Patents Examined by Olumide T Ajibade Akonai
  • Patent number: 9603083
    Abstract: The present invention discloses the method, equipment and system for selecting a donor cell, and the method comprises the following steps: a relay node acquires the donor cell configuration information for the relay node; if the relay node determines, based on the donor cell configuration information, that the currently serving cell is listed in the donor cell configuration information, the relay node continues to work in the cell; otherwise, the relay node selects another cell listed in the donor cell configuration information to access. The present invention can improve the controllability of the selection of a donor cell by a relay node, thereby causing the relay node to quickly select a donor cell and access to the donor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Inventors: Yi Yang, Wei Bao, Li Chen
  • Patent number: 9602961
    Abstract: An electronic monitoring system and method for monitoring one or more transport services, wherein for each one of one or more portable electronic devices, data of the portable electronic device indicative of the location of the portable electronic device is monitored and the location data stored in a memory of the portable electronic device. Each device monitors for a boarding trigger event indicative of a user carrying the portable electronic device boarding a transport service, and upon a boarding trigger event occurring, communicates monitoring data to a remote monitoring system, the monitoring data including at least time data of the boarding trigger event and data indicative of the location of the portable electronic device. The remote monitoring system monitors one or more transport services using data communicated by the portable electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: METAROVE PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Martin Smyrk, Allan Richards
  • Patent number: 9596673
    Abstract: A resource negotiation method, a device, and a system for D2D communication are provided. The method comprises: a second base station acquires an available channel resource of a first device, where the first device is connected with a first base station; the second base station allocates, on the basis of an available channel resource of a second device connected with self and of the available channel resource of the first device, a D2D communication resource for D2D communication between the first device and the second device; and the second base station notifies the second device of the allocated D2D communication resource and notifies the first device via the first base station. The resource negotiation method, the device, and the system for D2D communication implement resource negotiation for successful D2D communication between devices under different base stations or access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Guo, Lei Gong
  • Patent number: 9596626
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a mobility management device that can normally provide a UE with a notification of an incoming voice call made when ISR is activated and when a mobile communication device is moving from a location registration area under control of an MME to a location registration area under control of an SGSN. A mobility management device (10) makes an ISR feature operate in collaboration with an SGSN (20). It is assumed that a location registration area (60) managed by the mobility management device (10) exists within a location registration area (50) managed by the SGSN (20), and an incoming voice call is made to a mobile communication device (30) during when the mobile communication device (30) is moving out of the location registration area (60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tamura, Junya Okabe
  • Patent number: 9591120
    Abstract: A method for adding an application badge includes detecting whether a notification bar receives a notification message. The notification message is sent by an application to the notification bar after receiving an unread message. The method further includes determining the number of unread messages received by the application according to the notification message if the notification bar receives a notification message, and updating an icon of the application to display a badge value according to the number of unread messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Zheng Yan, Ying Wang, Shaoping Zhu
  • Patent number: 9591556
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for access network discovery and selection are disclosed. According to one aspect, a system for access network discovery and selection includes an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) network element for identifying to a user equipment (UE) an access network through which the UE can connect to a core network, the ANDSF including an interface for communicating with nodes in a core network. The ANDSF is configured to receive information from a node in the core network and perform an access network discovery or selection operation based at least in part on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: TEKELEC, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Ventimiglia, Richard Cardone, Uri Baniel, Sundaram Rajagopalan
  • Patent number: 9590996
    Abstract: A mobile router offers seamless roaming services to one or more locally connected mobile hosts over one or more simultaneously connected networks. The mobile router, as well as its local area network, roams across different subnets on similar networks, across networks that are dissimilar, or across a simultaneous combination of both. Simultaneous support is provided for mobile hosts configured for static IP addressing and mobile hosts configured for dynamic IP addressing. Seamless support is provided for mobile hosts that dynamically migrate from one mobile router to another mobile router, while avoiding the need for configuration settings on the mobile router that are associated with individual mobile hosts and avoiding the need for mobility support software on the mobile hosts themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: NETMOTION WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Christian E. Hofstaedter, Shane L. Baker, Randy H. Ellison
  • Patent number: 9578147
    Abstract: A casing includes a first portion, a second portion, and at least one sensor. The second portion is slidably engaged with the first portion. The at least one sensor is coupled to the first portion or the second portion, the sensor detects a distance between the first portion and the second portion. A portable electronic device using the casing is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: FIH (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventor: Yung-Sung Peng
  • Patent number: 9576404
    Abstract: A system for transmitting aircraft data from an aircraft includes a Data Acquisition Unit (DAU) that records aircraft data. A PC card is interfaced to the DAU and stores the aircraft data from the DAU. A processor retrieves aircraft data from the memory. A first wireless transceiver is controlled by the processor and receives and transmits the aircraft data along a wireless communications signal. A wireless local area network (LAN) communications unit is configured as an access point and positioned within the aircraft and transmits and receives wireless communications signals to and from the PC card. A second wireless transceiver is mounted within the aircraft and receives the wireless communications signal from the wireless LAN communications unit for transmitting the aircraft data from the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: HARRIS CORPORATION
    Inventors: James J. Ziarno, Shawn H. Gallagher
  • Patent number: 9578490
    Abstract: A method for updating electronic business cards (VCards). A receiving terminal which is to synchronize a VCard with a sending terminal is determined. It is determined whether there is an update of a VCard in the sending terminal. If there is an update, the sending terminal sends an updated VCard to the receiving terminal or instructs a third party device to send the updated VCard to the receiving terminal. The receiving terminal receives the updated VCard, and updates a VCard stored in the receiving terminal using the updated VCard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Chunying Liu
  • Patent number: 9571217
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for detecting inter-cell interference in a mobile communication system are provided. A base station receives a reference signal (RS) from a terminal, generate one or more interference candidate RSs, calculate a cross correlation of the one or more interference candidate RSs and the received RS, estimate at least one of a size of a Resource Block (RB) an offset of the RB, a group index (U), and a cyclic shift (CS) by using a preset number of interference candidate RSs in an order of the large cross correlation. The base station further removes an interference signal or performs a direct reduction by using at least one of the estimated RB size, the RB offset, the timing offset, and the group index (U). According to the present disclosure, it is beneficial to mitigate or cancel inter-cell interference problem on an uplink transmission without any assistance of neighbor base stations and/or adjacent cells in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Min Sagong, Sungnam Hong, Taeyoung Kim, Jiyun Seol
  • Patent number: 9572061
    Abstract: Disclosed is the radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and the terminal, and more particularly, to a method of transmitting an aggregated measurement report to a network in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) evolved from the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung-Hoon Jung, Sung-Duck Chun, Seung-June Yi, Young-Dae Lee, Sung-Jun Park
  • Patent number: 9560619
    Abstract: There is provided a method of detecting erroneous measurements of the position of a device, the device comprising position measurement means, the method comprising determining the state of motion of a user of the device from a plurality of possible states; predicting the position of the device using a plurality of models and the determined state of motion of the user, each model corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of possible states; measuring the position of the device using the position measurement means; comparing the predicted position of the device to the measured position of the device; and determining whether the measured position of the device is erroneous based on the result of the step of comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Marten Jeroen Pijl
  • Patent number: 9560569
    Abstract: A relay communications system is described in which a base station receives a request from an MME that an overload procedure be started or stopped. The base station inserts the identity of the MME into the request and forwards the modified request to a relay node. The relay node then initiates or terminates the overload procedure in accordance with the request for mobile telephones which the MME that made the request serves, but not for mobile telephones which the MME does not serve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Francesca Serravalle, Robert Paterson, Robert Tietz
  • Patent number: 9554304
    Abstract: A scalable medium access control (“MAC”) module is provided that avoids conflict resource reservation so that network performance does not degrade as the number of hops or nodes in a wireless network increases. The MAC also provides different access schemes for traffic with different quality of service (“QoS”) requirements such that QoS is guaranteed and network resources are efficiently utilized. Furthermore, the resource allocation scheme determines the routing path as resources is allocated for data traffic, thereby achieving more robust layer-2 routing at the MAC layer. Finally, the scalable MAC is compliant with both WiMedia MAC and IEEE 802.15.3 MAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: OL SECURITY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventors: Xudong Wang, Chao Gui, Abhishek Patil, Weilin Wang, Michael Nova
  • Patent number: 9554365
    Abstract: In communication of data between a first base station and a mobile terminal, a second base station may handle uplink transmissions from the mobile terminal. For this purpose, the first base station sends, to the second base station, a request to handle the uplink transmissions from the mobile terminal. The handling of the uplink transmissions to be performed by the second base station includes scheduling of the uplink transmissions so as to obtain uplink scheduling information. Via a backhaul link, the second base station transmits the uplink scheduling information to the first base station. The first base station includes the uplink scheduling information into downlink transmissions to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Laetitia Falconetti, Chrysostomos Koutsimanis
  • Patent number: 9547843
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for locating a mobile terminal by use of messages received to the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal locating method may include creating at least one location related candidate for the mobile terminal by use of a message that is received to the mobile terminal, and determining a location of the mobile terminal by matching the created location related candidate to stored place information. The current location of the mobile terminal may be recognized by simply analyzing the received messages without the need for installation of additional device on the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Joon Hyun, Sung-Ho Ryu, Seok-Hyun Yoon, Hee-Seon Park, Min-Hyok Bang, Dong-Hun Park
  • Patent number: 9544377
    Abstract: A user terminal comprising: a positioning system arranged to detect a geographical location of the user terminal; a transceiver for communicating with other user terminals via a communication network; and a communication processing apparatus coupled to the transceiver and positioning system. The communication processing apparatus is arranged to detect communication events occurring via the transceiver and communication network in relation to other user terminals, and to maintain a log of the communication events. Further, the communication processing apparatus is configured to organize the log in dependence on a geographical location detected by the positioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Skype
    Inventor: Mark McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 9544902
    Abstract: Systems, computer-readable media, and methods for selecting channel bandwidths to a user equipment (UE) device for carrying out a communication session. Selection of the channel bandwidth can be based on a data-usage tendency of the UE device. The data-usage tendency can indicate a data-usage rate of the UE device or a set of user equipment devices similar to the UE device. The channel bandwidth can comprise a plurality of subcarriers. Two or more of the subcarriers can be adjacent to one another or be separated by one or more subcarriers of a channel bandwidth assigned or assignable to another UE device for another communication session. A processor that selects the channel bandwidth can further base its selection on a service plan associated with the UE device and load conditions of frequency bands of a radio access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Rajveen Narendran, Sreekar Marupaduga, Nicholas D. C. Kullman, Andrew M. Wurtenberger
  • Patent number: 9544274
    Abstract: A graphical user interface to provision business environments on mobile devices presents a navigation panel that displays a virtual phone template menu item and a policy setting menu item. Upon selection of the virtual phone template menu item, a template user interface is presented that enables an administrator to customize virtual phone image templates for users to be delivered to mobile devices that are configured to run the virtual phone image templates as virtual machines on the mobile devices in order to provide a business environment. Upon selection of the policy setting menu item, a policy user interface is presented that enables the administrator to set security policies, wherein each of the security policies specifies a time interval within which a mobile device running a virtual machine corresponding to one of the virtual phone image templates should communicate with an enterprise server to comply with the security policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Deasy, David Furodet, Robert Meyer, Craig Newell, Claire Reynaud, Fanny Strudel, Paul Wisner, Emil Sit