Patents by Inventor Akash Kumar

Akash Kumar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200159900
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for improving performance of a touchscreen device. In an aspect, the touchscreen device receives a selection of an application or function based on a user touching a portion of a touchscreen display of the touchscreen device that includes an icon representing the application or function, collects biometric data of the user based on the user touching the portion of the touchscreen display, and determines whether the user is authorized to access the application or function based on the biometric data. In an aspect, the touchscreen device detects that a portion of the touchscreen display is unresponsive to user touch input, and in response to the detection, moves at least one icon displayed on the unresponsive portion of the touchscreen display to a portion of the touchscreen display that is responsive to user touch input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Ankita MITTAL
  • Patent number: 10652691
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a position of a mobile device are provided. A method according to these techniques includes obtaining assistance data comprising information for cells associated with a plurality of wireless transmitters of a wireless communications network based on the coarse location of the mobile device, selecting a plurality of the cells from the assistance data, wherein selecting the plurality of cells includes identifying sets of colocated cells and selecting one cell from each of the colocated sets of cells; measuring signals from the plurality of cells to generate positioning signal measurements; and sending the positioning signal measurements to a location server. A colocated set of cells may include a narrowband cell and a non-narrowband cell, and the narrowband wireless cell may comprise a narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) cell and a non-narrowband cell colocated with the NB-IoT cell at an Evolved Node B (eNodeB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Nilotpal Dhar, Amit Jain
  • Publication number: 20200145977
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a location of a mobile device are provided. An example of a method according to the disclosure includes determining, on the mobile device, beam identification information for one or more radio beams, transmitting, with the mobile device, the beam identification information to a network node, receiving, at the mobile device, positioning reference signal beam information for one or more positioning reference signals, generating, with the mobile device, one or more receive beams based on the positioning reference signal beam information, obtaining, with the mobile device, at least one measurement from at least one of the one or more positioning reference signals, and facilitating location determination of the mobile device at a location-capable device based at least in part on the at least one measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Stephen William EDGE, Amit
  • Publication number: 20200137714
    Abstract: Methods and systems for wireless communication are provided. In one example, a mobile device is configured to: obtain beam support information of a plurality of cells; perform measurements of one or more signals at the mobile device based on the beam support information of the plurality of cells to support a location determination operation for the mobile device; and transmit results of the measurements of the one or more signals to at least one of a location server or to a base station to support the location determination operation. The beam support information may include: a number of beams supported at each cell of the plurality of cells, information to identify each beam of the number of beams supported at the each cell, beam width information of the each beam, and/or Positioning reference Signals (PRS) codebook information which encapsulates the beams which are enabled along various elevation and azimuth angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Stephen William EDGE, Amit JAIN
  • Patent number: 10623946
    Abstract: A MSIM capable UE may operate in a connected mode on a first subscription with a first network and operates on a second subscription in an idle mode or an active mode. The UE may miss communication on the first subscription by tuning away for activity on the second subscription. As presented herein, the may UE transmit, to the first network, MSIM assistance information regarding the second subscription. The MSIM assistance information may enable the network to determine periodic gaps needed by the UE to monitor a second subscription in an idle mode. The MSIM assistance information may enable the network to identify a network for the second subscription and to obtain scheduling information directly from that network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Hargovind Prasad Bansal
  • Publication number: 20200107288
    Abstract: Techniques for improving enhanced cell identification (E-CID) positioning are provided. An example of a method for determining a location of a mobile device according to the disclosure includes generating a plurality of receive beams with a mobile device, receiving, with one or more of the plurality of receive beams, a radio beam transmitted from a base station, such that the radio beam includes a beam identification value, and determining a measurement quantity for the radio beam for each of the one or more of the plurality of receive beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Stephen William EDGE, Hargovind Prasad BANSAL
  • Patent number: 10609673
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described relating to changes in an antenna configuration of a multi-antenna radio frequency (RF) transceiver between reference signal occasions. In one set of examples, a first antenna configuration at a first reference signal occasion of a first RF transmitter is stored, and if the antenna configuration has changed by the time a second reference signal occasion of the first (same) RF transmitter begins, the antenna configuration is switched back to the first antenna configuration. In another set of examples, compensation data to enable compensation between the first antenna configuration used to measure a first reference signal of a reference RF transmitter and a second antenna configuration used to measure a second reference signal of a neighboring (different) RF transmitter is retrieved and used when computing a time difference between the first and second reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Amit Jain
  • Publication number: 20200100151
    Abstract: Handover criteria for wireless networks are provided. A base station (BS) transmits, to a user equipment (UE), a configuration for at least one measurement event to be used for a handover of the UE from a source cell to one of a set of neighbor cells, wherein the configuration includes at least a configured rank criterion for triggering a measurement report in response to the measurement event. The BS receives, from the UE, the measurement report based on the configuration, the measurement report at least including a measured rank value for one or more reported cells in the set. The BS selects a target cell from the reported cells for the handover based at least on the received measured rank values, and transmits a handover command to the UE for the handover to the selected target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Hargovind Prasad BANSAL
  • Publication number: 20200086853
    Abstract: An incoming autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle may initiate/receive parking assist by providing a credit offer to parked vehicles to autonomously move or relocate so that the incoming vehicle has space to park. The incoming vehicle may send a park assist request to a parking control server or parked vehicles, including a credit offer to provide an incentive to parked vehicles to move. In response, a parking location for the incoming vehicle along with target vehicles near the parking location that may be moved may be provided to the incoming vehicle. The target vehicles may accept or reject a request to move, along with the credit offer, e.g., in a park assist negotiation with the incoming vehicle or the parking control server. Upon acceptance of the credit offer, one or more target vehicles may move or relocate to provide room for the incoming vehicle to park.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Ankita, Amit JAIN
  • Publication number: 20200084569
    Abstract: Methods and techniques are described for enhancing positioning related protocols in order to indicate when one location session is different from another location session. One or more messages provided in a location session by a location server to a user equipment (UE) may include a session indication, such as a session identifier (ID), where a different session ID is provided for each location session. The session indication may be a new session indicator provided in an initial message in a location session or an end session indicator provided in a final message in a location session. An extra message may be sent by the location server indicating that the location session has ended. A correlation ID provided by a network entity to the location server may be included in messages as the session indication, e.g., where a different correlation ID is provided for each location session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Amit JAIN, Stephen William Edge, Akash Kumar
  • Publication number: 20200077225
    Abstract: Techniques are provided to initiate signal transmissions for possible opportunistic reception by a mobile device, and/or to initiate opportunistic reception of signal transmissions for use in mobile device position location estimation. For example, a mobile device may use assistance data to identify a first signal to be transmitted over a first frequency band and a second signal to be transmitted over a second frequency band during a specific period of time. At least a portion of the second frequency band may be outside of the first frequency band. The mobile device subsequently attempts to opportunistically receive at least the first signal and the second signal via a receiver tuned to a reception frequency band that encompasses at least the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The mobile device may then process the opportunistically received signals to obtain measurements corresponding to at least the first and second signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Amit Jain, Ankita Mittal, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Shravan Raghunathan, Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy, Hargovind Bansal
  • Publication number: 20200072626
    Abstract: A navigation device and method provide a route to a destination. The navigation device includes a processor configured to receive a starting location at a navigation device associated with a user and receive a destination location at the navigation device. The navigation device also includes a display including a user interface configured to display one or more routes from the starting location to the destination location with an indication of a charging metric of each of the one or more routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Ankita, Amit JAIN
  • Publication number: 20200068472
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for performing positioning measurements at a mobile device during a positioning session with a serving cell. In an aspect, the mobile device determines to trigger a coverage-enhanced (CE) mode before a positioning session timeout for the positioning session expires, continues performance of the positioning measurements during the positioning session with the serving cell while the mobile device remains connected to the serving cell due to the triggered CE mode, determines whether the positioning measurements have been completed or the positioning session timeout has expired, and responsive to the determination that the positioning measurements have been completed or that the positioning session timeout has expired, reports, to a network entity in the wireless communications network, actual handover measurements to enable the network entity to make a handover determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Amit JAIN, Mangesh SHETE
  • Patent number: 10551477
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receive Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) information from a V2X entity, such as a vehicle, road side unit, or other UE carried by a pedestrian. The V2X information may be transmitted to a location server by the UE to obtain positioning assistance data. The location server may determine a coarse position of the UE using the V2X information and generate corresponding positioning assistance data including Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) information for neighbor base stations, which is transmitted to the UE. The UE may detect PRS signals from the neighbor base stations and perform position determination using the PRS signals. The V2X entity or a different V2X entity may also transmit PRS signals that are received by the UE and used along with the PRS signal from the neighbor base stations to perform position determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Ankita
  • Publication number: 20200037219
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for wireless communication are disclosed by the present disclosure. In an example, a user equipment (UE) may be located on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UE may monitor at least one of an elevation of the UE or a number of cells detected by the UE. The UE may determine that the elevation of the UE exceeds an elevation threshold or the number of cells detected by the UE exceeds a cell threshold. The UE may determine a current communication mode of the UE. The UE may switch to a directional transmit mode, in response to determining that the current communication mode is an omnidirectional transmit mode and at least one of the elevation of the UE exceeds the elevation threshold or the number of cells detected by the UE exceeds the cell threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Mridul AGARWAL, Hargovind Prasad BANSAL
  • Patent number: 10546109
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for improving performance of a touchscreen device. In an aspect, the touchscreen device receives a selection of an application or function based on a user touching a portion of a touchscreen display of the touchscreen device that includes an icon representing the application or function, collects biometric data of the user based on the user touching the portion of the touchscreen display, and determines whether the user is authorized to access the application or function based on the biometric data. In an aspect, the touchscreen device detects that a portion of the touchscreen display is unresponsive to user touch input, and in response to the detection, moves at least one icon displayed on the unresponsive portion of the touchscreen display to a portion of the touchscreen display that is responsive to user touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Ankita
  • Publication number: 20200029165
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a position of a mobile device are provided. A method according to these techniques includes obtaining assistance data comprising information for cells associated with a plurality of wireless transmitters of a wireless communications network based on the coarse location of the mobile device, selecting a plurality of the cells from the assistance data, wherein selecting the plurality of cells includes identifying sets of colocated cells and selecting one cell from each of the colocated sets of cells; measuring signals from the plurality of cells to generate positioning signal measurements; and sending the positioning signal measurements to a location server. A colocated set of cells may include a narrowband cell and a non-narrowband cell, and the narrowband wireless cell may comprise a narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) cell and a non-narrowband cell colocated with the NB-IoT cell at an Evolved Node B (eNodeB).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Nilotpal DHAR, Amit JAIN
  • Publication number: 20200021409
    Abstract: In an aspect, to perform inter-frequency measurements by a user equipment (UE) in a carrier aggregation mode, the UE receives assistance data identifying one or more reference signal occasions for one or more neighbor cells, receives information identifying one or more subframes during which the one or more neighbor cells do not carry data transmissions, identifies, for a first reference signal occasion of the one or more reference signal occasions, a first subframe of the one or more subframes that overlaps the first reference signal occasion, tunes, during the first subframe, a first active carrier receiver of a plurality of active carrier receivers away from a first frequency on which the first subframe is transmitted to a second frequency on which the first reference signal occasion is transmitted, and measures, by the first active carrier receiver, the first reference signal occasion on the second frequency during the first subframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Amit JAIN, Stephen William EDGE
  • Publication number: 20200021946
    Abstract: Methods and techniques are described for supporting location services for a user equipment (UE) in a Fifth Generation wireless network in which a base station, such as a gNB or ng-eNB, broadcasts a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) in a plurality of different directions and at a plurality of different times. A PRS muting configuration is used in which PRS is muted using a time based and angle based pattern to prevent interference between beams transmitted by other base stations and/or to prevent interference between beams transmitted simultaneously by a single base station. The time based and angle based muting pattern, for example, may provide an indication for each direction in the plurality of different directions and for each time in the plurality of different times and as to whether the PRS is transmitted or muted by the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Stephen William EDGE
  • Publication number: 20190393970
    Abstract: To perform reference signal measurements of interfering cells, in an aspect, a UE determines an interference vector for each of a plurality of reference signal measurement occasions of a first cell of a plurality of cells of an interfering cell set from which to measure a reference signal, selects first and second reference signal measurement occasions, the first and second reference signal measurement occasions having a same interference vector, receives first and second measurement gaps corresponding to the first and second reference signal measurement occasions, determines, during the first measurement gap, a gain setting for measuring the reference signal transmitted during the second reference signal measurement occasion, and measures, during the second measurement gap, the reference signal using the determined gain setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Stephen William EDGE, Amit JAIN