Patents Examined by MD Talukder
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Patent number: 9432085Abstract: A method for recognizing a movement trajectory of an operator, a microcontroller and an electronic device are provided. The method is applied to an electronic device provided with an antenna and a sensor, and the antenna is connected to the sensor and is in a first operation mode. The method includes: obtaining a capacitance signal which is generated by the antenna in the first operation mode during a first time period and is collected by the sensor; generating data of a distance between the operator and the antenna during the first time period according to the capacitance signal; and analyzing the data of the distance and obtaining the movement trajectory of the operator formed during the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jianhua Song
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Patent number: 9426781Abstract: A method and apparatus for exchanging information between devices for use in the pairing process for Device To Device (D2D) communication is provided. A signal transmission/reception method of a device in a mobile communication system includes determining a resource for the device to transmit a pairing signal, transmitting a discovery signal including information on the determined resource, pairing with a neighbor device that received the discovery signal through the resource indicated by the resource information, and communicating data signals with the paired neighbor device. The information exchange method and apparatus for D2D communication is capable of preventing a plurality of devices from attempting pairing on the same frequency simultaneously, thereby improving pairing efficiency and reducing power consumption of the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyungkyu Kim, Daegyun Kim, Seunghoon Park, Chiwoo Lim
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Patent number: 9426666Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for integrated resource planning for satellite systems are disclosed. The method involves obtaining user communication demand for at least one region. The method further involves generating a beam map comprising at least one beam for each of the regions according to the user communication demand. Also, the method involves generating at least one configuration profile for the satellite system by using the beam map. Additionally, the method involves performing a performance analysis by comparing: the user communication demand versus one of the configuration profiles, the user communication demand versus actual communication demand, one of the configuration profiles versus the actual communication demand, and/or one of the configuration profiles versus another one of the configuration profiles.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Tuan Ha, Litho Kwong, Anchung Chang, Becky X. Li, James Perez, June Bishton
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Patent number: 9425374Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a protective cover for a mobile device are disclosed. The protective cover is removably attached on an outer surface of a mobile device. The protective cover comprises an outer protective layer, a thermo-conductive layer and a thermoelectric material layer. The thermo-conductive layer is attached on the outer surface of the mobile device. The thermoelectric material layer has a first side adjacent to the thermo-conductive layer and a second side adjacent to the outer protective layer. The thermoelectric material layer generates a current according to a temperature difference between the first side and the second side.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Yao-Wen Shiu, Chu-Yang Hsu, Che-Chuan Hu, Tzu-Chia Tan, Chan-Hung Liu
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Patent number: 9420633Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are provided for managing quad SIM functionality on a mobile device. The method includes maintaining a first subscription and a second subscription active in slotted idle states on a first RF chain on the mobile device. The first subscription being associated with a first SIM and the second subscription being associated with a second SIM. The method also includes maintaining a third subscription and a fourth subscription active in slotted idle states on a second RF chain on the mobile device. The third subscription being associated with a third SIM and the fourth subscription being associated with a fourth SIM. In the slotted idle states the first, second, third and fourth subscriptions are able to monitor pages in respective paging channel slots. Further, the method includes switching the third subscription to the first RF chain in response to the fourth subscription entering a dedicated traffic state.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Bhaskara Viswanadham Batchu, Aditya Kailash Bohra, Anand Rajurkar
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Patent number: 9401784Abstract: Obtaining a timing reference in wireless communication is facilitated when desiring to communicate with a weak serving base station (such as an evolved NodeB) in the presence of a stronger interfering base station. The user equipment (UE) may track a stronger interfering base station's timing, or the UE may track a timing that is derived by a composite power delay profile (PDP) from multiple base stations. The composite PDP may be constructed by adjusting individual base station PDPs according to a weighting scheme. The timing obtained in such a manner may be used for estimation of the channel of the interfering base station and cancelling interfering signals from the base station. It may also be used to estimate the channel of the serving base station after adding a backoff. The UE may track a stronger interfering base station's frequency, or the UE may track a composite frequency.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2010Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Taesang Yoo, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 9401734Abstract: In a wireless communication system, transmitters that transmit data, receivers that receive data, and repeaters that relay data communicate with one another in a wireless manner. The transmitter wirelessly communicates with the receiver by using first slave-device identification information for performing communication as a slave device of the receiver. The receiver wirelessly communicates with the transmitter by using first master-device identification information for performing communication as a master device of the transmitter, and wirelessly communicates with the repeater by using second slave-device identification information for performing communication as a slave device of the repeater. The repeater wirelessly communicates with the receiver by using second master-device identification information for performing communication as a master device of the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Sakamoto, Katsuya Abe
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Patent number: 9401745Abstract: A memory device may include an array of closely spaced memory integrated circuits that communicate wirelessly over at least two frequencies using near field coupling.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Mostafa Naguib Abdulla
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Patent number: 9402262Abstract: A method of allocating a wireless communication resource to a device-to-device (D2D) pair of wireless devices may include determining an access-point interference threshold of an access point of a wireless communication network. The method may further include determining a device-to-device (D2D) signal power of a D2D signal at the access point. The D2D signal may be associated with D2D communications between a D2D pair of wireless devices. The method may also include assigning a wireless communication resource to the D2D pair based on a comparison of the access-point interference threshold with an access-point interference value where the access-point interference value is based on the determined D2D signal power at the access point.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Chenxi Zhu, Akira Ito, Huy-Dung Han
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Patent number: 9401735Abstract: A subscriber identity is changed for a mobile terminal (10) through the initiation of a sending of an instruction to the mobile terminal (10), via a first mobile communication system (18, 30) to which the mobile terminal is attached, to change subscriber identity from a first subscriber identity (IMSI1) used in the first mobile communication system to a second subscriber identity (IMSI2) for use in a second mobile communication system, and the initiation, after obtaining knowledge of the mobile terminal having attached to the second mobile communication system based on the second subscriber identity, a detachment procedure in the first mobile communication system in relation to the first subscriber identity. The mobile terminal (10) receives the instruction to change, attaches to the second mobile communication system based on the second subscriber identity and detach from the first mobile communication system after having attached to the second mobile communication system.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Justus Petersson, Qiang Li
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Patent number: 9400985Abstract: A system and method for communication of proximity based content is disclosed between a mobile computing device having a Short Range Communication (SRC) device and a Proximity Short Range Communication (PSRC) device associated with a location or object using near field magnetic induction. The SRC device and/or the PSRC device can include at least two antennas to provide magnetic induction diversity. The method comprises defining a proximity boundary with dimensions defined by a magnetic induction diversity communication range of at least one of the SRC and PSRC devices. A proximity signal is communicated in the proximity boundary between the SRC device and the PSRC device. At least one action is performed by the mobile computing device or the PSRC device when the proximity signal is detected between the SRC device and the PSRC device.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: RADEUM, INC.Inventor: Douglas Howard Dobyns
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Patent number: 9401769Abstract: A wireless electronic device may include wireless communications circuitry and processing circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may receive radio-frequency signals from external communications circuitry in a number of frequency channels of a communications band. The processing circuitry may gather received signal quality data such as receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) values from the radio-frequency signals received in each of the frequency channels. The processing circuitry may accumulate respective probability distributions of gathered RSSI values for each frequency channel and may compare each of the probability distributions to generate RSSI offset values for each frequency channel. The processing circuitry may gather additional RSSI values in one or more frequency channels and may adjust the additional RSSI values based on the associated RSSI offset values. The processing circuitry may use the adjusted RSSI values to determine an accurate location of the wireless electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Robert W. Mayor, Pejman Lotfali Kazemi, Lukas M. Marti
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Patent number: 9402238Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless access point, and a first set of at least one first station in wireless communication with the first wireless access point. The first wireless access point controls power for communications with a first station in the set of at least one first station. The first wireless access point may control power in a time-domain, announcing a power level for use during a time window. The first wireless access point may control power levels in a frequency-domain, announcing different power levels for different frequency subchannels within a frequency channel. The wireless communication system may further include an additional wireless access point, and an additional set of at least one additional station in wireless communication with the additional wireless access point. The first and additional wireless access points control power to avoid interference between the first and additional wireless access points.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Yakun Sun, Liwen Chu, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou, Lei Wang, Jinjing Jiang
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Patent number: 9402278Abstract: A multi-mode communication system for a mobile phone includes a plurality of antennas, a plurality of matching networks, each matching network connected to a respective one of said plurality of antennas, a plurality of near field devices, each near field device connected to a respective one of said plurality of matching networks, each pair of near field device and its associated matching network operative to either load modulate its antenna or generate an active magnetic field via its antenna, a plurality of switches, with one of said switches positioned between each of said matching networks and its respective antenna, and a controller for controlling the switched state of said plurality of switches such that one or more of said near field devices and their respective matching networks are selectively coupled to their respective antennas.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2011Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Wireless Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Damon Adams, Ambrose Tam, Carlos Aguirre-Charo
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Patent number: 9402279Abstract: Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes performing, at a wireless communication device, an arbitration among multiple different wireless radio technologies, which collectively use two or more radio resources of the wireless communication device, to produce an arbitration result; and operating the two or more radio resources in accordance with the arbitration result. Performing the arbitration can include performing a first level arbitration between a request associated with a first technology of the multiple different wireless radio technologies and a request associated with a second technology of the multiple different wireless radio technologies to produce a first level result; and performing a second level arbitration to produce a second level result when indicated by the first level result. The arbitration result can be based on the first level result and the second level result, if any.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Hao Zhang, Nelson Xu, Yiqing Shen, Ken Yeung
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Patent number: 9400621Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit receives, from a terminal device connected to the information providing apparatus via a communication path, operation state information indicating an operation state of the terminal device. If it is determined, based on the operation state information, that the terminal device is in a specific operation state associated with an image processing operation, the transmitting unit transmits to the terminal device one or plural pieces of specific information associated with an image processing operation executable after the specific operation state has been completed. When transmitting the plural pieces of specific information to the terminal device, the transmitting unit transmits the plural pieces of specific information to the terminal device in accordance with priorities. The priorities are assigned to the plural pieces of specific information in accordance with the specific operation state.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Daisuke Kono
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Patent number: 9398547Abstract: A method in a base station for calculating a power relating to a first radio access is provided. The power is to be shared with a second radio access within the base station. The base station communicates with a number of user equipments using the first radio access. When the base station has estimated a statistic power distribution of transmit power to said user equipments during a time interval, it calculates a margin of power not to be shared with the second radio access, based on the estimated statistic power distribution. The base station further calculates a power to be shared with the second radio access, based on said margin of power.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: MÃ¥rten Ericson, Arne Simonsson
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Patent number: 9397385Abstract: The present application relates to a near field communications (NFC) reader having a power amplifier which has an output that connects to an input terminal of an antenna by means of an antenna filter made up of one or more series resistors and one or more series capacitors. The NFC reader includes means for adjusting the Q factor of the antenna so as to increase the available transmit bandwidth and/or improve the efficiency of the reader. The means for adjusting the Q factor of the antenna may be, for example, a variable resistive component or one or more switches.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd.Inventor: Anthony McFarthing
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Patent number: 9396648Abstract: An appliance wirelessly receives any of a plurality of different signals that comprise control instructions from a transmitter for a second appliance other than the appliance and of a different class of appliance. The appliance then provides, in the absence of learning, any of a plurality of different control instructions to be used by the appliance as a function of that received signal. By one approach those wirelessly-received control instructions relate to controllable functions for the second appliance. Pursuant to these teachings, the receiving appliance effectively converts a received control instruction that relates to one kind of functionality for a given kind of appliance into a control instruction that relates to a different kind of functionality and that is usable by a different kind of appliance.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.Inventor: James Joseph Fitzgibbon
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Patent number: 9397726Abstract: Systems and methods for communication between near field communication devices within a target communication region using near field magnetic induction is disclosed. One method comprises generating a near field detectable signal at an active node having a power level sufficient to enable communication with a plurality of near field communication nodes located within the target communication region. Information is modulated onto the near field detectable signal using at least one of the near field communication nodes. The modulated information is detected at the active node. The information is then relayed on the near field detectable signal from the active node to at least one of the plurality of near field communication nodes within the target communication region.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: RADEUM, INC.Inventor: Douglas Howard Dobyns