Patents Examined by Huy C Ho
  • Patent number: 11240627
    Abstract: The present invention may include designating one or more potentially dangerous conditions, regions, or objects as risk factors within a venue, tracking the location of the user's mobile devices in relation to the risk factors, and monitoring the risk of damage posed to the mobile devices by the risk factors; if the risk of damage exceeds a threshold, alerting the user to the presence of the risk factor and the potential danger to the mobile device. The present invention may further involve, responsive to the user's actions and the risk of potential device damage, performing one or more precautionary actions to reduce or prevent data loss or damage to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Lisa Seacat DeLuca
  • Patent number: 11234099
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus (12) is presented that detects wireless signals from external devices (18) that uniquely identify each of the external devices, records, in memory (30), information about the external devices without access to an external database, and compares information from the external devices to determine a relative location of the wearable device without using additional, power-hungry position location functionality if there is a threshold match in the compared information. In some embodiments, the invention uses the determined relative location to trigger an action at another device. The invention, using self-contained functionality, enables improvements in same location or home location determination accuracy, memory conservation, and power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Prasenjit Roy, Tomas Russ, Chibing Liu, Paul Baril
  • Patent number: 11234119
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes detecting an occurrence of an overheating condition in the UE, and based thereon, determining a first set of operating capabilities of the UE from a second set of operating capabilities of the UE, where the first and second set of operating capabilities are associated with a connection between the UE and a network entity, and where the first set of operating capabilities is a reduction in operating capability of the UE when compared to the second set of operating capabilities, triggering a transfer of UE capability information associated with the first set of operating capabilities, and applying, by the UE, the first set of operating capabilities to the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Jian Wang, Haibo Xu
  • Patent number: 11233670
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include a first HA device having a network address associated therewith. The first HA device may include a first wireless device to transmit the network address using a first wireless protocol, and a second wireless device using a second wireless protocol. The HA system may also include a second HA device. The second HA device may include a first wireless device to receive the network address from the first wireless device of the first HA device, and a second wireless device using the network address to communicate with the second wireless device of the first HA device using the second wireless protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: K4CONNECT INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan Andrew Gould
  • Patent number: 11228684
    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: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TierOne OSS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramachandra Prabu Mathiyalagan, Paul Vedam
  • Patent number: 11218935
    Abstract: A Narrow Band-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) communications link between a wireless access point of a non-cellular network and a cellular base station of a cellular network is implemented and used to support load management operations in a communications system including a cellular network and a non-cellular network. A service management system uses UE performance information and network statistics communicated over the NB-IoT communications link to evaluate network loading with regard to congestion in the non-cellular network. The session management system initiates a communications session for congestion control to offload a session from a congested network to a less congested network. The NB-IoT link is used to communicate session handoff related signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Saran Khalid
  • Patent number: 11219077
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The embodiments herein relate to wireless communication system and more particularly relates to a method for coordination of Radio Resource Control (RRC) configurations between interworking nodes in dual connectivity in wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Neha Sharma, Hyunjeong Kang, Pravjyot Singh Deogun, Rajavelsamy Rajadurai
  • Patent number: 11212699
    Abstract: A wireless User Equipment (UE) attaches to a Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) gNodeB in a wireless communication network. The wireless communication network receives a Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) request for the UE. In the wireless communication network, a Policy Control Function (PCF) efficiently invokes an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) and a Session Management Function (SMF) to effectively serve the GBR request. The AMF signals the UE and the 5GNR gNodeB to initiate the GBR service over the Long Term Evolution eNodeB. The SMF signals a data gateway to initiate the GBR service with the LTE eNodeB. The UE attaches to the LTE eNodeB. The LTE eNodeB and the data gateway deliver the requested GBR service to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Rajil Malhotra, Naresh Madineni, Deveshkumar Narendrapratap Rai
  • Patent number: 11202255
    Abstract: A method performed by a network access node (NAN) can re-authenticate a network entity for a telecommunications network with a locally cached profile. The NAN can receive a connection request of a wireless device to access the network, receive an indication that the network entity has been authenticated by the unified data management (UDM) to provide access to the network, fetch entity profile data from the UDM, and cache the entity profile data locally, along with an indication of a time period during which the cached profile data is available for re-authenticating the network entity without needing to re-fetch the entity profile data or check with the UDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Venson Shaw
  • Patent number: 11197234
    Abstract: A communication system for providing access to a network via a second network to a wireless terminal on which an identification number for accessing a first network is stored, comprising: a receiving unit for receiving a connection initiation request on C-plane from the wireless terminal; a selection unit for selecting a gateway on U-plane to the network connected to the second network based on an obtained network ID of the second network, in response to the connection initiation request; and a sending unit for sending a gateway ID of the selected gateway on U-plane toward the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SORACOM, INC.
    Inventors: Daichi Funato, Kenta Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 11181608
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of a method, system and asset tag that enables general, coarse and fine estimates of a location of the asset tag. The asset tag receives a signal transmitted from radio frequency (RF)-enabled nodes within a space. Each respective received signal includes a unique node identifier of the respective RF node that transmitted the respective received radio signal. Each RF node has a physical node location in the space that is associated with the unique node identifier. The tag measures the received signal strength of each respective received signal that is associated with the node identifier of the RF node that transmitted the respective received signal. The strongest measured received signal strengths are selected, and a tuple containing the node identifiers for the selected strongest signal strengths is forwarded for estimating a location of the asset tag by a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Xiangrong Li, Mitri J. Abou-Rizk
  • Patent number: 11157736
    Abstract: A method and system including: an aerial vehicle including: a first camera comprising a first sensor having at least red, green, and blue color channels, where the blue color channel is sensitive to near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths; a first optical filter disposed in front of the first sensor, wherein the first optical filter is configured to block wavelengths below green, between red and NIR, and longer wavelength NIR; a processor having addressable memory in communication with the first camera, where the processor is configured to: capture at least one image of vegetation from the first camera; provide red, green, and NIR color channels from the captured image from the first camera; and determine at least one vegetative index based on the provided red, green, and NIR color channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventor: Phillip T Tokumaru
  • Patent number: 11160005
    Abstract: Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are a method and device for determining a service path. The method includes: if a terminal device accesses a network by a first service path, obtaining a network load state of the first service path; and according to the network load state, switching a service path by which the terminal device accesses the network from the first service path to a second service path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11147068
    Abstract: The embodiments provide a channel location indication method and a related product, including that: a network-side device sends at least one piece of indication information, the at least one piece of indication information being configured to indicate a location offset between a data channel and a first control channel or between a second control channel and the first control channel, the location offset including a time-domain location offset and/or a frequency-domain location offset and the time-domain location offset being a symbol-level offset. The embodiments are favorable for improving flexibility and efficiency of channel resource allocation in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11144958
    Abstract: A method of providing event notification of upcoming events is provided. A method may include receiving a search request comprising search criteria. The method may also include performing a first search for one or more upcoming events based on the search criteria. Further, the method may include modifying the search criteria and performing a second search for one or more upcoming events based on the modified search criteria. The method may further include determining an upcoming event based on at least one of the first search and the second search. In addition, the method may include transmitting a notification of the upcoming event from the network-based system to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: StubHub, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashley Gibson, Adam Debussy
  • Patent number: 11147091
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus, the terminal apparatus including: a multiplexing unit configured to map a PTRS signal generated based on a pseudo-random code to a resource element; and a transmitter configured to transmit a PUSCH, wherein the multiplexing unit maps the PTRS signal to a subcarrier based on at least an offset of a frequency position, a C-RNTI, the number of resource blocks to be scheduled, and a frequency density of the PTRS, and the transmitter transmits the PUSCH to which the PTRS is mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Kozue Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11140525
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure are directed to a method of routing text messages to subscribers of toll-free numbers using the toll-free exchange. Typically, an originating texter will draft a text message, using, for example, an SMS component of a cellular phone to a toll-free subscriber. In an aspect of the present disclosure, the text message is sent to the originating texter's service provider, which then routes the text message to the toll-free exchange. The toll-free exchange looks up the RESPORG ID associated with the ten-digit toll-free number, and the RESPORG ID is used for text message routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: David Aldworth
  • Patent number: 11140260
    Abstract: The disclosed system enables the display of enhanced user profile information on a terminating handset of a call recipient. A caller initially submits enhanced user profile information to a telecommunications service provider, such as the caller's name, company name, physical address, e-mail address, and photograph. When the caller places a phone call, the enhanced user profile information is displayed on a terminating handset of the call recipient. The enhanced user profile information may be transmitted directly to the call recipient or may be retrieved by a network associated with the called party. The disclosed system provides management options for both the caller and the call recipient. For example, the call recipient may specify a preference to automatically save the enhanced user profile information on the terminating handset, or the caller may specify a preference to disable or enable the display of enhanced user profile information on the terminating handset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Bikash Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11128759
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure are directed to a method of routing toll-free telephone calls using a toll-free exchange, thereby minimizing the number of hand-offs, increasing the technological capability and reducing the ultimate cost of the toll-free call. Toll-free subscribers are generally assessed a cost based on each exchange plus the duration of the call. Subscribers are also limited to the decades old technological standards of PSTN switching. It is therefore an object of the present disclosure to minimize the number of exchanges, promote technological possibility and simplify the process of directing a toll-free telephone call by providing a toll-free exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventor: David Aldworth
  • Patent number: 11117526
    Abstract: A personal electronic device mount has a mounting bracket with a left jaw, a right jaw and a central support. The mount, which can be used for large cell phones, permits the device to be held in either a “portrait” orientation or a “landscape” orientation. Each of the left jaw, right jaw and central support has an engagement plate with plural corrugations that constrain the left and right jaws to horizontal sliding movement. The corrugations form surfaces on each of the engagement plates which interface with corresponding surfaces on each of the other engagement plates. The engagement plates of the left and right jaws move with respect to each other and with respect to the engagement plate of the central support. A left jaw clamp and a right jaw clamp independently affix the left jaw engagement plate and the right jaw engagement plate to the central support engagement plate at positions as desired by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MACNEIL IP LLC
    Inventor: David S. Iverson