Patents Examined by Gary Lafontant
  • Patent number: 11102796
    Abstract: Provided is an information transmission processing method and device, a node, storage medium and processor. The information transmission processing method comprises: a first predefined pattern of a first network node is determined, where the first predefined pattern comprises a link direction of a system resource of the first network node and a priority of the link direction; and information transmission according to the first predefined pattern is processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juan Liu, Yajun Zhao, Ling Yang, Hanqing Xu, Xincai Li
  • Patent number: 11102685
    Abstract: A method of switching a measurement mode and a device thereof are provided. The method includes: sending, by a network equipment, configuration information to a user equipment, to enable the user equipment to switch from a first measurement mode to a second measurement mode according to the configuration information; where the first measurement mode is a mode of triggering the user equipment to measure a current cell and/or a neighboring cell in the case that a first measurement trigger condition is met; and the second measurement mode is a mode of triggering the user equipment to measure a current cell and/or a neighboring cell in the case that a second measurement trigger condition is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li Chen
  • Patent number: 11102645
    Abstract: Disclosed is an external electronic device for enabling an Internet of Things-supporting device to subscribe to a network. The external electronic device, according to the present disclosure, may provide, on a display thereof, an interface enabling the subscription of an Internet of Things device which does not comprise a separate display. In addition, the external electronic device, according to the present disclosure, may perform, via an external server, the subscription of the Internet of Things device to an Internet of Things service provider. In addition, various embodiments are possible as identified in the specification. In addition, various embodiments are possible as identified in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Yup Kim, Han Jib Kim, Sun Key Lee
  • Patent number: 11102704
    Abstract: Communication between a terminal and a base station, and network access methods and apparatuses for a terminal are provided. The communication between the terminal and the base station includes: the terminal sending a network access request frame with a first preamble to a relay device, the relay device being configured to receive the network access request frame according to the first preamble, send the network access request frame with a second preamble to the base station, and receive a network access response frame returned by the base station, a length of the second preamble being smaller than a length of the first preamble; and the terminal receiving the network access response frame sent by the relay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Zhen Tao
  • Patent number: 11096144
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed that describe systems to facilitate paging an idle subscriber identity module using a connected subscriber identity module operating in a single radio configuration. According to some embodiments, a system can comprise receiving a paging request that is designated for a first device of a communication device, wherein the communication device comprises the first device and a second device; determining whether the second device is in an active state; and in response to the determining that the second device is in the active state, transmitting a message to second device indicating that the paging message was received for the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Arunabha Ghosh, Thomas Novlan, Milap Majmundar, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11089452
    Abstract: A method of processing call establishment requests, the method comprising the steps of: a) receiving call establishment definition data relating to a called party identifier; b) receiving a call establishment request from a calling party, the call establishment request comprising the called party identifier; c) determining that a user terminal associated with the called party identifier is engaged in a call with a remote party; d) determining that call establishment definition data is associated with the called party identifier; and e) in response to steps b) c) and d), processing the call establishment request to connect the calling party to the called party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Metaswitch Networks Ltd.
    Inventor: Richard Underwood
  • Patent number: 11082092
    Abstract: A near-field communication device operates to transmit data by near-field communications techniques to another device. The near-field communication device includes a memory that stores a message to be transmitted in an ASCII format. The message is retrieved from the memory and transmitted using the near-field communications techniques in an ASCII format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS, STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS
    Inventors: Sylvie Wuidart, Sophie Maurice
  • Patent number: 11082843
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications apparatus in which the method includes: a terminal device receiving a first authentication request from a security function network element, and obtaining authentication reference information based on the first authentication request, where the authentication reference information is a response value, a resynchronization token, or a cause indication value. The terminal device sends an authentication response message to the security function network element, where the authentication response message includes a first information element used to carry the response value, a second information element used to carry the resynchronization token, and a third information element used to carry the cause indication value, and the authentication reference information is carried in an information element corresponding to the authentication reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Pan, Jing Chen
  • Patent number: 11071086
    Abstract: Wireless communications for network access configuration are described. A base station may configure a monitoring gap for a wireless device, based on information received from the wireless device. The wireless device may use the monitoring gap to communicate with another base station associated with another wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan, Jinsook Ryu, Hua Zhou, Ali Cirik, Hyoungsuk Jeon
  • Patent number: 11071084
    Abstract: A terminal device configured to receive a radio signal from which measurements can be used to assist in determining a position of the terminal device. The terminal device detects one or more system information blocks carrying position assistance information transmitted from the infrastructure equipment and estimates the position of the terminal device by combining the identified position assistance information with the radio signal received by the position detection receiver circuitry. Furthermore the terminal device receives from the infrastructure equipment an indication of relative risk that the position assistance information will change, and in response to the indication of the relative risk that the position assistance information will change to adapt the receiving of the one or more system information blocks to receive an updated version of the position assistance information in accordance with the relative risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11064345
    Abstract: According an aspect, there is provided a terminal device for performing the following. The terminal device transmits a request for authorizing a user of the terminal device for accessing a private mobile network to a server system managing the private mobile network. The request comprises at least identification information identifying the user. In response to receiving a confirmation message confirming an authorization of the user for accessing the private mobile from the server system, the terminal device adds, to a list of allowed mobile networks in at least one memory, an identifier of the private mobile network and transmits one or more identifiers for a Subscriber Identity Module card of the user and one or more identifiers for the terminal device to the server system. The terminal device accesses the private mobile network using at least the identifier of the private mobile network via an access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Sanjeev Mahajan, Harpreet Singh
  • Patent number: 11044699
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved paging are described. In one embodiment, a method is described, comprising: providing a combined database in a heterogeneous radio access network at a coordinating gateway between a plurality of radio access network nodes and a plurality of core network nodes; at the coordinating gateway, storing a first location of a user device in the combined database in association with a user device identifier and based on receiving a first user device registration request at a first radio access network; at the coordinating gateway, storing a second location of the user device in the combined database in association with the user device identifier and based on receiving a second user device registration request at a second radio access network; and querying the combined database for a last known location of the user device across both the first and the second radio access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Anoop Gupta, Kartik Shashikant Raval
  • Patent number: 11039383
    Abstract: A broker network may be configured to serve as an intermediary between one or more radio providers and one or more mobile service providers for reservation of remote radio units (RRUs) for use in a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) environment. The broker network may receive, from a mobile network, a message indicating a request for identification of RRUs of at least one radio provider. The broker network may send, to the mobile network, one or more messages including a plurality of identifiers which identify a plurality of RRUs, and a geographic location and capabilities associated with each RRU. After receiving a selection of an RRU, the broker network may send to the RRU a message which triggers communication with a virtualized Distributed Unit (vDU) for a remote configuration of parameters in the selected RRU, so that it may be used to facilitate communication with UEs in the mobile network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Arghya Mukherjee, Om Prakash Suthar, Yoshitaka Nagami, Fei Gao, Santanu Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 11039004
    Abstract: A processor-based personal electronic device (such as a smartphone) is programmed to automatically respond to data sent by various sensors from which the user's activity may be inferred. One or more alarms on the device may be temporarily disabled when sensor data indicates that the user is asleep. One or more of the sensors may be worn by the user and remote from the device. A wireless communication link may be used by the device to obtain remote sensor data. Data from on-board sensors in the device—such as motion sensors, location sensors, ambient light sensors, and the like—may also be used to deduce the user's current activity. User data (such as calendar entries) may also be used to determine likely user activity and set alarms accordingly. Biometric data from a second, nearby person may also be used to automatically select certain alarm modes on a first person's device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon M. Ma, Devrim Varoglu, Mohammad Bidabadi, Paolo D. Concha
  • Patent number: 11039305
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying an assigned friendly-phrase embedded universal integrated circuit card identifier (fpEID) for a wireless communication device and sending a service request message to a service provider network to initiate a service activation procedure, the service request message comprising the assigned fpEID. Various embodiments can include sending an fpEID assignment request message to a device vendor network, receiving an fpEID assignment confirmation message from the device vendor network in response to the fpEID assignment request message, and identifying the assigned fpEID based on the fpEID assignment confirmation message. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Sikes, James Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11039419
    Abstract: A method is described, comprising: creating, at a coordinating server, a user page cache table, the user page cache table associates a user equipment (UE) identifier with a last known location of the UE and a virtual base station instance; creating, at the coordinating server, a neighbor relation table, the neighbor relation table associates each cell to neighbor cells; receiving, at the coordinating server from a core network, a paging message for a user equipment (UE), the paging message comprises a tracking area identity (TAI), the UE identifier, and the virtual base station instance; querying, at the coordinating server, in the user page cache table based on the UE identifier received in the paging message to identify the virtual base station instance and the last known location; forwarding, from the coordinating server to the last known location of the UE, the paging message based on the queried last known location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Karuppasamy Kasirajan, Kartik Shashikant Raval, Rajesh Gupta, Anoop Gupta, Michael Yasuhiro Saji
  • Patent number: 11032869
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method for securing unicast message communication is provided. The method includes sending, by a user equipment (UE), a request-message for resuming radio resource control (RRC) connection to a base station, wherein the request message comprises a first-parameter defining “resume cause”. A response pertaining to at least one of network-release or network-resumption is received by the UE, wherein the response comprises a second parameter defining “resume cause”. Based on a successful-mapping between the first parameter and the second parameter, the response is acknowledged by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rajavelsamy Rajadurai, Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Narendranath Durga Tangudu
  • Patent number: 11019594
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication device, a wireless communication terminal, a wireless communication system, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium that can realize reliable and stable wireless communication even in an unstable radio environment. The wireless communication device includes: a wireless communication unit capable of wirelessly communicating with a wireless communication terminal; and a communication control unit that controls at least one of switching of a frequency band of the wireless communication and switching of the wireless communication terminal based on at least one of time information and peripheral information indicating a status of a peripheral object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Anami
  • Patent number: 11008017
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for systems for a vehicle. An example system for a vehicle includes a central unit and an input device, wherein the central unit has a first interface for connecting to a first mobile device and a second interface for connecting to a second mobile device, wherein the central unit is configured to assign the first mobile device to a driver and the second mobile device to a passenger in the vehicle, wherein the central unit is configured to output information on a call directed to the first mobile device, wherein the central unit is configured to detect an input by means of the input device during the outputting of information, and wherein the central unit is configured, based on the detection of the input, to redirect the call to the second mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Roth, Olaf Preissner, Christoph Reifenrath
  • Patent number: 11012832
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program or system includes obtaining fingerprints including a piece of position information and gathered in a venue; determining a first metric based on the fingerprints indicative of a quality value of the obtained fingerprints that indicates for each piece of position information of the fingerprints whether or not the quality and/or a quantity of the obtained fingerprints with respect to the piece of position information is sufficient; determining a second metric based on the obtained fingerprints indicative of a quality value of an infrastructure of the venue, the fingerprints are gathered from one or more radio nodes of the infrastructure, and the second metric indicates for each of the pieces of position information of each of the respective fingerprints whether or not the quality of the infrastructure is sufficient; determining a third metric indicative of an evaluation of the quality of the infrastructure of the venue based on the second metric; and outputting the first me
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Pavel Ivanov, Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola