Patents Examined by William Nealon
  • Patent number: 11405175
    Abstract: A hardened VoIP system is presented that includes secure push-to-talk voice functionality. Through the addition of encryption, authentication, user filtering, and integration with new and existing LMR systems, a secure voice platform ensures malicious software, unauthorized access and brute force security attacks will not compromise the voice communications of the system. The VoIP system is engineered to ensure graceful system degradation in the event of maintenance activities, natural disasters and failure modes. The hardened VoIP system offers the functions a LMR trunking system while utilizing broadband connections. Private calls, group calls, Emergency Alarms with covert monitoring capability, scanning and priority scanning may be incorporated into the system. The system includes a VoIP controller that serves as a trunking controller, manages available VoIP based conference bridges, and assigns them as needed to the parties involved in each voice call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Clever Devices Ltd.
    Inventors: Philip Bradley Bockrath, Darryl G. Curtis, Paul A Dennis
  • Patent number: 11405963
    Abstract: An electronic device provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyeok Lee, Taikuin Mun, Wonjung Lee, Jaehoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11405885
    Abstract: According to embodiments described herein there is provided methods and apparatus for providing communications to a wireless device using device-to-device communication with an unmanned vehicle. A method in a wireless device comprises establishing a device-to-device, D2D, wireless connection to the unmanned vehicle; and responsive to receiving an operation command over the D2D wireless connection, performing an operation. A method in an unmanned vehicle comprises determining a current location of a wireless device; travelling to within a wireless range of the current location of the wireless device; establishing a device-to-device, D2D, wireless connection with the wireless device; and transmitting an operation command to the wireless device over the D2D wireless connection to instruct the wireless device to perform an operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jinhua Feng, Beatriz Grafulla-González, Ao Song
  • Patent number: 11397861
    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 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Pandemic Insights, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Klasson
  • Patent number: 11395355
    Abstract: A method for controlling a connection procedure for a terminal device requesting a radio connection to a cell supported by network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunication system, the method comprising: determining, at the terminal device, that a request to connect to the cell supported by the network infrastructure equipment is to be made, establishing, at the terminal device, application information relating to an operating context for the terminal device: transmitting a connection request message from the terminal device to the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the connection request message comprises a request for the terminal device to connect to the cell and an indication of the application information; and determining, at the network infrastructure equipment, whether to allow the request for the terminal device to connect to the cell based, at least in part, on the application information received by the network infrastructure equipment from the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11337036
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method to present events relevant to the user on a map. The system obtains an indication of a user's location, and a predetermined threshold indicating a distance between the user and an event. The system obtains events that are relevant to the user. Based on the user's location, and the predetermined threshold, the system determines a second set of events based on the events, where an event in the second set of events is within the predetermined threshold away from the user's location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TEAMGO, INC.
    Inventors: Emily Schu, Danish Aziz, Sean Conrad, Jesse Erin Berns
  • Patent number: 11321070
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of Internet of Things, and in particular, to an online upgrade method and apparatus for a Bluetooth cluster. The online upgrade method for the Bluetooth cluster includes: an upgrade device selects a central node in the Bluetooth cluster and establishes a Bluetooth connection with the central node; the upgrade device selects an upgrade path, and sends upgrade data to a to-be-upgraded device through the central node according to the upgrade path, enabling the to-be-upgraded device to obtain the upgrade data to achieve an upgrade, where the to-be-upgraded device includes a part or all of Bluetooth devices in the Bluetooth cluster. The online upgrade method of the Bluetooth cluster adopted in the present disclosure further broadens a communication range of the Bluetooth, which requires no one-to-one operation by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingfei Li
  • Patent number: 11272451
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method used in user equipment (UE). The method comprises: determining a time-domain position of physical wake-up signaling, the physical wake-up signaling being used for waking up the UE to detect a subsequent narrowband physical downlink control channel (NPDCCH); and detecting the physical wake-up signaling from a base station at the determined time-domain position, wherein the determining a time-domain position comprises: determining a start subframe or an end subframe for the physical wake-up signaling and the number of subframes for the physical wake-up signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Renmao Liu, Ningjuan Chang, Chongming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11252554
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and provides a user equipment tracing method and a device, to implement joint trace for user equipment by two devices. The user equipment tracing method includes: receiving, by a master base station, a request message sent by a core network device, where the request message requests the master base station to initiate trace for user equipment UE; and sending, by the master base station, a first message to a secondary base station, where the first message carries first instruction information, and the first instruction information instructs the secondary base station to trace the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing Liu, Hongzhuo Zhang, Mingzeng Dai
  • Patent number: 11252557
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a capability identifier distribution method, capable of effectively distributing a capability identifier for a terminal device, decreasing signaling overhead caused by capability information reporting and storage. The method comprises: a terminal device, in a non-access stratum (NAS) process, acquiring a capability identifier of a network device for distribution to the terminal device; or, the terminal device, in a radio resource control (RRC) process, acquiring said capability identifier; the capability identifier being used to identify capability information of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhua Liu, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11249169
    Abstract: A method of determining locations of tracking devices may include receiving a data ping from a tracking device, where the data ping may be sent in response to the tracking device detecting a predetermined sequence of movements indicating a logistic event from a plurality of predefined logistics events. The method may additionally include accessing a hierarchical logistics flow for the tracking device, where the hierarchical logistics flow may include an ordered sequential list of event sites through which the tracking device is likely to move. The method may further include assigning an event site from the ordered sequential list of event sites based on the logistic event and the hierarchical logistics flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Chep Technology PTY Limited
    Inventors: Chad Connors, Brian Lee
  • Patent number: 11240361
    Abstract: A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a display unit; a memory which stores hierarchy information including a plurality of categories that are classified based on the hierarchy; and a learning data unit which obtains user information, which provides the hierarchy information if a category corresponding the obtained user information among the plurality of categories is not stored, and which registers the category corresponding to the user information in the hierarchy information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongwoo Han, Seungjun Lee
  • Patent number: 11234135
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for managing frequency access in a shared spectrum available to a radio local access network (RLAN) in a wireless network. A shared spectrum system may perform operations including retrieving a plurality of parameters for one or more high-priority users in the wireless network; computing, based on the retrieved parameters, a plurality of interference-to-noise power ratio (I/N) contours; storing the plurality of I/N contours in a database; receiving, from an RLAN device in the wireless network, a request for spectrum availability, wherein the received request includes at least a first value; extracting, based on the first value in the request for spectrum availability, an I/N contour from the database matching RLAN parameters; determining, based on the extracted I/N contour, available frequency information corresponding to the received request for spectrum availability; and transmitting, to the RLAN device, the available frequency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: FEDERATED WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel Jay Macmullan, Michael Oliver Ghorbanzadeh, James Ni, Kurt Schaubach
  • Patent number: 11223991
    Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising: detecting, by a first network node from a user equipment, a connection request to a first radio access technology, RAT; determining, before the user equipment is switched to a connected state in the first RAT, whether a second RAT is more suitable to serve the user equipment than the first RAT; and upon deciding that the second RAT is more suitable, providing the user equipment with connection information of the second RAT, wherein the connection information causes the user equipment to directly connect with the second RAT instead of the first RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Janne Kaasalainen, Subramanya Chandrashekar, Tsunehiko Chiba, Raghuram Reddy Krishnamurthy, Pradeep Basavapura Veerabhadra Reddy
  • Patent number: 11218868
    Abstract: Employing beacon messages to restart an application on a mobile device. In some embodiments, a method may include subscribing, at the secondary mobile device, to a beacon publisher of the primary mobile device. The method may also include determining, based on historical location data, that the primary mobile device is likely within range of the secondary mobile device for beacon communication therebetween. The method may further include activating, at the primary mobile device, the beacon publisher. The method may also include publishing, at the primary mobile device, a beacon message configured to cause a secondary mobile application on the secondary mobile device to restart. The method may further include receiving, at the secondary mobile device, the beacon message. The method may also include, in response to receiving the beacon message, restarting, at the secondary mobile device, the secondary mobile application of the secondary mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: NORTONLIFELOCK INC.
    Inventors: Lei Gu, Sharad Subhash Mhaske
  • Patent number: 11218870
    Abstract: A communication technique for convergence of the 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate after the 4G system with IoT technologies and a system thereof. Certain embodiments may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technologies and the IoT-associated technologies (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail services, security and safe-associated services, etc.). A method and an apparatus which can substitute reporting UE capabilities by use of an identifier of the UE, without reporting the overall UE capabilities in a method of reporting UE's own capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungri Jin, Himke Van Der Velde, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11206611
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for replacement of a DNN and/or S-NSSAI in a wireless communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoyeon Lee, Sangsoo Jeong
  • Patent number: 11202191
    Abstract: A method of registering a User Equipment, UE, in a communication network, said method comprising the steps of receiving, by a control node in said core network, from an access network, a registration request message for registering a UE in said communication network, transmitting, by said control node, to a subscriber node in said communication network, a subscription request message, wherein said subscription request message requests subscription information for said UE and comprises an identification of a type of said access network, AN, via which said UE registration request message is received and an identification of a Radio Access Technology, RAT, used by said UE for connecting to said access network, receiving, by said control node, from said subscriber node, a subscription response message comprising said subscription information for said UE based on said AN and said RAT and transmitting, by said control node, to said UE, a registration complete message for indicating that said UE has registered in th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Cristina Ruiz Balmaseda, David Castellanos Zamora, Maria Pilar González López
  • Patent number: 11201959
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device and a control method for providing a security screen. In an electronic device according to various embodiments of the present document, when a specific application-associated event occurs in the electronic device while the electronic device is being connected to an external electronic device, a notification of event-associated information except for privacy information is provided through the external electronic device, so that a situation in which the privacy information stored in the electronic device is exposed to another user can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Yeong Lee, Sang-Im Yu, Ga-Jin Song, Yong-Joon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11197260
    Abstract: A method of notifying a first User Equipment, UE, of a subscriber in a telecommunication network on a dialog status of a second UE of said same subscriber, said method comprising the steps of receiving, by an Application Server, AS, in said telecommunication network a register message for indicating to said AS that said first UE has registered in said telecommunication network, wherein said register message comprises an indication that said first UE is capable to receive Dialog Event notifications regarding dialog status events of UEs associated with said same subscriber, retrieving, by said AS, and triggered by said receiving of said register message, said dialog status of said second UE of said same subscriber, and sending, by said AS, to said first UE, a notify message for notifying said first UE on said retrieved dialog status of said second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: László Balla, Andreas Anulf, Sándor Katona, Michael Lindström