Patents Examined by William Nealon
  • Patent number: 12047840
    Abstract: An event processing method, a device, and a system are disclosed in embodiments of this disclosure, to facilitate an application program adjusting a parameter configuration policy according to a radio signal strength of a UE. The event processing method according to an embodiment includes: generating a location report request, the location report request being used for requesting a deferred location report based on a radio signal strength of a user equipment (UE) and indicating a triggering event for triggering the deferred location report; transmitting the location report request to the UE, the location report request triggering the UE to determine whether the triggering event occurs according to the radio signal strength of the UE; and obtaining event reporting information transmitted by the UE to the location application device in response to the triggering event occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 12045762
    Abstract: An operating method of an electronic apparatus for detecting misdelivery may comprise: monitoring a location of a courier terminal using at least one of first location information, second location information, and third location information; obtaining delivery completion information from the courier terminal; and detecting misdelivery of an item by a courier based on a delivery address and the location of the courier terminal. Accordingly, the electronic apparatus may induce correct delivery to the courier by determining misdelivery of the item based on the location of the courier and the delivery address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Coupang Corp.
    Inventors: Ho Youn Son, Sung Gu Yu, Sung Han Kim, Ji Ho Chang, Sang Beom Kim, Han Sham Jeon
  • Patent number: 12047845
    Abstract: A method may include sending, by a wireless device to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a first registration request message that includes a first geographical coordinate of a first geographical location. The method may also include receiving, from the AMF, a registration accept message comprising a radius value. The method may further include moving, by the wireless device, to a second geographical location. The method may additionally include sending, conditioned on a distance between the first geographical coordinate and a second geographical coordinate of the second geographical location being larger than the radius value, a second registration request message that includes the second geographical coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Jinsook Ryu, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Kyungmin Park, Peyman Talebi Fard, Weihua Qiao
  • Patent number: 12047835
    Abstract: A transportation controller (TC) computing system for monitoring a user computing device location and triggering location-based events using geo-fencing is provided. The TC computing system includes at least one TC computing device configured to register a customer with a transportation controller (TC) service using registration data received from a user computing device associated with the customer. The TC computing device is also configured to receive, in response to the user computing device detecting a first geo-fence, first travel data associated with a trip of the customer. The TC computing device is further configured to validate the trip using the first travel data, receive, in response to the user computing device detecting a second geo-fence, second travel data associated with the trip of the customer, and determine a first transaction amount for the trip based on the first travel data and the second travel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shawn Mehrhoff, Madeline Mueller, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 12034720
    Abstract: Methods and systems described in this disclosure receive a call from a device associated with a caller and determine whether the caller is eligible for biometric authentication via the device by sending, via a communications network, an eligibility determination request to an issuer of the device. In response to the caller being eligible for biometric authentication, a request to initiate a biometric authentication process on the device is sent to an issuer of the device, where biometric credentials are received by the device and an indication of whether the biometric credentials were verified is received from the issuer of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: David Tuomikoski, Rochelle A. Tijerina
  • Patent number: 12034661
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for communication in an unlicensed spectrum and a device. The method includes detecting, by a terminal device, a reference signal. The reference signal is used for indicating that a network device has obtained Channel Occupancy Time (COT). The method further includes detecting, by the terminal device, second information used for indicating data receiving or sending within the COT, after the reference signal has been detected. There are a plurality of the reference signals within the COT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 12035311
    Abstract: A feedback information sending method and an apparatus are provided. A first communications apparatus may determine sidelink feedback information, and send a reference signal to a second communications apparatus, where the reference signal carries the sidelink feedback information. In this way, terminals can send and receive the sidelink feedback information by using the reference signal, to improve transmission efficiency of the sidelink feedback information. When the terminal needs to send both a control channel or a data channel and feedback information in a same slot, this method avoids a problem that the terminal needs to simultaneously send two channels, e.g., the control channel (or the data channel) and a feedback channel, avoids reducing original transmission efficiency of the control channel or the data channel, and implements compatibility between sending through the control channel (or the data channel) and feedback through the feedback channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xingwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12028793
    Abstract: Systems/Methods are disclosed of establishing a capability at a smartphone to be able to conduct a financial transaction and then using the established capability in performing the financial transaction by paying for a product. According to some embodiments, said establishing is performed responsive to sensing a physiological parameter and determining that the physiological parameter sensed satisfies a criterion. Then, an authorization to establish said capability is requested and, responsive to receiving the authorization, the capability to be able to conduct the financial transaction is established at the smartphone. The capability that has been established may then be used in performing the financial transaction responsive to the smartphone sensing proximity to an access point maintained by a vendor and responsive to the physiological parameter being sensed and satisfying the criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventors: Peter D. Karabinis, Rajendra Singh
  • Patent number: 12022354
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a reduced-capability user equipment (UE) receives, from each of one or more premium UEs, one or more parameters indicating a quality of a location estimate of the premium UE, selects at least one premium UE based on the quality of the location estimate of the at least one premium UE, and derives a location estimate of the reduced-capability UE based on the location estimate of the at least one premium UE. In another aspect, a reduced-capability UE transmits, to at least one premium UE, a request to perform one or more positioning measurements of one or more downlink reference signals, receives, from the at least one premium UE, a measurement report comprising the one or more positioning measurements, and determines a location estimate of the reduced-capability UE based on the one or more positioning measurements in the measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Huilin Xu, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 12022360
    Abstract: A device for estimating a fixed position of a wireless communication is provided. The device comprises a radio connected to an antenna array, a memory and a process. The radio can receive a first signal transmitted from a first direction by the wireless communication device to the movable device, and a second signal transmitted from a second direction by the wireless communication device to the movable device. The processor can calculate a first angle of arrival (AOA) a second AOA. The processor can estimate the fixed position of the wireless communication device based on the first AOA, the second AOA, the first position and the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: WiTagg, Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Wang, Hongjun Zhu
  • Patent number: 12004040
    Abstract: Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Arunkumar Puppala, Liuyin Cheng, Wayne Patterson
  • Patent number: 11997646
    Abstract: A configuration to enable a base station to adjust an error rate for paging and to advertise such error rate to UEs, in order to optimize or reduce network paging resources. The apparatus determines a target miss rate for paging on a downlink narrowband control channel. The apparatus transmits an indication of the target miss rate to one or more UEs. The indication is transmitted in system information or a dedicated downlink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raghavendra Shyam Ananda, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Srikanth Menon, Praveen Maruthoormana Purushothaman
  • Patent number: 11991636
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The embodiment of the application provides a method for determining the activation state of a secondary cell and a UE. The method is applied to the technical field of wireless communication and comprises the following steps: acquiring secondary cell activation state indicator information, and then determining respective corresponding states of at least one secondary cell configured or reconfigured by a UE based on the secondary cell activation state indicator information, wherein the states include: an activation state and an inactivation state. The embodiment of the application realizes the reduction of the time delay for the user equipment to receive or send data and the reduction of the time required for deactivating a secondary cell, thereby reducing the power consumption of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jingxing Fu, Bin Yu, Chen Qian, Feifei Sun
  • Patent number: 11989522
    Abstract: Provided is a process, including: obtaining movement transactions without having server-side access to information by which the members of the population undergoing the changes in geolocation indicated by the movement transactions can be identified, either personally or pseudonymously; obtaining for movement transactions corresponding to a designated window of time, geographic-pathogen-risk scores of starting geolocations that include the starting geographic positions; updating for the movement transactions corresponding to the designated window of time, geographic-pathogen-risk scores of the ending geolocations based on both geographic-pathogen-risk scores of the starting geolocations involved in movement transactions ending at the ending geolocations and rates of traffic at the ending geolocations indicated by movement transactions ending or starting at the ending geolocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Pandemic Insights, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Klasson
  • Patent number: 11991105
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for communication in an unlicensed spectrum and a device. The method includes detecting, by a terminal device, a reference signal. The reference signal is used for indicating that a network device has obtained Channel Occupancy Time (COT). The method further includes detecting, by the terminal device, second information used for indicating data receiving or sending within the COT, after the reference signal has been detected. There are a plurality of the reference signals within the COT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11979944
    Abstract: A method in a mobile station (STA) configured to associate to an access point (AP) is described. The method includes determining an identifiable random medium access control (MAC) address (IRMA), associating to the AP and transmitting the IRMA to the AP during the association. The method also includes using the IRMA as the transmitter address (TA) a next time the STA begins to associate to the AP, where the IRMA is usable by the AP to identify the STA prior to a next association, determining a new IRMA, and transmitting the new IRMA to the AP during the next association. One or more additional associations to the AP are performed at least by transmitting at least a corresponding IRMA to the AP and indicating that the corresponding IRMA is a TA of the STA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SR Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Graham K. Smith
  • Patent number: 11968592
    Abstract: A personal portable terminal includes a transmitter that transmits a position determination signal to be used for position determination to a position determination device, and a controller that controls the transmitter. The position determination apparatus includes a plurality of first and second receivers that are arranged at different first and second positions which are spaced at first and second distances away from the personal portable terminal, respectively, to receive the position determination signal transmitted by the transmitter, and a calculator that determines the position of the personal portable terminal based on a difference between an intensity of the position determination signal that is received by the first receivers and an intensity of the position determination signal that is received by the second receivers. The second distance is greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PAYLESSGATE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Adachi
  • Patent number: 11910271
    Abstract: A method for communication between autonomous vehicles and personnel can include receiving a signal from a remote computing system, the signal based upon a position of an autonomous vehicle and a first position of a mobile device, wherein the signal identifies that the mobile device is located in a path of the autonomous vehicle, responsive to receipt of the signal from the remote computing system, stopping the autonomous vehicle, receiving an updated signal from the remote computing system, the updated signal based upon a second position of the mobile device, the second position effective to facilitate a determination that the mobile device is no longer within the path of the autonomous vehicle, and responsive to receiving the updated position of the mobile device, resuming operation of the autonomous vehicle along the path. An autonomous vehicle and non-transitory computer-readable medium is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Michael Frank Schmidt, Sriram Salem Kannan
  • Patent number: 11901965
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for determining and mapping potential net service impairments using multiple datasets associated with a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Raleigh Benton Stelle, IV, Robert J. Flask, Mark R. Darragh
  • Patent number: 11902852
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products configured to provide tracking and/or status updates for on-site service personnel. Geofences may be utilized to provide for automated updates to a customer. Additionally, tracking links and other communications may be provided to the customer to allow for improved communications with on-site service personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Dhaliwal, Niv Garber, D. Dustin Breese, Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Kara Carreri, Rahul Mehta, Raghav Abboy, Yongbo Zuo, Abraham Reyes