Patents Examined by Quan M Hua
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Patent number: 10313847Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to generate a first Short Message Service (SMS) message, which includes a first Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message configured to initiate or end a media session that is supported by a control channel and a media channel; transmit, via non-access stratum as the control channel in response to the generation, the first SMS message that includes the first SIP message to a server via a mobility management entity; establish, subsequent to the transmission, an end-to-end connection for the media session using a bearer as the media channel when the first SIP message is configured to initiate the media session; and end, subsequent to the transmission, the media session, when the first SIP message is configured to end the media session.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Priscilla Lau, Rezwanul Azim, Wing-Cheong V. Yeung, Suzann Hua
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Patent number: 10302738Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for obtaining a range between devices based, at least in part, on an exchange of wireless messages. For example, wireless devices may obtain measurements of range based, at least in part, on an exchange fine timing measurement (FTM) messages. In one implementation, a subsequent FTM message transmitted in response to an FTM request message may comprise at least one field indicating a time of transmission of a previous FTM message and a time of receipt of an acknowledgement message transmitted in response to the previous FTM message.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Santosh Vamaraju, Carlos Horacio Aldana
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Patent number: 10264529Abstract: An application configured to provide a service using a particular type of sensor data can be executed by a first mobile device. The application attempting to access the particular type of sensor data from the first mobile device can be detected. Responsive to detecting the application attempting to access the particular type of sensor data from the first mobile device, the first mobile device can receive first sensor data from at least a second mobile device via at least a first low energy communication link, wherein the first sensor data received from the second mobile device is the particular type of sensor data the application is attempting to access, and the first mobile device can execute program code configured to provide the particular type of sensor data, and providing the first sensor data received from the second mobile device to the application.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Catherine H. Crawford, Shahrokh Daijavad, Nirmit V. Desai, Scott D. Lekuch
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Patent number: 10264137Abstract: A system to control usage of a subscription in a mobile device comprising: a plurality of subscriptions of at least two or more mobile networks; a subscription profile associated with each subscription; a UICC/eUICC/USIM/SIM card capable of switching among different networks; an applet running on the said SIM card; a server which communicates with the said mobile device through a network interface; a server process which stores identity and network related data of each subscription profile; stores network territory and coverage map; stores history of network drops and subscription profile switch events; stores quota-price-validity-bandwidth attached to each subscription profile; connects to the networks providing the subscription profile periodically, to retrieve, calculate and store actual usage and outstanding quota and validity for SMS, data and minutes for each subscription profile; connects to the SIM applet to receive information from the applet about network loss and network coverage; determines and stType: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Sensorise Digital Services Pvt. Ltd.Inventors: Jonas Haggard, Sharad Arora
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Patent number: 10257776Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method of performing a cell search by user equipment (UE). The method includes receiving a signal from the base station. The method includes estimating a fractional frequency offset (FFO) along with a coarse timing using a cyclic prefix (CP) in the received signal. The method includes compensating the received signal with the estimated FFO. Further, the method includes applying a correlation on the compensated received signal with each of a plurality of primary synchronization signals (PSSs) generated by the UE. Furthermore, the method includes determining a plurality of cell search parameters based on the applied correlation.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, HyderabadInventors: Kiran Kumar Kuchi, Sriharsha Magani Ramarao, Sreekanth Dama
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Patent number: 10250405Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system comprising: a networking device, a storage, and a proxy server, wherein the proxy server is configured to identify a first group of contents from first data received from a content server, to modify the first data to generate second data by replacing the first group of contents with labels, and to transmit the second data to the networking device; wherein the networking device is configured to read the labels in the second data, to request contents from the storage based on the labels, to replace the labels with the contents received from the storage to generate third data, to transmit the third data to a mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Inventor: Tong Wei
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Patent number: 10237687Abstract: Various techniques are provided that may be implemented at one or more of a plurality of co-located mobile devices. For example, a first mobile device may identify a plurality of signal acquisition tasks, transmit a request indicative of a subset of the plurality of signal acquisition tasks to be performed by a second mobile device, and receive a response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Weihua Gao, Benjamin A. Werner
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Patent number: 10237680Abstract: Technology described herein provides carrier-monitoring (CM) signaling approaches that can be used by networks and/or mobile devices. An evolved Node B (eNB) can send an IncMon-support message indicating whether a network supports the increased-number-of-frequencies-to-monitor (IncMon) feature. A UE can apply a default CM configuration if the UE does not receive an IncMon-support message from the eNB. The eNB can use dedicated signaling or broadcast signaling to inform a UE of a default CM configuration or one or more adopted CM configurations that are used in the network. The eNB can also send a list of carriers that are to be monitored to the UE. The UE can also send UE-capability information to the eNB, such as a default CM configuration, an adopted CM configuration, or configurable configurations in different radio access technologies (RATs) supported by the UE.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Candy Yiu, Yang Tang, Hyung-Nam Choi, Richard Burbidge, Youn Hyoung Heo
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Patent number: 10237817Abstract: A system and method of locating a wireless connection among a plurality of possible wireless connections. More particularly, a system and method of locating a user preferred wireless connection among a plurality of possible wireless connections. The method includes scanning for available networks and determining whether the available networks satisfy one or more user preferences. The method further includes establishing a secondary network connection with one of the available networks based on one or more user preferences being satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Dawson, Peter G. Finn, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Jenny S. Li
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Patent number: 10219109Abstract: Provided is a computer implemented method for a vehicle used in a car share journey to access priority parking spaces in a carpark. The method includes the step of obtaining location and time data for a mobile electronic device of a user/driver of the vehicle and for a mobile electronic device of at least one other user. From this data, it is determined that the two devices are in close proximity to each other for a predetermined time and/or over a predetermined distance thereby inferring that the two users are sharing the vehicle. When one or both of the devices are detected as having reached a location on or within a boundary of a geo-fence associated with the carpark, data is communicated to a system or device of a third party associated with the carpark to alert the third party and/or provide the third party with data indicative of an identity of the vehicle and/or its driver to enable the driver to access carparking spaces allocated to car share vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Inventors: Tony Lynch, Francois Planke, Lewis Kite
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Patent number: 10219240Abstract: A method and system for enabling a User Equipment (UE) to quickly recover back to normal service on failure of registration attempt to a selected Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell or loss of coverage of the selected CSG cell is provided. The method provides a UE behavior during manual CSG selection mode when the selected CSG cell is associated with a different Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) than the Registered PLMN (RPLMN) of the UE. The method also defines the UE actions to handle a user request to change a current Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) selection mode and handle expiry of a Home PLMN (HPLMN) timer in the UE, when the UE is attached to the selected CSG cell in the manual CSG selection mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dandra Prasad Basavaraj, Pavan Kumar Devarayanigari, Jaya Prakash, Nitesh Pushpak Shah, Prakash Rao, Srinivas Chinthalapudi, Vijay Ganesh Surisetty
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Patent number: 10206094Abstract: A user equipment (UE) context migration management method applied to a mobile edge platform (MEP) for managing a UE context of a mobile communication device is provided. An embodiment includes: receiving a migration completion indication of a mobile communication device; obtaining source platform information corresponding to the mobile communication device according to the migration completion indication, wherein the source platform information at least includes a location information of a source MEP; and transmitting a first request to the source MEP according to the source platform information to obtain an pointer information of the UE context of the mobile communication device from the source MEP, wherein the pointer information at least indicates a location where the UE context of the mobile communication device locates and the location information of the source MEP.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Kuo-Wei Wen, Chun-Chieh Wang, Jian-Hao Chen
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Patent number: 10191137Abstract: Systems and methods for beacon device fleet management are provided. One example system includes a plurality of beacon devices, a plurality of mobile computing devices, a fleet management system, and a fleet owner computing devices. One example method includes receiving, by the fleet management system, a device status request from the fleet owner computing device. The fleet management system determines one or more operational statuses of beacon devices owned by the fleet owner and transmits data indicative of the one or more operational statuses to the fleet owner computing device. The operational statuses can include a current detection status (e.g., online or offline), a location status, a power source status, and/or other operational parameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Mark William Weaver, Peter Sasaki, Jonathan Robert Morace, Salvatore Scellato
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Patent number: 10171976Abstract: A remote location monitoring arrangement within a wireless communication network. The monitoring arrangement comprises a tracking device for securing to an object. The monitoring arrangement further comprises one or more sentinel devices arranged within at least one of (i) around a boundary area or (ii) within the boundary area, wherein the boundary area is an area in which a user wishes the object to remain. The monitoring arrangement also comprises a monitoring device in communication with at least one of (i) the one or more sentinel devices or (ii) the tracking device such that at least one of (i) at least one of the one or more sentinel devices or (ii) the tracking device alerts the monitoring device over the wireless communication network that (i) the tracking device has left the boundary area or (ii) another object has entered the boundary areas.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Eric W. Yocam, Ahmad Arash Obaidi
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Patent number: 10168415Abstract: A position determining device is configured to determine the position of a portable device configured to receive one or more radio signals transmitted from one or more antennas inside a vehicle, respectively. The position determining device includes a processor configured to determine the open or closed state of a door of the vehicle for getting in and out of the vehicle, calculate an evaluation value related to the position of the portable device based on the received signal strength of the one or more radio signals at the portable device, and determine that the portable device is positioned inside the vehicle when the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined condition. The processor is configured to change at least one of the predetermined condition and a method of calculating the evaluation value in accordance with the determined open or closed state of the door.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Mikihiko Kanaga
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Patent number: 10159008Abstract: In this example, a method and an AP for positioning a terminal are provided. And wherein, when receiving a probe request sent by a terminal, the AP determines whether the terminal is a non-associated terminal or not according to acquired terminal status information. When determining the terminal as a non-associated terminal, the AP may measure round trip time (RTT) for the terminal. The AP may send the measurement result to a server, so that the server may position the terminal according to the measurement result.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hua Li
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Patent number: 10159035Abstract: Method, systems, and apparatuses are described for discovery operations in a millimeter wave wireless communication system. A first base station of the millimeter wave wireless communication system may determine a timing parameter and a propagation parameter associated with a second base station of the millimeter wave wireless communication system. The first base station may perform a discovery procedure with the second base station based at least in part on the timing parameter and the propagation parameter. At least a portion of the discovery procedure may be performed wirelessly via the millimeter wave wireless communication system. The first base station may establish a backhaul communication link with the second base station based on the discovery procedure.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Sundar Subramanian, Ashwin Sampath, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 10149107Abstract: A method and apparatus for estimating a position of a terminal is provided. The method and apparatus include a technique for a sensor network, a machine to machine (M2M), a machine type communication (MTC), and Internet of things (IoT), and may be used for intelligent services based on the technique (smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail industry, and security and safety related services). The method includes identifying direction information of a received signal if setting up connection between a terminal and an access point (AP), receiving information about a barometric pressure sensor from the terminal, and calculating the position of the terminal based on the direction information and the information about the barometric pressure sensor of the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: In-Hak Na, Sang-Jun Moon, Sin-Seok Seo, Sang-Hyun Chang, Dae-Kyu Choi
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Patent number: 10149104Abstract: Multi-antenna container node implemented methods, apparatus and systems are described that can locate a package ID node within a logistics container and communicate with a master node outside the container. The container node's controller may generate a location control message related to the package ID node and send it to one of the node's transceivers. That transceiver may select different subsets of its antenna elements to receive an inbound wireless signal from the package ID node in response to the location control message, and detect reception information about what was received for each of the subsets before providing that detected reception information to the container node controller. The controller then determines a location of the package ID node relative to the logistics container based upon the detected reception information, and then another separate transceiver of the container node transmits a location determination message to the master node.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.Inventor: Ole-Petter Skaaksrud
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Patent number: 10149237Abstract: A system and method of locating a wireless connection among a plurality of possible wireless connections. More particularly, a system and method of locating a user preferred wireless connection among a plurality of possible wireless connections. The method includes scanning for available networks and determining whether the available networks satisfy one or more user preferences. The method further includes establishing a secondary network connection with one of the available networks based on one or more user preferences being satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Dawson, Peter G. Finn, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Jenny S. Li