Patents Examined by Thai N. Vu
  • Method and apparatus for acquiring ranging information by terminal in wireless communication system supporting device to device communication
    Patent number: 11102749
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for acquiring ranging information by a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting device to device (D2D) communication. Specifically, disclosed are a method and an apparatus for acquiring ranging information by a terminal, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a road side unit (RSV), a ranging signal including location information of the RSU; transmitting a feedback signal to the RSU, in a resource region determined on the basis of geographic information of the terminal; and receiving a response signal from the RSU, as a response to the feedback signal, and acquiring ranging information on the basis of the received response signal, wherein the response signal further includes ranging information of another terminal which has received the ranging signal and transmitted a feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo
  • Connection configuration method
    Patent number: 11102716
    Abstract: A method for configuring a connection between a User Equipment, UE, and a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, compliant mobile communications network at the UE. The method comprises checking a service equivalency indicator, the service equivalency indicator indicating zero or more mobile communications networks the UE is permitted to transmit a new request for a PDN connection corresponding to a previously rejected request for a PDN connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ricky Kumar Kaura, Howard Peter Benn
  • Provisioning electronic subscriber identity modules to mobile wireless devices
    Patent number: 11089480
    Abstract: This application sets forth techniques for provisioning electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) to mobile wireless devices that do not include functional bootstrap provisioning profiles to obtain access to a cellular wireless network. Connectivity to a cellular wireless network can be allowed for provisioning one or more eSIMs to a mobile wireless device using hardware device identifiers for authentication and a limited purpose provisioning connection when the cellular wireless network supports provisioning connections without the use of a provisioning profile for access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangying Yang, Anish Kumar Goyal, Chandiramohan Vasudevan, Vikram Bhaskara Yerrabommanahalli, Raj S. Chaugule, Li Li
  • Device configuration method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11082803
    Abstract: A device configuration method and apparatus are provided, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method is applied to a management device that manages n transmission devices, n?2, and the method includes: determining a transmission device accessed by user equipment UE; grouping m transmission devices including the transmission device accessed by the UE into a tracking set, where 1?m<n; and sending tracking configuration information to each transmission device in the tracking set, where the tracking configuration information is sent to the UE by the transmission device that is in the tracking set and that is currently accessed by the UE, to instruct the UE to send a tracking signal, and the tracking signal is used to determine a location of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technoiogies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yalin Liu, Guangzhu Zeng
  • Message-based management service enrollment
    Patent number: 11082813
    Abstract: Disclosed are various examples for message-based management service enrollment. In some examples, an enrollment application obtains a user-entered number. A unique device identifier and a device communication identifier are identified and transmitted to an enrollment service using the user-entered number. Enrollment data is received at the client device, and the client device enrolls with a management service using the enrollment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Azhar Faiz Samdani, Subhrajit Bhowmik, Anantha Raman B R, Bhyruva S Gangadharaiah
  • Mobility management method, network side device, internet-of-vehicles terminal, and system
    Patent number: 11057805
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a mobility management method. The method includes sending, by a network side device, a RRC connection reconfiguration message to an Internet of Vehicles terminal when determining that network handover is required to be performed for the Internet of Vehicles terminal; and receiving, by the Internet of Vehicles terminal, the RRC connection reconfiguration message sent by the network side device, and after completing reconfiguration of a radio resource according to the RRC connection reconfiguration message, sending to the network side device a RRC connection reconfiguration completion message carrying current physical location information of the Internet of Vehicles terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Ma, Yaying Wang, Jianfeng Ding, Yong Lv
  • Outputting notifications using device groups
    Patent number: 11051139
    Abstract: A system that determines that devices are co-located in an acoustic region and selects a single device to which to send incoming notifications for the acoustic region. The system may group devices into separate acoustic regions based on selection data that selects between similar audio data received from multiple devices. The system may select the best device for each acoustic region based on a frequency that the device was selected previously, input/output capabilities of the device, a proximity to a user, or the like. The system may send a notification to a single device in each of the acoustic regions so that a user receives a single notification instead of multiple unsynchronized notifications. The system may also determine that acoustic regions are associated with different locations and select acoustic regions to which to send a notification based on location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, Vikram Kumar Gundeti, James Marvin Freeman, II, Benjamin Jones
  • Call traffic data monitoring and management
    Patent number: 11050879
    Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying one or more call parameters associated with each of a number of calls received over a fixed period of time, assigning scores to each of the calls based on the one or more identified call parameters for each of the plurality of calls, assigning one or more of the calls to a scam call category based on the assigned scores, and responsive to the assigning of the one or more of the calls to a scam call category, determining whether a number of remaining calls of the calls, which are not assigned to the scam call category, have increased or decreased beyond a deviation margin of a target percentage of calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
  • Communication method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11019536
    Abstract: This application discloses a communication method and an apparatus. When a terminal device switches to a target cell or is connected to a new primary cell, by requesting a network device to release a session corresponding to a network slice that is not supported by the target cell or the new primary cell and to keep a session corresponding to a network slice that is supported by the target cell or the new primary cell, the session corresponding to the network slice that is not supported by the target cell or the new primary cell can be quickly released, and a network resource is saved while a session corresponding to a network slice supported by the target cell or the new primary cell is enabled to be continued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shitong Yuan, Yalin Liu
  • Refining and selecting timing data to increase accuracy of timing-based location for user equipment
    Patent number: 11009583
    Abstract: Machine learning on user equipment candidate locations provides more accurate location estimation in timing-based location estimation. For instance, timing signals from a user equipment are collected, and adjusted using calibration data, previously known for pairs of fixed-located cells. The adjusted timing data are processed into a location candidate dataset. The location candidate data set is iteratively processed using machine learning technology to eliminate candidate locations until an estimated location is determinable. The location estimation via the described technology is significantly more accurate than other timing-based methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles Michaelis, Mark D. Austin, Sheldon Meredith
  • Data transaction scheduling using crowd-sourced network data
    Patent number: 10997600
    Abstract: Techniques for efficiently performing data transactions are disclosed herein. In an example, crowd-sourced data is used to generate a network map that includes network properties mapped to one or more geographical locations. The network map is used to determine if a network that has one or more target properties is within a threshold range of a computing device. The target properties are based on one or more parameters of an upcoming data transaction. If a respective network with one or more target properties is within range of the computing device, the upcoming data transaction can be scheduled for initiation when the computing device is connected to the respective network. If no networks have the one or more target properties, the upcoming transaction can be initiated using a current network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Michael Daum, Mahendra D. Sekaran
  • Visitor insights based on hyper-locating places-of-interest
    Patent number: 10972862
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to determining visitor behavior. In particular, it relates to receiving preliminary geospatial coordinates of a plurality of places-of-interest, generating (i) contours of the places-of-interest and (ii) hyper-located geospatial coordinates of centroids of the places-of-interest based on processing the preliminary geospatial coordinates of the places-of-interest, and correlating (i) the contours and (ii) the hyper-located geospatial coordinates of the centroids of the places-of-interest with geospatial coordinates of visitor locations to determine the visitor behavior of visitors visiting the places-of-interest, including at least one of detecting whether the visitors visited the places-of-interest, and detecting a duration for which the visitors visited the places-of-interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SafeGraph, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaushik Iska, Tenzing Shaw, Andrew Israel, Noah Yonack
  • Method and system for providing security from a radio access network
    Patent number: 10958631
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a security method in a radio access network system. A shared secret key is stored in both a user device and a core network system. A further secret key is received from the core network system, wherein the further secret key has been derived using the shared secret key stored in the core network system. One or more values are provided over the radio interface to the user device to derive the further secret key in the user device from at least the shared secret key stored in the user device and one or more of the one or more values provided over the radio interface. An authentication procedure and/or a key agreement procedure is performed for the user device over the wireless radio interface using the received further secret key in the radio access network system and the derived further secret key in the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventor: Frank Fransen
  • Method and apparatus for authenticating users in internet of things environment
    Patent number: 10952074
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, machine type communication (MTC), machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and an authenticating system for authenticating users in an IoT environment are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pratik Verma, Aloknath De
  • Crisis management system and methods thereof
    Patent number: 10945115
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are crisis management systems and methods thereof. The crisis management methods may include registering a group of users for access to a crisis management system; receiving, by crisis management system, an indication of a crisis event at a physical location from at least one user of the group of users, the crisis event caused by an aggressor; determining, by crisis management system, a location of the aggressor; creating, by crisis management system, a secure communication channel between the group of users; denying access, by crisis management system, to the secure communication channel to the aggressor; and notifying, by crisis management system, the group of users of the location of the aggressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTRADO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Samah Chouraichi, Jason Paul Dunphy
  • Establishing a bearer service in a telecommunications network
    Patent number: 10939484
    Abstract: Method for establishing an EPS Bearer for a mobile terminal (UE, 200, 400) in a telecommunications network (240, 280, 440, 480), and a packet data network gateway (PGW, 260, 460) receives and analyses a negative response message from a charging system (OCS/PCRF, 270, 470), characterized in that, when an update location procedure of the mobile terminal (UE, 200, 400) is successfully completed in the telecommunications network (240, 280, 440, 480), the packet data network gateway (260, 460) transmits a message (via the signaling gateway, SGW) to a Mobility Management Entity (MME, 220, 420), whereby the message comprises a bearer activation key, the mobility management entity activates an EPS bearer between the telecommunications network and the mobile terminal by using the received bearer activation key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: VODAFONE GMBH
    Inventors: Yang Lu, Peter Wild, Juergen Caldenhoven
  • Transmitting/receiving system and method for processing a broadcast signal
    Patent number: 10904641
    Abstract: A method of transmitting an emergency alert message by a broadcast transmitter is discussed. The method includes encoding, by an encoder circuit, service data and signaling data; encoding, by a signaling encoder circuit, transmission parameter data, wherein the transmission parameter data includes encoding information of the service data; modulating, by a modulator, the encoded service data, the encoded signaling data, and the encoded transmission parameter data; and transmitting, by a Radio Frequency (RF) transmitter, a broadcast signal including the modulated service data, the modulated signaling data, and the modulated transmission parameter data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsung Kwak, Jeongwoo Kim
  • Methods and systems for naming a pick up location
    Patent number: 10904724
    Abstract: A method for naming a pickup location may include obtaining a location pair associated with a user from a terminal, the location pair including a current location and a pickup location. The method may also include determining a first and a second preliminary POIs based on the location pair and a target POI database. The method may further include determining a feature of the first preliminary POI and a feature of the second preliminary POI. The method may also include obtaining a trained naming model for naming a pickup location and determining a first score for the first preliminary POI and a second score for the second preliminary POI. The method may further include determining a final POI based on the first score and the second score, and determining a name of the pickup location based on the final POI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Zhao, Fenglei Wang
  • Method and apparatus for providing services in local area data network
    Patent number: 10904856
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for recommending a service provided by a local area data network (LADN) are provided. The operation method of a mobile edge computing (MEC) control server includes receiving, from at least one of a user equipment (UE), an access and mobility management function (AMF) device, or a session management function (SMF) device, location information including a cell identity (ID) of a cell to which the UE is connected or a tracking area identity (TAI) of a tracking area in which the UE is located, determining at least one LADN accessible by the UE, based on the location information, determining a first service to be recommended to the UE from among services providable to the UE through the at least one LADN, and transmitting, to the UE, information associated with the recommended first service and a LADN capable of providing the recommended first service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chihyun Cho, Sangjin Kim, Soohyun Baek
  • Data gap bridging methods and systems
    Patent number: 10893151
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for decreasing latency in a billing cycle, the method comprising receiving a first charging data report (CDR) including a sent data volume from a vendor and comparing the first CDR to an operator received data volume and when the first CDR does not match the operator received data volume, rejecting the first charging report. The method further comprising providing a second CDR having the operator received data volume to the vendor, receiving a charging data acceptance including a negotiated data volume from the vendor, constructing a publicly verifiable proof of charging based on the charging data acceptance, and sending the publicly verifiable proof of charging to the vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Kyu-Han Kim, Yuanjie Li