Patents Examined by John J Lee
  • Patent number: 11399051
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing an audio distribution system using only standard network cabling for both power transmission and audio signal transmission. The system comprising of one or more Audio-streaming Source Units and one or more self-contained Network-powered Speaker Units where a plurality of audio streams can exist simultaneously and any audio stream can be directed between any Audio-streaming Source Unit and any Network-powered Speaker Unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: ONEVIEW CONTROLS, INC.
    Inventors: Ian Ronald Davison, Kenneth Dale Jones
  • Patent number: 11388683
    Abstract: A user equipment communicates with a base station using a first RAT and a second RAT, including: a transmission unit to perform uplink transmission using the first RAT and the second RAT; a control unit to, if a sum of transmission powers of the uplink transmission via the first RAT and the second RAT exceeds a predetermined maximum transmission power, reduce the transmission power of the uplink transmission via the second RAT. If the sum exceeds a maximum transmission power and the transmission unit fails to transmit random access preamble via the second RAT and re-transmits the random access preamble, or if dynamic power sharing is not supported and the random access preamble is not transmitted via the second RAT in a slot where an uplink transmission via the first RAT is scheduled, the control unit changes transmission power control for the re-transmitted random access preamble from normal control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Ohara, Ryosuke Osawa
  • Patent number: 11385683
    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: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Harry Vartanian
  • Patent number: 11379684
    Abstract: Techniques are discussed for segmenting sensor data captured by a sensor to remove a ground surface from the sensor data. A first technique includes capturing sensor data represented as multichannel image and segmenting the image according to image processing techniques. The ground surface can be removed from the sensor data, and a subset of the sensor data can be associated with a voxel space. A second technique includes capturing sensor data and unprojecting the sensor data to generate three dimensional data, which can be associated with a voxel space. Ground plane data associated with a location can be accessed or determined and voxel data that is within a threshold height of the ground plane data can be removed from the voxel space. Clustering techniques can determine objects represented in the data, and a vehicle can be controlled based on the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: David Pfeiffer, James William Vaisey Philbin, Nitesh Shroff, Zeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11382044
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, and computer programs encoded on a computer storage media for determining a transmit power of an uplink transmission to one or more serving cells in a secondary cell group (SCG). In one aspect, a wireless device may determine a deadline prior to the uplink transmission to the one or more serving cells in the secondary cell group. The wireless device may determine whether to perform a semi-static uplink transmission that is not scheduled by a DCI format to a serving cell in a master cell group. The wireless device may and adjust a transmit power of the uplink transmission to the one or more serving cells in the secondary cell group in response to determining to perform the semi-static uplink transmission to the serving cell in the master cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11375459
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information indicating a master cell group (MCG) maximum power value and a secondary cell group (SCG) maximum power value. The UE may determine whether a combination of the maximum power values satisfies a threshold. The UE may perform a transmission on the SCG using a first transmit power and a transmission on the MCG using a second transmit power, wherein, based on the combination of the MCG maximum power value and the SCG maximum power value satisfying the threshold, the first transmit power is determined based on a time offset, or wherein, based on the combination of the MCG maximum power value and the SCG maximum power value failing to satisfy the threshold, the first transmit power is determined without using the time offset. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11375460
    Abstract: A user equipment in a radio communication system including the user equipment and a base station, including: an uplink transmission power information calculation unit configured to calculate uplink transmission power information of a serving cell using a parameter that may be changed dynamically; and a signal transmission unit configured to include, in control information in which the uplink transmission power information is set, identification information for identifying a parameter used for calculation of the uplink transmission power information, and to transmit the control information in which the identification information is included to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Ryosuke Osawa, Kazuki Takeda, Kazuaki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11368924
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. A terminal device determines a first transmission power for uplink data, the first transmission power being less than or equal to a second transmission power, and the second transmission power being a transmission power that is determined by the terminal device according to anti-interference capability of the terminal device; the terminal device determines a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of the uplink data according to the first transmission power; and the terminal device sends the uplink data to a network device according to the first MCS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Yang, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11363533
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to determine that a vehicle is in a predefined power-preservation state. The processor is also configured to determine a lowest transmit-power available cellular band for vehicle telematics services, responsive to the power-preservation state. The processor is further configured to disable all bands other than the lowest-power available band and use the lowest-power available band for vehicle communication as long as the power-preservation state persists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Allen R. Murray
  • Patent number: 11363539
    Abstract: Systems and methods to accomplish a power control system in a MANET are described herein. To reduce detectability of the MANET, the controller 310 can reduce transmit power at individual links while operating the link's modulation and coding data rate and data queue backlog at levels that are sufficient to meet the user's offered load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SILVUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Fitz, Moein Sadeghi
  • Patent number: 11363536
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for user equipment (UE)-side and network-side mitigation of intermodulation (IM) interference, such as IM interference associated with multi-radio access technology communications. For example, the UE or a base station may detect an IM interference condition, and may perform an IM mitigation action based on detecting the IM interference condition. The UE may reduce an uplink transmit power so that IM interference on the downlink is reduced. Various base station IM mitigation actions are provided, such as suspending scheduling on a bearer, using a scheduling pattern that avoids concurrent transmission, reducing a maximum transmit power of an uplink grant of the UE, allocating resource blocks or bandwidth parts that do not overlap with an IM interference resource, changing a secondary cell group channel to a non-interfering channel, releasing a secondary cell group channel, deactivating a carrier, or changing a channel of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Leena Zacharias, Reza Shahidi, Carlos Cabrera Mercader, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Arnaud Meylan, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam
  • Patent number: 11363543
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a first transmit power that is to be used for a first transmission to a source cell and a second transmit power that is to be used for a second transmission to a target cell during a dual-active-protocol stack (DAPS) handover procedure. The UE may transmit, concurrently, the first transmission to the source cell using the first transmit power and the second transmission to the target cell using the second transmit power. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Hung Dinh Ly
  • Patent number: 11363542
    Abstract: A communication system includes a base station. The base station includes a plurality of distributed units (DUs), a central unit (CU) and a main processor. The main processor selects a mode corresponding to user equipment from a centralized control mode (CM) and a distributed control mode (DM) according to the current communication quality of the user equipment, wherein a functional split mode (FSM) includes the centralized control mode (CM) and the distributed control mode (DM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kai-Ten Feng, Yung-Ting Huang, Chun-Hao Fang, Li-Hsiang Shen
  • Patent number: 11350375
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for reporting power reduction information, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: a terminal device sending a first media access control control element (MAC CE) to a network device, the first MAC CE including power management-maximum power reduction (P-MPR) information of at least one carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Shukun Wang, Jinqiang Xing, Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 11349561
    Abstract: Systems are disclosed for a communication system optimized for low data volume communications. In embodiments of the invention, a terminal in the communication system is configured to send and a receiver in the network infrastructure is configured to receive bursts containing pilot waveforms that include time spacing and/or phase changes between short sequences. The time spacing and/or phase changes can be selected to reduce out-of-phase autocorrelation and achieve robust performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: eSat Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Parr, Gary John Ballantyne
  • Patent number: 11343778
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices shape waveforms associated with transmission of data from wireless communications devices. Methods may include identifying, using a processing device, a plurality of portions of a Bluetooth packet for transmission from a wireless communications device, the plurality of portions comprising a first portion and a second portion. Methods may also include determining, using the processing device, a first transmit power associated with the first portion and a second transmit power associated with the second portion, the determining being based, at least in part, on whether the first portion or second portion is used in packet detection. Methods may further include transmitting the first portion of the Bluetooth packet using the first transmit power, and transmitting the second portion of the Bluetooth packet using the second transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Kamesh Medapalli, Yanbing Zhang, Yan Li, David G. Wright
  • Patent number: 11337167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, specifically, provides a communication method and an apparatus therefor, in which: transmission power information relating to a first downlink (DL) signal is received from a parent node; the first DL signal is transmitted to a child node on the basis of the transmission power information; a first uplink (UL) signal is transmitted to the parent node on the basis of the transmission power information; the first DL signal and the first UL signal are multiplexed by frequency division multiplexing (FDM) or spatial division multiplexing (SDM); the transmission power information includes a maximum transmission power value of the first DL signal; and a magnitude of a transmission power of one of the first DL signal and the first UL signal is adjusted so that the magnitude of the transmission power of the first DL signal and the magnitude of the transmission power of the first UL signal do not differ by a value equal to or greater than threshold val
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11337163
    Abstract: Wireless communications may be used to support transmission power control. A reference signal may be mapped to a power control parameter set. A message to schedule a transmission may be received that indicates the power control parameter set. A transmission power for the scheduled transmission may be determined based on the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Youngwoo Kwak, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11337162
    Abstract: The disclosure provides techniques for power control for communications under a Very Low Power (VLP) mode. A communication device includes: processing circuitry, to encode a message to be transmitted to a second communication device, to indicate a setpoint, wherein the setpoint is defined as a minimum power at which a packet is required to be transmitted under a set of packet parameters, such that the packet could be successfully received by the communication device; and a transceiver, to transmit the message to the second communication device, and receive the packet transmitted at a power determined based on the setpoint and a margin, from the second communication device, wherein the margin is determined based on a probability of measurement errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas Kenney, Ehud Reshef, Hassan Yaghoobi
  • Patent number: 11335996
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training and using machine learning models to detect problems in a satellite communication system. In some implementations, one or more feature vectors that respectively correspond to different times are obtained. The feature vector(s) are provided as input to one or more machine learning models trained to receive at least one feature vector that includes feature values representing properties of the satellite communication system and output an indication of potential causes of a condition of the satellite communication system based on the properties of the satellite communication system. A particular cause that is indicated as being a most likely cause of the condition of the satellite communication system is determined based on one or more machine learning model outputs received from each of the one or more machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Arora, Archana Gharpuray, John Kenyon