Patents Examined by Mong-Thuy T Tran
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Patent number: 11758362Abstract: 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: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Daniel Rice, John Chrostowski, Benny Lewandowski, De Fu Li, Robert Gaydos
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Patent number: 11757817Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on a computer-readable storage medium, for peer-to-peer location-based messaging. In some implementations, a mobile device selectively displays displayable messages associated with beacons corresponding to specific locations that the mobile device visits. The mobile device can extract identifiers from wireless messages from beacons and determine whether to display a message corresponding to a beacon based on filter parameters of a user and data indicating characteristics of a property where a beacon is located. The displayable messages corresponding to beacons can be messages users who associated with the beacons have previously designated for presentation upon detection of the beacons. The mobile device can display the displayable message for a beacon while the mobile device is a detection range to receive the wireless message from the beacon.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: CPMR INC.Inventors: Kit Ning Cheng, Simon Kandial, Harjeet Singh
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Patent number: 11751080Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method of operating a wireless network access point of a wireless network. The method includes wirelessly exchanging management frames with a device to attach the device to the access point, thereby establishing: a wireless downlink data communication channel from the access point to the device, and a wireless uplink data communication channel from the device to the access point. The method further includes performing a wireless link test comprising: transmitting a test frame to the device on the downlink channel, the test frame having a length greater than each of the management frames, including a sequence of test data bits, and being configured to require a mirror response comprising the sequence of test data bits; monitoring for receipt of the mirror response on the uplink; and, if the mirror response is received, determining the test is passed.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited CompanyInventors: David Townend, Francis Scahill, Simon Ringland
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Patent number: 11741490Abstract: A system can determine that a mobile device, located at a physical place of business transmits a first electronic communication for redemption of an electronic offer at the physical place of business. The system can further detect a second electronic communication transmitted from the mobile device, which indicates a first identifier. The first identifier can be associated with a verifier of the electronic offer (e.g., a staff member) at the physical place of business. The system can further determine, based on analysis of the first identifier, a second identifier (e.g., contact data, a telephone number, etc.), that corresponds to the verifier, without providing the second identifier to the mobile device. The system can further electronically transmit, utilizing the second identifier, a third electronic communication that indicates information about the redemption of the electronic offer.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: GROUPON, INC.Inventors: James F. Kramer, Paul C. Ning
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Patent number: 11737120Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to tracking reference signal (TRS)/channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) multiplexing with paging and/or broadcast messages for idle and/or inactive mode user equipment (UEs) in fifth generation new radio (5G NR). In an example, the aspects may include receiving, from a network entity, an indication to multiplex UE-RS with one or more broadcast messages; monitoring for the one or more broadcast messages during at least one of an idle or inactive mode of the UE; and decoding the one or more broadcast messages based at least on one or more UE-RS.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo
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Patent number: 11706685Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for configuring route selection policies. A user device may send, to a computing device, a route selection policy request to update route selection policy rules for applications and/or services of the user device. The computing device may determine the route selection policy rules for the applications and/or services based on various criteria. The computing device may send the determined route selection policy rules to the user device. If the user device does not accept the determined route selection policy rules, the user device may send, to the computing device, a negotiation request to obtain other route selection policy rules for the applications and/or services.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Zhi Wang, Yigang Cai
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Patent number: 11683656Abstract: A method, device, and medium for recommending a region of interest are provided. The method includes: acquiring access data, the access data including correlation information between any two regions in a region group, in which a correlation between any two regions in the region group is acquired based on a region pair formed by the any two regions in the region group where sample users are located and the number of access times corresponding to the region pair, and in which the region group is acquired based on division of map data, and the map data includes boundary information of an entity in a real world; determining a region where a first user is currently located; and recommending region information of the region of interest for the first user based on the access data and the region where the first user is currently located.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: BELTING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanyan Li, Xinjiang Lu, Jianguo Duan
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Patent number: 11678246Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for random access of a wireless device. A distributed radio access network (RAN) entity may configure a random access (RA) resource and a RA preamble for a contention free random access of a wireless device. The distributed RAN entity may transmit, to a central RAN entity, a RA failure indication if it does not detect a RA preamble on the RA resource from a wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei
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Patent number: 11678273Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for uplink preemption indication. A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving at least one ULPI from a base station (BS) indicating, for each of a plurality of sets of uplink resources, a power level the UE can use for one or more uplink transmissions. The UE can determine one or more power levels indicated by the ULPI for resources allocated for the UE for uplink transmission. The allocated resources may include multiple of the sets of uplink resources. The UE can select the power level to use for uplink transmission using the allocated resources based, at least in part, on the determination. The UE sends or drops the one or more uplink transmissions according to the ULPI. A time duration of the plurality of sets of uplink resources can be longer than a configured ULPI monitoring periodicity.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Wei Yang, Jing Jiang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Chih- Ping Li, Wanshi Chen, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari
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Patent number: 11665635Abstract: The method of managing processing resources in a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network having a plurality of network slices and a User Equipment (UE), wherein the UE is allocated to a first network slice to process a network communication from the UE, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring a suitability of the first network slice to process the network communication; identifying a second network slice that is suitable for processing the network communication; and in response to identifying a lack of suitability of the first network slice to process the network communication, reallocating processing resources from the second network slice to the first network slice whilst the UE remains allocated to the first network slice.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited companyInventors: Andrew Corston-Petrie, Ruth Brown, Jonathan Hart
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Patent number: 11665621Abstract: A system for restricting access to a mobile communications network by mobile communications devices within a restricted area includes one or more transmitters, one or more designated test mobile communications devices, and an access control entity. The access control entity is arranged to determine, using first measurement data received from one of the designated test mobile communications devices, whether one of the one or more transmitters is positioned correctly and functioning correctly for restricting the access to the mobile communications network by the mobile communications devices in the restricted area. The access control entity is further arranged to decide, based on second measurement data received from a second mobile communications device which is not a designated test mobile communications device, whether or not to provide the second mobile communication device with access to a service of the mobile communications network.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: CellXion LtdInventors: Anthony Timson, Michael Mcternan
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Patent number: 11653241Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for reporting performance degradation in a communications system. The method is performed by a wireless device in idle mode. The method comprises detecting occurrence of performance degradation with a first radio access network node. The method comprises reporting the performance degradation as an event to a second radio access network node. The first radio access network node and the second radio access network node operate using mutually different radio access technologies and/or serve mutually different public land mobile networks.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Badawi Yamine, Iana Siomina
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Patent number: 11638212Abstract: 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: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Chadra Laboratories LLCInventors: James H. Foster, Marlene Nilsen, Paul G. Puskarich
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Patent number: 11622409Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to notify a base station about the availability of a relay UE that is not connected to the base station. In one aspect, a first UE or a second UE transmits or receives a relay request of the first UE via sidelink, the first UE being in an RRC connected mode with a base station. The first UE or the second UE receives or transmits, via the sidelink, an indication of relay availability of a second UE in an RRC inactive mode in response to the relay request. The first UE and the second UE receive a configuration from the base station for relay of communication from the base station over the sidelink between the first UE and the second UE.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Sony Akkarakaran
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Patent number: 11589414Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a remote user equipment may identify a relay UE that is operating in a connected discontinuous reception mode, wherein the relay UE and the remote UE are connected to a base station, wherein the relay UE is in a discontinuous reception mode on a first link with the base station and a discontinuous reception mode or an active mode on a sidelink with the remote UE, and wherein one or more links between two or more of the remote UE, the relay UE, or the base station are radio resource control configured by the base station; and transmit one or more layer-2 communications to, or receiving one or more layer-2 communications from, the base station via the relay UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Sony Akkarakaran, Shanyu Zhou
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Patent number: 11589412Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for providing backhaul communications. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: determining, by a first wireless base station of a first wireless network, whether a first backhaul connection path between the first wireless base station and a core network entity of a first service provider includes a communications link which is part of a second network being operated by a different service provider; determining, by the first wireless base station, data transmission latency between the first wireless base station and the core network entity using the first backhaul connection path; establishing, by the first wireless base station, a second backhaul connection path between the first wireless base station and the core network entity, said second backhaul connection including a wireless connection to a second wireless base station which is part of the first wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventor: Volkan Sevindik
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Patent number: 11589185Abstract: Method and system tool for playback of content on a mobile device using location data, or composing complex content in real-time on a mobile device utilizing user settings and programming, using device location data as a primary input.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Inventors: David Hynds, Alex Hynds
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Patent number: 11570843Abstract: 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: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Zhibin Wu, Hong Cheng, Kapil Gulati, Tien Viet Nguyen, Junyi Li, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
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Patent number: 11568987Abstract: This disclosure describes a solution to enable more useful and responsive methods for a person's wishes for resuscitation actions to be canceled or discontinued in the event of a medical event. In this solution, a person can record their do not resuscitate (DNR) wishes with more specificity. For instance, they can specify conditions for treatment or non-treatment in the event of a medical emergency that would otherwise call for live-saving procedures or the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) device. Conditional DNR data can be recorded in an electronic device (e.g., emergency pendant or smart watch, or in an electronic device) implanted within or on the person's body. This data can also be stored in a database accessible via a network.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Brittaney Zellner, Sameena Khan, Ryan Schaub, Barrett Kreiner, Ari Craine, Robert Koch
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Patent number: 11558731Abstract: Mobile devices, autonomous sensors and actuators, and myriad other IoT wireless devices demand low-complexity protocols in addition to 5G and 6G protocols. Disclosed are methods for devices to form spontaneous local sidelink networks without involvement of a base station. In a first aspect, a user device can broadcast a hailing message soliciting replies from all devices in range, each reply including the wireless address of the replying user device. In another aspect, each of the user devices in a sidelink network can periodically transmit a semaphore message indicating its wireless addresses, and a new arrival can join the sidelink network by appending its semaphore message to the others. After forming the sidelink network, the user devices can communicate among themselves unicast (addressed to a specific member of the sidelink network). Also disclosed are procedures for recovery from message collisions and transmission of emergency messages. Many other aspects are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLCInventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill