Patents Examined by Omoniyi Obayanju
  • Patent number: 11381569
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method of modifying policy settings in an electronic device. An embodiment includes a plurality of access stations, each capable of wirelessly transmitting across a geographic region. A mobile electronic device, capable of roaming between regions is operable to establish a wireless link with the access stations. The device is owned by an office which sets communication policies determining through which access stations mobile device can place voice calls. This policy is stored on an office server as a database and periodically transmitted to the device as the device makes contact with the office server over the internet. Hence, the device maintains a copy of this policy database. When placing a voice call, the device first determines which access station is serving the region it is located in and then determines whether it is allowed to place a call through that access station using its policy database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Graham Pearce
  • Patent number: 11375555
    Abstract: Methods and computer software are disclosed for establishing mesh connectivity. In one embodiment the method includes advertising, by a first Converged Wireless System (CWS) the presence of a mesh; detecting, by a second CWS, the presence of the mesh being advertised by a first CWS; performing, by the second CWS, secure certificate based authentication with the first CWS; and allocating, by the second CWS, an Internet Protocol (IP) address over the mesh and using the IP address as a logical address in an IP domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Sumit Garg, Gaurav Kumar
  • Patent number: 11368989
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus characterized by comprising: at least one wireless communication means capable of executing a plurality of communication modes that include a first communication mode in which the wireless communication means communicates information concerning a predetermined service to be provided to an external apparatus with the external apparatus; basic configuration means for deciding whether to assign an IP address used for a second communication mode different from the first communication mode to the wireless communication means; and communication mode setting means for setting the IP address for the wireless communication means regardless of a decision by the basic configuration means if the first communication mode is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ko Ichihara
  • Patent number: 11363469
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. One method may inlcude a base station or other device estimating an intended coverage area of all possible communication devices that are to be serviced by the base station or other device. The base station or other device may dynamically optimize at least one transmission metric such as a codebook, in response to a change in the coverage area. Another method may include a base station estimating a dynamic coverage area of a set of all possible user equipments or devices to be serviced, and dynamically optimizing a codebook structure in response to a change in the coverage area. Another method may include the base station determining a use-case of the set of all possible user equipments to be serviced by the base station, and hard-coding a metric corresponding to the use case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Kobi Ravid, Yu-Chin Ou, Ozge Koymen, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11356832
    Abstract: A method for enabling Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT) services in a telecommunications network is presented. The method is performed by a mobile terminal (MT) and incudes receiving an imminent peril or emergency MCPTT call from at least one other MT, the call indicating an emergency state for the at least one other MT, determining a number of MTs indicating an emergency state, and raising an MCPTT emergency alert if the determined number of MTs indicating an emergency state exceeds a threshold. An MT, an escalation server, a computer program, and a computer program product are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Stefan Wänstedt, Tommy Arngren, Tomas Jönsson, Peter Ökvist
  • Patent number: 11350262
    Abstract: A self-contained disaster condition monitoring system to alert a user of one or more disaster conditions at a location via a personal electronic device includes a self-contained housing assembly having a housing unit, wherein the self-contained housing assembly is equipped with a self-contained monitoring assembly comprising at least a disaster condition sensor or a disaster condition detector. A user interface assembly is provided and is operable by a user to configure at least the sensor or the detector of the self-contained monitoring assembly. A communication assembly includes an SMS communication module configured to transmit a direct SMS alarm message to the personal electronic device upon detection of at least one disaster condition by the self-contained monitoring assembly. The system also includes a power supply assembly to provide power to at least the self-contained monitoring assembly and the communication assembly, wherein the power supply assembly includes a backup power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Inventor: Daniel Kenney
  • Patent number: 11337039
    Abstract: A communication network enabling a plurality of user devices to access communication services, the communication being a private communication or a communication within a multimedia group to which at least one user device of the plurality of user devices is affiliated, the communication network including at least one dedicated signalling group making it possible to announce to at least one user device of the plurality of user devices affiliated to the dedicated signalling group the availability of at least one service for the dedicated signalling group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS DS SLC
    Inventors: Olivier Paterour, Pascal Laffitte
  • Patent number: 11330426
    Abstract: Provided is a method for reporting capability, user equipment, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: determining a support capability for a supplementary uplink (SUL) frequency; generating indication information of the support capability of UE for the SUL frequency based on the support capability for the SUL frequency; and reporting the indication information of the support capability for the SUL frequency to a network side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11310762
    Abstract: A method includes receiving positioning configuration information from a base station or location server while in an RRC_connected mode; transitioning to an RRC_idle or RRC_inactive mode, while saving the positioning configuration information; receiving a reference signal for positioning from the base station; performing positioning measurements, while in the RRC_idle or RRC_inactive mode; and sending a location report to the base station or location server while remaining in the RRC_idle or RRC_inactive mode. A related method includes sending positioning configuration information to a user equipment in an RRC_connected mode; sending the user equipment to RRC_idle or RRC_inactive mode by an RRC suspend procedure; sending a reference signal for positioning to the user equipment; receiving a location report from the user equipment in the RRC_idle or RRC_inactive mode; and forwarding the location report from the user equipment to a location server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Ryan Keating, Rapeepat Ratasuk
  • Patent number: 11304172
    Abstract: Crowd sourced data from mobile devices may be used to estimate site locations. In addition, machine learning models may be used to filter out any inaccurate crowd sourced data before using algorithms to estimate the cell site location. An apparatus may include a processor and a memory coupled with the processor that effectuates operations. The operations may include receiving data associated with a location of plurality of devices that have connected with a base station in a geographic area; determining a machine learning model to apply to the received data based on the type of data, wherein the machine learning model is a clustering model; performing the clustering model on the received data; based on the performing the clustering model on the received data, obtaining representative data that excludes outliers in the received data; based on the representative data, determining a location of the base station in the geographic area; and sending a message with the location of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ronald Kiefer, Mario Kosseifi, Xiaodi Zhang, Kumar Vadlamudi, Badal Chowdhary
  • Patent number: 11272559
    Abstract: A system and method to determine location information with respect to a plurality of portable devices, with potentially a large number of portable devices such as 40 or more portable devices in proximity to the system. The system may connect to and locate each of the plurality of portable devices in proximity to the system. The location information may be determined with respect to an object, such as a vehicle or building, and optionally within a larger system of objects, such as a mass transit system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eric John Smith
  • Patent number: 11259159
    Abstract: A method for receiving, processing, and transmitting data includes receiving first data values that include first surroundings data values representing surroundings of, and detected using a first surroundings sensor system of, a first vehicle and first pieces of information about the first surroundings sensor system; receiving second data values that include second surroundings data values representing surroundings of, and detected using a second surroundings sensor system of, a second vehicle and second pieces of information about the second surroundings sensor system; evaluating the quality of the first and the second surroundings sensor systems based on the first and second data values; and transmitting a signal for influencing the first and/or second surroundings sensor systems based on the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Mielenz, Jan Rohde
  • Patent number: 11212647
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reporting location information in wireless communications system. In some cases, an apparatus may provide an indication of a degree of accuracy in the reported values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Amichai Sanderovich
  • Patent number: 11196860
    Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying a plurality of mobile device telephone numbers associated with a plurality of mobile devices, forwarding the plurality of mobile device telephone numbers to a content delivery device, hashing the plurality of mobile device telephone numbers, storing the hashed plurality of mobile device telephone numbers in the content delivery device, identifying a scheduled call campaign to the plurality of mobile devices, forwarding call content associated with schedule call campaign to the plurality of mobile devices prior to calling the plurality of mobile devices, and responsive to receiving confirmation that the content was successfully forwarded to the plurality of mobile devices, initiating a calling device to begin calling the plurality of mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Knuth, Brandon Wayne Murphy, Mark Bradley McHenry, Jay Todd Callaway, Rafael De Melo Aroxa, Matthew Jack Beckham
  • Patent number: 11190924
    Abstract: A tracking device for a track and rescue system that wirelessly couples to a control system via a first link established between a control system first type wireless communication interface coupled to the control system and a tracking device first type wireless communication interface included in the tracking device when the tracking device first type wireless communication interface is within range of the control system first type wireless communication interface. The tracking device determines that a first predetermine time period has been satisfied, and in response, determines location information for the tracking device using the positioning system. The tracking device sends, in response to the first predetermined time period being satisfied, an alive signal to the control system via the first link, and the alive signal includes the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: IN-TECH ENTERPRISE LTD.
    Inventors: Gordon Christopher Pope, Wing Hung Cheung, Ka King To
  • Patent number: 11172067
    Abstract: A method and system enables communications with a call center via SMS/MMS and provides an additional communications channel to communicate with the call center in addition to voice, Internet email/IM chat and fax. The call center obtains location information and images from a customer using SMS messages and web pages via a messaging hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: HeyWire, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Lee Lew, Vasileios John Gianoukos, Kenneth Norman Heim
  • Patent number: 11172322
    Abstract: A wireless service delivery system determines the position of a device requesting the wireless service and delivers a wireless service to the device if the device's position is determined to fall within a predefined region of a space. The wireless service delivery may deliver no service or a lower quality/slower service if the device is determined to fall outside the predefined region of the space. The coordinates of the points along the perimeter of the predefined region are stored in a memory and are optionally established during a setup phase by moving a localization device along the perimeter of the region of the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: GuRu Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Behrooz Abiri, Florian Bohn, Seyed Ali Hajimiri
  • Patent number: 11163868
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for securing discovery information being transmitted through a direct radio signal in a wireless communication system which supports a device-to-device service, and a device-to-device communication method of a transmission terminal, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise: synchronizing with a discovery resource cycle number; determining discovery channel logical timing information of a discovery physical channel through which discovery information is to be transmitted; generating security information by using a security key, the determined discovery channel logical timing information and the discovery information to be transmitted; and transmitting the discovery information including the security information through the discovery physical channel According to one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to prevent discovery information of a terminal to be wrongly transmitted due to a case where another rogue terminal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Rajavelsamy Rajadurai, Youngbin Chang
  • Patent number: 11166208
    Abstract: A method for managing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. The method may include receiving flight plan information describing a flight path of the UAV; generating one or more cell lists based on the flight plan information; and transmitting the one or more cell lists to a source cell in a wireless network in which the UAV is currently operating, wherein the one or more cell lists are used in a handover procedure between the source cell that the UAV is currently connected to and a target cell that the UAV will connect to after completing the handover procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Attila Takács, Ravi Manghirmalani, Heikki Mahkonen, Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Xingqin Lin
  • Patent number: 11153747
    Abstract: A system for automatically initiating a travel mode of a media-playback device is disclosed. The system operates to evaluate vehicle presence factors and determine whether the vehicle presence factors indicate that the media-playback device is in a vehicle. Upon determining presence of the media-playback device in a vehicle, the travel mode is performed using the media-playback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Fredrik Schmidt, Johan Oskarsson, Shervin Shoravi, Peter Johansson, Ronald Pompa, Lawrence Kennedy, Adam Price, Daniel Choe