Patents Examined by John J Lee
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Patent number: 10743148Abstract: A multi-group call setup method and device are disclosed. The method includes determining, by a first MCPTT server, to set up a multi-group call involving N MCPTT groups, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and sending, by the first MCPTT server, a call message to first UE, where the call message is used to add the first UE to the multi-group call, where a first MCPTT user is an associated user of the first UE, and where the first MCPTT user is an MCPTT user in the N MCPTT groups.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanmei Yang, Yizhuang Wu, Cuili Ge
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Patent number: 10736046Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for power headroom reporting for multiple uplink carriers. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a configuration of a plurality of uplink carriers for a serving cell. The first apparatus includes a processor that calculates a power headroom (“PH”) for each uplink carrier of the plurality of uplink carriers on the serving cell. The processor transmits (via the transceiver) a Power Headroom Report (“PHR”) based on the calculated PH for the plurality of uplink carriers of the serving cell.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTDInventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Joachim Loehr, Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia, Prateek Basu Mallick
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Patent number: 10731951Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method for repelling a detectable drone, whose flight control and/or whose drone flight path can be influenced by repulsion measures, wherein a repulsion space is defined as a part of the airspace, and wherein the flight control and/or the drone flight path of a drone located in the repulsion space is influenced.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Atos Convergence Creators GmbHInventors: Stefan Jenzowsky, Stefan Von Der Heide
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Patent number: 10715655Abstract: Methods and systems for providing standardized mobile device distraction prevention and safety protocols are disclosed. In particular, an embodiment of a method for activating a distraction prevention or safety protocol behavior in a mobile device when the mobile device satisfies a specific condition is disclosed. The method includes discovering one or more protocol activators configured to transmit discovery information associated with a specific condition. The method further includes activating distraction prevention safety protocol behavior in the mobile device based at least in part on the discovery information. In an implementation, the specific condition may be a specified environment itself and or include an event when the mobile device enters a specified environment or a specified sequence of numbers is dialed from the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: CELL COMMAND, INC.Inventors: John J. Fischer, Hap Nguyen
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Patent number: 10715968Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method for joining an on-going group call by a push-to-talk (PTT) client in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: entering a coverage of the on-going group call; transmitting a group call announcement message for setting up a group call, the group call announcement message comprising a group identification (ID) of the on-going group call; receiving parameters from another PTT client participating the on-going group call; and configuring the parameters for media transfer in the on-going group call based on the received parameter.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Hyeon-Mok Ko, Sung-Jin Park, Yun-Sun Baek
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Patent number: 10706583Abstract: A system for detecting the tube tip of the flying boom of a tanker aircraft and the receptacle mouth of the receiver for semi-automatic or automatic contact for in-flight aerial refueling with a boom, which does not incorporate signaling devices installed on the receiver aircraft, wherein the system and associated method are robust and ensure that the tanker boom control system is provided with real-time, robust, reliable and simultaneous information, from the tip of the tube thereof and from the receiver aircraft's receptacle mouth, at all times. To this end, the system comprises: 1) light emitters mounted on the tip of the tube thereof, 2) a processing subsystem and 3) two 3D cameras, including a TOF camera or a DOE-type camera (or both), as well as at least one laser L to provide them with their specific functionality.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Defensya Ingenieria Internacional, S.L.Inventor: Alberto Adarve Lozano
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Patent number: 10706639Abstract: A mail piece processing apparatus and related method. A mail piece processing apparatus includes a base, a table connected to the base by a vertical member, a camera mounted above the table and positioned to take an image of a mail piece on the table, and a data processing system. The data processing system is configured to receive the image of the mail piece from the camera; determine address information and address information of the mail piece according to the image; determine a disposition result for the mail piece according to the image; and cause a label to be printed for the mail piece according to the disposition result.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Siemens Logistics LLCInventors: Stanley W. Sipe, Abdul Hamid Salemizadeh, Hongjian Li
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Patent number: 10707982Abstract: A server system accesses a listening history of a user of the media-providing service, where the user is in a demographic group. For each track of a plurality of tracks in the listening history of the user, the server system determines a year associated with the track and calculates a first metric based at least in part of an affinity of members of a demographic group, as compared to members of other demographic groups, of music from the year associated with the track. The server system selects content for the user based on the first metric and provides the selected content to a client device associated with the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Clay Gibson, Santiago Gil, Ian Anderson, Oguz Semerci, Scott Wolf, Margreth Mpossi
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Patent number: 10701698Abstract: An object is to appropriately perform transmission power control on a mobile station (UE) when performing “Inter-eNB CA” by using cells under the control of plural radio base stations (eNB). In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, each of plural radio base stations (eNB #1, eNB #2) reduces, upon detecting that the mobile station (UE) is performing transmission at a maximum transmission power (PCMAX,c), by a predetermined amount a transmission power of the mobile station (UE) in a cell (#1/#2A to #2C) under the control thereof and notifies other radio base station (eNB) of the predetermined amount.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Kazuki Takeda, Yuichi Kakishima
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Patent number: 10701642Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power control method in device to device (D2D) communication and a user equipment for performing the power control method. The method includes computing a power value of device to device (D2D) transmission of a user equipment performing D2D communication in a subframe in a serving cell, based on a power control adjustment state of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wide area network (WAN) uplink channel of the user equipment and an offset or a ratio indicated by a transmit power control (TPC) command indicated in D2D grant or downlink control information (DCI) format 3/3A.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Sujuan Feng, Masayuki Hoshino, Joachim Loehr
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Patent number: 10699154Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method performed by a processing system of determining a present orientation of a display region presented at a first time on a display of a video viewer, predicting a future orientation of the display region occurring at a second time based on data collected, to obtain a predicted orientation of the display region to be presented at the second time on the display of the video viewer, identifying, based on the predicted orientation of the display region, a first group of tiles from a video frame of a panoramic video being displayed by the video viewer, wherein the first group of tiles covers the display region in the video frame at the predicted orientation, and a plurality of objects moving in the video frame from the first time to the second time, wherein each object of the plurality of objects is located in a separate spatial region of the video frame at the second time, wherein a second group of tiles collectively covers the separate spatial reType: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Bo Han, Tan Xu, Cheuk Yiu Ip
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Patent number: 10691944Abstract: A method of obtaining and geo-registering an aerial image of an object of interest is provided. The method includes obtaining an aerial image by a camera onboard an aircraft. The method includes accessing an object detection model trained using a machine learning algorithm and a training set of aerial images of an object of interest, and using the object detection model to detect the object of interest in the aerial image. The object detection includes a prediction of a boundary of the object of interest depicted in the aerial image based on the defined boundary of the object of interest. The method includes accessing a data store including a geographic location of the object of interest. And the method includes geo-registering the aerial image including the prediction of the boundary of the object of interest with the geographic location of the object of interest.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Yan Yang
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Patent number: 10681505Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing direct communication with at least one other user equipment are provided. The method and apparatus comprises upon generation of an event requiring the direct communication, transmitting a floor request, monitoring whether a response to the floor request is received from at least one adjacent UE, if a response to the floor request is not received until the floor request is transmitted a predetermined number of times at a predetermined interval, determining that a transmission right for the direct communication is granted, and if it is determined that the transmission right is granted, transmitting a signal to the at least one other UE by the direct communication.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Yun-Sun Baek, Hyeon-Mok Ko, Sung-Jin Park
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Patent number: 10674455Abstract: A wireless device receives at least one radio resource control message comprising configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters comprise: a cell index identifying the cell; and an index identifying a plurality of downlink subcarriers as a pathloss reference signal of the cell. The plurality of downlink subcarriers identified by the index are measured to determine a pathloss for uplink transmission of at least one uplink signal. An uplink transmission power for the at least one uplink signal is determined based on the pathloss. The at least one uplink signal employing the uplink transmission power is transmitted via a plurality of uplink subcarriers.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventor: Esmael Dinan
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Patent number: 10674008Abstract: The present disclosure provides details of a system and method for detecting and monitoring a contraband device including communication devices by utilizing a combination of mobile devices, fixed monitoring devices, and a contraband monitoring center. The mobile devices include smart phones or tablets that are borrowed, rented, or purchased by an inmate from a correctional facility. These mobile devices are configured to detect, monitor, and intervene in the communications of target devices. Further, the mobile devices are configured to communicate with fixed monitoring devices located throughout the correctional facility in performing intervention operations. The contraband monitoring center may also be utilized in the coordination, monitoring, and intervention of target devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Global Tel*Link CorporationInventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
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Patent number: 10674324Abstract: Methods, systems, and universal interface to perform operations comprising initiating, at a first communication system, a call to a second communication system over a 4-wire E&M interface of the first communication system by adjusting, at the first communication system, a state of an e-lead of the first communication system to a closed state; in response to the initiating, triggering, at an interface board, a solid state relay to switch signaling from the first communication system to the second communication system; and in response to the triggering, establishing the call with the second communication system over an auxiliary audio interface of the second communication system.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mustafa A. Jar, Naif A. Daafas, Mohammad S. Alkharafi
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Patent number: 10671853Abstract: The method disclosure provides methods, systems and computer programs for identification of candidate video insertion object types using machine learning. Machine learning is used for at least part of the processing of the image contents of a plurality of frames of a scene of a source video. The processing includes identification of a candidate insertion zone for the insertion of an object into the image content of at least some of the plurality of frames and determination of an insertion zone descriptor for the identified candidate insertion zone, the insertion zone descriptor comprising a candidate object type indicative of a type of object that is suitable for insertion into the candidate insertion zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: MIRRIAD ADVERTISING PLCInventors: Tim Harris, Philip McLauchlan, David Ok
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Patent number: 10664716Abstract: A portable complete analysis solution that integrates computer vision, spectrometry, and artificial intelligence for providing self-adaptive, real time information and recommendations for objects of interest. The solution has three major key components: (1) a camera enabled mobile device to capture an image of the object, followed by fast computer vision analysis for features and key elements extraction; (2) a portable wireless spectrometer to obtain spectral information of the object at areas of interest, followed by transmission of the data (data from all built in sensors) to the mobile device and the cloud; and (3) a sophisticated cloud based artificial intelligence model to encode the features from images and chemical information from spectral analysis to decode the object of interest. The complete solution provides fast, accurate, and real time analyses that allows users to obtain clear information about objects of interest as well as personalized recommendations based on the information.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: VISPEK INC.Inventors: Wei Liu, Ran Zhao, Huamin Li, Jinqing Huang
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Patent number: 10660044Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmission power control. One method includes receiving a first configuration indicating a plurality of bandwidth parts on a first serving cell and configuration information corresponding to the plurality of bandwidth parts. The configuration information comprises an open-loop power control configuration, a closed loop power control configuration, or a combination thereof corresponding to each bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts. The method comprises receiving scheduling information for a first uplink transmission on a first bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts. The method comprises determining a first transmission power for the first uplink transmission based on the configuration information and the scheduling information. The method comprises performing the first uplink transmission with the first transmission power.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTDInventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia
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Patent number: 10660051Abstract: A method and system for mapping a transmit power control, TPC, command in a time slot of a radio frame to be transmitted to at least one wireless device on a downlink are provided. According to one aspect, a method includes transmitting a TPC command in one of a first and second slot within a slot cycle of the radio frame, the TPC symbol position used being for performing the mapping of the TPC command based on a configured slot format.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Fredrik Ovesjö, Erik Larsson, Gerardo Medina Acosta