Patents Examined by German Viana Di Prisco
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Patent number: 10306399Abstract: A system receives user input based information that allows deriving an identifier of a first radio transmitter, wherein a database stores, associated with the identifier of the first radio transmitter, information that allows deriving expected characteristics of radio signals of the first radio transmitter at different locations of a site. The system moreover receives a user input based indication of a replacement of the first radio transmitter at the site. The system receives user input based information that allows deriving an identifier of a second radio transmitter replacing the first radio transmitter at the site. The system updates the database by associating the information that allows deriving expected characteristics of radio signals of the first radio transmitter at different locations of the site with the identifier of the second radio transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Muhammad Irshan Khan, Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Pavel Ivanov
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Patent number: 10306470Abstract: A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A system and a method for validating authenticity of a base station and/or information received from the base station are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Rajavelsamy Rajadurai, Youngbin Chang
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Patent number: 10292083Abstract: The present application discloses a self-optimizing method for a UE group, which includes: a. a base station of a cell in the system adjusts mobility parameters of a specified UE group from the cell to another cell, and notifies the base station that the another cell belongs to of a relative value of mobility parameter change of the specified UE group in the cell; or, the base station of the cell requests base station of the another cell to adjust the mobility parameters of the specified UE group to the cell, and carry the relative value of mobility parameter change; b. the base station of the another cell determines which manner to take to adjust the mobility parameters of the specified UE group according to the relative value of the mobility parameter change received.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Hong Wang, Huarui Liang, Xiaowan Ke
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Patent number: 10271171Abstract: The principles described herein provide methods and systems for locating a tracking device. In particular, one disclosed method includes associating a user with a tracking device, receiving an indication that the tracking device is lost, setting a flag indicating that the tracking device is lost, receiving a location within a proximity of the tracking device from one of a plurality of mobile devices associated with a community of users, and providing the location to the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas George Evans, Michael George Farley
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Patent number: 10244461Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a scalable SIB bitmap structure. As described herein, a UE may generate and transmit, to an access network, a dual-layer system information block (SIB) request, wherein a first layer indicates a SIB category and a second layer indicates one or more groups within the SIB category. A base station in an access network may receive, from a UE, the dual-layer SIB request. The scalable, efficient bitmap structure may be shared by the UE and access network, thereby enabling SIB-on-Demand requests by the UE and responses to SIB-on-Demand requests by the access network.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hung Ly, Keiichi Kubota
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Patent number: 10244420Abstract: A wireless device and a method performed therefore are provided for reporting and logging an event, the wireless device being operable in a wireless communication network. The method comprises determining (110) that an event is to be logged and/or reported; and determining (120) if the location of the wireless device is a known location or is the same location as the last time the event was logged and/or reported. The method further comprises, when the location of the wireless device is a known location or the same location as the last time the event was logged and/or reported: logging (130) and reporting to a network node, according to an enhanced reporting and logging functionality.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Badawi Yamine, Iana Siomina, Torbjörn Wigren
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Patent number: 10237685Abstract: A computing device and method is usable to determine a cognitive geofence according to a plurality of data points. The computing device may analyze the plurality of data points to determine an emotional state of a user of a user equipment and a cognitive environment in an area proximate to the user of the user equipment. The computing device may determine the cognitive geofence based at least in part on the emotional state of the user of the user equipment and the cognitive environment in the area proximate to the user of the user equipment. After determining the cognitive geofence, the computing device may transmit the determined cognitive geofence to a terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bjorn Austraat, Swaminathan Chandrasekaran
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Patent number: 10231081Abstract: A computing device and method is usable to determine a cognitive geofence according to a plurality of data points. The computing device may analyze the plurality of data points to determine a cognitive dimension associated with each of the data points and a location associated with each of the data points. The computing device may determine the cognitive geofence based at least in part on the determined cognitive dimension and the determined location associated with at least some of the plurality of data points. After determining the cognitive geofence, the computing device may transmit the determined cognitive geofence to a terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bjorn Austraat, Swaminathan Chandrasekaran
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Patent number: 10231082Abstract: A computing device and method is usable to determine a cognitive geofence according to a plurality of data points. The computing device may analyze the plurality of data points to determine a cognitive dimension associated with each of the data points and a location associated with each of the data points. The computing device may determine the cognitive geofence based at least in part on the determined cognitive dimension and the determined location associated with at least some of the plurality of data points. After determining the cognitive geofence, the computing device may transmit the determined cognitive geofence to a terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bjorn Austraat, Swaminathan Chandrasekaran
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Patent number: 10231083Abstract: A computing device and method is usable to determine a cognitive geofence according to a plurality of data points. The computing device may analyze the plurality of data points to determine an emotional state of a user of a user equipment and a cognitive environment in an area proximate to the user of the user equipment. The computing device may determine the cognitive geofence based at least in part on the emotional state of the user of the user equipment and the cognitive environment in the area proximate to the user of the user equipment. After determining the cognitive geofence, the computing device may transmit the determined cognitive geofence to a terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bjorn Austraat, Swaminathan Chandrasekaran
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Patent number: 10218422Abstract: Systems and methods herein remedy thermal constraints experienced by wireless communication systems operating in the millimeter wave spectrum. User equipment (UE) having a plurality of antenna subarrays controlled by respective RFICs monitor temperature gradients of respective sectors of the UE. Upon the thermal gradient of a sector reaching a temperature threshold, the UE performs thermal management steps to prevent hardware of a respective sector from damage due to overshoot.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Junyi Li, Assaf Touboul
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Patent number: 10187775Abstract: A mobile communication device comprises: a first communicator configured to perform short range wireless communication with a first communication device not via another device; a second communicator configured to perform wireless communication with the first communication device via another device; an acceleration sensor configured to detect an acceleration; and at least one controller configured to, when it is determined that a travelling means of a user of the mobile communication device is changed from walking to a vehicle based on the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor, cause the second communicator to notify the first communication device of an alarm when a notification condition is established, and cause the second communicator not to notify the first communication device of the alarm when the notification condition is not established, wherein the notification condition includes a condition that communication between the first communicator and the first communication device is disconnectedType: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Tanabe, Hideki Morita, Isao Masuike, Shinya Saito
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Patent number: 10182320Abstract: Methods and devices for transmitting information regarding an emergency between a mobile terminal and an emergency control center. The method includes communicating first information regarding the emergency via a control channel of a mobile radio system between the mobile terminal and the emergency control center and communicating second information regarding the emergency via a speech channel of the mobile radio system between the mobile terminal and the emergency control center. The control channel may be a logical channel. The speech channel may also be a logical channel. Via the control channel, an SMS which may include the first information regarding the emergency, such as the emergency site and the time of the emergency, may be transmitted from the mobile terminal to the emergency control center.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventor: Muhammad Farooq Khan
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Patent number: 10175789Abstract: A mobile device according to one aspect includes an acceleration sensor configured to detect an acceleration value, and a controller configured to determine between a moving state and a non-moving state, based on the acceleration value. The controller changes sensitivity of the acceleration sensor between the moving state and the non-moving state.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Tanabe, Hideki Morita, Isao Masuike, Shinya Saito
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Patent number: 10172005Abstract: Systems and methods for securing access to a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes: transmitting, by a computer device, a tone to a surface of an object; detecting, by the computer device, a frequency response from the object based on the transmitted tone; determining, by the computer device, that the detected frequency response from the surface of the object conforms to a stored frequency response; and unlocking, by the computer device, the computer device based on the determining.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lisa M. W. Bradley, Jonathan Dunne, Liam Harpur, Asima Silva
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Patent number: 10149167Abstract: Systems and methods for securing access to a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes: synchronizing, by a first mobile computer device, with a remote mobile computer device; transmitting, by the first mobile computer device, a tone to a surface of an object; receiving, by the first mobile computer device, a compound resonance frequency from the object based on the transmitted tone; determining, by the first mobile computer device, the received compound resonance frequency conforms to a stored compound resonance frequency; unlocking, by the first mobile computer device, the first computer device based on the determining; and establishing, by the first mobile computer device, a group connection with the remote mobile computer device based on the unlocking.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lisa M. W. Bradley, Jonathan Dunne, Liam Harpur, Asima Silva
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Patent number: 10142798Abstract: Ultrasonic transmitters periodically transmit ranging signals at unknown transmit timer values, and an ultrasonic receiver receives the ranging signals at known receive timer values on a mobile device in a venue in which a time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based ultrasonic locationing system is deployed. A controller infers the transmit timer values, and determines a current, real-time position of the mobile device based on flight time differences between the transmit timer values inferred by the controller and the known receive timer values.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLCInventors: Russell E. Calvarese, Mark P. Orlassino, Umberto R. Scaramozzino, Larry Maniscalco
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Patent number: 10136467Abstract: The invention provides for a method of controlling a mobile terminated procedure between a mobile terminal device and a network node device of a mobile radio communications network, and to a related terminal device, and particularly concerning a change in network node connection as part of a Circuit Switched Fallback procedure, and including the step of transmitting a connection-maintaining request such as a follow-on-request from the terminal device to the network node device during the mobile terminated procedure and seeking to maintain connectivity with the network node device so as to allow for a post location update procedure arriving from the network.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)Inventors: Yannick Lair, Iskren Ianev
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Patent number: 10136330Abstract: Described features are directed to staggered frequency channel changing for cells of spectrum sharing networks. In some examples users communicating on one or more frequency channels of a spectrum sharing network may receive an indication that those channels are to be vacated, for example that the frequency channels are not to be transmitted on, or otherwise used for communications. Cells of the spectrum sharing network may receive the indication and perform staggered (e.g., sequential or randomly-timed) channel changes. The staggered channel changes may facilitate handover of user devices of the spectrum sharing network by, for example, reducing a number of cells that are simultaneously undergoing a channel change procedure. Thus, staggered frequency channel changing may reduce user service interruptions and radio link failures in a spectrum sharing network.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Puneet Sethi, Farhad Meshkati, Mehmet Yavuz
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Patent number: 10135961Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to identify contact information for a person associated with a second device and determine, based on the identification, whether to disable a caller identification (ID) blocking function associated with making calls from the first device. The instructions are also executable by the processor to, responsive to a determination to disable the caller ID blocking function, disable the caller ID blocking function while facilitating a call from the first device to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan J. Peterson, John Carl Mese, Arnold S. Weksler