Patents Examined by William D. Cumming
  • Patent number: 11963091
    Abstract: Embodiments herein achieve a method for handling registration and session management in a wireless communication system. The method includes registering, by a User Equipment (UE), with a first core network entity over a 3GPP access network and a non-3GPP access network. Further, the method includes triggering, by the UE, a registration procedure to a second core network over the 3GPP access network when a periodic timer of the UE expires in an OOS state. Further, the method includes receiving, by the UE, a non-access stratum (NAS) message, over the 3GPP access network, with an indication to register for the non-3GPP access network with the second core network entity. Further, the method includes reinitiating the registration procedure to register again for the non-3GPP access with the second core network entity through the non-3GPP access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lalith Kumar, Alok Kumar Jangid, Kailash Kumar Jha, Danish Ehsan Hashmi, Govind Irappa Uttur
  • Patent number: 11963009
    Abstract: Arrangements for dynamic enterprise center access control are provided. In some examples, a user device may be detected and current location and/or user data associated with the detected device may be requested. Upon receiving the location data, a current geographic location of the user device may be determined and an enterprise center at or near the geographic location may be identified. Received user data may be analyzed to identify a user and retrieve access preferences associated with the user. Based on the access preferences, a command to lock or unlock a door (e.g., permit or disable access) to an area within the enterprise center, the enterprise center in general, or the like, may be generated and transmitted to a computing device for execution. Accordingly, the system may activate desired locking configurations based on user preferences. Upon detecting that the user is no longer at the enterprise center, a command to return to default settings may be generated, transmitted and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: David Alan Stern, Lauren Elizabeth Schuler, Christopher Broome
  • Patent number: 11956065
    Abstract: A method, device and computer readable medium are used to support satellite access. The registration management entity of the network determines information regarding which beam covering the location of the terminal device and the corresponding timing; the terminal device triggers a registration update based on the information determined by the registration management entity. Thus, the method, device and computer readable medium can introduce less modification to the network and have good compatibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Xiang Xu, Jeroen Wigard, Laurent Thiebaut
  • Patent number: 11950190
    Abstract: To perform a first communication with a first base station through the first communication circuit by using a first frequency band, perform a second communication with a second base station through the second communication circuit by using a second frequency band, determine whether the first communication interferes with the second communication, and transmit, to the second base station for the second communication on the basis of the determination result, a request for using a third frequency band, which is different from the second frequency band in at least one from among bandwidth, center frequency, or sub-carrier spacing (SCS). Other various embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junsuk Kim, Hongju Park, Sangho Lee, Taelee Lee, Taeseop Lee, Wonsuk Chung, Suyoung Park
  • Patent number: 11943156
    Abstract: One or more anchor nodes, which may be sidelink devices, may transmit positioning reference signals (PRSs) to a wireless device, such as a user equipment (UE). The UE may select one or more PRSs to process based on respective priorities of the PRSs. At least one anchor node may transmit a priority indication including the respective priorities, or the one or more anchor nodes may transmit the PRSs according to a scrambling sequence or pattern to implicitly indicate the respective priorities. The UE may decode one or more PRSs based on the respective priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Yucheng Dai, Jingchao Bao
  • Patent number: 11943808
    Abstract: A wireless communication system may use higher layer signaling to send transmission configuration indicator (TCI) parameters for a frequency band comprising the 52.6 GHz to 71 GHz range. A DCI message may be used to indicate an enabled TCI state for a channel occupancy time (COT). The wireless communication system may apply the enabled TCI state for the COT as indicated in the DCI message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943801
    Abstract: A method of orchestrating a plurality of network resources for providing a requested network service in a mobile communications network. The method comprises monitoring service requests (202) and obtaining information comprising abstracted resources of radio domain, transport domain and computing domain (206). The method also comprises obtaining and processing a service description comprising a set of parameters defining the service to be provided (208) and identifying in the abstracted resources from the radio domain, transport domain and computing domain resources for delivering the service defined in the service description in a coverage area determined based on the service description (212).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Paola Iovanna, Teresa Pepe
  • Patent number: 11937171
    Abstract: A first network device may receive, from a second network device, a first policy control create request and may provide, to the second network device, a common policy control request trigger. The first network device may receive a second policy control create request associated with a user equipment (UE) and may cause a UE policy to be provided to the UE. The first network device may receive, from a third network device, a third policy control create request and may provide a network device policy to the third network device. The first network device may receive, from the second network device, a policy control update request based on the common policy control request trigger and may generate an updated UE policy or an updated network device policy based on the policy control update request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Violeta Cakulev, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Lalit R. Kotecha
  • Patent number: 11930499
    Abstract: A method of a service enabler architecture layer (SEAL) can include receiving a monitoring event subscription request for network connection status information at a network resource management server in the SEAL from a vertical application layer (VAL) server. The monitoring event subscription request can indicate a target VAL user equipment (UE), a type of the network connection status information, and a timeout period indicating an amount of time lapsed after the monitoring event subscription request was transmitted. The requested network connection status information is not transmitted after the timeout period. The network connection status information of the target VAL UE can be obtained from a wireless network system. A network connection status information response message can be transmitted from the network resource management server in the SEAL to the VAL server. The network connection status information response message can include the network connection status information of the target VAL UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Shuai Zhao, Stephan Wenger, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11924750
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for prioritizing spectrum and controlling data traffic steering within a wireless network. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide enhanced wireless services which allow network operators to prioritize utilization of spectrum for their subscribers. In one variant, an enhanced 3GPP UE Route Selection Policy (URSP) framework is provided for a UE connected to 5G wireless network, which allows the UE to use one or more prioritized 3GPP spectrum Band Class(es) based on one or more selection criterion or preconditions. In another variant, UE location information is used to dynamically update a data traffic steering mode or other functionality of an enhanced ATSSS (Access Traffic Steering, Switching, and Splitting) rule framework is described for dynamic control of steering or routing functionality, including between 3GPP- and non-3GPP network accesses for the data traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Curt Wong, Maulik Vaidya, Yildirim Sahin
  • Patent number: 11917503
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for services, such as SMS, location services, and/or the like over the NAS through a non-cellular access. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, via a non-access stratum connection through a wireless local area network, a notification message; sending a service request message to request, via the non-access stratum connection through the wireless local area network, delivery of downlink data for a service; and receiving, via the non-access stratum connection through the wireless local area network, the downlink data for the service. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Devaki Chandramouli, Curt Wong
  • Patent number: 11915250
    Abstract: An authenticity detection method and system is provided for detecting an authenticity of a ride in a ride hailing environment. A set of geohashes is determined based on historical location data and a set of cell tower hashes is determined based on historical telecom data. A cellular network data corpus is generated based on the set of geohashes and the set of cell tower hashes. First location data and first telecom data are received from a driver device of a driver. A first geohash is determined based on the first location data and a first cell tower hash is determined based on the first telecom data. The authenticity of the ride is detected based on at least the cellular network data corpus, the first geohash, and the first cell tower hash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ANI TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Moiaz Jiwani
  • Patent number: 11917430
    Abstract: In a wireless network with a plurality of access points, device calculates, for each wireless station in the network, a score based on at least an availability of the wireless network for the wireless station, combines the scores for the wireless stations into a current network score for a present configuration of the wireless network, calculates a plurality of predicted network scores corresponding to predicted network configurations with one wireless station moved to a different access point than in the present configuration, each predicted network score being a combination of the scores for wireless stations not moved in the predicted network configuration and a predicted score for the wireless station moved in the predicted network configuration, selects one of the current network score and the plurality of predicted network scores that satisfies a criterion; and, in case a predicted network score is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AIRTIES BELGIUM SPRL
    Inventors: Eli Mishael, Assi Abramovitz
  • Patent number: 11903066
    Abstract: A UE, a network node, and methods for operating the same against maximum number of allowable radio bearers are provided. The method for operating the UE includes operating in a CIoT mode, wherein the UE is capable of operating in a normal cellular communication mode and capable of operating in the CIoT mode; determining, out of at least one UE-data network logical connection, a first UE-data network logical connection in a first set of the at least one UE-data network logical connection for which a radio bear request is to be made based on a UE-data network logical connection type correspondingly of each UE-data network logical connection of the first set of the at least one UE-data network logical connection being non-IP to prevent more than a maximum number of allowable radio bearers for the UE to be requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Chenho Chin
  • Patent number: 11895719
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein modify the utilized communication protocol of one or more wireless base stations and/or UE devices based on signal quality information or data rate information associated with one or more UE devices. The signal quality information or data rate information of the UE devices can be analyzed by a base station and the base station can respond to changes in signal quality or data rate of the UE devices by modifying the configuration of one or more base stations and/or UE devices from a first communication protocol to a second communication protocol quality of transmissions between the UE devices and a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Roopesh Kumar Polaganga, Deepak Nadh Tammana
  • Patent number: 11895733
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for software reconfiguration of a multi-radio wireless device that includes multiple radio computers. A wireless device may be configured to associate a first application with a first radio computer and a second application with a second radio computer. The second application may perform a different function than the first application. The UE may be configured to exchange, via a multiradio interface, data between a communication services layer of the wireless device and the first and second radio computers. In some instances, the first application may be a safety related application and/or a safety critical related application and the second application may be a non-safety related application and/or a non-safety critical application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Markus Dominik Mueck
  • Patent number: 11889577
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a user equipment, UE, in a suspended state in a Radio Access Network, RAN, in response to expiration of a first timer, transmits an RRCResumeRequest message. The UE receives a reject message in response to the RRCResumeRequest message. In response to the reject message, the UE starts a second timer and subsequently transmits a further RRCResumeRequest message. The further RRCResumeRequest message is received by the network during a period bounded approximately by the lesser of a duration of the second timer and a period of the periodic UE event and the greater of the duration of the second timer and the period of the periodic UE event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Gunnar Mildh
  • Patent number: 11877205
    Abstract: A method for retrieving data, such as telematics data, from a vehicle, to which a tour is assigned, and forwarding at least a subset of those data to an observer. The method comprises the steps of determining a location of the vehicle. Providing two or more concentric geofence, the concentric geofences comprises an outer geofence and an inner geofence. Define a start concentric geofence with a pick-up location inside an inner geofence and an end geofence with a delivery location inside an inner geofence. After a tour is assigned to the vehicle, retrieve at a server the data from said vehicle. Forwarding from the server a subset of the data to the observer, where the subset is defined as data retrieved from the vehicle being within a geographical region defined as where the vehicle enters an outer geofence of said start concentric geofence and exit of an inner geofence of an end concentric geofence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: project44 A/S
    Inventors: Lars Mohr Jensen, Per Engberg, Jesper Bille Bennike
  • Patent number: 11870782
    Abstract: Management of hosted channel membership of a communication platform is described. A request can be received from a first client of a first user, associated with a first organization, of the group-based communication platform, wherein the request is to associate a second user, associated with a second organization, with a communication channel of the first organization. An invitation to join the communication channel can be sent to a second client of the second user. In response to receiving an indication of an acceptance of the invitation, the second user can be associated with the communication channel. A request can be received from the second client to associate other user(s) associated with the second organization with the communication channel and the other user(s) can be associated with the communication channel based at least in part on permission(s) associated with the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilan Frank, Shanan Delp, Michael Demmer, Sri Vasamsetti, Neha Sharma
  • Patent number: 11864092
    Abstract: Techniques for performance measurements related to application triggering and short message service (SMS) over non-access stratum (NAS) including obtaining raw performance measurements from one or more network functions in a wireless communication network, the one or more network functions including at least one of a network exposure function (NEF) or an access and mobility management function (AMF), and generating performance measurements for the one or more network functions based on the raw performance measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou