Patents Examined by Ronald Eisner
  • Patent number: 12114396
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. In addition, various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible. The electronic device includes a communication module, a processor operatively connected with the communication module, and a memory operatively connected with the processor. The memory includes instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the processor to receive information associated with a SIM of another electronic device from the other electronic device via the communication module, receive a user input requesting a voice call for a first SIM of the other electronic device, and transmit a message requesting a voice call for a second SIM of the other electronic device to an IMS server via the communication module based on the information associated with the SIM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Woojun Choi
  • Patent number: 12101674
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a switching method, an indication method, a terminal, and a network side device. The switching method applied to the terminal comprises: executing a switching command sent by the network side device; and in the case that switching fails and the terminal is configured with conditional switching, executing a conditional switching process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang Xie, Guangyi Liu
  • Patent number: 12088743
    Abstract: A foldable terminal structure and a mobile terminal are provided. The foldable terminal structure includes a main body with a first folding member, a second folding member and a connecting mechanism, and a flexible screen assembly that is disposed on a side of the main body. The connecting mechanism includes: a first support plate slidably connected to the first folding member; a second support plate slidably connected to the second folding member; a connecting rod fixing assembly rotatably connected to the first support plate and the second support plate, respectively, and constructed such that when the main body is unfolded, surfaces of the first support plate, the second support plate, and the connecting rod fixing assembly for supporting the flexible screen assembly are located in the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jian Ma, Shoujun Cai
  • Patent number: 12082044
    Abstract: An architecture for facilitating smart physical cell identity (PCI) configuration for aerial network equipment that can used in terrestrial 4G and/or 5G LTE wireless networking paradigms. A method can comprise: receiving, from core network equipment, an instruction to travel from a first geographic location to a second geographic location, wherein the second geographic location has been determined, by the core network equipment, as representing a hotspot location; traveling from the first geographic location to the hotspot location; based on crossing a boundary associated with the hotspot location, initiating execution of a user equipment relay process that transitions the aerial user equipment from being user equipment to being aerial network equipment; and transmitting to the core network equipment that the user equipment relay process has been successfully initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, David Beppler
  • Patent number: 12069639
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating in a communication medium are provided. A base station (BS) receives from a user equipment (UE), feedback information of the UE. The BS determines a schedule for the UE. The schedule includes a scheduling duty cycle based on the feedback information of the UE. The BS communicates with the UE, a communication signal based on the schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Srinivas Yerramalli, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Sony Akkarakaran, Sungwoo Park
  • Patent number: 12047787
    Abstract: A system for providing temporary, transportable cellular communications networks is disclosed. The system includes at least one mobile base station and a control system. The mobile base station can include an aerial vehicular base station with a frame and propellers mounted on the frame that enable flight of the aerial vehicular base station while the control system is configured to control the flight path and functioning of the aerial vehicular base station. The aerial vehicular base station includes hardware and software components for providing cellular network coverage for short ranges. The control system determines the safe flight path for the aerial vehicular base station to reach a service location to provide cellular network coverage. The aerial vehicular base station identifies the closest base stations and available spectrum at the service location to provide communication services for the user equipment at the service location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Joydeep Bhaduri, Madan Kumar, Sandeep Rajagopal, Ramachandran Sambamurthi
  • Patent number: 12010607
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for creating coverage zones (CZs) at a Citizens Broadband Radio Service Device (CBSD) nodes where each CZ is defined by a respective Physical layer Cell Identity (PCI), and each CZ is allocated a respective time slot having a duration selected in accordance with a type of wireless device (WD) to be supported by the CZ, and each CZ communicates during its respective time slot via some or all of the antennas or antenna sections (e.g., coverage areas or sections S1-S3) of the node such that the node communicates with different types of WD in a time-interleaved manner via some or all of the coverage areas associated with the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Volkan Sevindik, Haider Syed
  • Patent number: 11996720
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette charging and management system includes a housing for coupling to a rear of a mobile computing device, the housing including a battery, a first power port for accepting external power for recharging the battery, a first receptacle for accepting an electronic cigarette element, a charging terminal for recharging a battery of the electronic cigarette element and a processor for collecting data from the electronic cigarette element including battery level, electronic cigarette liquid level, tobacco, flower or bud level and current electronic cigarette element usage. The system also includes a mobile application on the mobile computing device for communicably coupling the mobile computing device to the charging device, reading the data from the charging device, and displaying said data on the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Stanimirovic, David Abadi, Jonathan Romero
  • Patent number: 11985539
    Abstract: Embodiments may relate to identifying, by a baseband processor, an amount of data in a data radio bearer (DRB) buffer of the baseband processor. Embodiments further relate to determining, by the baseband processor based on an indication from an application processor of the electronic device, an amount of data in at least one buffer of the application processor. Embodiments further relate to generating, by the baseband processor based at least in part on the amount of data in the DRB buffer and the amount of data in the at least one buffer of the application processor, a buffer status report (BSR). Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Venkataraman, Martin Kugler, Ralf Itjeshorst, Ahmed Salem, Murtaza Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Tong Liu, Cahya A. Masputra
  • Patent number: 11985571
    Abstract: A machine learning model may be trained using annotated communications data. Each communication (e.g., a short messaging system (SMS) message or email) is annotated with a measure of user interaction. The machine learning model is thus trained to predict a measure of user interaction for future communications. Before sending future communications, at least a portion of the communication is provided to the trained machine learning model to predict the expected measure of user interaction with the communication. In response to the prediction, the sender of the communication may alter the communication. The system may automatically send the communication if the predicted measure of user interaction exceeds a predetermined threshold and only prompt the user if the predicted measure of user interaction does not exceed the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Ankit Jaini, Ivan Senilov, Jordan Earnest, Claire Electra Longo, Jiahui Cai, Chiung-Yi Tseng
  • Patent number: 11943024
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide beamforming scheme selection and signaling in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Rohit U. Nabar, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yakun Sun
  • Patent number: 11930444
    Abstract: A communication device electrically connecting to a vehicle including an engine performs a periodic network search to search for a predetermined network when a network currently used by the communication device is not the predetermined network. The communication device restricts performance of the periodic network search during an off period in which the power source is in an off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tokiyasu Kamata, Kousuke Kido
  • Patent number: 11924280
    Abstract: A system comprises a computer having a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive a communication-protocol-agnostic vehicle control request for a vehicle, determine, based on the communication-protocol-agnostic vehicle control request, a vehicle control operation to be executed at the vehicle, identify, from among a plurality of candidate communication-protocol-specific communication links, a communication-protocol-specific communication link via which to send a vehicle control directive to the vehicle, and send the vehicle control directive to the vehicle via the identified communication-protocol-specific communication link to cause the vehicle to execute the vehicle control operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth Grix, Saleh Alkirsh, Adam Salowitz, Daniel Leinbach, Michael Crimando
  • Patent number: 11924109
    Abstract: Embodiments herein may include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, for a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system. An apparatus for MEC may include a communication interface, a local cost measurements module, and a service allocation module. The communication interface may receive, from a UE, a request for a service to be provided to the UE. The local cost measurements module may collect a set of local cost measurements for the service. The service allocation module may determine to allocate the service to a MEC host based on an allocation policy related to a cost for the MEC host to provide the service or a cost for a service provider to provide the service in view of the one or more local cost measurements. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dario Sabella, Kilian Peter Anton Roth
  • Patent number: 11910261
    Abstract: A cellular communication apparatus includes antenna circuitry. A transceiver receives or transmits a signal using the antenna circuitry on a chosen channel of a portion of a radio spectrum. The portion of the radio spectrum is divided into one or more channels including the chosen channel each occupying a bandwidth of the portion of the radio spectrum. Control circuitry dynamically changes a configuration of the one or more channels of the radio spectrum and communication circuitry communicates the configuration of the one or more channels of the radio spectrum to one or more items of user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC
    Inventors: Marlon Peter Persaud, Andrew Logothetis, Krzysztof Dudzinski, Venkateswarlu Katepalli, Ashvtosh Goel
  • Patent number: 11902007
    Abstract: A facility operates with respect to a configuration of one or more unmanned aerial vehicles operating as relays between on or more wireless network participant devices and one or more wireless base stations being supported directly or indirectly by a planetary surface. The facility conducts an experiment that yields quality of service results and flight duration results for each of multiple values of a UAV control parameter. The facility selects a value of the UAV control parameter that produced an advantageous tradeoff of quality of service results and flight duration results, and stores the selected value, such that the stored value of the UAV control parameter is usable to operate the UAVs of the configuration in production service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventor: Mustafa Al Tamimi
  • Patent number: 11889491
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining anchor pairs from among a group of anchors and a first mobile device that is operating in an anchor mode, where the determining the anchor pairs is based at least in part on anchor locations, and where the anchor locations are known by the server for the group of anchors and for the first mobile device; generating a schedule for communications between the anchor pairs and one or more second mobile devices; and providing the schedule to the anchor pairs, wherein the communications between the anchor pairs and the one or more second mobile devices enables each of the one or more second mobile devices to determine its respective device position. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Red Point Positioning Corporation
    Inventors: Yaroslav Zhbankov, Alexey Liushnia
  • Patent number: 11882447
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for connecting a network component to a network, in particular a mobile communications network, with an extended network access identifier. The method involves a receiving of the extended network access identifier from the network component via a network access server, wherein the extended network access identifier comprises at least one network access restriction for connecting the network component to the network. The method also involves a receiving of a requested user access profile from a user profile server via the network access server, wherein the user access profile comprises access authorisations for connecting the network component to the network. The network component is authenticated in the network via the network access server, if the received extended network access identifier fulfills thre access authorisations of the received user access profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Falk
  • Patent number: 11871436
    Abstract: An apparatus of a New Radio (NR) Node B (gNB), a method, and a storage medium. One or more processors of the apparatus are to: encode for transmission to a user equipment (UE) a message to configure the UE with a measurement gap pattern for positioning reference signal (PRS) measurements; and set a gap pattern length of a measurement gap corresponding to the measurement gap pattern depending on whether an overlap exists between a PRS to be measured and one or more other NR data scheduled to be received by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andrey Chervyakov, Rui Huang, Hua Li, Yi Guo, Qiming Li
  • Patent number: 11838795
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for autonomous transmission in an unlicensed band are provided. The method and apparatus comprising: a wireless device receiving a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration for first uplink transmission, wherein the SPS configuration includes information regarding an SPS window indicating a time section in which the first uplink transmission is allowed; the wireless device receiving on a DL channel downlink control information (DCI) having an uplink grant that instructs second uplink transmission, wherein the uplink grant includes a second hybrid automatic repeat request process identifier (HARQid) for the second uplink transmission; and the wireless device performing the first uplink transmission in the SPS window when it is confirmed that a wireless medium is in an idle state by performing a listen before talk (LBT) in the SPS window, wherein a first HARQid for the first uplink transmission is not the same as the second HARQid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim