Patents Examined by Marisol Figueroa
  • Patent number: 10477613
    Abstract: The present specification can provide a method by which a terminal performing communication controls a virtual terminal. The method for controlling the virtual terminal can comprise the steps of: connecting with a base station; receiving a connection re-establishment command message from the connected base station; and registering or removing the virtual terminal on the basis of the connection re-establishment command message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heejin Kim, Jiwon Kang, Kitae Kim, Kilbom Lee
  • Patent number: 10477362
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing cross-network communication between a telephone network and a radio network. For example, implementations can operate to provide two-way communication between a mobile radio device and a telephone, computing device, and/or other suitable device that connects to a telephone network, by creating two-way communications between a mobile radio network and a telephone network. This inter-communication between the two networks enables landline telephones and mobile devices that are connected to a telephone network to communicate with radio devices that are connected to radio network. Implementations provide a portal service and one or more voice radio interfaces (VRIs). The portal service can employ an interactive voice response system as a user interface, enabling a user calling in from a telephone network to provide information that is used to establish communications with radio devices connected to radio network. The VRIs intermediate communications between the networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Hussain A. AlNasser, Hanan Naji Al-Ali, Murtada Abdullah Alqushairi, Zahrah Adnan Almousa, Mohammad Khaled Almunea
  • Patent number: 10462619
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for leveraging an online semantic processor to generate a finite state machine to be delivered to and implemented on a resource-constrained device. In various implementations, a user request may be received by a personal assistant module. Data indicative of the user request may be uploaded, e.g., by the personal assistant module, to an online semantic processor. Data may be received, e.g., by the personal assistant module, from the online semantic processor. The received data may represent a state machine having a plurality of candidate states of the personal assistant module. Each candidate state may be potentially responsive to the request. Resources local to the resource-constrained device may be analyzed to ascertain signal(s) unavailable to the online semantic processor. The personal assistant module may then transition to a given state of the plurality of candidate states. The given state may be selected based on the signal(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Adrian Diaconu, Jing Qian, Jack Whyte, Ning Ma, Shir Yehoshua
  • Patent number: 10455536
    Abstract: Mobile devices are provisionally registered when the mobile device does not have an active subscription profile. A communications session is established with an access network of a mobile communications network. Identification data for the computing device is sent to the access network. A connectivity configuration is used to allow the computing device to establish a limited connection on the mobile communications network. Using the limited connection, an eSIM profile is received. The eSIM profile is activated and the device is connected to an associated mobile network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jean Khawand, Anand Muthurajan, John D. Bruner, Sohail Hirani
  • Patent number: 10448239
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Relocation of a user plane may be minimized through the exchange of communication session information between network nodes. For example, a connectivity session manager and an access and mobility manager may exchange information associated with a user equipment (UE) communication session to prevent unnecessary reestablishment of an existing communication session. In such cases, the access and mobility manager may receive a session management request from a UE and send a request including the session management request to the connectivity session manager. Based on the received message, the connectivity session manager may identify a continuity mode, select a user plane anchor for the communication session, and send a response message to the access and mobility manager. In some examples, the connectivity session manager and the access and mobility manager may exchange session area codes associated with the location of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stefano Faccin, Haris Zisimopoulos, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 10447577
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for processing vehicle messages is provided. The method comprises: receiving a vehicle message for transmission; determining whether a condition exists to expedite transmission of the vehicle message; determining if a preferential sub-network is available; determining if at least one less preferential sub-network is available; and when the condition exists, when the preferential sub-network is not available for use, and the less preferential sub-network is available, expediting the transmission of the vehicle message over a less preferential sub-network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Divya Swarup Giriyappa Srinivasan, Thomas D. Judd
  • Patent number: 10440597
    Abstract: Monitoring devices, which in some cases may comprise smartphones, are placed at base stations of a cellular communications network to report base station information. Each monitoring device is configured to periodically determine whether its associated base station is operating correctly, or whether there is some type of anomaly at the base station. As long as there is no anomaly, the monitoring device repeatedly sends status messages to a support service of the cellular communications network. Each such status message indicates that the monitoring device has performed an analysis and has determined there is no serious anomaly at the base station. The support service monitors status messages from multiple monitoring devices. If the support service does not receive a status message within a given period of time, the support service may alert service personnel and/or automatically dispatch support resources to the base station or trigger diagnostics and/or corrective measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter P. Myron, Samson Kim-Sun Kwong, Michael J. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 10440518
    Abstract: A method and a system for providing integrated indoor and outdoor positioning are disclosed. The method for providing integrated positioning may comprise the steps of: receiving, by a user terminal, GPS coordinate information of the user terminal moving in an outdoor area around a building and an outdoor area within the building; and determining, by the user terminal, information on an area in which the user terminal is located and a floor on which the user terminal is located in the building, on the basis of GPS coordinate information mapped to each of the outdoor area around the building and the outdoor area within the building and the received GPS coordinate information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: NAVER Business Platform Corporation
    Inventors: Daewoong Kim, Jungmin Kang, Tae Gyu Kang, Sechun Oh, Ho Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 10405363
    Abstract: A security method for D2D mode B discovery is disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure, in four processes of the D2D mode B discovery service, integrity protection is performed, by adding corresponding parameters, on a discovery response message of a passive terminal, a discovery response message of an active terminal, a query request message sent by the active terminal to the passive terminal, a query response message sent by the passive terminal to the active terminal, and the matching report message of the active terminal. A security system, terminal for D2D mode B discovery and a storage medium are further disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Peng, Shilin You, Shuang Liang, Zhaoji Lin
  • Patent number: 10401469
    Abstract: Positioning methods and devices are described, which relate to the field of positioning. A method comprises: acquiring a group of transmission parameters of a wireless energy transmission device; determining N groups of reference transmission parameters from multiple groups of reference transmission parameters according to the group of transmission parameters, where N is a positive integer; and determining, according to the N groups of reference transmission parameters, one receiving position of a wireless energy receiving device corresponding to the wireless energy transmission device. In this regard, a correspondence that exists between a receiving position of a wireless energy receiving device and a transmission parameter of a wireless energy transmission device can be used to implement positioning of the wireless energy receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hanning Zhou
  • Patent number: 10397382
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a shell defining a plurality of positioning slots, a screen mounted in the shell, a screen protector connected to the shell and arranged at a periphery of the screen. The screen protector may be presented as a frame being made in one piece, a plurality of positioning pins may be arranged on the screen protector, each of the plurality of positioning pins may have an extending direction perpendicular to the screen and be engaged in a corresponding positioning slot. The screen protector may be configured to stretch or retract relative to the screen along a direction perpendicular to the screen under the guide of the plurality of positioning pins, such that the screen protector moves between a stretchable state and a retractable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuanqing Zeng
  • Patent number: 10382600
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a foldable terminal, including an elastic sheet. The elastic sheet provides an elastic force in a state, so as to keep the housing in a folded state, and the elastic sheet provides another elastic force in another state, so as to keep the housing in an unfolded state. When the foldable terminal is in the unfolded state, the elastic sheet supports an inner side of the flexible screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD.
    Inventors: Yugui Lin, Maozhao Huang
  • Patent number: 10375527
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for notification of potential entry into an incorrect location. A user location is monitored via a mobile electronic device and an indoor positioning system. An intended floorplan zone is obtained via calendar information, social media information, ticketing information, manual entry, or other suitable mechanism. User speed is monitored. Based on user speed and/or deceleration, nearby floorplan zone categories are checked. If the floorplan zone does not match the intended floorplan zone, but the category is identical to that of the intended floorplan zone, an alert is issued to the user via the mobile electronic device that is associated with the user. This provides an unobtrusive way to alert users before entering a room. Thus, disclosed embodiments can prevent disruptions, thereby increasing productivity and also serving to reduce embarrassment of users caused by entering the wrong location within a venue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dana L. Price, Carolyn Carpenter, Daniel Schartner, James Blye, John Schubert
  • Patent number: 10375539
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for transmitting application-specific data over a control channel of a GMS telecommunications system. In one embodiment of the invention the application specific data is transmitted from an application device to a central monitoring station in the content field of a register_ss message. In one embodiment of the invention, application-specific data is transmitted from a central monitoring station to an application device in the calling party number field of a caller identification message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Aeris Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dae Seong Kim, Syed Zaeem Hosain
  • Patent number: 10375625
    Abstract: A system for triangulating a location of a wireless process automation transmitter for use by a smart glass device is provided. A wireless process automation transmitter transmits a join request signal, and a plurality of network receivers receive the join request signal and transmit time of arrival information to a network manager. The network manager uses the information, including network receiver information and corresponding location information, to triangulate a location of the wireless process automation transmitter. A smart glass device location is triangulated in a similar manner but may also use the wireless process automation transmitter to receive a join request signal and transmit time of arrival information to the network manager. With the location information of both devices, along with an orientation angle of the smart glass device, the network manager determines if the wireless process automation transmitter is in a field of view of the smart glass device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG
    Inventors: Eric Birgel, Tareq Al Qaisi, Gautham Karnik, Matthew Krygier
  • Patent number: 10356626
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to reclaiming of resources in a shared frequency spectrum shared by multiple operators are provided. A first wireless communication device associated with a first operator of a plurality of operators identifies a transmission opportunity in a shared frequency spectrum shared by the plurality of operators, wherein the first operator has priority among the plurality of operators for accessing the shared frequency spectrum in the transmission opportunity. The first wireless communication device communicates with a second wireless communication device associated with the first operator, in the transmission opportunity without a prior reservation of the transmission opportunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Montojo, Taesang Yoo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Siddhartha Mallik
  • Patent number: 10349218
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an in-vehicle base station are described. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: broadcasting, using the first access radio, the cellular access network at a first power; transmitting the location of the mobile base station to the cellular network; detecting, at the processor, a transition of the mobile base station from a stationary state to a moving state; reducing, at the first access radio, a transmit power of the cellular access network while in the moving state for disabling the cellular access network outside the vehicle; and increasing, at the first access radio, the transmit power of the mobile base station when exiting the moving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Murali Talluri, Kaitki Agarwal, Rajesh Kumar Mishra, Sumit Garg
  • Patent number: 10324162
    Abstract: A communications device includes: a receiver configured to receive signals including at least one positioning reference signal transmitted in each of a plurality of time units; at least one antenna connected to the receiver; a motion detector configured to determine a relative local position of the communications device; and a controller configured to generate a measurement data set including plural measurement samples of at least a phase of the positioning reference signal according to a sampling rate, and a location of the communications device at which the phase of the positioning reference signal was determined. The controller is configured to estimate a relative angle of arrival of the received radio signals, used to determine an estimation of a location of the communications device, wherein the controller is configured to adapt at the rate of sampling to generate the measurement data set in accordance with predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 10321387
    Abstract: Provided are a method for receiving an on-demand system information (OSI) block by a terminal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting the same. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a network, an on-demand system information (OSI) configuration including information on mapping between the OSI block and information on a system information request (SIR) preamble; determining an OSI block of interest; selecting an SIR preamble corresponding to the OSI block of interest on the basis of the OSI configuration; transmitting the selected SIR preamble to a serving cell so as to request the determined OSI block of interest; and receiving the requested OSI block of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Sangwon Kim
  • Patent number: 10318968
    Abstract: A system for determining queues and reducing queue times for a location determines the number of users that are in a queue based on sensor readings from a device of the users and interactions of the devices with a geofence. The system may determine the queue times based on the number of devices it determines are associated with users in a queue and a rate associated with the movement of the queue. The determined queue times may be displayed on one or more user devices that are inquiring about the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Brandon Tineo