Patents Examined by Huy C Ho
  • Patent number: 11357058
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure relate to a method for transmitting a random access preamble, and a terminal device. The method comprises: performing the i-th transmission of a random access preamble, i being a positive integer greater than 1; and if the i-th transmission of the random access preamble is performed by the same wave beam as the (i?1)-th transmission, incrementing the value of a power ramping counter of the random access preamble by 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP.. LTD.
    Inventor: Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 11350241
    Abstract: A method is disclosed including determining an indicator information indicative of one or more indicators of a current usage of an electronic device, determining a condition information indicative of if the electronic device is rigidly positioned with respect to a user, wherein the condition information is determined based, at least in part, on the determined indicator information. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer program and system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Jari Tapani Syrjarinne, Pavel Ivanov, Muhammad Irshan Khan
  • Patent number: 11343760
    Abstract: A system, method, and device for providing local electronic servicing of a machine can comprise providing, to a mobile device, access to a network manager of the machine via a pairing and connection process between the network manager and the mobile device over a network; enabling, from a back office system, local electronic access functionality, such as functionality with elevated privileges, on the mobile device upon successful pairing and connection between the network manager and the mobile device; and with the mobile device and the network manager paired and connected, electronically accessing data of the machine using the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Staub
  • Patent number: 11343659
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for differentiated service offerings based on a geo-location are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving geo-location information from a plurality of remote devices; generating one or more events in response to determining that the geo-location information for each remote device of the plurality of remote devices indicates that said each remote device has entered or exited one of a set of one or more geo-fences; and triggering an action with respect to said each remote device, the action for managing at least one service for said each remote device based on geo-location of the one or more remotes, including determining a level of service and/or type of service for said each remote based on its respective geo-location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Neville Meijers, Paul Klassen, Troy Terry, Benjamin Posthuma
  • Patent number: 11337033
    Abstract: In various aspects, a system that comprises requesting a positioning measurement data set from one or more network node devices; receiving the positioning measurement data set from the one or more network node devices; in response the receiving the positioning measurement data set, determining a time of arrival value for each positioning measurement data of the positioning measurement data set; generating a positioning measurement report comprising a group of positioning measurement report elements determined as having fulfilled a predetermined criterion; and transmitting the positioning measurement report, wherein the positioning measurement report comprises a first portion and a second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Kingstar Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Huaming Wu
  • Patent number: 11321941
    Abstract: A method for predicting crop yield of an agricultural field may include steps of applying a pre-season model to provide a pre-season model crop yield prediction, applying an in-season model to provide an in-season model crop yield prediction, applying a statistical imagery model to provide a statistical imagery model crop yield prediction, applying a histogram-based image model to provide a histogram-based image model crop yield prediction, applying crop-specific models to provide at least one crop-specific model crop yield prediction, and combining at a computing system crop yield predictions from a plurality of models within a set comprising the pre-season model, the in-season model, the statistical imagery model, the histogram-based image model, and the crop-specific models, to produce a final crop yield prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Farmers Edge Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Walker Bengtson, Chad Richard Bryant, Changchi Xian, Charles Cuell, Keilan Scholten, Fatema Tuz Zohra
  • Patent number: 11317345
    Abstract: Solutions for data network name (DNN) selection when user equipment (UE) route selection policy (URSP) rule is applied in evolved packet system (EPS) with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may start an application in an EPS network. The apparatus may select a URSP rule from one or more configured URSP rules by matching a traffic descriptor (TD) of the URSP rule with the application. The apparatus may determine whether a data network name (DNN) or access point name (APN) included in a route selection descriptor (RSD) is a local area data network (LADN) DNN or APN. The apparatus may skip the RSD in an event that the DNN or APN is the LADN DNN or APN. The apparatus may evaluate a next RSD or a next URSP rule in case that the next RSD or the next URSP rule is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventor: Chien-Chun Huang-Fu
  • Patent number: 11310703
    Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of executing concurrent communication with a first base station and a second base station based on Dual Connectivity (DC) defined in cellular communication standards of the Third Generation Partnership Project is provided. The first base station operates as a master node in the DC and the second base station operates as a secondary node in the DC. If the state of the communication apparatus has transitioned from an RRC_Inactive state to an RRC_Connected state in a state in which settings related to the DC are maintained, the communication apparatus controls the state of the communication apparatus to maintain the RRC_Connected state regardless of whether or not connection processing for establishing a connection to the second base station is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAI SHA
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 11301984
    Abstract: Sensors in a facility obtain sensor data about a user's interaction with a fixture, such as a shelf. The sensor data may include images such as obtained from overhead cameras, weight changes from weight sensors at the shelf, and so forth. Based on the sensor data, one or more hypotheses that indicate the items and quantity may be determined and assessed. The hypotheses may be based on information such as the location of a user and where their hands are, weight changes, physical layout data indicative of where items are stowed, cart data indicative of what items are in the possession of the user, and so forth. A hypothesis having a greatest confidence value may be deemed to be representative of the user's interaction, and interaction data indicative of the item and quantity may be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Dilip Kumar, Nikhil Chacko, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai, Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Gerard Guy Medioni, Kushagra Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11294563
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of the system allow users to write handwritten notes, such as to-do items and calendar events, and have them converted into online objects and actions by a handwriting parser engine. The handwriting is processed and converted into commands that execute online actions or create online objects, which can be local to a device (e.g., creating a calendar entry in a calendar program) or can involve actions using or taken over a communication system (e.g., creating a calendar entry in an online calendar, making a purchase from an online service, transmitting a text or email message, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Rocket Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Epstein, Joseph Lemay
  • Patent number: 11297682
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for indirectly activating at least one connected object intended to be joined to a network of connected objects, the network of connected objects including at least one network organizing agent and a commissioning agent, each including a communication module, the communication module including a first radiofrequency interface suitable for communicating according to a first communication protocol, the method including a step of collecting information that is useful for connecting at least one connected object to the network of connected objects by a mobile terminal, a step of transmitting, by the mobile terminal, the collected information to the commissioning agent and a step of inputting at least one connected object into the network of connected objects using information useful for connecting the connected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Hubert Cosserat, Thibaut Desbrugeres, Emmanuel Pauchard
  • Patent number: 11291080
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure a plurality of new radio (NR) links of a E-UTRAN new radio (NR) dual connectivity (EN-DC) comprising a first radio access technologies (RAT) and a second, different RAT. A first link quality metric (LQM) evaluation of the first RAT is generated independently of generating a second LQM evaluation of the second RAT. A radio frequency (RF) interface, is configured to provide, to RF circuitry, data for a transmission of the first LQM evaluation and the second LQM evaluation based on a data split at a protocol layer so that a network component of base station can utilize the data to configure a data flow over the links based on link quality metrics provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Lakshmi Kavuri, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Vijay Venkataraman, Sulabh Khandelwal, Wen Zhao
  • Patent number: 11284465
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device capable of performing both fourth-generation (4G) and fifth-generation (5G) communications, which includes a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with a base station according to at least one of a first communication method and a second communication method, and a modem configured to determine whether an establishment of a communication link according to the first communication method is allowed when a first communication link command according to the first communication method is to received from the base station, and to establish the communication link according to the first communication method based on a result of the determination or re-attempt to establish the communication link according to the first communication method through a recovery process, and wherein the modem interrupts the recovery process to prevent repeated exchange of unnecessary messages with the base station when the establishment of the communication lin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunyub Jeon, Hyuntae Kim, Uncheol Lee, Donghyun Cho, Jina Choi, Bermseok Noh, Inkyung Kim, Jinhoon Kim, Sunghwan Ong
  • Patent number: 11284370
    Abstract: Provided are a method by which a terminal transmits a ranging response signal in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. The method comprises: receiving a ranging request signal from another terminal; and transmitting a ranging response signal to the other terminal in response to the ranging request signal, wherein a resource for transmission of the ranging response signal is determined on the basis of a reception power level of the ranging request signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Sangrim Lee
  • Patent number: 11284478
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise a first communication module, a second communication module, and a processor. The processor may check the strength of a signal received from an external electronic device by using the communication module or the second communication module. If the strength satisfies a first designated condition, the processor may transmit first data, among data to be transmitted to the external electronic device, to the external electronic device by using a first designated frequency corresponding to the first communication module, and may transmit second data, among the data, to the external electronic device by using a second designated frequency corresponding to the second communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sehwan Choi, Hyoseok Na, Jungsik Park
  • Patent number: 11270470
    Abstract: The color coding approach adopted by the Anchor Point Cloud Compression (PCC) leads to a significant color distortion, even at very low compression ratios. This color distortion is also referred to as color leaking. Two approaches are able to mitigate the color leaking. Both approaches reduce the color leaking significantly, while one of them (e.g., 1D subsampling) is more robust and preferred in most cases. A more general approach is an adaptive selection between these two approaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arash Vosoughi, Ali Tabatabai
  • Patent number: 11265786
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of monitoring a radio access network (RAN) is provided. The method includes receiving access stratum data that is a function of cell trace records (CTRs) associated with wireless communication transported to or from one or more cells of the RAN, wherein the CTRs are obtained at a granularity sufficient to detect one or more events, the events defining a segment or occurring during a segment, wherein a segment is defined by the beginning, end, or any handovers of a call included in the wireless communication. The method further includes detecting in the access stratum data one or more state transitions as indicated by the events and outputting an enhanced session record (ESR) including information processed from the access stratum data associated with the respective one or more detected state transitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NetScout Systems, Inc
    Inventors: Robert William Froehlich, Wing F. Lo
  • Patent number: 11259363
    Abstract: Apparatus includes a plurality of wireless communication modules for connecting apparatus to a server that manages the apparatus via a plurality of networks different from one another; storage that stores, for each of the networks, a characteristic regarding communication; acquirer that acquires communication information indicating, for each of communication modules, whether communication via the communication module is possible; identifier that identifies a specific communication module from among communication modules, the specific communication module being indicated by the communication information as being a communication module via which communication is possible, and being selected based on the characteristic; and controller that causes the specific communication module identified by identifier to connect to the server to enable communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoki Ogawa, Mitsuki Yamada, Masayuki Kozuka, Kunio Gobara, Yoshishige Yoshikawa, Shinya Nakai, Junya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11252533
    Abstract: The use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication cells in conjunction with MEC nodes may provide low-latency processing of vehicle movement data to generate vehicle guidance instructions for vehicles. Vehicle movement data of vehicles are received at a base station of a wireless carrier network from a UAV communication cell that is attached to the base station. The base station sends the vehicle movement data to a mobile edge computing (MEC) node that directly communicates with the base station so that the MEC node generates vehicle guidance instructions. The vehicle guidance instructions are then received by the base station from the MEC node. In turn, the base station sends the vehicle guidance instructions to the UAV communication cell for broadcasting to vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Gaviphat Lekutai
  • Patent number: 11246093
    Abstract: A signal processing device, which processes a baseband signal for wireless communication, includes a plurality of temperature sensors arranged to sense internal temperatures of the signal processing device, respectively, a threshold storage storing a plurality of thresholds, and a controller that estimates a surface temperature based on the sensed internal temperatures and performs a thermal mitigation operation based on the surface temperature and a plurality of temperature ranges defined by the plurality of thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyunseok Yu