Patents Examined by Jean Gelin
  • Patent number: 10484958
    Abstract: A wrist-worn electronic device includes a lower housing, including a lower surface and a side wall formed of electrically conductive material, an upper housing including a bezel formed of an electrically conductive material, and an antenna formed by a nonconductive slot between the lower and upper housings. The nonconductive slot may be formed between a first portion of a lower surface of the bezel along a circumference of the bezel, a first portion of a top surface of the side wall along a circumference of the side wall, and electrical connections between two electrical ground terminals on the top surface of the side wall and the two electrical ground locations on the lower surface of the bezel. The antenna may be configured to transmit or receive electronic signals to determine a current geographic location or allow wireless communication with other electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Garmin Switzerland GmbH
    Inventors: Abu T. Sayem, Matthew L. Russell
  • Patent number: 10482493
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method that may include accessing events in a field-searchable data store. The events may include raw machine data associated with a timestamp. The raw machine data may represent interactions between a mobile device and one or more network devices at a locale. The method may further include determining, based on the interactions, one or more geographic positions of the mobile device, and calculating a metric for the locale using the geographic positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Gabriel Nash, Andrew Hoy Stein
  • Patent number: 10484992
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein to selectively protect some resources of a transmission opportunity, but not all resources of a transmission opportunity. A base station may schedule resources to be used to communicate data with a user equipment (UE). To indicate to potential interference sources, a silencing message may broadcast to other network entities. The silencing message may include an indication of resources to be protected for a transmission between the base station and the UE. The silencing message may indicate a subset of resources that is less than a set of all resources of a transmission opportunity. In some examples, the silencing message may indicate a subset of frequency subbands of the transmission opportunity. In response to the silencing message, potential interference sources may refrain from communicating data during the indicated subset of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Kamel Sadek, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 10469668
    Abstract: An exemplary method involves a user equipment (UE) receiving a communication-origination request to initiate a communication with a given counterpart. In response, the UE: (a) uses historical communication data for one or more previous communications as a basis for evaluating whether the UE is likely to be assigned a particular codec, from a plurality of possible codecs, for communication with the given counterpart; (b) based on results of the evaluation, determines a respective setting for each of one or more access parameters affecting a likelihood of successfully establishing the communication with the given counterpart; and (c) performs the communication-origination process according to the determined settings for the one or more access parameters, to initiate the requested communication with the given counterpart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Siddharth S. Oroskar, Jasinder P. Singh
  • Patent number: 10466063
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing access to a media item based at least in part on a route may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a start location of a mobile device. The processor may be further configured to receive a route. In this regard, the route may have been determined based at least in part on points of interest and the start location. The processor may be further configured to provide for access to a media item if a current location of the mobile device remains on the route. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jukka Antero Holm, Antti Eronen, Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 10469993
    Abstract: Methods of determining beacon relevance include receiving a beacon broadcast resulting in a received beacon broadcast, wherein the beacon broadcast comprises a range of relevance and informational data, determining a strength of the received beacon broadcast, comparing the range of relevance with the strength of the received beacon broadcast, and identifying the beacon broadcast as relevant if the strength of the received beacon broadcast exceeds the range of relevance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Industrial Scientific Corporation
    Inventors: Raghu Arunachalam, L. Robert Crouthamel
  • Patent number: 10462306
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mobile device usage optimization are described herein. These methods can include automated mobile device usage data collection, analysis, usage optimization through device level pooling, reallocation, and/or other device plan optimizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: vMOX, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Siebels, Matthew Williamson, David Gardner
  • Patent number: 10462657
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages utilization of mobile subscriber identity information including enabling use of such information by different communication devices. The use of the same mobile subscriber identity information by multiple devices can be based on detecting device identification information associated with a registration request. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Stephen Emille Chin
  • Patent number: 10455069
    Abstract: A process triggering method is disclosed. The method may be implemented by a processor. The method may comprise receiving an input operation on an unlock interface of a terminal device, determining input operation information corresponding to the input operation, determining triggering operation information matching with the determined input operation information, determining a process corresponding to the input operation according to a predetermined corresponding relationship between the triggering operation information and the process, and triggering the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventor: Dafeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10440170
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a message in a mobile communication terminal with a touch screen are provided. The method includes generating a Simple Contact Object (SCO) mapped to at least one contact and a Simple Inputbox Object (SIO) for message composition, displaying the generated SCO and SIO on an idle screen in a widget format, composing a message using the displayed SIO, and storing the composed message in the SIO, and, when a contact between the SIO storing the message therein and the SCO is detected, transmitting the stored message to the contact mapped to the SCO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Ri Cho, Pil-Sik Choi
  • Patent number: 10440562
    Abstract: A method includes: obtaining, by a mobile device, a first part of system information needing to be used by any target cell in the cell cluster; and combining, by the mobile device, the first part of system information and a second part of system information that is prestored in the mobile device, to obtain system information needing to be used by the target cell; or replacing, by the mobile device, a part that is in prestored designated system information and that corresponds to the first part of system information with the first part of system information, and using updated designated system information as system information needing to be used by the target cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qufang Huang
  • Patent number: 10432781
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling content displayed on a user device, including the steps of by a processing content data configured for presentation on a display of the user device, transmitting the content data to one of the display, speaker, or both, collecting behavior data of the head of the user by the tracking sensor, determining, by that the user is viewing the display based on the head position and/or the amount of the head captured by the sensor. When the viewer is viewing the display generating, by the processing module of the user device, a change in the content data presented on at least one of the display, speaker, or both, and when the viewer is not viewing the display presenting, by the processing module of the user computing device, the same content data on at least one of least one of the display, speaker, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventors: Michal Knas, Jiby John
  • Patent number: 10432775
    Abstract: An emergency call circuit for an electronic device includes a dial button, a wireless communication module, an emergency call button and a logic circuit. The wireless communication module is used for dialing an emergency call according to a dial signal generated by the dial button when the wireless communication device is shut down. The logic circuit is used for transmitting an emergency call detecting signal generated by the emergency call button to the wireless communication module and a power circuit of the electronic device, wherein the power circuit supplies a first power source to the logic circuit and the wireless communication module when the electronic device is shut down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Chen-Yi Liang, Chun-Kuan Liu
  • Patent number: 10433151
    Abstract: System and method for tracking a mobile device includes: receiving unique identifications for a mobile device; filtering out the unique identifications to obtain a true identifications for the mobile device; identifying cameras relevant to movement of the mobile device; receiving video streams; generating data structures for the video streams and tracking information of the mobile device, the data structure including time stamped videos, and viewpoints of the identified cameras; utilizing the data structures to retrieve, video and tracking information for the mobile device and the user, as the mobile moves in the site; and applying analytics to the retrieved video and tracking information to analyze behavior of the user and to predict what the user will do while on site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: KIANA ANALYTICS INC.
    Inventors: Glenn R. Seidman, Klaus ten Hagen, Nader Fathi, Sebastian Andreatta
  • Patent number: 10425955
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a bearer setup method and an apparatus. The method includes: transmitting, by a user equipment, a request message to a control node, where the request message is used to request setup of a transmission bearer for transmitting a data packet of a service between the user equipment and the control node, and the request message includes a parameter of the service; receiving, by the user equipment, a response message transmitted by the control node in response to the request message, where the response message includes configuration information of the transmission bearer; and setting up, by the user equipment, the transmission bearer with the control node according to the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lingli Pang, Xiaoxiao Zheng
  • Patent number: 10416278
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining an accurate location of a signal's source of transmission. The methods involve: demodulating a detected carrier signal modulated with a Pseudo Noise (“PN”) code sequence to obtain an original information-bearing signal therefrom; computing time delay offsets using correlations of PN code windows for each symbol of the original information-bearing signal; determining a high accuracy Time Of Arrival (“TOA”) of the detected carrier signal using the time delay offsets; and using the high accuracy TOA to determine an accurate location of the original information-bearing signal's source of transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Concentric Real Time, LLC
    Inventors: Reese S. Bovard, Eric J. Jensen
  • Patent number: 10416279
    Abstract: A method for determining a location of a client device in a wireless network including the client device and at least three network devices, each of the three network devices having a known location comprises a pairwise exchanges of messages between at least three different pairs of network devices of said at least three network devices. In the pairwise exchange messages, wherein in a pairwise message exchange time difference information of the time difference between reception of a message and subsequent transmission of a message is included. This time difference information is used in the determination of the location of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Handte, Daniel Schneider, Ben Eitel
  • Patent number: 10419924
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a voice input unit configured to detect a signal from a user. In a case where the voice input unit detects a signal from the user and as a detection result of the signal from the user, it is determined that there is a signal from the user, the mobile apparatus performs sound source localization and specifies a location or direction in which the detected signal from the user is given. In a case where it is determined that the mobile apparatus is not able to move to the location where the signal from the user is given, a voice output unit configured to output a voice signal, a driving unit configured to move the mobile apparatus, and a light emitting unit configured to emit light performs predetermined control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaya, Kouichi Nakagome, Keisuke Shimada
  • Patent number: 10411779
    Abstract: According to one of the aspects, there is provided a method for providing channel state feedback related to a wireless link between a transmitter having multiple transmit antennas and a receiver having at least one receive antenna. The method comprises determining (S1) channel estimates for at least a subset of the effective channels between the transmitter and the receiver, each effective channel including a propagation channel, and signal paths in the transmitter and the receiver. The method also comprises determining (S2) frequency-independent and/or inter-antenna-independent channel state information associated with phase relaxation of at least the subset of the effective channels based on the channel estimates, and generating (S3) channel state feedback including at least a representation of the frequency-independent and/or inter-antenna-independent channel state information associated with the phase relaxation. The method further comprises transmitting (S4) the channel state feedback to the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Mattias Frenne, Robert Mark Harrison, George Jöngren
  • Patent number: 10404345
    Abstract: Measurements and Channel State Information (CSI) feedback are configured using communications between a network and user equipment (UE). The communications includes a first signaling from a network component to the UE indicating one or more reference signal (RS) resource configurations, a second signaling indicating one or more interference measurement (IM) resource configurations, and a third signaling indicating a CSI report configuration, wherein the CSI report configuration indicates a subset of the one or more RS resource configurations and a subset of the one or more IM resource configurations. The UE establishes a RS based measurement according to the subset of the one or more RS resource configurations and an IM according to the subset of the one or more IM resource configurations. The UE then generates and sends to the network a CSI report in accordance with the CSI report configuration and using the RS based measurement and the IM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Weimin Xiao, Jialing Liu, Bingyu Qu