Patents Examined by Nghi H. Ly
  • Patent number: 11122610
    Abstract: Provided in an embodiment of the present invention are an information transmission method, a device, and a computer readable medium. The method comprises: transmitting a paging message according to associated information of at least one target user equipment (UE) to which the paging message needs to be sent; wherein the paging message corresponding to the target UE with the same association information is carried on the same physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). According to the embodiments of the present invention, more users can be notified, and paging delays can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Shi, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11122456
    Abstract: Provided are a method for adjusting mobility-related parameters performed by a user equipment, a user equipment, a method for adjusting mobility-related parameters performed by a base station or a base station. The method for adjusting mobility-related parameters performed by a user equipment includes: determining a speed and a height of the user equipment; and adjusting mobility-related parameters of the user equipment according to the speed and height. The method for adjusting mobility-related parameters performed by a base station includes: receiving location information reported by a user equipment; and adjusting mobility-related parameters of the user equipment according to the location information, wherein the location information is reported by the user equipment in response to occurrence of a predetermined event or at a period related to a speed and/or a height of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jing Wang, Hanning Wang, Liu Liu, Wuri A. Hapsari
  • Patent number: 11115871
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data distribution methods. One example method includes receiving an access policy, where the access policy includes flow description information, quality information of at least two links, and a data distribution policy on the at least two links, receiving a service data flow, and in response to determining that the access policy includes flow description information of the service data flow, determining link quality information of a link used for transmitting the service data flow, and distributing the service data on the link according to the data distribution policy, where the data distribution policy is a data distribution policy that is determined based on the access policy and that is corresponding to the link quality information and the flow description information of the service data flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qing Xu, Youyang Yu, Han Zhou
  • Patent number: 11115851
    Abstract: A cell measurement method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: a terminal device determines specific information of the terminal device, wherein the specific information includes at least one of: traffic information of the terminal device, priority information of the terminal device, and device information of the terminal device; the terminal device adjusts a measurement parameter in a cell measurement process according to the specific information; and the terminal device performs a measurement operation according to the measurement parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhua Liu, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11115777
    Abstract: A method for providing incentives based on geolocation of mobile devices. The method includes storing, by a server, data including merchant information of merchants and points of interest, and associated incentive information. The method includes determining, based on communication with user's device of a user, a first location of the mobile device. The method includes determining, based on the first location, a first subset of merchants and associated first subset of incentives. The method includes communicating merchant data, including information on the first subsets of merchants and incentives, to the mobile device. The method includes communicating to the mobile device, in response to a determination that the mobile device is inside a geofence associated with at least one of the first subset of merchants, additional information on the at least one of the first subset of merchants, the additional information comprising one or more related incentives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Phillips, Frank Schroth, Geoffrey M. Palmer, Stefan G. Zielinski, Allen P. Smith, Colin M. Cunningham, III
  • Patent number: 11115542
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system are disclosed for connecting a device to subscriptions and cellular billing plans. The method includes enrolling a second device enabled for connectivity to cellular or other wireless service in a cellular subscription and associated billing plan associated with a first device, wherein the enrollment includes providing an identifier for the second device to a cellular service provider associated with the first device by a second user, and allowing a second user to use capabilities of the second device as governed by the cellular subscription and an associated billing plan associated with the first device; while the second device is also configured to allow a first user to use capabilities of the second device as governed by the cellular subscription and an associated billing plan of the first user's choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Aeris Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: David Hu, Drew S. Johnson, Robert B. Fultz, Steven A. Millstein, Dae Seong Kim, John Molise
  • Patent number: 11109300
    Abstract: An access control method and apparatus and communication system. The access control method includes: based on a mapping relationship between access attempt and access category, determining an access category to which an access attempt corresponds; performing access barring check based on the access category, so as to determine whether an access attempt to which the access category corresponds is barred; and transmitting a connection setup request message or a connection recovery request message to a network device when the access attempt is considered as allowed. Hence, an access category may be determined even in different scenarios, thereby achieving a unified access control mechanism in a simple and high-efficiency manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Meiyi Jia, Lei Zhang, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 11102732
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. The present disclosure relates to a method of a terminal, the method comprising the steps of: determining a path loss reference beam on the basis of whether information indicating the path loss reference beam is received; obtaining a path loss on the basis of the path loss reference beam; obtaining a power headroom (PH) on the basis of the path loss; and transmitting a power headroom report (PHR) including the PH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim, Alexander Sayenko, Sangbum Kim, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11102755
    Abstract: A method of operating an infrastructure node in a wireless communications system is provided. The method comprises detecting that downlink messages for a communications device to decode should be transmitted by the node in one or more of a plurality of temporally spaced paging occasions, and determining that a wake-up signal (WUS) should be transmitted by the node to the communications device in advance of each of the one or more paging occasions which comprise the downlink messages for the communications device to decode, determining that a time since a most recent transmission of a signal which can be used by the communications device to re-synchronise with the node is greater than a predetermined threshold and transmitting, in response to determining that the time since the most recent transmission from the infrastructure equipment to the communications device is greater than the predetermined threshold, a preamble signal to the communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 11102795
    Abstract: A data generation method, a method for configuring logical channel, a terminal device, and a chip are provided. The terminal device has m logical channels and a plurality of carriers, each of the m logical channels is configured with a priority, each of the plurality of carriers is correlated to a priority of at least one of the m logical channels, and m>0. The method comprises: receiving RLC data on n logical channels, wherein the n logical channels belong to the m logical channels, and m?n>0; determining k logical channels in the n logical channels according to priorities of the n logical channels and a priority correlated to a first carrier in the plurality of carriers, wherein n?k>0; and generating a MAC protocol data unit PDU, wherein the MAC PDU comprises RLC PDUs on the k logical channels. The terminal device can determine a carrier for transmitting the MAC PDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11102826
    Abstract: An MME detects that a PDN connection is not effective and changes from a non-optimal gateway to a bearer established in a PDN connection using a more optimal gateway as an endpoint node. This configuration allows an already-established PDN connection to switch to a new PDN connection using the more optimal gateway, which achieves optimal communication control for continuing communication of UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Enomoto, Masafumi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 11082798
    Abstract: A method and system for effecting changes on a mobile device. The method includes determining a physical location of a point of interest. The method includes automatically generating a geofence proximate to the point of interest based on the determined physical location. The method includes detecting when the mobile device enters the geofence. The method includes tracking a duration of time spent within the geofence by the mobile device. The method also includes effecting a change on the mobile device based on the duration of time spent within the geofence by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Phillips, Frank Schroth, Geoffrey M. Palmer, Stefan G. Zielinski, Allen P. Smith, Colin M. Cunningham, III
  • Patent number: 11082987
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. Provided is a resource management device, comprising one or a plurality of processors, said processor or processors being configured to: obtain interference information from another resource management device, said interference information comprising mutual interference between a plurality of managed systems managed by the resource management device, and interference of a plurality of managed systems by one or a plurality of non-managed systems not managed by the resource management device; determine a communication resource for each managed system on the basis of the obtained interference information; and notify a corresponding managed system of the determined communication resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Sun, Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 11070936
    Abstract: A method and system for effecting changes on a mobile device. The method includes determining a physical location of a point of interest. The method includes automatically generating a geofence proximate to the point of interest based on the determined physical location of the point of interest. The method includes detecting when the mobile device enters the geofence. The method includes tracking a current velocity of a mobile device. The method also includes effecting a change on the mobile device based on the current velocity of the mobile device within the geofence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Phillips, Frank Schroth, Geoffrey M. Palmer, Stefan G. Zielinski, Allen P. Smith, Colin M. Cunningham, III
  • Patent number: 11071148
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a system information transmission method, a base station and a terminal. The method includes: a base station configuring physical random access channel (PRACH) parameters according to an access purpose of a terminal, and transmitting to the terminal, the access purpose comprising to request system information or to request initial access, the PRACH parameters comprising a number of a PRACH occasion and a time interval for the terminal to retransmit a random access request, each of the PRACH occasion corresponding to a different PRACH resource; receiving a random access request transmitted by the terminal according to the PRACH parameters selected according to the access purpose; if the access purpose of the terminal is to request the system information, transmitting system information to the terminal. The embodiments of the present disclosure facilitate system efficiency optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11064516
    Abstract: Provided in an embodiment of the present invention are an information transmission method, a device, and a computer readable medium. The method comprises: transmitting a paging message according to associated information of at least one target user equipment (UE) to which the paging message needs to be sent; wherein the paging message corresponding to the target UE with the same association information is carried on the same physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). According to the embodiments of the present invention, more users can be notified, and paging delays can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Shi, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11057853
    Abstract: A method for indicating a synchronization block includes: determining a beam to be sent; generating indication information, wherein the indication information comprises the number of beam packets, and an identifier for indicating whether each beam, except the beam to be sent, of each beam packet for sending a synchronization signal block (SSB) sends an SSB; and sending, to a user equipment, an SSB and indication information corresponding to the beam to be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11051155
    Abstract: A communication system is provided that can improve the communication capability of a communication terminal device in the case where a large number of small cells in addition to a macro cell are installed and operated. A communication terminal device (UE) is connected with a macro cell configured by a MeNB and a small cell configured by a SeNB, so that dual connectivity is performed. When receiving information for small cells, for example, emergency information from a CBC via an MME, at least one cell of the macro cell and the small cell notifies the communication terminal device connected with the at least one cell of the information for small cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Kuniyuki Suzuki, Futoshi Katada, Hirochika Hiraki
  • Patent number: 11044692
    Abstract: A cooperative wireless system using a multicast protocol to facilitate coordinating coherent addition and subtraction of wireless signaling or other beams originating from a plurality of antenna units at a target location is contemplated. The system may utilize multicast-based regulation and distribution of transmission control parameters necessary for the antenna units to synchronize the wireless signaling in a manner sufficient to enable the coherent addition and subtraction thereof at the target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11044575
    Abstract: A method for providing location-based notifications on mobile devices is discussed. The method includes determining a first location of user's mobile device based on IP address, GPS signals, Wi-Fi signals, or cellular signals. The method includes accessing data, received by the mobile device responsive to communicating the first location to a server, indicating merchants in an area proximate to the first location. The method includes determining a second location of the mobile device based on other IP address, GPS signals, Wi-Fi signals, and/or cellular signals. The method includes communicating with the server to determine, based on the second location, that the mobile device has crossed into a geofence that includes at least one of the merchants. The method includes effecting, responsive to a determination that the mobile device crossed into the first geofence, a notification on the mobile device indicating at least one of the merchants at the geofence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Phillips, Frank Schroth, Geoffrey M. Palmer, Stefan G. Zielinski, Allen P. Smith, Colin M. Cunningham, III