Patents Examined by Michael Y Mapa
  • Patent number: 10959053
    Abstract: An illustrative system includes a network device, of a wireless network, configured to determine location information associated with a user equipment (UE) connected to the wireless network, encode the location information in a resource assignment signal configured to assign a resource of the wireless network for use by the UE, and transmit the resource assignment signal including the encoded location information to the UE. The UE may be configured to receive the transmitted resource assignment signal including the encoded location information, decode the encoded location information, and use the location information for one or more operations of the UE, such as to determine a geographic location of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: David Chiang, Jin Yang, Arda Aksu
  • Patent number: 10939256
    Abstract: A message delivery network may receive a message from a sending message service provider. The message delivery network may identify an end user carrier servicing the end user device for the message. The message delivery network may retrieve a pre-determined rank ordered list of message routes from the message delivery network to the end user carrier. The message delivery network may determine whether each message route is currently unavailable or demonstrating poor deliverability. The message delivery network may de-prioritize the message routes that are demonstrating poor deliverability. The message delivery network may update the rank ordered list of message routes based on the de-prioritized message routes. The message delivery network may attach the updated rank ordered list of message routes to the message. The message delivery network may forward the message to a gateway within the message delivery network. The gateway may deliver the message using the highest ranked message route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Bandwidth, Inc.
    Inventors: Roman Shcherbakov, Emma Bradley, Matt Garcia, David Ress
  • Patent number: 10932087
    Abstract: An enterprise system configures access point devices at an enterprise location to communicate with a location determination system. The location determination system receives wireless signal attributes of user computing devices broadcasting Wi-Fi signal data at the enterprise location from one or more access point devices. For a particular time window, the location determination system determines aggregated features of received wireless signal data across all access point devices, and classifies each of the user computing devices as moving or stationary by applying the wireless signal data to a model. For each of the user computing devices determined to be moving, the location determination system calculates a respective position of the user computing device based on the wireless signal data. For each of the user computing devices determined to be stationary, the location determination system does not calculate a respective position of the respective user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Huy Phuong Tran, Abhishek Mukherji, Rong Peng, Oscar Bejarano Chavez, Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey
  • Patent number: 10928203
    Abstract: A self-contained positioning assembly includes a wiring compartment that is configured to receive external power, a power supply disposed within the wiring compartment that is configured to convert the external power to low voltage power, a housing, a conduit that couples the wiring compartment with the housing, an electronic positioning beacon disposed within the housing, and wiring that transmits the low voltage power from the power supply, through the conduit, to the electronic positioning beacon within the housing. The electronic positioning beacon is configured to receive the low voltage power and transmit electronic positioning signals in response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Jeffrey Mires, Martin F. Lee
  • Patent number: 10924880
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a method for maintaining a dynamic geofence. The method receives a set of digital IDs and data pairs from a monitored user credential. Each digital ID was received by the monitored user credential as part of a wireless transmission from a node device, and each digital ID includes one or more attributes. The method retrieves a user policy that includes a required attribute and a threshold distance. The method determines whether at least one of the digital IDs includes an attribute matching the required attribute, and verifies any digital id containing the attribute matching the required attribute. The method determines the distance between the monitored user credential and the node device using the data paired with the digital ID, and determines whether the distance between the monitored user credential and the node device is less than the threshold distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NORTONLIFELOCK INC.
    Inventors: Ilya Sokolov, Keith Newstadt
  • Patent number: 10891208
    Abstract: Issuing an alert with respect to a first physical area includes determining a location of a mobile user device of a user with respect to the first physical area controlled by a entity, following determining the current location, remotely configuring the mobile user device to detect when the device is within a predefined proximity to one or more second physical areas within the first physical area, and, in response to detecting that the device is within the predefined proximity, issuing the alert to one or more parties. Issuing an alert with respect to a first physical area may also include placing one or more wireless beacons that transmit beacon signals relative to the one or more second physical areas, where detecting that the device is within the predefined proximity includes the device detecting at least one of the beacon signals transmitted from the one or more wireless beacons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: MyOmega Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Moeller
  • Patent number: 10887938
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for allowing User Equipment (“UE”) to connect to base stations of a wireless network based on base station support for packet switched (“PS”) one or more voice service types that are implemented by the UE. The UE may indicate one or more PS voice types implemented by the UE when registering with the base station. Additionally, or alternatively, the base station may broadcast an indicator of the type(s) of PS voice supported by the base station, based on which the UE may determine whether to register with the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Deepa Jagannatha, Jun Yuan, Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 10873834
    Abstract: Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: obtaining one or more first fallback objects indicative of a geographic area that is covered by one or more cells of a communication network; obtaining one or more pieces of cell information indicative of a number of positioning requests that a respective cell of the one or more cells has received; determining one or more second fallback objects out of the one or more fallback objects; determining for an area of the respective second fallback object in that the needed level of accuracy for determining a position is not achievable, one or more cells based at least partially on the one or more pieces of cell information; and outputting the determined one or more second fallback objects and/or the determined one or more cells for usage in a generation of a radio map. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer program and system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Stanislav Krainikov, Tatiana Vyunova
  • Patent number: 10863020
    Abstract: A system and method for disabling distracting apps on a driver's personal devices while allowing passengers travelling in the same vehicle to have full use of their personal devices. The system works by first identifying all the personal devices that are in the vehicle and then establishing a loose mesh network between those devices. Once the mesh network is established, the system identifies which of the personal devices is associated with the driver, and ensures that any distracting apps on the driver's personal device are disabled, while allowing full functionality for any passenger's personal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Christopher M. Russell
  • Patent number: 10848949
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the various aspects may enable a mobile communication device to make a second emergency call attempt in a packet switched (PS) domain in response to determining that a first emergency call attempt in a PS domain failed. The various aspects may enable a second emergency call attempt in a PS domain without requiring the mobile communication device to attempt an emergency call in a circuit switched (CS) domain in response to determining that a first emergency call attempt in a PS domain failed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Osama Lotfallah, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Stephen William Edge, Kuo-Chun Lee, Cherng-Shung Hsu
  • Patent number: 10849098
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Hyung-Nam Choi
  • Patent number: 10833755
    Abstract: Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for universal aircraft broadband control within an aircraft flight deck. In one example, a system includes a control panel and a switch coupled to the control panel. The system further includes a controller coupled to the switch and configured to determine a switch position based on a switch position signal associated with a position of the switch, receive a conditioned aircraft signal associated with parameters of an aircraft, and provide a controller control signal to control whether transmissions occur from an aircraft antenna based on at least one of the switch position signal and the conditioned aircraft signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: John P. Baron, Ryan K. Torgerson, Steven J. Avila, Daniel J. Ellis
  • Patent number: 10820247
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hidenori Matsuo, Takahisa Aoyama, Hong Tat Toh, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10810879
    Abstract: A system for predicting and preventing car accidents and collisions between vehicles and pedestrians, which comprises a plurality of mobile devices each carried by a pedestrian user or a user riding in a vehicle; a dedicated software application installed on each of the mobile devices adapted to detect the location of the mobile device; one or more geographic servers, each geographic server assigned to a geographic territory and adapted to communicate position and motion information with mobile devices in its geographic territory; and a bridge module adapted to register and sign-in users to the system, and establish and maintain a connection between mobile devices and geographic servers. The geographic server of each territory receives ongoing position and motion updates from all of the mobile devices in its territory and transmits ongoing position and motion updates associated with position and motion of other mobile devices to mobile devices in its territory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: EYE-NET MOBILE LTD.
    Inventors: Haim Siboni, Nir Shemesh, Dror Elbaz, Tal Lavi
  • Patent number: 10812989
    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). A method and an apparatus for forecasting capacity saturations of cells in a wireless communication system based on per-cell resource utilizations and determining whether to deploy a new cell based on a forecast result are provided. The method includes acquiring first data related to a resource utilization of a cell from the cell, deducing a certain pattern corresponding to a predetermined time period from the first data, acquiring second data by converting the first data based on a shape of an abnormal pattern corresponding to the certain pattern among multiple preconfigured abnormal patterns, and forecasting whether the cell capacity is saturated based on the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seoungho Jeong, Wontai Kim, Jingoo Seo, Jaeyoung Seol
  • Patent number: 10791503
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are methods and apparatus for obtaining a system message, a terminal, and a base station. The method comprises: after a first basic system message of a current cell sent by a base station is received, determining whether a service system message needs to be obtained; when it is determined that the service system message needs to be obtained, sending, to the base station, a system request message for requesting the service system message; and receiving the service system message sent by the base station according to the system request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CLOUDMINDS (SHENZHEN) ROBOTICS SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: William Xiao-qing Huang, Haitao Jiang, Zhenkai Wang
  • Patent number: 10791486
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Hong Wang, Huarui Liang
  • Patent number: 10783370
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose an iris image acquisition method and a related product. According to the method, a mobile terminal acquires a current ambient brightness value of the mobile terminal. A target working mode of an infrared acquisition device is determined according to the current ambient brightness value. An iris image of a current user is acquired in the target working mode via the infrared acquisition device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao Zhou, Yibao Zhou, Cheng Tang, Xueyong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10785598
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining data of breaches of a geofence by client computer devices to determine respective positions of the breaches; establishing an updated location for the geofence using the determined respective positions of the breaches; updating a location of the geofence so that the location of the geofence is the updated location; obtaining data of a client computer breach of the geofence at the updated location; and providing one or more output in response to the obtaining data of a client computer breach of the geofence at the updated location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jeremy A. Greenberger
  • Patent number: 10785743
    Abstract: A positioning method includes sending, by a to-be-positioned node, a first request to a first node, where the first request includes device information of N second nodes, and the N is a positive integer greater than or equal to one, receiving measurement information from the first node, where the measurement information includes location information of the N second nodes and distances between the first node and the N second nodes, and obtaining location information of the to-be-positioned node according to the measurement information and measurement time information obtained through monitoring a process in which the first node performs distance measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaiyao Wang, Yongjun Liu