Patents Examined by Marisol Figueroa
  • Patent number: 11706683
    Abstract: A wireless roaming method and an apparatus, a storage medium and an access point device are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jauh Yuh-Ren, Yanchao Xu, Qinghua Yu, Long Wang
  • Patent number: 11703918
    Abstract: An electronic modulating device is provided. The electronic modulating device includes a substrate, a plurality of first modulating electrodes disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of second modulating electrodes disposed on the substrate. The area of one of the first modulating electrodes is greater than the area of one of the second modulating electrodes. The ratio of the number of first modulating electrodes to the number of second modulating electrodes is in a range from 0.5 to 2.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11696103
    Abstract: A method of and a device for operating a service discovery and selection function in a telecommunications system, wherein the service discovery and selection function registers a service profile of a service provided by at least one service producer of the telecommunications system. The service profile among others includes consistency group information and proximity information. The consistency group information identifies instances of the service sharing a same state and the proximity information identifies deployment of the instances in the telecommunications system. The service discovery and selection function, from the service profile, based on service selection criteria, selects a single service instance of the service for a service consumer of the telecommunications system requesting the service, and identifies the selected service instance to the service consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Maria Cruz Bartolomé Rodrigo, Joerg Aelken, Antonio Alonso Alarcon
  • Patent number: 11694296
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to detect whether or not a vehicle that is about to use a facility is under share ride by a plurality of persons, and permit the vehicle to use the facility or providing an economic merit associated with usage of the facility to the vehicle, when having detected that the vehicle is under share ride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Okabe, Hiroaki Sakurai, Kazuaki Takemura, Kengo Takeuchi, Kaori Sakai, Hideo Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11689901
    Abstract: A system and method for the real-time management of a device, and more particularly to the establishment and enforcement of policies or rules associated with the feature or functions that may be performed with the device, such as making and receiving calls, exchanging data, playing games and music, sending and receiving email, accessing web sites, and paying for goods and services. If a child or employee is using the device, there may be a need to regulate how that device can be used and to determine who will pay for what goods or services. In addition to providing all of the features associated with a device, service providers need to be able to establish and enforce rules (policies) regulating how and when that device can be used and who will pay for a good or service requested by the user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: KAJEET, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Donald Baker, Steven Ira Geller, Douglas Owen Kesser, Daniel John Neal, Carol Ann Politi, Ben Julian Weintraub
  • Patent number: 11683852
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for determining one or more radio resource management (RRM) input parameters. The one or more RRM input parameters are determined based on a line of sight (LOS) estimate between two wireless stations (STAs). A plurality of RRM values are generated based on the one or more RRM input parameters. A wireless connection is established between a first wireless access point (AP) and a first STA using the RRM values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pooya Monajemi, Santosh B. Kulkarni, Benjamin J. Cizdziel, Vishal S. Desai, Young Il Choi
  • Patent number: 11679301
    Abstract: A step counting apparatus for a treadmill includes a terminal device. The terminal device is placed on the treadmill. The terminal device includes an acceleration sensor, a processor and a memory. The memory is configured to store a software program. The acceleration sensor is configured to collect a vibration signal generated when a user runs on the treadmill. The processor is configured to execute the software program stored in the memory, to cause the processor to instruct the acceleration sensor to collect the vibration signal generated when the user runs on the treadmill. The processor is further configure to execute the software program to analyze, using a time-frequency analysis algorithm, the vibration signal to determine a quantity of exercise steps of the user on the treadmill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaoping Huang
  • Patent number: 11665609
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor; a memory; a network interface device to communicatively couple the information handling system to a first wireless communication networks of a plurality of wireless communication networks; an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) to provide data descriptive of wireless communication network-specific information to authenticate the information handling system; and an eSIM profile switching module to: monitor for signal strengths of each of a plurality of wireless communication networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Anantha K. Boyapalle, Liam B. Quinn, Kamal J. Koshy
  • Patent number: 11653274
    Abstract: An information generating method can be applied to user equipment, and include: receiving a first beam signal of a first cell where the user equipment is located, wherein the first beam signal comprises second identifier information of a second beam signal, and the second beam signal is at least one beam signal adjacent to the first beam signal in a second cell adjacent to the first cell; determining the at least one second beam signal according to the second identifier information, and receiving the at least one second beam signal; and generating cell handover information according to the at least one second beam signal and the first beam signal. According to the embodiments of the present invention, time consumed by a user equipment during cell handover can be shortened, thereby facilitating increasing the speed of cell handover by the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11653403
    Abstract: In order to achieve the above-described object, a disclosure of this specification provides a method for performing, by a UE, a PDU session establishment request, in case information on a LADN area is changed. The method may include the steps of performing a first PDU session establishment request for a first LADN area, in case the first PDU session establishment request is transmitted from outside of the first LADN area, receiving a Reject message rejecting the first PDU session establishment request from a network system, in case the Reject message is received, transmitting a registration update request for updating a LADN area to the network system, receiving information on an updated second LADN area (LADN Service Area 2) as a response to the registration update request, and performing a second PDU session establishment request for the second LADN area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehyun Kim, Sangmin Park, Hyunsook Kim
  • Patent number: 11638196
    Abstract: Provided are a path, a path information processing method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The path processing method includes: receiving, by an intermediate-session management function (I-SMF), a first message sent by an anchor-session management function (A-SMF), where the first message includes context information; and determining, by the I-SMF according to the context information, a mode corresponding to a data path established by the I-SMF and selecting a data path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shuang Liang, Jinguo Zhu, Zhijun Li
  • Patent number: 11632699
    Abstract: A method performed by a BS for cell selection or reselection is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a UE, allowed NPN information that is in a form of a CAG ID list or in a form of an SNPN ID list; and transmitting, to the UE, NPN information and area information associated with the NPN information via a SIB1, the NPN information including an NPN ID list. In a case that the allowed NPN information is in the form of the CAG ID list, the allowed NPN information enables the UE to perform a first procedure. In a case that the allowed NPN information is in the form of the SNPN ID list, the allowed NPN information enables the UE to perform a second procedure. ABS using the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 11621860
    Abstract: Techniques for allowing access based online charging in cases of multiple user agents (multi-UAs) scenarios where the instances are registered to different telephony application servers (TASs) are discussed herein. For example, a user device may support a native number and multiple virtual numbers linked via a user account. When servicing a call, the user device may determine a served number to service the call from. If the served number is not the native number but a virtual number, the native-line server may handle the call session, but the online charging session will be handled by the virtual-line server. The native-line server may use session initiation protocol (SIP) information to send updated information for charging parameters to the virtual-line server, including network access transfer for accuracy in online charging logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Saqib Badar
  • Patent number: 11622307
    Abstract: The invention refers to a wireless communication system including a plurality of base-stations covering different communication areas and a coordinator unit. The coordinator unit compiles an expectation list with at least one base-station serving as a coordinated base-station for a possible handover concerning a user equipment based on information about the user equipment. The coordinator unite provides the at least one base-station of the expectation list with handover information concerning the possible handover. The at least one base-station of the expectation list goes into an attention mode after receiving the handover information from the coordinator unit. The invention also refers to a corresponding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Thomas Heyn
  • Patent number: 11611947
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein disclose a method performed by a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method includes performing a registration procedure on a first standalone non-public network (SNPN), selecting a second SNPN based on a predetermined condition, and transmitting, to a network entity, a registration request message on the second SNPN for an initial registration, in case that the second SNPN differs from the first SNPN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kundan Tiwari, Rajavelsamy Rajadurai, Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar, Lalith Kumar, Narendranath Durga Tangudu
  • Patent number: 11595895
    Abstract: A base station may define power saving profiles, and may define, for the power saving profiles, sets of features and parameter settings for each feature of the sets of features. The base station may store the power saving profiles, the sets of features, and the parameter settings in a data structure, and may receive, from a user equipment, data identifying a service utilized by the user equipment or an operation mode of the user equipment. The base station may retrieve, from the data structure, a single power saving profile based on the data identifying the service utilized by the user equipment or the operation mode of the user equipment, and may enable, for the user equipment, a corresponding set of features and corresponding parameter settings of the single power saving profile based on the single power saving profile being retrieved from the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Deepa Jagannatha, Susan Wu Sanders, Hui Zhao, Andrew E. Youtz
  • Patent number: 11582662
    Abstract: A method for cell selection, a user equipment and a network side device are provided. The method includes: reading, by a UE, first system information of a first cell on a first frequency; in a case that the first system information of the first cell indicates that camping on the first cell is not allowed and an intra-frequency reselection is not allowed and in a case that a set condition is met, the UE not selecting, or not reselecting, or neither selecting nor reselecting a cell on the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Bao, Yumin Wu, Ran Yue
  • Patent number: 11582689
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a user equipment, a token request associated with an application, wherein the token request is associated with a device identifier. The device may generate a device token for the application and the user equipment. The device may provide, using the device identifier, the device token to the user equipment to enable a user to access the application via an application platform. The device may receive, from the application platform, a slice request for a network slice of a network that is to be used for an application session. The device may determine that the user equipment is associated with the application session based on the device token and the device identifier. The device may configure a network slice instance of the network slice. The device may determine a user equipment route selection policy for the application session according to the network slice instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Enrique Caceres, Umesh Kumar Gupta, Mauricio Pati Caldeira De Andrada, Muhammad Salman Nomani, Jyotsna Kachroo, Jun Yuan
  • Patent number: 11540101
    Abstract: A service provider may receive a user device that includes an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) associated with an equipment identifier (eID) with a previously provisioned service. The previously provisioned service may be provided by an eSIM profile (identified by an Integrated Circuit Card Identifier or ICCID) and the eSIM may contain more than one ICCID. The service provider may re-provision one of the existing ICCIDs to provide service based on the eID and historical data. The device and the carrier provisioning system may determine whether one of the profiles (ICCIDs) installed in the eSIM matches an already known eSIM profile (ICCD) and re-provision the eSIM profile (ICCD) for new wireless service. The service provider may then activate the user device for communication via the new wireless service in response to re-provisioning of the applicable eSIM profile (ICCID).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Williams, Zhengfang Chen, Axel Hallo de Wolf
  • Patent number: 11540197
    Abstract: In some implementations, a network device may receive an identifier associated with an application server. The network device may associate the identifier with a service profile associated with a network slice based on a quality of service associated with the network slice. The network device may provide, to a device associated with the application server, information indicating that the identifier is associated with the service profile. The network device may receive address information associated with the application server. The network device may associate the address information with the service profile. The network device may provide service profile information to a security device included in a core network to cause the security device to forward traffic transmitted by the application server toward a destination via the network slice. The service profile information may include an identifier associated with the service profile, the identifier, and the address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Huang, Miguel A. Carames, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Alexander Fadeev, Suzann Hua, Jude M. Munn, Michael R. Waters