Patents Examined by Wayne H Cai
  • Patent number: 11284335
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a medium for obtaining and providing access information of a wireless access point. The method comprises: searching for wireless access points to obtain identification information of one or more wireless access points; determining whether mobile data is available; if yes, sending an access information query request via mobile data, wherein the access information query request comprises the identification information of the one or more wireless access points; if no, sending a query request short message via a short message channel, wherein the query request short message comprises the identification information of the one or more wireless access points; receiving access information of the one or more wireless access points returned by a network device in response to the access information query request or the query request short message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI SHANGWANG NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Gao, Yinglin Cui
  • Patent number: 11277873
    Abstract: A method (400) in an SCEF node for facilitating non-IP UE-to-UE communications is provided. The method (400) includes: receiving (420) from a first MME/SGSN associated with a source UE a Create SCEF Connection Request containing an identity of the source UE and an identity of a destination UE; receiving (430) from the first MME/SGSN an MO NIDD Submit Request containing the identity of the source UE and a non-IP data from the source UE; and transmitting (440) an MT NIDD Submit Request containing the non-IP data to a second MME/SGSN associated with the destination UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Junjun Wang, Jingrui Tao
  • Patent number: 11277504
    Abstract: An accessory for a mobile electronic device includes a platform, a wallet, and a grip accessory coupled to the wallet. The platform is adapted to be attached to the mobile electronic device or a case for the mobile electronic device. The wallet is attached to the platform and configured to hold one or more objects associated with a user of the accessory. The grip accessory is adapted to permit a user of the accessory to securely grip the accessory and includes a base and a gripping element movable relative to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: POPSOCKETS LLC
    Inventors: Vanessa C. Cantoli-Alves, Randy Yang Chiang, Altan Nahum
  • Patent number: 11272345
    Abstract: A method is provided for relaying Public Warning System (PWS) messages. The method includes a communications device receiving a PWS message over a first communication technology. The method also includes the communications device relaying all or part of the PWS message over a second communication technology, wherein the second communication technology is different than the first communication technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Buckley, Rene Faurie
  • Patent number: 11265715
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus. A method, performed by a primary terminal, of providing a communication service may include: identifying and accessing, by performing a discovery process, an Internet of Things (IoT) terminal operating as an access point, transmitting, to the IoT terminal, authentication information for performing a second embedded Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) setup process following a first eSIM setup process while performing the first eSIM setup process on the IoT terminal, disconnecting first connection with the IoT terminal after terminating the first eSIM setup process, performing second connection with the IoT terminal based on the authentication information, in response to an access request from the IoT terminal and performing the second eSIM setup process as a subsequent procedure to the first eSIM setup process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sujung Kang, Hyewon Lee, Jonghan Park, Duckey Lee
  • Patent number: 11259171
    Abstract: A 5G communication system includes at least one visited network slice; a home network slice; and a bridge entity. The at least one visited network slice comprises a visited radio access network (RAN) entity. The home network slice comprises a home Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) entity. The bridge entity coupled between the visited RAN entity and the home AMF entity, wherein the bridge entity is configured to route a registration request message of a roaming user equipment (UE) received from the visited RAN entity to the home AMF entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventor: Reinhard Lauster
  • Patent number: 11252575
    Abstract: An apparatus and method comprising: determining by a first network node of a user equipment that a user equipment is to be dual connected to the first network node and a second network node; identify at least one radio configuration supported by the first network node from communication capability information of the user equipment; sending information to the second network node, the information comprising the capability information and the at least one radio configuration supported by the first network node; and in response to the sending, receiving from the second network node an indication of a chosen at least one radio configuration of the at least one supported radio configuration for use in the dual connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Tero Henttonen, Amaanat Ali
  • Patent number: 11240740
    Abstract: A method related to the field of mobile communications technologies and for processing radio frequency resources includes detecting, by a terminal, a service mode of a first service that uses a primary subscriber identification module (SIM) card, where the service mode includes a real-time service mode and a non-real-time service mode, and reducing, by the terminal, a proportion of radio frequency (RF) resources occupied by a secondary SIM card when the service mode of the first service is the real-time service mode, where the primary SIM card is a card for performing the real-time service mode, and the secondary SIM card is a card, other than the primary SIM card, in a multi-SIM multi-standby terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongjin Li, Fuke Wang, Lei Wang, Wenjie Duan, Li Shen
  • Patent number: 11218835
    Abstract: An Information processing apparatus, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: store, for each of a plurality of areas represented by a geographical boundary line, information for specifying position of an area and a size of the area to the memory, acquire data regarding a position of a moving body, set a predetermined range on the basis of the acquired data, extract a target area from the plurality of areas on the basis of the predetermined range and the position of each of the plurality of areas, and control a size, stored in the memory, of the extracted target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuichi Hanada, Akira Fujii
  • Patent number: 11212652
    Abstract: A positioning method and apparatus include obtaining, by a terminal, an outdoor positioning result using an outdoor positioning service, attempting, by the terminal when information about a satellite that provides the outdoor positioning service meets a preset condition, to obtain an indoor positioning result using an indoor positioning service, where the preset condition indicates that the terminal has an indoor positioning requirement, and switching, by the terminal, from the outdoor positioning service to the indoor positioning service when the indoor positioning result is successfully obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing Huang, Zeling Qiu
  • Patent number: 11201715
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of wireless communications, in particular, to a measurement method and device, used for solving the problem in the art that there is no specific solution for a terminal to perform OTDOA measurement in a NR system. In embodiments of the present application, a terminal determines a detected first beam reference signal, and sends a request message to an LMF entity, receive first positioning assistance data comprising second beam information of a second beam reference signal sent by the LMF entity, measure the second beam reference signal of an adjacent base station according to the first positioning assistance data. Therefore, it is ensured that the LMF entity can accurately provide the positioning assistance data to a UE according to first beam information of the first beam reference signal, the time and power consumption of the terminal for searching the second beam reference signal are reduced, and the system performance is further improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Bin Ren, Haiyang Quan, Hui Li, Xueyuan Gao, Qiubin Gao
  • Patent number: 11197202
    Abstract: A method for operating a wireless network, which includes a management entity for managing the use of network resources, includes, by the management entity: performing a network traffic forecast for a time period, the network traffic forecast estimating expected traffic demands with a predefined or tunable confidence degree; dividing forecasted available network resources into one or more classes of traffic corresponding to different service qualities within the classes of traffic using the confidence degree; and defining and allocating at least one network resource slice of at least one of the one or more classes of traffic to operators and/or third parties for the time period considering a service level agreement (SLA) of incoming service requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Konstantinos Samdanis, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Andreas Kunz, Xavier Costa-Perez
  • Patent number: 11178705
    Abstract: To provide a communication procedure such as an attach procedure suitable for a CIoT terminal. A method includes: a step of receiving an ATTACH ACCEPT message from a core network; a step of transmitting user data by using a radio bearer for transmitting and/or receiving a control message in a case that the ATTACH ACCEPT message does not include first identification information; and a step of establishing a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection and/or a radio bearer for user data transmission and/or reception and transmitting user data by using the Packet Data Network (PDN) connection and/or the radio bearer for user data transmission and/or reception, in a case that the ATTACH ACCEPT message includes the first identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yudai Kawasaki, Masafumi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 11172429
    Abstract: Method and apparatus use a value tag in conjunction with transmission and/or processing of system information in a wireless communication network. The method includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a first type system information block (SIB) from a base station (BS) apparatus. The first type SIB includes an identifier of a second type SIB and a first value tag indicating a version of the second type SIB. The method further includes the UE determining whether to request the second type SIB by comparing the first value tag with a prestored second value tag. The prestored second value tag is associated with a prestored second type SIB. The method further includes the UE transmitting to the BS apparatus a request message for the second type SIB when the prestored second value tag does not match the first value tag and receiving the second SIB from the BS apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishii
  • Patent number: 11165731
    Abstract: A text communication management system is provided that receives, analyzes, and enforces recipient actions regarding phone-based text communications. The text communication management system can obtain recipient action data regarding a recipient's action with respect to a particular text communication, and enforce the recipient action with respect to future text communications. The management system can also or alternatively analyze the recipient action data in connection with recipient action data from multiple other recipients to generate a model for use in determining whether future phone-based text communications should be permitted, determining the likelihood that such communications will cause recipients to opt-out, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CALLFIRE, INC.
    Inventors: Shannon Elizabeth Donohue, Vijesh Rajnikant Mehta, Norman William Happ, Aaron Horvath
  • Patent number: 11156979
    Abstract: A novel and useful acknowledgement and adaptive frequency hopping mechanism for use in wireless communication systems such as IO-Link Wireless. One or two additional acknowledgement bits are added to packet transmissions. One is a current acknowledgment bit which indicates whether a packet was successfully received anytime during the current cycle. The second bit is a previous acknowledgment bit which indicates whether packets were received successfully anytime during the previous cycle. An adaptive hopping table is constructed using a greedy algorithm which chooses frequencies with the best PER for transmission of higher priority packets, while equalizing the PER products across cycles. A last resort frequency mechanism further improves transmission success by switching to a better performing channel for the last subcycle when previous attempts to transmit a high priority packet have failed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Coretigo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dan Wolberg, Ofer Blonskey, Ofri Olinky, David Marks, Omer Ephrat, Nir Efraim Joseph Tal
  • Patent number: 11146915
    Abstract: A system and method of adaptive video interface switching between a mobile electronic communications device and a wearable device entail determining during an ongoing video session via a first one of the devices that an audio or video input or output mechanism on the first device is compromised. It is determined that the audio and video input and output mechanisms on a second of the devices are uncompromised. The video session is then continued using at least one of the audio and video input and output mechanisms on the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Rachid Alameh, John Gorsica, Zhengping Ji
  • Patent number: 11140258
    Abstract: Methods and computing systems for sharing content between related devices in a cellular network are described. A first device receives content from an external content source via a wireless connection, and causes presentation of the content on an output device of the first device. The first device retrieves information for one or more related devices that utilize the same telephone number the first device for sending and receiving at least cellular communications via the cellular network. The first device enables sharing of the content with at least one related device of the one or more related devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasmin Karimli, Gunjan Nimbavikar
  • Patent number: 11122481
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a V2X message sending method, apparatus, and system, and relate to the field of Internet of Vehicles. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used for determining a first transmission resource pool; determining the first transmission resource pool based on the first configuration information; selecting a first transmission resource from the first transmission resource pool in a first transmission resource obtaining manner when a preset condition is met; and sending a V2X message by using the first transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingchao Li, Zhenzhen Cao, Xiao Xiao
  • Patent number: 11109226
    Abstract: The present application relates to an information process method, a computer readable storage medium and a computer device. The method includes: acquiring a first quantity and a conflict probability, the first quantity being the quantity of mobile terminals for which virtual SIM card data is pre-configured, the conflict probability being the probability that multiple mobile terminals use the same virtual SIM card data for connection with a network at the same time; acquiring a first outbound proportion according historical data; and according to the first quantity, the conflict probability and the first outbound proportion, determining the quantity of the virtual SIM card data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhiwei Su