Patents Examined by Moustapha Diaby
  • Patent number: 12047851
    Abstract: A Policy Control Function, PCF, for use in a 5G core network, is configured to allow a consumer to retrieve from the PCF subscriber session information and Application Detection and Control rules relating to a subscriber session. Specifically, the PCF is configured to: receive (303) a request from a Session Management Function, SMF, for session management policies applying to the subscriber session; retrieve (305) policy data from a Unified Data Repository, UDR; and, based on the retrieved policy data, generate said Application Detection and Control rules relating to the subscriber session, and send (307) said Application Detection and Control rules to the TDF, thereby allowing the TDF to act as the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Veronica Sanchez Vega, Franco Foresti, Julian Espinosa Santos
  • Patent number: 12047900
    Abstract: A wireless terminal station device, a plurality of wireless base station devices, and a positioning request device are included, the wireless terminal station device makes a positioning request including identification information of its own device to the positioning request device via the wireless base station device to which the wireless terminal station device belongs among the plurality of wireless base station devices, the positioning request device receives the positioning request from the wireless terminal station device, specifies the wireless base station device to which the wireless terminal station device belongs on the basis of the identification information of the wireless terminal station device, transmits a positioning instruction and the identification information of the wireless terminal station device to the specified wireless base station device, and receives a result of positioning of the wireless terminal station device from the wireless base station device, and the wireless base station
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masamichi Hosoda, Maiko Naya, Akira Nakayama, Masaru Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 12035289
    Abstract: A system described herein may identify a first set of channel parameters associated with a User Equipment (“UE”). The first set of channel parameters may include timing parameters indicating time intervals at which traffic is able to be wirelessly communicated between the UE and a radio access network (“RAN”), and resource allocation parameters indicating a measure of wireless resources allocated to communicating traffic between the UE and the RAN. The system may generate a second set of channel parameters based on a quantity of instances that traffic was communicated between the UE and the RAN at a beginning of one or more time intervals, indicated by the first set of channel parameters, and a measure of utilization of the allocated wireless resources during the particular timeframe. The UE and the RAN may subsequently communicate using the second set of channel parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Rakesh Bakshi
  • Patent number: 12034469
    Abstract: Systems and methods for variable stride counting for timed-triggers in a radio frequency front end (RFFE) bus modify how a master clock controls counters in slaves. In particular, instead of having the master clock change a counter at a slave device on a one-to-one clock tick-to-counter change, exemplary aspects of the present disclosure contemplate allowing a bus ownership master (BOM) to select a stride size wherein each clock tick causes the counter to change by the size of the stride. Clock ticks are then sent less frequently over the clock line of the RFFE bus. In this fashion, fewer clock ticks are required to change the counter to the trigger event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lalan Jee Mishra, Richard Dominic Wietfeldt, Umesh Srikantiah, Karthik Manivannan
  • Patent number: 12028777
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means configured to: manage at least one location request for at least one user equipment based on an indicator indicating whether a node associated with the location determination for the at least one user equipment is tracking the location for the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Eva Perez, Timo Koskela, Diomidis Michalopoulos, Mikko Saily
  • Patent number: 12015914
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for securing physical (PHY) layers in wireless communication. Certain aspects are directed to a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). In some examples, the method includes obtaining a key and using the key during physical layer signal processing of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission having more than one symbol to provide security for the PUCCH transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Hung Dinh Ly, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 12010275
    Abstract: In a case where an image processing apparatus and a terminal display screens in an associated manner, if the terminal receives a user operation in a state where an enlarged screen is displayed only on the terminal, and the terminal transmits information about the operation as it is to the image processing apparatus, processing not intended by the user may possibly be performed. Therefore, when the terminal receives a user operation in a state where an enlarged screen is displayed only on the terminal, the terminal does not transmit the operation information as it is to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shodai Yano
  • Patent number: 12010520
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide example methods for accessing a core network by using a fixed access device. One example method includes: receiving, a network registration request sent by customer-premises equipment; sending a network registration request message for the CPE to a mobile core network based on the network registration request; receiving an authentication request message; performing physical location authentication for the CPE based on a physical location identifier; in response to determining that the physical location authentication succeeds, sending an authentication response to the mobile core network; receiving a registration success message sent by the mobile core network; notifying, based on the registration success message, the CPE that network registration succeeds; and sending a service parameter to the CPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiecheng Tang, Bin Huang, Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 12010588
    Abstract: Disclosed are indoor positioning methods, apparatuses, electronic device and computer readable storage medium. The indoor positioning method includes: obtaining state data of a mobile terminal; based on a pre-trained position classification model, determining a position classification of the mobile terminal according to the state data of the mobile terminal; when the position classification of the mobile terminal is an anchor point position, taking the mobile terminal as a beacon terminal and sending an anchor point position broadcast instruction to the beacon terminal to enable the beacon terminal to broadcast the anchor point position. In the technical solution, a mobile terminal meeting anchor point requirements is taken as a beacon terminal to provide convenient positioning services, so as to avoid deployment and maintenance of a large number of beacons, hardware of routers, and related mapping relationship, thus greatly reducing investment costs and facilitating promotion of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: RAJAX NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tian He, Yi Ding, Yun Ji, Tianye Zhang, Jiaming Lu, Zhigang Dai
  • Patent number: 11997505
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for planning a wireless communication network operating in a spectrum-controlled radio band and determining spectrum availability at an enterprise location. A plurality of network models are generated using machine learning techniques, the network models are provided to a network planner unit, input is received regarding intended deployment, and spectrum availability is determined responsive to the enterprise location. The number of BS/APs needed is estimated, and an enterprise network may be planned and deployed. The enterprise network is monitored, and if network operation is not meeting expected performance, the models may be retrained and the network planner updated. Spectrum availability is determined by registering a discovery group with an SAS at a location to provide spectrum availability, and repeating for each location. The method may be periodically performed to generate a time series of data which may be analyzed to provide spectrum availability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Celona, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagi Mahalingam, Mohit Goyal, Mehmet Yavuz, Rajeshwar Ponna, Rajeev Shah, Sourav Bandyopadhyay, Aparna Jaiswal
  • Patent number: 11988984
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material, a controller configured to control the image forming unit, a sheet feeding tray configured to store a recording material to be supplied to the image forming unit, and a sheet feeding tray cover configured to cover an access point of the sheet feeding tray. The sheet feeding tray cover includes a user interface for inputting information into a controller unit or outputting information from the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Miho Kaiga
  • Patent number: 11987045
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit including a pair of rotation members that nip a roll sheet, and configured to convey the sheet by rotation of the pair of rotation members, a printing unit, and a control unit configured to, upon executing a new print job, cause the conveyance unit to perform a preparatory operation in which the sheet is conveyed in a forward direction and then conveyed in a reverse direction and stopped. If a predetermined condition is met after completion of a previous print job, the control unit causes the conveyance unit to perform the preparatory operation, and if the predetermined condition is not met after completion of a previous print job, the control unit does not cause the conveyance unit to perform the preparatory operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Suto, Toshiro Sugiyama, Ryosuke Murata, Daigo Kuronuma, Kenji Shimamura, Ryo Harigae, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Kouhei Tokuda
  • Patent number: 11985592
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining the validity of idle mode measurements. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for determining a validity of one or more idle mode measurements performed for a cellular communications network comprises receiving, from a network node, an idle mode measurement configuration comprising a measurement duration time value and a validity time value for idle mode measurements. The method further comprises, while in a dormant state, performing one or more idle mode measurements according to the idle mode measurement configuration. The method further comprises determining that one or more idle mode measurement reports are invalid based on the validity time value and deleting the one or more idle mode measurement reports after determining that the one or more idle mode measurement reports are invalid based on the validity time value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oumer Teyeb, Patrik Rugeland
  • Patent number: 11985528
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes: a communication node acquiring a layer 2 measurement value, and sending the layer 2 measurement value to a TCE. Another data transmission method includes: a DU acquiring a DU-side layer 2 measurement value, and sending the DU-side layer 2 measurement value to a CU or a TCE. Another data transmission method includes: a CU acquiring a DU-side layer 2 measurement value transmitted by a DU, and sending the DU-side layer 2 measurement value and a CU-side layer 2 measurement value to a TCE. Another data transmission method includes: a CU-UP acquiring a CU-UP-side layer 2 measurement value, and sending the CU-UP-side layer 2 measurement value to a CU-CP or a TCE. Another data transmission method includes: a CU-CP acquiring a CU-UP-side layer 2 measurement value transmitted by a CU-UP, and transmitting the CU-UP-side layer 2 measurement value to a TCE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiren Han, Zhuang Liu, Yin Gao
  • Patent number: 11985530
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for performing body proximity sensing operations based on uplink or measurement gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11978874
    Abstract: An electronic device low-temperature protection method includes: obtaining, by an electronic device, an environmental temperature and a temperature of a battery of the electronic device; determining, by the electronic device based on the environmental temperature and the temperature of the battery, that the electronic device is in a low-temperature environment; and implementing, by the electronic device, low-temperature protection in response to the determined being in the low-temperature environment. According to the electronic device low-temperature protection method provided in this application, both the environmental temperature and the temperature of the battery are considered, and whether the electronic device is in a low-temperature state is detected based on the environmental temperature and the temperature of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bowen Chen, Siyang Li, Zhe Xing, Jie Yang
  • Patent number: 11979529
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: circuitry that detects information relating to a user of the information processing apparatus, determines whether the user is a visually impaired person based on the information relating to the user, and based on a determination indicating that the user is the visually impaired person, enable a voice reading operation function for the visually impaired person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuya Monden
  • Patent number: 11973894
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the utilization of context information by an electronic device. In one example, a context affordance associated with a contextual category is displayed. In response to detecting an input, a plurality of options associated with the contextual category are displayed, including a first option corresponding to a first status that is a current status for the contextual category and a second option corresponding to a second status that is not the current status for the contextual category. When an input is detected that corresponds to the second option of the first plurality of options, the current status for the contextual category is set to the second status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Golnaz Abdollahian, Krishna Dayanidhi, Patrick T. Dillon, Aaron R. Zinman
  • Patent number: 11973904
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a data writing unit, a channel number converting unit, and a plurality of serial data transferring unit. The data writing unit is configured to write data of m channels into a memory. The channel number converting unit is configured to output the data read from the memory as data of n channels, where m is larger than n. The plurality of serial data transferring unit is configured to transfer the data of the n channels to a processing device in a subsequent stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Sakaguchi, Tohru Kanno, Masamoto Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11974201
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a vehicle-road collaboration apparatus and method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The vehicle-road collaboration apparatus includes a service system, which includes a plurality of microservice modules, and each microservice module is configured to process vehicle-road collaboration data to implement a corresponding service function. Thus, scalability and compatibility of a vehicle-road collaboration system are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Yunfei Zhang