Patents Examined by Natasha W Cosme
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Patent number: 11463183Abstract: A signal analysis apparatus includes a first frequency conversion unit 10 that generates an intermediate frequency signal SIF2 and a second spurious signal SSP2 from a measured signal SRF of a frequency fRF (center frequency fc), and a second frequency conversion unit 25 that converts the intermediate frequency signal SIF2 and the second spurious signal SSP2 into an intermediate frequency signal SIF2? of a frequency fIF2? and a second spurious signal SSP2? of a frequency fSP2? by performing frequency shift of the intermediate frequency signal SIF2 and the second spurious signal SSP2 by a frequency shift amount ?f, in which the frequency shift amount ?f is a value that does not establish a relationship of ?W/2?fSP2??fIF2??+W/2.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: ANRITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Mayfor Dangkiw, Takasumi Ikebe, Hirofumi Kanno
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Patent number: 11463888Abstract: A method, a device, and a computer program product for managing a mobile terminal are provided. In one method, a first position of the mobile terminal at a first time point and a first signal quality of a mobile network signal of the mobile network at the first position are detected, respectively; a signal quality distribution of the mobile network signal in a surrounding area of the first position is acquired; a prediction of a second signal quality of a mobile network signal to be received by the mobile terminal at a second time point is obtained according to the signal quality distribution, the second time point being a future time point after the first time point; and according to the first signal quality and the prediction of the second signal quality, a second service quality to be provided to the mobile terminal at the second time point is determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Bin He, Pengfei Wu, Zhenzhen Lin, Si Chen, Ruixue Zhang
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Patent number: 11463285Abstract: A signal analysis apparatus includes a frequency conversion unit 10 that includes a first local oscillator 11 which outputs a first local oscillation signal SLO1 of a frequency fLO1, a first mixer 12 which generates a first spurious signal of a frequency fSP1, a first BPF 13 of a passed center frequency f0, a second local oscillator 14 which outputs a second local oscillation signal SLO2 of a frequency fLO2, and a second BPF 16 of a passed bandwidth W, and that performs frequency conversion of a measured signal SRF of a frequency fRF (center frequency fc), in which the frequency fLO1 and the frequency fLO2 are shifted using a frequency shift amount ?f that does not establish a relationship of ?W/2?|fSP1?f0±fIF2??f|?fIF2?+W/2.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: ANRITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Ito, Shunsuke Hinooka, Yoshitaka Kihara, Mamoru Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11451314Abstract: A measurement method includes providing a test signal to a first signal path and to a second signal path within a predefined time interval, thereby obtaining a first signal and a second signal, respectively; consecutively modifying at least one of a phase and an amplitude of the first signal and of the second signal, thereby obtaining a first modified signal and a second modified signal, respectively; applying a first window at least to the first signal, thereby obtaining a first set of measurement data being associated with at least the first signal; applying a second window at least to the second signal, thereby obtaining a second set of measurement data being associated with at least the second signal; and determining a response function difference between the signal paths based on the first set of measurement data and the second set of measurement data. Further, a measurement system is described.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Florian Ramian, Florian Gerbl
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Patent number: 11444709Abstract: A method of detecting atmospheric conditions in an area via a plurality of devices, each arranged for transmitting, receiving, and/or processing radio frequency signals in a predetermined frequency band; wherein the radio frequency signals can be affected by atmospheric conditions; wherein the method comprises the steps of: transmitting, by a first device of the plurality of devices, a first radio frequency signal intended for receipt by a second device of the plurality of devices in order to perform a network communications function between the first and the second device during a time period; receiving, by the second device, the transmitted first radio frequency signal; and processing, by the second device, the received first radio frequency signal in order to perform the network communications function; wherein the method further comprises the steps of: selecting a third device, of the plurality of devices, based on a physical location of the third device relative to the area in which the atmospheric condiType: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Matthias Wendt, Peter Deixler
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Patent number: 11425525Abstract: A platform that facilities preservation of user privacy with respect to location-based applications executing on mobile computing devices is described. The platform registers triggers that are set forth by location-based applications, where a trigger specifies one or more rules and includes a location constraint. The platform causes a sensor on the mobile computing device to output location data, and the platform determines if the trigger has been satisfied by comparing the location constraint with the location data. If the trigger is satisfied, the platform transmits a callback to the application. Accordingly, the application does not receive location data from the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Saikat Guha, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Mudit Jain
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Patent number: 11425238Abstract: A method and system for limiting mobile device functionality when the mobile device is located in a pre-defined fixed geographic area. The mobile device may receive a local disabling signal from a disabling device, which, when detected by a Device Owner Application resident on the mobile device, limits the mobile device functionality. Alternatively, the system may use GPS based geofencing to determine that the mobile device is in a predefined geographic area, and then transmit instructions to the mobile device, where a Device Owner Application operates to restrict the mobile device functionality. Mobile device functionality may be limited by restricting the mobile device's ability to send and receive text messages, email messages and phone calls; restricting the mobile device's ability to respond to user input; restricting the mobile device's ability to utilize a web browser; and restricting the mobile device's web browser from accessing predetermined web sites.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Cbros Technologies, LLCInventors: Stephen Nelson Mahar, Donald Edward Williams, Jr.
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Patent number: 11418973Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may utilize synchronization signal block (SSB) and channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based beam management to select beams for communicating with a base station. For example, a UE may receive, from a base station, control signaling that configures the UE to monitor a set of SSBs and a set of reference signals. The UE may select a subset of the set of SSBs based on measuring a first signal metric for each SSB of the set of SSBs. In some examples, the UE may select a reference signal subset of the set of reference signals that correspond to the subset of the set SSBs, and may communicate a data transmission with the base station using a first beam selected based on measuring a second signal metric for each reference signal in the reference signal subset.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Parisa Cheraghi, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
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Patent number: 11418454Abstract: Apparatus including a first interface to a host processor, a second interface to transmit and receive data packets having headers and payloads, to and from a packet communication network, a memory holding context information regarding a flow of the data and assigning serial numbers to the data packets in the flow, according to a session-layer protocol, and processing circuitry between the first and second interfaces and having acceleration logic, to decode the data records according to the session-layer protocol, using and updating the context information based on the serial numbers and the data records of the received packets, and processing circuitry writing the decoded data records through the first interface to a host memory. The acceleration logic, upon receiving in a given flow a data packet containing a serial number that is out of order, reconstructs the context information and applies that context information in decoding data records in subsequent data packets in the flow.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Boris Pismenny, Liran Liss, Ilya Lesokhin, Haggai Eran, Adi Menachem
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Patent number: 11405252Abstract: A method of a base station (BS) for transmitting synchronization signals in a wireless communication system. The method comprises generating a primary synchronization signal (PSS) including one of multiple PSS sequences that is generated based on a M-sequence of length 127 in a frequency domain, wherein the PSS indicates part of cell identification (ID) information using a cyclic shift performed on the M-sequence generating the PSS; generating a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) including one of multiple SSS sequences that is generated based on multiple BPSK modulated M-sequences of length 127 in the frequency domain, wherein the SSS indicates the cell ID information using cyclic shifts performed on the M-sequences generating the SSS; and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), the PSS and SSS over downlink channels.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongbo Si, Young-Han Nam, Eko Onggosanusi, Yuguang Gao, Le Liu
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Patent number: 11398940Abstract: A host configured to operate in a communication system to provide an over-the-top (OTT) service is proposed. The host computer includes processing circuitry providing user data and a network interface initiating transmission of the user data to a network node in a cellular network for transmission to a user equipment (UE). The network node has a communication interface and processing circuitry, configured to perform operations including determining a signaling message that indicates a subcarrier spacing numerology for a synchronization signal transmission, transmitting the signaling message to the UE, and transmitting the user data to the UE. The signaling message includes a MeasObjectNR information element that indicates the subcarrier spacing numerology for the synchronization signal transmission.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Zhipeng Lin, Rui Fan
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Patent number: 11387924Abstract: Noise in a communication channel is estimated by, in the absence of transmitted information packets, obtaining a plurality of sets of signal samples, and estimating noise power levels associated with the sets of signal samples and allotted to respective noise power classes. In the presence of at least one transmitted information packet, an information packet power level is estimated. A set of signal-to-noise ratios computed between the information packet power level and the noise power levels in the respective noise power classes are compared against a signal-to-noise threshold and partitioned into a first subset and a second subset of signal-to-noise ratios failing to exceed/exceeding, respectively, the threshold. One or more resulting impulsive noise parameters are computed as a function of impulsive noise parameters indicative of noise power levels in the signal-to-noise ratios in the first subset while disregarding impulsive noise parameters indicative of noise power levels in the second subset.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.Inventors: Gabriele Dell'Amico, Eleonora Guerrini, Athos Marcon, Francesco Balducci
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Patent number: 11381330Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems to generate a point-source model for simulating near-field effects from structures of an antenna. The techniques and systems generate, based on near-field values extracted from electromagnetic simulations, respective far-field radiation patterns for active elements and, in some cases, passive elements of the antenna array. The far-field radiation patterns account for electromagnetic interactions between the active elements and an antenna structure, which can include passive elements of the antenna array. The techniques and systems output the far-field radiation patterns, which are effective to simulate, using an asymptotic numerical method, electromagnetic interactions between the antenna array and at least one interaction structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Aptiv Technologies LimitedInventor: Bruno F. Camps Raga
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Patent number: 11374797Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to multi-user uplink channel sounding. A device may determine a channel sounding sequence with one or more access points (APs), wherein the channel sounding sequence comprises a null data packet announcement (NDPA) communicated with at least one of the one or more APs. The device may determine a first group of station devices (STAs) associated with a first basic service set (BSS). The device may cause to send a trigger frame to the first group of STAs to solicit an uplink NDP from each STA of the first group of STAs. The device may identify a first uplink NDP received from a first STA of the first group of STAs. The device may identify a second uplink NDP received from a second STA of a second group of STAs.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Roya Doostnejad, Juan Fang, Feng Jiang, Laurent Cariou, Dave Cavalcanti, Xiaogang Chen, Timothy F. Cox, Jeffrey Foerster, Po-Kai Huang, Qinghua Li, Javier Perez-Ramirez
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Patent number: 11374613Abstract: An apparatus includes a receiver chain includes an input node and a transmitter chain comprising a tap and output nodes. An auxiliary transmitter chain comprises an auxiliary input node coupled to the tap node, an adaptive filter unit and a signal output coupled to the input node. The filter unit includes an interpolation processor, and an adaptive filter and a coefficient processor coupled to the receiver chain and the adaptive filter. The transmitter chain generates a first waveform comprising a plurality of frequency-separated signals. Contemporaneously, the auxiliary chain applies a second waveform comprising another plurality of frequency-separated signals at the input node. The receiver chain receives a composite waveform comprising a waveform coupled from the output node and the second waveform. The first waveform lacks signals required for determination of coefficients of the filter whose frequencies coincide with the another plurality of signals of the second waveform.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: U-BLOX AGInventors: Chunqing Zhang, Leo Laughlin
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Patent number: 11374625Abstract: Wireless devices are adapted to facilitate beamforming communications in wireless networks. A wireless device may identify a first beam group with a number of beams equal to a maximum number of allowed beams, and a second beam group with a number of beams less than the maximum number of allowed beams. Channel statistics may be estimated for each of the first beam group and the second beam group, and the second beam group may be selected for communications when the second beam group is determined to have at least substantially equal or greater channel statistics compared to the first beam group. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Parisa Cheraghi, Ahmed Elshafie, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
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Patent number: 11362941Abstract: Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast in label switched packet networks are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast in label switched packet networks may be configured to support stateless multicast in label switched packet networks based on support for handling a label switched packet associated with a multicast group, where the label switched packet includes a payload and a header and, further, where the header includes a set of labels indicative of a group of egress routers including at least a portion of the egress routers of the multicast group.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventor: Pranjal Kumar Dutta
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Patent number: 11356192Abstract: The present invention provides an emissions control apparatus for an entity. The emissions control apparatus comprises: storage means for storing transmission data relating to an entity; a controller configured to calculate a propagation profile for the entity based on at least the transmission data; and a display for displaying the propagation profile. The present invention also provides a method of controlling emissions.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: BAE Systems plcInventor: Craig Innes Stewart
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Patent number: 11356187Abstract: A measuring device 1 performs control to perform a reception sensitivity test of measuring a throughput of a signal under measurement, and repeating the measurement while changing an output level of a test signal at each measurement position corresponding to a plurality of orientations. The integrated control device 10 that performs the control includes a measurement situation display control unit 18d that displays a measurement progress display screen having a first display area for displaying a result of the reception sensitivity test up to the measurement position where the reception sensitivity test is completed, and a second display area for displaying a progress situation of the measurement of the reception sensitivity test at the measurement position at which the reception sensitivity test is started.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: ANRITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Endo, Hironori Watanabe, Takumi Nakamura, Yui Yoshida
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Patent number: 11350396Abstract: A base station is disclosed including a processor that maps one or more control channel elements (CCEs) in a downlink control channel to one or more resource units that are obtained by an interleaver for interleaving indexes of a plurality of resource units in a control resource set, and a transmitter transmits the downlink control channel. Each of the one or more resource units are being defined as a plurality of resource element groups (REGs). A transmitter transmits the downlink control channel. In other aspects, a terminal and a radio communication method are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang