Patents Examined by Y. Lee
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Patent number: 11885416Abstract: The invention relates to a dynamic shaft seal which comprises (a) elastomer material and (b) graphene without a chemically modified surface in an amount of from 0.1 to 2 phr, in relation to 100 parts by weight of the elastomer material, as the sole constituent of the dynamic shaft seal made of elemental carbon.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KGInventors: Jasmin Menzel, Boris Traber, Matthias Adler, Eva Fleischmann, Christine Portela Cubillo
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Patent number: 11889557Abstract: A predetermined STA includes a station information collection unit collecting from the STA itself and other STAs station information used for selection of STAs performing simultaneous transmission and for control of the simultaneous transmission, and a simultaneous-transmission request unit knowing occurrence of a QoS data frame based on the station information and transmitting a request frame requesting the simultaneous transmission to an AP. The AP includes a station information collection unit; a simultaneous-transmission determination unit selecting a combination of the STAs performing the simultaneous transmission based on the station information by reception of the request frame; and a trigger transmission unit transmitting to each of the STAs performing the simultaneous transmission a trigger frame instructing to performs the simultaneous transmission and including information necessary for controlling the simultaneous transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoko Shinohara, Yasuhiko Inoue, Akira Kishida, Riichi Kudo, Masato Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 11886940Abstract: This application discloses a network interface card so as to improve reliability of a storage apparatus using an RDMA network and improve storage access performance of a single QP connection. A network interface card includes a parser and at least one shared connector, where the parser is configured to distribute a received first remote direct memory access RDMA packet to a first shared connector in the at least one shared connector; and the first shared connector is configured to establish a QP connection to a peer network device, and determine a first queue pair QP corresponding to a first controller based on the first RDMA packet, so as to implement communication with the first controller, where the first shared connector is separately connected to a plurality of controllers including the first controller, and one QP corresponding to each of the plurality of controllers corresponds to the first shared connector.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhaojiao Han, Xindong Luo, Xiaopeng Liu
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Patent number: 11889442Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for receiving a sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) by a terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: receiving a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH); determining which of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) or an eNB is to be a synchronization source according to priority information included in the PSBCH; and receiving an SLSS associated with the determined synchronization source, wherein the terminal determines that the priority information is valid only when a public land mobile network (PLMN) associated with the priority information matches a PLMN to which the terminal belongs.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
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Patent number: 11889369Abstract: A method is provided for initiating a handover of a wireless device from a first node to a second node in a communication network. The method includes steps of (a) obtaining, at a first time, a (i) speed, (ii) direction, and (iii) first location of the wireless device, (b) determining, relative to the first location, a first signal strength of the second node and a second, higher signal strength of a third node different from the second node, (c) estimating, based on the obtained (i) first location, (ii) speed, and (iii) direction, a second location for the wireless device at a second, subsequent time, (d) confirming that the second location is within a transmission range of the second node, and (e) preempting the handover to the third node by performing, prior to the second time, the handover directly from the first node to the second node.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Omkar Shripad Dharmadhikari, Mu Xu, Bernardo Huberman
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Patent number: 11889549Abstract: A method includes generating, by an apparatus, a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) for a downlink multiple-user transmission, wherein the PPDU includes: a legacy preamble, a high efficiency Wi-Fi Signaling Field 1 (HEW-SIG1), a high efficiency Wi-Fi Signaling Field 2 (HEW-SIG2), adjacent to the HEW-SIG1, and a data portion, and wherein the HEW-SIG1 comprises a HEW-SIG2 modulation and coding scheme (HEW-SIG2 MCS) field, the HEW-SIG2 MCS field indicates a transmission modulation and coding scheme (MCS) used to transmit the HEW-SIG2, the HEW-SIG1 further comprises a frame structure indication field, and the frame structure indication field indicates whether a frame structure of a scheduling transmission is an uplink structure or a downlink structure, and the HEW-SIG2 comprises resource indication information; and sending, by the apparatus, the PPDU.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yingpei Lin, Jiayin Zhang, Jun Luo, Le Liu
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Patent number: 11880235Abstract: An electronic device display and a display cover layer may be coupled to a housing. The display may have an array of pixels that are configured to emit light. One or more light redirecting elements may be incorporated into the electronic device that redirect and thereby change the direction of light rays emitted from peripheral pixels in the display. The light redirecting elements may be used to enlarge the effective size of the display, to create images on sidewall surfaces of the display cover layer, and/or to create diffuse glowing areas around the periphery of the device. Light redirecting elements may be formed as integral portions of a display cover layer, as laminated optical films on a display cover layer, or as coating layers on a display cover layer. Afocal optical systems may be formed by placing first and second light redirecting elements on opposing first and second sides of a display cover layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, John N. Border, Victoria C. Chan
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Patent number: 11882541Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to determine an estimated location of a user equipment (UE). For instance, a UE can provide a positioning request to a node while the UE is in a radio resource control idle (RRC_IDLE) or inactive (RRC_INACTIVE) state. The positioning request can be implemented in a random access channel (RACH) message A (MsgA). The UE can then receive a positioning response from the node. The positioning response can be implemented in a RACH message B (MsgB).Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Sergey Sosnin, Gang Xiong, Seunghee Han, Sergey Panteleev
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Patent number: 11882281Abstract: An image encoding method includes configuring block division information and size information of a boundary block which is located at a boundary of an image and is smaller than a size of a basic encoding block, on the basis of size information of a picture and size information of the basic encoding block; dividing the boundary block into at least one encoding block, on the basis of the size information of the basic encoding block and the size information and the block division information of the boundary block; and encoding the at least one divided encoding block.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Ki Baek Kim, Je Chang Jeong
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Patent number: 11879550Abstract: A seal for a rotating system with two sealing units which are arranged one behind the other along a main axis H, the sealing units each having a through-hole for a shaft and being in interlocking engagement with each other in the circumferential direction and at least one axial compression spring element being arranged between the sealing units.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: STASSKOL GMBHInventors: Felix Kuse, Dennis Kranert
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Patent number: 11879447Abstract: A packing case assembly includes a packing cup configured to be disposed along a piston rod of a reciprocating gas compressor system; and a packing ring set disposed in the packing cup, the packing ring set including multiple rings. The packing ring set is configured to be disposed circumferentially around a portion of the length of the piston rod. A backup packing ring of the packing ring set includes a first region including a polymer, and a second region including a metal.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Waukesha Bearings CorporationInventors: Jie Zhou, David Donald Johnson, III
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Patent number: 11882491Abstract: A method and system for dynamically controlling connectivity of a user equipment device (UE) when the UE has standalone connectivity with a first access node under a first radio access technology (RAT). An example method includes the UE detecting that the UE is within threshold strong coverage of a second access node under a second RAT, and the UE making a selection between (i) responsively handing over from the first access node to the second access node and (ii) having dual-connectivity with the first access node and the second access node. Further, the example method includes the UE informing the first access node of the UE's selection, perhaps together with an inter-RAT measurement report reporting that the UE is within threshold strong coverage of the second access node, and the first access node responsively taking action in accordance with the UE's selection.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SPRINT SPECTRUM LLCInventors: Atul Kulkarni, Sreekar Marupaduga, Sougata Saha, Anurag Thantharate
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Patent number: 11882471Abstract: In some implementations, an initiator device establishes a measurement session with each of a plurality of responder devices based at least in part on their capabilities. The initiator device negotiates, with each of the responder devices, a respective set of one or more sensing parameters based at least in part on the capabilities of the initiator device and the capabilities of the respective responder device, the respective sets of sensing parameters associated with the responder devices being identified by a unique Measurement Setup identifier (ID). The initiator device performs one or more measurement instances with the responder devices based on the respective sets of sensing parameters, each measurement instance identified by a unique Measurement Instance ID and the respective Measurement Setup ID. The initiator device obtains, from each responder device, one or more measurement reports indicating channel state information (CSI) based on the one or more respective measurement instances.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Solomon Trainin, Assaf Kasher, Alecsander Petru Eitan, Alireza Raissinia, Simone Merlin
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Patent number: 11882493Abstract: According to one configuration, while the user equipment is wirelessly connected to a first wireless base station over a first wireless communication link, a communication management resource in the user equipment receives input (such as a request) to tune-away the user equipment to a second wireless base station providing corresponding wireless services. To facilitate the temporary tune-away to the second wireless network, the communication management resource of the user equipment generates timing information associated with the switchover. In furtherance of the switchover (temporary tune-away) to the second wireless base station, the communication management resource of the user equipment transmits the timing information in a wireless communication over the first wireless communication link to the first wireless base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: Maulik V. Vaidya, Amitav Mukherjee, Ahmad Reza Hedayat
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Patent number: 11879549Abstract: Each of mechanical seal devices 7 of a rotary joint 1 includes a first shaft side seal ring 71 and a second shaft side seal ring 72 attached to a shaft body 5, and a first case side seal ring 73 and a second case side seal ring 74 attached to a case body 2. The first shaft side seal ring 71 and the second shaft side seal ring 72 have contact surfaces 71b and 72b axially facing each other and coming into contact with each other, and grooves 421c and 421d for forming a second communication flow passage 42 connecting a second outer flow passage 32 and a second inner flow passage 62 are formed in both the contact surfaces 71b and 72b.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanao Ishijima, Osamu Suzuki, Yasuyuki Okunishi, Shuhei Matsui
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Patent number: 11877322Abstract: 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. The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for random access preamble group selection.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Jaehyuk Jang
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Patent number: 11877179Abstract: To facilitate more efficient sidelink communications, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided. An example method of a user equipment (UE) may include determining a configuration of a set of congestion control measurement resources comprising one or more receiving resources and one or more transmitting resources for transmission of an activity indication signal for sidelink communication. The example method further includes measuring received signal strength indicator (RSSI) on at least one of the one or more receiving resources.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Yuchul Kim, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo, Hwan Joon Kwon
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Patent number: 11877025Abstract: A content delivery network (CDN) includes UE gateways, a service switch (SS) mesh network, and server gateways. The CDN nodes maintain cache lists of mappings identifying corresponding upstream system nodes for content items available at content servers connected to the server gateways. When a CDN node receives an upstream service instance request for a specific content item by a corresponding UE connected to a UE gateway, upon determining that a mapping for the specific content item is in its cache list, the CDN node forwards the upstream service instance request to the corresponding upstream system node as part of a process of defining a downstream data path for the specific content item from the corresponding content server to the corresponding UE. The CDN enables service-level content delivery at lower levels of latency than conventional DNS-based systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventor: Deh-Min Richard Wu
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Patent number: 11874594Abstract: A camera module includes a housing, a movable body configured to move in a direction of an optical axis of the housing; a reinforcing member formed integrally on one surface of the movable body, and configured to increase a rigidity of the movable body; and a first buffer member formed in the reinforcing member, and configured to reduce an impactive force between the housing and the movable body.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hyuk Lee, Soo Cheol Lim, Byung Woo Kang, Young Bok Yoon, Jong Woo Hong, Jung Seok Lee
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Patent number: 11877198Abstract: A method for wireless communications includes operating a first network element in a wireless communication network to provide connectivity between a first core network and a user device, wherein the wireless communication network includes a second network element that is configured to provide a secondary connectivity between the first core network and the user device, and communicating, by the first network element, in a handover to a third network element configured to provide connectivity with a second core network, configuration information of the second network element to the third network element.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Jing Liu, Zijiang Ma, Xiaojuan Shi