Patents Examined by Michael Y Mapa
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Patent number: 10492117Abstract: When a handover request for performing a handover of a terminal (70) from a macro cell C1 to a CSG cell C2 is received from an SeNB 10 (S8), a base station (TeNB) (40) of the CSG cell C2 transmits a handover response in accordance with a handover enabled/disabled state (S12). The handover response includes an identifier of the terminal (70) in the CSG cell C2. Upon receiving the response, the SeNB (10) notifies the identifier to the terminal (70) (S14). The TeNB (40) repeatedly transmits a dedicated signal containing a handover command via a dedicated channel set using the identifier at an interval shorter than a gap period (S18). Accordingly, whether or not access is permitted can be judged promptly and a smooth handover can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Hidenori Matsuo, Takahisa Aoyama, Hong Tat Toh, Hidetoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 10492080Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a mobile communication apparatus judges the reception quality available at its current position for direct reception of information transmitted from a fixed wireless station, with the judgement based upon the current position and upon a reception quality map expressing a relationship between reception positions and corresponding reception quality values. If the reception quality at the current position is judged to be sufficient, direct reception is executed, while otherwise, a limitation is placed upon such direct reception, for example by postponing the direct reception until reaching a position at which the reception quality will be sufficient.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Tsuneo Nakata
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Patent number: 10484034Abstract: A device case for a portable electronic device includes a device stand attached to a hack surface of the case housing. The device stand is formed by an inner stand and outer stand connected by releasable hinged connections to the back surface of the case housing. A track is formed on a surface of the outer stand that the inner stand slides along. A locking portion such as a cavity or channel on the outer stand locks the inner stand into an open position with respect to the outer stand. At least a portion of the outer stand is flexible such that applying a threshold pressure to the device case causes the portion of the outer stand to flex such that the locking portion releases the inner and outer stand from the open position without damaging the stand.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Griffin Technology, LLCInventors: Daniel Poon, Tony Ray Plunk
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Patent number: 10484889Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting cell site parameters are described. The systems and methods cause a map of a geographical area to be displayed, access known or stored location coordinates for antennas at a cell site that is located within the of the geographical area, and present display elements representing the antennas at first positions within the displayed map that correspond to the known location coordinates for the antennas at the cell site. In response to input received from a user, the systems and methods adjust the known location coordinates for the antennas at the cell sites to new location coordinates associated with second positions of the display elements within the displayed map. Further details are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Justin Mueller, Shilpa Bhanot, Robert Berrier
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Patent number: 10476781Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to feedback for independent links. For example, channel state feedback may be based on the channel state of multiple links. In some aspects, the independent links may involve a first device (e.g., a user equipment) communicating via different independent links with different devices (e.g., transmit receive points (TRPs) or sets of TRPs). In some scenarios, channel state information (CSI) feedback may take into account the CSI-reference signals (CSI-RSs) from multiple links. For example, CSI feedback may be based on CSI-RSs from multiple links if the antenna sub-arrays for the links are close to one another. As another example, a decision as to whether CSI feedback is to be based on CSI-RSs from multiple links may depend on channel conditions.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Tamer Kadous, Junyi Li, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Taesang Yoo, Siddhartha Mallik
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Patent number: 10477566Abstract: A device may use sidelink request and sidelink response (e.g., DSS/STS and DRS) resources (in a sub-band) of different sizes depending on whether the sub-band is a primary sub-band or secondary sub-band. The device may transmit more information in the request/response resources of a primary sub-band than in the request/response resources of a secondary sub-band. The device may transmit small amounts of information in its request/response resources in secondary sub-bands. The resources in the secondary sub-bands may include, for example, reference signals, and signals indicating occupation of the sub-band. The device may utilize tone signaling for request/response signaling in the secondary sub-bands (at least because the amount of information being conveyed in the secondary sub-bands is small) and digital signaling in the primary sub-band (at least because the amount of information being conveyed in the primary sub-band is large in comparison to that being conveyed in the secondary sub-bands).Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li, Chong Li
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Patent number: 10462834Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for improved traffic management in wireless communications are disclosed. Aspects of the present disclosure provide real-time assessments to a network by leveraging measurement reports from user equipment (UE). In some aspects, the network utilizes channel quality indicator (CQI) information from each of a serving cell and a neighboring cell to identify UE capabilities and expected UE performance prior to either offloading or rerouting traffic to the UE. Accordingly, based on the received CQI information and a greater understanding of the anticipated UE performance, the radio network controller (RNC) may be better equipped to determine whether to offload and/or reroute the traffic scheduled for transmission to the UE via the neighboring cell or the serving cell.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ravi Agarwal, Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, Francesco Pica
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Patent number: 10455059Abstract: A device may receive a request for a mobile device to obtain an application. The request may include a mobile device identifier for the mobile device. The device may send, to the mobile device, a link to a web page. The device may receive, from the mobile device, a request for the web page. The device may send, to the mobile device, a redirect to a software distribution platform to obtain the application from the software distribution platform. The device may receive a registration identifier for the mobile device after the mobile device obtains the application from the software distribution platform. The device may send, to a message server, a request for a message to be sent to the mobile device. The request may be based on the registration identifier and the application.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Guanqun Bao, Okeno R. Palmer, Saumitra Kumar, Harsha Vardhana Reddy Hardhagari, Gaurav Gupta
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Patent number: 10429485Abstract: Provided are systems, devices and methods for determining a spatial location of a target radio frequency node/nodes of a first type, located in a defined space. The system includes a plurality of radio frequency nodes of a second type also located within the defined space and communicate with the target radio frequency node. A radio frequency node of a third type located within/outside the defined space communicates with the plurality of radio frequency nodes of the second type to determine the spatial location of the target radio frequency node.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: VACUS TECH PRIVATE LIMITEDInventors: Venugopal Kapre, Gururaj Kanade
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Patent number: 10412552Abstract: In a mobile communication system, a mobile communication apparatus in a vehicle includes a selected resource antenna permitting communication using a selected resource, establishing wireless communication with a target communication apparatus. The mobile communication system includes a propagation path characteristic acquirer section and a resource selector section. The propagation path characteristics acquirer section acquires propagation path characteristics information in association with a future communication position, the propagation path characteristics information being about propagation path characteristics between (i) the target communication apparatus and (ii) a reference antenna equal to the selected resource antenna in antenna characteristics including an antenna format.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Tsuneo Nakata
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Patent number: 10405148Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus may comprise: a broadcast interface for receiving a broadcast signal comprising an emergency alert message and signaling information indicating metadata for the emergency alert message; a control unit for generating an emergency alert multicast message comprising attributes of the emergency alert message on the basis of the broadcast signal; and a companion screen interface for transferring the emergency alert multicast message to at least one companion screen device in a multicast mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jinwon Lee, Seungryul Yang, Sejin Oh, Woosuk Ko, Seungjoo An, Kyoungsoo Moon, Sungryong Hong
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Patent number: 10405151Abstract: At least one of the embodiments described herein relate generally to a method of communicating an engagement to a plurality of active mobile devices, wherein each active mobile device is associated with an active user. The method may include providing at least one communication socket to each of the active mobile devices; receiving location data from those devices including information related to an engagement. In response to receiving the engagement location, a qualified active mobile device can be identified near the engagement location. The selected qualified active mobile device can correspond to the qualified user account with a preferred record.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: INSURANCE SUPERMARKET INC.Inventors: Leo Dudarev, Charles Nastaskin, Alex Dudarev
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Patent number: 10404308Abstract: A mobile electronic communications device performs millimeter wave antenna management for a plurality of mm-wave antennas based on whether a human presence exists within a sense distance of at least one of the mm-wave antennas and whether one or more other mm-wave antennas on the device are in use, or enabled. For a given antenna, the human presence may be detected thermally, but with different confidence levels applied depending upon the state of the other mm-wave antennas on the device.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLCInventors: Rachid Alameh, Eric Krenz
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Patent number: 10390327Abstract: Methods and apparatus enabling a wireless network to dynamically change or implement paging mode operation, such as optimization based on one or more network parameters. In one embodiment, the wireless network is a cellular network (e.g., 3G UMTS or LTE), and both base stations and cellular user devices dynamically configure the paging mode operation based on various desired operational attributes relating to the network parameters. Such flexible paging mechanisms may be published to the network users via several methods, and users with appropriately enabled user devices may improve their power and applications performance. Base stations may also advantageously reclaim freed-up cellular resources to support other services. Legacy subscribers are also not affected.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Hyung-Nam Choi
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Patent number: 10368273Abstract: A method for supporting fast recovery of a User Equipment (UE) includes performing, by a serving base station, UE context synchronization for one or more other base stations in a related small cell cluster when a UE accesses the serving base station, performing, by a base station that the UE performs a radio resource control (RRC) connection re-establishment, the RRC connection re-establishment for the UE according to UE context saved in a synchronization process. The present also discloses another method and system for supporting UE fast recovery. By applying the technical solution disclosed by the present disclosure, when the UE moves in a small cell scenario, the UE can be recovered quickly in the case of a failure, so as to avoid the UE returns to an idle mode, avoid data loss, guarantee business continuity, and improve UE experience.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Hong Wang, Huarui Liang
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Patent number: 10368188Abstract: Methods and systems to perform location-based services using a mobile application on a mobile computing device are discussed. A user uses the mobile computing device to scan a machine-readable element. The mobile application is configured to decode the machine-readable element to identify available types of services that are supported in a location of the machine-readable element. A services management framework determines available ordered services in the location-based on the available types of services.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: David Martin Nelms, Bradley Joseph Kieffer, Eytan Daniyalzade
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Patent number: 10368187Abstract: Described in detail herein are methods and systems to identify available location-based services using a mobile application on a mobile computing device. The mobile application receives a code from a location-specific computing device and uses the code to identify available types of services supported at the location of the location-specific computing device. A services management framework determines what ordered services are available at the location. A user uses the mobile computing device to scan a machine-readable element at the location to initiate performance of at least one of the available ordered services.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: David Martin Nelms, Bradley Joseph Kieffer
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Patent number: 10368189Abstract: Described is a system for directing employee movement to maintain a minimum distance between any two employees on a sales floor, and maximize employee coverage on the sales floor. The system includes a first mobile computing device carried by a first employee. The first mobile computing device includes a proximity detection module that detects the proximity of a second mobile computing device carried by a second employee. If it is determined that the distance between the first and the second employee is too small, the first mobile computing device will output a motion direction instruction to the first employee, telling the first employee to change direction, thus increasing the distance between the first and the second employee. The mobile computing devices can be in communication with a base station that receives proximity information and helps coordinate employee coverage and motion direction instructions.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Matthew Allen Jones, Nicholaus Adam Jones, Robert James Taylor
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Patent number: 10368216Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a location determination system that includes acoustic transmitting devices, location tags, and a wireless mesh network, where the wireless mesh network uses battery-powered devices. A location tag receives acoustic signals (e.g., ultrasound signals) from an acoustic transmitting device. Clocks from members of the wireless mesh network are synchronized by observation of clock pairings, each clock pair formed by respective clocks in a transmitting device that transmits a message and a receiving device that receives the message. By analyzing the observed clock pairings, a best fit between the clock pairings may be determined. After selecting a reference clock, an acoustic transmission schedule may be propagated to the respective acoustic transmitting device.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Sonitor Technologies ASInventors: Wilfred Edwin Booij, Endre Bakka
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Patent number: 10356793Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present specification, a method for reporting performance of a terminal in a mobile communication system includes the steps of: receiving a request for performance reporting from a base station; determining an indicator of whether a delay time related operation that the terminal supports is in correspondence with the request which corresponds to a pre-set condition; and transmitting a message including the determined indicator to the base station. According to one aspect of the present specification, the size of the performance reporting message is minimized in reporting the performance of the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout, Kyeong In Jeong