Patents Examined by Kevin Kim
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Patent number: 11974213Abstract: During integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node setup, a distributed unit (DU) is configured to transmit synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) for inter-IAB-node discovery and measurement. In parallel to SSB transmission by the DU, user equipment (UEs) and IAB-mobile terminations may be configured to search for and measure on SSBs at specific time instance. In the IAB case, the DU and MT configuration are coordinated to enable inter-node SSB measurements subject to the half-duplex constraint.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Honglei Miao
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Patent number: 11956755Abstract: A method for transmitting paging signaling includes: detecting whether a channel in which a paging signaling to be sent is located is idle; when the described channel is not idle, abandoning sending the paging signaling on a preferred time domain location, and determining an alternative time domain location; and sending the paging signaling on time frequency resources of the alternative time domain location.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Yang Liu
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Patent number: 11950112Abstract: A UE for beam failure detection is provided. The RF signal processing device of the UE assesses a first radio link quality according to a first BFD-reference signal (BFD-RS) set including at least one reference signal, communicating with a plurality of transmission/reception points (TRPs) which include at least a first TRP and a second TRP. The processor of the UE is coupled to the RF signal processing device. When the first radio link quality is below a threshold, the processor generates a first indication, wherein the first indication is a first beam failure instance (BFI) or the first BFD-RS set. The processor enables a first timer and a first counter according to the first indication.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: ACER INCORPORATEDInventors: Li-Chung Lo, Chien-Min Lee
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Patent number: 11950177Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an blocking delivery service is provided. The service may use an identifier of a source end device, destination address information associated with a destination end device, and configurable criteria as a basis to block delivery of application service layer data. The service may be configured to apply to end devices based on an addressing scheme of the service. The service may be configured on a network device that provides an application service. The service may block delivery without the use of class of service or subscriber provisioning.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Kevin Lim, Craig Barth, Brian Olson, Ye Huang, Joseph Lee, Tony Ferreira
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Patent number: 11949583Abstract: A process includes enforcing compliance of a compute appliance to a reference operating state for the compute appliance. The compute appliance is part of a cloud-based computing system. Enforcing compliance with the reference operating state includes, responsive to a startup of the compute appliance, the compute appliance determining an actual compute state of the compute appliance. The actual compute state includes an actual physical topology placement of a hardware component of the compute appliance. Determining the actual compute state includes determining the physical topology placement of the hardware component. Enforcing compliance with the reference operating state includes verifying whether the actual compute state complies with the reference compute state. The verification includes comparing the actual compute state to the reference compute state.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Dwight D. Riley, Robert W. Noller
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Patent number: 11939859Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing performance based condition monitoring to determine health condition of wellsite equipment. A method may include operating a piece of equipment at an oil and gas wellsite by performing a plurality actions by a component of the piece of equipment, and generating a plurality of sensor measurements, wherein each sensor measurement is indicative of a corresponding action. The method may further include receiving the plurality of sensor measurements by a processing system, calculating a condition indicator for each component based on a corresponding sensor measurement, recording each condition indicator over a period of time, and determining condition of the piece of equipment based on at least one of the condition indicators recorded over time.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Geir Kroslid, Johan Lindal Haug
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Patent number: 11936542Abstract: A method of solving a problem of a network and an electronic device for performing the method are provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor. The processor may determine a representative cause representing a cause of each of anomaly samples of a quality indicator indicating a quality of the network. The processor may perform a time-series analysis on an indicator associated with the representative cause. The processor may propose a solution corresponding to the representative cause and a result of the time-series analysis.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangkyu Park, Jonghwa Park, Youngsuk Sun, Yunju Lee, Panhyung Lee, Hakyung Jung
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Patent number: 11930354Abstract: Methods and systems for anonymously tracking and/or analyzing flow or movement of individual subjects and/or objects using mobile identifying information. In particular, there is provided a computer-implemented method for enabling anonymous estimation of the amount and/or flow of individual subjects and/or objects, referred to as individuals, in a population moving and/or coinciding between two or more tempo-spatial locations.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MOBITRAX ABInventor: Leonard Kåberg Johard
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Patent number: 11930422Abstract: A method performed by a mobile terminal is provided for supporting positioning of the mobile terminal. The method includes receiving a defined filter pattern from a network node in a communications network or another node of the communications network, discovering identities of a plurality of reference devices based on signals received from the plurality of reference devices, filtering the identities of the plurality of reference devices to obtain a subset of identities of the plurality of reference devices that each satisfy the defined filter pattern, and reporting information on the subset of the identities of the plurality of reference devices to the network node.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Åke Busin, Fredrik Gunnarsson
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Patent number: 11919447Abstract: The invention disclosed in this application is design to detect and alarm if any of the vehicles being transported on a vehicle carrier shift in such a manner that the vehicle on the carrier might impact the underside of a highway overpass. The invention also includes a continuous measurement of the carrier height relative to the roadway.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventor: Barton Edward Viers
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Patent number: 11916714Abstract: The present disclosure provides communication apparatus and communication method for control signaling. The communication apparatus comprises circuitry, which, in operation, generates a transmission signal comprising a first signal field which comprises a first part and a second part, each comprising an equal number of data bits, wherein the data bits of the second part of the first signal field does not comprise version independent bits; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmit the generated transmission signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
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Patent number: 11917602Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) are provided. The UE may receive, from a base station, an indication of an emission specification for each of one or more beams, the emission specification for each of the one or more beams being associated with an NTN. The UE may communicate, with the base station via the one of the one or more beams, based on the emission specification for the one or more beams.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Liangping Ma, Xiao Feng Wang
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Patent number: 11916814Abstract: A method for transmitting data in a power line communication network, the method being executed in a network node device configured so as to communicate in a plurality of separate frequency bands with a second network node device, the method comprising steps for selecting a transmission mode for transmitting in a frequency band called “extended frequency band” comprising at least two separate frequency bands chosen from among the plurality of separate frequency bands; distributing data to be transmitted in the extended frequency band into a plurality of groups of data, each group being assigned to just one of the at least two separate frequency bands; and transmitting the data in each of the plurality of groups of data in the separate frequency band to which the group is assigned, the step for distributing the data being carried out by a data interleaver.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SASInventors: Jérôme Barois, Julien Barthes, Clément Terrien
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Patent number: 11917513Abstract: A load control system may include one or more wireless control devices that may be associated via a programming device. An identifier for a first wireless control device may be determined in response to an actuation of a button on the first wireless control device. An association between the first wireless control device and a second wireless control device may be defined at the programming device. The identifier for the first wireless control device may be transmitted to the second wireless control device, which may cause the first wireless control device to enter a sleep mode. The first wireless control device may enter the sleep mode after an actuation of a button on the first wireless control device. The identifier may be determined in response to the actuation of the button on the first wireless control device and/or prior to the first wireless control device entering the sleep mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventor: Timothy Mann
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Patent number: 11916752Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains an indication of a network event predicted by a routing engine for a network. The device initiates monitoring of one or more network paths associated with the network event, to determine one or more states of the network. The device makes a comparison between the one or more states of the network and a set of one or more constraints. The device provides a prediction cancelation notification to the routing engine, based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Grégory Mermoud, Vinay Kumar Kolar, Pierre-André Savalle
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Patent number: 11910350Abstract: Improved positioning resolution and latency may be achieved via physical layer signaling between a mobile device (UE) and a base station. The physical layer procedures may aid target UEs in enhancing their positioning accuracy and latency, and/or reducing network overhead while boosting UE power efficiency. Accordingly, a base station may receive, via physical layer signaling from a UE, a request for positioning-resources, for example in response to a determination that current positioning-resources of the UE need to be adjusted. The base station may responsively transmit, via physical layer signaling to the UE, an indication of adjusted positioning-resources, and may optionally transmit an indication of corresponding allocated grant-resources. The base station may receive, via physical layer signaling from the UE, positioning information resulting from positioning measurements performed by the UE according to the adjusted positioning-resources.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang
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Patent number: 11902931Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transmitting positioning measurement report are provided. The method includes a step of receiving a location information request from a serving base station or from a location server, a step of determining timing for transmitting a positioning measurement report, a step of generating a report assisted message based on the determined timing for transmitting the positioning measurement report, and a step of transmitting the report assisted message to the serving base station. The key idea of this disclosure is requesting UL resources for positioning measurement report in advance by transmitting a report assisted message. Consequently, the UE can transmit the positioning measurement report just after the measurement data being generated. The disclosure can minimize the delay from positioning measurement data generation to the positioning measurement report.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Tao Tao, Jianguo Liu, Zhe Luo, Yan Meng, Zhilan Xiong
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Patent number: 11899206Abstract: A display device of the disclosure is a display device to be mounted on a vehicle, and includes a display panel, a first input unit, a second input unit, a third input unit, and a controller. The first input unit is configured so as to acquire an engine rotation speed. The second input unit is configured so as to acquire a vehicle speed. The third input unit is configured so as to acquire a shift position of a transmission of a vehicle. The controller is configured so that a first image representing the engine rotation speed and one or more second images representing the vehicle speed are combined and a combined image is displayed on the display panel. The controller is configured so that switching of the second images is carried out based on the shift position.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11902857Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for human activity analysis and localization using channel state information (CSI). A streamlined data processing and feature extraction approach that addresses concept drifts for time series data is provided. Data obtained from CSI or any other mechanism is used to estimate the wireless channel between two different wireless nodes (e.g., an access point (AP) and an associated station (STA)), and can be used to train a robust system capable of performing room level localization. A phase and magnitude augmented feature space along with a standardization technique that is little affected by drifts is also used.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Aerial Technologies Inc.Inventors: Qianyu Liu, Negar Ghourchian, Michel Allegue Martinez, Raihan Seraj
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Patent number: 11895051Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, terminal device, network device and apparatuses for determining a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) configuration parameter. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method of interference measurement comprises determining a PTRS transmission resource configuration parameter based on a resource allocation type to be used in data transmission. With embodiments of the present disclosure, it may determine different PTRS configuration parameters for different resource allocation types, and thus provide a more suitable PTRS configuration solution for different resource allocation cases.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukai Gao, Gang Wang