Patents Examined by Matthew W. Genack
  • Patent number: 11963045
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An access and mobility management function (AMF) associated with a first radio access network (RAN) may identify a user equipment (UE) connected to a source base station of the first RAN. The AMF may receive a handover message including a voice call continuity handover trigger message indicating a handover of the UE to a target base station associated with a second RAN. In some examples, the AMF may transmit a bypass handover message to a second network device based a on the received handover message. In some cases, the bypass handover message may include the voice call continuity handover trigger message. In some examples, the second network device is a mobility management entity (MME) associated with an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Zhang, Xipeng Zhu, Haris Zisimopoulos, Xiangkai Guan
  • Patent number: 11956066
    Abstract: A high throughput fractionated satellite (HTFS) system and method where the functional capabilities of a conventional monolithic spacecraft are distributed across many small or very small satellites and a central command and relay satellite, the satellites are separated and flight in carefully design formations that allows the creation of very large aperture or apertures in space drastically reducing cost and weight and enabling high throughput capabilities by spatially reuse spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: AST & Science, LLC
    Inventors: Abel Avellan, Sriram Jayasimha
  • Patent number: 11956698
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a base station including a first communication port configured to create a wireless connection to a first mobile telephone via Bluetooth; and a second communication port configured to create a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) connection to a first telephone network; wherein the base station is configured to retrieve a first contact list from the first mobile telephone, and is configured to send information from the first contact list to a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ONEPHONE UNIFIED LLC
    Inventor: Dominic M. Kotab
  • Patent number: 11949630
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure discloses an information processing method, a device, an equipment, and a computer readable storage medium. The information processing method of the present disclosure includes: sending first information to a terminal, wherein the first information is configured to indicate information of at least one time unit for scheduled data transmission; at least one piece of downlink control information (DCI) is sent in one time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meiying Yang, Lei Wang, Jiaqing Wang, Chen Luo
  • Patent number: 11943680
    Abstract: A tracking system determines a location of a tracking device associated with a user using one or more access points at the location. Each access point at the location is configured to detect and couple with the tracking device when the tracking device is within a communicative range of the access point. An access point provides updates on the tracking device's presence, as well as the tracking device's arrival to and departure from the communicative range of the access point, to a tracking server. The tracking server determines, from these updates, whether the tracking device is at the location. The user may be notified, via a mobile device, of the tracking device's location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Klinkner, Josselin de la Broise
  • Patent number: 11917462
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a processing unit configured to determine, in a case that the terminal apparatus requests re-establishment of an RRC connection, whether or not the terminal apparatus is configured with NGEN-DC, release, in a case that the terminal apparatus is configured with NGEN-DC, an NR secondary cell group, and release, in the release of the NR secondary cell group, an RLC entity for an RLC bearer configured for the NR secondary group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11917468
    Abstract: A communication system is disclosed which a base station configures a user equipment (UE) to carry out measurements of signals transmitted in a plurality of neighbour cells and to transmit a measurement report. The UE performs the signal measurements and transmits the measurement report, which comprises the measurement results for at least one neighbour cell and further includes, for at least one reported neighbour cell, an associated unique cell identifier together with the corresponding measurement. The base station identifies a corresponding neighbour cell, from among a plurality of neighbour cells, based on the reported unique cell identifier, and triggers a communication procedure involving the UE and that neighbour cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhua Chen, Neeraj Gupta, Jagdeep Ahluwalia Singh, Robert Arnott
  • Patent number: 11910247
    Abstract: A method for switching between different RATs is provided. The method is executed by a mobile communications device camping on a first cell using a first Radio Access Technology (RAT). The method includes: determining, by a controller of the mobile communications device, a data transmission rate of the mobile communications device in the first cell; sending, by the controller, a first measurement report according to the determined data transmission rate, wherein the first measurement report is intended to trigger a handover procedure initiated by the first cell or to release a radio resource control (RRC) connection; and switching, by the controller, to camp on a second cell using a second RAT via the handover procedure or a local releasing procedure after the sending of the first measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Tsai, Tsung-Ming Lee, Ho-Wen Pu
  • Patent number: 11910246
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for secondary base station change in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for secondary node change includes receiving conditional reconfiguration information from the base station, transmitting to the base station a first response message with a transaction identifier, performing evaluation based on the configuration generated by a second base station and transmitting a second response message with an identifier indicating which conditional reconfiguration is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: BLACKPIN Inc.
    Inventor: Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11889365
    Abstract: Provided is a base station device including: a scheme selection unit that selects a scheme of HO from a first scheme not using an NRT and a second scheme using the NRT; and an HO control unit that, when the first scheme is selected, causes the UE to measure system information of an HO candidate cell, receives an ECGI, and controls HO by using cell information of the HO candidate cell received from a core network by using the ECGI, and, when the second scheme is selected and the PCI of the HO candidate cell is included in the NRT, controls the HO by using cell information corresponding to the PCI, and when the PCI is not included, causes the UE to measure the system information of the HO candidate cell, receives the ECGI, controls the HO by using the cell information of the HO candidate cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventors: Akihiro Baba, Mizuki Funakoshi, Yonghong Tan
  • Patent number: 11871480
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive mobility state information associated with an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node. The mobility state information may include information associated with at least one of: a level of mobility of the IAB node, or a change in mobility of the IAB node. The wireless communication device may perform an operation based at least in part on the mobility state information associated with the IAB node. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine that mobility state information associated with an IAB node is to be transmitted, and may transmit the mobility state information associated with the IAB node based at least in part on the determination. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Karl Georg Hampel, Jianghong Luo, Naeem Akl, Luca Blessent, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11870540
    Abstract: A high throughput fractionated satellite (HTFS) system and method where the functional capabilities of a conventional monolithic spacecraft are distributed across many small or very small satellites and a central command and relay satellite, the satellites are separated and flight in carefully design formations that allows the creation of very large aperture or apertures in space drastically reducing cost and weight and enabling high throughput capabilities by spatially reuse spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AST & Science, LLC
    Inventors: Abel Avellan, Sriram Jayasimha
  • Patent number: 11864045
    Abstract: A wireless station (STA) operating as a non-simultaneous transmit-receive (NSTR) soft access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) associated with a primary link and a non-primary link determines that the non-primary link is unavailable, and transmits, on only the primary link, a frame carrying an indication of the unavailability of the non-primary link. The NSTR softAP MLD may set a Do Not Transmit (DNT) bit to a value of 1 and may operate as a single-link device on the primary link based on the unavailability of the non-primary link. In some instances, the NSTR softAP MLD determines that the non-primary link is available while operating as the single-link device on the primary link, resets the DNT bit based on the availability of the non-primary link, and transmits the reset DNT bit in another frame on only the primary link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Yanjun Sun, Gaurang Naik, Tushnim Bhattacharyya, Vikram Phogat
  • Patent number: 11864053
    Abstract: A visitation tracking system tracks user visitation to locations of interest to generate and report visualizations of the user visitation data. The visitation tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to receive a user input specifying a location of interest, cause display of a presentation of a set of proximity borders within a region in response to the user input specifying the location of interest, wherein the region is based on the location of interest, receives a selection of a region to monitor (e.g., proximity borders, geo-fences), detects entries of client devices to a geo-fence represented by the region to monitor, and causes display of a notification in response to the detection of the entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Masoud Akhoondi, Yiwei Ma, Nima Khajehnouri, Rohan Monga, Shuo Wu
  • Patent number: 11856500
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method for transmitting system information by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising identifying whether an active downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) of a user equipment (UE) is configured with common search space, and transmitting, to the UE, an updated system information in a dedicated signaling when the active DL BWP of the UE is not configured with the common search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Peng Xue
  • Patent number: 11849365
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus is provided. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a first message from the base station apparatus, and a processing unit configured to establish a second packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity with a configuration identical to a configuration of a first PDCP entity for a first signaling radio bearer, based on a fact that a first configuration is configured. The first configuration is configured based on the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11849465
    Abstract: Wireless communication techniques are described. An access node/device may transmit, to another access node/device, data corresponding to a wireless device. The access node/device may transmit the data along with downlink resource information indicating a radio resource. The other access node/device may use the radio resource to transmit the data to the wireless device. The access node/device may transmit one or more preemption indications to one or more other communication devices to preempt any other transmissions in the radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 11849361
    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). According to embodiments, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprises: receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including conditional configuration information, wherein the conditional configuration information includes: identification information for a candidate cell; and a configuration of the candidate cell; and performing one or more operations for a conditional handover based on RRC reconfiguration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: June Hwang, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11812319
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a source base station associated with a source master cell group (MCG), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition in one or more slots of the source MCG during a handover of the UE from the source MCG to a target MCG. The UE may perform, to a target base station associated with the target MCG, an uplink transmission in one or more slots to the target MCG during the handover, wherein PUSCH repetitions associated with the source MCG that overlap in time with the uplink transmission to MCG are canceled and a counting of the PUSCH repetitions is based at least in part on slots of the source MCG associated with canceled PUSCH repetitions. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Gokul Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11805450
    Abstract: A communication system is provided, including: an acquiring unit for acquiring quality information on a wireless communication quality between a wireless base station and a movable mobile relaying apparatus that relays communications between the wireless base station and wireless communication terminals; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the quality information to the wireless communication terminals. In addition, an information processing method performed by a computer is provided, the method including: acquiring quality information on a wireless communication quality between a wireless base station and a movable mobile relaying apparatus that relays communications between the wireless base station and wireless communication terminals; and transmitting the quality information to the wireless communication terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka