Patents Examined by Tan H Trinh
  • Patent number: 10750518
    Abstract: An antenna system includes: a plurality of antennas; a switching unit, having a plurality of switches, wherein each of the plurality of switches and the corresponding antenna are in a conducting state or in a non-conducting state; a communication unit, connected with each of the plurality of switches of the switching unit, and coupled with the antennas, wherein the communication unit receives a reference value group of the corresponding antenna from the switch in the conducting state; and a control unit, connected with the switching unit and the communication unit, wherein the control unit receives the reference value group from the communication unit, and compares the reference value group with an threshold, to determine whether the reference value group conforms to a pre-determined condition or not, and outputs a restarting instruction to restart the switching unit when the reference value group does not satisfy the pre-determined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Zih-Guang Liao, Wen-Hsin Lin, Ching-Chung Tang, Tsung-Hsun Hsieh, You-Fu Cheng
  • Patent number: 10750452
    Abstract: A system includes a frequency-locked loop (FLL) circuit, a sensor-hub circuit and a processor. The FLL circuit is used to generate a low-frequency clock. The sensor-hub circuit is coupled to a number of sensors and is configured to periodically poll the sensors during polling periods and to detect sensor activities. The processor is coupled to the sensor-hub circuit and can process sensor signals from one or more active sensors. The processor is off during polling periods and is turned on when a sensor activity is detected. The polling periods are based on the low-frequency clock generated by the FLL circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Avinash Agarwal, Mohit Sharma
  • Patent number: 10736044
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or a pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate since 4G communication systems such as LTE. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for determining transmission power of a terminal, including: receiving a terminal-specific transmission power parameter from a base station, determining transmission power of the terminal based on the terminal-specific transmission power parameter and a subcarrier spacing allocated to the terminal, and transmitting an uplink signal based on the determined transmission power, and an apparatus performing the same may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunseok Ryu, Namjeong Lee, Jeongho Park, Jiyun Seol, Hyukmin Son, Peng Xue, Hyunkyu Yu
  • Patent number: 10735079
    Abstract: A plurality of distributed transceivers in a mobile entity such as a car, a truck, an omnibus (bus), a trailer, a mobile home, train, bus, a forklift, construction equipment, a boat, a ship, and/or an aircraft, and/or one or more corresponding antenna arrays that are communicatively coupled to the distributed transceivers are configured to handle communication of one or more data streams among one or more of a plurality of wireless communication networks, one or more other mobile entities and/or one or more mobile communication devices. The data streams may be communicated utilizing the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers and/or the one or more corresponding antenna arrays. The wireless communication networks includes a satellite network, a wireless wide area network, a wireless medium area network, a wireless local area network, a wireless personal area network, a network cloud and/or the Internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Golba LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 10736047
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a terminal controlling uplink power in a carrier aggregation-based wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: configuring a first cell and a second cell; transmitting a first PUCCH signal from subframe #n in the first cell; and transmitting a second PUCCH signal from subframe #n in the second cell, wherein when the sum of transmit power of the first PUCCH signal and transmit power of the second PUCCHJ signal exceeds a predetermined maximum transmit power configured to the terminal, the transmit power of the PUCCH signal having a lower priority from among the first UCCH signal and the second PUCCH signal is reduced or the transmission is dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 10720946
    Abstract: A radio frequency transmitter includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a load circuit, and a modulator circuit. The load circuit is coupled to an output of the DAC. The modulator circuit is coupled to the DAC and the load circuit. The modulator circuit includes a driver circuit configured to provide a bias voltage to the load circuit, and an amplifier configured to receive an output of the DAC biased by an output of the load circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jagdish Chand, Subhashish Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 10716070
    Abstract: A wireless device determines a total transmission power for transmission of uplink signals in a subframe of subframes of an uplink transmission burst. A transmission power value of an uplink signal of the uplink signals is scaled, based on a subframe position of the subframe in the subframes of the uplink transmission burst, in response to the total transmission power exceeding a first value so that an updated total transmission power does not exceed the first value. The uplink signal is transmitted in the subframe and with the transmission power value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 10694472
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving at least one of a configuration of a first group of one or more downlink (DL) signals, a configuration of a second group of one or more open-loop power control (PC) parameters, a configuration of a third group of one or more closed-loop PC parameters, or a configuration of a fourth group of one or more loop states, receiving a configuration of a PC setting, wherein the PC setting is associated with at least one of a subset of the first group, a subset of the second group, a subset of the third group, or a subset of the fourth group, selecting a transmit power level in accordance with the PC setting and a pathloss, wherein the pathloss is determined in accordance with a DL reference signal (SS) and a synchronization signal (SS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jialing Liu, Weimin Xiao, Qian Cheng
  • Patent number: 10681649
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for spatial reuse for neighboring nodes of distribution networks, so they may transmit without causing interference to nodes of the distribution network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Assaf Yaakov Kasher, Amichai Sanderovich, Alecsander Petru Eitan, Solomon Trainin
  • Patent number: 10680701
    Abstract: A method performed on-board by a satellite for processing a signal received from a terminal during a current time interval, includes receiving, during the current time interval, a main signal containing a message from a terminal, each message having a priority level; sampling the main signal to obtain samples; storing the obtained samples into the satellite memory; first demodulating the messages corresponding to the current time interval contained in the samples stored in memory; when the satellite is in the range of a ground station, transmitting to the ground station the content of the memory. The first demodulating includes, for each message of the messages contained in the samples and by priority order: demodulating and decoding the message; forwarding, using direct link or inter-satellite-link, the demodulated message to a ground station; estimating the number of remaining non-demodulated messages in the samples stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignees: EUTELSAT S A, M.B.I. S.r.l.
    Inventors: Antonio Arcidiacono, Daniele Vito Finocchiaro, Rocco Mauro Bueti, Marco Andrenacci
  • Patent number: 10681645
    Abstract: A method, performed by a terminal, of transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a higher layer parameter for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), in response to the higher layer parameter including a cell identity (ID) indicating a serving cell, identifying an active downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) of the serving cell, and receiving a reference signal (RS) on the active DL BWP of the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jinkyu Kang, Youngbum Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Taehan Bae, Jeongho Yeo, Jinyoung Oh, Seunghoon Choi
  • Patent number: 10666808
    Abstract: A method and system for optimizing voice recognition and information searching. The method includes determining context data associated with a particular talkgroup (140) that includes a plurality of communications devices (120) and creating a list of talkgroup-specific keywords associated with the context data, the list of talkgroup-specific keywords including a first characteristic for each talkgroup-specific keyword. The method also includes receiving, from a first communications device (120A) of the plurality of communications devices (120), audio data associated with a user of the first communications device (120A) and processing the audio data to generate an initial output term. The method further includes determining a second characteristic of the initial output term and determining whether the first characteristic of a talkgroup-specific keyword from the list of talkgroup-specific keywords matches the second characteristic of the initial output term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Marta Tatiana Musik, Grzegorz Kaplita, Wojciech T. Wojcik
  • Patent number: 10667108
    Abstract: A user sets a format of an advertise packet to be transmitted from a plurality of formats using a setting screen displayed on a printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus transmits an advertise packet according to the setting made via the setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Go Inoue
  • Patent number: 10660077
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink transmission power allocation. One method includes: determining a transmission time for a first transmission (“FT”); determining first transmissions overlapping with the FT that start before a start time (“ST”) of the FT; determining a cut-off time (“COT”) for power determination; determining second transmissions overlapping with the FT that start at or later than (“SAOLT”) the ST; scheduling information and/or transmission information for the second transmissions is known at or before the COT; determining third transmissions that overlap with the FT that SAOLT the ST; scheduling information and/or transmission information for the third transmissions is known after the COT; allocating FT power based on a maximum total transmission power for the first transmissions and a minimum guaranteed power corresponding to the second transmissions and/or the third transmissions; and performing the FT using the FT power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia, Joachim Loehr, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 10660045
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of a first wireless communication apparatus of a communication system operating in a hardened channel environment. The method comprises determining a transmission power to be used by a second wireless communication apparatus of the communication system for transmission of a signal carrying control information, participating in communication involving the signal transmitted using the determined transmission power, and using the determined transmission power to discriminate between the second wireless communication apparatus and one or more third wireless communication apparatus. The second and one or more third wireless communication apparatuses may be comprised in respective user equipments of a plurality of user equipments associated with a network node of the communication system. The first wireless communication apparatus may be comprised in the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pål Frenger, Emil Björnson, Martin Hessler, Erik G. Larsson
  • Patent number: 10652373
    Abstract: The durability of a mobile terminal can be improved by improving the heat-dissipating performance thereof, the mobile terminal comprising an inner space and having a camera hole formed on the rear surface thereof; a substrate located in the inner space and having an electric element mounted thereon; a camera module including a lens part and mounted at a location corresponding to the camera hole; a deco frame, which includes a lens hole for exposing a lens part of the camera module and a heat-dissipating hole formed on the circumference of the lens hole, and is inserted into the camera hole; and a heat-dissipating sheet located in the inner space and including a heat-absorbing part coming in contact with the electric element, a heat-dissipating part located on the inner side of the deco frame and covering the heat-dissipating hole, and a heat transfer part connecting the heat absorbing part and the heat-dissipating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdo Cha, Choonhwa Lee, Bonghyun Lee
  • Patent number: 10652141
    Abstract: A network system customizes communications and communication channels for delivery to candidate providers registering with the network system. Candidate providers progress through steps of a network registration process by providing input data at the various steps. The network system provides communications to request the input data and facilitate the candidate providers' progress. The network system can use a machine learning model to predict particular types of communications and communication channels (e.g., online messages, phone calls, physical mail, etc.) that are likely to be well-received by candidate providers. Thus, the network system is able to increase the expected number of candidate providers that successfully register to provide services to other users of the network system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Guangqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10644761
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining placement of a plurality of simulated antennas of a simulated distributed antenna system (DAS) for handling simulated MIMO signals in a simulated environment includes: at a first simulated location, simulating communication of a first simulated MIMO signal by a first remote unit over a first simulated air interface; at a second simulated location, simulating communication of a second simulated MIMO signal by a second remote unit over a second simulated air interface; the first simulated location and the second simulated location arranged within the simulated environment to provide overlapping simulated signal coverage of both the first simulated MIMO signal and the second simulated MIMO signal at a third simulated location; and analyzing at least a first simulated received power of the first simulated MIMO signal and a second simulated received power of the second simulated MIMO signal at the third simulated location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Pier Faccin, Luigi Tarlazzi
  • Patent number: 10645541
    Abstract: A method for extending the connection time of talkgroup radios in a talkgroup conversation based on historical talkgroup statistics is provided. A talkgroup conversation request intended for a talkgroup is received from a first mobile unit. A group call grant message is sent to radios that are members of the talkgroup. The group call grant message initiates the talkgroup conversation with a first talkgroup call and includes an extended connection time value. Once it is determined that the first talkgroup call has ended, all radios that are members of the talkgroup are kept in a connected state. An extended connection timer utilizing the extended connection time value is started. Upon expiration of the extended connection timer, all radios that are members of the talkgroup are set to an idle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yunhai Yang, Daniel J. McDonald
  • Patent number: 10631251
    Abstract: A gain control circuit in a wireless distribution system (WDS) is provided. The gain control circuit generates a combined digital communications signal based on a number of received radio frequency (RF) communications signals. The combined digital communications signal has a digital amplitude(s) representing a summed analog power level(s) of the RF communications signals in a predefined number of binary bits. When the summed analog power level(s) exceeds a maximum analog power level represented by the digital amplitude(s) in the predefined number of binary bits, the gain control circuit determines a selected RF communications signal(s) causing the summed analog power level to exceed the maximum analog power level and attenuates the selected RF communications signal(s) to reduce the summed analog power level to below the maximum analog power level. As such, it is possible to achieve a calculated balance between performance, complexity, and cost in the gain control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventor: Dror Harel