Patents Examined by Philip Sobutka
  • Patent number: 10743266
    Abstract: A communication method implemented by a terminal device includes: determining whether a power lower than a target transmission power of a first channel or signal is allowed to be used to transmit the first channel or signal during a first period within a time unit, wherein the transmission power available to transmit the first channel or signal during the first period is different with at least one of other periods within the time unit; determining a current transmit power to be used to transmit the first channel or signal during the first period based on the transmission power available when the power lower than the target transmission power is allowed to be used to transmit the first channel or signal during the first period; transmitting the first channel or signal during the first period with the current transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 10736050
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to adjusting radiofrequency transmission power of antenna devices consistent with the disclosure. For example, a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to transmit a signal using a first transmission power to query an environment surrounding an antenna device to determine whether an object is causing path loss along a communication link, and adjust a transmission power of the antenna device to a second transmission power based on a determination that an object is causing path loss along the communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Larson, Glen Backes, Logan Zvolena
  • Patent number: 10736045
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for uplink power control using communications systems operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. For example, a method for wireless communication by a base station includes providing power control parameters, to at least one user equipment (UE), for use in performing uplink transmit power control for one or more uplink transmissions sent using one or more uplink transmit beams, signaling the UE to set or reset one or more of the power control parameters, and transmitting one or more reference signals (RSs) using one or more downlink transmit beams, for the UE to measure for use in the uplink transmit power control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shengbo Chen, Tao Luo, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Sony Akkarakaran, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Wooseok Nam, Kaushik Chakraborty, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 10734719
    Abstract: A low-PIM cable support rail assembly includes a metal strut extending in a longitudinal direction positioned within a potential PIM reactive zone of a cellular base station antenna. A channel runner assembly slidably engaged with the strut includes a low-PIM a low-PIM spacer and a low-PIM channel runner block that includes a captured rod anchor, such as a nut or bolt head, engaged with a threaded rod. A compression nut engaged with the threaded rod releasably pinches strut rails between the low-PIM channel runner block and the low-PIM spacer to secure the channel runner assembly at a desired position along the strut. The low-PIM channel runner block and low-PIM spacer prevent metal-to-metal contact when the compression nut is tightened to secure the channel runner assembly to the strut. A cable support block or other component may be spaced apart from the strut along the threaded rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ConcealFab Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Bell, Steve Rogers
  • Patent number: 10736055
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method for controlling transmit power of a mobile terminal. The method is performed by a mobile terminal in a dual connectivity mode wherein the mobile terminal is configured to support two or more contemporaneous links, including a first link and a second link, with two or more wireless network access points. The mobile terminal independently calculates a respective unscaled uplink transmission power level for each link, based on a corresponding link-specific value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Imadur Rahman, Ali Behravan
  • Patent number: 10721735
    Abstract: Provided are a frequency band determination device, a head-mounted display, a frequency band determination method, and a program that are capable of unprecedentedly quickly changing the frequency band used for communication in accordance with a change in an environment in which a communication device and a communication partner are placed. An image acquisition section acquires an image of an environment in which at least either an HMD or a communication partner for the HMD is placed. Based on the image acquired by the image acquisition section, a frequency band determination section determines the frequency band of radio waves used for communication between the HMD and the communication partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Onishi, Yoshio Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10716075
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to the use of active feedback from client devices to limit/regulate transmission power control of access points from the perspective of the client device. The instant transmission power control beneficially ensures that clients located at a cell edge still receive sufficient coverage from access points and have sufficient overlap with adjacent cells for seamless roaming for the wireless stations while minimizing co-channel interference. In some embodiments, the present disclosure beneficially leverages 802.11h TPC Constraint to dynamically report client's view of the RF environment and cell size estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Il Choi, Santosh Kulkarni, Vishal Satyendra Desai
  • Patent number: 10707919
    Abstract: Techniques for automatically configuring and controlling a digital media device are described. A digital media device can be configured or controlled by a mobile device, e.g., a smart mobile phone. When the digital media device is being configured, the digital media device can broadcast a signal, indicating that the digital media device is requesting configuration information from a mobile device. A mobile device located in proximity of the digital media device, upon detecting the signal, can perform various security checks to determine that the request is legitimate, and then open a communication channel with the digital media device. The mobile device can provide user preferences of the mobile device, as well as credentials for accessing and downloading remote content, to the digital media device through the communication channel. Upon receiving the configuration information, the digital media device can use parameters in the configuration information as its settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andy Belk, Augustin Prats, Joakim Linde, Lucas Newman, Nicholas J. Paulson, Thomas Matthieu Alsina
  • Patent number: 10708867
    Abstract: A method for performing a power scaling is discussed. The method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining, by the UE configured with dual connectivity to a master cell group (MCG) and a secondary cell group (SCG), a first power for a first transmission in a first subframe toward the MCG, determining a second power for a second transmission toward the SCG, and scaling down the second power for the second transmission toward the SCG if a total power related to the MCG and the SCG exceeds a maximum power, wherein the scaling down is performed if the first transmission toward the MCG in the first subframe is overlapped with the second transmission toward the SCG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Daesung Hwang, Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 10708401
    Abstract: A mobile phone includes a phone body including spaced lateral perimeter walls. At least one indentation is provided in each of the said spaced lateral walls, the indentations forming a detent or cavity to provide an overhang portion suitable for being selectively gripped or released by correspondingly mating jaws or hooks on an accessory attachable to the mobile phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Toughbuilt Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H. Panosian, Joshua Keeler
  • Patent number: 10708864
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing power control of physical channels in a communication system are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method in a wireless device (105, 200, 300, 400, 600) for performing power control of physical channels in a wireless communication system (100) may include determining (503, 703) transmission powers for transmissions (123a-d, 133a-b) on physical channels (121, 131) having different transmission time interval lengths (125, 135) according to respective power control loops. Further, the loops may specify the transmission powers for the physical channels based on a parameter (111) whose value is commonly updated or separately updated for the loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Laetitia Falconetti, Gustav Almquist, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 10681641
    Abstract: A device, system, and method detect an activity and utilize a mitigation scheme. The method is performed at a device that is configured to establish a network connection to a network, the network including a plurality of areas, each area being defined based on a grouping of a plurality of neighboring cells, the device being associated with one of the areas at a select time. The method includes determining between an activity status and a non-activity status associated with the device. When the activity status is determined, the method includes determining an area update rate indicating a number of changes to the associated area over a period of time. When the area update rate exceeds a predetermined update rate threshold, the method includes selecting a mitigation scheme configured to reduce an amount of power used by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivas Burugupalli, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Vijay Venkataraman, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Srinivasan Nimmala
  • Patent number: 10667307
    Abstract: Techniques are described for automatically determining which of a plurality of target devices should be connected with a source device using data regarding ambient signals about the source device. For example, a request is received for an identifier to which a source device is to connect. Data is received describing at least one ambient signal detected by the source device. The data is compared with a plurality of target device profiles. It is determined that the data matches a target device profile of the plurality of device profiles. An identifier associated with the determined target device profile is returned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mikhail Skobov, Christopher M. Barth
  • Patent number: 10659274
    Abstract: A method during a random access procedure and apparatus is provided, where a first downlink transmit antenna port is selected for transmission on random access channel resources associated with the first downlink transmit antenna port using a first preamble transmit power. A second downlink transmit antenna port is then selected, which is different from the first downlink transmit antenna port, when a random access response message is not received within a random access response reception time window. A preamble transmit power adjustment value is then determined, based upon one or more downlink transmit antenna port specific parameters received from the wireless communication network. A second preamble transmit power based on the determined preamble transmit power adjustment value and the first preamble transmit power is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Joachim Löhr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Vijay Nangia, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Robert T. Love
  • Patent number: 10659946
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a mobile device accessory that includes a first housing defining a first attachment surface that is configured to adhere to another surface, a user input mechanism configured to activate in response to input by a user of the mobile device, and circuitry configured to activate in response to activation of the user input mechanism, wherein activation of the circuitry (i) causes an audible alarm to be emitted by the mobile device, or (ii) causes a software application to be executed on a mobile device, or (iii) both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Katana Safety, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd W. Baldree
  • Patent number: 10652835
    Abstract: A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving, via an antenna, a signal generated by a communication device, detecting an interference in the signal, the interference generated by one or more transmitters unassociated with the communication device, and the interference determined from signal characteristics associated with a signaling protocol used by the one or more transmitters, and performing signal conditioning on the signal to reduce the interference. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ISCO International, LLC
    Inventors: Pablo Tacconi, Amr Abdelmonem, Nauman Zia
  • Patent number: 10651877
    Abstract: Provided are a shell structure and a terminal device. The shell structure includes a first shell; herein, multiple lock catch structures are installed on an inner surface of the first shell and a first through hole is formed by the lock catch structure. A damping plate and a compression part are sequentially arranged in a direction facing the first shell in the first through hole, and the first through hole is connected with the damping plate in a clamping way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10644385
    Abstract: Improved designs for an antenna system that facilitates narrowband and wideband radio frequency (RF) communications in a rotary aircraft are disclosed. The antenna system includes a RF front-end and a RF back-end. The front-end includes multiple RF components structured to transmit or receive RF communications as electromagnetic waves into three-dimensional space. These RF components form parts of at least one of the aircraft's rotor blades. Moreover, some of the RF components are of differing types, thereby causing the rotor blade to include multiple different types of RF components. The back-end, on the other hand, is located at a position other than the rotor blades and is connected with the front-end via the aircraft's rotary hub, which is connected to the rotor blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Greenwood, Randall Trent
  • Patent number: 10643619
    Abstract: A process for dispatcher monitoring of an electronic digital assistant (EDA) in a group-based mobile radio system includes first receiving, at a radio controller from a mobile radio, a request to establish an EDA call for interacting with an EDA. Identifying one of (i) a primary talkgroup to which the mobile radio is affiliated and (ii) an agency to which the mobile radio belongs. Selecting or creating an EDA talkgroup, different from the primary talkgroup, through which the mobile radio may interact with the EDA. Identifying one or more, but less than all, dispatch consoles that are (i) subscribed to monitor the primary talkgroup of the mobile radio or (ii) a member of a same agency as the mobile radio. Adding the EDA, mobile radio, and identified dispatch consoles to the EDA talkgroup. And causing the EDA call to be established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yunhai Yang, Daniel J. McDonald
  • Patent number: 10638431
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for power control in coordinated multipoint (CoMP) scenarios that utilize joint transmission (JT). For example, a method for power control at a base station, may include receiving an indication, from at least one of a plurality of paired UEs served by a set of base stations using a common set of time/frequency resources, of a parameter relating to an uplink reference signal used for transmitting an uplink reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Taesang Yoo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo, Siddhartha Mallik