Patents Examined by Ronald Eisner
  • Patent number: 9867012
    Abstract: A method for detecting whispered speech of a user of a mobile computerized device, the method comprises: detecting, by the mobile computerized device, whispered speech context; and attempting to detect, by the mobile computerized device and by using whispered speech detection parameters, the whispered speech; and wherein at least one whispered speech detection parameter of the whispered speech detection parameters differs from at least one corresponding non-whispered speech parameter that is used for detecting non-whispered speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: DSP GROUP LTD.
    Inventors: Yaakov Chen, Doron Koren
  • Patent number: 9867039
    Abstract: A system and method of detecting fake base stations. A first wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) or a base station (BS) may identify multiple parameters associated with a discovery signal transmitted by a second wireless device, the second wireless device advertising as a BS. The first wireless device may compare the multiple parameters with a set of parameters assigned to, or otherwise associated with, a cluster of neighboring BSs, and determine that the second wireless device is a fake BS when an inconsistency between the multiple parameters and the set of parameters associated with the cluster of neighboring BSs exceeds a threshold. The UE or the BS may also transmit the multiple parameters to a central controller, and the central controller may aggregate, correlate, and analyze the parameters, historical data, and other data from other sources associated with the second wireless device to determine whether the second wireless device is a fake BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibi Wang, Jianying Qian, Ahmad Shawky Muhanna
  • Patent number: 9860691
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positioning node, a core network node, a radio network (RN) node, and a user equipment (UE) of a wireless network, and to a related method of supporting UE positioning. The method comprises transmitting UE radio access capability information and/or radio network node capability information to the positioning node. The transmission of UE radio access capability information is either unsolicited or triggered by a request. The UE radio access capability information may be transmitted from the CN node, from the RN node or from the UE, and the RN node capability information is received from the RN node itself. The positioning node supports positioning of the UE based on the received UE radio access capability information and/or the radio network node capability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Iana Siomina, Muhammad Ali Kazmi
  • Patent number: 9854475
    Abstract: A process for selecting an optimal individual user solution including an optimal rate allocation and associated price for a predetermined bandwidth of cellular network resources includes application of an iterative process and selection from multiple proposed user solutions. The inputs to the iterative process include at least an initial user bid, an initial network rate allocation, a generated user utility function and the cost data. The user utility function includes multiple application user functions. Optimal solution selection includes comparing each multiple proposed user rate allocation with the initial network rate allocation for the user and selecting the closest multiple proposed user rate allocation to the initial network rate allocation. The process may be applied to aggregated cellular carrier scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Leidos, Inc.
    Inventor: Rebecca K. Harrington
  • Patent number: 9848430
    Abstract: An access node in a wireless communication network receives a transmission that includes first and second signals. The first and second signals may be layers of a multiple-input multiple-output transmission and may also be from first and second terminal nodes. The access node derives first and second local reference signals from the transmission received using first and second antennas and estimates channel transfer functions associated with the channel through with the transmission is received. Estimating the channel transfer function can include correlating at least a portion of an expected reference signal associated with the first signal with a corresponding portion of the first local reference signal and correlating at least a portion of an expected reference signal associated with the second signal with a corresponding portion of the second local reference signal. The expected reference signal portions used to estimate the channel transfer functions may be non-orthogonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, David Gell, Murat Karsi
  • Patent number: 9843974
    Abstract: A method for communication beam transition in a communication system includes exchanging information between a first communication device and a second communication device on a first communication beam, receiving beam information from the second communication device on the first communication beam, sending from the first communication device a beam switch command on the first communication beam, the beam switch command requesting a transition from the first communication beam to a second communication beam, simultaneously sending information from the first communication device to the second communication device on the first communication beam and the second communication beam, and ceasing sending information from the first communication device to the second communication device on the first communication beam when transition to the second communication beam is completed by the first communication device and the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Assaf Touboul, Ran Berliner, Ronen Greenberger
  • Patent number: 9844064
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an interference reduction method used by a base station, and a base station using the same method. In one of the exemplary embodiments, the disclosure is directed to an interference reduction method used by a base station. The method would include not limited to: receiving a first reference signal information associated with an interfering transmitter node; creating a cross-correlation matrix based at least on the first reference signal information and on a second reference signal information, wherein the second reference signal information is associated with an intended transmitter node; and generating an improved channel transfer function by applying the cross-correlation matrix to an estimated channel transfer function, wherein the estimated channel transfer function is associated with a received transmission from the intended transmitter node, and the improved channel transfer function is associated with the received transmission from the intended transmitter node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Murat Karsi, Kenneth L. Stanwood, David Gell
  • Patent number: 9843909
    Abstract: Message forwarding by communication devices is conditionally and/or automatically controlled. A network message management component and/or handset message management component can monitor messages (e.g., short message service (SMS) messages) communicated between user equipment (UE) in a communication network, identify and/or intercept a message for which one or more forwarding conditions have been specified by the message originator, target, or forward target, and conditionally and/or automatically route the message to the target and/or forward target in accordance with predefined message routing rules based at least in part on the conditions specified by the originator, target, or forward target. The predefined message routing rules can be implemented by the network and/or the UEs, and can relate to the UE identifiers, time, priority, cost, operation state, size, desired automatic response messages, or other desired factors, associated with the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: James Fan, Thomas Barrett, Jennifer K. Lam
  • Patent number: 9838853
    Abstract: A first message is received at a device at a first time. A textual content of the first message is analyzed to determine a language structure of the textual content. The first message is assigned a level based on a feature extracted from the language structure of the textual content. The level of the first message is adjusted to form an adjusted level according to a location-based factor based on a location of the device. The first message is scheduled on the device according to the adjusted level such that the first message becomes available for use on the device at a future time, the future time being after a delay after the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Martin G. Keen, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 9838547
    Abstract: The present system relates to a server providing data connectivity to an electronic device. The server includes a memory storing data connectivity policy information for the electronic device. The policy information defines a data traffic threshold marking a change in data traffic billing for data traffic the electronic device may exchange with service provider(s) over a telecommunication network. The server has a receiver, which monitors data traffic from instances of applications installed on the electronic device, and has a usage monitor, which maintains a first quantity indicative of the monitored data traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventor: Subash Mandanapu
  • Patent number: 9832762
    Abstract: There is provided a technology associated with a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication system, a notification method, and an integrated circuit, in all of which the capability of the terminal apparatus is efficiently notified. The terminal apparatus configures multiple pieces of terminal apparatus capability information that include information indicating whether or not to support transmission of multiple physical uplink control channels in a secondary cell, and information indicating whether or not to support data transfer control that is independent of a primary cell and the secondary cell, and transmits a terminal apparatus capability message including the multiple pieces of terminal apparatus capability information, to the base station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsunari Uemura, Yasuyuki Kato, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 9826089
    Abstract: A connection manager manages connections for associated user devices by determining whether an incoming connection has been answered at a user device, and if so then generating and transmitting silencing commands to associated user devices using first and second wireless communication modes, with one mode being faster. Connections can comprise phone calls, and modes can comprise push and Bluetooth® messaging. The connection manager can instruct device outputs to provide connection alerts, limited to visual alerts when an associated user device is active, listen for associated user device communications, and instruct device outputs to stop providing alerts when a silencing command is received. Further, a connection manager can receive a signal regarding a headset status, route an outside connection from a phone to the headset when the headset is active or to another device when the headset is not active, detect a change in headset status, and reroute the connection accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Nicholas M. Fraioli, Christopher S. Linn, John J. Iarocci, Keith Stattenfield
  • Patent number: 9813977
    Abstract: WI-FI/3GPP access selection techniques are used to control selection by a user terminal between cellular network cells and WI-FI cells. Cellular network cells providing overlapping coverage with WI-FI cells are correlated with the WI-FI cells. A received signal strength threshold is determined for each WI-FI cell based on an average throughput of the cellular network cells correlated with the WI-FI cell. The WI-FI user terminal admit threshold is used to control the effective coverage of the WI-FI cell. A user terminal operating within a cellular network cell is admitted to a WI-FI only if it is within the effective coverage area of the WI-FI cell as determined by the received signal strength threshold. Increasing the threshold shrinks the effective coverage area of the WI-FI cell to allow user terminal only of strong RSSI to make connection to the cell, and steers user terminal of weak RSSI away from the WI-FI cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Kaiyuan Huang, Gary Tam, Stephen Rayment
  • Patent number: 9807580
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for handling E911 communications within IMS networks, such as Voice over LTE (VoLTE) networks. In some embodiments, the systems and methods, via various communication nodes, handle or otherwise govern emergency calls within the VoLTE network, by sending an INVITE message from a sender node of the VoLTE network to a recipient node of the VoLTE network, and starting a retry timer at the sender node that is specific to handling E911 calls by the VoLTE network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mayank Kaul, Shujaur Rehman Mufti
  • Patent number: 9800537
    Abstract: Methods and systems directed to assigning individual messages and call log data into an aggregated conversation thread on both client and server devices for a user interface having a conversations view including all the communications a given users has with his or her contacts across multiple communication means and protocols. Messages between a user and a particular contact are threaded together, regardless of their format or protocol in order to provide the user with a quick history of all communications with his or her contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohit Talwar, Miladin Pavlicic, Siddharth Murlidhar
  • Patent number: 9800993
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for setting profiles are provided. The profile setting method includes receiving, from a first terminal, a profile transfer request message that requests transfer of a first profile or portion thereof from a first secure element to a second secure element; configuring a second profile using the first profile or portion thereof; and sending, to a second terminal, the configured second profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Duckey Lee, Jungje Son
  • Patent number: 9794833
    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: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    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: 9781706
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit includes at least one processor that receives a high speed physical downlink shared channel, and in response, transmits at least one random access channel preamble followed by ACK/NACK and channel quality indicator (CQI) information. The at least one random access channel preamble is selected from a set of random access preambles reserved for the ACK/NACK and CQI information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Christopher R. Cave, Guang Lu, Paul Marinier, Arty Chandra, Sudheer A. Grandhi
  • Patent number: 9756490
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing region monitoring using tag matching to more closely match the monitored regions to a user's preference. A user enters user tags of interest, which are persisted to the region monitoring web server. The web server returns the closest regions having a region tag matching user tag first and the closest regions without matching tags secondary. An application at the mobile device then performs region monitoring of the identified closest region(s). When the mobile device enters a monitored region, it reports this event to the web server. The web server then determines whether any messages and/or assets associated with the region have matching message tags or asset tags and returns such messages or assets to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Ping4 Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Roy, Kurt Dobbins, Mark Sexton, Sett Paing Oo, Rindress MacDonald, Tatsuki Nakano, Daniel Post
  • Patent number: 9756602
    Abstract: Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a first node, and corresponding methods therein, for obtaining an available radio measurement associated with a wireless device. Example embodiments presented herein are also directed towards a second node, and corresponding methods there, for providing an available radio measurement associated with the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonatkiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Iana Siomina