Patents Examined by Gary Lafontant
  • Patent number: 11277733
    Abstract: A first subscriber identification module (SIM) of a dual SIM device is connected to a network. A small cell is informed that the dual SIM device is a dual SIM-type device and a first radio frequency device of the dual SIM device is attached to the network. A second radio frequency device of the dual SIM device is attached to the network. The small cell is configured to treat a second SIM as a control SIM and to treat the first SIM a data SIM. User data is transferred to the first radio frequency device, a control channel switch command is sent to the dual SIM device, and control information is transferred to the second radio frequency device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Volkan Sevindik, Haider Syed
  • Patent number: 11272562
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting downlink data to remote UE, the method for an eNB to transmit downlink data to a remote UE in a wireless communication system comprises a step in which the eNB receives out of coverage related information on the remote UE; a step in which the eNB determines that the relay UE of the remote UE and the remote UE are maintained in a connected mode after receiving the out of coverage related information on the remote UE; and a step of transmitting downlink data to the remote UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Laeyoung Kim, Youngdae Lee, Jaewook Lee, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11272557
    Abstract: A master user equipment (UE) device may coordinate device-to-device (D2D) communications amongst a plurality of UE devices. For example, a UE device, which has been designated as a master UE device, may coordinate a D2D communication between a first UE device and a second UE device. The master UE device may be a UE device that obtains an indication that it is a master UE device that is to coordinate D2D communications amongst the plurality of UE devices. In some embodiments, the coordinating the D2D communication may be on behalf of a network and/or to facilitate wireless communication between the network and at least one of the plurality of UE devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mohammadhadi Baligh, Keyvan Zarifi, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 11272357
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for determining Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card information. The method includes that: negotiation with a terminal is performed to establish a session Identifier (ID) channel; SIM card information allocated for the terminal by a network-side server is acquired; and the SIM card information is sent to the terminal through the session ID channel. With adoption of the technical solutions, the problem in the related art that a large storage space is wasted and a SIM card information acquisition flow is complex because the SIM card information may be acquired only through a physical SIM card is solved, a physical SIM card form is not required, cost is greatly reduced and, meanwhile, a SIM card information acquisition process is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaobing Wang
  • Patent number: 11259264
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus for performing extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) to a network including a base station, the apparatus including a configuration configured to transmit a TAU Request, perform a transmission processing of the TAU Request, set an eDRX period included in the TAU Request to a first period and transmit the TAU Request when a probability of data reception after transmission of the TAU Request is low, set the eDRX period included in the TAU Request to a second period and transmit the TAU Request when the probability of data reception after transmission of the TAU Request is high, and the second period is longer than the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Chizuko Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 11252787
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for enhancement of multi-SIM devices, such as UE 106. A network may increase paging retries for known MU-SIM devices, e.g., based on an indication of capabilities from a MU-SIM device. The indication may be via a NAS registration request, an RRC capability procedure, and/or an RRC UE assistance procedure. Additionally, a network may include an indication of a paging priority to the UE. The UE may then determine a response to the page based, at least in part, on the indicated priority. Further, the UE may indicate a tune-away to the network. The indication of the tune-away may include a cause and/or duration for the tune-away and may be provided at an RRC level or a network access stratum (NAS) level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Krisztian Kiss, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Sang Ho Baek, Shivani Suresh Babu, Srinivasan Nimmala, Utkarsh Kumar, Vijay Venkataraman, Viswanath Nagarajan, Yifan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11246025
    Abstract: A method for supporting a migration of user profile and policy information includes receiving a 5G user profile addition request message associated with a subscriber entity, sending a user profile query message to a 4G subscription profile repository (SPR), determining that 4G user profile and policy information corresponding to the subscriber entity exists in the 4G SPR, and receiving 4G user profile and policy information corresponding to the subscriber entity from the 4G SPR and subsequently sending a 5G user profile creation message containing the 4G user profile and policy information to a 5G unified data repository (UDR) in response to determining that the 4G user profile and policy information is stored in the 4G SPR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Nirmal Mohan Raj, Srikar Doddi
  • Patent number: 11240825
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a frequency overlap between a first transmission, with a first base station associated with a first subscription of the UE, on a first bandwidth part, and a second transmission, with a second base station associated with a second subscription of the UE, on a second bandwidth part. The UE may transmit, to the second base station, a request for a new bandwidth part for the second subscription, based at least in part on the frequency overlap satisfying a condition. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventor: Akash Kumar
  • Patent number: 11228891
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for connecting a user for providing emergency response assistance to victims and emergency service providers. In some embodiments, a method for automatically populating an incident report includes the steps of: generating a victim code for display at a first electronic device; receiving an emergency data request comprising the victim code from a second electronic device associated with an emergency service provider (ESP) personnel; gathering emergency data associated with the victim code; transmitting the emergency data associated with the victim code to the second electronic device associated with the ESP personnel; and automatically populating, at the second electronic device associated with the ESP personnel, one or more fields of an incident report using the emergency data associated with the victim code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: RAPIDSOS, INC.
    Inventors: Hirsch Meir King-Berkman, Tiana Pidgeon, Michael John Martin
  • Patent number: 11219039
    Abstract: A method for concurrent execution of multiple protocols using a single radio of a wireless communication device is provided that includes receiving, in a radio command scheduler, a first radio command from a first protocol stack of a plurality of protocol states executing on the wireless communication device, determining a scheduling policy for the first radio command based on a current state of each protocol stack of the plurality of protocol stacks, and scheduling the first radio command in a radio command queue for the radio based on the scheduling policy, wherein the radio command scheduler uses the radio command queue to schedule radio commands received from the plurality of protocol stacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Arvind Kandhalu Raghu, Antony James Cave, Ramanuja Vedantham, Xiaoxi Bruce Zhang
  • Patent number: 11218955
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and devices for enabling access to a plurality of communication networks (107-110). A wireless communication device (101) acquires (S101) information regarding network access capabilities of any modems with which the wireless communication device is equipped, as well as information identifying operator profiles available to each of said any modems, and establishes (S102) a connection with a network connectivity selection node (106) that can determine which network access is available for each of said any modems. The wireless communication device further reports (S103) the acquired network access capabilities and operator profiles of each of said any modems to the network connectivity selection node, and receives (S105), in reply to the reporting, a recommendation on which one or more of said any modems to use for connecting to one or more of the plurality of communication networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Tomas Hedberg, Patrik Teppo, Jari Vikberg
  • Patent number: 11218894
    Abstract: A method for use in a communication network (200), said method comprising during connection of a user equipment (100) to the Network (200): determining if there is a connection profile available for the UE (100), and if so fetching UE profile and configuring the connection with the UE (100) according to the UE profile; monitoring the traffic characteristics during the connection; and updating and storing the UE profile if needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ali Nader, Dimitrios Kotsaris, Béla Rathonyi
  • Patent number: 11212855
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure disclose a method and a terminal for controlling a shared device, the method includes: a user device establishes a connection with a shared device; the user device triggers the shared device to acquire personalized configuration information of a user, where the personalized configuration information is used for indicating a configuration preference of the user for the shared device. The method and the terminal in the implementations of the present disclosure are beneficial to improving user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN HEYTAP TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Yang, Jianhua Liu, Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11206528
    Abstract: Techniques for designating non-native communication clients as the primary client for user equipment are discussed herein. A primary client can be the communication client designated to receive incoming communications for the user equipment. The user equipment may use the primary client to send, to a network device, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) instance to set primary client. The SIP instance may include a primary designator and a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) associated with the client. The network device may store the information for the user equipment including the UUID and capability set. A second user equipment may poll the network device for the communications capabilities of the first user equipment before establishing a connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Adrian T. Synal
  • Patent number: 11197244
    Abstract: A user equipment (“UE”) described herein may use automated techniques to receive one or more mode triggers, each including one or more sensor profiles. The UE may monitor data from one or more sensors associated with the UE and may compare the data to the profiles. The UE may determine that the sensor data matches a profile; and may disable one or more wireless features. The UE may continue to monitor sensor data and may determine that an exit trigger condition has been satisfied based on the received data. The exit trigger condition may specify a particular mode trigger; and a set of exit sensor profiles that corresponds to an exit of the particular mode trigger. The UE may, based on determining that the exit trigger condition has been satisfied, activate one or more wireless features. The sensor profiles and/or exit trigger conditions may be received from a cloud-based entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhir Korrapati, Carl Wang
  • Patent number: 11197174
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communication technology and discloses a method for controlling a wireless communication, a radio device, and a device having a storage function. The method includes establishing a communication connection between a radio node end and a site end; obtaining an antenna field shape information between the radio node end and the site end; obtaining an image information of the site end based on the antenna field shape information between the radio node end and the site end, to monitor a motion state of the site end; determining whether the site end is displaced, and adjusting the antenna field shape between the radio node end and the site end when the site end is determined to be displaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: SHENZHEN JAGUAR WAVE TECHNOLOGY LTD., SHENZHEN TINNO WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN TINNO MOBILE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ethan Feng, Chihkai Liu
  • Patent number: 11197346
    Abstract: Devices and associated methods for operating a dual-subscriber identity module (SIM) dual-standby (DSDS) user equipment device (UE) configured with a first SIM and a second SIM. The UE performs communications with a first cellular network using the first SIM and a first radio resource control (RRC) connection, and receives a request to perform a higher priority communication using the second SIM. In response to the request to perform the higher priority communication, the UE transmits a request to the first network to suspend the first RRC connection. After transmission of the request to suspend the first RRC connection, the UE receives a message from the first network to place the first RRC connection in an inactive state, and initiates a timer, wherein the timer is used to determine whether the first RRC connection remains in the inactive state or transitions to an idle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sree Ram Kodali, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Longda Xing, Zhiwei Wang, Yaoqi Yan, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Beibei Wang, Lele Cui
  • Patent number: 11178633
    Abstract: In one example, a processing system including at least one processor may receive a first set of location reports for a device in an environment including a plurality of wireless beacons, determine, based on the first set of location reports for the device, a first location of the device in the environment, initiate, based on the first location of the device in the environment, a sending of a content item toward the device, receive a second set of location reports for the device, determine, based on the second set of location reports for the device, a second location of the device in the environment, and provide, based on the first location of the device in the environment and the second location of the device in the environment, a metric indicative of an effectiveness of the content item in causing movement of a user of the device in the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Timothy Geraghty, Caroleen Chen, Ralph Quinto
  • Patent number: 11178680
    Abstract: The present application relating to the field of application of communication technologies provides a method, an apparatus and a system for acquiring system information. The method includes: a terminal transmits a system information request to a base station; and the terminal receives a system information request response transmitted by the base station, where the system information request response includes system information or transmission indication information of the system information; where the transmission indication information is used to indicate that the terminal acquires, based on the transmission indication information, the system information transmitted by the base station. In the present application, redundant transmission of unnecessary information can be avoided and waste of communication resources can be reduced. The present application is used for acquiring system information in a mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11172378
    Abstract: Methods are provided for dynamically modifying an SSB beam configuration. SINR and/or other network efficiency parameters are monitored at a cell site. It is determined that the SINR or other network efficiency parameter is lower than a threshold value. The current SSB beam configuration of the cell site is compared with other potential SSB beam configurations. Based on the comparing, an SSB beam configuration is compared with an optimal side lobe antenna gain and back lobe antenna gain to avoid interference with adjacent cell sites. In response to the identifying, the SSB beam configuration at the cell site is dynamically modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Rajveen Narendran, Vanil Parihar