Patents Examined by Jean Gelin
  • Patent number: 11817930
    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: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Weimin Xiao, Jialing Liu, Bingyu Qu
  • Patent number: 11812354
    Abstract: A first communications device is disposed in a first vehicle, and the first communications device includes: a first information processing unit, where the first information processing unit obtains first status information of the first vehicle; determines, based on the first status information, whether a vehicle accident occurs; and generates a first emergency call message when determining that the vehicle accident has occurred, where the first emergency call message includes a first accident level; and a first vehicle-to-vehicle communications unit, where the first vehicle-to-vehicle communications unit is coupled to the first information processing unit, and the first vehicle-to-vehicle communications unit receives the first emergency call message from the first information processing unit, and sends the first emergency call message in a first range around the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Hongzhen Zhong
  • Patent number: 11812326
    Abstract: A check-in determination apparatus 1 configured to determine check-in indicating that a terminal 2 has entered a geofence which is a prescribed geographic area includes: a related geofence information storage unit 12 configured to store related geofence information in which a related geofence which is another geofence is correlated with each geofence on the basis of a distance to the geofence; a check-in determination unit 14 configured to determine check-in of the terminal 2 sequentially with respect to each of the geofences. When it is determined that the terminal 2 has checked into one geofence, the check-in determination unit 14 excludes the related geofence correlated with the one geofence in the related geofence information stored by the related geofence information storage unit 12 from determination targets in subsequent determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tadashi Okamine, Kazuya Sasaki, Shoichi Horiguchi, Masatoshi Kimoto
  • Patent number: 11805388
    Abstract: Locations for mobile computers may be adaptively determined in a system which includes a server, a set of mobile computers, and an administrator computer. In such a system, the set of mobile computers may each be programmed with instructions operable to, when executed, transmit multiple forms of location information to the server. Additionally, the server may be programmed with a set of location determination routines and these routines may be used in determining a location for each of the mobile computers from the set of mobile computers. These locations may then be used to populate an interface of the administrator computer with icons at positions corresponding to the mobile computers' locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventors: Larry S. Schwartz, Mitesh D. Desai
  • Patent number: 11805437
    Abstract: A frequency measurement method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The frequency measurement method includes: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) release message or system information including first frequency measurement configuration information for frequency measurement in an RRC inactive mode; performing frequency measurement in the RRC inactive mode based on the first frequency measurement configuration information; receiving first RRC resume message including an indicator requesting a measurement report in the RRC inactive mode; and transmitting an RRC resume complete message including the measurement report based on the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11800432
    Abstract: A first base station receives a first request to notify a change of a closed access group (CAG) area of a wireless device. The first base station determines the change of the CAG area of the wireless device, and sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF) and based on the determining, a location report message indicating the change of the CAG area of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Jinsook Ryu, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Peyman Talebi Fard, Weihua Qiao, Jayshree Bharatia
  • Patent number: 11792600
    Abstract: A collection device includes a deciding unit that, on the basis of data obtained in advance for each area, decides a collection interval and a collection time for each of the areas, a communication unit that acquires a current position from each of measurement terminals, and an allocating unit that, in a case where there is an area corresponding to the current position acquired regarding each of the measurement terminals, calculates a slot count of slots regarding which the collection interval and the collection time are cyclically allocated, on the basis of the collection interval and the collection time of this area, and allocates slot Nos. of an amount equivalent to the slot count, to any of the measurement terminals present in this area, by a predetermined method. The communication unit transmits, to each of the measurement terminals to which slot Nos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Abe, Hitoshi Seshimo, Hiroshi Konishi
  • Patent number: 11785444
    Abstract: An Internet of things (IoT) wireless communication module. The IoT wireless communication module comprises an antenna, a radio transceiver coupled to the antenna, an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) coupled to the radio transceiver, where the eUICC is provisioned with a plurality of eSIM profiles, a non-transitory memory, a processor coupled to the non-transitory memory, to the radio transceiver, and to the eUICC, and an eSIM profile adapter application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the eSIM profile adapter application determines a system installation context of the IoT wireless communication module, selects one of the plurality of eSIM profiles stored in the eUICC based on the system installation context, and activates the selected eSIM profile in the eUICC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Dhananjay Indurkar
  • Patent number: 11778522
    Abstract: Transferring context data from a first network functional set, NFS, to another. A method and apparatuses provide for transferring restoration context data from a first NFS toward a second NFS. This method includes receiving, at the first NFS from a context transfer requester, a transfer request indicating transfer of context data toward the second NFS; transmitting, from the first NFS toward a network repository function, NRF, a context transfer request indicating transfer of context data from the first NFS to the second NFS; transmitting, from the NRF toward the first NFS, a context transfer response indicating a status of the first NFS; notifying, from the NRF toward a network function, NF, service consumer, of transfer information related to the transfer of context data from the first NFS to the second NFS; transferring, from the first NFS toward the second NFS, restoration context data; and storing the restoration context data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Maria Cruz Bartolome Rodrigo, Attila Mihály
  • Patent number: 11778484
    Abstract: A method for mobility and zone management in zone-based federated learning includes receiving, at a zone management device of multiple zone management devices, a global model from a first network device associated with the global model. Each of the multiple zone management devices is associated with a corresponding zone model of multiple zone models. The zone management device transmits the global model to mobile devices in a first zone associated with the first zone model based on a zone membership. The zone management device receives weights associated with the global model from each mobile device in the first zone. The zone management device updates the first zone model based on the received weights and the zone membership. The zone management device transmits the updated first zone model to each mobile device in the first zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: An Chen, Vijaya Datta Mayyuri
  • Patent number: 11765551
    Abstract: An information transmission method includes: when determining that a UAV has flight path information, the base station configures a first flight path point number for the UAV. The first flight path point number is configured to represent a first upper limit of flight path points that the base station allows the UAV to report. The base station sends the first flight path point number to the UAV. The UAV determines first path points information that needs to be reported in the flight path information according to the first flight path point number, and sends the first path points information to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11758381
    Abstract: A method includes receiving data identifying a responder in response to a call to an emergency operator, identifying one or more persons associated with the responder, determining communication addresses of communication devices associated with respective persons of the one or more persons, and sending a communication to each of the communication devices using the communication addresses to issue a pre-alert to the one or more persons that allows the one or more persons to prepare for a call to action. A system using natural language processing may be used to analyze a call in progress and aid in dispatching. The system may also identify the responder and assist in initiating the pre-alert prior to an alarm being sounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: EaseAlert, LLC
    Inventors: Blake Richardson, Elezar Tonev, Michael Edward Jordan
  • Patent number: 11758459
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and automated processes are provided with selective access to multiple available slices of a network from at least one cell by a user equipment (UE) to enable reductions in slice failure access to the network. The method includes: accessing at a first cell, by the UE, slice A of the network wherein slice A provides higher bandwidth and lower latency access than slice B; and accessing at a second cell, by the UE, both slice A and slice B of the network wherein slice B have greater access availability than slice A wherein if the UE attempts to access the first or second cell then via cell reselection of the UE making a determination to select the second cell if the user is authorized for use of a premium service for the higher bandwidth and lower latency access of slice A else selecting by the UE the first cell for network access of slice B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventors: Neha Goel, Siddhartha Chenumolu
  • Patent number: 11751007
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to anonymizing of trajectories of mobile devices through the obfuscation of stay points. Methods may include: receiving probe data points of a trajectory in real-time or near real-time from a probe apparatus as it travels along the trajectory; calculating, for each probe data point, a probability of the trajectory reaching a stay point within a predetermined distance; providing sequential sub-sets of probe data points of the trajectory to a location-based service provider in response to the sequential sub-sets of probe data points including probe data points having a probability failing to satisfy a predetermined value; and identifying a last sub-set of probe data points of the sequential sub-sets of probe data points to provide to the location-based service provider in response to identifying a probe data point having a probability of the trajectory reaching a stay point within the predetermined distance satisfying the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Elena Vidyakina, Gavin Brown, Elena Mumford, Ori Dov, Olivier Dousse
  • Patent number: 11743713
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for performing a secure software update in a mesh network. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: receiving, at each node of a network, a notification from a coordinating server, wherein each node of the network is listening for an image available notification; receiving, at a first node of the network, the image available notification; downloading and installing a software update image by the first node of the network; broadcasting, at the first node of the network, the image available notification to other peer nodes of the first node of the network; and downloading and installing the software update image from the first node of the network by at least one other peer node of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel P. Donahue, Robert Getschmann
  • Patent number: 11733339
    Abstract: Provided is a system (10) for remote activation of an emergency radio beacon by a Search and Rescue (SAR) party, the system (10) comprising a controller (12) operatively arranged in signal communication with an emergency radio beacon (14), a positioning module (16) arranged in signal communication with the controller (12) and configured to operatively provide spatial positioning data to the controller (12), and a receiver (18) arranged in signal communication with the controller (12) and configured to operatively receive an activation signal (20). The controller (12) is configured to activate the beacon (14) upon receipt of the activation signal (20) and to provide the spatial positioning data of a potentially lost or distressed party to the beacon (14) for transmission along with an emergency signal (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Doriette Fransien Harvey, Frederick Harvey
  • Patent number: 11736836
    Abstract: A mobile security system and device that provides a physically secured network device to extends a home network anywhere in the world where there is access to power is disclosed. The mobile security system and device has integrated logical and physical security and may be transported into an area with no internet connection and be self-sufficient and secured. The mobile security system and device includes a housing enclosing a computing apparatus, an access control mechanism to secure a door of the housing in a closed position, and a security control module to protect the data stored on the computing apparatus and provide authentication to access the enclosure. A back-up power supply supported by the housing and a wireless router to provide wireless network access to the remote home network may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: DENG IP HOLDER, LLC
    Inventor: Alan Tan
  • Patent number: 11737164
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computing device is configured to, while operating as a control device of a networked media playback system that includes a first set of network devices and a second set of network devices, (i) transmit a first message to each network device in the first set of network devices, wherein the first message comprises a command to, at a first time, temporarily disconnect from the computing device via a particular communication protocol, (ii) transmit a second message to each network device in the second set of network devices, wherein the second message comprises a command for the network device in the second set of network devices to, at a second time, test connectivity with the computing device; and (iii) after the second time, determine whether each network device in the second set of network devices was connected to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Keyser-Allen, Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Hrishikesh Gossain
  • Patent number: 11728943
    Abstract: Infrastructure equipment for transmitting data to and receiving data from a mobile device on a communications network is described. The infrastructure equipment comprising: transmitter circuitry configured to transmit the data to the mobile device; and controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry to transmit a first position reference signal in a first subframe and a second position reference signal in a second subframe, wherein the second position reference signal is a time adjusted version of the first position reference signal, the amount of time adjustment being determined by the sample time at which the mobile device samples the position reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong
  • Patent number: 11729713
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved geolocation in a low power wide area network are disclosed. One example method may include receiving an instruction to determine a geolocation of an end in a low power wide area network. An instruction may be transmitted to the end node for the end node to transmit a high-energy geolocation signal at a power of about 0.5 Watt to about 1 Watt. The end node may transmit the high-energy geolocation signal and a plurality of gateways of the low power wide area network may receive the high-energy geolocation signal. A plurality of receipt times may be identified. Each receipt time may be indicative of the time at which the high-energy geolocation signal was received by the respective gateway of the plurality of gateways. Based at least in part on the plurality of receipt times, a geolocation of the end node may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: William Carroll VerSteeg