Patents Examined by Kimberly A. Williams
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Patent number: 9451580Abstract: The embodiment of the present document provides a mobile terminal and a method for obtaining location information about a mobile terminal. The method for obtaining location information about the mobile terminal comprises: turning on a satellite locating module of the mobile terminal, turning off the satellite locating module after current location information about the mobile terminal is obtained, and regarding the current location information as initial location information; a sensing module of the mobile terminal collecting motion information about the mobile terminal, and calculating variation of displacement of the mobile terminal according to the motion information; and obtaining actual location information about the mobile terminal according to the initial location information and the variation of displacement of the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Yijun Luo
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Patent number: 9439210Abstract: A method of performing interference management by a second cell in a wireless communication system, and a base station for performing the method, are discussed. The method, according to one embodiment, includes receiving, from a first cell by the second cell, an interference management message including at least one of first information on one or more predetermined subframes at which scheduling by the first cell to be restricted among a plurality of subframes, second information on an uplink interference overload indication (UL IOI) of the first cell and third information on applicability of the UL IOI in the plurality of subframes; and performing, by the second cell, an uplink or a downlink scheduling on a subframe in consideration of at least one of the first information, the second information and the third information.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Byounghoon Kim
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Patent number: 9432078Abstract: Provided are a method and device for searching a cell, and the method comprises: timeslot synchronization is performed; a primary scrambling code group is identified and a frame synchronization is performed according to hashed values of code numbers of secondary synchronization codes (SSCs) in any several consecutive timeslots; and a primary scrambling code is obtained in the primary scrambling code group according to the primary scrambling code group, so as to complete cell searching.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: ZTE MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTDInventor: Hui Lei
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Patent number: 9426616Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a sensor system. The methods comprise: performing first operations by a Wireless Sensor Network to (a) configure operations of WSN end nodes and (b) control Bluetooth Low Energy (“BLE”) link activity within a BLE network; and performing second operations by the BLE network to (a) find people or objects within a specified area and (b) provide services to users of mobile communication devices which are BLE enabled and reside within the specified area.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Paul B. Rasband, Jorge F. Alicot
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Patent number: 9420503Abstract: In one example embodiment, an apparatus is provided that includes an antenna that receives, in a first wireless network, a first identifier of a second wireless network access point. The apparatus also includes a processor that processes data received by the antenna. The apparatus transmits, in the first wireless network, the first identifier of the second wireless network access point. The apparatus establishes a tunnel to the second wireless network. The antenna transmits a second identifier of the second wireless network access point.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Mukesh Taneja, Mark Grayson
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Patent number: 9411823Abstract: A method of acquiring medical image data for a subject having a subject medical record and subject identifying information includes capturing medical image data related to the subject with a mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device. The mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device includes an optical imaging component, an input component, and a wireless two-way communication component. The method also includes providing a program that includes a program includes a request for subject identifying information, providing the subject identifying information in said program, and wirelessly transmitting data derived from the medical image data and the subject identifying information from the mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device to a second device. The second device is separate from the mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Mach 7 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eric Rice, Alexey V. Ulanov, Martin Stefanov
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Patent number: 9414183Abstract: An approach is provided for providing group context sensing and inference. The group context platform determines at least one group of one or more devices that have one or more group contexts that are at least substantially similar, at least substantially correlated, or a combination thereof. Next, the group context platform causes, at least in part, a distribution of one or more context sensing tasks among the one or more devices of the at least one group. Then, the group context platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more results of the one or more context sensing tasks to (a) modify the one or more group contexts; (b) enhance the one or more group contexts; (c) determine one or more other group contexts; or (d) a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Wei Wang, Huanhuan Cao, Jilei Tian, Xia Wang
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Patent number: 9406275Abstract: The device includes a hue compensator converting hue of input signals having a first color gamut representing image data to hue conversion signals, a gamut converter outputting the input signals as gamut conversion signals having a second color gamut to display the input signals on an image display device representing the second color gamut, a blend coefficient setter that sets a blend coefficient defining a synthesis ratio of the hue conversion signals and the gamut conversion signals based on saturation obtained from the input signals, and a color synthesizer that generates synthesized image signals by synthesizing the hue conversion signals and the gamut conversion signals at a ratio according to the blend coefficient. The gamut converter performs conversion such that a value of each component of the hue conversion signals is from 0 to 1 when a value of each component of the input signals is from 0 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiki Takahashi, Hiroshi Ohishi
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Patent number: 9406274Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a gamma correction unit configured to perform gamma correction on linear-scale raw image signals to generate log-scale signals, a demosaicing unit configured to demosaic the log-scale signals generated by the gamma correction unit to generate image signals, and an inverse gamma correction unit configured to perform inverse gamma correction on the image signals generated by the demosaicing unit to generate linear-scale signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Okumura
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Patent number: 9392501Abstract: There is provided a method, including acquiring, by a network node of a source cell, information that a handover of a plurality user terminals currently connected to the source cell is needed to a target cell; determining at least one attribute with respect to each of the plurality of user terminals; selecting at least some of the plurality of user terminals to form a group of user terminals such that the user terminals in the group share at least one common attribute; and indicating the at least one common attribute of the group to a target node of the target cell in a group handover request message.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Vinh Van Phan, Jian Feng Qiang, Simone Redana
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Patent number: 9349082Abstract: Included are a display portion that displays image data; a selection portion that allows selection of a partial pixel from amongst the pixels of image data; a color range setting portion that allows setting a color range on the basis of a color of the partial pixel; a determination portion that determines whether or not an image pixel constituting falls within the color range; a determination practice portion that sequentially performs this determination until the pixel adjacent to a determination-completed pixel becomes a pixel not falling within the color range; a pixel designation portion that designates at least one pixel as falling within the color range; a color conversion portion that converts a color of each pixel designated by the pixel designation portion; and a recording data generation portion that generates recording data on the basis of image data resulting from the color conversion.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Akasaka, Takuya Ono
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Patent number: 9351152Abstract: A method may include receiving one or more of calendar data, user location data and third-party location data. The calendar data may include activity instructions that indicate that a mobile device be in a quiet mode during a particular activity included in the calendar data. The user location data may include user location instructions that indicate that the mobile device be in the quiet mode when the mobile device is at a particular location based on the particular location being of a particular location type. The third-party location data may include external request instructions that indicate that the mobile device be in the quiet mode when the mobile device is at a third-party location. The method may also include placing the mobile device in the quiet mode based on one or more of the activity instructions, the user location instructions and the external request instructions.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Linh Hankins, Matthew Depetro, Jane Yin
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Patent number: 9338722Abstract: A mobile communication method is applied to a mobile communication system including a general base station and a specific base station. A distance between an edge closest to the general base station among edges of a coverage area of the specific cell and the general base station is a distance LMIN. A distance between an edge most distant from the general base station among the edges of the coverage area of the specific cell and the general base station is a distance LMAX. The mobile communication method comprises: a step A of instructing, by the general base station, a general mobile terminal, located in a belt-like annular area indicating a range from the distance LMIN to the distance LMAX in a connected state in the general cell, to perform handover to a frequency different from a frequency used in the specific cell.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Noriyoshi Fukuta, Kugo Morita
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Patent number: 9338628Abstract: An emergency notification system and method that is operable to provide a technique for a user to transmit an emergency signal request wherein the emergency signal request is transmitted to a 911 operations center, registered EMS providers, and at least one named contact identified by the user transmitting the emergency signal request simultaneously. The emergency notification system includes a server database having control software and further includes a software application for mobile devices. The emergency notification system is operable to receive and store relevant medical data for each of the registered users of the system wherein the medical data is transmitted to emergency medical service providers during the transmission of the emergency signal request. A customized notification message is additionally sent to a predefined list of contacts during the emergency signal request.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Inventor: Grant Lewis Webb
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Patent number: 9332076Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for setting a language of a remote device are disclosed. For example, the method determines connectivity information for interacting with the remote device, assesses a language setting of the mobile endpoint device, and sets the language of the remote device by sending the language setting of the mobile endpoint device to the remote device using the connectivity information.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Yelena Migdalovich, Giuseppe Pandolfo, Jason McGoff, Paul Roberts Conlon, Timothy Luke Dioguardi
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Patent number: 9332523Abstract: This disclosure includes systems and methods for determining the location of each of a plurality of STAs of a WLAN where an AP measures the round-trip time (RTT) and the angle of arrival (AOA) to each STA from implicit packet exchange, such as data frame and ACK frame. The AP may then report the RTT and AOA measurements to each STA using a dedicated beacon information element (IE) which multicasts RTT and AOA measurements to the STAs. By employing an additional parameter, namely, angle of arrival AOA, a single AP may compute the two-dimensional location of each associated STA. Further, another beacon IE may multicast mapping of the AIDs to MAC addresses so that the associated STAs can understand such mapping for STAs in a network so that one STA may know the location of other STAs. Encryption may be employed to achieve privacy.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2014Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Qualcomm, IncorporatedInventors: Xiaoxin Zhang, Carlos Horacio Aldana, Sandip Homchaudhuri, James Simon Cho
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Patent number: 9326248Abstract: There are provided a terminal device capable of reducing power consumption when a plurality of applications perform data communication, a communication method for the terminal device, a program executed by the terminal device, a storage medium having the program stored thereon, and a radio communication system including the terminal device. The terminal device includes: application running means for running a plurality of applications adapted to perform data communication; communication means for performing a procedure necessary for activating data communication to make a state transition to a communicable state, and performing data communication; and management means for controlling execution of subsequent data communication before a transition from the communicable state to another state.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuichi Nobusawa, Shiro Sugahara, Akira Ohshima
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Patent number: 9326205Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining if seamless handover is required for mobile device network connections are disclosed. In one such method, a mobile device establishes connectivity to a public data network (“PDN”) via a cellular network, determines the availability of a plurality of wireless local area networks (“WLANs”), at least one member of the plurality of WLANs providing connectivity to the PDN via the cellular network, and determines if a condition requiring seamless handover is present. If the condition requiring seamless handover is present, then the mobile device selects, from the plurality of WLANs, a trusted WLAN as the handover WLAN, the trusted WLAN being a WLAN that provides connectivity to the PDN via the cellular network.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventor: Apostolis Salkintzis
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Patent number: 9319864Abstract: A method when roaming by a mobile communication device including a SIM card identifying itself using an IMSI roams between a home network and one or several visited networks, which networks are interconnected by a PSTN. The method a) stores on the SIM card a first IMSI associated with a first collaborating network; b) initiates a location update procedure using the first IMSI; c) triggered by the location update procedure and based on the first IMSI, causes an STP (Signal Transfer Point) of the first collaborating network to send a location update message to an ITP (Internet Transfer Point); and d) causes the first ITP to forward the message to an STP of the home network via a wide area network and not using the PSTN.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: GLOBETOUCH ABInventor: Fredrik Salqvist
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Patent number: 9319872Abstract: A method for configuring a first base station to use a coverage area identifier is described. For instance, a computing system may determine that coverage provided by the first base station overlaps with coverage provided by a second base station. Further, of a plurality of third base stations that also provide coverage overlapping the coverage provided by the second base station, the computing system may identify one or more third base stations having an extent of handover with the determined second base station that is below a threshold extent of handover. The computing system may then select, as the coverage area identifier to be assigned to the first base station, a coverage area identifier that is also assigned to a particular one of the one or more identified third base stations. The computing system may configure the first base station to use the selected coverage area identifier.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Muralidhar Malreddy, Ryan S. Talley, Julio C. Costa, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas