Patents Examined by Justin Y Lee
  • Patent number: 11271834
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for wireless communication are provided. In one example, an apparatus may be configured to determine a first interval between a first page transmission time and a second page transmission time. A third page transmission time may exist between the first page transmission time and the second page transmission time. The apparatus may be configured to enter a first state during which the first device is monitoring for a page transmission from a second device based on the first interval for a first state time period. The apparatus may be configured to enter, from the first state in response to a trigger event, a second state during which the first device is disabled from monitoring for a page transmission from the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian
  • Patent number: 11259227
    Abstract: Performing handovers based on RACH capabilities includes instructing neighboring access nodes to share RACH capabilities with each other, identifying a RACH capability of wireless devices attached to a serving access node, and selecting a target access node based on matching the RACH capabilities. The RACH capabilities are associated with a format and/or a range or distance of RACH transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Sitaram, Hemanth Pawar, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas
  • Patent number: 11244553
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a communication unit, a motion sensor, and at least one processor. The communication unit receives information for determining that a user of the electronic device is located within a predetermined area. The at least one processor determines a movement state of the user based on an input value from the motion sensor. The at least one processor executes notification processing when the determined movement state of the user is a one's own movement state and the electronic device is located in the predetermined area while a function of an earphone is being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Tanabe, Hideki Morita, Isao Masuike, Shinya Saito, Tetsushi Wakasa
  • Patent number: 11228671
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first device housing coupled to a second device housing by a hinge such that the first device housing is pivotable about the hinge between an axially displaced open position and a closed position. An exterior display is coupled to the electronic device and is exposed when the electronic device is in the closed position. At least one interior display is coupled to electronic device and is concealed when the electronic device is in the axially displaced open position. One or more processors detect user input interacting with two or more notifications presented on the exterior display. When the electronic device transitions to the axially displaced open position, the one or more processors present two or more interactive application portals of two or more predefined applications associated with the two or more notifications on the at least one interior display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Luciano Bevilacqua Pereira da Silva, Toni Pereira, Caio Luiz Leal Chagas do Nascimento
  • Patent number: 11218932
    Abstract: A method is performed in a wireless communication system (10). The method may comprise ranking a first cell (22A) and a second cell (22B) of the wireless communication system (10) according to one or more defined cell-ranking criteria. The method may also comprise evaluating that the second cell (22B) has met a reselection criterion for a wireless device (16), provided that the second cell (22B) is ranked better than the first cell (22A) by at least a margin. The value of the margin may depend on a coverage level of the wireless device (16) with respect to the first cell (22A) and a coverage level of the wireless device (16) with respect to the second cell (22B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Santhan Thangarasa, Muhammad Kazmi
  • Patent number: 11158198
    Abstract: A mixed-mode positioning system and method for determining position data associated with a vehicle is disclosed, in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. The system may include one or more receivers configured to receive Global Navigation Satellite system (GNSS) signals and one or more Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B signals). The system may also include a processor configured to extract positional data from the one or more GNSS signals and one or more ADS-B signals. The processor may also be configured to determine ownship position data associated with a vehicle based on the extracted GNSS positional data and the extracted ADS-B positional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: UAVIONIX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Paul Beard
  • Patent number: 11153787
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Hong Wang, Xiaowan Ke
  • Patent number: 11140114
    Abstract: A geolocation-based data sharing system and method which enables end users to connect and share electronic data of any form based on the users' interaction with geolocation points established by other users. The systems and method can be used to enable end users to share data, text, photos, music, etc. when a second user positions himself or herself in a position assigned by a first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Russell Holmes
  • Patent number: 11140595
    Abstract: Disclosed is a design and implementation of a Wi-Fi based network (e.g., roadside hotspot network designed to operate at vehicular speeds and picocell, meter-sized, cells). The disclosed access points (APs) make delivery decisions to the vehicular clients they serve at millisecond-level granularities, exploiting path diversity in roadside networks. In order to accomplish this, buffer management algorithms are employed that allow participating APs to manage each other's queues, rapidly quenching each other's transmissions and flushing each other's queues. An example embodiment of the disclosed approach employs an eight-AP network alongside a nearby road, and was evaluated with mobile clients moving at up to 25 mph. Depending on mobility speed, the disclosed approach achieves a 2.4-4.7 times TCP throughput improvement over a baseline fast handover protocol that captures the state of the art in Wi-Fi roaming, the IEEE 802.11k and 802.11r standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventor: Kyle Jamieson
  • Patent number: 11134463
    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: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Karl Torbjörn Wigren, Johan Bolin, Per Willars
  • Patent number: 11115800
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing communications among a central entity and multiple local entities in a telecommunication core network are disclosed. Localized central entities may be established across the core network based on localization patterns of telecommunication devices. The localized central entities may duplicate a portion of central entity data and provide local entities more efficient access to the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11109328
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for obtaining a downlink synchronization in a wireless communication system. A proposed wireless communication system has an environment in which a resource position of a downlink synchronization signal is changed as multi-numerology is applied thereto. Specifically, a terminal transmits a preamble for requesting a synchronization signal transmission resource to a base station. The terminal receives a response signal to the preamble from the base station. Here, the terminal does not have linkage to the base station, and is downlink synchronized with the base station. The response signal includes position information of a synchronization signal transmission resource of a neighboring base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ilmu Byun, Jiwon Kang, Heejeong Cho, Genebeck Hahn, Heejin Kim, Hyunjin Shim
  • Patent number: 11070656
    Abstract: A device includes a housing with a first transparent cover (16) which forms at least a partial area of a first housing wall (18), a printed circuit board (20) arranged in the housing with a functional side (22), and at least one the light-emitting device (24a-24c) arranged on the functional side (22). The first transparent cover (16) is inclined at an angle to the functional side (22) of the printed circuit board (20) and/or to the side directed away from the functional side of the printed circuit board (20), and wherein at least one reflector (26) having a reflective surface (28) is arranged in the housing in such a way that the light emitted by the at least one light-emitting device (24a to 24c) and deflected by means of the at least one reflective surface (28, 42) of the at least one reflector (26, 40) at least partly impinges on the first transparent cover (16) and is at least partly transmitted through the first transparent cover (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS, GMBH
    Inventor: Balazs Jatekos
  • Patent number: 11039268
    Abstract: A method of detecting, controlling and managing transmission of a transmitting device within a facility is disclosed. the method involves transmitting information to the transmission device, detecting a response transmission from the transmission device by a least one transmission detection facility, extracting identification information associated with the transmission device in response to the transmitted information; and determining a location of the transmission device based on the response transmission received by the at least one received transmission detection facility, wherein the response transmissions are sorted by the identification information, determining an allowability of the located transmission device with the set area and interacting and manipulating transmission of the detected transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: BINJ Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph S. Noonan, Carl A. Giordano
  • Patent number: 11032788
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting and timing a transmitting device is disclosed. The device includes a receiving system receiving a signal containing at least a preamble code of a known length and at least one pulse within a receive window after the preamble code, a circuit receiving the at least one pulse comprising a zero-crossing circuit for indicting a zero-voltage crossing of the at least one pulse and a trigger device for latching the indication of zero-voltage crossing, and a ripple circuit counter, receiving the latched indication of said zero-voltage crossing and associating a time to the receipt of the latched indication. A system for detecting and locating a transmitting device is further disclosed. The system includes a plurality of sensor apparatus each determining a reception time of a signal and a processor for determining a location based on groups of the reception times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: BINJ Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph S. Noonan
  • Patent number: 11019555
    Abstract: Access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) policies are extended to include a wireless local area network quality of service (Qos) parameter in order to create a ANDSF based QoS. This may be used by user equipment to set the uplink 802.11e User Priority (UP) for offloaded or evolved packet core-routed WiFi traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: John L. Tomici, Qing Li, Michael F. Starsinic, Paul L. Russell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11010678
    Abstract: Group-based information displays correspond to the collection of display objects representative of either contacts associated with a user or applications or executable components executable, or otherwise accessible, via the mobile communication device. The group-based information displays can be logically organized according to subject matter organizational criteria. The subject matter organizational criteria can include, for example, organization or other affiliates criteria, event-based, or activity based criteria, topic-based criteria and the like. Through the group-based information displays, mobile communication device users can initiate one or more actions corresponding to the selection of display objects corresponding to applications or executable components. Additionally, as applicable, the user can limit, or otherwise apply, the initiated actions to contacts identified, or otherwise associated, with the specific group-based information display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Steffen Vance, Jared T. Benson, Christian Robertson, Shilpa R. Shah, Gabriel J. White
  • Patent number: 11003930
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system to verify carpool occupancy compliance for access to High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, High Occupancy or Toll (HOT) lanes, or other vehicle-occupancy contingent rewards. The present invention uses software and hardware devices with radio-frequency transmitter modules to permit “matchmaking” between suitable drivers and riders while using GPS coordinates to confirm passenger proximity to a driver. This driver-rider co-location is performed via push notification and server analysis of driver and rider GPS data. Alternatively, co-location is performed using a combination of GPS data analysis and photographic analysis. In an embodiment, biometric data analysis aids user validation. Occupancy compliance rewards can be communicated directly to an appropriate regulatory body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Papineau, Mark Feltham
  • Patent number: 11006308
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, systems, services, and applications for collecting data from mobile devices connected to a mobile network. Aspects include campaign-based methods and systems as well as event-based methods and systems. Data includes mobile network data such as signal strength, call quality, network type, etc. and mobile device data such as mobile device type, charge level of the battery, etc. The disclosure also provides analytics for mobile network operators including mapping of location information and data points. Also described herein are methods and systems for verifying a credit card user's mobile device location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: OnePIN, Inc.
    Inventors: Feyzi Celik, Marcin Nowak
  • Patent number: 10986481
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for authenticating with a mobile communication network. One apparatus (300) includes a processor (305), a first transceiver (325) that communicates with a mobile communication network via a first access network, and a second transceiver (330) that communicates with the mobile communication network via a second access network. The processor (305) sends (710) a request to start authentication via the second access network and receives (715) an extensible authentication protocol (“EAP”) request with a first expanded type via the second access network. The processor (305) sends (720) 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: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Apostolis Salkintzis