Patents Examined by Qutbuddin Ghulamali
  • Patent number: 11570701
    Abstract: A network search method includes presetting, by a terminal device, a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) and a networking mode associated with the PLMN, searching, by the terminal device based on a geographical location to obtain PLMN information of a current geographical location, determining, by the terminal device based on the preset PLMN and the networking mode associated with the PLMN, a current networking mode of the terminal device, and switching, by the terminal device, the networking mode based on a geographical location, signal strength, and a system message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenrong Wei, Li Shen, Hui Jin, Hao Song, Yanzhao He
  • Patent number: 11560677
    Abstract: A sign comprising a substrate having a planar sign face and an opposing planar back face having peripheral side edges; a recessed portion formed within said substrate having an opening and a bottom, and side walls; a RFID tag assembly having a metal shielding sheet, said RFID tag assembly having a mounting substrate, a double-sided adhesive sheet with one side adhered to a metal shielding sheet and an opposing side adhered to said bottom of said recessed portion; a retroreflective sheeting having a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheeting for application over said RFID tag assembly to hermetically seal said RFID tag assembly within said recessed portion; a translucent vinyl backed material with primary indicia applied to said retroreflective sheeting; and a label with secondary indicia applied to said back face via label adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SMART INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE APPLICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Dominic Mangialardi
  • Patent number: 11560791
    Abstract: A unified mud-pulse (MP)-electromagnetic (EM) telemetry assembly and a downhole telemetry tool are provided including a downhole EM telemetry transmitter apparatus. The EM telemetry transmitter apparatus comprises a modulator configured to transmit at least one EM signal through transmission medium. The modulator comprises a first reactive circuit and a second reactive circuit, and a plurality of switches controlled by a controller to alternatingly switch the modulator between a first configuration and a second configuration. The EM signals are transmitted by passing one of the reactive circuits and bypassing the other reactive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MWDPlanet and Lumen Corporation
    Inventors: Borys Kucherenko, Mariya Kucherenko, Derek Belle
  • Patent number: 11558730
    Abstract: A solution for providing user equipment (UE) location information during an emergency call (e.g., an E911 call) includes: detecting an emergency call originating from the UE; determining a location of the UE; based on at least detecting the emergency call originating from the UE, transmitting the location of the UE across a cellular network to an emergency monitoring node (e.g., a public safety answering points (PSAP) and/or a gateway mobile location center (GMLC)); and based on at least detecting the emergency call originating from the UE, transmitting the location of the UE across a packet data network (e.g., the internet, using a data plan) to the emergency monitoring node. This provides an alternate path for the location information, and some examples use a larger set of location information sources. In some examples, during the emergency call, based on available battery power, the UE location information may be updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11557203
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit selects at least one instant message as a selected message from one or more instant messages transmitted and received between terminal devices including a first terminal device. The control unit selects the selected message based on at least one of pick-up time and drop-off time of a vehicle picking up and dropping off a first user of the first terminal device. The control unit determines evaluation of a service provided in the vehicle based on the selected message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daiki Kaneichi
  • Patent number: 11553556
    Abstract: This disclosure is related to a procedure to provide emergency services support for a UE which does not have a valid subscription for the serving PLMN. This disclosure more specifically provides procedure to support IMS emergency call or eCall support for a UE which is in limited state on a E-UTRA cell is connected to both EPC and 5GCN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kundan Tiwari, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11548525
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a notification of control authority transition in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a speaker configured to output a sound notification, a vibration motor configured to output a vibration notification, and a control circuit configured to be electrically connected with the speaker and the vibration motor. The control circuit is configured to output a first notification using the speaker during a first time interval, when a situation to transfer control authority for the vehicle occurs, output a second notification using the speaker and the vibration motor during a second time interval, after the first time interval elapses, and output a third notification using the speaker and the vibration motor during a third time interval, after the second time interval elapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Wook Seo, Jin Su Jeong
  • Patent number: 11553303
    Abstract: The vehicle control system includes a first position measuring unit measuring a position of a mobile terminal by performing first position measuring processing, a second position measuring unit measuring a position of the mobile terminal by performing second position measuring processing having less power consumption in a vehicle by wireless communication than that of the first position measuring processing, and a position measurement control unit handling, as monitoring areas, a first area outside the vehicle and a second area outside the first area and, if the position of the mobile terminal is within the second area, continuing measurement of a position of the mobile terminal by the second position measuring unit, and, after the position of the mobile terminal comes into the first area, switching to measurement of a position of the mobile terminal by the first position measuring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hasegawa, Fumiaki Yamaguchi, Yusuke Takahashi, Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto
  • Patent number: 11546735
    Abstract: A method and wireless devices (WDs) for geo-location of wireless devices are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method in a first WD includes: transmitting a sequence of ranging signals and receiving a plurality of ranging response signals from a second WD, the ranging response signals being responsive to the ranging signals. For each of the plurality of ranging response signals, a received sequence of bits is determined. A correlation between the received sequence of bits and an expected sequence of bits is determined. The method also includes determining a subset of the plurality of received sequences of bits deemed not to arise from noise, and determining the subset being based at least in part on the correlations. The method also includes determining a distance between the first WD and the second WD based at least in part on a plurality of received sequences in the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SR Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Passler, Graham K. Smith, Ryan Busser, Olivia Fernandez, Steven Romanow
  • Patent number: 11539571
    Abstract: IQ impairments compensation in sub-terahertz (sub-THz) communication is disclosed. According to some aspects, a user equipment (UE) determines an estimated in-phase (I) and quadrature phase (Q) impairment of the UE, the IQ impairment of the UE comprising a mismatch of phase and/or amplitude, between an I path and a Q path within an analog receiver circuitry of the UE, and reports the estimated IQ impairment of the UE to a base station (BS). The BS determines a pre-compensation to compensate for the estimated IQ impairment of the UE and uses the determined pre-compensation when transmitting to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: David Yunusov, Shay Landis, Idan Michael Horn
  • Patent number: 11518403
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a notification of control authority transition in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a speaker configured to output a sound notification, a vibration motor configured to output a vibration notification, and a control circuit configured to be electrically connected with the speaker and the vibration motor. The control circuit is configured to output a first notification using the speaker during a first time interval, when a situation to transfer control authority for the vehicle occurs, output a second notification using the speaker and the vibration motor during a second time interval, after the first time interval elapses, and output a third notification using the speaker and the vibration motor during a third time interval, after the second time interval elapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Wook Seo, Jin Su Jeong
  • Patent number: 11514768
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an EAS detection system. The methods comprise: detecting an Active Security Tag (“AST”) in an EAS detection zone; determining whether AST is coupled to an object identified in a list; and performing operations when a determination is made that AST is coupled to a listed object. The operations involve: accessing sensor data generated by at least one sensor device disposed on/near display equipment associated with the listed object; processing the sensor data to determine whether a person was within a defined distance range of AST during a period of time immediately preceding the detecting; concluding that a false alarm scenario exists when the sensor data indicates that a person was not within the defined distance range of AST during the period of time; and suppressing alarm issuance by the EAS detection system in response to the false alarm scenario conclusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Glen Ouellette, John C. Y. Huang, Steve E. Trivelpiece, Ian Westmacott
  • Patent number: 11515875
    Abstract: A device, comprising: a pair of force sensors located for detecting a user squeeze input; and a controller operable in a squeeze detection operation to detect the user squeeze input based on a cross-correlation between respective sensor signals originating from the pair of force sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo Peso Parada, Tom Birchall, Hamid Sepehr
  • Patent number: 11507793
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for managing baggage and a method for managing baggage with which improved usability can be obtained. In order to solve the problem, an apparatus for managing baggage is provided with: a reader unit which reads tag information of a wireless tag attached to a baggage; a storage unit in which the tag information read by the reader unit is stored; and a control unit which makes a determination of a forgotten baggage by comparing the tag information stored in the storage unit with tag information newly read by the reader unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Suzuki, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Shigetaka Kimura, Shinji Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11498571
    Abstract: A road surface state estimation device includes a tire-side device and a vehicle-body-side system. The tire-side device is disposed in a tire. The vehicle-body-side system is disposed in a vehicle body. The tire-side device outputs a detection signal corresponding to a magnitude of vibration of the tire, generates road surface data based on the detection signal, and performs data communication with the vehicle-body-side system. The vehicle-body-side system acquires information related to the road surface state, performs the data communication with the tire-side device, transmits vehicle-body-side information indicating that the change in the road surface state occurs to the tire-side device when determining that a change in the road surface state occurs based on the information related to the road surface state, and estimates the road surface state based on the road surface data received by the second transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takatoshi Sekizawa
  • Patent number: 11496866
    Abstract: A locating and communication method for a radio terminal by means of a satellite locating and communication system, which implements a first step, in the course of which the radio terminal transmits to a non-geostationary satellite a repeating sequence a predetermined number of times N for the same data packet, which is time-shifted by the same predetermined time shift ?? each time is provided. Subsequently, a satellite access and processing ground station determines the location of the radio terminal from the data packets with access, which are extracted from a listening signal digitized and dated by the satellite and from the same detected sequence associated with said radio terminal, and from the ephemerides of the satellite by using a technique for measuring angle or angles of arrival by means of sequenced interferometry associated with a technique for measuring Doppler drift or drifts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Christian Peyrotte, Shadi Khureim Castiglioni, Nicolas Van Wambeke
  • Patent number: 11490244
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a mobility information reporting and exchange method, a terminal device, and a network device. The mobility information reporting method includes obtaining mobility information, where the mobility information includes at least one of geographical location information of the terminal device, time information corresponding to the geographical location information, and identification information of the terminal device, and reporting the mobility information to the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yumin Wu
  • Patent number: 11485381
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a notification of control authority transition in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a speaker configured to output a sound notification, a vibration motor configured to output a vibration notification, and a control circuit configured to be electrically connected with the speaker and the vibration motor. The control circuit is configured to output a first notification using the speaker during a first time interval, when a situation to transfer control authority for the vehicle occurs, output a second notification using the speaker and the vibration motor during a second time interval, after the first time interval elapses, and output a third notification using the speaker and the vibration motor during a third time interval, after the second time interval elapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Wook Seo, Jin Su Jeong
  • Patent number: 11484264
    Abstract: A fabric-based item may be provide with a stretchable band. The stretchable band may be formed from a ring-shaped strip of stretchable fabric having an opening configured to fit around a body part of a user. Circuitry may be coupled to strands of material in the stretchable band. The circuitry may include sensor circuitry for making measurements on the body part such as electrocardiogram measurements, blood pressure measurements, and respiration rate measurements. Wireless communications circuitry in the fabric-based item may be used to communicate wirelessly with external electronic equipment. A wireless power transmitting device may transmit wireless power. A coil formed from conductive strands in the fabric-based item may be used by wireless power receiving circuitry in the fabric-based item to receive the wireless power. The coil may have one or more turns that run around the ring-shaped strip of stretchable fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven J. Keating, Daniel D. Sunshine, Benjamin J. Grena, Daniel A. Podhajny, Jerzy S. Guterman, Jessica J. Lu, David M. Kindlon
  • Patent number: 11463841
    Abstract: Computer-based systems and methods provide location, information and call tracking, and the reporting, evaluation and transmission of required information in event of emergencies or violations to students, which systems and methods are monitored and controlled by a centralized authority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Student Ally, Inc.
    Inventor: Alex Romano