Patents Examined by Justin Y Lee
  • Patent number: 11632455
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are proximity detection sensor arrangements, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, a sensor arrangement in an electronic device may include a first circuit layer including a proximity pad and a first reference pad, and a second circuit layer including a second reference pad and a temperature pad. The first circuit layer may be between the second circuit layer and a user-facing surface of the electronic device, the first reference pad may be electrically coupled to the second reference pad, and the first reference pad may be between the temperature pad and the user-facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Xiangzhi Wu, Hsien-Chieh Liu
  • Patent number: 11627508
    Abstract: Provided are session processing method, device, and computer storage medium. The method includes performing at least one of a first type transmission, a first type handover process on the PDU session, or the data stream in the PDU session. The first type of transmission includes at least one of the network side and the terminal side perform data copy type transmission on the data packet through multiple paths, or perform the first priority transmission on the data packet. The first priority transmission refers to that the transmitted data stream corresponds to a set of specific QoS parameters. The first type of handover process includes before the air interface data radio bearer is handover from the first base station to the second base station. The second core network element completes the establishment of a first path with the first base station and the establishment of a second path with the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11622308
    Abstract: Presented herein are efficient techniques through which a session management function (SMF) may obtain, from a user plane function (UPF), an error indication associated with a user equipment (UE) for which a handover has been initiated from a Fourth Generation (4G) network to a Fifth Generation (5G) network. The SMF function initiates a timer in response to receiving the error indication. The SMF function stops the timer and processes a request when the request is obtained before an expiration of the timer and processes the error indication when the request is not received before the expiration of the timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jis Abraham, Somaraju Kaki
  • Patent number: 11617124
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and preventing user terminal displacement are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a method for managing access to a data network includes determining a baseline timing parameter based on at least one first communication signal transmitted between a gateway and a terminal, determining a current timing parameter based on at least one second communication signal transmitted between the gateway and the terminal, calculating the difference between the baseline timing parameter and the current timing parameter, and restricting access of the terminal to the data network when the difference between the baseline timing parameter and the current timing parameter exceeds a delay threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Akshay Giridhar Ravichandran, Satyajit Roy, Rajeev Oza
  • Patent number: 11617067
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for authenticating with a mobile communication network. One apparatus includes a processor, a first transceiver that communicates with a mobile communication network via a first access network, and a second transceiver that communicates with the mobile communication network via a second access network. The processor sends a request to start authentication via the second access network and receives an extensible authentication protocol (“EAP”) request with a first expanded type via the second access network. The processor sends an EAP response via the second access network, the EAP response comprising the first expanded type, a first set of parameters, and a first message. Here, the first message is a same type of message usable to establish a connection with the mobile communication network over the first access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Apostolis Salkintzis
  • Patent number: 11611927
    Abstract: A telecommunication network associated with a wireless telecommunication provider can be configured to select user-plane functions (UPFs) for a user equipment (UE) in a network, and the handover of subscriber sessions. According to some configurations, a nearest UPF to the UE can be picked to service the UE. Choosing the nearest UPF may reduce latency to the UE when sending and receiving packets through a cellular network, such as a 5G network. Subscriber sessions can be handed over across multiple UPFs based on mobility of the UE. Subscriber sessions may be anchored on UPFs located either on edge locations or centralized data centers. Because of mobility of subscribers from a first location (e.g., x) to a second location (e.g., y), a subscriber's session can be moved from one user plane node to another user plane node seamlessly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Suliman Albasheir, Rahul Pal, Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Muhammad Waqar Afzal
  • Patent number: 11611864
    Abstract: A device-registration-operation assisting apparatus in a device management system including a plurality of devices installed in a building and a management device connected to the devices via a network, assists in an operation to register the devices. The device-registration-operation assisting apparatus includes an emission unit of an electromagnetic wave, and a mobile terminal. The emission unit is integrated into or positioned near one of the plurality of devices. The mobile terminal includes a receiving unit that receives the electromagnetic wave, a display unit that displays information of the device, and an input unit that receives an input of registration information in order to register the device displayed on the display unit in the device management system. The display unit does not display the information of the device for which the registration information is input to the input unit, or changes display of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Satou, Shin Higashiyama, Hiroshi Dohmae
  • Patent number: 11595935
    Abstract: In a wireless information collecting method executed by at least one user terminal device that measures wireless information used in a site survey and a server device that stores the wireless information and performs the site survey, the user terminal device performs a step of periodically measuring a current position and transmitting positioning information indicating the current position to the server device, and a step of measuring the wireless information in accordance with a wireless information measurement number instructed by the server device and transmitting wireless information including a position and time to the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ogawa, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Shinya Otsuki, Makoto Umeuchi, Junichi Iwatani, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Masayoshi Nabeshima
  • Patent number: 11595932
    Abstract: A system that includes a plurality of IoT devices associated with ground equipment items, a plurality of gateways to receive data from the IoT devices, and an application that receives the data from the IoT devices, is used to manage mobile ground equipment within an airport and track flight data to match available, working equipment with turnarounds and/or flights based on flight data requirements, predicted turn time, gate position, required special needs equipment, and working/failed equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
    Inventors: Arul Anand, Michael Alan Humphrey, Jose Vazquez, Lucas Warner Lemasters, Moonhee Kwak, Deepak Mani, Rajendra Prasad Nuvvula, Chandrajeet Patil, Obula Reddy Sana, Javeed Shaik
  • Patent number: 11567165
    Abstract: A system is provided that includes a tracking device having a tracking device accelerometer, the tracking device associated with a tracked hardware device, and a base transmitter/receiver having a base transmitter/receiver accelerometer and configured to poll and receive tracking device accelerometer data from the tracking device. The base transmitter/receiver is associated with and transportable by a vehicle and the tracking device and tracked device are positionable within the vehicle. Differences in movements of the vehicle when housing the base transmitter/receiver, the tracking device, and the tracked hardware device produce communication functionality differences between the base transmitter/receiver and the tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Momentum IOT, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Silva, Steve Durana, Dustin Holtz, Lars Rosenblad
  • Patent number: 11570832
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a rate adjustment method, an apparatus, and a system. The method may include the following steps: A mobility management network element determines access information indicating whether a terminal uses NR for access, and determines first APN-AMBR information based on the access information, where the first APN-AMBR information is used to control a data transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qianghua Zhu, Fenqin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11553449
    Abstract: In various embodiments, techniques are provided for determining and associating multiple locations with beacons, and estimating a location of an electronic device based on beacons having multiple associated locations. To determine multiple locations of a beacon, observations are grouped into observation clusters, a probability is calculated that each observation cluster accurately describes the beacon, multiple observation clusters are selected as representative of the beacon based on the calculated probabilities, characteristics are derived for the beacon (including multiple locations) based on the selected multiple observation clusters, and at least the multiple locations for the beacon are stored in a reference database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Skyhook Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz, Russel K. Jones, Joel Morrin
  • Patent number: 11537763
    Abstract: A system for loss prevention and loss recovery of portable electronic devices. The system includes a server administered by an administrator, a software application executable on a portable electronic device in communication with the server, a unique registration identifier associated with the portable electronic device, and a distance tracking device. The association between the portable electronic device and the unique registration identifier is stored on the server. The software application is configured to connect to the distance tracking device. The distance tracking device is configured to provide a notification when the distance tracking device is further than a predetermined boundary from the portable electronic device. When the unique registration identifier is entered at a website associated with the server, return delivery information is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QEPR, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade Byrd, Brijesh Kamani, Arjun Dedaniya, Tyler Marshall
  • Patent number: 11540202
    Abstract: Techniques are provided to use a trusted identity and location to select the most appropriate point of interconnect to edge application execution environments as well as a specific edge application execution environment. The techniques may involve obtaining, on behalf of a wireless mobile device, an access identifier that indicates an access location of the wireless mobile device that is wirelessly connected to wireless network infrastructure equipment operated by an access network provider that is associated with, and a member of, a federation of access network providers. The access location for the wireless mobile device is derived based on the access identifier, and the access location is used to select an edge resource to be used by the wireless mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Peter Stammers, Flemming Andreasen
  • Patent number: 11540248
    Abstract: A mobile monitoring device for monitoring controlled contamination areas may include a motorized mobile structure, a sampling unit, and a central management and control unit. The motorized mobile structure is configured to move within an area to be monitored. The sampling unit is positioned on said mobile structure, and configured to perform sampling operations of air and/or surfaces of said area and obtain sampling data. The central management and control unit is operatively connected to the mobile structure and to said sampling unit. The mobile structure may be controlled by the central unit to reach predefined points of the area to be monitored. The sampling unit may be selectively activated and/or deactivated by said central unit in correspondence with said predefined starting points of said sampling operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: PARTICLE MEASURING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Giovanni Scialò, Davide Recchia, Claudio Bechini
  • Patent number: 11513182
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment in a wireless communication system, an electronic device, a method and a storage medium. The user equipment in the wireless communication system according to the present disclosure comprises one or more processing circuits, the processing circuits being configured to execute the following operations: acquiring a downlink signal from an electronic device in the wireless communication system; estimating the angle of arrival (AOA) of the downlink signal, wherein at least the AOA and the position of the electronic device are used for estimating the position of the user equipment. By using the user equipment, electronic device, method and storage medium according to the present disclosure, the AOA of a downlink signal may be estimated when the user equipment is in an idle or initial access state, and the AOA may be used for estimating the position of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bin Sheng, Pingping Xu, Penshun Lu, Wenbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11510123
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a wireless communication section that performs wireless communication through an external access point, a processing section that performs communication control of the wireless communication section, and a storage section. The storage section stores, in association with each other, terminal identification information for identifying the terminal device that performed wireless communication through the first access point and identification information for identifying the first access point. The wireless communication section performs a packet capturing process. The processing section determines, based on a capturing result, the identification information of the first access point, and the terminal identification information of the terminal device, whether switching from the first access point is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yutaka Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11503519
    Abstract: Determining whether service via a core network of the first type is available from the second cell. The method further comprises establishing a connection via the second cell by transmitting a message including a first indication, the first indication based on at least a portion of the identifier, and when service via a core network of the first type is not available from the second cell, transmitting in the message a second indication, the second indication indicating that the identifier was received from a core network different from the second type, without identifying the first type of core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Svante Alnås, Lars Nord, Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei
  • Patent number: 11503564
    Abstract: A system, computer software and method for collecting, in addition to position data, additional positioning data in a user terminal served by a communication network. The method includes initiating, by generating a message within the user terminal, collection of the positioning data, where the positioning data includes information based on which a physical location of the user terminal is determined; measuring, by the user terminal, at least one parameter related to the physical location of the user terminal in response to the message; producing, within the user terminal, measurement reports that include the at least one parameter; selecting, within the user terminal, one or more measurement reports that were generated in response to the message generated by the user terminal; reporting the selected one or more measurement reports to an interface within the user terminal; and transmitting, from the interface, the reported one or more measurement reports to an external server or to the communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Karl Torbjorn Wigren, Johan Bolin, Per Willars
  • Patent number: 11496888
    Abstract: In one example, a Network Policy Function (NPF) obtains a first identifier for a User Equipment (UE) based on communications between the UE and a first access network of a system, and an Internet Protocol (IP) address used by the UE to communicate over the first access network. The NPF obtains a second identifier for the UE based on communications between the UE and a second access network of the system. The NPF determines that the UE used the IP address to communicate over the first access network of the system based on a correlation between the first identifier for the UE and the second identifier for the UE. The NPF provides the IP address to the UE, and the UE uses the IP address to communicate over the second access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Sudhir Kumar Jain, Louis Gwyn Samuel