Patents Examined by Ronald Eisner
  • Patent number: 11689915
    Abstract: Systems and methods for 5G telecommunication call event timestamping to assist in debugging the flow of call events, such as during roaming, handover operations, or when user equipment (UE) accesses a different network slice. Specifically, a system for the provision of wireless telecommunication services can include a core network having a first UDR and a first UDM. The first UDM, upon receiving communication from one or more network functions, can communicate a first message to the first UDR. The first message can include a first timestamp indicating to the first UDR a first time that the first message was transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Mariyani, Rajil Malhotra, Anuj Sharma
  • Patent number: 11678216
    Abstract: A data transmission method to implement flexible switching of data transmission between different interfaces, includes: A first terminal obtains a quality of service flow identifier of the first terminal and a QoS parameter of a quality of service flow, where there is a correspondence between the quality of service flow identifier and the QoS parameter of the quality of service flow, and determines, based on the QoS parameter, a logical channel used by the quality of service flow on a PC5 interface. The first terminal maps the quality of service flow to the determined logical channel, and sends the quality of service flow to the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Liu, Jun Wang, Mingzeng Dai
  • Patent number: 11671989
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically assigning a wireless communication protocol to one or more antenna elements of an antenna array. The methods can include receiving information associated with one or more user devices and, based on the received information, identifying one or more antenna elements of the antenna array, for switching between first and second wireless communication protocols. The methods can also include switching the one or more antenna elements between the first and second wireless communication protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Chaitanya Chukka, Matthew J. Masters
  • Patent number: 11659388
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a multi-mode wireless access protocol (MMWAP). A redirection router may receive a pre-association request, from a user communication device, and send an acknowledgment of the pre-association request. The user communication device may further transmit authorization keys associated with an application installed in the user communication device. Based on the authorization keys, the redirection router may send an authentication indication to the user communication device. The user communication device may use the redirection router to transmit and receive messages associated with the application to public networks and other private networks. The redirection router may maintain multi-mode connectivity independently with multiple user communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Yash Pant Dashputra, Tirupathirao Madiya, Kiran Kumar Vemuri, Yellaiah Ponnameni
  • Patent number: 11658841
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a presence of a plurality of mobile devices at a geographic location, determining security system automation settings for the geographic location based on the identified plurality of mobile devices, and based on the determination, configuring a security system automation setting for the geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Shoemaker, Michael I. Ingrassia, Jr., Nathaniel P. Hramits
  • Patent number: 11641590
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure include, for example, identifying a primary serving cell and a secondary serving cell, wherein the primary serving cell facilitates one of attachment, re-attachment or mobility, or any combination thereof, of a mobile device in association with coordination of a wireless service between the primary serving cell, the secondary serving cell and the mobile device. A latency value associated with a message exchange is determined between the primary and secondary serving cells via a messaging interface, and compared to latency requirements, which correspond to a group of mobile service features. A mobile service feature of the group is associated with the wireless service based on the comparison. The wireless service includes a coordinated exchange of wireless signals between the primary serving cell and the mobile device and between the secondary serving cell and the mobile device based on the mobile service feature. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Hongyan Lei, Ye Chen, Zhi Cui, Cheng P Liu, Yonghui Tong
  • Patent number: 11622287
    Abstract: A method to generate upgrade recommendations for wireless wide area networks may include receiving parameters associated with an existing network configuration, customer usage, and a network demand, and identifying recommendations for locations of potential new cell sites corresponding with sectors within a geographical region associated with the network, where the identifying is based on the existing network configuration and customer usage. The method may include predicting a performance impact on the network based on the recommendations for potential new cell site locations, and selecting network upgrades based on the recommendations for potential new cell site locations, the network demand, and the predicted performance impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: John N. Wakim, Findlay Faubion, Paul Kerl, Michael Antony Raj
  • Patent number: 11622255
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for validating a session management function (SMF) registration request are disclosed. One method occurs at a network node. The method comprises: receiving, from a first SMF in a home network, a registration request indicating a first network identifier identifying a visited network where a user device is roaming; determining whether the registration request is valid by comparing the first network identifier and a second network identifier associated with an access and mobility management function (AMF) serving the user device; and performing at least one action based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arjun Iddya, Shashikiran Bhalachandra Mahalank
  • Patent number: 11611898
    Abstract: A method and computer readable medium for identifying slow base stations and providing impact mitigation are described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting that a first base station, using a first queue, is slow, wherein a slow base station is a base station that that cannot keep up with the rate at which a core node is generating update messages over a prolonged period; providing a slow base station queue; and moving the first base station from the first queue to the slow base station queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Harwani, Kartik Raval, Anoop Gupta
  • Patent number: 11589205
    Abstract: Techniques for enabling real time translation and transcription services between users that have contacted emergency services and PSAP operators who are coordinating the emergency services are discussed herein. For example, a system determines that the user and the PSAP operator speak different language, are unable to effectively hear each other, or are otherwise struggling to communicate effectively. The system can determine that an augmentation of the communication session is to be provided and can initiate translation or transcription services via network edge computing resources. The network edge computing resources are configured to generate the augmented communication data and enable the communication network to merge the augmented communication data and the original communication data in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, Yasmin Karimli, Syed Toaha Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11589260
    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: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11570588
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) indicates to a network the types of SMS messages that the UE does not support. The network receives an indication from the UE corresponding to one or more types of short message service (SMS) messages that are supported by the UE, receives a SMS that is intended to be delivered to the UE, determines whether to forward the SMS message to the UE based on the indication received from the UE, when the SMS message is a type of SMS message supported by the UE, forwards the SMS message to the UE and, when the SMS message is not a type of SMS message supported by the UE, discards the SMS message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Kumar, Srinivasan Nimmala, Vijay Venkataraman, Yifan Zhu, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Krisztian Kiss
  • Patent number: 11533380
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses and computer program for content pushing service in a wireless mobile communication system. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a proactive pushing service request from an internet content provider; determining, for the proactive pushing service request, a proactive pushing strategy based on auxiliary information predetermined for network optimization processing; and sending, to at least one network element in the wireless mobile communication system, a command for the proactive pushing service so that at least a part of internet contents designated by the proactive pushing service request are proactively pushed to one or more users based on the determined proactive pushing strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: He Wang, Wenyi Xu, Liyu Cai
  • Patent number: 11528354
    Abstract: A personal safety service notifies a pre-defined group of emergency contacts about an occurrence of emergency associated with a user. To do so, a personal safety service server comprising a processing device and a memory receives an indication of the emergency and a location of the emergency from a wearable mobile device and sends a notification message via a push notification displayed on user devices of a predefined group of emergency contacts indicating the occurrence of the emergency. The personal safety service server periodically receives updates to the location of the wearable mobile device from the personal safety service client application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Smartwatcher Technologies AG
    Inventor: Morgan Cohen
  • Patent number: 11520623
    Abstract: Vehicle data are collected in a method in which one or more motor vehicles suitable for road traffic are assigned tasks, wherein the method involves: transmitting first information from a first of these motor vehicles to a backend that can communicate with multiple instances of these motor vehicles; and the backend taking this first information as a basis for assigning a first of these tasks to the first motor vehicle; wherein performing the first task includes transmitting second information; and wherein the first information is transmitted from the first motor vehicle to the backend via a mobile radio link, and/or the first task is assigned via a mobile radio link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco Bross, Georg Maier, Thoralf Reis, Henry Thasler
  • Patent number: 11510102
    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: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, David Beppler
  • Patent number: 11502524
    Abstract: A device for holding and charging an electronic cigarette element includes a housing configured for coupling to a rear of a mobile computing device, the housing including a rechargeable battery, a first power port in the housing, the first power port conductively coupled to the rechargeable battery and configured for accepting external power for recharging the rechargeable battery, a first receptacle in the housing, wherein the first receptacle is configured to accept an electronic cigarette element, a charging terminal conductively coupled to the rechargeable battery, wherein when the electronic cigarette element contacts the charging terminal, the rechargeable battery recharges a battery of the electronic cigarette element, and, a second receptacle in the housing, wherein the second receptacle is configured to accept a cartridge for the electronic cigarette element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Stanimirovic, David Abadi, Jonathan Romero
  • Patent number: 11451941
    Abstract: An access system for an object with a transmission unit arranged in the object and a transponder unit arranged in a portable device. The transmission unit emits request signals at regular intervals. The transponder unit, in response to a triggering event, stores a current position of the object and determines its own position at regular intervals. The transponder unit deactivates the transmission unit when the transponder unit detects, based on the determined position, that the transponder unit has left a first zone, wherein the first zone is arranged around the object, and wherein the transmission unit does not emit any request signals while the transmission unit is deactivated. The transponder unit furthermore activates the transmission unit when the transponder unit detects, based on the determined position, that the transponder unit has entered an adjusted first zone, wherein the adjusted first zone is arranged around the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventors: Franz Heininger, Ulrich Emmerling, Alexander Heinrich
  • Patent number: 11399316
    Abstract: This application relates to a communications method. The method in this application includes: receiving, by the wireless backhaul device, a message that is sent by a first network device and that is used to indicate the wireless backhaul device to be handed over to a second network device; and sending, by the wireless backhaul device to the second network device in a process in which the wireless backhaul device is handed over to the second network device or in a case in which the wireless backhaul device completes being handed over to the second network device, a message carrying information about a resource of a first link. This application is applicable to a handover procedure of the wireless backhaul device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: You Li, Shitong Yuan, Mingzeng Dai
  • Patent number: 11395152
    Abstract: A method for identifying a wireless signal transmission characteristic in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present specification includes the steps for: identifying a signal transmission location; identifying a structure; identifying at least one radio wave incoming structure located on the structure, and identifying a transmission characteristic of a wireless signal transmitted from the signal transmission location on the basis of information on the at least one radio wave incoming structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon Young Lee, Sungbum Park, Min Sung Cho