Patents Examined by Siu M. Lee
  • Patent number: 11234097
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for determining locations of devices using location data sources are provided. For example, a network device, method, and computer-program product may be provided. In one example, a method may include receiving, on a computing device, a request to locate a device, wherein the request includes an identifier of the device. The method may further include receiving a communication from the device, wherein the communication includes the identifier of the device, and obtaining a location of the device. The method may further include transmitting the location of the device and the identifier of the device to a server, wherein the server is configured to use the location of the device and the identifier of the device to send a response to the requestor of the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Belkin International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Yong Kim, Jon Plummer, David Shao
  • Patent number: 11233682
    Abstract: Automobile receiving and processing location finding, such as GPS, and navigation signals. Multimedia Wi-Fi and other wireless networks and 5G, 4G, 3G and 2G cellular automobile communication of voice, data photo and video camera signals. Automobile mobile networks for direct automobile to automobile communications. Receiving in an automobile a wireless modulated remote control (RC) signal, processing the received RC signal into a processed RC signal for control of operation of the automobile. Processing in an automobile a touchscreen generated signal and a sensor generated signal for control of automobile. Transmitting a signal to an emergency 911 (emergency 911 or enhanced emergency E-911) wireless service provider or to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventor: Kamilo Feher
  • Patent number: 11228467
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device that multiplies a first signal outputted from a CTLE and a second signal obtained by delaying the first signal by a predetermined time interval; produces a specific signal reflecting a temporal sum of the multiplied signal; determines gain control signal in a manner such that the difference between the specific signal and a predetermined target level is reduced; and provides the determined gain control signal to the CTLE so as to be applied to high-band boosting thereof. The time interval to be delayed corresponds to N (N is an integer equal to or greater than one) times a unit interval that is occupied by one symbol in the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: VSI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suwon Kang, Sungmin Han
  • Patent number: 11223502
    Abstract: Predicting a channel between a transceiver and a connected vehicle having a “main antenna”, dedicated to exchanges of payload data with the transceiver, and a “predictor antenna”, placed in front of the main antenna to predict the radio channel dealt with by the main antenna when reaching the current position of the predictor antenna. The method includes: selecting, using an estimate of the vehicle's speed and acceleration, for a multiplet of channel samples measured at the main antenna, a multiplet of channel samples measured at the predictor antenna, each sample of the predictor antenna being selected to correspond to a sample of the main antenna subsequently measured at the same position; calculating a criterion associating multiplets of samples measured at the main and predictor antennas; and selecting samples of the predictor antenna using a speed/acceleration pair optimizing the criterion, to predict the channel between the transceiver and main antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Joachim Bjorsell, Mikael Sternad
  • Patent number: 11224044
    Abstract: Various techniques are provided for spectrum allocation. A method can include receiving a message including a first maximum power setting, a second maximum power setting, and a spatial range associated with the second maximum power setting, transmitting at least one first beam within the first maximum power in a spatial range excluding the spatial range associated with the second maximum power setting, and transmitting at least one second beam within the second maximum power in the spatial range associated with the second maximum power setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lan Hu, Navin Hathiramani, Roy Yang
  • Patent number: 11223509
    Abstract: An in-phase and quadrature mismatch compensator for a quadrature transmitter includes a delay element, a complex-valued filter and an adder. The delay element receives an input transmit signal and outputs a delayed transmit signal. The complex-valued filter receives the input transmit signal and outputs a selected part of a filtered output transmit signal. The adder adds the delayed transmit signal and the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal and outputs a pre-compensated transmit signal. In one embodiment, the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal includes the real part of the complex-valued output transmit signal. In another embodiment, the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal includes the imaginary part of the complex-valued output transmit signal. Two transmit real-valued compensators are also disclosed that combine the in-phase and quadrature signals before being filtered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11219034
    Abstract: Techniques for distributed network connectivity monitoring of provider network edge location resources from cellular networks are described. A central service transmits test suites of commands to agents executed by test devices, which can execute the commands to test network characteristics between the test devices and target locations via one or multiple cellular communications networks. Results of the testing are sent back to the central service for processing, and the resultant metrics can be used for intelligent latency-based routing of clients, latency-based placement of resources, and/or performance monitoring of deployed resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Devlin Roarke Dunsmore, Diwakar Gupta, Dougal Stuart Ballantyne, Sairam Sasank Chundi, Pragya Agarwal, Mark Walters, Aditya Chayapathy
  • Patent number: 11211978
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, configuration information indicating that the UE is to compress a precoding matrix indicator in connection with channel state information reporting, wherein the precoding matrix indicator is to be compressed based at least in part on a quantization dependency between transmission layers or an orthogonality relationship between the transmission layers, and wherein the configuration information is associated with a type II, higher rank codebook for multiple input multiple output configuration. The UE may transmit, to a base station (BS), the compressed precoding matrix indicator to the base station based at least in part on receiving the configuration information. The UE and BS may use a communication configuration based at least in part on a precoding matrix indicator recovered from the compressed precoding matrix indicator. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liangming Wu, Yu Zhang, Chao Wei, Qiaoyu Li, Chenxi Hao, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11212016
    Abstract: An example method of calibrating signals in an antenna array includes generating a calibration signal at a first radio sub unit (RSU), transmitting the calibration signal through a transmission path of a radio front end (RFE) of the first RSU, and receiving the calibration signal in a coupling and distribution layer of the first RSU. The method further includes providing the calibration signal from the coupling and distribution layer of the first RSU directly to a coupling and distribution layer of a second RSU, and processing the calibration signal at the second RSU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Heiko Kaluzni, Jan Kuhne
  • Patent number: 11201003
    Abstract: A power and data connectivity micro grid includes a first power sourcing equipment device having first and second power ports and first and second data ports, and configured to deliver DC power signals to the first and second power ports. The micro grid further includes first and second remote distribution nodes, and first and second splice enclosures, each splice enclosure having a power input port, a data input port, a power tap port, a data tap port, a power output port and a data output port. A first composite power-data cable is coupled between the first power port and the first data port of the first power sourcing equipment device and the power input port and the data input port of the first splice enclosure. A second composite power-data cable is coupled between the second power port and the second data port of the first power sourcing equipment device and the power input port and the data input port of the second splice enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Jr., Rudy Musschebroeck, Jan Jozef Julia Maria Erreygers, David T. Lambert, David J. Mather, David Thomas, Joshua M. Simer
  • Patent number: 11199630
    Abstract: Systems, device configurations and methods are provided for indoor localization for a navigator receiver based on broadband communication signals such as LTE. In one embodiment, an LTE-IMU framework determines receiver position indoors. Two different designs of LTE receivers are provided based on code phase and carrier phase determinations of the received signal. A base/navigator framework is presented to correct unknown clock biases of the LTE eNodeBs. In this framework, the base receiver is placed outdoors, has knowledge of its own position, and makes pseudorange measurements to eNodeBs in the environment whose positions are known. The base transmits these pseudoranges to the indoor navigating receiver, which is also making pseudorange measurements to the same eNodeBs. The navigating receiver differences the base and navigator pseudoranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Zak Kassas, Ali Abdallah, Kimia Shamaei
  • Patent number: 11190258
    Abstract: The techniques described herein provide procedures at user equipment (UEs) for performing channel state information (CSI) reporting and sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions based on an ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) block error rate (BLER) target and for reliably receiving PDCCH transmissions. For CSI reporting, a UE may be configured to generate a CSI report based on a BLER target and on received CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs), where the CSI-RSs may be transmitted on one or more groups of quasi co-located antenna ports. For SRS transmissions, a UE may be configured to transmit SRS based on an SRS configuration determined based on a BLER target. For receiving PDCCH transmissions, a UE may be configured to receive and combine DCI received from multiple base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gabi Sarkis, Wanshi Chen, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11191086
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process that includes adjusting a filter in electrical communication between an input terminal and a demodulator. The filter is applied to an information bearing signal, e.g., to mitigate interference, received at the input terminal, resulting in a filtered signal. An error signal is received, indicative of errors detected within information obtained by demodulation of a modulated carrier of the filtered signal. A modified filter state is determined in response to the error signal and the filter is adjusted according to the modified filter state, e.g., to improve mitigation of the interference. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ISCO International, LLC
    Inventors: Amr Abdelmonem, Mikhail Galeev, Sean S. Cordone, Howard Wong
  • Patent number: 11190383
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for reducing PAPR in wireless communications. Some implementations more specifically relate to suppressing the amplitudes of a data signal that exceed a threshold amplitude level. In some implementations, a transmitting device may detect one or more peaks associated with a data signal to be transmitted to a receiving device. A peak may be any sample of a data signal having an amplitude that exceeds a threshold amplitude level. The transmitting device generates peak suppression information indicating the amplitude, a phase and a position of each of the samples associated with the detected peaks. The transmitting device adjusts the data signal by reducing the amplitudes associated with the detected peaks and transmits the adjusted data signal, with the peak suppression information, to the receiving device. In some implementations, the transmitting device may compress the peak suppression information to reduce the overhead of the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ory Eger, Ran Berliner, Assaf Touboul, Noam Zach, Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf, Amit Bar-or Tillinger, Shay Landis, Gideon Kutz
  • Patent number: 11190252
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to systems, devices, apparatuses, products, and methods for wireless communication. For example, a user equipment (UE) device within a wireless communication system may select a desired number of antenna elements for receiving a communication from another device based on a channel quality determination. The UE receives a first signal from a transmitting device using a first beam. The UE determines a channel quality metric and compares the channel quality metric with a channel quality threshold. The UE adjusts a number of antenna elements used for beamformed wireless communication between the transmitting device and the UE based on the comparison between the channel quality metric and the channel quality threshold. Based on this adjustment, the UE receives a second signal from the transmitting device using a second beam that has a different number of antenna elements than the first beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mihir Vijay Laghate, Ruhua He, Qunfeng He, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11184204
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a pre-distortion circuit and apparatus, a method and computer program for pre-distorting, a transmitter, a radio transceiver, a communication device, a mobile transceiver, a base station transceiver and a storage. The pre-distortion circuit (10) is configured for a digital quadrature signal. The pre-distortion circuit (10) comprises a first input (12) for an inphase component of the quadrature signal and a second input (14) for a quadrature component of the quadrature signal. The pre-distortion circuit 10 comprises a signal processing circuit (16) configured to determine whether polarities of the inphase component and quadrature component are equal, and to determine pre-distortion coefficients based on the amplitude of the inphase component, the amplitude of the quadrature component, and based on whether the polarities are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Mayer, Jan Zaleski, Jovan Markovic
  • Patent number: 11176079
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of communicating with a host apparatus includes a symbol generation unit, a coding unit, and a transmission unit. The symbol generation unit includes a random number generation circuit and generates a symbol according to a random number generated by the random number generation circuit. The coding unit performs 8 b/10 b coding for the symbol. The transmission unit transmits the symbol coded by the 8 b/10 b coding unit to the host apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Yamagishi, Toshitada Saito
  • Patent number: 11177847
    Abstract: A method for compensating for degradation of a signal during transmission of the signal includes: performing thermal detection and accordingly generate a thermal detection result indicative of a temperature of a signal processing circuit; and performing property adjustment to adjust a predetermined property of the signal according to the thermal detection result. The property adjustment is performed on the signal according to the thermal detection result associated with previously transmitted signal. After performing the property adjustment, a characteristic value of the signal reaches a preset level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chiyuan Lu, Ching-Chia Cheng, Toru Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11177861
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device and a control method thereof. The electronic device includes: a housing; a plurality of antennas respectively installed in a plurality of locations spaced from each other in the housing; a communicator configured to transmit and receive a communication signal through the antenna; and at least one processor configured to: select a combination of two or more antennas having a relatively higher quality out of the plurality of antennas based on a transmission and reception quality of the communication signal; and control the communicator to transmit and receive the communication signal through the selected combination of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangho Hong, Sanggi Oh
  • Patent number: 11165481
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to transmitting a set of downlink reference signals corresponding to a set of uplink beams, receiving, from a user equipment (UE) and based on measuring at least one of the set of downlink reference signals, an indication to use a separate uplink beam that is different from a downlink beam for transmitting uplink communications, configuring, based on the indication, the UE with the downlink beam and the separate uplink beam, and receiving, from the UE, uplink communications based on the separate uplink beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tianyang Bai, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang