Patents Examined by Thanh Le
  • Patent number: 9699728
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for power reduction in an electronic device. The method includes determining a local timer value corresponding to an idle time for the electronic device to stay in an idle mode. The electronic device is registered to a service provider to provide service to the electronic device. Further, the method includes starting, upon entering the idle mode, a specific timer with the local timer value, and another timer to track a next update time for the electronic device to update tracking area to the service provider for maintaining the electronic device to be registered to the service provider, exiting the idle mode and entering the power saving mode when the specific timer expires, exiting the power saving mode when the other timer expires, and updating the tracking area to the service provider to keep the electronic device being registered to the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jarkko Eskelinen
  • Patent number: 9692529
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for signal emitter identification using Higher-Order Cumulants (HOC) is presented. At least one transient signal is received from an emitter when the emitter turns on. The at least one transient signal is processed using at least one Higher-Order Cumulant (HOC) to provide a set of entries for a vector table. A feature vector is derived from the vector table, the feature vector identifying the emitter. The feature vector is used to identify an emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wayne D. Music, Ryan N. Wilson, Brian K. Anderson
  • Patent number: 9692531
    Abstract: Methods and systems of measuring communication quality are provided, by which measurement schedules of communication quality can be managed and controlled easily. A plural measurement-time slot is set with respect to a communication line used for communication quality measurements between a plural communication terminal apparatus via a mobile communication network, wherein each measurement-time slot has a time corresponding to one measurement of communication quality and the plural measurement-time slot is continuously arranged at a predetermined period, and a plural measurement schedule for measuring communication quality in each of communications with the plural communication terminal apparatus to the plural measurement-time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventors: Daisuke Maeda, Liang Zhang, Takao Okamawari, Teruya Fujii
  • Patent number: 9686679
    Abstract: Methods and systems of transmitting a beacon message. Implementations of the present disclosure include determining, by a computing device based on a predetermined algorithm, an encryption method using a current time as a parameter. The computing device may encrypt a beacon message using the determined encryption method to obtain an encrypted beacon message. The computing device may further generate a radio frame including the encrypted beacon message and information associated with a decryption computing device, and transmit the radio frame to a mobile device. Implementations of this present disclosure avoid leaking users' sensitive information, and therefore protect users' privacy as well as improve safe uses of beacon transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Jian Qin
  • Patent number: 9679122
    Abstract: Mechanisms for controlling access to credentials are disclosed. A computing device receives, at a first time, a request associated with a user to initiate a plurality of actions against a computing resource of a plurality of computing resources, the request including a credential identifier that identifies a credential. A memory is accessed, based on the credential identifier, to retrieve the credential identified by the credential identifier that was stored in the memory at a time prior to the first time, the credential comprising authentication information configured to authenticate the plurality of actions to the computing resource. The computing device communicates the request and the authentication information to an orchestration engine for execution of the plurality of actions against the computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. DeHaan, Christopher S. Church, Christopher L. Houseknecht, Matthew W. Jones
  • Patent number: 9680795
    Abstract: Techniques for destination domain extraction for secure protocols are disclosed. In some embodiments, destination domain extraction for secure protocols includes monitoring network communications between a client and a remote server; determining if the client sends a request to create a secure connection with the remote server (e.g., in which the network communications are initiating a setup for a secure protocol-based connection); and extracting a destination domain from the request to create the secure connection with the remote server. In some embodiments, the secure protocol is a secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol or transport layer security (TLS) protocol, and the destination domain is extracted from the server name indication (SNI) of a client hello message sent from the client to the remote server. In some embodiments, destination domain extraction for secure protocols further includes applying a policy (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Shivakumar Buruganahalli, Song Wang
  • Patent number: 9667605
    Abstract: An electronic communication system and a method allowing communication to be performed in an open environment are provided for a server to authenticate a user that has no account with the server and to allow the user to perform operations with the server. Users having accounts with different servers in different electronic communication systems may authenticate each other and then communicate with common communication protocols across different application systems. An inviter may invite an invitee to access the inviter's resources saved on a server that the invitee has no account with. Other than the inviter and invitee, no one including the server can access the inviter's resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Inventor: Gerard Lin
  • Patent number: 9667656
    Abstract: Computing resource service providers may provide computing resources to customers in a multi-tenant environment. These computing resources may be behind a firewall or other security device such that certain information does not reach the computing resources provided to the customer. A logging entity may be implemented on computer server operated by the computing resource service provider. The logging entity may obtain log information from the firewall or other security device and store the log information such that it is accessible to the customer. Additionally, the log information may be provided to other services such as a metrics service or intrusion detection service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajat Banerjee, Nathan Andrew Miller, Aniket Deepak Divecha, John Robert Kerl, Mingxue Zhao, Shuai Ye, Kevin Christopher Miller
  • Patent number: 9668209
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for listening window adjustments for power savings in BLE (Bluetooth low energy) communications. BLE devices determine time differences between assumed transmission times and actual receive times for packets transmitted by another BLE device. The BLE device then adjusts a listening window using the time differences, for example, to reduce the size of the listening window based upon the time differences. The adjusted listening window is then used by the BLE device to listen for and receive additional packets from the other BLE device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Inventor: Jere M. Knaappila
  • Patent number: 9667291
    Abstract: A system is described for forming an estimate of an unwanted signal component that may be formed as a result of non-linearities in a system. The estimate is used to form a cancellation signal which is added to an input signal to reduce the influence of the unwanted component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Analog Devices Global
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Pratt
  • Patent number: 9661686
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method performed by a base station system of a wireless communication network, for increasing signal quality of signals sent from a radio head (RH) to a radio unit (RU) over a metallic conductor. The base station system comprising a baseband unit (BBU), the RU, and the RH, and the RU is connected to the RH via the metallic conductor. The method comprises, at the RH: amplifying, by an amplification unit, a signal to be transmitted from the RH to the RU; changing the signal amplification level of the amplification unit; and transmitting the amplified signal to the RU. The method further comprises, at the RU: receiving the amplified signal and compensating, by a compensating unit capable of adapting its amplification level, for the change in signal amplification level performed at the RH such that the strength of the signal is transparent to the base station system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Miguel Berg, Per-Erik Eriksson, Chenguang Lu, Peter Pääkkönen, Elmar Trojer
  • Patent number: 9654564
    Abstract: Described herein are implementations for using a remote control device to control a target device on a network via a remote control proxy device. A remote control device may determine an IoT device capable of functioning as a remote control proxy device. The remote control device may generate a data packet comprising a command for controlling the target device and a network address associated with the target device, and transmit the data packet to the IoT device. If the IoT device determines, using the network address, that it is not the target device, the IoT device may either unicast the data packet to the target device or multicast the data packet to multiple intermediate IoT devices on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rahul Malik, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Menucher Menuchehry, Qi Xue, Bibhu Mohanty
  • Patent number: 9648449
    Abstract: A routing electronic device comprises a receiver/transmitter configured to: receive a first short-range radio signal carrying data indicating an incoming voice call request and the caller's phone number and transmit a signal carrying a first message indicating the incoming voice call request and the caller's phone number, receive a signal carrying a second message indicating an accepted incoming voice call and transmit the first short-range radio signal carrying data indicating the accepted incoming voice call, receive the first short-range radio signal carrying the audio data of a voice communication, and transmit a second short-range radio signal carrying said audio data of the voice communication. The device further comprises a processing unit configured to: receive the signal carrying the first message and transmit a third message indicating the caller's phone number, receive a fourth message indicating the accepted incoming voice call and transmit the signal carrying the second message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: C.O.B.O. S.P.A
    Inventors: Federico Bottino, Valerio Cappelli, Stefano Cardani
  • Patent number: 9646168
    Abstract: A data access control method includes requesting, by the data owner unit, the generation of a data encryption key (DEK) from the manager unit, generating, by the manager unit, the DEK, generating, by the manager unit, the result of the Ciphertext Policy-Attribute Based Encryption (CP-ABE) of the DEK and a secret key used to decrypt the result of the CP-ABE encryption, and then responding, by the manager unit, to the data owner unit, obtaining, by the data owner unit, the DEK by performing the CP-ABE decryption of the result of the CP-ABE encryption using the secret key, encrypting, by the data owner unit, data with the obtained DEK, and uploading, by the data owner unit, the encrypted data and DEK information to the cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae Min Park, Eunchan Kim, Tae Min Ahn, Cheol Oh Kang
  • Patent number: 9641240
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a first device such as a mobile phone can establish a wireless connection with second device, and the second device can act as a bridge between the first device and a peripheral device, such as a printer, so that the first device need not establish a secure pairing or other type of direct connection with the peripheral device. The second device provides a profile of the peripheral to the first device. The first device can then use the profile to access the peripheral device via the second device, with the second device passing data between the first device and the peripheral identified by the profile. This bridging feature simplifies the process of using the peripheral devices, since no secure pairing or other configuration procedure is needed to enable the first device to access the peripheral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Swapnil R. Dave, Devrim Varoglu, Sarin S. Mehta
  • Patent number: 9635498
    Abstract: The invention introduces an apparatus for indoor positioning, which contains at least a communications interface and a processing unit. The processing unit, coupled to the communications interface, sets the apparatus to a connection-disallowed state when an indoor positioning is activated, and broadcasts an advertising message periodically in an advertising state via the communications interface, where the advertising message contains at least the identity of the apparatus, a timestamp at which the advertising message is sent, and the transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: I-Chin Lin, Chang-En Tsai
  • Patent number: 9635556
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method performed for facilitating login on a website. In accordance with an embodiment, the method comprises, by means of a web browser in a radio device, downloading a web page of the website from a web server hosting the website; receiving a login request from the web server, the login request comprising a request for login information for a service from a service application of the service in the radio device; and, in response to the received login request and by means of the service application, automatically sending a login token request to a server of a service provider providing the service. In accordance with an embodiment, the method also comprises, from the server of the service provider, receiving a login token response comprising a login token, and sending a login information message to the web server comprising the login token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SPOTIFY AB
    Inventor: Jens Afzelius
  • Patent number: 9628132
    Abstract: The embodiment relates to a case apparatus including a mounting member, which includes a first mounting member and a second mounting member surrounding the first mounting member; a first antenna device mounted on a top surface of the first mounting member; and a second antenna device mounted on a bottom surface of the second mounting member. Thus, even when the case apparatus is mounted on a mobile communication terminal, short range communication may be smoothly performed between the mobile communication terminal and an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Bok Lee, Yong Suk Chae
  • Patent number: 9628124
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for an apparatus for mitigating interference in sensor signals. In one instance, the apparatus may include sensors and a processing block couplable with the sensors. The processing block may include a front end block to receive sensor signals, and tunable filter block to filter the sensor signals. The apparatus may further include a correction block. The correction block may include a replica of the front end block, and may be configured to receive interference information. A controller may operate the correction block to adjust the tunable filter block, based on interference information, and connect the sensors with the processing block after adjustment. The controller may operate the processing block, in response to connection of the processing block with the sensors, to initiate processing of sensor signals filtered by the filter block, to mitigate interference. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Amit Kumar Srivastava
  • Patent number: 9628044
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for tuning an antenna. In one or more embodiments, a method can include sending, by processing circuitry, one or more signals to an antenna tuner to sweep the tuner through a plurality of tuner states, determining a plurality of power values, each power value corresponding to a signal received from an antenna and each power value corresponding to the tuner being in a state of the plurality of tuner states, and sending one or more signals to the tuner to set the tuner to a tuner state of the plurality of tuner states, the tuner state determined using the determined powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Glen Backes, Lisa Lust, Kelly Muldoon, Doug Carlson