Patents Examined by Sharad Rampuria
  • Patent number: 11678226
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing data services to devices at a customer premises. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: switching from a first mode of operation to a second mode of operation with respect to providing data services to a user equipment device located at a customer premises upon detection of a first condition at the customer premises by a wireless base station; receiving, after switching into the second mode of operation, at the wireless base station a first data service request from the user equipment device; transmitting, in response to the first data service request, one or more data packets of a first data packet stream to the user equipment device via a first transmission path and transmitting one or more additional data packets of the first packet stream to the user equipment device via a second transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Volkan Sevindik, Muhib T. Oduwaiye, Haider Syed
  • Patent number: 11677481
    Abstract: Disclosed is an over-the-air (OTA) antenna meter application (“meter app”) that wirelessly connects to an OTA antenna meter (“meter”) installed with an OTA antenna and presents information that facilitates a user in installing the OTA antenna at the premises of a customer. For example, the meter app can help the user in pointing and peaking the OTA antenna for one or more broadcast channels, e.g., those selected by the customer. The meter app can store installation information of the OTA antenna for various installations, which can be used in generating a recommendation of, or predicting, installation information for installing the OTA antenna at a specified address. The predicted installation information can include broadcast channels that would be available for reception at the specified address and their signal strength, a specific location of installation on the premises, or whether a pre-amplifier and/or filter is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Edmund Petruzzelli, Marcel Guajardo
  • Patent number: 11678389
    Abstract: A device may utilize a point-to-point protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) and a point-to-point protocol (PPP) to register the device with a core network, and may establish a first packet data unit (PDU) session with the core network based on the PPPoE and the PPP. The device may configure the first PDU session, based on the PPPoE and the PPP, to provide a first service, and may generate first keep alive messages to maintain the first PDU session. The device may establish a second PDU session with the core network based on the PPPoE and the PPP, and may configure the second PDU session based on the PPPoE and the PPP, where the second PDU session is configured to provide a second service that is different than the first service. The device may generate second keep alive messages to maintain the second PDU session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Venkatesh Padebettu
  • Patent number: 11678135
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, circuits, systems and associated computer executable code for detecting the presence of a mobile computing device in a specific area. Included are means for receiving a message from the mobile device including a coarse location indicator, determining that the received coarse location indicator is in proximity with one or more local (e.g. retailer) stations, and causing at least one of the one or more local stations to transmit a mobile device specific poling signal to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: WIX.COM LTD
    Inventors: Ido Gaver, Eran Kirshenboim
  • Patent number: 11678194
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic apparatus to provide information associated with activation of a portable terminal according to various embodiments includes acquiring order information associated with the portable terminal, acquiring information associated with delivery of the portable terminal corresponding to the order information from a server, and, based on the order information and the information associated with the delivery of the portable terminal, providing the information associated with the activation of the portable terminal, and the information associated with the activation comprises information on whether the portable terminal has been shipped out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Coupang Corp.
    Inventors: Cho Rong Kim, Jung Hun Lee, Min Jung Lee, Han Sol Kim, Young Jin Kim, Chang Hyun Park, Sang Won Seo, Hye Jin Kim, So Yeon Son, Mi Seon Lim, Yoo Jin Yang, Yoo Jeong Jo
  • Patent number: 11671894
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive policy information that specifies radio access technology (RAT) priorities for route selection, including a RAT priority of non-cellular over cellular. The UE may establish access for an application over a route that is selected based at least in part on the RAT priority. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Juan Zhang, Ajith Tom Payyappilly, Tom Chin, Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere, Amer Catovic
  • Patent number: 11665775
    Abstract: A communications device is provided, which is configured to transmit or receive signals via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network to or from one or more infrastructure equipment. The communications device is configured, at the time of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection establishment procedure, to receive a first message from one of the infrastructure equipment comprising an indication that the infrastructure equipment is capable of operating in accordance with a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) in accordance with a first radio access technology, to establish a PDCP entity based on the received indication, and to transmit a second message to the infrastructure equipment comprising an indication that the communications device is capable of operating in accordance with one or both of the PDCP in accordance with the first radio access technology and a PDCP in accordance with a second radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 11665760
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for wireless communications. In one aspect, an apparatus may obtain, for a first access point (AP), a first service set identifier (SSID) associated with single-link communications and obtain, for a second AP, a second SSID associated with multi-link communications. The apparatus may obtain, from a wireless communication device, a management frame include a multi-link operation information field that carries a first SSID and obtain a multi-link indication for the wireless communication device based, at least in part, on the first SSID, the multi-link indication indicating whether the wireless communication device includes AP capable of link aggregation, and selectively associate with the wireless communication device based on the multi-link indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Abhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Yanjun Sun
  • Patent number: 11653408
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present application are a discontinuous reception method, terminal device and network device, the method including: a first terminal device determining a target discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle used for the first terminal device to detect a DRX indication signal during a DRX indication cycle which is used for DRX indication signal detection, the DRX indication cycle comprising N DRX cycles, the DRX indication signal being used to indicate that the first terminal device wakes up or sleeps during an activation period of the N DRX cycles after the moment when the DRX indication signal is detected; a first terminal device detecting a DRX indication signal sent by a network device in the target DRX cycle; the first terminal device waking up or sleeping according to the DRX indication signal during the activation period of the N DRX cycles after the moment when the DRX indication signal is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11647377
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing mobile device roaming optimization is provided. The method includes receiving a selection for services associated with a first mobile device provider for activation during travel to a location associated with mobile device roaming attributes with respect to a mobile device of a user. A blockchain structure and a hash masking sensitive data of the user are generated. It is detected that the user and mobile device have traveled to the location and access to the blockchain structure is enabled. Roaming usage attributes of the mobile device are determined. Subsequently, operational functionality of the mobile device at the geographical location is enabled via roaming usage of a network of the second mobile device provider and second hash of consumption related information compliant with data residency is transmitted to the first mobile device provider to facilitate resolution of disputes across entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jignesh K. Karia, Pankaj Satyanarayan Dayama, Mukundan Sundararajan, Neha Shah, Arindam Dasgupta, Suman Das
  • Patent number: 11627431
    Abstract: A method, according to one embodiment, includes receiving, at a device, preference information from a user; identifying a selection, by the user, of a predetermined page to be displayed by the device; in response to the identifying of the selection, retrieving content via a network connection based on the preference information, the content including one or more articles selected by a content provider based on the preference information; automatically designing a layout of one or more objects associated with the retrieved content for display on the device; and outputting the retrieved content on the predetermined page of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LOCATIONBASEDCONTENT LLC
    Inventor: Dominic M. Kotab
  • Patent number: 11627444
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, are provided for managing background data transfer sessions based on network events monitored by one or more network elements. Embodiments may be relevant to multi-access edge computing (MEC) and Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) technologies. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Leifeng Ruan, Soo Jin Tan, Xiaopeng Tong, Dario Sabella, Qian Li, Zongrui Ding
  • Patent number: 11627494
    Abstract: Disclosed are a BS apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a QoS control method for implementing the service flow-based QoS control without increasing complexity compared to the conventional bearer-based QoS control method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Soo Jeong, Jong Han Park
  • Patent number: 11611418
    Abstract: A PTRS processing method includes: receiving, by a terminal, first indication information and second indication information from a network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate a time-domain location at which a PTRS is to be sent by the terminal, and the second indication information is used to indicate an offset of an initial time-domain location to which the PTRS is mapped by the terminal; mapping, by the terminal, the PTRS to one or more DFT-s-OFDM symbols based on the first indication information and the second indication information; and sending, by the terminal, the one or more DFT-s-OFDM symbols. In this way, the PTRS mapped to the DFT-s-OFDM symbol is offset at a DFT-s-OFDM symbol level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Fengwei Liu, Lei Chen, Minghui Xu
  • Patent number: 11601149
    Abstract: A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, obtaining uplink information associated with a downlink path, wherein the uplink information includes operational parameters used by a plurality of communication devices for transmitting wireless signals on a plurality of uplink paths; performing, based on the uplink information, a plurality of measurements of the plurality of uplink paths; identifying a measurement from the plurality of measurements that is below a threshold, thereby indicating an affected uplink path of the plurality of uplink paths; initiating a first filtering of the affected uplink path, wherein the initiating is based on the identifying and wherein the first filtering is based upon one or more first filtering parameters; and receiving instructions comprising one or more updated filtering parameters, wherein the instructions are received by the system at a port of the system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ISCO International, LLC
    Inventors: Igor Goodman, Amr Abdelmonem
  • Patent number: 11601878
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an access and mobility management function (AMF) assignment service is provided. A network device receives an assignment policy for selecting an AMF from a group of available AMFs, wherein the assignment policy includes network slice priorities for available network slices in the RAN; stores the assignment policy; receives, during a registration procedure initiated by an end device, Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI); identifies, from the NSSAI, multiple single-NSSAIs (S-NSSAIs); and selects, based on the assignment policy, an AMF for a highest priority S-NSSAI, of the multiple S-NSSAIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kristen Sydney Young, Ravi Potluri, Hans Raj Nahata
  • Patent number: 11602009
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a non-transitory computer readable medium. In some embodiments, the medium includes instructions for providing a mobile user monitoring solution that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to capture a first message transmitted over a packet forwarding control protocol (PFCP) interface, extract a permanent ID and a first user plane tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID) from the first message, store the permanent ID and the first user plane TEID in a PFCP protocol data unit (PDU) session record, store the permanent ID in a session details record, capture a second message transmitted over a user plane interface after the first message is transmitted, extract a second user plane TEID from the second message, wherein the second user plane TEID matches the first user plane TEID, and retrieve the session details record using the second user plane TEID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NetScout Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yashovan B. Neelakantamurthy, Antoni Stanislaw Banach, Abhishek Saraswati, Tauras Liubinskas, Shilpa Bansod, Ming Tong Entlinger, Daniel Andrew Hill
  • Patent number: 11601410
    Abstract: An approach is provided for presenting an activation indicator to a user. A connection with a mobile device is detected. Retrieval is caused, at least in part, of a unique hardware identifier associated with the mobile device. It is determined that the mobile device is eligible for a service based on the unique hardware identifier. Presentation is caused, at least in part, of a visual indicator of the eligibility for the service based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Kristian Puusaari, Jonathan Davies, Craig Pugsley, Timo T. Nieminen, Aki Tamminen, Samuli Ylinen, Jyrki Hokkanen
  • Patent number: 11595519
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a processing system are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic apparatus is an electronic apparatus to be operated by a first user. The electronic apparatus comprises a communication unit and at least one processor. The communication unit is configured to acquire first information related to an other-party apparatus. The at least one processor is configured to determine a movement state of a second user of the other-party apparatus, based on the first information. The at least one processor performs processing based on the determined movement state, in response to a place call command from the first user regarding first phone communication with the other-party apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Akihito Hatanaka, Tomoki Iwaizumi, Youji Hamada, Hisae Honma, Kousuke Nagase, Tomohiro Sudou
  • Patent number: 11595114
    Abstract: A multiple-access transceiver handles communications with mobile stations in environments that exceed mobile station design assumptions without necessarily requiring modifications to the mobile stations. One such environment is in Earth orbit. The multiple-access transceiver is adapted to close communications with mobile stations while exceeding mobile station design assumptions, such as greater distance, greater relative motion and/or other conditions commonly found where functionality of a terrestrial transceiver is to be performed by an orbital transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Lynk Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyghe Robert Speidel, Andrew J. Gerber