Patents Examined by Ping Hsieh
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Patent number: 8892049Abstract: Handheld electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include an antenna. A radio-frequency coupler may be coupled to the antenna. Transceiver circuitry may be used to transmit and receive radio-frequency signals through the coupler and the antenna. A reflected power detection circuit may be connected to the coupler. When the transceiver circuitry transmits radio-frequency signals, some of the signals are reflected back from the antenna into the coupler. The coupler directs the reflected antenna signals into the reflected power detection circuit. Processing circuitry may analyze a reflected power signal from the reflected power detection circuit to determine whether operation of the antenna is being disrupted by the placement of a user's hand over the antenna or other proximity effects. If antenna operation is being disrupted, the user may be alerted or other suitable actions may be taken.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael N. Rosenblatt, Louie J. Sanguinetti, Erturk D. Kocalar
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Patent number: 8886143Abstract: A LTE compliant RF transceiver includes at least one transmit path and at least two receive paths. A switching arrangement connected between a transmit PLL synthesizer and at least one transmit path as well as between a receive PLL synthesizer and at least two receive paths allows the transmit PLL synthesizer to selectively be connected to the receive side of the transceiver as well as the receive PLL synthesizer to selectively be connected to the transmit side of the transceiver, thereby considerably increasing flexibility of the RF transceiver which enables both speed-up of handover procedures and power savings. A modem including the transceiver is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbHInventor: Gunnar Nitsche
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Patent number: 8886263Abstract: The present specification discloses an incoming/outgoing-talk unit having an ear-hook unit, a cartilage conduction vibration unit that makes contact with ear cartilage in a state where the hook unit is hooked to the ear, an outgoing-talk unit, and a unit for performing short-range wireless communication with the mobile telephone. Further disclosed is an incoming-talk unit having an ear-hook unit, and a cartilage conduction vibration unit for transmitting cartilage conduction from outside of ear cartilage in a state where the hook unit is hooked to the ear. Also disclosed is an incoming-talk unit having a three-dimensional viewing adjustment unit, a temple having a unit for adjusting contact of eyesight-adjusting eyeglasses with the temple when the unit is superposedly mounted on the eyesight-adjusting eyeglasses; and an audio information output unit provided to the temple.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignees: Rohm Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Hosoi, Yoji Hosoi, Masashi Morimoto, Masahide Tanaka
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Patent number: 8886124Abstract: A relay device performs Near Field Communication with a terminal device that is a communication terminal device, and processes information received from the terminal device. A loop antenna receives radio waves from the terminal device; an NFC unit performs Near Field Communication with the terminal device via a loop antenna, and receives from the terminal device application identification information, which identifies an application that processes the information received from the terminal device. A controller acquires an application corresponding to the received application identification information, and causes the acquired application to run.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Tomoaki Ohira, Mitsuaki Oshima, Masaru Yamaoka, Michihiro Matsumoto, Toshiaki Ohnishi
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Patent number: 8879981Abstract: A communication relay apparatus transmits a list of external apparatuses connected to itself to a communication apparatus, and closes the first close proximity wireless communication. After the user designates one apparatus used to make a data communication from the list of external apparatuses in the communication apparatus, when the communication apparatus and communication relay apparatus are connected again in the close proximity wireless communication mode, the communication relay apparatus establishes a communication path between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus used to make the data communication. Then, when a communication is to be made with one of a plurality of external apparatuses connected to the communication relay apparatus via the communication relay apparatus, the communication partner apparatus can be easily selected.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2010Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shunji Fujita
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Patent number: 8880008Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna apparatus includes a leaky coaxial cable and a power supply apparatus. The power supply apparatus that provides a voltage for operating a mobile terminal receiving a radio wave radiated from the leaky coaxial cable when a high-frequency signal is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Gocho, Hiroki Mochizuki
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Patent number: 8874039Abstract: As a realistic alternative to traditional business cards for fast and flawless electronic exchange of contact data, a search for additional mobile telecommunication terminals within a predetermined range of a mobile telecommunication terminal is conducted using a wireless connection. When a second mobile telecommunication terminal is within the predetermined range, an identification element associated with the user of the additional mobile telecommunication terminal is loaded into memory of the first mobile telecommunication terminal and displayed together with a confirmation control element on a user interface of the first telecommunication terminal. Upon actuation the confirmation control element, presence of a consent element generated by the user of the second telecommunication terminal and associated with the user of the first telecommunication terminal is checked.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Moid GmbHInventors: Phillip Bellé, Dennis Pagano, Damir Ismailović
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Patent number: 8867992Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are discussed, by which if a situation recognized by contacting with an external NFC tag corresponds to a user-set situation, a function different from a function set in the external NFC tag is activated. The method can include setting a 1st operation to be performed in case of recognizing at least one external NFC tag and a 2nd operation to be performed in case of recognizing the external NFC tag in a specific situation, performing the 1st operation if the external NFC tag is recognized via an NFC module, and performing the 2nd operation if the external NFC tag is recognized in the specific situation via the NFC module.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jaehee Jung, Eunji Lee
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Patent number: 8868142Abstract: A mobile phone, including a processor operable to perform wireless communication, a housing for the processor, including front and back surfaces, a first display screen coupled with the processor and mounted on the outer side of the front surface, a second display screen coupled with the processor, separate from the first display screen, and a transparent portion on the outer side of the back surface through which the second display screen shows through to the outside of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Dov Moran, Eyal Bychkov, Itay Sherman, Uri Ron
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Patent number: 8862056Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication device including a wireless communication unit configured to receive application information, the application information indicating which of a content providing side or a content user side an application of each of one or more second wireless communication devices is, a setting unit configured to set a parameter indicating a priority to operate as a master unit in accordance with, among the wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device(s), a relationship between the number of providing devices whose applications are content providing sides and the number of user devices whose applications are content user sides, and a control unit configured to control a negotiation with at least one of the second wireless communication devices to determine a wireless communication device to operate as a master unit, using the parameter set by the setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Erika Saito, Hideyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 8855563Abstract: A terminal apparatus (M101) includes a terminal unit (M201) and a near-field communication unit (M107). The terminal unit (M201) includes a main memory (M106) that stores operation history information of the terminal apparatus (M101) and a controller (M105). The near-field communication unit (M107) includes a communication control unit (M216) that performs near-field communication with the mobile apparatus (M102) and a near-field communication memory (M215). The controller (M105) stores, in the near-field in communication memory (M215), at least a part of the operation history information stored in the main memory (M106) when a malfunction of the terminal unit (M201) is detected, and the communication control unit (M216) transmits the operation history information stored in the near-field communication memory (M215) is by near-field communication to the mobile apparatus (M102), in accordance with a request from the mobile apparatus (M102).Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Masaru Yamaoka, Michihiro Matsumoto, Shohji Ohtsubo, Masao Nonaka, Mitsuaki Oshima
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Patent number: 8855568Abstract: An arrangement for reducing unwanted effects of spurious signals from interference sources in telecommunications at radio frequencies. A communication unit transmits and receives information at radio frequency. Receivers receive the radio signals from the communication unit and for reflecting radio signals back. A control unit is adapted at least to switch the transmitter or receiver of the communication unit off substantially at the frequency of the spurious signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Marisense OyInventors: Gregory Alan Wright, Hannu Karhuketo
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Patent number: 8849202Abstract: The described embodiments include a system for communicating between electronic devices. During operation, a receiving electronic device receives a data channel protocol data unit (PDU) in a link layer of a Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) protocol stack. The receiving electronic device then reads a field in a header of the data channel PDU to determine if the header indicates that a payload of the data channel PDU contains audio data. When the header indicates that the payload of the data channel PDU contains audio data, the receiving electronic device is configured to send the audio data from the payload to an audio layer in the BTLE protocol stack for processing.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Joakim Linde, Brian J. Tucker
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Patent number: 8849198Abstract: A relay station 200 constructs an infrastructure wireless network 200L. A printing device 100 requests new participation in the wireless network 200L. When preset conditions are satisfied, for example, when the user has pressed a push button 201 provided on the relay station 200, the relay station 200 establishes temporary wireless communication with the printing device 100 and changes an SSID of the printing device 100 to an SSID of the relay station 200. In this manner, this arrangement readily changes the configuration information of the printing device 100.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Susumu Shiohara, Hitoshi Ishida, Tatsuya Kiyono
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Patent number: 8843076Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless communication over a beamformed communication link. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to establish at least one beamformed communication link for communication with at least one other wireless communication device, wherein the wireless communication unit is to measure a link maintenance time period corresponding to the beamformed communication link, and wherein the wireless communication unit is to attempt to restore the beamformed communication link upon expiration of the link maintenance time period. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Solomon Trainin, Assaf Kasher, Carlos Cordeiro
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Patent number: 8843077Abstract: A dynamic RF matrix emulator uses digital switching to emulate the switching behavior of hundreds of wireless terminals. The emulator includes a switching matrix with channels formed between terminal pairs, digital front ends for coupling terminals digitally to the switching matrix, and a channel database having entries representing attenuation values which can be changed in time, the attenuation values correlated with movement of vehicles provided by a traffic simulator. Channel behavior is defined by temporal attenuation values obtained from the database. The digital switching is controlled through a digital communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Autotalks Ltd.Inventor: Onn Haran
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Patent number: 8843178Abstract: A wireless hotspot device capable of sharing video picture includes a first control unit connected with a battery and a second control unit. The second control unit is connected with a wireless transmission unit and a high-definition multimedia interface transmission port. The second control unit via the high-definition multimedia interface transmission port is connected with an external terminal apparatus. By means of the wireless hotspot device, the picture of the screen of a mobile device connected with the wireless hotspot device can be synchronously displayed on the screen of the external terminal apparatus. Also, the wireless hotspot device can charge the mobile device or other mobile device at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Gigastone America CorpInventor: John Wong
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Patent number: 8838175Abstract: A signal transmission channel using a SIW between a transmitter and distant receiver. The SIW may include a MSL/SIW interface, be flexible, may use plug connections and/or may operate in a MMW band.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yaqiong Zhang, Xiaobing Sun, Yugang Ma
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Patent number: 8831695Abstract: A portable terminal comprises: a base; first and second bodies each connected to the base so as to perform a sliding motion; and an interworking module configured to connect the first and second bodies to each other, for sliding the second body in an opposite direction to a sliding direction of the first body by interworking the second body with sliding of the first body.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Byoung-Cheon Jeong, Hyo-Sung Park
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Patent number: 8824972Abstract: A radio station connected to another radio station via a radio link and identifying a fault of the radio link, including: a radio link controlling unit, a statistical information acquiring unit and a fault identifying unit wherein the radio link controlling unit executes radio link control of the radio link in accordance with a radio link control scheme, the statistical information acquiring unit acquires statistical information indicating a state of the radio link during the execution of the radio link control, and the fault identifying unit identifies the fault of the radio link from among a plurality of faults associated with statistical information, on the basis of the statistical information acquired by the statistical information acquiring unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Seijiro Yoneyama, Akira Ichie