Patents Examined by Ralph H Justus
  • Patent number: 9755676
    Abstract: A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing, a wireless receiver carried by the housing and configured to receive communication signals over a wireless frequency range, a wireline transmitter carried by the housing and configured to transmit communication signals overlapping in frequency with the wireless frequency range, and a controller carried by the housing and coupled with the wireless receiver and the wireline transmitter. The controller may be configured to determine when the wireless receiver is to begin receiving and, based thereon, switch the wireline transmitter to a suspended communication mode during which transmission is disabled. The controller may also be configured to determine when the wireless receiver has completed receiving and, based thereon, switch the wireline transmitter to a normal communication mode in which transmission is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Brynn King, Lizhong Zhu, Mingchang Wang, Michael Stephen Corrigan, Chengzhi Wang
  • Patent number: 9756454
    Abstract: An personal portable communication device and system is provided which includes a handheld beacon that has a controller, a short range signal transmitter, and a power source, and at least one switch, an indicator light and a short range signal receiver that transmits and receives signals to a secondary relay communication device such as a smartphone wherein the secondary device sends second communication signals including messages according to predetermined instructions to predetermined destinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SILENT BEACON, LLC
    Inventor: Kenny Kelley
  • Patent number: 9729998
    Abstract: A method and apparatus associated with one or more wearable devices for a user includes utilizing the one or more wearable devices, for a set of functionality, in a first configuration by the user, wherein the user is in a specific role; communicating data, in a Personal Area Network (PAN), between the one or more wearable devices and between a mobile device associated with the user; and providing information to a recommendation engine, wherein the information is related to the specific role, the set of functionality, and the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Stuart S Kreitzer, Jesus F Corretjer
  • Patent number: 9729423
    Abstract: A multi-sector antenna system is disclosed that includes two or more flat panel antennas facing different directions and configured to communicate with two separate sites using millimeter wave RF signals. A processing module is communicatively coupled to each of the flat panel antennas. In some embodiments, the processing module may be configured to receive incoming RF signals from a first site via a first flat panel antenna, convert the incoming RF signals to outgoing RF signals, and transmit the outgoing RF signals to a second site via the second flat panel antenna. The flat panel antennas may be configured to transmit and receive RF signals at frequencies in the range of about 57 GHz to 86 GHz. The multi-sector antenna system may be utilized in a mesh network system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Tinoco, Terry McManus
  • Patent number: 9723571
    Abstract: An information format and apparatus used by a base station to make a scheduling decision when the base station allocates resources to a terminal in a mobile communication system are provided. Operations of a terminal to report a maximum transmission power accurately to the base station in a scheduling process are also provided. A method for calculating a maximum transmit power in a constant manner regardless of a channel status is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Soo Jeong, Soeng Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 9723471
    Abstract: Triggering an event of interest in a mobile device based on communications established with nearby wireless devices can include receiving a challenge of the event of interest; obtaining a corresponding expression of a combination key with reference to the event in response to the challenge; receiving an identified data of the wireless devices in the vicinity of the mobile device; comparing the identified data with the expression to determine if the expression is a true value; and executing the event of interest in response to the true value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li-Ju Chen, Wei-Hsiang Hsiung, Rick M. F. Wu, Ming-Hsun Wu
  • Patent number: 9723435
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for transferring a file from a sending wireless device to a receiving wireless device in a short-range wireless system. A file to be sent to the receiving wireless device is selected on the sending wireless device. The sending wireless device has a device list of receiving wireless devices. If the receiving wireless device is absent on the device list, the sending wireless device searches and identifies new devices. A device among the identified new devices is selected as the receiving wireless device. A connection is established between the sending wireless device and the receiving wireless device; and the file is sent to the receiving wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Bukurak, Przemyslaw Abratowski, Kem-Laurin Kramer
  • Patent number: 9706923
    Abstract: A system includes wireless sensor devices monitoring a patient, a gateway device providing dual-frequency adaptive protocol time synchronization signals to the sensor devices, the time synchronization signals including a communication frame structure having time slots including two beacon signal time slots and a plurality of data slots, where the sensor devices transmit respective patient data a first time interleaved within a first data slot and a second time interleaved within a second data slot, the first interleaved data transmission and the second interleaved data transmission are each transmitted at respective different frequencies provided to the sensor devices in beacon signals received from the gateway device. The first interleaved data transmission includes both current data and previous data from the at least two wireless sensor devices, and a frequency agility pattern separates adjacent channels by a respective predetermined frequency offset. A method and non-transitory medium are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stanislava Soro, David Michael Davenport, Steven William Wik, S M Shajedul Hasan
  • Patent number: 9698996
    Abstract: Information is acquired from a geographically-distributed sensor network using a scalable wireless geocast protocol. Geographically distributed networks of unattended sensors are placed at desired locations to collect various types of information, such as, for example, environmental parameters, temperature, humidity, rainfall, heat signatures, video, audio, seismic activity, and/or wind conditions. To acquire information, a query is provided to the geographic area at which the sensors are located utilizing the geocast protocol. Delivery of the query is based on a physical location of a region in which a sensor network is located, the type of information being queried, and/or temporal conditions. Each sensor that receives a query determines if all requirements/conditions are satisfied. If so, the query is accepted and processed by the recipient sensor, and responded to accordingly. Responses to queries are provided via the geocast protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert J. Hall
  • Patent number: 9678123
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) measurement system acting as a spectrum analyzer and a method of operating the same eliminates image signals from a detected input RF spectrum. The method includes determining at least three local oscillator (LO) frequencies; determining LO offsets between the LO frequencies; and mixing the LO frequencies with the input RF spectrum to provide corresponding intermediate frequency (IF) signals having an IF bandwidth, where at least one of the IF signals has the input RF spectrum mixed to a different portion of the IF bandwidth than at least one other of the IF signals, providing overlapping coverage. The method further includes acquiring ADC time records for the IF signals; performing Fourier transforms (FTs) on the ADC time records to provide IF spectrums; and detecting RF responses from the IF spectrums to determine an RF response trace corresponding to the input RF spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel P. Dunsmore, Jean-Pierre Teyssier, Jad Faraj, James B. Kerr
  • Patent number: 9641227
    Abstract: A transceiver for near field communication may include: a resonance circuit coupled between a first node and a second node, the resonance circuit having a resonance frequency and being configured to emit an electromagnetic wave to communicate data with an external device; a first capacitor coupled between the first node and a third node; a second capacitor coupled between the second node and a fourth node; and/or a filter coupled among a first transmission electrode, a second transmission electrode, the third node, and the fourth node in an asymmetrical structure to provide a first frequency response and a second frequency response to the first transmission electrode and the second transmission electrode, respectively, the first frequency response being different from the second frequency response, the filter being configured to receive the data through the first transmission electrode and the second transmission electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong-Taek Moon, Il-Jong Song
  • Patent number: 9595988
    Abstract: A communication device is described comprising a plurality of receive paths, wherein each of the plurality of receive paths is configured to extract a multipath component of a received signal, a determiner configured to determine whether at least two of the plurality of receive paths fulfil a mutual interference correlation criterion among the plurality of receive paths and a processor configured, if at least two of the plurality of receive paths fulfil the interference correlation criterion among the plurality of receive paths, to determine the sent signal based on canceling or mitigating the interference between the multipath components of the received signal extracted by the at least two receive paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Umer Salim, Markus Jordan, Tobias Scholand, Jean-Xavier Canonici, Michael Speth
  • Patent number: 9577683
    Abstract: Example apparatuses and methods for cancellation of transmitter self-interference leakage in a transceiver are described. An example transceiver includes a multiport transformer that may be used as a part of the impedance matching network on the receiver side of the transceiver. One primary port of the multiport transformer may form a portion of a cancellation circuit that, along with other components in a cancellation path, provide amplitude and/or phase modulation to a cancellation signal. The cancellation circuit may tunable and may include only reactive components in some examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: University of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization
    Inventors: Jacques Christophe Rudell, Tong Zhang, Apsara Ravish Suvarna
  • Patent number: 9571165
    Abstract: Near Field Communication (NFC) supports server information handling system management through communication between a mobile information handling system and a baseboard management controller. Enhanced transfer by NFC of management information is provided by manipulating the NFC tag memory assigned for information transfer with the aid of a microcontroller coordinating NFC transfers at the baseboard management controller, such as with coordinated storage operations at a tag memory an supporting processors/microcontrollers. The microcontroller manages tag memory and/or system memory so that the portable information handling system writes and reads information beyond the capabilities of unaided tag memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shawn J. Dube, Syed S. Ahmed
  • Patent number: 9554265
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention, methods and systems for facilitating data communication are presented. Requests to communicate data are received that include data indicative of a location of a target remote mobile computing device. A location to be searched for a target devices is determined, and location-based data of mobile devices is accessed. Potential target mobile devices are identified and data consistent with the request is sent to one or more potential targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Inventor: Seth A. Rudin
  • Patent number: 9532370
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of controlling communications of a multi-radio device. For example, a multi-radio device may include a first radio to communicate over a first wireless network; a first controller to control the first radio; a second radio to communicate over a second wireless network; a second controller to control the second radio; and an interface to communicate signaling messages between the first and second controllers, wherein the first controller is to send to the second controller a request to transmit, the request to transmit indicating a request to allow the first radio to transmit over the first wireless network, and wherein the second controller is to assert a transmit-allowed signal over the interface to indicate that the request to transmit is granted, or to de-assert the transmit-allowed signal to indicate that the request to transmit is denied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Assi Jakoby, Keren Dor, Dor Chay, Dongsheng Bi, Itzik Shahar, Bruno Jechoux, Ido Ouzieli
  • Patent number: 9525441
    Abstract: Techniques for noise reduction are described herein. The techniques include an apparatus for noise reduction including a voltage tuner to adjust a voltage swing for a signal line in a differential signal line pair. The apparatus may also include a timing module to adjust a timing skew between the differential signal line pair, wherein the voltage swing and timing skew adjustment introduce a common mode noise in the differential signal line pair to reduce a radio frequency interference (RFI) noise coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Hao J. Chen, Howard L. Heck, Pujitha Davuluri, Hao-Han Hsu
  • Patent number: 9515606
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided with an oscillator including: a clock circuit, a power supply current source and an oscillating circuit wherein the clock circuit generates a clock signal, the power supply current source generates a power supply current according to the clock signal, and the oscillating circuit generates an oscillation signal of a higher frequency than a frequency of the clock signal based on the power supply current and a received signal from an input terminal, the received signal having amplitude of a predetermined level or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Umeda, Shoji Otaka
  • Patent number: 9491706
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure teach decreasing, in a time-averaged regime, the amount of RF energy emitted by a communications device. Generally speaking, the network tells the communications device what power level it should transmit at. If, however, the device determines that it would exceed an emission standard by transmitting at the specified power level for as long as it needs to in order to carry out its transmission duties, then the device can instead decide to transmit at a lower power level. Alternatively (or in combination), the device can, instead of transmitting all the time while it has data to send, only transmit intermittently. In either case, the emitted electromagnetic energy, as averaged over a period of time, is reduced below the maximum allowed by the standard. Later, if possible and necessary, the device can again transmit at a higher power level or more frequently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Dean E. Thorson, Steve R. Hauswirth, Eric L. Krenz, Paul J. Moller
  • Patent number: 9467795
    Abstract: A method and apparatus associated with one or more wearable devices for a user includes utilizing the one or more wearable devices, for a set of functionality, in a first configuration by the user, wherein the user is in a specific role; communicating data, in a Personal Area Network (PAN), between the one or more wearable devices and between a mobile device associated with the user; and providing information to a recommendation engine, wherein the information is related to the specific role, the set of functionality, and the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Stuart S Kreitzer, Jesus F Corretjer