Patents Issued in August 1, 2017
  • Patent number: 9723460
    Abstract: A method and system for managing email or other messaging and attachments to messages which are forwarded to devices having limited processing and memory capacity. The method includes the steps of: receiving a user configuration categorizing messages for the user by elements of the message; accessing the user message datastore upon receipt of at least one new message for the user to a user data store; comparing said at least one new message to a set of user specific rules; rendering a message summary including at least one link accessible by the processing device, the link enabling action with respect to the message when selected by the user; and outputting the message summary to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Onyon, Liam Stannard, Leighton Ridgard
  • Patent number: 9723461
    Abstract: When a telephone call is made to a user with a cellular telephone that has weak or no wireless signal receptions, the telephone call may be re-routed to another telephone located near the user, such that the telephone call may reach the user via another telephone. A system or method is provided to determine an alternate telephone, to which the telephone call is re-routed when the primary receiving telephone is a cellular phone that has weak or no wireless signal reception. The alternate telephone may be determined in a context and/or social aware basis. The alternate telephone may belong to a friend or family member of the user of the primary receiving telephone. Further, the alternate telephone may be located near the user of the primary receiving telephone, such that the user of the primary receiving telephone may be reached when the telephone call is re-routed to the alternate telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Shailesh Dinkar Govande, Madhura Pravin Tipnis
  • Patent number: 9723462
    Abstract: A network-based service is utilized to facilitate twinning of two or more communication devices associated with a subscriber account. Incoming communication is intercepted by a communication device and forwarded to a network server, which in turn transmits the incoming communication to the multiple twinned devices. In addition, identifier data associated with outgoing communication is replaced with a primary identifier (e.g., customer telephone number (CTN)) of a user's primary device or a common identifier (e.g., a mobile one number (MON)) assigned to devices associated with the user's subscriber account. Communication devices can be temporarily twinned for a defined time period, during which a common bill can be generated for the twinned devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Edward G. Schmit, Jayanta Das
  • Patent number: 9723463
    Abstract: An approach is provided for a device identifier based solution for user identification. A device identifier component receives from a user device a request for access to a service platform. The device identifier component determines one or more identifiers associated with the user device and generates a record of the access with respect to the one or more identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Teemu Kääriäinen, Jari Tapio Otranen
  • Patent number: 9723464
    Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving service data from a data path are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a message from a neighbor aware network, and decoding the message to determine a communication channel used to provide a service, and an indicator of a paging window for the communication channel. In some aspects, the indicator of the paging window is based on synchronization information for a second communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Santosh Paul Abraham
  • Patent number: 9723465
    Abstract: A system, station and corresponding methods for providing warning notifications. In one exemplary method, it is determined whether any of a plurality of stations to which a Warning Notification is to transmitted is in a connected state. When it is determined that a first one of the stations is in a connected state, generating, by a broadcaster, a secondary Warning Notification formatted for transmission over a dedicated control channel (DCCH) and transmitting, by the broadcaster, the secondary Warning Notification to the first station over the DCCH. In another exemplary embodiment, a station for receiving emergency notifications is described. The station includes a receiver configured to receive a primary Warning Notification; and a processor which, upon receiving the emergency alert configuration in a format of one of a Paging Type 2 message and an SICI message, despreads a plurality of fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Umesh Shukla, Sunny Arora, Mohan Rao Thota
  • Patent number: 9723466
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for control of service. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at an application client at the user equipment, access control information, wherein the access control information indicates whether access to a network is allowed; and determining, at the application client, whether to allow a call attempt by the user equipment based on at least the received access control information. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jarkko Koskela, Jussi-Pekka Koskinen, Ilkka Antero Keskitalo
  • Patent number: 9723467
    Abstract: An interoperability gateway performs a method for setting Quality of Service for a bearer in response to an emergency event. The method includes the interoperability gateway performing: receiving a indication of an emergency event for a first user, wherein the first user is operating a first device in a first network of a first network type; responsive to receiving the indication, determining a set of devices related to the first user, wherein the set of devices includes the first device and at least a second device operating in a second network of a second network type; instructing the second network to modify at least one Quality of Service setting for the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Trent J. Miller, Anatoly Agulnik, Randy L. Ekl, James A. Marocchi, Aparna Pandey, Peter E. Thomas
  • Patent number: 9723468
    Abstract: A method of emergency handling is provided for a vehicle engaged with an uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV). The method can include collecting location information if emergency situation occurs. In emergency situations, the vehicle can determine whether an operation of uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) is allowed based on the location information and time information. After determining whether there is a flight space for the operation of uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) above a vehicle, the vehicle can transmit at least one of SOS and an emergency call into the uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Sung O Cho
  • Patent number: 9723469
    Abstract: An anomaly detection system is provided in connection with a transport service. The anomaly detection system can construct routine route profiles for individual users of the transport service using historical route data. The anomaly detection system can monitor a current route traveled by a user. The anomaly detection system can further identify a matching routine route profile of the respective user. The anomaly detection system can utilize the matching routine route profile to identify a probable anomaly in the current route. In response to detecting the probable anomaly, the anomaly detection system can enable a safety protocol to perform a number of actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Truong, David Purdy, Rami Mawas
  • Patent number: 9723470
    Abstract: A system includes a network interface and one or more processors. The processors are configured to track a first pattern with which a user terminal consumes one or more data services while served by a home network specified for the user terminal, to track a second pattern with which the user terminal consumes the one or more data services while served by one or more networks other than the home network, to estimate a reduction in usage of the one or more data services between the first and second patterns, and to selectively enable at least one data service to the user terminal by the networks other than the home network, based on the estimated reduction in usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: TENSERA NETWORKS LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Yellin, David Ben Eli, Shimon Moshavi, Navot Goren
  • Patent number: 9723471
    Abstract: Triggering an event of interest in a mobile device based on communications established with nearby wireless devices can include receiving a challenge of the event of interest; obtaining a corresponding expression of a combination key with reference to the event in response to the challenge; receiving an identified data of the wireless devices in the vicinity of the mobile device; comparing the identified data with the expression to determine if the expression is a true value; and executing the event of interest in response to the true value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li-Ju Chen, Wei-Hsiang Hsiung, Rick M. F. Wu, Ming-Hsun Wu
  • Patent number: 9723472
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described at a device. A device may utilize telescopic discovery techniques to efficiently preserve a wireless connection until a previously connected device returns within range of the connection. In one example, the device may transmit a discovery request intended for the other device according to a first interval after determining the wireless connection. If a response is not received, the device may adjust the transmission interval to be a second interval. The device may then compare the second interval with a maximum interval to determine whether the second interval is greater than the maximum interval. If the second interval is less than the maximum the device may transmit a discovery request according to the second interval. Otherwise, the device may transmit discovery requests according to the maximum interval until a discovery response is received from the other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Manohar Kandagadla, Naresh Kumar Gupta Varada
  • Patent number: 9723473
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for a first communication device to provide a millimeter wave communication service to a second communication device. The method may be performed by the first communication device. The method includes broadcasting a service discovery message describing the availability of the first communication device to provide the millimeter wave communication service. The method includes receiving a first handshake message that describes a request of the second communication device to receive the millimeter wave communication service from the first communication device and transmitting a second handshake message acknowledging receipt of the first handshake message. The method includes determining a future location of the second communication device at a future time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Gaurav Bansal
  • Patent number: 9723474
    Abstract: Provided in one disclosure of the present specification is a method for transmitting a detection signal from user equipment (UE). The method comprises the steps of: driving a mobility management (MM) delay time timer, when the MM delay time timer is received by the UE from a mobility management entity (MME) in a network; confirming the priority for detecting at least one other UE, when detection of the at least one other UE is required before the MM delay time timer expires; and randomly selecting a resource based on a shared resource pool included in system information, which is broadcasted from a base station, and then transmitting to the at least one other UE a detection signal including a proximity service code from the randomly selected resource, when the detection of the at least one other UE is considered to have high priority or to be urgent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Laeyoung Kim, Jinsook Ryu, Hyunsook Kim, Jaehyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9723475
    Abstract: A first wireless device includes network discovery circuitry to initiate a discovery protocol to discover second wireless devices and to establish a wireless connection with at least one of the second wireless devices. Transmission circuitry transmits first discovery-related packets on a wireless channel and receiver circuitry receives second discovery-related packets from the second wireless devices on the wireless channel. The network discovery circuitry is further to determine, based on the second discovery-related packets, how many of the second wireless devices are within a predetermined range of the first wireless device, adjust a configurable parameter of the discovery protocol based on how many of the second wireless devices were determined to be within the predetermined range of the first wireless device, and complete the discovery protocol in accordance with the adjusted configurable parameter to establish the wireless connection with the at least one of the second wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventor: Paul A. Lambert
  • Patent number: 9723476
    Abstract: The invention relates to device-to-device (D2D) communications an in particular to location registration of a D2D User Equipment (UE) being in idle mode. A D2D capable UE (D2D cluster head) is [1] configured to communicate with a communication network, is [2] able to establish D2D communication with another D2D capable UE, receives [3] from the communication system a configuration so as to send location update related messaging on behalf of UEs with which D2D communications has been established, obtains [4] information of a change of status of a UE regarding a D2D communication or a change of cell of a UE and in response to the information, causes [5] the sending of a message to the communication network, the message comprising a location update request regarding the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Ling Yu, Vinh Van Phan, Kari Veikko Horneman
  • Patent number: 9723477
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a connectivity service platform in a communication network. The method comprises storing a fall-back policy comprising information about a fall-back timer. The method also comprises sending a policy message comprising information about the fall-back policy to a radio device comprising an eUICC. The method also comprises determining that the radio device experiences a problem with a wireless network connection from a first subscription of the radio device with a first network operator. The method also comprises starting the fall-back timer in accordance with the stored fall-back policy in response to said determining The method also comprises falling back in accordance with the stored fall-back policy in response to the started fall-back timer having expired, thereby enabling the connectivity service platform to communicate with the radio device via a network connection from a second subscription of the radio device instead of from the first subscription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Qiang Li, Justus Petersson
  • Patent number: 9723478
    Abstract: Disclosed are a UE configuration method, network side device and system for proximity awareness in the present invention, which are used to achieve the function of obtaining the service information by proximity awareness between terminals in a cellular communication system. The network side device configures the service ID of each service type to be sent by the transmission UE and the temporary device ID, and the network side device configures the service ID filtering template for the receiving UE according to the service types to be received by the receiving UE, and thus the configured transmission UE and the receiving UE can obtain the service information by proximity awareness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bin Jiao, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 9723479
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an application server receives, from a given UE, data that is configured to visually represent physical user input detected at the given UE at a first level of precision. The application server determines data presentation capabilities of a target UE and/or a performance level associated with a connection between the application server and the target UE. The application server selectively transitions the received data from the first level of precision to a second level of precision based on the determination, and transmits the selectively transitioned data to the target UE for presentation. In another embodiment, the application server receives a request to adjust display settings of the target UE from the given UE responsive to detected physical user input. The application server selectively adjusts the target UE's display settings based on the received request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anthony Pierre Stonefield, Shane Dewing, Mark Aaron Lindner
  • Patent number: 9723480
    Abstract: An example mobile terminal is a terminal for transmitting and receiving data to and from a server device via an access point by wireless communication. The mobile terminal includes an identification information storage unit configured to store a terminal ID, a signal receiver configured to receive a broadcast signal containing a plurality of terminal IDs transmitted from the server device via the access point, an ID determiner configured to determine whether or not any of the terminal IDs contained in the received signal corresponds to the terminal ID of this mobile terminal, a connection requester configured to, when the ID determiner determines that one of the terminal IDs corresponds to the terminal ID of this mobile terminal, request a wireless connection to the access point, and a data communicator configured to transmit or receive data to or from the server device via the access point by wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masato Kimura
  • Patent number: 9723481
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for activating a purchased or previously deployed device by a subscriber. In one embodiment, activation includes authenticating the device to a service provider or carrier, and providing the device with data necessary for enabling the service to the device. In one variant, a user device is activated at a retail store, with the assistance of a carrier representative. In another variant, user equipment is activated via a communications network without the assistance of a representative. In yet another variant, the user equipment is activated via the Internet without the assistance of a representative. The provision of access data includes pre-assigning eSIM from a population of unassigned eSIMs to certain devices for various carrier networks. Alternatively, the eSIM may be assigned on an as-needed basis. Unassigned and/or unused eSIMs can be released (or sold back to the vendor) and/or reused. Solutions for eSIM backup and restoration are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan V. Schell, David Haggerty
  • Patent number: 9723482
    Abstract: An anti-theft protection method and device for a cellular phone is provided. The method includes: judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode, if so, starting the anti-theft mode; and transmitting anti-theft protection information to a designated contact to instruct the designated contact to perform anti-theft processing for the cellular phone. The device comprises a judgment module, a starting module, and a transmission module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Qing Wang, Zhanghu Luo, Zefeng Huang, Haoran Guo, Quanhao Xiao, Yixia Yuan, Jiashun Song, Pengtao Li, Yunfeng Dai
  • Patent number: 9723483
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device according to an embodiment has an identifier, a determiner, and a permitter. The identifier identifies the operating system of a mobile terminal to which its own device is connected and determines whether the identified operating system is a prescribed operating system. If the identifier determines that the identified operating system is the prescribed operating system, the determiner performs processing to determine whether or not authentication data held in its own device and authentication data held in an authentication data holding device that can communicate via a network match. If the determiner determines that there is a match, the permitter permits data processing using processing data held in a processing data holding device that can communicate via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hiroki Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 9723484
    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprises logic, where the logic corresponds to an application associated with a remote device and a remote system. When executed, the logic is operable to receive, from the remote system, data identifying a plurality of compromising entities, identify a pending outgoing communication initiated by the remote device, and identify information regarding a destination of the outgoing communication. Additionally, the logic is operable to determine an entity associated with the destination of the outgoing communication and determine that the entity associated with the destination matches at least one of the plurality of compromising entities based on comparing the data identifying the plurality of compromising entities and the entity associated with the destination of the outgoing communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: David N. Hillis, Manu J. Kurian
  • Patent number: 9723485
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for authorizing access based on authentication via a separate channel. In this way, the invention generates and utilizes tokenized identification of user authentication into third party systems to confirm the user identification and subsequently allow authentication into an application based on receipt of the token. As such, the system creates a three way communication linkage for resource transfer which leverages the user's authentication via the merchant system. The system positions a generated token with a merchant. Once a user is identified as authenticated into a merchant system, geo-location, or other application authentication, the token is coded to distribute back to the system. The system may then allow user or merchant access to resource holdings associated with the user for distribution to the merchant without additional user authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Alicia C. Jones-McFadden
  • Patent number: 9723486
    Abstract: A method for providing access information for accessing a network device from a first terminal to a second terminal includes obtaining, by a first terminal, access information instructing a second terminal to access the network, the access information including a service set identifier SSID and an access password, selecting a plurality of destination addresses including the access information from a designated multicast address segment, and multicasting a plurality of user datagram protocol (UDP) multicast messages including the plurality of destination addresses to the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Deguo Meng, Yue Liang, Enxing Hou
  • Patent number: 9723487
    Abstract: A location based mobile device security enforcement system includes: (a) a mobile device management (MDM) server, (b) a security control module, (c) an entry point security system, and (d) a mobile device security application, when installed and executed on a mobile device, configured to register the mobile device and its user to create a mobile device user profile for the mobile device user, when the mobile device and its user enter a secure area, authenticate the mobile device user, maintain constant contact with security control module, and make security adjustments to the mobile device if contact between mobile device and security control module is lost, mobile device security application becomes non-operational, current time is beyond the mobile device user authorized access time period, and current mobile device location is outside of mobile device user authorized access area or crosses borders between one area security level to another area security level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC.
    Inventors: Muthukkumaran Ramalingam, Santhosh Samuel Mathews, Joseprabu Inbaraj
  • Patent number: 9723488
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for rogue access point detection are disclosed. In some implementations, the method can include initiating, at one or more processors of a wireless controller, a rogue access point detection process for a wireless network, and transmitting, from the one or more processors, a signature frame to a mobility agent in a wireless switch. The method can also include receiving, at an authorized access point, the signature frame transmitted via a wireless signal from a rogue access point. The method can further include reporting reception of the signature frame to the wireless controller, and generating, at the one or more processors, a signal to shut down a port associated with the rogue access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek L Atreya, Ruth Tsai, Seemant Choudhary, Shashi Hosakere Ankaiah
  • Patent number: 9723489
    Abstract: A testing system tests applications executable on a computing platform, when the app under test executes on the computing platform, the app program code refers to a tree data structure for its user interface operations. That tree data structure is accessed without needing to interrupt the app under test or without needing software hooks into the app. The testing system obtains a specification of user interface criteria from an operator, processes the tree data structure with the specification to identify nodes of the tree data structure that match the user interface criteria, and outputs a representation of the matching nodes. The matching nodes are user interface entry points capable of being used to test the app for vulnerabilities. The specification can include edge criteria, wherein an edge criterion corresponds to a characteristic of an edge in the tree data structure between at least two nodes of the tree data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SYNACK, INC.
    Inventors: Mikhail Sosonkin, Mark Kuhr
  • Patent number: 9723490
    Abstract: In some examples, a method may include determining whether a data packet is correctly received. In response to the data packet being correctly received, the method may include reading a received signal strength indication (RSSI) value, and based on the RSSI value, determining whether to transmit an acknowledgement (ACK) packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
    Inventors: Zhipeng Wang, Tianyu Du, Dimitrios Makrakis, Hussein T. Mouftah
  • Patent number: 9723491
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system and computer-readable storage medium for storage of software directed to the management of associations between network devices is described. The computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed by at least one hardware processor on a network device, causes performance of operations, comprising: (1) determining a desired operating state for a client device under analysis, the client device being associated with a first network device of a plurality of network devices; (2) detecting if a triggering event has occurred based on a comparison of the desired operating state for the client device under analysis to an actual operating state for the client device under analysis; and (3) in response to detecting that the triggering event has occurred, causing the client device to wirelessly connect to a second network device of the plurality of network devices in lieu of the first network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Aruba Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Ganu, Ken Kaho Chan, Partha Narasimhan, Pradeep Iyer
  • Patent number: 9723492
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for antenna management are disclosed. The method comprises that resource use status data are collected from managed access networks, access networks which participate in antenna scheduling are selected from the managed access networks according to the resource use status data to compose an antenna scheduling set, wherein access networks using same spectrum resources are composed in the same antenna scheduling set; radio links of each access network in the antenna scheduling set are divided into one or more radio link clusters; radio resources are allocated to every radio link cluster in the antenna scheduling set in order that mutual interferences among all the radio link clusters in the antenna scheduling set are within a preset range; and radio resource allocation results are sent to the access network that the radio link clusters belong to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 9723493
    Abstract: Implementations relate to configuring wireless access points in a wireless network. In some implementations, a method includes selecting, from a plurality of wireless access points in a communication network, a configuring subset of wireless access points and a different compensating subset of wireless access points. New settings are applied to the compensating subset of wireless access points to change a physical coverage of wireless communication provided by the compensating subset, thus at least partially compensating for disabled wireless communication of the configuring subset. The method disables wireless communication provided by the configuring subset, and configures the disabled configuring subset of wireless access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek L Atreya, Shashi H Ankaiah, Seemant Choudhary
  • Patent number: 9723494
    Abstract: A method includes identifying a location of at least on of a plurality of electronic devices within an area of interest. The method includes, based on at least the location of the at least one of the plurality of electronic devices, determining signal strength at a plurality of points within the area of interest. The method includes providing a modification of the area of interest to improve the signal strength at one of the plurality of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Steven Belz, Constance Missimer, Greg W. Edwards, James H. Pratt, Michael Lattanzi
  • Patent number: 9723495
    Abstract: Multiple access wireless communication networks/infrastructures are virtualized in telecommunications environments. A system replicates a cell identifier associated with a macro base station device to create a virtual base station device presence for a set of network devices included in the multiple access wireless communication network and thereafter facilitates communication with the multiple access wireless communication network, the set of network devices, and a mobile device through the created virtual base station presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sarat Puthenpura, Ioannis Broustis, Leonid Razoumov, Eric Rozner
  • Patent number: 9723496
    Abstract: In order to cancel any interference due to the second signal (e.g., from a non-serving cell) from a signal received at a UE, without receiving additional control information, the UE blindly estimates parameters associated with decoding the second signal. This may include determining a metric based on sets of symbols associated with the signals in order to determine parameters for the second signal, e.g., the transmission mode, modulation format, and/or spatial scheme of the second signal. The parameters for the signal may be determined based on a comparison of the metric with a threshold. When a spatial scheme and a modulation format is unknown, the blind estimation may include determining a plurality of constellations of possible transmitted modulated symbols associated with a potential spatial scheme and modulation format combination. Interference cancellation can be performed using the constellations and a corresponding probability weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Taesang Yoo, Hendrik Schoeneich, Tao Luo, Yongbin Wei, Myriam Rajih, Durga Prasad Malladi
  • Patent number: 9723497
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for network assisted interference cancellation (IC) and interference suppression (IS) for multiple services. According to aspects a user equipment (UE) may determine information regarding system parameters for one or more types of communications services used to transmit potentially interfering signals in one or more neighbor cells, wherein a type of the information determined depends on the type of communications service. The UE may perform interference management using the determined information to cancel or suppress interference caused by the potentially interfering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Taesang Yoo, Yongbin Wei, Durga Prasad Malladi, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 9723498
    Abstract: A method for seamlessly and automatically updating an access point or router. The method includes receiving an update for the access point and determining a status of a network traffic associated with the access point. The method further includes determining an update time for applying the update based on the determined status of the network traffic and applying the update to the access point at the determined update time. An access point receives an update for the access point, and waits for a time to apply the update. The access point waits until there is no interactive traffic in which a user is actively using the network. The access point applies the update and reboots. By waiting until there is no interactive traffic, the update process mitigates interruptions to the user's active use of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Huang, Paul Allan Covell
  • Patent number: 9723499
    Abstract: Network service providers often make use of traffic optimizers, in order to balance the objectives of maximizing users' quality of experience (“QoE”) with the costs of transmitting data. Certain content providers may make use of their own optimization algorithms, which may be interfered with by network providers' traffic optimizers. As described herein, a master optimization controller (“MOC”) may be able to enable or disable traffic optimizers within a network by enhancing a Transmission Control Protocol (“TCP”) three-way handshake procedure. The MOC may also perform traffic optimization, thus serving as the only device that performs optimization on traffic. Additionally, while traffic optimizers within a network are typically not visible to third party content providers, the MOC may perform optimization in a manner that may be visible to, and controlled by, a content provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Ram Gopal Lakshmi Narayanan
  • Patent number: 9723500
    Abstract: The present invention provides a network optimization system, device, and method, including: determining, by a radio resource management functional entity, radio resource statistical data that is based on a TTI time granularity, acquiring radio resource configuration information, and managing a radio resource of a cell in which the radio resource management functional entity is located; determining, by a distributed optimization functional entity, first time granularity data and a first key performance index KPI, determining first reference configuration information, determining a first optimization plan according to the first statistical data and the first reference configuration information, and optimizing the first KPI; and determining, by a centralized optimization functional entity, second statistical data that is based on a second time granularity, and a second KPI, determining second reference configuration information, determining, according to the second statistical data and the second reference conf
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zezhou Luo, Hongcheng Zhuang
  • Patent number: 9723501
    Abstract: A device may be configured to determine a current state of each of multiple operator network devices that provide a service via an operator network. The device may determine an allowable event at an operator network device based on the current state of the operator network device and model information that models behavior of the operator network device for the service. The device may monitor events at the operator network devices during a session. The device may detect that an allowable event for the operator network device does not occur during the session. The device may determine that a fault occurred at the operator network device during the session based on the allowable event not being detected at the operator network device. The device may provide fault information that indicates the fault occurred at the operator network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Kakadia, Carl Recchia, Parry C. Booker, Maqbool Chauhan
  • Patent number: 9723502
    Abstract: Various embodiments manage service issues in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a plurality of call detail records associated with a wireless communication network is received. The plurality of call detail records is analyzed. At least one pattern from the plurality of call detail records is identified based on analyzing the plurality of call detail records. The at least one pattern indicates at least one service issue occurred during a set of calls associated with each of the plurality of call detail records. A location associated with the at least one service issue that has occurred is identified based on identifying the at least one pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Parul Gupta, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Ravindranath Kokku, Vinay Kumar Kolar, Ramya Raghavendra
  • Patent number: 9723503
    Abstract: A user communications device having active and idle states operates in a cellular communications network in which user communications devices communicate via network communications devices of cells of the network. History data identifying the cells in which the user communications device has been present whilst in the idle state is maintained. This history data is used by the user communications device or by a network communications device to enable adjustment of cell selection/reselection parameters for the user communications device in the active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Francesca Serravalle
  • Patent number: 9723504
    Abstract: A sounding method in a cellular wireless communication system, comprising at least one mobile station and at least two base stations. One base station is a serving base station for the mobile station and the at least one further base station is a neighboring base station. The serving base station generates a schedule for measurement signals and transmits said schedule to the mobile station and to the neighboring base station. The mobile station transmits measurement signals in accordance with the schedule to the serving base station and to the neighboring base station. Furthermore, the neighboring base station calculates a mean channel state for the uplink channel from the mobile station to itself and transmits the mean channel state to at least one further base station, so that said base station can be provided with channel estimations for uplink channels between the mobile station and all base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Mark Doll, Hardy Halbauer, Bozo Cesar, Yejian Chen, Robert Fetscher, Bernd Gloss, Oliver Stanze
  • Patent number: 9723505
    Abstract: A method and a system for handling in-device coexistence interference in a user equipment are provided. The method includes detecting in-device coexistence interference between one or more of a plurality of carrier frequencies of Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio technology and at least one frequency of non-LTE radio technologies, determining at least one of the one or more of the plurality of LTE carrier frequencies for which a measurement object is configured, and transmitting interference information associated with the at least one LTE carrier frequency affected by the in-device coexistence interference. The interference information includes a measurement object identifier of the at least one carrier LTE frequency, Direction of Interference (DOI), and time domain multiplexing assistance information. The method further includes receiving a configured method from the network entity which help mitigate the in-device coexistence interference at the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Venkateswara Rao Manepalli
  • Patent number: 9723506
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for a terminal to report channel state information in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: calculating one or more pieces of channel quality information from a signal measurement resource configuration and a plurality of interference measurement resource configurations associated with the signal measurement resource configuration; and transmitting a channel state report including the calculated channel quality information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kijun Kim, Illsoo Sohn, Jonghyun Park
  • Patent number: 9723507
    Abstract: A user device performs intra-frequency measurements and inter-frequency measurements at a specified rate when the user device in a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, and determines a signal condition of a signal received from a serving cell. The user device selects one of multiple lower intra-frequency rates for intra-frequency measurements in subsequent DRX cycles based on the signal condition and selects one of multiple lower inter-frequency rates for inter-frequency measurements in the subsequent DRX cycles based on the signal condition. The reduction in the rate may reduce a current drain by the user device when the user device is in the subsequent DRX cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kiran K. Edara
  • Patent number: 9723508
    Abstract: A User Equipment and an eNodeB system are configured for performing interference mitigation in the UE. Input circuitry in the wireless communication device receives an OFDM downlink channel signal associated with a serving cell and receives downlink control information for an interfering cell. The downlink control information is used by the UE to perform channel estimation for the interfering cell. An interference mitigation module is provided for calculating an interference-mitigated version of the received channel signal using estimated channel transfer functions for both the serving cell and the interfering cell, power control parameters and using set of modulation constellation points corresponding to the OFDM downlink channel. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Seunghee Han, Yi Hsuan, Jong-Kae Fwu, Gregory Morozov
  • Patent number: 9723509
    Abstract: There is provided a method, an apparatus and a computer program product, wherein the method comprises applying at least one procedure for inter-frequency measurements of at least one carrier, wherein a first procedure is applied when a carrier having at least one cell deployed for providing non-continuous coverage radio access is to be measured and a second procedure is applied when a carrier having at least one cell deployed for providing continuous coverage radio access is to be measured, and performing the inter-frequency measurements according to the applied procedure, when the procedure for the inter-frequency measurements is on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
    Inventors: Karol Drazynski, Klaus Doppler, Juha Korhonen, Esa Malkamaki, Lars Dalsgaard