Patents Examined by Marceau Milord
  • Patent number: 11330468
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, related to low power techniques for a BLE device during a scanning state. The BLE device is configured to scan for a preamble of a packet while in a first power mode and detect when a bit of the preamble is received. Upon detecting that the bit of the preamble is received, the BLE device switches from the first power mode to a second power having a higher operating power for the BLE device than the first power mode. The switch in power modes occurs while the preamble is being received or immediately after the preamble is received and before an access address of the packet is received. The BLE device, while in the second power mode, then scans for the access address of the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Ehsan Hosseini, Le Nguyen Luong, Eunmo Kang, Dongsik Kim
  • Patent number: 11330651
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments may comprise a communication module and a processor, wherein: the communication module is configured to transmit a data packet, received from the processor, to an external electronic device connected to the electronic device, receive, from the external electronic device, a response packet corresponding to the data packet, acquire a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the response packet, and transmit, to the processor, a first packet including information on the RSSI when the response packet is received; and the processor is configured to identify the RSSI of the response packet by using the first packet received from the communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gupil Cheong, Sungjun Choi, Gibeom Kim, Doosu Na, Hyunah Oh, Hyungseoung Yoo, Doosuk Kang
  • Patent number: 11310848
    Abstract: A terminal device includes or connects to an external Hall device. The terminal device enters a to-be-connected state based on a Hall event generated by the Hall device, where terminal device is configured for connection to an externally device using a wireless communication protocol. The terminal device sends a trigger signal to enable the externally device to enter the to-be-connected state based on the trigger signal, and establishes the connection to the externally device using the wireless communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Chen, Chiengchang Lee, Liping Wang
  • Patent number: 11310649
    Abstract: A method by which a first wireless device performs a wireless connection in a wireless LAN system, according to one embodiment, comprises the steps of: receiving an advertising packet from a second wireless device through a primary channel, wherein the advertising packet includes first information for specifying a Wi-Fi service for the advertising packet and second information linked to the existence of additional data, and the first information is set as a first value linked to a DPP procedure or a second value linked to a NAN procedure; establishing a BLE-based connection with the second wireless device in order to receive the additional data; transmitting, to a second wireless terminal, a request packet for requesting additional data; and receiving, from the second wireless device, a response packet, including the additional data, as a response to the request packet, wherein the additional data is associated with DPP bootstrap URI information of the second wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngjun Jo, Giwon Park, Hyunsik Yang, Jeonghwan Yoon, Taesung Lim, Jingu Choi
  • Patent number: 11290971
    Abstract: Disclosed are a signal detection method and apparatus, a signal sending method and apparatus, and a remote user equipment. The signal detection method includes: a first synchronization signal is sent based on a first timing reference; a first discovery signal is detected based on the first timing reference, where the first discovery signal carries synchronization information; after the first discovery signal is detected, a second synchronization signal is detected within a first time window corresponding to the synchronization information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventors: Shuanghong Huang, Youxiong Lu, Jie Chen
  • Patent number: 11290888
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit configured to transmit or receive at least one radio frequency (RF) signal, at least one processor, and a memory. The memory includes instructions that, when executed, enable the at least one processor to generate a first random address of the electronic device, transmit a first advertising packet including the first random address, receive a scan request corresponding to the first advertising packet from an external electronic device, generate a first encrypted random address resulting from encrypting the first random address and a second encrypted random address resulting from encrypting the second random address corresponding to reception of the scan request, transmit a scan response including the first encrypted random address and the second encrypted random address to the external electronic device, and transmit a second advertising packet including the second random address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangyoun Lee, Haewook Oh
  • Patent number: 11277727
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of gathering data from a wireless data device that isn't connected to the internet using a mobile device like a phone, laptop, or tablet. The wireless data device signals an device monitoring application on the smartphone to connect. The device monitoring application and the wireless data device trade passwords to establish a secure wireless connection. The data is sent from the wireless data device to the smartphone and stored in memory. The device monitoring application connects wirelessly to the internet through a cell tower. If cell service is not available, the device monitoring application waits till cell service is available to connect to the internet. The device monitoring application on the smartphone establishes a secure connection to a server located on the internet and sends the data to an device monitoring application executing on the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Kenneth W. Samson
  • Patent number: 11277788
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device includes: a display; a near-field wireless communication circuit configured to repetitively transmit a scan signal for finding an access point; a processor electrically connected to the communication circuit; and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein, during execution, the memory can store commands for allowing the processor to set a transmission period of the scan signal as a first period, to determine whether it is necessary to adjust a scan frequency on the basis of a trigger for turning on the display when the display is turned on, to maintain the transmission period as the first period when the scan frequency adjustment is not necessary, and to change the transmission frequency to a second period shorter than the first period, when the scan frequency adjustment is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventors: Hogil Gwak, Sinjae Kang, Jongkyu Lee, Inhwan Hwang, Doosuk Kang, Yongjoon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11277774
    Abstract: A communication apparatus acquires, from an outside, first setting information for controlling the communication apparatus, sets the first setting information in the communication apparatus, establishes wireless communication with a different communication apparatus, hands over second setting information, which indicates the authority of the different communication apparatus in the wireless communication, from the different communication apparatus via the established wireless communication, sets the second setting information in the communication apparatus, and controls the establishment of the wireless communication and the setting of the second setting information in the communication apparatus when the first setting information is set in the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihiro Iwata
  • Patent number: 11272348
    Abstract: In the conventional wireless communication device, the message propagation path becomes complicated and the message arrival takes a long time. According to one embodiment, the wireless communication device includes an advertising communication control unit that performs broadcast communication with a plurality of unspecified other device, and a connection communication control unit that performs one-to-one communication with a preset specific other device, and performs transmission and reception of a message using a connection communication control unit with another device in a connection cluster that can communicate with the connection communication control unit, and performs transmission and reception of a message using an advertising communication control unit by a wireless communication device permitted in the connection cluster with another device outside the connection cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiko Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11265941
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first node judges whether the first node is in coverage; and then transmits Q second-type radio signals; herein, the Q second-type radio signals respectively comprise Q pieces of first-type information; whether each of the Q second-type radio signals can be selected as a synchronization reference is related to its comprised first-type information; the Q pieces of first-type information are independently generated, or, whether the Q pieces of first-type information are independently generated is related to whether the first node is in coverage, Q being a positive integer greater than 1. The present disclosure improves transmission reliability of Sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaobo Zhang, Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 11259176
    Abstract: A node device (4) in a network (1) of communicatively interconnected node devices (4) having limited data processing and storage resources, such as a mesh network (1) of node devices (4), receives an inquiry message of the type ‘find the best match’ for information to be located at a node device (4). The inquiry message comprises benchmark data relating to the information to be located. The receiving node device updates the message based on a comparison of the content in the latest received message and the node's locally stored information. The locally stored information is derived from previous received messages from other node devices (4) in the network (1) and information available at the receiving node device. When no update is required, no message is broadcasted by a node device (4) and the local copy at the node devices involved converges in a few broadcasts to a static content from which the information sought can be located in the network (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Peiliang Dong, Zhizhong Zhang, Weiwei Lu, Junjun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11259163
    Abstract: The present application provides data transmitting and receiving methods in a narrow-band communication system, a two-way radio and a storage medium. The general idea of the present application is as follows: the two-way radio at the transmitting end firstly transmits a pilot signal, which activates the two-way radio at the receiving end into an operating state; the two-way radio at the transmitting end, after transmitting the pilot signal, transmits data to be transmitted to the two-way radio at the receiving end; the two-way radio at the receiving end, according to the pilot signal, switches the two-way radio at the receiving end into the operating state, and in its operating state receives data transmitted by the two-way radio at the transmitting end. This ensures that the two-way radio at the receiving end may receive data from the two-way radio at the transmitting end in real time, thereby improving the accuracy of data transmitted by the two-way radio at the transmitting end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: AUCTUS TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Jiaxiong Feng, Kok Yong Chan
  • Patent number: 11259281
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication method. The electronic device in a wireless communication system of the present invention comprises: a processing circuit configured to generate resource indication information for indicating resources carrying discovery information; and a transceiver circuit configured to send the resource indication information. The electronic device and the wireless communication method of the present invention can implement a discovery process of a bandwidth-limited remote device, shorten discovery time, and save energy of the remote device and a relay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xu, Shiqing Zhang, Mengying Sun, Wenbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11259340
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method and system for managing a home gateway with mobile connectivity to a WAN, wherein a management server activates the home gateway only if its current position matches a location to which use of the home gateway shall be bound as selected by the user. In order to select such location, a client application executed by the personal mobile device of the user requests the user to place the personal mobile device next to the home gateway and detect its own current position. The client application then requests the user to confirm that the detected current position of the personal mobile device is the location to which use of the home gateway shall be bound. The detected current position of the personal mobile device is then sent to the management server, which uses it to determine whether the home gateway may be activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Maurizio Marcelli, Fabio Ricciato
  • Patent number: 11252646
    Abstract: A wireless communication network serves a wireless User Equipment (UE) with a wireless data service over wireless repeaters. A serving access node wirelessly receives UE signaling that indicates signal strengths for the wireless repeaters. The serving access node determines amounts of the wireless repeaters between the wireless UE and individual target access nodes. The serving access node selects a primary access node from the target access nodes based on the signal strengths and the wireless repeater amounts. The serving access node responsively transfers network signaling to the primary access node. The primary access node receives the network signaling and responsively serves the wireless UE with the wireless data service. The primary access node transfers additional network signaling to a secondary access node. The secondary access node receives the additional network signaling and responsively serves the wireless UE with the wireless data service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11246132
    Abstract: Messages are transmitted to a target device over a wireless network comprising a primary channel in which first messages are transmitted in a random access procedure, and a secondary channel in which second messages are transmitted using a dedicated access procedure, wherein each of the first messages comprises a pointer to the secondary channel, each first message comprising information about the transmitting device and the target device. For each of the first and second message, a transmission opportunity comprising a time slot for transmitting the corresponding message is selected and the primary channel is scanned to determine, based on the received first messages, whether a second message will be transmitted in the time slots selected for the first or second message in which the transmitting device or the target device is involved. The selected transmission opportunities are confirmed or amended based on a result of the scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Jonas Kronander
  • Patent number: 11240645
    Abstract: A method to operate a road-side network node in a cell-supported radio communications network and in an adhoc radio communications network is provided. The method comprises: discovering at least one further road-side network node in the vicinity of the road-side network node as a gateway node, wherein the at least one further road-side node has the capability to exchange data across the cell-supported radio communications network and the adhoc radio communications network; and exchanging data across the cell-supported radio communications network and the adhoc radio communications network in dependence on the discovered at least one further road-side network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Eckert, Nadia Brahmi
  • Patent number: 11240671
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and media for providing Bluetooth connection between Bluetooth devices. One of the methods comprises: generating, by a first Bluetooth device, a code; encrypting the code to generate a first ciphertext in response to detecting that a Bluetooth connection is disconnected; generating, by the first Bluetooth device, a broadcast packet based on the first ciphertext, and broadcasting the broadcast packet to a second Bluetooth device; receiving a scanning request from the second Bluetooth device, the scanning request including a random private address; verifying the scanning request based on the random private address; sending, in response to verifying the scanning request, a scanning response to the second Bluetooth device based on the random private address in the scanning request; and establishing a Bluetooth connection with the second Bluetooth device in response to determining that a connection request from the second Bluetooth device is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin Huang, Dingliang Yan, Yunding Jian
  • Patent number: 11234113
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided, which includes a first communication circuit supporting a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) protocol; a second communication circuit configured to support a second protocol different from the NAN protocol; a memory; and a processor operatively connected to the first communication circuit, the second communication circuit, and the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventors: Jongmu Choi, Bokun Choi, Doosuk Kang, Dooho Lee, Youngkow Lee