Patents Examined by Jinsong Hu
  • Patent number: 11870477
    Abstract: The present application provides a transmission structure of an antenna and a proximity sensing circuit. The transmission structure includes a transmission line and at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element, a first coupling end of the transmission line is coupled to an antenna, and a second coupling end of the transmission line is coupled to a proximity sensing circuit, and the at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element is coupled between the transmission line and a ground, and is located between the antenna and the proximity sensing circuit. Utilizing the at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element in conjunction with the transmission line so that the transmission path between the antenna and the proximity sensing circuit has the high impedance, and hence preventing a radio-frequency signal from the antenna from affecting the sensing accuracy of the proximity sensing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Meng Yen, Chih-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 11871373
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for enabling assignment of a responder unit to a user on a water vessel. The rescue system transmits a Short Message Service (SMS) message to a user device on the water vessel, the SMS message comprising a selectable option that, when selected, causes a location of the user device to be shared. Based on a selection by a user of the user device of the selectable option, the system receives a plurality of location coordinates from the user device at a plurality of respective times, each respective location coordinate describing a respective location of the user device at its respective time. The system selects a responder unit to assign to the user based on the plurality of location coordinates and a location of each of a plurality of candidate responder units. The system transmits location information to a responder device of the selected responder unit, the location information based on the plurality of location coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: i911 International, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Ryan Bennett
  • Patent number: 11870547
    Abstract: A system and method provide an enhanced listening experience for a user of a radio receiver or other device that receives broadcast or streamed content having a plurality of program channels. The method and system buffer designated channels at the receiver and, when switching among channels, play back the buffered designated channels during reception from a selected point therein depending on the channel or other criteria. When switching to a different channel during reception, a user is able to hear content in a buffered program channel with music from the start of a song, for example, whereas content in a channel with news, talk radio, or live sports is played back from live reception, even though the content segments are transmitted at different start times relative to their selected times for playback following a channel change. User controls allow navigation among buffered designated channels during reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Anderson Cox, Paul D. Marko
  • Patent number: 11864037
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique for a user equipment (UE) to signal UE assistance information (UAI) to setup or release a cell group (CG). For example, the technique may be executed to generate the UAI, which may indicate whether the CG such as a secondary cell group (SCG) should be setup or released for the UE when operating in a multiple radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) mode. The UE assistance information may be transmitted to a base station (BS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Linhai He
  • Patent number: 11852741
    Abstract: A method of identifying a position of a user equipment within a wireless communication network includes: a) providing expected radio signal strengths produced by at least one radio communication station on each of plural elementary area elements in which a geographic area is subdivided; b) defining an initial attenuation experienced by the radio signals to the user equipment whose position is to be identified; c) obtaining measured radio signal strength measurements of the radio signals provided to the user equipment whose position is to be identified; d) determining an estimated elementary area element corresponding to the position of the user equipment whose position is to be identified based on the expected radio signal strengths, the initial attenuation and the radio signal strength measurements, and e) computing a final attenuation based on the estimated elementary area element. The operations b)-e) are iterated at least twice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giorgio Ghinamo, Massimiliano Petra
  • Patent number: 11848692
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a prediction and correction engine configured to receive a signal including a target signal, and to execute a single-moment filter, based on a current measurement sample of the signal and a model of the target signal, to obtain a single-moment state estimate and a single-moment state estimate error covariance for the target signal, a covariance renormalizer configured to determine a multi-moment state estimate error covariance for the target signal based on a prior single-moment state estimate error covariance, corresponding to a sample prior to the current measurement sample, and the single-moment state estimate error covariance, and a multi-moment prediction and correction engine configured to execute a multi-moment filtering extension based on the current measurement sample and the multi-moment state estimate error covariance to obtain a multi-moment state estimate, and further configured to determine an estimate for the target signal based on the multi-moment state esti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David Arditti Ilitzky, Harry Skinner, Fernando Ramos Alarcon Barroso, Valeri Kontorovich Mazover, Rocio Hernandez Fabian
  • Patent number: 11838890
    Abstract: A communication device and method therein for handling paging from a network node and data exchanging with a host. The communication device is one of a group of closely located communication devices capable of communicating with each other via a short-range wireless connection or a wired connection and is capable of communicating with the host over a long-range wireless connection via the network node. The communication device receives a page from the network node at a predefined occasion and evaluates if the page is targeted for itself or is targeted for one of the other devices in the group. When the page is targeted for itself, the communication device performs a paging response. When the page is targeted for one of the other devices in the group of closely located communication devices, the communication device forwards paging information to the targeted communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Joachim Ramkull
  • Patent number: 11832149
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication system and method, among other things. As a non-limiting example, the method includes receiving a call from a caller, parking the call, and while the call is parked, determining a paging target for the call. The method may further include paging a first target area in an attempt to summon the paging target to retrieve the parked call. The method may further include paging a second target area in an attempt to summon the paging target to retrieve the parked call, receiving a response from the paging target, and based on the response received from the paging target, connecting the paging target with the caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.
    Inventors: Mehmet Balasaygun, Christopher D. Baldwin, Kurt Haserodt, David Chavez
  • Patent number: 11832172
    Abstract: A method for mitigating spoofing attacks on an SEPP inter-PLMN forwarding interface includes obtaining, by a responding SEPP, a first SEPP identifier and/or a first PLMN identifier from at least one message received over an inter-PLMN control interface. The method further includes storing the first SEPP identifier and/or the first PLMN identifier in an identity cross-validation database. The method further includes obtaining, from at least one message received over an inter-PLMN forwarding interface a second SEPP identifier and/or a second PLMN identifier and performing a lookup in the identity cross-validation database using a lookup key comprising at least one of the second SEPP identifier and the second PLMN identifier, determining that a record corresponding to the lookup key is not present in the identity cross-validation database, and, in response, preventing the at least one message received over the inter-PLMN forwarding interface from entering a PLMN protected by the responding SEPP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jay Rajput, Shashikiran Bhalachandra Mahalank, Iyappan Chellasamy
  • Patent number: 11825562
    Abstract: A communication device may execute a specific wireless communication of object data via a first wireless network with a mobile device using a second type of interface after executing a specific process of sending a first wireless setting for causing the mobile device to belong to the first wireless network using a first type of interface in a first case where the communication device operates in a first state which is a parent station state or a child station state in the first wireless network and execute the specific wireless communication of the object data with the mobile device using the second type of interface after executing another process different from the specific process in a second case where the communication device operates in a second state which is different from the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takanobu Suzuki, Hirotaka Asakura, Munehisa Matsuda, Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11825310
    Abstract: Roaming spoofing attacks can be initiated during N32-c handshake procedure used for inter-PLMN communication in 5G network. One example solution described herein uses the SEPP to mitigate the N32-c roaming spoofing attacks by cross validating the sender attribute present in N32-c handshake security capability exchange messages against the endpoint identity in the X.509v3 certificate shared during TLS handshake and the remote SEPP identity configured in the SEPP's local database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jay Rajput, Shashikiran Bhalachandra Mahalank
  • Patent number: 11811435
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a semiconductor chip and a receiving apparatus capable of suppressing increases in size and cost due to circuit complexity. A tuner includes an RF input terminal to which an RF signal of terrestrial broadcasting is input, a first-IF input terminal to which a first-IF signal of satellite digital broadcasting is input, a first filter that filters a signal in a frequency band lower than a predetermined frequency, a second filter that filters a signal in a frequency band equal to or higher than the predetermined frequency, and a switch that causes the RF signal to be input to the first filter or to the second filter by switching according to a frequency of the RF signal, and causes the first-IF signal to be input to the first filter or to the second filter by switching according to a frequency of the first-IF signal. The present technology may be applied to a broadcast receiving system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Shono
  • Patent number: 11811447
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes a band pass filter configured to pass a signal in a predetermined frequency band between a first terminal and a common terminal connected to an antenna, and a band elimination filter configured to attenuate a signal in the predetermined frequency band between a second terminal and the common terminal and includes resonators connected in series with a line between the second terminal and the common terminal. The resonators include a first resonator having a lowest resonant frequency and a second resonator disposed on a side of the common terminal from the first resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kota Okubo
  • Patent number: 11811127
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus for use in a wireless network and method of operating such an antenna apparatus are provided. A wireless network controller provides a configuration of such an antenna apparatus, a method of operating such a wireless network controller, and a resulting wireless network. The antenna apparatus comprises a directional antenna and a uniform circular antenna array. The directional antenna can be rotatably positioned about an axis with respect to a fixed mounting portion of the apparatus in dependence on wireless signals received by the antenna array. The antenna array allows the antenna apparatus to receive wireless signals isotropically and thus to accurately monitor the wireless signal environment in which it finds itself. The antenna apparatus can thus monitor and characterise incoming signals, both from external interference sources and from other network nodes, and the directional antenna can then be positioned in rotation to improve the network throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC
    Inventors: Martin Lysejko, Andrew Logothetis, Krzysztof Dudzinski, Stuart Parrott
  • Patent number: 11805454
    Abstract: A method of operating a target base station in a wireless communication network to determine an addressing information for a source base station. A method to operate a target base station in a wireless communication network includes receiving a connection request message from a terminal, transmitting, to the terminal, a terminal information request message, and receiving, from the terminal, a terminal information response message including source base station information in response to the terminal information request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gert Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde
  • Patent number: 11800011
    Abstract: One example method of operation may include initiating a call via a calling device to a mobile device via a mobile device telephone number, responsive to initiating the call, retrieving call content data associated with a calling device profile, forwarding the call content data, via a content provider device, to the mobile device prior to establishing the call, hashing the mobile device telephone number to create a hashed value, storing the hashed value in the content provider device, authorizing the mobile device to receive the call content data, receiving a token representing the hashed value from the mobile device via the content delivery device, and connecting the call to the mobile device responsive to the token being authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Knuth, Brandon Wayne Murphy, Mark Bradley McHenry, Jay Todd Callaway, Rafael De Melo Aroxa, Matthew Jack Beckham
  • Patent number: 11792742
    Abstract: Some techniques and apparatuses described herein permit a user equipment (UE) to transition among different power configurations, which include different values for different power parameters, that impact an amount of power consumed by the UE. In some aspects, these transitions may be signaled by a base station based at least in part on traffic volume for the UE, which may assist with improving throughput and/or extending battery life of the UE. Furthermore, these transitions may be signaled dynamically, such as in downlink control information (DCI) and/or a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) MAC-CE, which may conserve battery power and/or network resources as compared to reconfiguring the UE using an RRC message, and which may allow the UE to be reconfigured quickly as conditions associated with the UE change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Huilin Xu, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Wanshi Chen, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Linhai He
  • Patent number: 11784677
    Abstract: One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing communication by a user equipment (UE). The method comprises the steps of: receiving a downlink signal from a base station, wherein the downlink signal is received via n263 operation band in FR2-2 (Frequency Range2-2), wherein the UE is a power class 2 UE, wherein the UE satisfies REFSENS (Reference Sensitivity) on a first channel bandwidth, wherein, based on the first channel bandwidth being 100 MHz, the REFSENS is ?86.3 dBm, wherein, based on the first channel bandwidth being 400 MHz, the REFSENS is ?80.3 dBm, wherein, based on the first channel bandwidth being 800 MHz, the REFSENS is ?77.3 dBm, wherein, based on the first channel bandwidth being 1600 MHz, the REFSENS is ?74.3 dBm, wherein, based on the first channel bandwidth being 2000 MHz, the REFSENS is ?73.3 dBm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoonoh Yang, Byeongyong Park, Markus Pettersson, Ilnam Cho, Sangwook Lee, Jinyup Hwang
  • Patent number: 11785135
    Abstract: A controller and a control method for controlling an electronic equipment including a communication unit and a communication interface acquires from a cellular communication network theoretically divided into a plurality of slices in accordance with different service types, via a communication interface, an identifier allocated to at least one of the plurality of slices, specifies, based on the identifier, at least one provided service type which is a type of service provided by the cellular communication network, and transmits to a server via the communication interface, a report message including a network identifier indicating the cellular communication network and the at least one provided service type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Mori, Taku Hayashi, Kazuya Chitou, Kazuo Onishi
  • Patent number: 11784674
    Abstract: Aspects relate to a calibration of an antenna array module of a wireless communication device in open space. The antenna array module may be used as a proximity sensor to detect an object's proximity relative to the antenna array module. Aspects include displaying an open space calibration instruction on a display of the wireless communication device, transmitting a proximity test signal from the antenna array module, measuring a value of a first signal received at the antenna array module in response to transmitting the proximity test signal, and storing the value of the first signal as an open space calibration value of the antenna array module. The first signal may be measured at cross-polarized antennas of the antenna array module. The value of the first signal may be representative of perturbations of the proximity test signal at the cross-polarized antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Udara Fernando, Brian Clarke Banister, Eyosias Yoseph Imana