Patents by Inventor Mei-Lan Chen

Mei-Lan Chen 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).

  • Patent number: 12238594
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) performing a handover procedure is disclosed. The method includes receiving a handover command from a network, in a case that a first information related to an offset time is included in the handover command, performing the handover procedure based on the handover command after the offset time, and in a case that a second information related to a configured area is included in the handover command, performing the handover procedure based on the handover command when the UE locating within the configured area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Yung-Lan Tseng, Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 12232207
    Abstract: A method for a UE to perform a MUSIM operation is provided. The method includes connecting to a first network associated with a first USIM; transmitting a request message to the first network, the request message including assistance information to request a time gap for the MUSIM operation; receiving a first time gap configuration from the first network in a case that a type of the time gap requested by the UE is aperiodic, the first time gap configuration indicating a starting SFN and a starting subframe of a first configured time gap; and in a case that the UE receives the first time gap configuration, switching to a second network, while keeping a connection to the first network, during the first configured time gap according to the first time gap configuration, the second network being associated with a second USIM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: An-An Lee, Hung-Chen Chen, Mei-Ju Shih, Yung-Lan Tseng, Hsin-Hsi Tsai
  • Patent number: 12231975
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method for sidelink failure management are provided. The method includes determining that a sidelink failure event associated with a paired sidelink destination UE has occurred and transmitting, to a first cell, a sidelink failure report indicating the sidelink failure event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yung-Lan Tseng, Hung-Chen Chen, Mei-Ju Shih
  • Patent number: 12219416
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media containing computer-executable instructions embodied therein and at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The at least one processor is configured to receive through a serving cell of a first Radio Access Technology (RAT), a sidelink (SL) resource configuration of a second RAT, determine first validity area information associated with the first RAT and second validity area information associated with the second RAT, and identify a validity area of the SL resource configuration based on the first validity area information and the second validity area information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yung-Lan Tseng, Hung-Chen Chen, Mei-Ju Shih, Yu-Hsin Cheng
  • Patent number: 12219518
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) for performing a paging reception is provided. The method includes determining whether the UE registers to a first network associated with an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network; determining whether to transmit a requested offset value for a paging occasion calculation to the first network after the UE determines that the UE registers to the first network; transmitting, to the first network, the requested offset value after the UE determines to transmit the requested offset value to the first network; receiving, from the first network, a configured offset value for the paging occasion calculation; forwarding, by a Non-Access-Stratum (NAS) layer of the UE, to a lower layer of the UE, the configured offset value; and performing the paging reception based on a first UE identity (ID), wherein the first UE ID is determined based on the configured offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Mei-Ju Shih, Yung-Lan Tseng, An-An Lee
  • Publication number: 20250039753
    Abstract: A method for sidelink operation performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first cell, a conditional handover command that includes an indication of a second cell and one or more triggering conditions for handover to the second cell, performing handover to the second cell after determining that at least one of the triggering conditions is fulfilled, and applying a sidelink resource configuration that is stored in the UE after performing handover to the second cell based on the conditional handover command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yung-Lan Tseng, Hung-Chen Chen, Mei-Ju Shih, Yu-Hsin Cheng
  • Publication number: 20120280432
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a bioabsorbable stent and an apparatus for doing the same are disclosed. The method includes providing a polymer resin, melting the polymer resin to form a molten hollow parison, cooling the molten hollow parison to form a hot hollow parison, elongating the hot hollow parison, expanding the hot hollow parison by feeding a compressed gas into the hot hollow parison to form a stent preform, and patterning the stent preform to form a bioabsorbable stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jyh-Chern Chen, Kuo-Yao Weng, Shian-Yih Wang, Pin-Pin Wu, Mei Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20100085731
    Abstract: A water quality monitoring device includes a light-emitting warning device joined on a water outlet of a water filtering device; the light-emitting warning device includes a base member, a light-reflecting plate on an upper side of the base member, a covering on an upper side of the light-reflecting plate, a light-emitting mechanism positioned between the light-reflecting plate and the covering, and a cover; the cover is a translucent membrane made of a pervious-to-light material and treated with a sputtering process, and it can guide light in such a manner that light can be uniformly emitted, and is like a metallic material in a normal condition; the covering has a light-reflecting silver strip on its circumferential side, and has light-scattering granules all over it; light emitted from the light-emitting mechanism will be reflected by the light-reflecting plate, and next scattered by the granules and the silver strip, and finally uniformly emitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventor: Mei-Lan Chen
  • Patent number: 7638778
    Abstract: A sterilization device includes a shell, an ultraviolet ray lamp tube fixed with a lamp support on an upper end of the shell, an inner quartz tube around the lamp tube, an outer quartz tube around the inner quartz tube, a stainless steel tube around the outer quartz tube, an inner passage between the inner and the outer quartz tubes, an outer passage between the outer quartz tube and the stainless steel tube, and a guiding member on the lower end of the shell; the guiding member has guiding holes to guide water along a spiral path, and a water inlet on a lower portion thereof, which communicates with the guiding holes; a covering member is threadedly engaged with an outer side of the lower end of the shell; the water inlet of the guiding member extends through the covering member; the covering member has a water outlet hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Inventor: Mei-Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20090230321
    Abstract: A sterilization device includes a shell, an ultraviolet ray lamp tube fixed with a lamp support on an upper end of the shell, an inner quartz tube around the lamp tube, an outer quartz tube around the inner quartz tube, a stainless steel tube around the outer quartz tube, an inner passage between the inner and the outer quartz tubes, an outer passage between the outer quartz tube and the stainless steel tube, and a guiding member on the lower end of the shell; the guiding member has guiding holes to guide water along a spiral path, and a water inlet on a lower portion thereof, which communicates with the guiding holes; a covering member is threadedly engaged with an outer side of the lower end of the shell; the water inlet of the guiding member extends through the covering member; the covering member has a water outlet hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventor: Mei-Lan Chen