receiving a wireless signal; a touch screen disposed at the front side of the bar-type terminal body, the touch screen including a display module for displaying information and a front touch sensor for sensing a front touch input; a battery disposed in the bar-type terminal body; a cover disposed at the rear side of the bar-type terminal body and covering the battery, the cover having a first through hole and a second through hole; a front camera disposed at the front side of the bar-type terminal body; a rear camera disposed in the first through hole of the cover at the rear side of the bar-type terminal body; a rear input unit provided at the rear side of the bar-type terminal body, the rear input unit including a button member disposed at the second through hole of the cover and a rear touch sensor for sensing a rear touch input applied to the button member; one or more pr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaichul Kim, Ilgu Cha
  • Patent number: 10516444
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for aligning devices separated by physical barriers. A first electronic device may be paired with a second electronic device, with the first electronic device and the second electronic device being on opposite sides of a physical barrier. Wireless communication of signals between the first electronic device and the second electronic device may then be configured to nullify or reduce signals in areas other than a region within the barrier between a signal transmission component of the first electronic device and a signal reception component of the second electronic device. Feedback for enabling aligning the first electronic device with the second electronic device may be provided, such as to user of one or both of the first electronic device and the second electronic device. Providing the feedback may include generating visual and/or audio cues to enable the aligning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Curtis Ling, Paul P. Chominski
  • Patent number: 10506503
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include addressable HA devices each having a respective HA device signature associated therewith and each wirelessly communicating using respective different wireless communications protocols from among different wireless communications protocols. The HA system may also include a controller and a memory coupled thereto. The memory may store HA device signatures for paired and unpaired ones of the addressable HA devices. The controller may poll the addressable HA devices, determine an unpaired addressable HA device based upon the polling, and compare the associated HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device with the stored HA device signatures. The controller also, when there is a match between the HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device and one of the stored HA device signatures, may permit pairing of the unpaired addressable HA device to communicate therewith using the respective wireless communications protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: K4CONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Gould, Daniel Mark Floyd
  • Patent number: 10485041
    Abstract: A method for executing an application based on a connection between devices by automatically connecting devices, and a device, are disclosed. The method includes: detecting an occurrence of first short distance communication between at least one external device and the device; receiving connection information which relates to a second short distance communication mode and application information which relates to the at least one external device from the at least one external device via the first short distance communication; establishing a connection based on the second short distance communication mode between the at least one external device and the device based on the received connection information which relates to the second short distance communication mode; and controlling the at least one external device via the second short distance communication mode by using an application which is executable based on the received application information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-woo Ko, Hang-sik Shin, Se-jun Park