Patents Examined by Mong-Thuy T Tran
-
Patent number: 12389469Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a server, vehicle identification data from at least two components in a vehicle and device data from a device associated with the vehicle, sending, by the server, the vehicle identification data to the device and the device data to the at least two components in the vehicle, and pre-pairing the vehicle and the device, based on the sending.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Derek A. Thompson, Randall M. Harris
-
Patent number: 12375880Abstract: Signals used to test for upstream signal leaks in a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network may be interleaved with client data and strategically timed to be received by a leak detection device with a one-hundred percent probability of intercept. A method includes receiving an indication that a user device is in proximity to a computing device. The method includes determining, based on the indication that the user device is in proximity to the computing device, signal information. The method includes causing, based on the signal information, the user device to output a signal. The method includes determining, based on an indication that the signal was received by the computing device, a location of a network leak.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Daniel Rice, John Chrostowski, Benny Lewandowski, De Fu Li, Robert Gaydos
-
Patent number: 12375953Abstract: A method may include providing a network data analytics function (NWDAF) in a network and providing, a non-third generation partnership project (3GPP) interworking function (N3IWF) in the network. The method may also include subscribing, by the N3IWF, to the NWDAF, and obtaining, by the NWDAF and from the N3IWF, data associated with processing performed by the N3IWF.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Vijayakrishna P. Guduru, Anthony Clay Reynolds, Raquel Morera Sempere, Sudhakar Reddy Patil
-
Patent number: 12376185Abstract: Disclosed are: a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. Disclosed are a method and a device for supporting the connection of a terminal operating in an RRC inactivation mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangyeob Jung, Soenghun Kim, Donggun Kim, Himke Van Der Velde, Anil Agiwal, Jungsoo Jung
-
Patent number: 12349031Abstract: According to the present disclosure, the method for receiving the audio data by the first device, comprises: transmitting, to a third device, a notification message requesting a change of a configuration related to audio data streaming of the first device, wherein the notification message includes configuration change information for changing the configuration related to the audio data streaming; performing, with the third device, a configuration change procedure for changing the configuration related to the audio data streaming, on the basis of the notification message; and receiving, from the third device, audio data related to the audio data streaming, on the basis of the changed configuration related to the audio data streaming, wherein the configuration change procedure is initiated on the basis of the notification message, and the configuration related to the audio data streaming is changed on the basis of the configuration change information.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Hyeonjae Lee
-
Patent number: 12349061Abstract: To maximize power saving in a radio access network comprising cells, an optimal action amongst actions comprising switching on one or more cells, switching off one or more cells, and doing nothing is determined using a trained model, which maximizes a long term reward on tradeoff between throughput and power, the trained model taking as input a load estimate. The trained model may be updated online using measurement results on load, throughput and power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OYInventors: Vaibhav Singh, Anand Bedekar, Jun He
-
Patent number: 12342426Abstract: A method for distributing computations across a network is described. The method includes determining a computational-need condition. Then one or more used devices may be selected based at least in part on status and reporting messages, and a computational capacity of the user equipment. The user equipment is instructed to perform a computational task to meet the computational-need condition. The user equipment will send a computational result upon completion of the computational task. A node will then implement the computational result so as to at least partially meet the computational-need condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventor: Zheng Cai
-
Patent number: 12328778Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an NFC-based communication method, an apparatus, and a system. In the NFC-based communication method, an electronic device works in an NFC reader/writer mode and performs an NFC communication process with an NFC tag. When failing to perform the NFC communication process, the electronic device may adjust a currently used radio frequency parameter, and re-perform the NFC communication process with the NFC tag by using an adjusted radio frequency parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhaoshen Liu, ChiaHao Chen, Yichuan Zhang, Yong Xiong
-
Patent number: 12328685Abstract: A communication device comprises one or more sensors configured to generate sensor data, a wireless interface, and a processor. The wireless interface is configured to establish a connection with a remote device according to a short-range wireless communication protocol and to transmit one or more signals to the remote device, the one or more signals representing information configured according to a media format. The processor is configured to determine at least one activity mode based on the sensor data from the one or more sensors on at least one of the communication device or the remote device, and during the transmission of the one or more signals, control the wireless interface to increase a transmit power level to a maximum transmit power level based on the determined activity mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Qi Jiang, Xuemei Ouyang, Sriram Sundararajan, Srenik Mehta, Omar El Ayach, Nihar Jindal, Daniel Barros
-
Patent number: 12316388Abstract: A power receiver (301a, 301b, 301c, 301d, 301e, 301f) is disclosed herein. In a specific embodiment the power receiver has a first electrode (300) arranged to be electrically coupled to a body (105) of a living being, the first electrode (300) operable to receive an electrical signal via the body; and a rectifier (307) for rectifying the electrical signal into a rectified electrical signal. The rectifier (307) includes a plurality of rectifier switches and operable in a bulk biasing mode in which first selected rectifier switches of the plurality of rectifier switches are forward bulk biased. A power transmitter (201), an energy transfer apparatus (100) and a method of transmitting electrical power are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: National University of SingaporeInventors: Jerald Yoo, Jiamin Li, Yilong Dong, Jeong Hoan Park
-
Patent number: 12293181Abstract: Apparatus and methods for automatically removing customer data of a mobile device are disclosed according to various embodiments. In one example, a disclosed method comprises: detecting a mobile device connected to a slot; automatically determining whether the mobile device is valid based on data in a file system; upon determining that the mobile device is valid, automatically determining an operating system managing the mobile device; and automatically removing customer data of the mobile device based on the operating system.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Communications Test Design, Inc.Inventors: Sean Parsons, Brian Parsons, Mark Parsons, Austin Gunter, Nidhin Davis, Krissy Durkin, Mario Huber, Martin Fiedler, Annedore Bach, Jitendra Jain, Siddharth Maheshwari, Jaclyn Domsohn, Krithika Muthuveerappan, Pratik Shrestha
-
Patent number: 12289140Abstract: In one aspect, the NFC device includes an antenna that includes first and second terminals, a first resistor on a first current path, and a second resistor on a second current path. The NFC device includes a first switch that switches between open and closed states, where the first switch couples the first current path to the first terminal in the closed state. The NFC device includes a second switch that switches between open and closed states, where the second switch couples the second current path to the second terminal in the closed state. The NFC device includes a controller in communication with the first and second switches and configured to set a Q factor of the antenna to a first or second value by operating the first and second switches.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (CHINA) INVESTMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tianhao Xiong, Dongyang Tian, Gang Wu
-
Patent number: 12284698Abstract: A communication link is established between a first mobile device and a second mobile device using communication setup information in a machine-readable code that is displayed on a display of the second mobile device. The first mobile device captures and decodes an image of the machine-readable code to extract dynamically-generated communication setup information. A communication link is then established between the two devices using the communication setup information. The machine readable code may also be used as a fiducial marker to establish an initial relative pose between the two devices. Pose updates received from the second mobile device can then be used as user-interface inputs to the first mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Richard Zhuang, Matthew Hallberg
-
Patent number: 12284600Abstract: A system and method for generating a coordinated set of peripheral devices that possess the ability to connect and disconnect as a coordinated set to each of multiple Information Handling Systems (IHSs). In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include computer-executable instructions to receive an advertisement from a first peripheral device from among a plurality of peripheral devices. Each peripheral device is configured with a common secret group identity key that identifies the peripheral devices as belonging to a coordinated group. When the first peripheral device is recognized as a member of the coordinated group according to the advertisement, perform a discovery operation to identify the first peripheral device and the other peripheral devices using the secret group identity key, and connect the IHS with the first peripheral device and the other peripheral devices that belong to the coordinated set.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Harpreet Narula, Kameel Vohra
-
Patent number: 12279205Abstract: Methods for performing power management of a multi-interface transponder (MIT) device, e.g., such as positional tag device. The MIT device may transition between various power states, e.g., based on detected events, such as detecting movement of the MIT device, receiving a wakeup signal, receiving an indication of a transition in transportation mode, and/or detecting that the MIT device may be lost, such as based on a lack of contact with another device for more than a threshold period of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James H. Foster, Marlene Nilsen, Paul G. Puskarich
-
Patent number: 12278669Abstract: Methods for tracking a signal origin by a spectrum analysis and management device are disclosed. Signal characteristics of other known emitters are used for obtaining a position of an emitter of a signal of interest. In one embodiment, frequency difference of arrival technique is implemented. In another embodiment, time difference of arrival technique is implemented.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Digital Global Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel R. Garcia, Daniel Carbajal
-
Patent number: 12273720Abstract: Devices are automatically paired (e.g., without user involvement) for wireless communication based on proximity. A first device may authorize (e.g., wired or wireless) bridge device(s) to participate in (e.g., initiate) pairing first and second devices. The first or bridge devices engage in wireless proximity communication with second device(s), indicating the second device(s) is(are) physically co-located with the first or bridge devices. Co-location is used to initiate automated pairing of the first and second devices. The second device provides a pairing address to the first device (e.g., through the bridge device). The first device provides a temporary security key for a secure channel between the first and second devices (e.g., through the bridge device). A non-temporary security key is provided by the first device to the second device (e.g., through the bridge device) over the secure channel. The first and second devices complete automated wireless pairing using the non-temporary security key.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Joel Ephraim Bud, Arie Yehuda Gur, Oren Istrin
-
Patent number: 12262308Abstract: A method is disclosed for a coprocessor of a device. The coprocessor may initiate, based on an instruction received from a processor, a wireless communication service required by the processor. The coprocessor further generates a drive instruction for driving a wireless communications module of the device to perform the wireless communication service, and then the coprocessor sends the drive instruction to the wireless communications module.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chao Le, Zhongyin Jiang, Bo Ling, Li Li, Daneng Wang, Han Jiang, Xianhui Lan
-
Patent number: 12256460Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) of a group of UEs may receive, from a group member of the group of UEs, traffic information including a transmission schedule associated with traffic of the group member UE. The UE may determine a discontinuous reception configuration for the group of UEs based at least in part on the transmission schedule. The discontinuous reception configuration may include a discontinuous reception schedule for the group of UEs. The UE may transmit, to the group of UEs, the discontinuous reception configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Zhibin Wu, Hong Cheng, Kapil Gulati, Tien Viet Nguyen, Junyi Li, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
-
Patent number: 12245112Abstract: A charging processing method is provided and includes: obtaining QoS of a guaranteed data service of a user and a guarantee status of the QoS, performing charging processing on charging data of the guaranteed data service based on the information, when the guarantee status of the QoS changes or a guarantee notification switch status of the QoS changes, disabling a counter in a timely manner, and separately processing charging data that exists before the change and charging data that exists after the change. In this way, an operator can accurately perform charging on the guaranteed data service “based on the guarantee status”, to improve user experience. In addition, the operator can obtain revenue corresponding to occupied network resources.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiaoqian Chai