Patents Examined by Margaret G Mastrodonato
  • Patent number: 11595843
    Abstract: A first network node, a second network node and methods therein, for handling baseband processing of signals communicated with wireless devices in a wireless network. The first network node communicates a first type of signals with a first wireless device and performs a first part of baseband processing of the first type of signals using a non-GPP implemented processor. The first network node also communicates the first type of signals with the second network node for a second part of baseband processing of the first type of signals using a GPP implemented processor. The first network node further communicates a second type of signals with a second wireless device and performs both of said first and second parts of baseband processing of the second type of signals using the non-GPP implemented processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Chenguang Lu, Johan Zhang, Miguel Berg, Daniel Cederholm
  • Patent number: 11593947
    Abstract: A conferencing endpoint selects a background for a conferencing system. The conferencing endpoint captures an initial series of images of a foreground object in front of a background image, and segments at least one frame of the initial series of images into the foreground object and the background image according to a first segmentation technique. The conferencing endpoint generates one or more test backgrounds and evaluates the test backgrounds according to a second segmentation technique. The conferencing endpoint selects a final background from the test backgrounds for segmenting a subsequent series of images according to the second segmentation technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Cullen Frishman Jennings, Ashley Alexis Hamic
  • Patent number: 11582711
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and program products for enhancing structure walkthroughs are disclosed. In various embodiments, a method includes: monitoring a current location of an interested party (IP) device utilizing data collected by the IP device during a walkthrough of a structure having a structure representative (SR); detecting, based on the current location of the IP device, when the IP device is brought into proximity of a first SR-marked location included in a plurality of structure SR-marked locations; and in response to detecting that the IP device has been brought into proximity of the first SR-marked location, (i) identifying a first SR-created message corresponding to the first SR-marked location and contained in a location-referenced message set; and (ii) generating or causing generation of an SR message notification on the IP device, the SR message notification presenting or offering to present the first SR-created message to the interested party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: LS54 Ventures, LLC
    Inventors: Maxwell Pendelton Rosenberg, Justin James Leach
  • Patent number: 11557019
    Abstract: A method for efficient image registration between two images in the presence of inlier-poor domains includes receiving a set of candidate correspondences between the two images. An approximate homography between the two images is generated based upon a first correspondence in the correspondences. The set of candidate correspondences is filtered to identify inlier correspondences based upon the approximate homography. A candidate homography is computed based upon the inlier correspondences. The candidate homography can be selected as a final homography between the two images based upon a support of the candidate homography against the set of candidate correspondences. An image registration is performed between the two images based upon the candidate homography being selected as the final homography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Antonio Gonzales, Tony Perkins, Cara Patricia Monical
  • Patent number: 11526806
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach trains a machine learning model using reference entries included in a reference dataset. During the training, the machine learning model learns a first set of unidirectional associations between the reference entries. The approach inputs a user dataset into the trained machine learning model and generates a second set of unidirectional associations between user dataset entries included in the user dataset. The approach builds a hierarchical relationship of the user dataset based on the second set of unidirectional associations and manages the user dataset based on the hierarchical relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ritu Singh, Rakesh Ranjan, Simao Liu
  • Patent number: 11510127
    Abstract: A wireless device receives, from a base station of a first public land mobile network (PLMN), an indication of a failure of a second PLMN. In response to the failure, the wireless device sends, to the base station, an identifier of the second PLMN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Weihua Qiao, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Peyman Talebi Fard, Jinsook Ryu
  • Patent number: 11510118
    Abstract: This application provides a server switching method and apparatus, and a communications system. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a first notification message, where the first notification message includes an address of a second server; sending, by the terminal, to-be-sent service data to a first server and the second server based on the first notification message; receiving, by the terminal, downlink data from the first server; obtaining, by the terminal, data processing indication information; when obtaining the data processing indication information, sending, by the terminal, the to-be-sent service data to the second server; and receiving, by the terminal, downlink data from the second server. The server switching method and apparatus, and the communications system in the embodiments of this application can implement seamless switching, ensure service continuity, avoid service interruption caused when a terminal switches between servers, and help meet an end-to-end latency requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dekui Sun
  • Patent number: 11501517
    Abstract: An imaging unit, an extraction unit, a feature amount pair generation unit, and an imaging parameter adjustment unit are included. The imaging unit acquires images obtained by imaging each of N (N?3) types of objects a plurality of times by setting a value of a specific imaging parameter, among a plurality of types of imaging parameters, as a certain candidate value and changing a value of the remaining imaging parameter. The extraction unit extracts a feature amount from each of the images. The feature amount pair generation unit generates, as a first feature amount pair for each of the N types of objects, a feature amount pair in which two feature amounts constituting the feature amount pair are extracted from images of objects of the same type, and generates, as a second feature amount pair for every combination of the N types of objects, a feature amount pair in which two feature amounts constituting the feature amount pair are extracted from a images of objects of the different types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Rui Ishiyama, Yuta Kudo
  • Patent number: 11494897
    Abstract: A method of measuring working distance between a handheld digital device and eyes of a user, including capturing an image of at least eyes of a user via an onboard camera of the handheld digital device while the user is viewing a display of the handheld digital device and comparing an apparent angular size of a structure of the eyes or face of the user to a previously captured image of the structure of the eyes or the face that was taken in the presence of an object of known size. The method further includes calculating a working distance based on the apparent angular size of the structure of the eyes or the face; and saving at least the working distance to memory or reporting out the calculated working distance on the display. A handheld digital device programmed with an algorithm to perform the method is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: William F. Wiley
  • Patent number: 11496885
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards collecting information regarding the implementation of dynamic frequency selection and automatic channel selection by one or more wireless communication devices. And to use the collected information to determine if other communication devices are coupled to communicate with each other via a wireless connection or a wired connection, or to modify the automatic channel selection mechanism used by one or more wireless communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DISH TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventors: Francis Nafe, Christopher William Bruhn
  • Patent number: 11477712
    Abstract: This document describes methods, devices, systems, procedures, and means of maintaining communication and signaling interfaces during network role transitions, such as a secondary node change or a handover. A source secondary base station holds a source donor Central Unit (Source CU) for its own Distributed Unit (source DU) and for the Distributed Unit(s) of the node base station(s) (node DU). The source secondary base station connects to the node base station via a first F1 interface. The node DU triggers handover of the node base station and connected User Equipment (UE) from the source secondary base station to a target secondary base station. The node base station creates Transport Network Layer (TNL) connectivity toward a target donor Central Unit (Target CU) and exchanges application layer configuration data with the Target CU via a wireless backhaul link implemented utilizing the TNL connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Ching-Jung Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11469868
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing positioning reference signal are disclosed. A method may include receiving, by a narrow-band (NB) user equipment (UE), positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration information, determining, by the NB UE, narrowband PRS (NB PRS) configuration information for the NB UE, the NB PRS configuration information comprising information of an NB PRS reference cell that generates an NB PRS for the NB UE, determining, by the NB UE, PRS configuration information for a UE, the UE being assigned to use a frequency band unavailable for the NB UE, and the PRS configuration information comprising information of a PRS reference cell that generates a PRS for the UE, generating, based on the NB PRS configuration information and the PRS configuration information, a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement, and transmitting, by the NB UE, the RSTD measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Hyun Park, Sung Jun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11462009
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques generally relate to devices and methods for generating cropped images in which one or more features of interest are preserved or emphasized. In one implementation, such features of interest may include facial features. In accordance with certain implementations, location and extent of such features may be identified and used in conjunction with information regarding display characteristics so as to generate cropped images preserving or emphasizing the feature of interest when displayed on a given device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Agarwal, Fei Peng, Wenyu Zhang, Matthew H. Thorn, Sean Michael Harold, Douglas Isaac Friedman, Leticia Marie Alarcón
  • Patent number: 11463860
    Abstract: An emergency location information service (E-LIS) for network devices connected to proxy network devices. The proxy network devices are both analog and digital network devices. The proxy network devices send unique identification information for the network device connected to it and request either a location-by-reference (indirect location information) component or location-by-reference (direct location information) component to identify the network device for when an emergency event occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Everbridge, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas M. Maier, Gerald R. Eisner
  • Patent number: 11436713
    Abstract: A method for determining an application error from a screenshot includes receiving, by a computing device, a computer application screenshot image indicating a computer error has occurred. The computing device analyzes the computer application screenshot image using a machine learning image analysis to determine one or more error regions in the computer application screenshot image. The computing device further processes the analyzed computer application screenshot to extract text from the one or more error regions in the computer application screenshot image. The computing device determines the application error based upon the extracted text. The computing device further automatically applies an automated error fix based upon the determined application error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin P. Segal, James William Murdock, IV, Radha Mohan De, Sujoy Roy, John Martin Prager
  • Patent number: 11438864
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of processing a positioning reference signal are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes determining a narrow-band (NB) positioning reference signal (PRS) bitmap indicating a pattern selecting NB PRS subframes, wherein each NB PRS subframe comprises an NB PRS for positioning an NB user equipment (UE), transmitting, to the NB UE, NB PRS configuration information for the NB UE, the NB PRS configuration information comprising the NB PRS bitmap, determining, by a reference cell and based on the NB PRS bitmap, NB PRS subframes of the reference cell, mapping, by the reference cell, a first NB PRS in the NB PRS subframes of the reference cell, and receiving, from the NB UE and in response to the first NB PRS, a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jun Yoon, Dong Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 11425608
    Abstract: Facilitating an interference leakage dependent resource reservation protocol in advanced networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise defining, by a system comprising a memory and a processor, a resource reservation procedure that associates respective amounts of reserved resources available for a mobile device based on a transmission beam width and a transmission power level of the mobile device. The method also can comprise selecting, by the system, an amount of reserved resources from the respective amounts of reserved resources available based on the transmission beam width and the transmission power level of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 11425614
    Abstract: A method, a User Equipment and a non-transitory computer readable medium for DAPS handover are provided. The method includes that User Equipment (UE) triggers a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) status report during a DAPS handover, upon UpLink (UL) data switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin You, Haitao Li
  • Patent number: 11419130
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a resource allocation method and apparatus for resolving a technical issue of a conflict of transmission resources used by user equipment adopting mode 3 and user equipment adopting mode 4. The method comprises: a base station determining whether a shared transmission resource pool shared by first-mode user equipment and second-mode user equipment includes available resources, wherein a transmission resource of the first-mode user equipment is allocated by the base station, and a transmission resource of the second-mode user equipment is selected from the shared transmission resource pool; and if the base station determines that the shared transmission resource pool includes available resources, the base station allocating, on the basis of the available resources, a transmission resource to the first-mode user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Lin, Rui Zhao
  • Patent number: 11419045
    Abstract: A method includes learning, by at least one device associated with a slice selection function, a slice reselection decision for at least one self-operation case. The method includes determining, by the at least one device associated with the slice selection function, whether an evaluation condition for at least one new self-operation case has been met. The at least one new self-operation case includes the at least one self-operation case. The method also includes requesting, at least one device associated with a management function, evaluate the at least one new self-operation case in response to determining that the evaluation condition has been met, receiving evaluation results from the at least one device associated with the management function, and learning the evaluation results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Haitao Tang, Kaj Peter Stenberg