Patents Examined by Hirdepal Singh
  • Patent number: 11172473
    Abstract: Embodiments herein include a method in a user equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink control information in time slots of a subframe over a radio channel to a radio base station. The uplink control information is comprised in a block of bits. The UE maps the block of bits to a sequence of complex valued modulation symbols. The UE block spreads the sequence across Discrete Fourier Transform Spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFTS-OFDM) symbols. This is performed by applying a spreading sequence to the sequence of complex valued modulation symbols, to achieve a block spread sequence of complex valued modulation symbols. The UE further transforms the block-spread sequence, per DFTS-OFDM symbol. This is performed by applying a matrix that depends on a DFTS-OFDM symbol index and/or slot index to the block-spread sequence. The UE also transmits the block spread sequence, as transformed, over the radio channel to the radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, David Astely, Dirk Gerstenberger, Daniel Larsson, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 11171750
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, control signaling configuring the UE to use a first waveform for communicating via a first beam and a second waveform for communicating via a second beam, the first waveform being different than the second waveform. The UE may communicate a first data transmission via the first beam using the first waveform and communicate a second data transmission via the second beam using the second waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Juergen Cezanne, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11166147
    Abstract: The present technology discloses non-transitory computer-readable media, systems, and methods for receiving a notification that an identified physical object has attached to a roaming network, wherein the identified physical object is roaming when on the roaming network; translating at least one policy intent that was defined at a home network for the identified physical object into a policy suitable to be applied by the roaming network; and sending, to the roaming network, the at least one translated policy intent to be applied to the identified physical object on the roaming network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Stammers, Carlos M. Pignataro, Marcelo Yannuzzi Sanchez, Hervé Muyal, Bart Brinckman
  • Patent number: 11159957
    Abstract: A base station apparatus is connected to a plurality of transmission/reception points each switching a transmission scheme according to reception environment of wireless terminal and providing service to wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoki Morita, Daisuke Ohta, Takahiro Nobukiyo
  • Patent number: 11146327
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for machine learning models for adjusting communication parameters. In some implementations, data for each terminal in a set of multiple satellite terminals is obtained. A machine learning model is trained based on the obtained data. The model can be trained to receive an indication of a geographic location and predict a satellite beam capable of providing at least a minimum level of efficiency for communication at the geographic location. After training the machine learning model, an indication of a predicted satellite beam for a particular location is generated for a particular geographic location. A determination is then made whether to change the current satellite beam for a terminal at the particular geographic location based on the predicted satellite beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Arora, Archana Gharpuray, John Kenyon
  • Patent number: 11138815
    Abstract: A vehicle management system includes: a vehicle including a control unit and a communication control unit; and a communication terminal configured to communicate with the vehicle. The communication terminal includes: an arithmetic processing unit configured to output an activation signal for activating the control unit when the communication terminal is turned on or when an application stored in the communication terminal is started; a communication unit configured to transmit the activation signal output by the arithmetic processing unit to the communication control unit; and a notification unit configured to notify a vehicle information output from the control unit activated in response to the activation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11132892
    Abstract: In some implementations, techniques are described for detecting abnormal installations in a property monitored by a monitoring (e.g., security) system. For instance, an aberration engine may be used to detect an abnormal sensor or system installation within a property based on comparing detected installation data against local installation patterns of local providers within a certain proximity to the property. In some examples, the attributes (e.g., installation time, components used, number of tests performed, etc.) of a monitoring system installation, including installation of components of the monitoring system, may be compared to average installation times of other nearby installations to detect abnormalities in the installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen Scott Trundle
  • Patent number: 11122419
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for obtaining initial cellular network connectivity. A method is performed by a terminal device. The method comprises obtaining an activation code for a network subscription and MNO specific information. The method comprises identifying at least one MNO from the MNO specific information. The method comprises wirelessly authenticating with an MNO node of one of the at least one identified MNO by using the MNO specific information to obtain the initial cellular network connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Kazi Wali Ullah, Vesa Lehtovirta, Patrik Salmela
  • Patent number: 11113910
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose an anti-passback method, apparatus and system. A plurality of access controllers are communicatively connected to a server. After detecting that a card reader has successfully read an identifier of an access card, an access controller sends the identifier of the access card, an identifier of the card reader, and its own identifier to the server. The server searches for the identifier of the card reader that read the access card last time, and the identifier of the access controller corresponding to the card reader, and determines a route for the door opening request. When the determined route exists in a preset list of routes, the sever sends a door opening instruction to the access controller. The route list may include routes between doors under the control of the plurality of access controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 11103015
    Abstract: This document describes techniques using, and objects embodying, an interactive fabric which is configured to sense user interactions in the form of single or multi-touch-input (e.g., gestures). The interactive fabric may be integrated into a wearable interactive garment (e.g., a jacket, shirt, or pants) that is coupled (e.g., via a wired or wireless connection) to a gesture manager. The gesture manager may be implemented at the interactive garment, or remote from the interactive garment, such as at a computing device that is wirelessly paired with the interactive garment and/or at a remote cloud based service. Generally, the gesture manager recognizes user interactions to the interactive fabric, and in response, triggers various different types of functionality, such as answering a phone call, sending a text message, creating a journal entry, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Poupyrev, Carsten C. Schwesig, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Hakim K. Raja, David Scott Allmon, Gerard George Pallipuram, Shiho Fukuhara, Nan-Wei Gong
  • Patent number: 11095405
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless communication. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit used to determine, for each user, a cooperation range of the user on the basis of a statistical model indicating distribution of access points within a pre-determined range around the user and a communication quality requirement of the user; and a set of cooperative access points for the user determined on the basis of the cooperation range, wherein an access point in the set of cooperative access points is assigned to the user to perform cooperative transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youping Zhao, Dongzhi Zhu, Chen Sun, Xin Guo, Kangyi Liu, Wei Ding
  • Patent number: 11077829
    Abstract: An authentication information providing server includes: a memory configured to store information about vehicles associated with a recipient of a package as a place of delivery, and store pieces of authentication information corresponding to lock/unlock devices each configured to lock or unlock a corresponding one of predetermined compartments of the vehicles; and a processor configured to issue the authentication information to a delivery user terminal based on a request from the delivery user terminal, the delivery user terminal being used by a user who delivers the package, and, when there is a request from the delivery user terminal to set a place of delivery of the package to a vehicle different from a first one of the vehicles, corresponding to the authentication information issued first by the processor, issue the authentication information corresponding to a second one of the vehicles, different from the first one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Etsuko Nakajima, Naoki Uenoyama, Junya Masui, Akira Hoshino, Hideo Hasegawa, Keiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 11082085
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication device, a base station and respective methods for a communication device and a base station. The communication device comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives, from a base station, a hopping pattern indicator, a hopping pattern being an order of a plurality of bandwidth parts by which a signal is to be received or transmitted in a plurality of transmission time intervals, TTIs, a bandwidth part being formed by at least one physical resource block. The communication device further comprises circuitry which, in operation, determines a hopping pattern to be applied based on the hopping pattern indicator. The transceiver, in operation, further receives or transmits the signal in the plurality of TTIs according to the determined hopping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Quan Kuang, David Gonzalez, Rikin Shah
  • Patent number: 11082101
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for channelizing and beamforming a wideband waveform are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for transmitting and receiving wideband waveforms that are beamformed on a per-channel basis during generation of the wideband waveforms. A transmitter may separate a first wideband signal into segments, with each segment bandwidth corresponding to a channel of the system bandwidth, and may map the segments to channels. The segments may be replicated to generate multiple copies of each segment. The transmitter may beamform and combine the copies of the segments to generate multiple wideband waveforms, and transmit each wideband waveform using a different antenna. A receiver may receive multiple wideband waveforms using multiple antennas and may separate each wideband waveform into segments, then beamform and de-map the segments. The techniques may be used to transmit and receive beamformed wideband waveforms over tactical data links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael T. Kretsch, David C. Jacobs, David J. Trusheim, Robert T. Short
  • Patent number: 11076283
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving, by a sink device and from a source device, identity information corresponding to a subscriber information module (SIM) of the source device via a connection between the sink device and the source device; registering, at the sink device, a remote SIM with the identity information corresponding to the SIM of the source device; and communicating, by an application of the sink device and using the remote SIM, with an external device via a cellular radio transceiver of the source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vasudeva Nori, Syed Rizvi, Joseph Pirozzo, Haris Ramic, Amit Mahajan
  • Patent number: 11063636
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless power transmission system and, more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for performing handover between heterogeneous communication methods. A wireless power transmission apparatus and reception apparatus can indicate whether to support out-band communication thereof on the basis of an out-band flag. The wireless power transmission apparatus can request the wireless power reception apparatus to start a handover by using a bit pattern requesting the handover. The handover procedure to out-band may be performed in a negotiation phase or may be performed in a separate handover phase. Information for establishing an out-band communication connection can be transmitted from the wireless power reception apparatus to the wireless power transmission apparatus through in-band communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yongcheol Park, Gyunghwan Yook, Seonghun Lee
  • Patent number: 11057744
    Abstract: A geolocationing system, personal locator device, and method for providing awareness in a multi-space environment, such as a hospitality environment or educational environment, are presented. In one embodiment, a personal locator device includes a first operational mode that determines an estimated location of the personal locator device by communicating with a server via an array of gateway devices defining an area of coverage. The personal locator device also has a second operational mode that determines the estimated location of the personal locator device by communicating with a server via a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device. The second operational mode may be utilized when the personal locator device is out of the area of coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Enseo, LLC
    Inventors: Vanessa Ogle, William C. Fang, Thomas R. Miller
  • Patent number: 11043049
    Abstract: The disclosed system and method allows opening of a safe by either the safe's electronic lock, and/or by any on-site or remote access control systems. The system and method provides a data audit of all safe opening and closing, with user, time and date recordings, allows for exceptions reporting of any safe openings with a keyed bypass, and utilizes a variety of electronic high security safe locks and audit locks. An access control relay powers the safe lock's internal actuator, bypassing the safe lock's logic decoding, allowing the safe to be opened. A diode may prevent feedback to lock's logic circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Scott C. Denton
  • Patent number: 11044136
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for estimating a frequency offset in a wireless communication system. The method for estimating a frequency offset of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: acquiring a first symbol from which a cyclic prefix (CP) symbol of a received symbol is removed; acquiring a second symbol from which data having a length corresponding to a length of CP is removed at an end opposite to the end in which the CP is present in the received symbol; and estimating the frequency offset by using the first symbol and the second symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Ikbeom Lee
  • Patent number: 11035969
    Abstract: A seabed object detection system is provided. The system can include a receiver array. The receiver array can include a plurality of receivers disposed on a plurality of streamers. The plurality of streamers can include a central port side streamer, a central starboard side streamer, an auxiliary port side streamer and an auxiliary starboard side streamer. The system can include a source array. The source array can include a plurality of sources. The plurality of sources can include a central port side source, a central starboard side source, an auxiliary port side source, and an auxiliary port side streamer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Magseis FF LLC
    Inventor: Graham Gillott