Patents Examined by George Eng
  • Patent number: 10871545
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a wireless device (10) for handling positioning of the wireless device in a wireless communications 5 network (1). The wireless device (10) receives assistance data from a location node (15), or a radio network node (12), in the wireless communications network, wherein the assistance data comprises a positioning configuration comprising a start and/or stop information indicating when positioning reference signal, PRS, transmissions from the radio network node are started and/or ended. The wireless device measures, based on the assistance data, a positioning information of PRSs; and transmits the measured positioning information to the location node or the radio network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sara Modarres Razavi, Åke Busin, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Olof Liberg, Xingqin Lin, Gino Masini, Henrik Rydén, Yutao Sui
  • Patent number: 10868463
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vibration motor and a mobile communication device using same. The vibration motor includes an housing, a vibrator accommodated in the housing, a driving apparatus driving the vibrator to vibrate, and an elastic part elastically supporting the vibrator, where the driving apparatus is a secondary coil accommodated in the housing, the vibrator is provided with a magnet steel corresponding to the coil, the vibration motor further includes a primary coil, disposed outside the housing, corresponding to the secondary coil, and spaced apart from the secondary coil, and the primary coil is electrically connected to the outside to generate an alternating electromagnetic field, to cause the secondary coil to generate an induced electromotive force, and cause relative vibration between the vibrator and the secondary coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Tang, Lubin Mao
  • Patent number: 10863473
    Abstract: A method for use in a wireless telecommunications network comprising a core network, two or more base stations each providing wireless connectivity within a base station cell, and a terminal device configured to communicate wirelessly with the base stations by a communication mode, and the method being a positioning method for determining a position of the terminal device, comprises sending one or more positioning signals between the base stations and the terminal device during a transmission phase of the method, and using measured arrival times of the positioning signals to triangulate a position of the terminal device, wherein during the transmission phase the terminal device is in an energy saving communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: CONVIDA WIRELESS, LLC
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 10863405
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to access point (AP) selection. According to one embodiment, the serving AP receives from the terminal device a measurement report including one or more measurement parameters for a plurality of neighbor AP devices and the serving AP device and selects from the plurality of neighbor AP devices one or more candidate target AP devices based on the measurement report received from the terminal device. Then, the serving AP can obtain evaluated capability levels from the selected one or more candidate target AP devices and determine from the selected one or more candidate target AP devices a best candidate target AP device with the highest evaluated capability level as a target AP device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Cong Shi, Jinhua Liu
  • Patent number: 10863325
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying subscribers and/or content creators to each other while attending a real-world/live event. The real-world/live event may be in furtherance of content creation or in furtherance of providing preferential access to subscribers. Identification in the case of subscribers can be based upon subscribership information, commonality of one or more aspects of the subscribers and/or the content creators. For example, a subscriber may be identified with a level of prominence commensurate with the level at which he/she subscribers to a content creator to. Notifications and/or recommendations may be presented in an augmented reality experience along with augmented reality identifications of subscribers and/or content creators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Patreon, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Wood
  • Patent number: 10841852
    Abstract: A transportation network monitoring system may use handoff metadata from cellular telephone and other communication networks to monitor train movement, traffic density, and traffic movement within the transportation network. Many communication technologies have handoff protocols that change a mobile device's connection from one base station to another. In a transportation network, such as a subway, a subway train may have several hundreds of riders, each of which may have a mobile device. As the train travels along the track, the handoff characteristics of those mobile devices may be analyzed to determine several characteristics of the transportation network, including the real time presence and speed of the train, as well as estimating the number of passengers and even the number of available seats on the train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: DataSpark, Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Martin Holleczek, Deepak Jayakumaran, Amy Xuemei Shi-Nash
  • Patent number: 10841742
    Abstract: A positioning support device transmits radio signals using at least one default configuration parameter value. A mobile device measures characteristics of the signals at different locations. An apparatus assembles, based on the measured characteristics and indications of the locations of measurement, data which enables a determination of characteristics of radio signals transmitted by the positioning support device, which are expected to be observable at different locations. The apparatus determines in addition at least one adapted configuration parameter value and causes the positioning support device to store the assembled data for future transmissions and to use the at least one adapted configuration parameter value for future transmissions. As a result, the positioning support device transmits radio signals including the stored data using the at least one adapted configuration parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Muhammad Irshan Khan, Jari Syrjärinne, Pavel Ivanov
  • Patent number: 10841899
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and in particular, to a system message transmission technology, so as to resolve a system message update problem of a terminal device with DRX cycle. This application provides a terminal device, including: a receiving module, configured to receive a first system message; and a processing module, configured to: obtain first indication information from the first system message, and update system messages other than the first system message according to the obtained first indication information, where the first system message is periodically sent, and occupies a fixed physical resource location. The first indication information is sent in the first system message instead of a paging message. The terminal device may update the system messages other than the first system message according to the indication information, thereby updating all system messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yinghui Yu, Baokun Shan, Chenwan Li
  • Patent number: 10831754
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and processes are discussed for using metadata to take action on an SMS message on a proprietary system. In some embodiments, a wearable electronic device has a wearable device application that can present an SMS notification from an SMS application of a mobile computing device. The wearable device application can provide SMS notification data to a partner application of the mobile computing device. The partner application can perform a reverse look-up in a contacts application of the mobile computing device and construct a first contacts list with potential SMS-message senders. The wearable device application can present one or more SMS-message actions to a user of the wearable electronic device for a user selection thereof. The partner application can communicate with a partner server, which, in turn, can communicate with an SMS provider to effect the user selection of the one or more SMS-message actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Jett, Henry Levak, Robert Earl Yawn
  • Patent number: 10827458
    Abstract: A paging method, an Mobile Management Entity (MME) and a terminal are provided, which relate to the field of communication technology, to reduce signaling overheard of the terminal and prevent the transmission of downlink data from being delayed. The paging method includes steps of: receiving downlink data for a target terminal; and in the case that the target terminal is in an idle state, adopts an extended DRX period and is capable of receiving a paging message, initiating a paging request to the target terminal based on the downlink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Ming Al
  • Patent number: 10827055
    Abstract: This application provides a mobile terminal and a method for obtaining event information on a mobile terminal, so as to automatically add a plurality of pieces of classifiable information in an event notification message to an application, thereby improving addition efficiency. The method includes: receiving, by a mobile terminal, an event notification message of a first application; obtaining, by the mobile terminal, n pieces of classifiable information in the event notification message based on a predefined class template; determining, by the mobile terminal, a second application based on the n class attributes according to a preset rule; and adding, by the mobile terminal, m pieces of classifiable information that are in the event notification message to the m class attributes in the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Ye, Jingyu Zhang, Jian Chen, Tizheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10826583
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for estimating MU-MIMO channel information using SU-MIMO channel information to choose a modulation and channel coding appropriate for the quality of the MU-MIMO channels, for adaptively selecting MU-MIMO precoding methods based on estimations of a plural of UEs and for compensating hardware impairments in MU-MIMO precoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Dengkui Zhu, Ping Liang
  • Patent number: 10826553
    Abstract: A wearable apparatus for holding a device is disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises at least one wrist strap and a mounting base supported on the at least one wrist strap. A holder base is coupled to the mounting base. The holder base is configured to hold the device. The holder base is coupled to the mounting base by either attaching to the mounting base or by being suspended away from mounting base. There is further at least one retracting cable spool for facilitating the suspension of the holder base away from the mounting base. Additionally, there is at least one connector disposed on the holder base for facilitating connection of cable from the at least one retracing cable spool. If a user should accidently drop the device the apparatus prevents the device from hitting the ground, thereby preventing any accidental damage to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Inventor: Jeramiah Duran
  • Patent number: 10827457
    Abstract: A paging message transmission method, a base station, and user equipment are provided. The paging message transmission method includes: determining indication information included in a first paging message, where the indication information is used to instruct user equipment UE to receive the first paging message and/or receive a second paging message; sending the first paging message including the indication information, where the first paging message is included in a first transport block; and sending the second paging message if the indication information instructs the user equipment to receive the second paging message, where the second paging message is included in a second transport block, and the second transport block and the first transport block are different transport blocks that are separately transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zheng Yu
  • Patent number: 10827452
    Abstract: Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: obtaining one or more pieces of radio environment information representing a first radio environment of a first area that is covered by one or more radio units; obtaining or determining a location estimate; obtaining one or more pieces of reference radio environment information representing a second radio environment of a second area; and determining a trustworthiness information indicative of a degree of similarity between the first radio environment represented by the one or more pieces of radio environment information and the second radio environment represented by the one or more pieces of reference radio environment information. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer program and system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Petri Rauhala, Marko Luomi, Tatiana Vyunova
  • Patent number: 10818019
    Abstract: A method and system for 3D/3D medical image registration. A digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) is rendered from a 3D medical volume based on current transformation parameters. A trained multi-agent deep neural network (DNN) is applied to a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) in the DRR and a 2D medical image. The trained multi-agent DNN applies a respective agent to each ROI to calculate a respective set of action-values from each ROI. A maximum action-value and a proposed action associated with the maximum action value are determined for each agent. A subset of agents is selected based on the maximum action-values determined for the agents. The proposed actions determined for the selected subset of agents are aggregated to determine an optimal adjustment to the transformation parameters and the transformation parameters are adjusted by the determined optimal adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastien Piat, Shun Miao, Rui Liao, Tommaso Mansi, Jiannan Zheng
  • Patent number: 10820168
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal and a method of recommending an application or content by providing information regarding a terminal status obtained by the mobile communication terminal when a connection device is connected to the mobile communication terminal without having to look for the application or content. The mobile communication terminal includes a connection status determining unit which determines a connection status of a connection device and the mobile communication terminal, a terminal status storage unit which stores information regarding a terminal status of the mobile communication terminal; and a recommended target executing unit which determines a recommended application based on the connection status and the information regarding the terminal status of the mobile communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-ok Cha, Dong-woo Kim, Young-ri Kim, Ji-yeon Yoo, Ju-youn Lee
  • Patent number: 10813616
    Abstract: A method rotates a radiation source and a detector over a sequence of acquisition angles about a subject and acquires, at each acquisition angle, a 2D projection image. A simulation subset is formed that contains some, but not all, of the acquired 2D projection images, wherein subset membership is determined according to relative signal change between successive 2D projection images. Scatter is characterized for the acquired sequence of projection images according to the formed simulation subset. One or more of the acquired sequence of projection images is corrected using the scatter characterization. An image volume is reconstructed and stored according to the sequence of scatter corrected projection images. One or more images of the reconstructed image volume are rendered to a display or transmitting the stored image volume data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan Lin, William J. Sehnert
  • Patent number: 10810453
    Abstract: A method including generating position information and time information of a handwriting inputted on a device; generating pixel values of an image capturing the handwriting; generating an image file for facilitating a sequential reproduction of the handwriting by storing the position information and the time information of the handwriting in a first field of the image file and storing the pixel values in a second field of the image file; and transmitting the generated image file to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Do-Hyeon Kim, Mu-Sik Kwon, Sang-Wook Oh, Seong-Taek Hwang
  • Patent number: 10791528
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for implementing air interface synchronization. The method includes that: a source cell performs signalling interaction with a target cell, and determines whether to be switched off or not according to a signalling interaction result. A content about which the source cell performs signalling interaction with the target cell includes at least one of: on/off state information of the source cell, on/off state information of the target cell, whether the target cell finds a new synchronization source or not, timing at which the source cell enters an off state, candidate synchronization source cell set information of the target cell and associated affiliated target cell information of the target cell. The present disclosure further discloses a cell and system for implementing air interface synchronization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaogang Han, Wei Gou, Yajun Zhao, Feng Bi