Patents Examined by Tan H Trinh
  • Patent number: 11431109
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a housing including a first plate, a second plate oriented in a direction opposite to the first plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate; and, as an antenna structure including at least one plane parallel to the second plate, wherein the antenna structure includes a first element disposed on the plane, a second element spaced apart from the first element on the plane when viewed from above the plane, and a third element spaced apart from the second element on the plane when viewed from above the plane, the second element being disposed between the first element and the third element, a wireless communication circuit electrically configured to transmit and receive a signal having a frequency range of 10 GHz-100 GHz, wherein the wireless communication circuit includes a first electrical path connected to the first element, a second electrical path connected to a first point on the second element
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sumin Yun, Sehyun Park, Myunghun Jeong, Jehun Jong, Jaehoon Jo, Jinwoo Jung, Jaebong Chun
  • Patent number: 11417954
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a housing and an antenna module disposed on one surface of the housing, wherein the antenna module may include a printed circuit board including a first layer facing the one surface of the housing, a second layer facing the first layer, and at least one ground layer disposed between the first layer and the second layer, a first antenna array disposed on the first layer, a second antenna array disposed on the second layer and at least partially overlapping the first antenna array when viewed from the one surface of the housing, and a communication circuit (radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC)) electrically connected to the first antenna array and the second antenna array and feeding the first antenna array and the second antenna array, wherein the communication circuit may be configured to receive a first signal from an external device via at least one of the first antenna array or the second antenna array, change a phase
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Yeonwoo Kim, Wonbin Hong, Sehyun Park, Junho Park, Sumin Yun
  • Patent number: 11418222
    Abstract: A data transmission method and device for a multi-radio frequency system, a storage medium and a terminal are provided. The multi-radio frequency system includes a shared radio frequency antenna and a non-shared radio frequency antenna, the shared radio frequency antenna is configured to transmit Wi-Fi data and non-Wi-Fi data, the non-shared radio frequency antenna is configured to transmit the Wi-Fi data, and the method includes: in at least a portion of a Wi-Fi time slice, if there is Wi-Fi data to be transmitted, transmitting the Wi-Fi data using the shared radio frequency antenna and the non-shared radio frequency antenna; and in a non-Wi-Fi time slice, if there is Wi-Fi data to be transmitted, transmitting the Wi-Fi data using the non-shared radio frequency antenna. Wi-Fi transmission efficiency and performance of the multi-radio frequency system are improved, which is conducive to coexistence of different radio frequency modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yexin Peng, Xin Liu, Chinghwa Yu, Yantao Li, Yanchao Xu, Long Wang
  • Patent number: 11414209
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile launch pad for facilitating launching and landing of flying taxis, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the mobile launch pad may include a platform and at least one propulsion assembly. Further, the platform may include at least one rising panel, a base panel, and at least one lift mechanism. Further, the at least one rising panel may be coupled to the base panel using the at least one lift mechanism. Further, the at least one rising panel in the at least two positions may be configured to support at least one aerial vehicle of a flying taxi. Further, the at least one propulsion assembly may be operationally coupled with the platform. Further, the at least one propulsion assembly may be configured for propelling the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: William David Schonfelder
  • Patent number: 11411313
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises first and second array antennas, and first and second wireless communication devices. An orientation of the first array antenna is different from an orientation of the second array antenna. A frequency band of the second wireless communication device is lower than a frequency band of the first wireless communication device. An electromagnetic wave power of the second wireless communication device is larger than an electromagnetic wave power of the first wireless communication device. A size or distance of antenna elements of the second array antenna is larger than a size or distance of antenna elements of the first array antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Koji Akita, Toshihisa Nabetani
  • Patent number: 11404765
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing; a display; and an extendable phased array antenna structure integrated with the housing and moveable relative to the housing between a retracted position and an extended position. The extendable phased array antenna structure comprises an array of antenna elements that are configured to form a beam in a determined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GLAIVERF, INC.
    Inventor: Wayne H. Woods, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11405756
    Abstract: A terminal device includes at least one processor and a transceiver. The at least one processor is configured to execute computer readable instructions to generate a list of a plurality of other terminal devices located within a threshold range from the terminal device via short-range wireless communication. The transceiver is configured to transmit, in response to selection of a set of terminal devices from among the plurality of other terminal devices included in the list, a request to establish an association with users corresponding to terminal devices in the selected set of terminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11398158
    Abstract: System and method for forecasting availability of network services during flight is provided. The system of the disclosed invention utilizes flight plans and coverage data to provide users aboard aircraft with status of satellite Internet services. The system couples the flight plans with the coverage data to provide information regarding how the flight path of the aircraft will affect availability of Internet services during the flight. The method includes retrieving a flight plan to generate a flight path having one or more waypoints, transmitting one or more service coverage data from service providers, coupling the flight path with the service coverage data to determine portions of the flight path in which the network service is unavailable, and delivering to the users information about the service unavailable portions of the flight path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SATCOM DIRECT, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Halsey, Ryan Sands
  • Patent number: 11399086
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed, including: a housing that is foldable, the housing including a front plate facing a first direction, a rear plate facing a second direction opposite the first direction, and a side member surrounding a space defined between the front plate and the rear plate, a display having one surface visible through the front plate, and foldable with the front plate, a speaker disposed between the front plate and the rear plate, the speaker movable with a folding of the front plate, and a resonance space defined between the speaker and the rear plate, a size of the resonance space changeable according to the folding of the front plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Iksu Jung, Seonghoon Kim, Minsung Lee, Minwoo Yoo, Jongchul Choi
  • Patent number: 11395231
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for network discovery. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may transmit, to a first access point (AP), via a Primary Connectivity Radio (PCR), a request indicating that on a condition that the WTRU is disassociated from the first AP, the WTRU will enter a wake-up radio (WUR) only discovery mode. The WTRU may receive, from the first AP, via the PCR, a management frame that has WUR discovery elements including an indication of at least one channel used by a second AP. The WTRU may perform disassociation from the first AP. The WTRU may activate a WUR and deactivate the PCR. On a condition that the WTRU is disassociated from the first AP, the WTRU may receive, from the second AP, via the WUR, a WUR frame over the at least one channel to enable the WTRU to activate the PCR to initiate association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofei Wang, Li-Hsiang Sun, Hanqing Lou, Oghenekome Oteri, Joseph S. Levy, Rui Yang, Alphan Sahin
  • Patent number: 11387856
    Abstract: A radio-frequency module includes a multilayer substrate, an input switch, an output switch, and filters. A switch IC is disposed on a main surface of the multilayer substrate. The input switch is disposed in the switch IC and includes a first input terminal and first output terminals. The output switch is disposed in the switch IC and includes second input terminals and a second output terminal. The filters are disposed outside the switch IC and are connected to the first output terminals and the second input terminals. In a plan view of the multilayer substrate, the first input terminal and the first output terminals are disposed close to a first side of an exterior of the switch IC, and the second input terminals and the second output terminal are disposed close to a second side different from the first side of the exterior of the switch IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11381901
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless headset role switching method, relating to the technical field of portable listening devices, wherein a main wireless headset is a headset currently establishing a connection with a terminal, and a slave wireless headset is a headset not currently establishing a connection with the terminal. The method includes: when receiving an in-place instruction, a main wireless headset sending connection information of the main wireless headset and a terminal to a slave wireless headset, so that the slave wireless headset initiates a connection request to the terminal according to the connection information and establishes a connection with the terminal, thereby completing wireless headset role switching. Also disclosed are a wireless headset, a wireless connection device role switching method, a TWS headset and a computer-readable storage medium, having those beneficial effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GOERTEK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huijun Li, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11382047
    Abstract: A terminal device (200) is provided for a sensor (S) and/or actuator (A) of an industrial machine, wherein the terminal device (200) comprises at least one communication module (C) and an antenna (A), and wherein the terminal device (200) is set up to determine an initial transmission power as a function of a previously determined relative position of the terminal device (200) to at least one master unit and/or as a function of a previously determined estimated value for the transmission power, and to transmit a radio signal with the determined initial transmission power via an uplink radio channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Von Hoyningen-Huene, Monique Duengen
  • Patent number: 11374670
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a receiving device, a transmitting device, and a data processing method which are capable of providing a broadcast service using a wide bandwidth more flexibly. A receiving device processes a stream in which delivery configuration information indicating that the stream of the broadcast service is delivered across a predetermined frequency band is included in transmission information which is transmitted through an upper layer higher than a physical layer, the stream having a delivery configuration corresponding to the delivery configuration information, so that a broadcast service using a wider bandwidth can be provided. The present technology can be applied to a FW proxy device connected to a network such as, a home LAN, a head end of a cable operator, a base station of a mobile network, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11375058
    Abstract: An electronic device includes one or more sensors, one or more processors operable with the one or more sensors, and a status indicator configured to indicate whether an authorized user of the electronic device is busy, free, or somewhere in between. The status indicator can operate in at least a first state and a second state that is different from the first state. The first state indicates the authorized user is busy and should not be disturbed, while the second state indicates the authorized user is free. Red light can be emitted in the first state, and green light in the second state. The state of the status indicator can be set manually, such as with a chopping gesture, or automatically, such as from a type of audio signal being received by a communication device of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Francis Kuzhiyil
  • Patent number: 11368213
    Abstract: A satellite provides communication between user terminals (UTs) and ground stations that connect to other networks, such as the Internet. Because the satellite is within range of many UTs at any given time, many UTs are in contention to use an uplink to send upstream data to the satellite. Contention for the uplink may be managed by sending grants that allocate a portion of the uplink time and frequency resources to individual UTs. A UT serviced by the satellite uses information based on the grants to determine whether upstream data from a user device connected the UT should be accepted for future transmission promised to deliver specified quality of service to the user device. Acting as a distributed system, each UT may decide to approve upstream data based on one or more factors, such as source address, destination address, header flags, predicted radio availability, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Baosheng Li, Mohammad Mamunur Rashid, Bulin Zhang, Ali Masoomzadeh, Deepak
  • Patent number: 11368830
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire information relating to a current position of a terminal from the terminal, transmit first content data to the terminal when the current position of the terminal is within a communication range of first wireless communication, and transmit second content data, which has a data size transmittable within a predetermined time even though second wireless communication having a speed lower than the first wireless communication, transfers information with the same effect as a content of the first content data, and is different in transfer method of the content from the first content data, to the terminal when the current position of the terminal is outside the communication range of the first wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Jun Hioki, Kazuki Matsumoto, Fumio Wada
  • Patent number: 11368919
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques for multiple transmission reception points (TRPs) in a cluster may coordinate scheduling and communications with a user equipment (UE). Different TRPs may allocate uplink resources for one or more UEs within a coordinated cluster to transmit feedback information. A first TRP may provide a first set of resources that one or more associated UEs may use to transmit acknowledgment (ACK) feedback to indicate successful receipt of a downlink transmission of the first TRP, and one or more other TRPs of the coordinated cluster may provide a second set of resources that the one or more UEs may use to transmit negative acknowledgment (NACK) feedback to indicate that a downlink transmission of the first TRP was lost. The second set of resources may include non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li, Christophe Chevallier
  • Patent number: 11363535
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and a device for controlling uplink power. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, uplink power control information transmitted by a network device; determining, by the terminal device, according to the uplink power control information, a target power control parameter corresponding to a target transmission mode, where the target transmission mode is a target uplink multiple access mode, or a target uplink beam, or a target uplink precoding scheme, or a target transmission scheduling scheme; and determining, by the terminal device, according to the target power control parameter, target transmitting power for transmitting a target uplink signal using the target transmission mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11356138
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to transition of a radio frequency module between a first operating state and a second operating state. The first and second states may be passive/slow (e.g., non-active) states or active/fast states. A passive state may include a sleep state, an idle state, an off state, or a low power state. An active state may include a receiving state or a transmitting state, for receiving and transmitting signals, respectively. If the first operating state is an active state and the second operating state is a passive state, the transition from the first operating state may be delayed such that the radio frequency module transitions directly from the first operating state to a third operating state. This enables the radio frequency module to avoid entering a passive second state with a slow settling time which can interfere with communications and operation of the radio frequency module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Khaye Loon Wei, Mohammad-Saleh Moonesan