Patents Examined by Joseph E Dean, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11337216
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus that is able to perform a first wireless communication and a second wireless communication, the second wireless communication having power consumption lower than that of the first wireless communication. The wireless communication apparatus receives, from another wireless communication apparatus through the second wireless communication, information indicating a channel which the another wireless communication apparatus is able to use in the first wireless communication, selects a communication parameter to be provided to the another wireless communication apparatus based on the received information, the communication parameter being required by the another wireless communication apparatus to connect to an apparatus that forms a network in which the first wireless communication occurs; and transmits the selected communication parameter the another wireless communication apparatus through the first wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Patent number: 11337056
    Abstract: A method of establishing a network connection between a subscriber device and a network server having a server processor matching a device processor of the subscriber device. The method comprises receiving a processor matching message (PMM) by an Exposure Function (EF) executing on a computer system, where the PMM comprises a request for a network service and an EF attribute representing an identity of a device processor of a subscriber device, determining by the EF the existence of a matching network server offering the requested network service and having a server processor with an identity matching the identity of the device processor, and based on the determination that the matching network server exists, establishing by the EF a connection between the matching network server and the subscriber device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Lyle W. Paczkowski, George Jason Schnellbacher
  • Patent number: 11330561
    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: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenshan Zhao, Deping Liu
  • Patent number: 11330498
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to reducing or making more efficient handovers from one cell to another cell in a communications network. The method includes receiving mobility data for a device being serviced by a first cell, classifying the device based on the mobility data to yield a classification and making a handoff decision when handing off the device from the first cell to a second cell based at least in part on the classification. An example of the mobility data is a speed at which the device is moving or time a device is in a cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Alfred Consulting LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Anderson Alfred, Yonatan Aharon Levy
  • Patent number: 11329974
    Abstract: A device network configuration method, applied to a router, includes: sending, after establishing a first wireless connection with a device, a request for acquiring identity information of the device; receiving an identity data packet returned by the device; analyzing the data packet to acquire the identity information of the device; sending the identity information to a server; receiving, after the server verifies that the identity information is legal and sends first network configuration information comprising a username and an access password to a control end of the device, second network configuration information sent by the device, and verifying legality of the second network configuration information; and establishing, after a verification result is legal, a second wireless connection with the device; wherein the second network configuration information comprises the username and the access password in the first network configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shaolong Guo
  • Patent number: 11317447
    Abstract: A method for communications is proposed. The method may comprise transmit a request for a packet data network connection of the terminal device to a network node. The method may further comprise receiving a response to the request from the network node. The response may indicate whether user plane setup is needed for data transfer on the packet data network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jinyin Zhu, Xiaoming Li, Zhiwei Qu
  • Patent number: 11310105
    Abstract: Certain embodiments disclose systems and methods for creating a user private network (UPN) based on 11ay technology. Methods of the present disclosure include creating a personal basic service set (PBSS) having a service device and one or more 11ay devices, the service device configured to wirelessly communicate with the one or more 11ay devices in the PBSS, creating a UPN having an access point located in communicative proximity with the service device, and associating at least one 11ay device of the one or more 11ay devices with the UPN, wherein the at least one 11ay device is configured to establish a wireless connection with the one or more 11ay devices using the service device when within a coverage area of the PBSS, and to establish a wireless connection with the one or more 11ay devices using the access point when outside the coverage area of the PBSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Rajesh S. Pazhyannur, Anand Oswal, Arun G. Khanna, Kedar K. Gaonkar, Shree N. Murthy, Sudhir Jain
  • Patent number: 11310843
    Abstract: This application discloses a PDU session establishment method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device in a process of establishing a PDN connection in a first system, an access type that is sent by a core network device and that corresponds to the PDN connection in a second system; and when the terminal device moves to the second system, establishing, by the terminal device, a PDU session in the second system via an access network indicated by the access type, where the PDU session is associated with the PDN connection. Implementation of the present invention can increase a success rate of establishing a PDU session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojuan Li, Haorui Yang, Hui Jin, Guowei Ouyang, Fenghui Dou, Xiaoyan Duan
  • Patent number: 11310701
    Abstract: Facilitating fast return to stand alone advanced networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) after voice fall back is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise receiving, from a first network device and by a second network device, a connection request that comprises an indication of a fall back procedure. The fall back procedure can be an “RRC release and redirect” or an “IRAT Handover.” The method also can comprise facilitating control of the voice communication for the mobile device and triggering a release of the control of the mobile device from the second network device based on a determination that the voice communication has completed. The fast return procedure can be either a “RRC release and redirect’ or an “IRAT handover.” Further, the method can comprise redirecting the mobile device to a third network device selected based on a capability of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Hongyan Lei, Yonghui Tong, Yupeng Jia, Ye Chen, Wen Yang
  • Patent number: 11304247
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for interaction between a pair of smart glasses and a smart device, and a storage medium. The method includes: establishing a WiFi direct communication connection between the pair of smart glasses and the smart device (S10); performing a communication negotiation between the pair of smart glasses and the smart device (S20); and performing data transmission between the pair of smart glasses and the smart device based on the WiFi direct communication connection and a result of the communication negotiation (S30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Haitao Liang
  • Patent number: 11297170
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data to a receiver via a network includes transmitting a sequence of first data packets to the receiver via the network, each first data packet including payload data and identification data, the identification data identifying the respective first data packet, the identification data being different for each first data packet. The method also includes transmitting a corresponding second data packet for each first data packet to the receiver via the network, each second data packet including the data enabling identification of the corresponding first data packet and additional data related to the corresponding first data packet, the data enabling identification of the corresponding first data packet enabling the receiver to associate each second data packet with the corresponding first data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.
    Inventors: Brecht Wyseur, Klaus Kursawe
  • Patent number: 11297600
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource selection method, including: determining, by a first terminal, at least one of second parameter information of a second terminal and configuration information; and determining, by the first terminal, a target threshold based on at least one of the configuration information, the second parameter information, and first parameter information of the first terminal, where the target threshold is used by the first terminal to perform resource selection. The embodiments of the present invention further provide a resource selection apparatus. In the present invention, a resource is selected by changing a target threshold based on different parameters. In this way, a signal-to-interference ratio is increased, an error rate is reduced, and a demodulation performance is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Cai, Yongbo Zeng
  • Patent number: 11290866
    Abstract: A method includes setting, using at least one processor of an electronic device that includes multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) cards, a maximum Network Address Translation (NAT) interval to be a maximum value among NAT keep-alive intervals associated with the multiple SIM cards. The method also includes triggering, using the at least one processor, a partial call setup from a first SIM card of the multiple SIM cards to a second SIM card of the multiple SIM cards. The method further includes determining, using the at least one processor, whether the electronic device receives the partial call setup. In addition, the method includes, in response to determining that the electronic device receives the partial call setup, setting, using the at least one processor, the NAT keep-alive interval for each of the multiple SIM cards to be equal to the maximum NAT interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu Wang, Mohan Reddy Duggi
  • Patent number: 11277830
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive association information for a set of soft resources of the wireless node. The association information may indicate one or more parent nodes associated with a soft resource of the set of soft resources. The set of soft resources may be configurable as schedulable or non-schedulable for the wireless node. The wireless node may determine one or more release indications associated with the soft resource. The wireless node may schedule on the soft resource based at least in part on determining the one or more release indications. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Karl Georg Hampel, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11272347
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for handling a request for a text message session on an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) capable network. For example, a device is communicatively coupled at a location of the IMS capable network. The method includes receiving a request from the device for a text message session on the IMS capable network and determining whether the IMS capable network supports next generation 911 (NG911) or interim text-to-911 at the location of the device. Upon determining that the IMS capable network is incapable of supporting NG911, redirecting the request for the text message session to a text control center (TCC). The method further includes causing the TCC to establish the text message session with a public safety answering point (PSAP) that supports text-to-911.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: William Michael Hooker
  • Patent number: 11272556
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are presented to utilize Bluetooth (BT) radios to synchronize ultra wideband (UWB) radios, to allow the UWB radios to operate within narrow transmit/receive windows, which may lead to power savings. In some implementations, a transmitting UWB radio and a receiving UWB radio may synchronize the expected time of an UWB transmission based on BT events, such as receiving a BT advertisement, or establishing a BT connection. In some implementations, the transmitting UWB radio and the receiving UWB radio may synchronize the expected time of an UWB transmission based on synchronized event counters maintained by the BT radios. Information regarding UWB transmission start times may also be passed via BT communications, in some implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Hariharan, Langford M. Wasada
  • Patent number: 11265697
    Abstract: A radio communication equipment comprises an information card configured to record information on a service subscription provided by a network operator, a radio communicator configured to receive notification information of cancellation for the subscription by short message service (SMS) via radio communication, and a controller configured to notify that a subscription to a network operator corresponding to the information card has been cancelled, in response to the notification information received by the SMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tokiyasu Kamata
  • Patent number: 11265936
    Abstract: In a first novel aspect, UE receives a mapped EPS bearer context IE during a PDU session establishment or modification procedure. UE diagnoses whether an operation error occurs for a mapped EPS bearer context. If so, UE deletes the mapped EPS bearer context with a 5GSM cause. In a second novel aspect, UE receives a QoS flow description IE during a PDU session establishment or modification procedure. UE diagnoses whether an operation error occurs for a QoS flow description. If so, UE either rejects the modification command or deletes the QoS flow description with a 5GSM cause. In a third novel aspect, UE receives a QoS flow description IE during an EPS bearer activation or modification procedure. UE diagnoses whether an operation error occurs for a QoS flow description. If so, UE includes an ePCO/PCO IE with a 5GSM cause in an activation or modification accept message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MediaTek INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Huang-Fu, Chi-Hsien Chen, Shang-Ru Mo
  • Patent number: 11259161
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE), manufacturer server, and/or cellular network to perform radio capability signaling. A new type of UE radio capability identifier is provided which may allow a network to distinguish between similar UEs that have or have not implemented a capability update. In order to perform a forced capability update, a manufacturer may issue information about the update to a cellular network (and receive acknowledgement of the information) prior to pushing the update to UEs. In response to an unforced capability update, a cellular network may maintain multiple UE radio capability identifiers for similar UEs which have or have not implemented the update. A UE radio capability identifier may be adjusted dynamically in response to temporary changes in the UE's capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Mohammed Sadique, Vijay Venkataraman, Krisztian Kiss, Jordi Agud Ruiz, Yip Pong Herbert Wong, Kok Yin Chan, Srinivasan Nimmala, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Yifan Zhu, Utkarsh Kumar
  • Patent number: 11258894
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a first terminal, first input, where the first input is used to instruct the first terminal to display a first screen that includes a profile picture of a first user, and the first user is an owner of the first terminal or a contact saved on the first terminal; and searching, by the first terminal in response to the first input, for a profile picture of the first user and that corresponds to current scenario information of the first user; and displaying, by the first terminal in response to the first input, the first screen that includes a first profile picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yan Huang