Patents Examined by Hai V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11848487
    Abstract: Example embodiments described herein relate to a modular telematics control unit (TCU) with directional Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and techniques for using the modular TCU with directional BLE. A modular TCU may include a housing configured to couple to a vehicle and a set of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radios. Each BLE radio is coupled to a corresponding BLE antenna configured for omnidirectional operation. The set of BLE radios and BLE antennas are located within the housing. The modular TCU also includes a heat sink located within the housing and positioned proximate the BLE antennas such that the heat sink limits operation for each BLE antenna to a particular direction extending away from the housing. In some instances, a vehicle computing system may use BLE to detect a device and perform operations based on the location of the device relative to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Dieter Statezni, Sangram Patil, Sharon Wang
  • Patent number: 11849404
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device capable of improving a system throughput. Provided is a communication device including a control unit that transmits a second signal including a transmission request for a first signal for measuring reception power or propagation loss to another communication device, receives the first signal transmitted from the other communication device, measures the reception power or the propagation loss on the basis of the received first signal, and controls transmission power on the basis of the measured reception power or propagation loss. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a wireless LAN system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Hiroshi Shigeno, Takanobu Ohnuma, Koki Iwai, Riku Inada
  • Patent number: 11849309
    Abstract: A method of controlling transmission power of a wireless communication device includes obtaining first electromagnetic wave information from the wireless communication device, the first electromagnetic wave information being obtained during a target duration, obtaining electromagnetic wave tendency information in the target duration based on the first electromagnetic wave information and second electromagnetic wave information, the second electromagnetic wave information being obtained during at least one previous duration, and controlling the transmission power based on the electromagnetic wave tendency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunseok Yu, Gangminh Lee
  • Patent number: 11838878
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method performed by a first unit of a base station system of a wireless communication network for handling a signal for transmission over a fronthaul link between the first unit and a second unit of the base station system. The base station system includes a base unit and a remote unit. The method includes receiving the signal having at least one complex value, each consisting of two subparts, each being represented by a first number of bits, and transmitting the signal over the fronthaul link to the second unit, wherein at least two subparts are represented in a subgroup, the subgroup being a binary codeword having an integer number of bits that is a multiple of a second non-integer number of bits allocated per subpart, the second non-integer number of bits being fewer than the first number of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Miguel Berg, Daniel Cederholm, Chenguang Lu
  • Patent number: 11831394
    Abstract: Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and deploying machine-learned communication over RF channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: DeepSig Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy James O'Shea, James Shea, Ben Hilburn
  • Patent number: 11832192
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a plurality of antenna sections, each of which to generate base station reception beams and to receive, by using the base station reception beams, one or more signals transmitted from a wireless terminal using one or more terminal transmission beams; a measurement unit that measures reception quality of each of the signals for each of the base station reception beams; and a control unit that groups the base station reception beams into groups in units of the antenna sections, and perform transmission power control on the terminal transmission beams of the wireless terminal in units of the groups, on the basis of a result of measurement of the measurement unit in units of the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Keijiro Take
  • Patent number: 11818665
    Abstract: According to a first embodiment, a method may include initiating, by a user equipment, at least one transient-inducing event. The method may further include entering, by the user equipment, at least one first state associated with at least one first state requirement configuration. The method may further include transmitting, by the user equipment, at least one first signal to a network entity according to the at least one first state requirement configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Toni Lahteensuo, Sari Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11812391
    Abstract: A method of controlling power in a transmission system may include determining a first transmit power of a first transmit path, determining a second transmit power of a second transmit path, and controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path based on a combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. The combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power may include a sum of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. Controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path may include determining a first effective power target for the first transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power, and determining a second effective power target for the second transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song, Hou-Shin Chen, Sung-En Chiu, Karthik Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 11805337
    Abstract: Methods and systems automatically protect radio network equipment in extreme weather conditions such as sand-storms or snow-storms. A pair of phase-shift material grids having different orientations is installed at an air intake of the radio network equipment. One of the grids is powered to open or close the air intake according to a current amount of air-carried particles entering the radio network equipment and a temperature inside the radio network equipment. The current amount of air-carried particles entering the radio network equipment may be detected by a piezoelectric sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Rafia Inam, Lackis Eleftheriadis, Junaid Shaikh, Daniel Lindström
  • Patent number: 11805199
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment include a first antenna, a second antenna, a first capacitor connected to the first antenna, a second capacitor connected to the second antenna, a grip sensor connected to the first antenna through a first electrical path and connected to the second antenna through a second electrical path and at least one processor, wherein at least one processor is configured to identify that a changed value of a first capacitance, caused by the first antenna, obtained through the grip sensor to identify whether the electronic device is gripped, is maintained within a specified range, based on identifying that the changed value of the first capacitance is maintained within the specified range, obtain a changed value of the second capacitance, caused by the second antenna, and based on the changed value of the second capacitance, identify whether the electronic device is gripped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kicheol Sung, Sungwan Byun
  • Patent number: 11792073
    Abstract: A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Patent number: 11785555
    Abstract: A communication device includes transmitting means for transmitting a signal in one or more frequency bands of a frequency channel including a plurality of frequency bands, identifying means for identifying occupancy of the plurality of frequency bands, and control means for controlling transmission power for transmitting the signal from the transmitting means, on the basis of an identification result obtained by the identifying means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hajime Shimura
  • Patent number: 11778554
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, performed by a user equipment (UE), for uplink (UL) transmission in a wireless network. Such methods include receiving a configuration associated with an UL transmission to a network node in the wireless network. Such methods include, for each of a plurality of combinations of the UE's available antennas and transmitters, determining metrics based on the UE performing the UL transmission using the particular combination. The metrics include a quality metric associated with reception of the UL transmission by the network node, and a UE energy consumption metric. Such methods include selecting one of the plurality of combinations of the available antennas and transmitters based on the respective quality metrics and the respective UE power consumption metrics, and performing the UL transmission according to the configuration and using the selected combination of available antennas and transmitters. Other embodiments include UEs configured to perform such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sina Maleki, Joao Vieira, Andres Reial
  • Patent number: 11777552
    Abstract: A method for transceiving signals and a transceiver using the same are provided. The method includes: configuring a transmitting circuit to transmit a transmitting signal via a first transmitting channel of the transmitting circuit during a transmitting period of the transmitting signal; configuring a switch module to connect the first transmitting channel to a first transducer element of a probe during the transmitting period; and configuring the switch module to disconnect the first transmitting channel form the first transducer element and to connect the first transmitting channel to a second transducer element of the probe during the transmitting period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Leltek Inc.
    Inventors: Biyun Yeh, Sheng-Chang Peng, Kuo-Ping Liu
  • Patent number: 11778694
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a first communication section configured to communicate with a communication terminal through a first communication channel, and a second communication section configured to communicate with the communication terminal through a second communication channel different from the first communication channel, wherein the first communication section is used for transmission of connection information for establishing the second communication channel with the communication terminal, wherein the second communication section is configured to establish the second communication channel based on the connection information, and wherein the information processing apparatus is connected to a network based on a connection instruction transmitted across the second communication channel, and receives service data by which to run the information processing apparatus from a service providing apparatus via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Isao Soma, Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada
  • Patent number: 11778565
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining open loop power control parameters. A first set of key performance indicators associated with a first set of open loop power control parameters is obtained from one or more first base stations. A statistical model is determined based at least partly on the first set of key performance indicators and the first set of open loop power control parameters. A second set of open loop power control parameters is determined based at least partly on the statistical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Lorenzo Maggi, Alvaro Valcarce Rial, Jakob Hoydis, Richa Gupta, Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Veronique Capdevielle
  • Patent number: 11777554
    Abstract: A network control device, e.g., a gNB, receives a message from a communications device, e.g. a UE, indicating that the communications device is experiencing an in-device coexistence (IDC) problem, e.g. in the 52.6 GHz-71 GHz frequency range with respect to NR-U and WiGig. The message is one of: i) an IDC assistance message indicating that the victim system is Wi-Gig or ii) an antenna panel switch message requesting that the network control device instruct the communications device to change the antenna panel that it uses for uplink NR signaling. The network control device generates and sends a response message to the communications device including: a selected new frequency to be used by the communications device for uplink NR signaling or a selected different antenna panel to be used by the communications device for uplink NR signaling. The communications device implements the change reducing or avoiding the IDC problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Amitav Mukherjee, Frank Azcuy, Maulik Vaidya
  • Patent number: 11778568
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for adaptively controlling RF transmission power in a wireless AV system. Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling RF transmission power, comprising: a control unit for setting RF transmission power on the basis of position information about a wireless data reception device; and a wireless communication unit for transmitting a wireless AV signal to the wireless data reception device at the set RF transmission power, adjusting the set RF transmission power on the basis of the RF reception sensitivity of the wireless data reception device, and transmitting the wireless AV signal to the wireless data reception device at the adjusted RF transmission power. A wireless AV signal is transmitted at optimal RF transmission power even when a position, such as that relating to a distance and an angle, between devices is changed, and thus a wireless AV system for increasing power consumption efficiency can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Dongsung Kim
  • Patent number: 11770045
    Abstract: A rotary connector module for displays has at least one stem and rotor parts. A rotary rotation system containing a stator part base is disposed atop a winding and a magnetic system of the rotor part, the magnetic system disposed above or outside of primary and secondary winding members. An electrical power transmitter carries wireless electrical power from stem to rotor part, with the diameter of each stem or rotor part smaller than the diameter of the magnetic system. A wireless transmission system contains a hollow shaft disposed in the at least one rotor part, an at least one signal transmitter disposed on the at least one stator part, and an at least one signal receiver disposed on the at least one rotor part, with the signal receiver at the end of and below a base of the hollow shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Kiryl Nikolaevich Chykeyuk, Dzmitry Leonidovich Malinouski, Dzmitry Valeryianovich Sukharebrau
  • Patent number: 11770183
    Abstract: A system and method for compensating for attenuation of carrier power by a transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Rajeev Oza