Patents Examined by Huy C Ho
  • Patent number: 11838857
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is performed by a user equipment (UE). The method receives, from a network, a configuration for a decision making module. The method also executes the decision making module to determine a selection parameter for a configuration of at least one machine learning module. The method selects the configuration of the at least one machine learning module based on the selection parameter. Further, the method reports, to the network, a decision resulting from executing the decision making module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Hua Wang, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11831566
    Abstract: This application relates to a method for transmitting a scene image of a virtual scene. The method includes: rendering a first image to obtain a first rendered image, wherein the first image is obtained through acquisition of display data of a virtual scene when the display data changes; acquiring a first time point at which the rendering of the first image is completed; encoding the first rendered image to obtain an encoded image when an interval between the first time point and a second time point is not less than a first interval threshold, wherein the second time point is a time point at which image encoding is performed last time; and transmitting the encoded image to a terminal for decoding and displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Minhua Xu, Dawei Sun, Liang Fang, Tao Ren, Chuanqi Kan
  • Patent number: 11821299
    Abstract: Methods, computing systems, and computer-readable media for interpreting drilling dynamics data are described herein. The method can include receiving drilling dynamics data simulated by a processor or collected by a sensor positioned in a drilling tool. The method can further include extracting a feature map from the drilling dynamics data, and determining that a feature zone from the feature map corresponds to a predetermined dynamic state. The feature zone can be determined using a neural network trained to associate feature zones with dynamic states. Additionally, the method can include selecting a drilling parameter for a drill string based on the feature zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Yingwei Yu, Yuelin Shen, Zhengxin Zhang, Velizar Vesselinov
  • Patent number: 11816567
    Abstract: In a system for identifying objects by means of distributed neural networks a resource-intensive proportion of the neural network is provided at a base station (on the ground), whereas a less resource-intensive proportion of the neural network, in particular the remaining proportion of the neural network, is provided at a front end (for example remote-controlled vehicle). The technical complexity for the front-end side and for the transmission of data between the base station and front end can thus be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Feigenbutz
  • Patent number: 11810447
    Abstract: The personal alarm device communicates with emergency personnel, such as an emergency dispatcher at 911, and emergency contacts. The user depresses an emergency button that initiates communication with the emergency personnel and the emergency contacts. A covering, such as an outer rim or bezel, covers the emergency button, to limit access to the emergency button. The user rotates the covering to align an opening in the covering with the emergency button. Pressing the emergency button transmits communications to emergency personnel and the emergency contacts. These communications include a phone call, a recorded message, a text message, or other message. The alarm device also provides a light and speaker to assist the user. The speaker plays the audio of the phone call and plays an alarm to alert others in the vicinity of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Madison Michelle Riley
  • Patent number: 11812289
    Abstract: A disclosure of the present specification provides a method performed by a network node that manages mobility in a first public land mobile network (PLMN). The network node may receive an access request message of a terminal from a base station in the first PLMN. The terminal may be a terminal having joined a second PLMN. On the basis of occurrence of a failure in the second PLMN, the network node may determine whether to allow the terminal to roam to the first PLMN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsook Kim, Sungduck Chun, Laeyoung Kim, Sangmin Park, Myungjune Youn
  • Patent number: 11812365
    Abstract: One or more servers (11) communicate with one or more applications running on each of a plurality of wireless terminals (2) via a first or second cellular communication network (3, 4). Depending on a load of the first cellular communication network, the one more servers (11) select from the first and second cellular communication networks (3, 4) a cellular communication network to be used by each wireless terminal (2) to communicate with the one more servers (11). The one more servers (11) send to each wireless terminal (2) a control message to prompt each wireless terminal (2) to use the selected network. This for example makes it possible to select among a plurality of cellular communication networks in consideration of load status of the cellular communication networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Yanai, Hiroaki Aminaka, Tetsuo Fujii
  • Patent number: 11792889
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for ad-hoc authenticated group discovery and data sharing in a mesh network. A group of devices is created without leaving a security gap due to the open communication needed to establish the discovery of the devices forming the group. The group can be authenticated autonomously following network discovery of the devices. Instead of requiring global pre-assigned keys for authentication, the devices in the group are authenticated with signatures and certificate passing thereby providing strong security. The efficiency of data sharing between the devices of the network, such as a mesh network, can also be increased. One or more devices may act as a bridge device between devices of a same group that are not in direct wireless communication with each other to reduce re-broadcasts within the mesh network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Itron, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Damm, Eric Donald White, Tommi Petteri Parkkila
  • Patent number: 11792612
    Abstract: A method of updating a background data transfer, BDT, policy negotiated between an application function, AF, and a Core Network, CN, is disclose. The method is performed by a Policy Control Function, PCF, of the CN and comprises determining updated BDT policy information including updated conditions for the negotiated BDT policy and at least one candidate BDT policy for the AP to select when the PCF determines that the negotiated BDT policy is affected by degraded network performance. The determined updated BDT policy information is then sent to the AF by the PCF using notification type interaction, thereby effectively updating the negotiated BDT policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Antonio Iniesta Gonzalez, Wenliang Xu, Susana Fernandez Alonso, Miguel Angel Garcia Martin, Miguel Angel Puente Pestaña, Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos
  • Patent number: 11765644
    Abstract: A second network which communicates with a communication system for providing access to a network other than a first network, via the second network, to a wireless terminal on which an identification number for accessing the first network is stored, configured to: receive a connection initiation request on C-plane from the wireless terminal to send the connection initiation request to the communication system, receive a gateway ID of a gateway on U-plane to the network connected to the second network, selected on the communication system based on a network ID of the second network, in response to the connection initiation request, wherein the gateway is within a third network other than the first network, and establish a communication path between the gateway on U-plane designated by the gateway ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SORACOM, INC.
    Inventors: Daichi Funato, Kenta Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 11765277
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for intelligent, real-time network consumption tracking and traffic steering in fifth-generation (5G) networks via a network configuration and implementation. The disclosed hybrid network traffic steering is effectuated by using Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) and Subscriber Location Function (SLF) to route/steer fourth-generation (4G) network traffic by 5G subscribers to a 5G Charging Function (CHF) for 4G fallback network consumptions. Network currency consumption tracking is performed by the 5G CHF. The CHF dictates policy rules for 5G networks via the Policy Control Function (PCF) of the 5G Core, and dictates policy rules for 4G networks via the Policy and Charging Rules Functions (PCRF) for fallback sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Madhan Muralimanohar, Violeta Cakulev, Muthukumar Retnasamy, Hans Raj Nahata
  • Patent number: 11765728
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless sidelink resource allocation for a user equipment (UE) assisted by an anchor UE. Various mechanisms are disclosed for handling releasing of the anchor UE initiated by either the anchor UE or the assisted UE, and for handling sidelink resources already allocated to the UE by the anchor UE prior to the release. Additional mechanisms are disclosed for using an anchor UE to assist in allocating sidelink resources to multiple UEs configurable in a shared manner or non-shared manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Luo, Lin Chen, Boyuan Zhang, Weiqiang Du
  • Patent number: 11765276
    Abstract: Mechanisms for implementing a billing process between a first Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN1) and a second Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN2) for a subscriber of the PLMN1 that visits the PLMN2. A method comprises establishing a smart contract between the PLMN1, the PLMN2, and a Data Clearance House (DCH). The method comprises sending a subscriber usage record, represented by a distributed ledger, of the subscriber from the PLMN2 to the DCH using a blockchain upon the subscriber having visited the PLMN2, wherein the blockchain is based on the smart contract. The method comprises sending the subscriber usage record from the DCH to the PLMN1 using the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: K Arunkumar, Darwin Chandran, Karthikeyan Chandrasekar, Ramkumar N, Gopala Krishnan Ramasubbu, Ravi Sekhar Reddy V
  • Patent number: 11758055
    Abstract: A system is provided enabling creation of a portal to telecommunications services managed by an enterprise user on behalf of accountholders of the enterprise. The system includes a first layer providing access to at least a business support system, an operational support system, a provisioning system, a home location register, and a billing system. The system also includes a second layer providing access to a wizard interface programmed for: creating a portal by the enterprise user with an application enabled to selectively access and/or modify data and settings accessible through a security layer from the first layer; and publishing the portal. The system also includes a third layer providing access to the portal by an accountholder of the enterprise after publishing. The application is: a glanceable application showing the data or settings in a summary visual fashion; or a full application showing the data or settings in a detailed fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TierOne OSS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramachandra Prabu Mathiyalagan, Paul Vedam
  • Patent number: 11755886
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory media for performing radio frequency sensing detection operations. For instance, radio frequency data can be received that is associated with at least one wireless device. The radio frequency data can be based on radio frequency signals reflected from a first object and received by the at least one wireless device. Training label data can also be obtained (e.g., from a labeling device, from the at least one wireless device, etc.). The training label data can be based at least in part on the first object and input data (e.g., received by the labeling device, the at least one wireless device, etc.). A sensing model can be generated based on the radio frequency data and the training label data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Simone Merlin, Jamie Menjay Lin, Brian Michael Buesker, Rui Liang, Daniel Hendricus Franciscus Dijkman, Farhad Ghazvinian Zanjani, Ilia Karmanov, Vamsi Vegunta, Harshit Joshi, Bibhu Mohanty, Raamkumar Balamurthi
  • Patent number: 11748976
    Abstract: A plant treatment platform uses a plant detection model to detect plants as the plant treatment platform travels through a field. The plant treatment platform receives image data from a camera that captures images of plants (e.g., crops or weeds) growing in the field. The plant treatment platform applies pre-processing functions to the image data to prepare the image data for processing by the plant detection model. For example, the plant treatment platform may reformat the image data, adjust the resolution or aspect ratio, or crop the image data. The plant treatment platform applies the plant detection model to the pre-processed image data to generate bounding boxes for the plants. The plant treatment platform then can apply treatment to the plants based on the output of the machine-learned model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BLUE RIVER TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Lee Kamp Redden, Christopher Grant Padwick, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, James Patrick Ostrowski
  • Patent number: 11751131
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a network node, an apparatus, a computer program, and a method for selecting a mobile communications system for a mobile communications service. The method includes obtaining for each of multiple mobile communications services information on a required quality of service (rQoS) of the mobile communications services, determining for each of multiple mobile communications systems information on a predicted quality of service, and selecting from the multiple mobile communications systems a mobile communications system for each of multiple mobile communications services based on the information on the rQoS and the pQoS of the mobile communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Guillaume Jornod, Andreas Pfadler
  • Patent number: 11743699
    Abstract: A method of discovering services provided by a network function, NF, in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, based telecommunication network, wherein said network function is registered, in a Network Repository Function, NRF, comprised by said telecommunication network, using a service name, a service address and a selection rule, wherein said selection rule defines a further service address and a precondition for applying said selection rule, said method comprising the steps of receiving, by said NRF, a discovery request, from a Network Function, NF, consumer, wherein said discovery request comprises said service name, determining, by said NRF, that said selection rule applies by determining that said precondition is met based on said received discovery request and transmitting, by said NRF, to said NF consumer, a discovery response, wherein said discovery response comprises said further service address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Maria Cruz Bartolomé Rodrigo, Maria Esther Bas Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11736623
    Abstract: A charging function device may include a processor configured to obtain subscription information associated with a user equipment (UE) device in a wireless communication network. The processor may be further configured to receive, from a gateway device, data flow information relating to data flows associated with the UE device; receive, from a policy device, policy information relating to policies applied to the data flows associated with the UE device; generate a record for the UE device based on the received data flow information and the received policy information, wherein the record identifies at least one account charge based on a particular data flow associated with the UE device; and provide the generated charging record to an account system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lalit R. Kotecha, Suzann Hua, Patricia R. Chang, Jin Yang, Donna L. Polehn, Vishwanath Ramamurthi, Arda Aksu
  • Patent number: 11737049
    Abstract: A computerized method for releasing a set of policies implemented on a network device is disclosed including detecting a speed of the network device is zero mph, initiating a policy release counter and determining a position of the network device has changed prior to the policy release counter satisfying a counting requirement. The computerized method further includes detecting the speed of the network device is greater than zero mph and less than a threshold speed, requesting first and second RSSI values from the transceiver, where the first and second RSSI values correspond to first and second communications transmitted by the network device to the transceiver separated by a delay, comparing the first RSSI value and the second RSSI value, and when the second RSSI value is greater than the first RSSI value, releasing the set of policies implemented on the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NoCell Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Donald McKeefery