Patents Examined by Joseph E Dean, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12294403
    Abstract: The dual phone case (w/wo holster) is the only product of its kind that comes with an optional holster that can be easily added or removed, based on user preference. This unprecedented product is uniquely designed to offer the same amount of protection against damage to both cellular devices and is carefully crafted with a rotating connector, and durable, high-quality materials to ensure long-term sustainability and utility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Andre Carter
  • Patent number: 12294674
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating presence information that can include at a first server of a communication platform, receiving an authorization token of a first client application; verifying at least one permission associated with the authorization token; registering a presence status of the first client application upon verifying the at least one permission of the authorization token; at a second server of the communication platform, accepting an incoming communication request; retrieving communication instructions according to the incoming communication request; identifying an instruction to communicate with a communication destination of the first client application; accessing the presence status resource of the first client application; establishing communication with the first client application according to the accessed presence status resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, Robert J. Simutis, Patrick Malatack, Kyle Conroy
  • Patent number: 12294973
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for providing, by a terminal, a communication service in a wireless communication system, the method including: transmitting, to a first network, a first request message for receiving paging of a second network; receiving, from the first network, a first response message as a response to the first request message; and monitoring the second network or switching to the second network to receive the paging from the second network based on the first response message, in which the terminal may be in a registered state in relation to the first network and the second network, and in a connected state in relation to the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sungduck Chun
  • Patent number: 12284623
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for automatically enrolling wireless end devices with a base station and/or other device or system. A wireless end device is scanned using a smart phone's native capabilities, without the use of a downloadable, third party app. Information from the scan indicates the name of the base station to which enrollment is desired. The base station name is used in an mDNS request in order to determine a local IP address of the base station. When the IP address is returned to the local, wireless communication device, the wireless communication device sends an HTTP GET message comprising attributes of the end device. The base station receives the HTTP GET message and enrolls the wireless end device with the base station. The base station my further alert another base station, system, server or other entity of the enrollment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Brandon Gruber
  • Patent number: 12278743
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to QoE measurement collection in non-connected State. In an example method, a terminal device receives, from an access network device, a quality of experience (QoE) measurement collection (QMC) procedure configuration indicating whether a QMC procedure is to be continued when the terminal device enters into a non-connected state. Then, the terminal device logs, in a logging buffer, QMC logging data of the QMC procedure performed at the terminal device in the non-connected state based on determining that the QMC procedure configuration indicates that the QMC procedure is to be continued when the terminal device enters into the non-connected state. In this way, QMC data collected in a non-connected state can be stored in the logging buffer so that the needed QMC data collected during non-connected state can be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Ugur Baran Elmali, Jing He, Guillaume Decarreau
  • Patent number: 12279193
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, device and computer readable medium for terminal devices influenced network slice selection. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a new terminal device influenced network slice selection is proposed. The NRF updates the application profile for the terminal device based on the change of the applications on the terminal device. The NRF may notify the PCF about the application profile and the PCF generates the route policy for the application on the terminal device. In this way, problems regarding the affected terminal devices of application influenced network slice selection are solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Zhi Wang, Yigang Cai
  • Patent number: 12279194
    Abstract: In the present invention, data is transmitted more suitably in an emergency state. This communication system comprises: a management device that manages first data including settings pertaining to communication during a normal state, and second data including settings pertaining to communication during an emergency state; and a communication instrument that controls a communication operation to another communication instrument in the normal state on the basis of the first data received from the management device, and that controls a communication operation to the other communication instrument in the emergency state on the basis of the second data received from the management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Patent number: 12278775
    Abstract: Provided are a Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe processing method and apparatus, a base station and user equipment. In the solution, a base station places an MBSFN Reference Signal (RS) in a 0-filling region of an MBSFN subframe for transmission, thus making full use of time frequency resources, and facilitating User Equipment (UE) in performing channel estimation by using the MBSFN RS during reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fubo Shi, Xiaohui Hou
  • Patent number: 12273793
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for using ranging signals to determine a position of a pedestrian user equipment (P-UE). In an aspect, a UE receives a plurality of ranging signals transmitted by one or more UEs, measures one or more properties of each of the plurality of ranging signals, and calculates an estimate of the position of the P-UE based on the one or more properties of each of the plurality of ranging signals. In an aspect, the P-UE transmits a plurality of ranging signals, receives a first message and a second message from first and second vehicle UEs (V-UEs), the first and second messages including first and second estimated positions of the P-UE and associated first and second confidences, and calculates an estimate of the position of the P-UE based on the first estimated position, the first confidence, the second estimated position, the second confidence, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Libin Jiang, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Junyi Li, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 12273957
    Abstract: This Application sets forth techniques for profile, e.g., subscriber identity module (SIM) and electronic SIM (eSIM), and cellular wireless service subscription management for a wireless device. The wireless device can support multiple profiles, such as dual SIMS or a single SIM and one or more eSIMs. A user of the wireless device can flexibly enable and disable various eSIMs or change the use of physical SIMs with different associated cellular wireless service subscriptions, and mapping of subscription modules to logical channels and physical hardware interfaces can occur automatically, with mechanisms to reset interfaces when required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Li Li, Dennis D. Conway, Rajeev Verma, Keizo Marui
  • Patent number: 12262292
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute information processing. The information processing includes: receiving, through a wireless line, model information indicating a model of a service apparatus configured to provide a service in cooperation with a mobile terminal; and execute a process of activating an execution function associated with the model of the service apparatus indicated by the model information from among plural execution functions included in the mobile terminal, the plural execution functions being execution functions of executing services each associated in advance with a respective one of models of service apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Munenori Tomida
  • Patent number: 12262354
    Abstract: This application discloses a method and an apparatus for determining a data feedback resource. The method includes receiving, by a first terminal, first data sent by a second terminal. The method includes determining a feedback resource of the first data. The feedback resource of the first data is a feedback resource in a feedback resource pool. The method includes sending feedback information of the first data to the second terminal on the feedback resource. The feedback information indicates a receiving status of the first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenshan Zhao, Deping Liu
  • Patent number: 12256296
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for sidelink connection establishment design to support unicast and groupcast communication for NR V2X in a wireless communication system. The apparatuses and methods include at least generating an announcement of support for a unicast or a groupcast communication for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) service, generating one or more connection establishment request messages for a secure link establishment to a second UE, to support a V2X communication to enable the V2X service, where the one or more connection establishment request message includes: a first connection establishment request message that is transmitted over a PC5-S interface, and a second connection establishment request message that is transmitted over a PC5-RRC interface. The apparatuses and methods further include at least processing a response message from the second UE that accepts or rejects the connection establishment request message for the secure link establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ansab Ali, Kyeongin Jeong, Sangeetha L. Bangolae, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 12250636
    Abstract: A battery-powered device includes a baseband modem, configured to receive or send data according to a first operational mode, wherein the data correspond to a software application being executed on the battery-powered device; and a processor, configured to determine a resource requirement of the software application; and send a signal representing the determined resource requirement to the baseband modem; wherein the baseband modem is further configured to change from the first operational mode to a second operational mode based on the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shailendra Singh Chauhan, Santhosh Ap, Arunthathi Chandrabose, Mythili Hegde
  • Patent number: 12250633
    Abstract: Provided are a method by which a terminal monitors a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system, and a device. The method receives a configuration message that notifies of a monitoring occasion for detecting a wake up signal and, if first control channel monitoring for detecting the wake up signal is not required in the at least one monitoring occasion, monitors a second control channel in the next DRX-on section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Changhwan Park
  • Patent number: 12245168
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a communication processor, at least one radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) connected to the communication processor, and at least one antenna, each of which is connected to the at least one RFIC via at least one radio frequency front-end (RFFE) circuit, and is configured to transmit or receive a signal corresponding to at least one communication network, wherein the communication processor is configured to: identify whether target power corresponding to a primary component carrier (PCC) exceeds maximum transmission power of the electronic device while performing uplink carrier aggregation (CA), and based on identifying that the target power corresponding to the PCC exceeds the maximum transmission power, set a first transmission power of the PCC to a first power less than the maximum transmission power and set a second transmission power of at least one secondary component carrier (SCC) to a second power less than the first power, base
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taeyang Park, Dooyoung Kim, Dongjae Shin, Euichang Jung
  • Patent number: 12245320
    Abstract: The functions of user equipment (UE), radio access network (RAN) devices, and core network (CN) devices in circumstances where a UE is expected to experience discontinuous coverage are described herein. A UE may send a CN a non-access stratum (NAS) message including a release request indicating that a UE is leaving coverage and assistance information. The CN may interrupt paging of the UE and resume the paging according to the assistance information. A UE may enter a low power usage mode upon leaving coverage, and may use one or more timers to determine when to check for coverage and send a mobility update message corresponding to the low power usage mode. A base station may receive, from a UE, a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a release request and assistance information, send an RRC release message to the UE in response, and forward the assistance information to the CN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Pavan Nuggehalli, Alexander Sirotkin, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sarma V. Vangala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12238519
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for efficient event management using a secure element and a bundle installed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonghoe Koo, Kangjin Yoon, Duckey Lee, Hyewon Lee, Taehyung Lim
  • Patent number: 12232035
    Abstract: Methods, a remote unit and a base unit are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method at a base unit, comprising: generating a wake up signal (WUS) set consisted of a number of WUSs to indicate that are mote unit shall attempt to receive a paging message in a paging occasion (PO) on a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a cell, mapping each of the WUSs to a number of resource sets, transmitting, to the remote unit, the WUS set on a time-frequency resource, wherein the PO is a set of PDCCH monitoring occasions (MOs), wherein the number of the WUSs is determined by the number of Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) actually transmitted by the base unit, and wherein the Kth WUS and the Kth transmitted SSB are quasi co-located, where K is an integer no more than the number of the WUSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingying Li, Zhi Yan, Haipeng Lei, Hongmei Liu, Jie Shi
  • Patent number: 12232070
    Abstract: Many commercially deployed devices support more than one SIM cards. Support for multi-USIM is currently handled in an implementation-specific manner without any support from 3GPP specifications. With the increased complexity of 5G-capable UEs and with growing demand for multi-USIM devices in the market, it becomes important to consider system enhancements that would allow for more efficient solution involving required support to UE from 5G core and 5G-RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shubhranshu Singh, Takahito Yoshizawa