Patents Examined by Shaima Q. Aminzay
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Patent number: 11432630Abstract: A cover device according to an embodiment of the present invention, may include a first plate including a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface, and being substantially rectangular, the first plate including a first edge having a first length and extending in a first direction, a second edge having a second length longer than the first length and extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a third edge parallel to the first edge, having the first length, and extending in the first direction from the second edge, and a fourth edge parallel to the second edge, having the second length, and extending from the first edge in the second direction, a first sidewall perpendicular to the first surface and extending from the first edge, a second sidewall perpendicular to the first surface and the first sidewall and extending from the second edge, a third sidewall perpendicular to the first surface and the second sidewall and extending from the third edge, and a fouType: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jongbae Jeon, Changsu Kim, Sangsik Na, Pranveer Singh Rathore, Hangyu Hwang
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Patent number: 11418250Abstract: There is provided a passive module for a holding structure. The holding structure is adjacent or part of a movable wing. The passive module comprises a support structure. The passive module comprises a radio transmission regulating structure. The radio transmission regulating structure is supported by the support structure. The radio transmission regulating structure has a radio transmission regulating characteristics. There is also provided a holding structure. The holding structure exhibits a slot for receiving such a passive module. There is further provided a kit of parts comprising at least one such passive module and such a holding structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Peter Ökvist
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Patent number: 11412456Abstract: A wireless device receives radio resource control messages indicating: a first maximum total transmit power of a first group comprising first cell(s) of a first Radio Access Technology; and a second maximum total transmit power of a second group comprising second cell(s) of a second Radio Access Technology. A first total power for transmission of first signal(s) via the first group exceeding the first maximum total transmit power is determined. First transmission power of first signal(s) are scaled so that an updated first total power does not exceed the first maximum total transmit power. Second total power for transmission of second signal(s) via the second group exceeding the second maximum total transmit power is determined. Second transmission power of second signal(s) are scaled so that an updated second total power does not exceed the second maximum total transmit power.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
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Patent number: 11385356Abstract: A spoofing detection system including at least one antenna, a receiver and a controller is provided. The at least one receiver is in communication with the at least one antenna to receive detected satellite signals. The controller is configured to determine raw pseudorange values from the received satellite signals. The controller is further configured to apply at least one first filter on the raw pseudorange values to generate at least an output of first filtered pseudorange values. The controller is also conjured to compare an output of the first filtered pseudorange values with one of the raw pseudorange values and second filtered pseudorange values from a second filter. The controller is further configured to determine if spoofing is present in the received satellite signals based on a determined divergence between the output of first filtered pseudorange values and one of the raw pseudorange values and the second filtered pseudorange values.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: James Arthur McDonald, Karl Abraham Keyzer, Anthony Pritchard
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Patent number: 11374646Abstract: Systems and devices are provided in which an RF wireless bridge is employed to facilitate indirect transmission of communication signals between external devices located outside of an electromagnetically shielding enclosure within internal devices located within the enclosure, via the intermediate transmission of RF waves through an RF attenuating window forming a portion of the enclosure. The wireless bridge is formed from a first RF communication device located within the electromagnetically shielding enclosure, and a second RF communication device located outside of the enclosure, where the two RF communication devices are positioned with sufficient proximity such that the wireless bridge facilitates indirect communication through the RF attenuating window despite attenuation of RF energy by the RF attenuating window.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: INNOVERE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Kevan James Thompson Anderson, Donald Bruce Plewes, Garry Ka Chun Liu, Lynsie Alexandra Marie Thomason
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Patent number: 11366195Abstract: An edge device includes a first antenna array and control circuitry that activates a sensing function to sense a surrounding area of the edge device. The control tracks a position of the first UE in motion from the edge device and further executes beamforming to direct a first beam of RF signal having a signal strength greater than a threshold to the first UE in motion, based on the track of the position of the first UE for high-performance communication.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: PELTBEAM INC.Inventors: Venkat Kalkunte, Mehdi Hatamian
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Patent number: 11362746Abstract: The present disclosure describes an efficient computer-implemented near-field communication system and method based on broadcasting audio signals for dynamically providing context-related additional content to a mobile device. In embodiments of the present invention, the additional content is mapped to specific audio watermarks and/or triggering commands which are encoded together into a digital signal. Based on continuously scanning the received background noise, an exactly defined frequency range and volume is dynamically selected for broadcasting the signal. Hence, the encoded digital signal is further modulated into an audio signal in the exactly defined frequency range. In embodiments of the present invention, the selected exactly defined frequency range for transmitting the audio signal may preferably be located in the ultrasound and/or infrasound frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SONOBEACON GMBHInventors: Thoralf Nehls, Peter Wackerbauer, Hubertus Maschek
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Patent number: 11362730Abstract: A method of operating a repeater comprises selecting some of adaptive filter coefficients among a plurality of adaptive filter coefficients of an adaptive filter used for interference cancellation, based on the size of a coefficient, generating a predicted interference signal using the selected adaptive filter coefficients and generating an interference-canceled communication signal from a received signal using the generated predicted interference signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: SOLiD, INC., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATIONInventors: Nagwon Kwon, Hyunchae Kim, Chonghoon Kim, Seungmo Hong, Sungbin Im
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Patent number: 11363540Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Wireless communications between a base station and one or more wireless devices are described. A wireless device may use power ramping for transmissions and/or retransmissions. Power ramping may be used during a random access procedure. A wireless device may fail a listen before talk procedure before sending a preamble or a transport block on an unlicensed band. The wireless device may use power ramping to determine a power of transmission of the preamble and/or transport block based on the prior preamble or a transport block transmission. Power ramping may be determined using a power ramping counter value and/or a power ramping step value, which may be shared or associated with the preamble and/or a transport block.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Kai Xu, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park, Ali Cirik
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Patent number: 11343777Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information for a power control of a sidelink and a downlink reference signal (RS) to measure a downlink channel from the BS, wherein the sidelink is established between the UE and another UE; receiving, from the BS, the downlink RS based on the configuration information; calculating a first pathloss for the downlink channel between the UE and the BS based on the configuration information; identifying a second pathloss for the sidelink between the UE and the other UE; and transmitting, to the other UE, a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) based on the first pathloss and the second pathloss.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Li Guo
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Patent number: 11343828Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices related to reducing signaling overhead for uplink transmissions are described. In one representative aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting, from the wireless communication node, a first message to a mobile device. The first message identifies one or more resource groups that correspond to a transmission rank to be used by the mobile device for a data transmission from the mobile device to the wireless communication node. The one or more resource groups are selected from a set of candidate resource groups or a set of candidate resources. The method also includes receiving, at the wireless communication node, the data transmission having the transmission rank from the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Yijian Chen, Yu Ngok Li, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu
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Patent number: 11336334Abstract: An electronic label apparatus comprises: an inductive communication unit which communicates wirelessly using inductive signals; a processor; memory including a computer program code; and a power source which supplies electric power to the inductive communication unit, the processor, and the memory for enabling their operation. The processor, the memory, the computer program code and the power source with the electric power cause the electronic label apparatus at least to: receive a plurality of inductive signals of known transmission powers from known locations; measure signal powers of the received inductive signals; and determine information about a location of the electronic label apparatus based on the measured signal powers, the known transmission signal powers and the known locations.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OYInventors: Ville Kolehmainen, Jukka Kämäräinen
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Patent number: 11310711Abstract: A method for configuring radio resource control includes: receiving, by a terminal device, an RRC configuration message sent by a first network device, where the RRC configuration message includes first RRC configuration content and a channel configuration parameter; configuring, by the terminal device, a first RRC connection between the terminal device and the first network device in response to the first RRC configuration content, and establishing a second RRC connection between the terminal device and a second network device based on the channel configuration parameter; the second RRC connection being configured to send a second RRC configuration content; when a radio link fails in the first RRC connection between the terminal device and the first network device, sending, the terminal device, an instruction message and a signal measurement report. A transmission delay between network devices can be reduced and signaling load of a master network device can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinhua Miao, Jian Zhang, Wei Quan
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Patent number: 11275148Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for obtaining location data for a sensor fusion device. The techniques include transmitting or receiving a signal from or to the sensor fusion device. The techniques also include obtaining angle-based location data, based on the signal and on an angle-based location finding technique. The techniques also include determining location data for the sensor fusion device or an auxiliary device associated with the sensor fusion device, based on the angle-based location data.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Inventors: Daryl Galen Sartain, Adam H. Li, Bruce Montag
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Patent number: 11275147Abstract: An edge device includes a first antenna array and control circuitry that activates a sensing function to sense a surrounding area of the edge device and generates a 3D environment representation of the surrounding area of the edge device. The control circuitry recognizes a first user equipment (UE) in motion to be a valid device to receive one or more services from the edge device and track a position of the first UE in motion from the edge device. The control circuitry executes beamforming to direct a first beam of RF signal having a signal strength greater than a threshold to the first UE in motion that is recognized as the valid device, based on the track of the position of the first UE and the generated 3D environment representation for high-performance communication.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: PELTBEAM INC.Inventors: Venkat Kalkunte, Mehdi Hatamian
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Patent number: 11272048Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for managing connections between a wireless headset and various user devices, e.g., to answer or place a call at a particular user device (e.g., a device that is not currently connected to the headset) as a headset-supported call in which the call audio is routed from the particular user device to the headset and/or vice versa. Connections between the headset and relevant user devices may be controlled or facilitated by suitable software and hardware components to establish the headset-supported call. For example, such device connections may be controlled or facilitated by a cloud-based network including remote server(s). As another example, the device connections may be controlled or facilitated by a local mesh network, e.g., including user device(s) connected to the headset and the particular user device. As another example, the device connections may be cooperatively managed by a cloud-based network and a local mesh network.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: PLANTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Tom Wesselman, Kenneth Brown, Babandeep Singh, Brian Caldwell, Jonathan Grover
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Patent number: 11272462Abstract: A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure discloses a method for a terminal to generate all entry information of multiple power headroom reports (PHRs) as virtual PHs regardless of whether the terminal transmits an uplink to a serving cell in a wireless communication system supporting uplink carrier aggregation.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyoungmin Kim, Namhoon Kim, Myunghwan Kim, Yongsung Roh
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Patent number: 11265826Abstract: Provided are a method for reporting a power headroom and an apparatus using the same. The apparatus computes and reports a power headroom for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) that is transmitted in a first transmission period of a first band having a first subcarrier interval. The power headroom is computed on the basis of at least one second transmission interval of a second band having a second subcarrier interval which overlaps with the first transmission interval.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Joonkui Ahn, Sukhyon Yoon, Suhwan Lim, Suckchel Yang, Jonghyun Park, Changhwan Park, Seonwook Kim
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Patent number: 11249167Abstract: A method of determining locations of access points in a venue, one or more electronic devices configured to receive radio signals from the access points, the method comprises: generating and storing, at a server in communication with the one or more electronic devices, a database comprising information received from the one or more electronic devices, the information comprising: values associated with a radio signal characteristic of the radio signals at locations of RF scan capture by the one or more electronic devices and access point identifiers representing access points corresponding to the values, the locations of RF scan capture being unknown at a time of RF scan capture; assigning correlation values to quantify similarity between the values for pairs of the access point identifiers; mapping the correlation values to correlation ranges based on known locations of at least two of the access points; determining the locations of the access points based on the correlation ranges and the known locations.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: RX NETWORKS INC.Inventor: Seyed Nima Sadrieh
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Patent number: 11239907Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a call processing method and device. The call processing method comprises: sending, by a repeater of the first site, a first call establishment request to a repeater of the second site according to a call request initiated by a first terminal, the first call establishment request comprising an identification of the second terminal; determining, by the repeater of the first site, whether a second call establishment request is received before a call establishment response sent by the repeater of the second site is received, the second call establishment request being sent by the repeater of the second site according to a call request initiated by the second terminal; and if yes, sending, by the repeater of the first site, a call collision notification to the first terminal to notify the first terminal to delay the call.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Hytera Communications Corporation LimitedInventors: Chengfu Huang, Hailiang Zhang, Yan Xu