Patents Issued in April 20, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170111728
    Abstract: Disclosed are a bone conduction speaker module and bone conduction earphones having the bone conduction speaker modules. More particularly, the present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker module and bone conduction earphones having the bone conduction speaker modules, wherein the bone conduction speaker modules can accurately output sound, can stably output sound with fewer vibrations, enable a wearer to comfortably use the earphones, can prevent strain to the wearer by minimizing influence of magnetic force, can facilitate wearing of the earphones, and can prevent an accident from occurring by allowing the wearer to hear external sounds. To this end, a bone conduction speaker module used in earphones, headphones, and a hearing aid, includes: a housing including a first casing covering a portion coming into contact with a human body and a second casing covering a side of the first casing; a magnet part; and a voice coil part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: DAESUNG M-TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Duk-Kyu KIM, Seok-Kyu KANG, Nam-Sik CHOI, Sang-Kyu KANG, Sung-Heum BAEK, Joo-Hoon SEONG, ill-sun KANG
  • Publication number: 20170111729
    Abstract: A coaxial loudspeaker has a first driver producing sound within a first frequency band and a second driver coaxial with the first driver producing sound within a second higher frequency band. The first driver includes a first moveable membrane coupled and moveable relative to a frame to generate sound waves within the first frequency band. The first moveable membrane extends from adjacent a central axis to an outer part above and spaced apart from a rim of the frame, the outer part being resiliently coupled to the rim. The second driver includes a second moveable membrane generating sound waves within the second frequency band. The second moveable membrane is behind or below the first moveable membrane and the resilient coupling is behind the first moveable membrane extending from the rim to the outer part so the surround is not an obstacle to second driver sound waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Philippe Jean-Baptiste ROBINEAU, Ludovico AUSIELLO
  • Publication number: 20170111730
    Abstract: A multi-channel headphone has a housing, multiple independent sound channels formed in the housing, and at least one speaker unit mounted inside the housing. The at least one speaker unit produces sound directly passing through one of the sound channels and refracted through the rest of sound channels. As the refracted sound is slower than the directly travelling sound, multiple layers of auditory feeling can be provided and a stereo sound effect can be generated for users to enjoy better auditory feeling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Chien-Chuan Pan
  • Publication number: 20170111731
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a microphone assembly comprising a microphone unit for converting incoming acoustical sound to an electrical signal, and a rear volume comprising acoustically connected rear volume compartments, said acoustically connected rear volume compartments setting an effective acoustical impedance of said rear volume in order to reduce the sensitivity of the microphone assembly with respect to a resonance peak. The present invention further relates to a hearing device comprising a microphone assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Egon Merks-Swolfs
  • Publication number: 20170111732
    Abstract: A sound output device has a sound output unit outputting sound to an exterior, a battery attachment unit to which an electric tool battery is attached, and a case supporting the sound output unit and the battery attachment unit. The case includes a first inner wall structure defining a first inner space accommodating the sound output unit, and a second inner wall structure defining a second inner space different from the first inner space. The second inner wall structure is configured to resonate the sound output of the sound output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazunori TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20170111733
    Abstract: An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester S. Williams, Pelham Norville
  • Publication number: 20170111734
    Abstract: A controller for a haptic feedback element is described, the haptic feedback element being configured to generate haptic vibrations, wherein the controller comprises a sense input and is configured to sense a signal induced on at least one terminal of the haptic feedback element in response to an external vibration source. The controller may sense vibrations induced one or more terminals of a haptic feedback element. The external vibration source may for example be due to speech transmitted via bone conduction which can be detected and subsequently processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Christophe Marc Macours
  • Publication number: 20170111735
    Abstract: An audio amplifier includes an operational amplifier, a replica of an output stage of the operational amplifier, and a feedback circuit configured such that, in a normal mode, an output signal of the operational amplifier is fed back to the input side of the operational amplifier, and such that, in a calibration mode, an output signal of the replica is fed back to the input side of the operational amplifier. The calibration circuit cancels out the offset voltage of the audio amplifier. An adjustment circuit changes the offset of the audio amplifier according to a control signal S1. A control circuit adjusts the control signal such that an output signal VS of the replica is within a predetermined target range in a state in which a predetermined voltage is input to the audio amplifier. Memory stores the control signal S2 acquired in the final stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Hirotsugu EGO
  • Publication number: 20170111736
    Abstract: An audio bass compensation system is disclosed. The audio bass compensation system includes a first signal path and a second signal path which are set in parallel. The first signal path includes a first equalizer, a first phase correction unit, a first power amplifier, a receiver or speaker. The second signal path includes a second equalizer, a second phase correction unit, a second power amplifier and a bass speaker which are connected electrically in series. Compared with the related technology, the audio bass compensation system adopts the receiver or the speaker to provide the medium-high compensation to the bass speaker. The present invention also provides a compensation method for audio bass compensation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Huan Ge, Hongxing Wang, Rongguan Zhou, Lijian Ye
  • Publication number: 20170111737
    Abstract: An audio processing circuit comprises an analyzer circuit that includes a plurality of energy detector units, and an equalizer circuit that includes a plurality of equalization filters. The equalizer circuit is coupled with the analyzer circuit. The analyzer circuit is configured to receive an audio signal, obtain sub-bands of the audio signal using the energy detector units, measure energy of each sub-band, compare the energy of each sub-band to a threshold energy value and, based on the comparison, determine parameters for an equalization filter for processing the sub-band. The equalizer circuit is configured to receive the audio signal concurrently with reception of the audio signal by the analyzer circuit, obtain the sub-bands using the equalization filters, receive the parameters for the equalization filters from the analyzer circuit, equalize each sub-band by applying the parameters corresponding to the sub-band, and generate an output audio signal that includes the equalized sub-bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Painter, Erfan Soltanmohammadi, Kapil Jain
  • Publication number: 20170111738
    Abstract: A wireless audio transmitter system includes a base transmitter unit and one or more portable receiver units. The base unit receives input from an audio source and transmits one or more corresponding signals to one or more of the portable receiver units simultaneously. Headphones or speakers may be plugged into the receiver units to enable listening to the audio signal received by the receiver unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Ekko Audio, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Murray, Frank Elge, III
  • Publication number: 20170111739
    Abstract: A method and a portable electronic apparatus for adaptively adjusting a playback effect of speakers are provided. The portable electronic apparatus includes a speaker enclosure volume adjusting device and a processor coupled to the speakers and the speaker enclosure volume adjusting device. In the method, the processor detects a usage demand for the portable electronic apparatus and accordingly determines an audio mode. Based on the determined audio mode, the processor selects and activates multiple speakers, and adjusts an enclosure volume of at least one of the activated speakers, so as to change an audio frequency range of the at least one speaker and an overall audio frequency range covered by the activated speakers. Finally, the processor plays an audio through the activated speakers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Po-Yueh Lan, Chang-Yuan Wu, Yi-Chang Wu, Kun-Tien Kuo, Ya-Hui Tseng, Chen-Yi Huang, Chun-Yi Ho, Hsiao-Ching Hung
  • Publication number: 20170111740
    Abstract: A set of wireless earpieces includes a left wireless earpiece comprising an earpiece housing sized and shaped to fit into an external auditory canal of a user, a speaker disposed within the earpiece and positioned to transduce audio towards a tympanic membrane associated with the external auditory canal of the user, a right wireless earpiece comprising an earpiece housing sized and shaped to fit into an external auditory canal of a user, a speaker disposed within the earpiece and positioned to transduce audio towards a tympanic membrane associated with the external auditory canal of the user, and wherein the left earpiece and the right earpiece are adapted to process sound in order to alter perception of the sound to match a pre-determined point of view for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Nikolaj Hviid, Toby Martin
  • Publication number: 20170111741
    Abstract: A multi-channel headphone has a housing, multiple independent sound channels formed in the housing, and at least one speaker unit mounted inside the housing. The at least one speaker unit produces sound directly passing through one of the sound channels and refracted through the rest of sound channels. As the refracted sound is slower than the directly travelling sound, multiple layers of auditory feeling can be provided and a stereo sound effect can be generated for users to enjoy better auditory feeling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Chien-Chuan PAN
  • Publication number: 20170111742
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for achieving improved sound quality from mobile ‘hifi’ playback devices by driving compatible headphones in ‘balanced’ or ‘differential’ mode via standard size headphone connectors on the device, while retaining full compliance with legacy jack connections and conventional headphones. When a headphone is connected, a smartphone may determine whether the headphone is one capable of accepting balanced audio signals, or one that uses a conventional 3-pole jack or a 4-pole CTIA or OMTP jack. For a headphone that accepts balanced audio signals, the four poles of a 4-pole jack are used to drive left and right audio channels, and inverted left and right audio channels. For conventional 3-pole or 4-pole jacks, switches in the smartphone adapt the audio output signals to the configuration expected by the headphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Dustin Dale Forman, Peter John Frith, Frederic Schrive, Hwang Soo Son
  • Publication number: 20170111743
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for achieving improved sound quality from mobile ‘hifi’ playback devices by driving compatible headphones in ‘balanced’ or ‘differential’ mode via standard size headphone connectors on the device, while retaining full compliance with legacy jack connections and conventional headphones. When a headphone is connected, a smartphone may determine whether the headphone is one capable of accepting balanced audio signals, or one that uses a conventional 3-pole jack or a 4-pole CTIA or OMTP jack. For a headphone that accepts balanced audio signals, the four poles of a 4-pole jack are used to drive left and right audio channels, and inverted left and right audio channels. For conventional 3-pole or 4-pole jacks, switches in the smartphone adapt the audio output signals to the configuration expected by the headphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Peter John Frith, Frederic Schrive, Hwang Soo Son, Dustin Dale Forman
  • Publication number: 20170111744
    Abstract: An approaching vehicle warning speaker device includes a diaphragm that generates sound, an edge section joined to an outer edge of the diaphragm, and a frame supporting an outer periphery of the edge section. The diaphragm is made of a film containing polyimide. The edge section includes a base member made of fiber and rubber-containing waterproof layers provided on both sides of the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuaki WATANABE, Junichi SATO, Susumu MIYATA, Makoto TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20170111745
    Abstract: Provided is an electro-acoustic conversion film that is suitably used for a digital speaker or the like, and that includes a polymer composite piezoelectric body formed by dispersing piezoelectric particles in a viscoelastic matrix formed of a polymer material having viscoelasticity at room temperature, and thin-film electrodes provided on both surfaces of the polymer composite piezoelectric body, in which at least one of the thin-film electrodes is divided into a plurality of regions having the same area, and the respective regions are coupled in parallel and grouped to correspond to a weight of each bit digit of a parallel PCM digital signal. Thus, an electro-acoustic conversion film by which a digital speaker in which reverberation or crosstalk between segments is suppressed is obtained is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu MIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20170111746
    Abstract: Provided is an electro-acoustic conversion film that is suitably used for a digital speaker or the like, and that includes a polymer composite piezoelectric body formed by dispersing piezoelectric particles in a viscoelastic matrix formed of a polymer material having viscoelasticity at room temperature, and thin-film electrodes provided on both surfaces of the polymer composite piezoelectric body, and at least one of the thin-film electrodes is divided into a plurality of regions of which an area increases by 2n times (n is a natural number including 0). Thus, a digital speaker in which reverberation or crosstalk between segments is suppressed is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu MIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20170111747
    Abstract: A hearing device, such as a hearing aid, having a vibration sensitive transducer being adapted to detect vibrations being generated by a human voice, and a digital signal processor for processing signals from the vibration sensitive transducer in order to identify a predetermined human voice vibration signal being related to the voice of the user of the hearing device, and control the hearing device in accordance therewith. The vibration sensitive transducer is secured directly to a shell so that vibrations are detected via a skull of the user of the hearing device. An automatic method for controlling a hearing device, such as a hearing aid, is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Aart Zeger van Halteren, Hamidreza Taghavi
  • Publication number: 20170111748
    Abstract: An ITE hearing aid having a shell worn at least partially in a user's ear canal, a faceplate closing the shell at a side oriented towards the exterior of the user's ear, and at least one microphone housed in the shell and acoustically connected to ambience via a sound port formed in the faceplate. The faceplate has a cover element covering a cavity of the sound port in a direction normal to a main plane of the faceplate and a lateral sound opening in a wall extending normal to the main plane. The cover element is elevated above a surface region surrounding the cover element, with the sound port wall extending between the cover element and this surface region. The shell is designed, with regard to shape and size, in a manner that the hearing aid is manually removable from the ear canal without the need to use a tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SONOVA AG
    Inventors: André L. OCHSENBEIN, Jan ANGST, Erich DITTLI
  • Publication number: 20170111749
    Abstract: A wireless receiver, which receives a radio wave (RF) signal from a wireless microphone, demodulates an audio signal, and displays an RF reception state proportional to strength of a received signal on an indicator, includes a first frequency conversion(FC) unit generating a first IF signal based on the received RF signal; a second FC unit generating a second IF signal based on the first IF signal; a first received RF strength measuring unit detecting a first level signal from the first IF signal generated by the first FC unit; a second received RF strength measuring unit detecting a second level signal from the second IF signal generated by the second FC unit; and a synthesizing unit synthesizing the first level signal detected by the first received RF strength measuring unit and the second level signal detected by the second received RF strength measuring unit, and outputs a synthesized level signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Masaki SHIOTANI
  • Publication number: 20170111750
    Abstract: In a wireless receiver having a plurality of antennas for wireless microphones, variation in received signal strength from the plurality of antennas is eliminated when displayed on an indicator. The receiver includes a plurality of receiving circuits respectively corresponding to the plurality of antennas outputs a received signal strength as a detection voltage received by each of the antennas, an indicator that displays the received signal strength by the number of lighting segments, a lookup table in which a correspondence relation between a value of the detection voltage and the number of lighting segments of the indicator is set for each of the receiving circuits, and a display unit that refers to the lookup table based on the value of the detection voltage output from the plurality of receiving circuits and displays a level signal based on the number of lighting segments of the indicator set in the lookup table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Masaki SHIOTANI
  • Publication number: 20170111751
    Abstract: A microphone porting structure, comprises a substrate (312) having a bearing surface and a porting through-hole (344) formed therethough for aligning with a microphone port of a bottom ported microphone (334). The bearing surface provides an area against which to seal and the through-hole provides for acoustic path alignment for the audio ports of paired bottom ported microphones mounted to a printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: ANDREW P. MIEHL, PATRICK S. CLAEYS, KARL F. MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20170111752
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for sim-less subscription mechanism for mobile cellular networks. In novel aspect, the mobile device supporting the e-SIM is provisioned with the assistance the UE by obtaining subscription information from the UE. In one embodiment, UE retrieves an ID from the mobile device. The UE sends a subscription request to the e-SIM platform, wherein the subscription request includes information of the retrieved ID of the mobile device and the subscription information of the UE. In another embodiment, the mobile device retrieves subscription information from the UE. The mobile device sends a subscription request to the e-SIM platform, wherein the subscription request includes information of the subscription information retrieved from the UE and the ID of the mobile device. The mobile device receives a subscription response from the e-SIM platform and enables the mobile device through mobile device's e-SIM based on the subscription response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Huang-Fu, I-Kang Fu
  • Publication number: 20170111753
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing a software upgrade are disclosed. The method determines a plurality of mobile endpoint devices affected by a wireless network access software upgrade, and schedules a deployment of the wireless network access software upgrade. The method transmits a notification to the plurality of mobile endpoint devices, wherein the notification is configured to cause each of the plurality of mobile endpoint devices to store user settings in a memory of each of the plurality of mobile endpoint devices. The method downloads the wireless network access software upgrade wirelessly to the plurality of mobile endpoint devices, wherein the wireless network access software upgrade is configured to cause each of the plurality of mobile endpoint devices to install the wireless network access software upgrade and to restore the user settings from the memory of each of the plurality of mobile endpoint devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Yung Choi-Grogan, Jun Shen, Ming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170111754
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus can receive a packet at a Uu protocol stack of a first user equipment (UE), the packet intended for a base station. In addition, the apparatus can transfer the packet from the Uu protocol stack of the first UE to a PC5 interface protocol stack of the first UE. Furthermore, the apparatus can modify a header of the packet at the PC5 interface protocol stack to identify the packet as relayed uplink traffic intended for the base station from the first UE. Moreover, the apparatus can transmit the packet including the modified header to a second UE for relaying to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Sudhir Kumar BAGHEL, Kapil GULATI, Hong CHENG, Shailesh PATIL, Junyi LI, Georgios TSIRTSIS, Bilal SADIQ
  • Publication number: 20170111755
    Abstract: Systems and methods for control and triggering of machine to machine (M2M) devices (e.g., smart meters). More specifically how to allow an M2M service provider (e.g., utility company) to use an operator's network to communicate with the M2M device connected with a UE/GW associated with the operator's network. The M2M service provider may receive identification of the UE/GW, but not for the M2M device. By transmitting an identifier for the M2M device along with an identifier for the UE/GW, the network operator may define establish and maintain a communication path specific to M2M devices. Similar techniques may be incorporated to allow the M2M service provider to locate and trigger the M2M device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: GEORGE CHERIAN, Jun Wang, Anand Palanigounder, John Nasielski
  • Publication number: 20170111756
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving low-cost MTC (Machine-Type Communication) devices in a wireless communication system. The method includes broadcasting, in a system information, a first information used for cell re-selection. The method further includes providing a second information, for a neighboring cell or a frequency, that is used for cell re-selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Yu-Hsuan Guo, Meng-Hui Ou, Ko-Chiang Lin
  • Publication number: 20170111757
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal, a method for transmitting/receiving data by a mobile communication terminal in a communication system, and a communication system comprising at least one mobile communication terminal are provided. The terminal includes a communication module for performing short-distance communication, a context engine for extracting a tag from contents data, and a controller for generating the contents data, generating profile information using the tag, and controlling the communication module to broadcast the profile data and the contents data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Dae-Hyun SIM, Kwang-Jun KIM, Jae-Ho KIM, Young-Seop HAN, Yun-Chul YI, Woo-Jun CHOI, Beom-Soo CHO, Jeong-Eun LEE
  • Publication number: 20170111758
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (WCD) establishes an ad-hoc communication link with a second WCD within operating range. A replica of at least a portion of a display of the first WCD may be shared with the second WCD utilizing wireless broadband signals that are communicated via the established one or more ad-hoc communication links. The first WCD and the second WCD are operable to communicate the wireless broadband signals at a power level that is below a spurious emissions mask. The transmitted wireless broadband signals are spread so they occupy a designated frequency spectrum band. The shared replica of at least a portion of the display of the first WCD includes one or more applications, text, video and/or data content. A user of the first WCD may interact with content that is displayed on a display of the second WCD and vice-versa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Curtis Ling, Timothy Gallagher
  • Publication number: 20170111759
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication between a PDU and one or more devices within a limited communications range are described. A power distribution unit may be provided with a wireless communications module that may operate to communicate with user devices within a relatively close proximity. The wireless communications module may provide information reporting and may, in some examples, provide a user of the user device with configuration and other command capabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Carrel W. Ewing, James P. Maskaly, Erich Beyer, Yael Campo, Benjamin Haas, Brian P. Auclair
  • Publication number: 20170111760
    Abstract: According to the techniques presented herein, location data from signals transmitted by a plurality of mobile wireless devices in a wireless network are obtained. For each mobile wireless device, location data time points are aggregated to generate a plurality of routines or paths of movement for each mobile wireless device within a predefined space. The predefined space is partitioned into a plurality of units and each routine of the plurality of routines is also partitioned into a plurality of subroutines or segments. For each unit, one or more subroutines within a predefined distance of a frequent subroutine are combined with the frequent subroutine, and the frequent subroutines may be displayed on a graphical interface to visualize aggregate movement of the plurality of mobile wireless devices within the predefined space. Frequent subroutines may be analyzed in an automated manner to generate notifications and alerts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Zhitao Shen, David Tang, Hao Liu, Yu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170111761
    Abstract: A physical and virtual phone mobility system enables application tasks and resources to be shared between a mobile device and a desktop device by hosting a virtual mobile device on the desktop device when the mobile device is determined to be within a predetermined proximity of the desktop device. The local resources available to the mobile device that are typically used to perform a given application task are compared with resources that are available to the desktop device. At least partial execution of the application may be transferred, along with some state information in some cases, from the mobile device to the desktop device based on the results of the comparison according to one or more transfer rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Mark A. Tarlton
  • Publication number: 20170111762
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computer program product and a computer system are disclosed that verify the location specified by a mobile device, for example when trying to gain access to a location-restricted service hosted by a computer system. This may be achieved by identifying at least one reference mobile device in the vicinity of the identified location of the first mobile device of which an identified location is to be verified, requesting from the at least one reference mobile device a reference location report including further pairing information identifying mobile devices with which the reference mobile device is paired; receiving the reference location report from the at least one reference mobile device; and verifying the location identification in a first location report received from the first mobile device by identifying the first mobile device in the further pairing information in the received at least one reference location report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Saritha Arunkumar, Mudhakar Srivatsa
  • Publication number: 20170111763
    Abstract: In some implementations, methods for selecting a set of beacons that are to be monitored by a mobile device may be employed. Specifically, an optimal set of beacons to monitor may be provided to a mobile device depending on particular groups of beacons that are in proximity to the mobile device, the distance from the mobile device to each of the particular groups of beacons, and the mobile device's position/movements as provided by a tracking service such as GPS. These techniques may ensure that the mobile device is not blind to the closest and/or most relevant beacons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Bryan Morgan, Peter Dupris, David Gang
  • Publication number: 20170111764
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described related to generating and using a user equipment (UE) location distribution in a wireless communication network. In embodiments, an evolved Node B (eNB) may determine an angle of arrival (AoA) and a timing advance (Tadv) for individual UEs of a plurality of UEs that are in a connected mode with the eNB. The eNB may assign the individual UEs to one of a plurality of bins to generate a UE location distribution. Individual bins of the plurality of bins may correspond to a range of values for the AoA and a range of values for the Tadv to indicate a physical location of the corresponding UEs. The eNB may transmit the UE location distribution to a network management entity, which may adjust one or more parameters of the eNB, based on the UE location distribution, using a capacity and coverage optimization (CCO) function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Joey Chou
  • Publication number: 20170111765
    Abstract: A technique to determine whether a mobile device is in a “substantially stationary” state or a “substantially moving” state (e.g., with respect to a geo-fence in which the device may be within). These states are possible “motion” states associated with the mobile device. Preferably, the determination leverages a data table that includes a defined set of states (either “substantially stationary,” “substantially moving” or “no change”) associated with various transitions of the mobile device from, on the one hand, a “last reported activity” and, on the other hand, a currently-determined “probable activity.” Preferably, the new motion state is the substantially stationary state when the probable activity is relatively slower than last-reported activity, irrespective of whether the mobile device is in true motion. On the other hand, the new motion state is the substantially moving state when the probable activity is relatively faster than the last-reported activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Kedarnath Benegal, Ismail Thanickel
  • Publication number: 20170111766
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes: a receiving antenna that repeatedly receives a radio signal including predetermined identification information; a sensor that detects an orientation of the mobile terminal device every time the radio signal is received by the receiving antenna; and a controller that estimates an arrival direction of the radio signal based on radio field intensity of the radio signal which is received by the receiving antenna for each orientation when a plurality of different orientations are detected by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Muramatsu, TOMOHIRO NAKAJIMA, HISATOSHI YAMAOKA, Satoshi MATSUYUKI, KOHEI KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20170111767
    Abstract: A location movement method for a self-mobile node, and a related device are provided. A self-mobile node can move to a corresponding initial to-be-assisted location range according to initial to-be-assisted location information determined by the self-mobile node or determined by a control device; and after moving to the initial to-be-assisted location range, can move to a final finely adjusted to-be-assisted location range according to finely adjusted to-be-assisted location information determined by the self-mobile node or determined by the control device, and provide an assistance service for another to-be-assisted node within the final to-be-assisted location range. Therefore, a currently existing problem is resolved: Because a precise indoor map cannot be obtained, a self-mobile node cannot move to an accurate to-be-assisted area based on an indoor map. As a result, accuracy and applicability of on-demand movement of the self-mobile node are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong XIE, Xueliang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170111768
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced location information on or about a mobile device may include receiving (via a processor of the mobile device) location information from one or more of a sensor of the mobile device and an external system, generating (via the processor) a first waypoint based on the received location information, receiving network provided location information, generating a second waypoint based on the received network provided location information, retrieving dead reckoning location information, generating a third waypoint based on the received network provided location information, applying the first, second and third waypoints to a kalman filter to generate precise location information, and using the precise location information to provide the enhanced location based service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Clint Smith, Purnima Surampudi
  • Publication number: 20170111769
    Abstract: A wireless computing device collects and reports minimally necessary real-time personal context of a user. During a first period of time, collecting and storing one or more first personal context information elements associated with the user but not reporting them via wireless transmission. In response to determining that there is an increased probability of an incident occurring near the user, for a second period of time: continuing to collect the first personal context information elements and reporting them all via wireless transmission, and beginning collecting and storing second personal context information elements not collected during the first period of time but not reporting second personal context information elements via wireless transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: LIN LIN, DEEPAK P. RAJ
  • Publication number: 20170111770
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying a customer's location at a business and provide notification to a company representative upon arrival of the customer at the business location. Real-time location determinations for the customer and customer location tracking can be provided. One or more wireless beacons communicate with the customer's electronic device. The beacons provide the system with real-time data about the customer's whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking of the customer at the location. A first non-limiting example of use, include a company that provides food and beverage allowing the customer to place an order for food and beverages on their electronic device and having the order delivered to the person at their current location as determined by the system. Another non-limiting example includes a company using the notification system to have assigned staff members notified of the customer's arrival.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: MICHAEL KUSENS
  • Publication number: 20170111771
    Abstract: A method of estimating Doppler shift for air to ground communications comprises obtaining an initial position of an aircraft during flight, wherein the aircraft includes an onboard database with stored positions for a plurality of ground station towers; when a subsequent position of the aircraft nears a stored position of a closest ground station tower, requesting a Doppler shift estimation for the closest ground station tower; obtaining a current position of the aircraft when requesting the Doppler shift estimation; defining an aircraft position vector from the initial position to the current position; defining a tower position vector from the initial position to the stored position; subtracting the aircraft position vector from the tower position vector to determine an aircraft to tower position vector; differentiating the aircraft to tower position vector with respect to time to determine a velocity magnitude to the closest ground station tower; and calculating a Doppler shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Jamal Haque, Andy Rowland, Matthew Marcus Hilsenrath
  • Publication number: 20170111772
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of Peer to Peer communication. For example, a device may include a controller to generate a Peer to Peer discovery frame including at least one Multicast attribute, the Multicast Attribute including an address field and one or more attribute fields, the address field to indicate a plurality of devices; and a radio to transmit the Peer to Peer discovery frame, and to transmit multicast traffic to the plurality of devices according to the one or more attribute fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Emily H. Qi
  • Publication number: 20170111773
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating traffic to a plurality of wireless devices. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) device to communicate one or more discovery messages during at least one Discovery Window (DW) of a NAN cluster including the NAN device; and communicate data within a data link group after the DW, the data link group including the NAN device and one or more NAN devices of the NAN cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Emily H. Qi, Elad Oren, Minyoung Park
  • Publication number: 20170111774
    Abstract: For a safe handling of text messages (MesT) received by a communication device (CD) owned by a user, an application server (AS) receives a request (Req) from the communication device (CD), the request containing an identifier (IdCD) of the communication device and presence data (DatP) indicating that the communication device is associated with a service entity (SE) via a wireless session, the service entity (SE) being a vehicle, receives a text message (MesT) having the user as recipient, and sends a message (MesC) to a network server (NS), the message (MesC) including at least a part of the content of the text message (MesT), the network server (NS) generating a voice message (MesV) from the content of the message (MesC) and providing the voice message (MesV) via an audio call to the communication device (CD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Patrice Mahiddini, Corinne Sayag, Dominique Rondeau
  • Publication number: 20170111775
    Abstract: A wireless communications system that allows a mobile phone, tablet or personal computer user the ability to initiate the sending of a text message or email whereby the sender is able to include photographs, graphs, pie charts and the like within the flow of the actual word by word texting or email writing process, without depending on the traditional necessary step to “attach” the photograph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Jay David Coatta, John Mikkelsen, Sergey Tolkachev, Robert Freidson, Max Freidson
  • Publication number: 20170111776
    Abstract: Techniques for acquiring, sending, receiving or using status information from a remote location over a network are disclosed. The status information is transmitted over the network between or among electronic devices. The status information can be provided by one or more sensors associated with the electronic device that is transmitting the status information. The status information can be transmitted with messages so as to enhance the messages. The electronic devices include at least computing devices, such as personal computers, personal digital assistants, pagers, and mobile telephones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Chung Lau, C. Douglass Thomas
  • Publication number: 20170111777
    Abstract: Techniques for acquiring, sending, receiving or using status information from a remote location over a network are disclosed. The status information is transmitted over the network between or among electronic devices. The status information can be provided by one or more sensors associated with the electronic device that is transmitting the status information. The status information can be transmitted with messages so as to enhance the messages. The electronic devices include at least computing devices, such as personal computers, personal digital assistants, pagers, and mobile telephones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Chung Lau, C. Douglass Thomas