Patents Examined by Marceau Milord
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11228880
    Abstract: A communication device for a vehicular radio communications includes one or more processors configured to identify a plurality of vehicular communication devices that form a cluster of cooperating vehicular communication devices, determine channel resource allocations for the plurality of vehicular communication devices that includes channel resources allocated for a first vehicular radio communication technology and channel resources allocated for a second vehicular radio communication technology, and transmit the channel resource allocation to the plurality of vehicular communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carlos Aldana, Dave Cavalcanti, Debabani Choudhury, Jong-Kae Fwu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Nageen Himayat, Ingolf Karls, Duncan Kitchin, Markus Dominik Mueck, Harry Skinner, Christopher Stobart, Shilpa Talwar, Zhibin Yu
  • Patent number: 11223974
    Abstract: According to the first aspect of the present invention, a data transmission apparatus includes a transmission control unit which generates a packet for one-way communication including first difference sensor data, and a transmission unit which transmits the generated packet. The first difference sensor data is a difference between first sensor data measured by a sensor and a reference value associated with the first sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Kubo, Toru Deno, Hideki Kondo
  • Patent number: 11219027
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information from a base station that indicates a set of resources for the UE to establish sidelink communications with another UE in a wireless network. The UE may transmit a first set of reference signals using a first set of beams to determine a set of neighboring candidate UEs for a sidelink connection. The UE may then transmit a second set of reference signals on a second set of beams to the neighboring candidate UEs, and may select a second UE located in the determined neighboring set using various beam scanning procedures. The UE may identify a transmit beam associated with the second UE, and may establish the sidelink connection using the identified transmit beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Jung Ho Ryu, Tianyang Bai, Hua Wang, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11212692
    Abstract: A non-connection state measurement method, UE, and a base station are provided. The measurement method according to this disclosure includes: acquiring measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more frequencies; starting, by the UE in a non-connection state, to perform measurements in the one or more frequencies according to the measurement configuration information; and reporting, by the UE after the UE enters a connected state from the non-connection state, a measurement result obtained from the measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Bao, Xiaodong Yang, Jingzhi Ma
  • Patent number: 11212511
    Abstract: Multiview calibration is essential for accurate three-dimensional computation. However, multiview calibration can not be accurate enough because of the tolerances required in some of the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters that are associated with the calibration process, along with fundamental imperfections that are associated with the manufacturing and assembly process itself. As a result, residual error in calibration is left over, with no known methods to mitigate such errors. Residual error mitigation is presented in this work to address the shortcomings that are associated with calibration of multiview camera systems. Residual error mitigation may be performed inline with a given calibration approach, or may be presented as a secondary processing step that is more application specific. Residual error mitigation aims at modifying the original parameters that have been estimated during an initial calibration process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarek El Dokor, Jordan Cluster, Joshua King, James Holmes, Milind Subhash Gide
  • Patent number: 11200664
    Abstract: A computer-based method for quantitative evaluation of computed tomography (CT) images of the head, particularly in circumstances of neurological emergency such as acute intracranial hemorrhage, evidence of intracranial mass effect, and acute stroke. The method comprises: calculation of volumes of abnormal areas such as locations of hemorrhage; quantification of severity of midline shift and basilar cistern effacement; and rapid identification of anatomical locations of abnormal findings. The methods comprise use of heuristics, convolutional neural networks, deep learning, edge detection, and Hough transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Esther L. Yuh, Pratik Mukherjee, Geoffrey T. Manley
  • Patent number: 11202248
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a network entity in a wireless communication system supporting ranging capability is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: identifying a MAC sublayer management entity-receive-enable request (MLME-RX-ENABLE.request) primitive including a list of ranging scheduling time unit (RSTU) counter (RxOnTime) values and a number of RSTUs (RxOnDuration), wherein the MLME-RX-ENABLE.request primitive is sent to a MAC layer from a higher layer; in response to identifying the MLME-RX-ENABLE.request primitive, identifying a value of a MAC RSTU_COUNTER; determining whether the value of the MAC RSTU_COUNTER is set to an RxOnTime value included in the list of the RxOnTime values of the MLME-RX-ENABLE.request primitive; increasing the value of the MAC RSTU_COUNTER; determining whether a frame is received from another network entity based on the value of the MAC RSTU_COUNTER; and in response to determining that the frame is received, generating a MAC common part sublayer indication (MCPS-DATA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Aditya V. Padaki, Zheda Li, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 11197272
    Abstract: In dense Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) deployments, Access Points (APs) in other Extended Service Sets (ESSs) can be hidden (a first AP does not receive signals from a third AP). However, these APs in other ESSs can still interfere with communications between the third AP and the devices communicating with the first AP. To improve service to that device in that situation, the first AP needs information about the third AP in the first AP's decision making processes. In these situations, a second AP, in contact with the third AP, can share information about the third AP with the first AP so that the first AP can avoid colliding with the third AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pooya Monajemi, Vishal Satyendra Desai, Benjamin Jacob Cizdziel, Santosh Babaji Kulkarni, Young Il Choi
  • Patent number: 11197338
    Abstract: A UE in a wireless network performs RRM measurements according to power saving schemes. The UE receives Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs), which are broadcast periodically from a base station to a cell served by the base station, and receives additional signal blocks transmitted periodically from the base station. The additional signal blocks and the SSBs use different time-and-frequency resources. The UE performs an RRM measurement according to information received within an RRM measurement window including at least one of the additional signal blocks and a corresponding one of the SSBs. Additionally or alternatively, the UE performs RRM measurements on SSBs with a first cycle period equal to a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle period. In response to an indication that a predefined condition for the RRM measurements is satisfied, the UE performs the RRM measurements with a second cycle period which is at least two times of the first cycle period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Hsuan Hsieh, Wei-De Wu, Din-Hwa Huang, Kuan-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 11197335
    Abstract: A method for data transmission and related products are provided. The method is applicable to an electronic device. A first wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi) link and at least one second Wi-Fi link are established between the electronic device and at least one terminal. The first Wi-Fi link is operable in a station mode and each second Wi-Fi link is operable in a soft AP mode. The method includes the following. Data transmission is performed with the at least one terminal over the first Wi-Fi link and the at least one second Wi-Fi link simultaneously, where a transmission frequency band for data transmission over the first Wi-Fi link is different from a transmission frequency band for data transmission over each of any two links of the at least one second Wi-Fi link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN HEYTAP TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuan Huang, Shixing Ke
  • Patent number: 11178645
    Abstract: A device includes a reception unit configured to receive first information, second information, and third information; a physical downlink control channel reception unit configured to receive a physical downlink control channel; and a physical downlink shared channel reception unit configured to receive a physical downlink shared channel. When joint coding is configured by the third information, the physical downlink control channel reception unit monitors the physical downlink control channel of a cell configured by the second information, and the physical downlink shared channel reception unit receives physical downlink shared channels of downlink cells indicated by the first information, on the basis of a result of decoding the physical downlink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11178716
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for establishing a reconnection between devices by using Bluetooth low energy (LE). In particular, a method performed by a first device comprises the steps of: performing a reconnection parameter negotiation procedure with a second device; transmitting, via a channel determined on the basis of a result of the negotiation procedure, to the second device, a trigger sequence including at least one trigger codeword for requesting the reconnection; and receiving a beacon from the second device in response to the trigger sequence, wherein when the beacon is received, the reconnection between the first device and the second device may be established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Baik, Jingu Choi