Patents Examined by John J Lee
  • Patent number: 10278225
    Abstract: Systems and methods modify the behavior and operation of an electronic device and also enable a server to intercept and process incoming communications for the electronic device, based on whether the electronic device is communicating with a network via a high data rate mode or a low data rate mode. According to certain aspects, whether the electronic device is communicating with the network via a high data rate mode or a low data rate mode may be determined by calculating a delay index based on the amount of repeated data received by the electronic device. The electronic device may be able to maintain a more consistent connection with the network and improve the experience and satisfaction of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventors: Eric Le Roy Krenz, Robert Tristan Love, Istvan Janos Szini
  • Patent number: 10271289
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Sujuan Feng, Masayuki Hoshino, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 10268256
    Abstract: A method, a user equipment, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The user equipment may identify a power consumption condition that relates to a downlink channel associated with the user equipment. The power consumption condition may correspond to a time period that is shorter than or equal to a transmission time interval of the user equipment. The user equipment may configure one or more modems of the user equipment to reduce power consumption during the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Prashant Udupa Sripathi, Chinmay Vaze, Hongbo Yan, Raghu Challa
  • Patent number: 10257791
    Abstract: Power allocation in NOMA systems for example on the basis Proportional Fairness calculations depends on knowledge of user throughput on a specified sub-band, which implies that users have already been allocated to particular sub-bands. Meanwhile, maximum throughput can generally be achieved where there is the greatest possible difference in transmission power for the users on a given sub-band, so that optimal allocation of users to sub-bands requires knowledge of the power available for each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM / TELECOM BRETAGNE, UNIVERSITÉ LIBANAISE, UNIVERSITÉ SAINT-ESPRIT DE KASLIK
    Inventors: Marie-Rita Hojeij, Joumana Farah, Charbel Abdel Nour, Catherine Douillard
  • Patent number: 10250319
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for deploying applications in satellites. In one example, a satellite device includes a communication interface and a virtualized execution system. The virtualized execution system is configured to receive state information via the communication interface from at least a peer satellite device related to execution of one or more software payloads by the peer satellite device, and execute one or more virtual nodes based at least on the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Vector Launcy Inc.
    Inventors: Shaun Coleman, Darren D. Garber
  • Patent number: 10241543
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device having a flexible display device is disclosed. A request to retrieve information from a server over a wireless network is triggered based on flexing the flexible display device and other gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Harry Vartanian
  • Patent number: 10236563
    Abstract: A solar panel array structure is used in network communications that comprises at least one support structure configured to support a solar panel array, wherein the at least one support structure comprises a metal portion. The metal portion comprises antenna connections that are configured to allow the metal portion to be used as a radio antenna. In some cases, a radio transceiver is connected to the antenna connections. A separate radio antenna may also be connected to the support structure or to the solar panel array. The radio transceiver may be used to transmit data through a wireless communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Vivint, Inc.
    Inventor: Maha Achour
  • Patent number: 10236968
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communicating in a point to multipoint (PTMP) network that includes an aerial station and a plurality of ground stations. The method includes the aerial station receiving positional information of a ground station of the plurality of the ground stations, selecting antenna elements on a phased antenna array for generating a directional beam based on the positional information, sweeping the directional beam to cover the plurality of ground stations, determining that the directional beam has a beam width sufficient to cover the plurality of ground stations and a transmit power sufficient to provide signals to the ground stations based on the sweeping of the directional beam; and establishing a radio link between the aerial station and the ground station in the plurality of ground stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Sam Padinjaremannil Alex
  • Patent number: 10237012
    Abstract: A portable countermeasure device is provided comprising one or more directional antennae, one or more disruption components and at least one activator. The portable countermeasure device further comprises a body, with the directional antennae are affixed to a front portion of the body. The one or more disruption components may be externally or internally mounted to the device body. The portable countermeasure device is aimed at a specific drone, the activator is engaged, and disruptive signals are directed toward the drone, disrupting the control, navigation, and other signals to and from the drone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Alexander Morrow, Daniel E. Stamm, Raphael Joseph Welsh
  • Patent number: 10231101
    Abstract: The invention relates to a communication device (101a, 107) configured to receive context information and to configure a radio frame, in particular a control channel of a radio frame, based on the context information. In an embodiment the radio frame comprises a plurality of communication resources, wherein the communication device (107) is configured to configure the radio frame by allocating at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to at least two groups of communication devices of a plurality of other communication devices (101a-c, 103a-c) based on the context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: David Gozalvez-Serrano, Mladen Botsov, Liang Hu, Markus Martin Dillinger
  • Patent number: 10224974
    Abstract: A radiofrequency (RF) power regulator includes a forward RF power detection circuit to detect forward RF power supplied by an RF transmitter circuit to an RF transmitting antenna. An RF power sampler is coupled to the forward RF power detector circuit and provides RF power samples of the supplied forward RF power. Multiple filters are coupled to receive the RF power samples. Each filter differently filters the received forward power samples to apply a different average power period. Each filter activates an RF power adjustment trigger signal while a time-averaged forward RF power supplied to the RF transmitting antenna satisfies a forward RF power adjustment condition for the average power period of the filter. Forward RF power adjustment logic is coupled to filters and operable to adjust the forward RF power supplied by the RF transmitter circuit to the RF transmitting antenna based on the RF power adjustment trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Russell Mercer, Charbel Khawand, Wenkai Zhong
  • Patent number: 10219229
    Abstract: The power level at which signals are transmitted from an external communication interface to an implanted communication interface through a communications link is periodically adjusted. A range of power levels bounded by a minimum transmit power level and a maximum transmit power level is determined. A preferred transmit power level is selected from within the range of power levels, and is used by the external communication interface to transmit signals to the implanted communication interface. Each of the minimum transmit power level and the maximum transmit power level is determined by intentionally causing a reception error to occur at the implanted communication interface, and then making further power level adjustments until a final minimum transmit power level and final maximum transmit power level are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: NeuroPace, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Gerard Mulligan, IV
  • Patent number: 10218460
    Abstract: A system and method for improved push-to-talk (PTT) communications performance includes a PTT application server receiving a request from a client user equipment (UE) device to access PTT services over a carrier network. The PTT application server measures, determines, predicts, or otherwise detects congestion in a cell of the carrier network servicing the client UE device. In a representative aspect responsive to detecting a value of congestion, the PTT server modifies one or more PTT call parameters, transmits a modified PTT call parameter to the UE device, and reduces the number of signals subsequently transmitted to the UE device. The modified PTT call parameter may be a codec selection for encoding/decoding PTT voice data. Subsequently transmitted signals may include acknowledgement signals, retry requests, bundled frames, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: KODIAK NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Krishnakant M Patel, Brahmananda R Vempati, Harisha Mahabaleshwara Negalaguli
  • Patent number: 10206184
    Abstract: A wireless device transmits a power headroom report media access control control element (PHR MAC CE). The PHR MAC CE comprises a presence field comprising a plurality of presence bits. The presence field is of a fixed size of one octet when up to seven of the one or more secondary cells are each configured with a cell index having a value between one and seven. The presence field is of a fixed size of four octets when the one or more secondary cells comprise more than seven secondary cells with configured uplinks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ofinno Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 10205246
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a metal shell of communication equipment. The metal shell of communication equipment includes a metal substrate, a slit penetrating an inner and an outer surface of the metal substrate, a plastic-supporting layer formed on the inner surface of the metal substrate and a decorative layer formed on the outer surface of the metal substrate, wherein a width of the slit on the outer surface of the metal substrate is 15-500 ?m, a width of the slit on the inner surface of the metal substrate is 20-600 ?m, and a ratio of the width of the slit on the inner surface of the metal substrate to the width of the slit on the outer surface of the metal substrate is between 1.05:1 and 1.5:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Guiwang Zhao, Konglin Li, Chencen Liu, Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 10200517
    Abstract: A display screen assembly is provided and includes a display screen module and an installation bracket. The display screen module includes a body portion and a top portion. The top portion includes a top surface and an inclined surface connected with one side of the top surface. The inclined surface extends obliquely towards a direction of facing the body portion. The installation bracket includes an abutting wall. An installation groove is defined in the installation bracket. The abutting wall includes a supporting surface facing the installation groove. A thickness of the abutting wall gradually decreases along the inclined surface in a direction towards the top surface to form an installed inclined surface. The installed inclined surface is opposite to the supporting surface and abuts against the inclined surface. A mobile terminal is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiangkun Xie
  • Patent number: 10200160
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 10194018
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Cell Command, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Fischer, Hap Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10194547
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic product metal shell with an antenna groove and a method of manufacturing the same. The electronic product metal shell includes a metal layer, a hard anodic oxidation layer, a step recess, an antenna groove and a non-conductive material filled in the antenna groove. The metal layer may have a first surface and a second surface. The hard anodic oxidation layer may be coated on the first surface and the second surface of the metal layer. The step recess may be formed through the hard anodic oxidation layer on the first surface of the metal layer and partially into the metal layer. The antenna groove may be formed within the step recess extending through the metal layer to expose an inner side of the hard anodic oxidation layer on the second surface of the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Baorong Jiang, Chongchong Liao, Aihua Li, Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 10191700
    Abstract: A communication system may comprise an information processing device and a communication device. Communication between the communication device and the information processing device using the first wireless communication scheme may be performed. The communication device may send the connectable network identification information to the information processing device. Communication between the information processing device and the communication device using the second wireless communication scheme and using the second network may be executed, in case that the first network belongs is not included in one or more networks identified by the connectable network identification information. Communication between the information processing device and the communication device using the second wireless communication scheme and using the first network may be executed, in case that the first network is included in the one or more networks identified by the one or more connectable network identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kubota, Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu