Patents Examined by Jing Gao
  • Patent number: 10135963
    Abstract: A mobile terminal that may take images and a control method for the mobile terminal are disclosed. The mobile terminal comprises a display module; a camera provided with a plurality of lenses; and a controller configured to receive images through the plurality of lenses and outputting the received images on the display module, wherein the controller generates one moving image data by using an image received from the first lens of the plurality of lenses and an image received from the second lens different from the first lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minchul Kim, Jeonghyun Lee, Kyungmin Cho, Jaemoo Lee, Jongkyeong Park
  • Patent number: 10129806
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a demand for real-time services to a first mobile device, by way of a base station of an LTE system. In response, utilization of a first wireless channel of a first radio of the base station is evaluated. The first radio supports a first wireless service that includes the real-time service and a non-real-time service to a second mobile device within the same cellular region. A handover of the second mobile device to a second radio of the base station is facilitated in response to the utilization. The second radio is configured to support a second wireless service that excludes the real-time service within the same cellular region. Responsive to the handover, the second radio supports the non-real-time service over the second wireless channel to the second mobile device within the cellular region. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: John McCann
  • Patent number: 10123169
    Abstract: Zone events are tracked within a venue. The zone events represent relative movements and dwelling times of multiple mobile devices within the venue as users of the respective mobile devices move and dwell among and within multiple configured zones of the venue. A relationship is inferred between at least two of the users responsive to a configured zone event threshold being satisfied by the tracked zone events that represent the relative movements and dwelling times of the mobile devices of the at least two users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Lisa Seacat DeLuca
  • Patent number: 10117094
    Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying one or more rogue devices within a wireless communication network over a particular geographic location. A rogue base station detection system receives air interface transmissions from base stations belonging to a wireless communication network, as well as from one or more rogue base stations that do not belong to the network and are used for monitoring (e.g., hacking or eavesdropping) communication terminals communicating in the network. The system typically searches for signaling channels and converts the RF signal into GSM/UMTS messages including overcoming the different encryption methods used. The system than analyzes the received transmissions so as to identify suspicious transmissions that may be transmitted by the rogue base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: VERINT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventor: Eithan Goldfarb
  • Patent number: 10111236
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a wireless communication apparatus that includes a generator configured to generate modulated signals; a mapping unit configured to map the modulated signals on at least one subcarrier in a frequency domain, the subcarrier being in a first subcarrier group corresponding to one of a plurality of subcarrier groups, wherein frequencies of the subcarrier mapped by the mapping unit is predefined by a pattern with slot, each slot including symbols in a time domain, the predefined pattern of the frequencies of each slot depending on a base station; and a transmitter configured to transmit the modulated signals mapped by the mapping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Noritaka Deguchi, Jun Mitsugi
  • Patent number: 10091608
    Abstract: Methods and mechanisms for exchanging map information in a wireless communication. In an embodiment, map information to represent at least a portion of a map is advertised by a first communication device communication independent of any request for the map information being received in a data session or a voice session. In another embodiment, a second communication device receives the wireless communication and generates a representation of the map based on the advertised map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Justin Lipman, Robert A. Colby
  • Patent number: 10085186
    Abstract: A method is described for controlling a user equipment to be served by a small cell base station in a wireless communication system including a plurality of small cell base stations controlled by a macro base station. The method includes signaling, by the small cell base station, the small cell base station capabilities to the macro base station; signaling, by the user equipment, the user equipment capabilities to the macro base station; and signaling, by the macro base station, a small cell base station configuration to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Agyapong, Emmanuel Ternon, Liang Hu, Katsutoshi Kusume, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 10045210
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for authentication of a person previously known by a server to own a telephone having a unique identifier and to possess an access code, which method involves: the server sending (53) an identification code to a terminal on request by the latter via a first network; transferring (57) the identification code to the telephone; the server receiving (59), from the telephone via a second network, the identification code in association with the unique identifier; the server (61) generating a single-use authentication token and sending (63) the latter to the telephone; returning (64) the token to the server; and, in parallel: acquiring (67) via the terminal the access code input by the person; and sending (69) said access code to the server; authentication (71) of the person is obtained by the server if the identification code, the unique identifier, the authentication token and the access code correspond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: ONEY BANK
    Inventors: Benoît Charles Maurice Fernand Ferlin, Alexis Rizet, Peyman Aleboyeh
  • Patent number: 10038972
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for allocating monitoring resources of a mobile device based on information received at the mobile device. A plurality of outdoor regions and a plurality of indoor regions associated with a geographic area may be stored on the mobile device. Additionally, a determination may be made whether the mobile device is outside of each of the plurality of outdoor regions. Additionally, monitoring resources of the mobile device may be allocated in a first mode or a second mode based on the determination whether the mobile device is outside of each of the plurality of outdoor regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Phunware, Inc.
    Inventors: Quan Feng, Jason Schmitt, Hua Luo, Narayan Iyer, Paresh Suthar, Matthew Lindenberger
  • Patent number: 10028104
    Abstract: A system and method (10) are shown for providing a guided emergency exit to personnel (12) within a building (14), and includes the steps of: automatically determining the location of each of a plurality of wireless communication devices (22) within a building in response to an emergency, each of the communication devices being assigned to a person (12); determining an escape route (28) from the building for each of the communication devices based on the location of the communication device (22) and the available paths (20) from that location to a safe exit (29); and wirelessly transmitting a sequential series of images to each of the communication devices to guide the person assigned to the device from checkpoint (18) to checkpoint along the escape route (28) until the person (12) safely exits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Chandra Potineni, Joe Ben Alphonse, Bineesh Av
  • Patent number: 10021241
    Abstract: A mobile communication device equipped for proximity detection may include a transmitter that emits a periodic ultrasound signal, a receiver that detects the periodic ultrasound signal, an intra-frame filter that filters the detected periodic ultrasound signal based on a frame length of the detected periodic ultrasound signal, and a detector that determines a power level of the filtered periodic ultrasound signal to detect if the receiver is located in an undesirable location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vadim Winebrand, Michael Leviant, Meir Agassy, Gilad Bornstein
  • Patent number: 9998451
    Abstract: A method for communicating between a first motor vehicle and at least one second motor vehicle, belonging to a mobile communication network including at least two motor vehicles. In a first step only one identifying piece of information is exchanged between the vehicles by each driver for forming a communication network by a radio communication unit via radio connection in order to initiate the internal communication of the vehicles present in a column formation, said piece of information being entered in a second step into a network communication unit of each vehicle, in order to join the communication network after acknowledgement by a network communication unit of at least one of the other vehicles belonging to the communication network. The identifying piece of information is an authentication, and the authentication takes place for each vehicle by a randomly generated password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Menzel, Ulrich Stählin
  • Patent number: 9992750
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to the sharing of wide area network (WAN) downlink bandwidth with peer to peer communication signaling usage are described. A WAN, e.g., cellular, wireless communications device using a base station attachment point, transmits a signal to be used by a peer to peer wireless communications device for controlling its peer to peer transmit power level. The peer to peer wireless communications device receives and measures the strength of the power control signal from the WAN wireless communications device. The measurement information is used by the peer to peer wireless communications device in determining whether or not peer to peer signal transmission is permitted and/or in determining a peer to peer transmission power level. Thus the WAN device is able to manage interference from the peer to peer devices in its vicinity which impacts its recovery of WAN base station downlink signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Rajiv Laroia, Xinzhou Wu
  • Patent number: 9986414
    Abstract: Ways for performing servicing a service request from a communications device that is normally associated with a first domain are disclosed. An illustrative method includes dynamically assigning a CSCF (Call Session Control Function) associated with a second domain to receive service requests from the device in an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) networking environment, receiving the requests by way of the dynamically assigned CSCF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Manish Mangal, Jeremy R. Breau, Frederick C. Rogers
  • Patent number: 9980155
    Abstract: A method, system, and logic for upgrading mesh points of a wireless mesh network. One method includes maintaining a mesh topology data structure containing information on the tree topology of a wireless mesh network. The method further includes using a tree-walking method to send an upgrade message to the root access point and to each other mesh point in the wireless mesh network until each mesh point has received the upgrade message. Receiving the upgrade message enables the receiving mesh point to upgrade according to the contents of the upgrade message without necessarily disrupting the mesh network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Shahriar I. Rahman
  • Patent number: 9980203
    Abstract: In order to better and more easily identify candidate APs and/or channels, an AP can transmit frames announcing its capabilities in a channel where it is not serving. For example, if an AP is operating in channel 1 and has created a Basic Service Set ID (BSSID) in that channel, it is permitted to transmit frames announcing its capabilities in another channel, for example channel 3, where another AP may or may not be operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Amjad Soomro, Dave Cavalcanti
  • Patent number: 9973967
    Abstract: A method comprises, in a carrier aggregation system having multiple component carriers, utilizing an air interface based collision avoidance procedure on at least one component carrier that is associated to a cellular radio access technology to check that a radio resource in the at least one component carrier is available; and thereafter communicating on the radio resource using the cellular radio access technology only if the check reveals that the radio resource is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Rapeepat Ratasuk, Nitin Mangalvedhe, Mikko Aleksi Uusitalo, Antti Sorri
  • Patent number: 9949196
    Abstract: A method, device, and system provide efficient way for handling LTE cells for suspending data suspending data in a carrier aggregation plus multiSIM scenario. The technique includes receiving communications corresponding to the first subscription at a user equipment over a primary cell and a secondary cell; calculating, prior to a tune away period, a first data throughput rate of the primary cell and a second data throughput rate of a secondary cell; sending at least one event measurement report if the second data throughput rate is higher than the first data throughput rate; receiving a handover command from a network node to interchange the primary cell and the secondary cell; and switching, in response to receiving the handover command, the primary cell and the secondary cell such that the primary cell becomes the secondary cell and the secondary cell becomes the primary cell for first subscription traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Debesh Kumar Sahu, Sagar, Tushar Gupta, Venkata Girish Vadlamudi
  • Patent number: 9918193
    Abstract: A system may include an electronic device having a location sensor, and a computer-readable storage medium having programming instructions. The system may obtain, from the location sensor, a current location of the electronic device, display an electronic map representative of an area in proximity to the current location via a display of the electronic device, and display, on the electronic map, an indication of the current location of the electronic device. The system may receive a selection of a geographical location on the electronic map, and in response to receiving the selection, automatically display, on the electronic map, a visual representation of direct navigational directions from the current location of the electronic device to the selected geographical location. The display may be a touch-sensitive display, and the electronic device may receive a selection of a geographical location on the electronic map via input on the touch-sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: HiaLabs Inc.
    Inventors: Long Duc Nguyen, Allan M. Greenspan, Allan Lee
  • Patent number: 9900931
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with D2D relay link selection in a LTE based access network. In one example, a communications device is equipped to determine that the communications device (e.g., a UE) is able to establish a relay link with a candidate UE based on at least one of information associated with any preexisting access links with the candidate UE, information associated with any preexisting accessing links within a threshold vicinity of the UE or the candidate UE, or any other UE UL interference, determine that the candidate UE is able to support the relay link based on information associated with preexisting access links for the candidate UE, and perform a link establishment process for the relay link with the candidate UE based on the determinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bilal Sadiq, Qing He, Saurabha R. Tavildar, Junyi Li