Patents Examined by Kimberly A. Williams
  • Patent number: 9451580
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yijun Luo
  • Patent number: 9439210
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Byounghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9432078
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD
    Inventor: Hui Lei
  • Patent number: 9426616
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Paul B. Rasband, Jorge F. Alicot
  • Patent number: 9420503
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mukesh Taneja, Mark Grayson
  • Patent number: 9411823
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Mach 7 Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Rice, Alexey V. Ulanov, Martin Stefanov
  • Patent number: 9414183
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Huanhuan Cao, Jilei Tian, Xia Wang
  • Patent number: 9406275
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiki Takahashi, Hiroshi Ohishi
  • Patent number: 9406274
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Okumura
  • Patent number: 9392501
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Vinh Van Phan, Jian Feng Qiang, Simone Redana
  • Patent number: 9349082
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Akasaka, Takuya Ono
  • Patent number: 9351152
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Linh Hankins, Matthew Depetro, Jane Yin
  • Patent number: 9338722
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Fukuta, Kugo Morita
  • Patent number: 9338628
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Inventor: Grant Lewis Webb
  • Patent number: 9332076
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Yelena Migdalovich, Giuseppe Pandolfo, Jason McGoff, Paul Roberts Conlon, Timothy Luke Dioguardi
  • Patent number: 9332523
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Qualcomm, Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxin Zhang, Carlos Horacio Aldana, Sandip Homchaudhuri, James Simon Cho
  • Patent number: 9326248
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Nobusawa, Shiro Sugahara, Akira Ohshima
  • Patent number: 9326205
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Apostolis Salkintzis
  • Patent number: 9319864
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBETOUCH AB
    Inventor: Fredrik Salqvist
  • Patent number: 9319872
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Muralidhar Malreddy, Ryan S. Talley, Julio C. Costa, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas