Patents by Inventor Sanjeevi Balasubramanian
Sanjeevi Balasubramanian 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).
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Patent number: 11356852Abstract: Methods and devices for a user equipment (UE) device to utilize an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) to provide backup cellular connectivity for essential services and security enhancements. A UE device receives user input to alter an operational state of the UE. The user input may include removing a physical subscriber identity module (SIM) card installed in the UE or attempting to power off the UE. In response to receiving the user input, an authorization process is initiated. In response to determining that the authorization process has failed, a security enhancement is implemented for the UE.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gahima S. Mbonye, Eduardo de Almeida Abrantes, Krishna Myneni, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Murtaza A. Shikari, Raj S. Chaugule, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Shiva Krishna Narra, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sriram Subramanian, Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli
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Publication number: 20220109954Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for selecting locations for transmitting emergency beacons. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining a current location of a mobile device in a geographic area; configuring a transmitter of the mobile device for device-to-device (D2D) communication; determining one or more candidate transmit locations for D2D communication, wherein each candidate transmit location is determined based at least in part on its elevation, proximity to a D2D device density location that is within a maximum communication distance from the candidate transmit location, and an availability of a trail or path to the candidate transmit location; receiving input selecting a particular candidate transmit location from the one or more candidate transmit locations; in accordance with the input, determining a route from the current location of the mobile device to the particular candidate transmit location; and presenting the route through an output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Dhruv Khati, Anjaneyulu Maganti
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Publication number: 20220086282Abstract: This Application describes mechanisms to provide priority levels for call connection requests and/or messages from a sending device to a receiving device. The receiving device is configured to allow prioritized notification alerts for incoming call connection requests and/or for incoming messages from a sending device to override a silent or do not disturb mode for one or more contacts based on i) a priority level provided with the call connection request or message and ii) a priority setting for the sending device or a set of devices associated with a user of the sending device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Harsha SHIRAHATTI, Sanjeevi BALASUBRAMANIAN, Sriram SUBRAMANIAN, Nischay GOEL, Shiva Krishna NARRA, Vijay VENKATARAMAN, Stephen C. SCHWEIZER, Krisztian KISS
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Publication number: 20220022077Abstract: A communications network may include user equipment that communicates with external equipment. The user equipment may include an antenna, measurement circuitry, control circuitry, and a display. The antenna may receive downlink signals while the user equipment moves through a geographic area. The measurement circuitry may gather wireless performance metric data from the received signals. The control circuitry may determine whether the gathered wireless performance metric data exceeds, for a predetermined time period, a threshold value. The control circuitry may store respective geographic locations of the user equipment at each location in the geographic area where the gathered wireless performance metric data exceeds, for the predetermined time period, the threshold value. The control circuitry may, in response to a trigger condition, control the output device to produce an output that identifies at least one of the stored geographic locations to a user of the user equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Anjaneyulu Maganti, Ashley M. Williams, Dhruv Khati, Jia Tang, John W. Fenwick, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Shiva Krishna Narra
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Publication number: 20220007443Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform negotiation of bearer type configuration and/or related parameters. A user equipment device (UE) and/or network may determine a bearer configuration and/or other parameters based on information or measurements of the UE. The UE and the BS may exchange data using a negotiated configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Fangli XU, Wen ZHAO, Sachin J. SANE, Sagar B. SHAH, Muthukumaran DHANAPAL, Sriram SUBRAMANIAN, Madhukar K. SHANBHAG, Vishwanth Kamala GOVINDARAJU, Sandeep K. SUNKESALA, Tarakkumar G. DHANANI, Sree Ram KODALI, Vijay GADDE, Shiva Krishna NARRA, Sharad GARG, Sanjeevi BALASUBRAMANIAN, Dawei ZHANG, Haijing HU, Rajesh AMBATI
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Publication number: 20210400748Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish network connections for long-term evolution (LTE) and new radio (NR) radio access technologies (RATS) in non-standalone (NSA) E-UTRA-NR dual connectivity (ENDC) operation. The UE includes a multi-antenna array for data and signaling transmissions and receptions over the LTE and NR connections. The UE determines a most efficient antenna of the multi-antenna array for an operating frequency band of the LTE and NR connections, wherein the most efficient antenna is determined based on at least one performance factor for the UE when using the antenna compared to other antennas of the multi-antenna array, evaluates one or more factors for determining whether the LTE RAT or the NR RAT is to use the most efficient antenna and transmits uplink data on the most efficient antenna via either the LTE RAT or the NR RAT based on the evaluated factors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Sriram SUBRAMANIAN, Alosious Pradeep PRABHAKAR, Madhukar K. SHANBHAG, Pengkai ZHAO, Sanjeevi BALASUBRAMANIAN, Shiva Krishna NARRA, Vijay VENKATARAMAN, Vishwanth Kamala GOVINDARAJU, Wenping LOU
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Publication number: 20210297885Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may skip certain measurements when it is unlikely that the UE will use the measurements. The UE determines that the UE is configured with one of a measurement gap or gapless measurements, identifies that a predetermined condition has been satisfied and implements a mitigation technique in response to identifying that the predetermined condition has been satisfied, wherein the mitigation technique includes omitting performing one of a measurement during the measurement gap or a gapless measurement, wherein the measurement or the gapless measurement corresponds to a first radio access technology (RAT) that is different than a second RAT on which the UE is currently camped.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Tarakkumar G. DHANANI, Alosious Pradeep PRABHAKAR, Madhukar K. SHANBHAG, Sandeep K. SUNKESALA, Sanjeevi BALASUBRAMANIAN, Sharad GARG, Shiva Krishna NARRA, Sree Ram KODALI, Sriram SUBRAMANIAN, Vijay GADDE, Vijay VENKATARAMAN, Vishwanth Kamala GOVINDARAJU, Wei ZHANG
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Publication number: 20210289583Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to perform millimeter wavelength communication with increased reliability and power efficiency using sensor inputs. The sensor inputs may include motion, rotation, or temperature measurements, among various possibilities. The sensor inputs may be used when performing beamforming tracking, antenna configuration, transmit and receive chain measurements and selection, and/or in any of various other possible operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Wei Zhang, Pengkai Zhao, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sriram Subramanian, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Junsung Lim, Jia Tang, Galib A. Mohiuddin, Yu-Lin Wang, Zhu Ji, Johnson O. Sebeni
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Publication number: 20210211972Abstract: A user equipment (UE) supports communication over a first (lower) frequency range and a second (higher) frequency range. The UE determines an extent of preference of the second frequency range over the first frequency range, e.g., based on one or more of the following: sensor measurements; physical channel measurements; battery conditions; weather conditions; voice call activity; indoor/outdoor/in-car status; learned relationships between previous location-time conditions and performance on the second frequency range; etc. The UE device may control search activity and/or measurement activity on the second frequency range based on the preference extent, e.g., by controlling rates of repetition of search and/or measurement on the second frequency range, or by adding a measurement bias to a measurement reporting threshold, or by adding a delay to a measurement reporting time for a measurement, or by disabling search and measurement on the second frequency range.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Wei Zhang, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Pengkai Zhao, Vijay Venkataraman, Junsung Lim, Zhu Ji, Johnson O. Sebeni, Yu-Lin Wang, Galib A. Mohiuddin, Sriram Subramanian, Shiva Krishna Narra, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Daniel A. West, Rohit R. Matolia
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Publication number: 20210195439Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating overheating in a user equipment device (UE). The UE is configured to communicate over each of LTE and 5G NR and may be configured to communicate through 5G NR over each of a Sub-6 GHz and a millimeter Wave (mmW) frequency band. The UE is configured to establish an ENDC connection with an enB and one or more gNBs. The UE implements intelligent transmission modification and cell measurement adjustments to mitigate overheating and reduce battery drain.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Wen Zhao, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Li Su, Sagar B. Shah, Sriram Subramanian, Vijay Venkataraman, Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Wei Zhang, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Srinivasan Nimmala, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Sree Ram Kodali, loannis Pefkianakis, Dhruv Khati, Franco Travostino, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Geoffrey R. Hall
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Patent number: 11044594Abstract: In a method of device-to-device communication, a user device initially sends an emergency message repeatedly at a first repeating frequency. When a specified number acknowledgement (ACK) messages are received, the user device sends the emergency message repeatedly at a reduced repeating frequency. The repeating frequency may be further reduced when more ACK messages are received.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Shiva Krishna Narra, Tarik Tabet, Dhruv Khati, Lydi Smaini, Anjaneyulu Maganti, Mohit Narang, Tiberiu Muresan
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Patent number: 11012816Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for selecting locations for transmitting emergency beacons. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining a current location of a mobile device in a geographic area; configuring a transmitter of the mobile device for device-to-device (D2D) communication; determining one or more candidate transmit locations for D2D communication, wherein each candidate transmit location is determined based at least in part on its elevation, proximity to a D2D device density location that is within a maximum communication distance from the candidate transmit location, and an availability of a trail or path to the candidate transmit location; receiving input selecting a particular candidate transmit location from the one or more candidate transmit locations; in accordance with the input, determining a route from the current location of the mobile device to the particular candidate transmit location; and presenting the route through an output device.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Dhruv Khati, Anjaneyulu Maganti
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Publication number: 20210050946Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for transmitting acknowledgment messages on a preferred cell in a carrier aggregation scenario. A user equipment device (UE) establishes a connection with a primary cell and one or more secondary cells, and determines a preferred cell from among the primary cell and the one or more secondary cells based at least in part on one or more quality metrics. The UE may determine the preferred cell at least in part in response to determining that transmission power of the UE has been limited due to a specific absorption rate (SAR) backoff feature of the UE. The UE transmits a notification to a network indicating that the UE intends to transmit an acknowledgement message to the preferred cell, and transmits the acknowledgment message to the preferred cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Sriram Subramanian, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sharad Garg, Vijay Gadde, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Sree Ram Kodali, Haitong Sun, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Wei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar
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Publication number: 20210037389Abstract: Methods and devices for a user equipment (UE) device to utilize an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) to provide backup cellular connectivity for essential services and security enhancements. A UE device receives user input to alter an operational state of the UE. The user input may include removing a physical subscriber identity module (SIM) card installed in the UE or attempting to power off the UE. In response to receiving the user input, an authorization process is initiated. In response to determining that the authorization process has failed, a security enhancement is implemented for the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Gahima S. Mbonye, Eduardo de Almeida Abrantes, Krishna Myneni, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Murtaza A. Shikari, Raj S. Chaugule, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Shiva Krishna Narra, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sriram Subramanian, Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli
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Patent number: 10849079Abstract: A power control method for device-to-device communication includes dynamically backing off transmit power value for synchronization signals and discovery messages when the distance between the two devices is less than a pre-determined threshold. The threshold distance may correspond to a distance where the receive power may exceed a pre-determined value. Embodiments may loop the transmit power of synchronization signals between a default transmit power value and backed-off values in consecutive slots of each frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dhruv Khati, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Anjaneyulu Maganti, Lydi Smaini, Tarik Tabet, Mohit Narang, Tiberiu Muresan
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Publication number: 20200359173Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for selecting locations for transmitting emergency beacons. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining a current location of a mobile device in a geographic area; configuring a transmitter of the mobile device for device-to-device (D2D) communication; determining one or more candidate transmit locations for D2D communication, wherein each candidate transmit location is determined based at least in part on its elevation, proximity to a D2D device density location that is within a maximum communication distance from the candidate transmit location, and an availability of a trail or path to the candidate transmit location; receiving input selecting a particular candidate transmit location from the one or more candidate transmit locations; in accordance with the input, determining a route from the current location of the mobile device to the particular candidate transmit location; and presenting the route through an output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Dhruv Khati, Anjaneyulu Maganti
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Publication number: 20200295854Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) configured with a plurality of antenna panels. Each antenna panel is configured to beamform over a millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band. The method includes identifying a predetermined condition corresponding to a first antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels, selecting a second antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels based on identifying the predetermined condition corresponding to the first antenna panel and transmitting a beam via the second antenna panel based on the selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Shiva Krishna NARRA, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Pengkai Zhao, Sami M. Almalfouh, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Sriram Subramanian, Wei Zhang, Yi Su
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Publication number: 20200100177Abstract: In a method of device-to-device communication, efficient power management is provided when a primary device has a low battery level. The primary device can send synchronization signals and discovery messages to secondary devices by looping through a sequence of transmit power values in a sequence of consecutive frames, where the sequence of transmitting values includes a default power value and a reduced power value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Shiva Krishna Narra, Anjaneyulu Maganti, Tarik Tabet, Lydi Smaini, Dhruv Khati, Mohit Narang, Tiberiu Muresan
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Publication number: 20200100082Abstract: In a method of device-to-device communication, a user device initially sends an emergency message repeatedly at a first repeating frequency. When a specified number acknowledgement (ACK) messages are received, the user device sends the emergency message repeatedly at a reduced repeating frequency. The repeating frequency may be further reduced when more ACK messages are received.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Shiva Krishna Narra, Tarik Tabet, Dhruv Khati, Lydi Smaini, Anjaneyulu Maganti, Mohit Narang, Tiberiu Muresan
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Publication number: 20200100195Abstract: A power control method for device-to-device communication includes dynamically backing off transmit power value for synchronization signals and discovery messages when the distance between the two devices is less than a pre-determined threshold. The threshold distance may correspond to a distance where the receive power may exceed a pre-determined value. Embodiments may loop the transmit power of synchronization signals between a default transmit power value and backed-off values in consecutive slots of each frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dhruv Khati, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Anjaneyulu Maganti, Lydi Smaini, Tarik Tabet, Mohit Narang, Tiberiu Muresan