Patents Issued in August 1, 2023
  • Patent number: 11716166
    Abstract: A handheld countermeasure device is disclosed herein. The device can include a hand-held form factor body. The device can include disruption components, a directional antenna, and a processor. The disruption components can be configured to generate a disruptive signal. The directional antenna can be configured to emit the disruptive signal. The processor can be configured to determine a position of the handheld countermeasure device based on a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal. The processor can be configured to load a device profile for the handheld countermeasure device based on the position of the handheld countermeasure device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Dedrone Defense, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Morrow, Daniel E. Stamm, Raphael J. Welsh, Daniel G. Loesch, Zachary Schmid
  • Patent number: 11716167
    Abstract: The application provides methods for transmitting and receiving Downlink Control Information (DCI), and a related device. The receiving method includes: determining configuration information of to-be-transmitted DCI, based on a corresponding relationship between a DCI Aggregation Level (AL), and/or, a number of blind detections corresponding to the AL, and a payload size of the DCI; configuring the to-be-transmitted DCI, by using the configuration information; and, transmitting the to-be-transmitted DCI to a mobile communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Shen
  • Patent number: 11716168
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods of communications, communications devices, and redrivers are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves enabling a Loss of Signal (LOS) detector and a Low Frequency Periodic Signaling (LFPS) detector connected to a communications channel, using a digital logic circuit, combining an output of the LOS detector and an output of the LFPS detector to generate a combined LFPS output, and outputting the combined LFPS output and the output of the LOS detector to control data communications through the communications channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Siamak Delshadpour, Abhijeet Chandrakant Kulkarni, Sivakumar Reddy Papadasu
  • Patent number: 11716169
    Abstract: A method for error handling of an interconnection protocol, a controller and a storage device are provided. The method for error handling of an interconnection protocol is for use in a first device that is linkable to a second device according to the interconnection protocol, the method comprising: during or after a power mode change of a link between the first device and the second device: a) triggering, by the first device, a first line reset signal to the second device; b) performing, by the first device, suppression of detected rate overlap errors; and c) stopping the suppression of detected rate overlap errors after the first device receives a second line reset signal from the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng Wei Yu, Wen Jyh Lin, Lan Feng Wang
  • Patent number: 11716170
    Abstract: A protocol layer on top of the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) system of paired devices to provide transmission that allows arbitrary sizes of data to be sent. To guarantee transmissions, the transmissions may be validated and, if required, resent to replace data that was lost or corrupted. The protocol layer also supports Remote Procedure Calls to allow functions on either of two connected devices to be executed on one device on behalf of the other. A further protocol layer also allows high priority, short messages to temporarily interrupt the transmission of low priority, long messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: RLT IP LTD.
    Inventors: Paula A. Maddox, Richard E. Collins, Ferenc Visztra, Peter Robins
  • Patent number: 11716171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently managing simultaneous data transmissions of a plurality of terminals. To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal including: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the base wireless communication terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit a trigger frame triggering a multi-user uplink transmission of a plurality of terminals, receive multi-user uplink data through resources allocated to the plurality of terminals, and transmit a block ACK through the resources in response to the received multi-user uplink data, wherein the transmission of the block ACK in each resource is terminated at the same time, and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Yongho Kim, Jinsam Kwak, Juhyung Son
  • Patent number: 11716172
    Abstract: A method for delivering payloads through an interface includes receiving an out-of-sequence data transfer unit, DTU; segmenting the out-of-sequence DTU into at least one data unit; determining at least one priority level of the at least one data unit; and for any particular data unit among the at least one data unit, (1) selectively forwarding a payload of the particular data unit to the interface in response to priority level thereof satisfying a priority condition; or (2) holding the particular data unit in response to the priority level thereof not satisfying the priority condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jochen Maes, Miek Dekeyser
  • Patent number: 11716173
    Abstract: Provided is a method of transmitting a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in a special subframe by a User Equipment (UE). The method includes receiving an Uplink (UL) grant from a base station, the UL grant being included in a downlink time period of Time Division Duplex (TDD) cell, wherein the TDD cell having TDD UL/DL configuration 1, 2 or 6; determining a resource in an Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS) of a special subframe of the TDD cell to transmit a PUSCH associated with the received UL grant, wherein the special subframe, having subframe number 1 or 6, consists of a Downlink Pilot Time Slot (DwPTS), a guard period (GP), and the UpPTS; transmitting, from the UE, the PUSCH mapped to the resource in the UpPTS; and receiving a Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Indicator Channel (PHICH) responsive to the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 11716174
    Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a bandwidth part comprising resource block (RB) sets, each RB set having an RB index. The wireless device receives, during a downlink control channel monitoring occasion, a plurality of downlink control information (DCI)s and each DCI of the plurality of DCIs is received via a respective RB set of the RB sets. The wireless device transmits a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook comprising HARQ-ACK information bits corresponding to the plurality of DCIs, wherein the HARQ-ACK information bits are in order of indexes of RB sets corresponding to the DCIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Yunjung Yi, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 11716175
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for improved methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support procedures for configured grants. Generally, the described techniques may relate to restricting a number of retransmissions used during a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process or managing potential scheduling conflicts for the HARQ process from dynamic grants and configured grants. A device (e.g., a user equipment) may initiate a timer or a counter associated with a HARQ process for indicating that transmission attempts for the HARQ process are permitted. The device may identify a transmission occasion of a configured grant in an unlicensed frequency spectrum band that is associated with the HARQ process and may determine that the timer associated with the HARQ process is active. The device may perform a transmission attempt over the transmission occasion of the configured grant based on determining that the timer is active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pravjyot Singh Deogun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Ozcan Ozturk, Kapil Bhattad
  • Patent number: 11716176
    Abstract: A method for communicating data between Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices (200, 202) in a network (100) comprising multiple nodes, the method comprising: broadcasting data from a broadcasting node (200); receiving the data at multiple receiving nodes (202); transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) packet from each of the receiving nodes (202) to the broadcasting node (200), wherein each receiving node (202) waits for a waiting period before transmitting the ACK packet, and wherein the waiting period is a varying length of time for each receiving node (202).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih-Kuang Lin, Davide Villa, Adam Kuenzi, Michael Lang, Ankit Tiwari
  • Patent number: 11716177
    Abstract: Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) parameters for transmission of respective HARQ data units are determined. Determining HARQ parameters includes determining initial HARQ parameters, including an initial number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols that will be occupied by the HARQ data unit and an initial pre-coding padding factor corresponding to a boundary within a last OFDM symbol. Based at least in part on the initial pre-coding padding factor, it is determined whether the HARQ data unit will be misaligned with both a beginning of a first OFDM symbol occupied by the HARQ data unit and an end of a last OFDM symbol occupied by the HARQ data unit. When it is determined that the HARQ data unit will be misaligned, the initial pre-coding padding factor is adjusted to account for a reduced data tone OFDM symbol segment to be occupied by the HARQ data unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Yan Zhang, Hongyuan Zhang, Liwen Chu, Rui Cao
  • Patent number: 11716178
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting a failure in a redundant signal path during operation of the redundant path is disclosed. A test signal is sequentially injected into each signal path while an input signal is conducted by the other signal path not receiving the test signal. The test signal is selected at a frequency to verify operation of a filter connected in series along each path. A processor generates the test signal, injects the test signal at the input of the filter, and receives the output of the filter. The processor then generates a frequency response of the filter in each signal path as a function of the output from the filter and of the original test signal. The frequency response obtained along each of the redundant signal paths is compared to each other to detect a failure of one of the filters present along the respective signal paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Alley, John R. O'Connell, Jared Bell
  • Patent number: 11716179
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first transmitter and a second transmitter. For a transmission or reception of data of a first user equipment and data of a second user equipment on resources shared by the first user equipment and the second user equipment, the first transmitter is configured for a superimposed non-orthogonal multiple access, NOMA, transmission or reception of a first data signal of the first user equipment and a second data signal of the second user equipment, and the second transmitter is configured for a superimposed non-orthogonal multiple access, NOMA, transmission or reception of a third data signal of the first user equipment and a fourth data signal of the second user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., ETRI—Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sameh Eldessoki, Johannes Dommel, Wooram Shin, Thomas Haustein, Lars Thiele, Young-Jo Ko, Seungkwon Baek, Chanho Yoon
  • Patent number: 11716180
    Abstract: Limited uplink bandwidth radio network devices are supported on wide bandwidth uplink carriers by configuring and controlling the use of multiple control regions within the uplink carrier bandwidth. In some embodiments, the total bandwidth of the uplink carrier is divided into a plurality of sub-band portions, wherein each sub-band portion includes at least one control region nominally dedicated to the transmission of uplink control signaling. Radio network devices are configured with a specified portion of the uplink carrier bandwidth for use for uplink transmission, which includes at least one control region. Radio network devices may be provisioned or provided with information regarding control regions reserved for control signaling by other radio network devices. The radio network devices may be dynamically configured to allow or suppress uplink data signaling in specified control regions, or portions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Erik Dahlman, Sorour Falahati, Daniel Larsson, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 11716181
    Abstract: A radio head includes a standalone small cell configured to receive a plurality of IP packets over a series of sequential sub-frames, and generate a bandwidth report for each of the plurality of received IP packets. The radio head further includes a radio link control unit configured to sum a received bandwidth report with segmentation induced noise for each of the plurality of received IP packets, and an adaptive filter configured to apply a filter weight to each of the series of sequential sub-frames. The applied filter weight is based on (i) an output of the radio link control unit for a previous sub-frame, and (ii) an output of the adaptive filter for the previous sub-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Balkan Kecicioglu, Joseph Padden
  • Patent number: 11716182
    Abstract: A transmission device that improves data reception quality includes: a first pilot inserter that inserts a pilot signal into a first precoded signal; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal, where i is a symbol number and an integer that is greater than or equal to 0; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. ?? satisfies ?/2 radians<??<? radians or ? radians<??<3?/2 radians. When the communications scheme is an OFDM scheme, the phase changer and the phase changer apply a phase change, and when the communications scheme is a single-carrier scheme, do not apply a phase change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: PANANSONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi, Hiroyuki Motozuka
  • Patent number: 11716183
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A configuration for a reference signal used to determine a non-linear behavior of transmission components at a transmitting device may be determined. The configuration for the reference signal may be determined based on signaling transmitted by the transmitting device, signaling transmitted by a device that receives the reference signal, or both. Additionally, or alternatively, the configuration for the reference signal may be determined based on a configuration of other signals transmitted by the transmitting device prior to or concurrently with the transmission of the reference signal. The determined configuration may be used to generate and transmit the reference signal or to determine a configuration of a received reference signal. In both cases, a non-linear response of transmission components at the transmitting device may be determined based on the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, June Namgoong, Taesang Yoo, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Naga Bhushan, Tingfang Ji, Hwan Joon Kwon, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Jay Kumar Sundararajan
  • Patent number: 11716184
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for transmitting and processing channel state information (CSI) reference signals (CSI-RS). An exemplary method includes determining a configuration of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs), wherein the configuration indicates a set of resource elements (REs) to be used for CSI-RSs and a first mapping of CSI-RS ports to the set of REs; sending an indication of the configuration of the CSI-RSs; and transmitting the CSI-RSs according to the determined configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Alexandros Manolakos, Tao Luo, June Namgoong
  • Patent number: 11716185
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to quasi co-location (QCL) indications in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) system. In an example, an IAB node may determine a spatial relation between a first communication of a DU entity and a second communication of one of the DU entity or a co-located MT entity. The IAB node may further configure a beam of at least one of the MT or the DU based on the determined spatial relation. The IAB node may further communicate using the beam with at least one entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Tao Luo, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11716186
    Abstract: Control information such as downlink control information (DCI) may be used to indicate whether the DCI is for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) cancellation. For example, the base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), first DCI to trigger an SPS configuration of a plurality of SPS occasions. The base station may further determine to cancel one or more SPS occasions of the plurality of SPS occasions, and transmit second DCI to trigger an SPS cancellation that cancels the one or more SPS occasions, the second DCI including at least a redundancy version field including one or more redundancy version values to indicate the SPS cancellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Jing Sun, Ahmed Elshafie
  • Patent number: 11716187
    Abstract: Described are mechanisms and methods for supporting Channel State Information (CSI) measurement and reporting, and for supporting Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement and reporting, under License Assisted Access (LAA) with dynamic power sharing. An eNB may comprise one or more processors to generate a maximum number of Component Carriers (CCs) and a number of active CCs to a UE. The eNB may then be operable to process a reported quality rating from the UE and generate a scaled quality rating based upon the reported quality rating, the maximum number of CCs, and the number of active CCs. A UE may comprise one or more processors to process a reference signal transmission from an eNB, to generate an unfiltered reference signal transmission based upon the reference signal transmission, and to calculate a quality rating based upon the unfiltered reference signal transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijeet Bhorkar, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11716188
    Abstract: A method for receiving downlink data by the terminal in a wireless communication system, includes receiving, from a base station, downlink control information for scheduling a short physical downlink shared channel (sPDSCH) on a short physical downlink control channel (sPDCCH), and receiving, from the base station, downlink data on the sPDSCH based on the downlink control information. Here, the sPDCCH and the sPDSCH are based on a first transmission time interval (TTI)-based radio frame structure, wherein the first TTI-based radio frame structure is shorter in time than a second TTI-based radio frame structure related to (i) a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and (ii) a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). Further, a number of resource element groups (REGs) consisting of a control channel element (CCE) related to the sPDCCH is smaller than a number of resource element groups (REGs) composed of a CCE related to the PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunjong Lee, Jaehoon Chung, Genebeck Hahn, Jinmin Kim, Kukheon Choi, Kwangseok Noh, Sangrim Lee
  • Patent number: 11716189
    Abstract: A signal is transmitted at a high speed in a direction opposite to a transmitting direction of a main large-capacity channel. A first transmitting unit transmits a first signal including a clock component to an external device through a transmission path as a differential signal. A second transmitting unit superimposes a second signal including a clock component on the transmission path as an in-phase signal to transmit to the external device. A state notifying unit communicates with the external device through a pair of differential transmission paths included in the transmission path and notifies the external device of a connection state of its own device by a DC bias potential of at least one of the pair of differential transmission paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Toba, Gen Ichimura
  • Patent number: 11716190
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for receiving a plurality of signals corresponding to symbols of a codeword on a plurality of wires of a multi-wire bus, and responsively generating a plurality of sub-channel outputs using a plurality of multi-input comparators (MICs) connected to the plurality of wires of the multi-wire bus, generating a plurality of wire-specific skew control signals, each wire-specific skew control signal of the plurality of wire-specific skew control signals generated by combining (i) one or more sub-channel specific skew measurement signals associated with corresponding sub-channel outputs undergoing a transition and (ii) a corresponding wire-specific transition delta, and providing the plurality of wire-specific skew control signals to respective wire-skew control elements to adjust wire-specific skew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventor: Ali Hormati
  • Patent number: 11716191
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for searching polymorphically encrypted data includes storing one or more pseudonymous tokens in a data store, the one or more pseudonymous tokens being generated by encrypting a ciphertext using a first algorithm and an encryption key, the first algorithm comprising a polymorphic algorithm configured to generate a distinct pseudonymous token for each application of the polymorphic algorithm to the same plaintext, and identifying data in the data store that corresponds to the ciphertext by querying the data store using a search token generated by encrypting the plaintext using a second algorithm and the encryption key, the search token being distinct from the one or more pseudonymous tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Informatica LLC
    Inventors: Igor Balabine, Richard Grondin
  • Patent number: 11716192
    Abstract: Replica is an encryption algorithm where security is based on lavish use of randomness rather than on mathematical complexity and the cipher is decoy-tolerant, namely it can readily distinguish between bona fide ciphertext bits and randomized meaningless bits. This attribute allows its users to project as much security as they care by mixing the message bits with more and more decoy bits. It also allows its user to conceal their pattern of communication in a fixed rate of message bit flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Gideon Samid
  • Patent number: 11716193
    Abstract: A device receives a time-based restriction for usage by a first user with respect to an application, a website or a device-level function. The device receives encrypted data indicating a usage by the first user on a second device with respect to the application, website or device-level function. The device determines that at least one of the usage by the first user on the second device or a usage by the first user on the device with respect to the application, website or device-level function violates the time-based restriction. The device provides, in response to the determining, a notification that the time-based restriction has been violated by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Skogen, Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Julien F. Freudiger, Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz De Lacerda, Cyrus Daboo, Todd R. Fernandez, Thomas Alsina, Deepak Iyer, Cody D. Jorgensen, Edward T. Schmidt, Astrid Yi
  • Patent number: 11716194
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and apparatuses comprising a processor and an external communication component coupled to the processor. The external communication component, in response to determining that an approaching entity is within a particular proximity of the external communication component, is configured to generate an external private key and an external public key, provide the external public key to a communication component of the approaching entity, receive data from the communication component of the approaching entity in response to providing the external public key to the communication component of the approaching entity, decrypt the received data using the external private key, and provide authorization to the approaching entity to transit through a limited access gate based on the decrypted received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Troia, Antonino Mondello
  • Patent number: 11716195
    Abstract: The present application describes a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for exchanging encrypted communications using hybrid encryption. According to the present disclosure, a first device receives an encrypted communication from a second device. The encrypted communication includes a first encrypted secret, a second encrypted secret, a first signature, and a second signature. The first device verifies the first signature and the second signature, and, when the first and second signatures are valid, decrypts the first encrypted secret using a first encryption algorithm and the second encrypted secret using a second encryption algorithm. The first device combines the first decrypted secret and the second decrypted secret to recover a first communication and provides the first communication to a user of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Joël Alwen
  • Patent number: 11716196
    Abstract: A secure multi-party computation implements real number arithmetic using modular integer representation on the backend. As part of the implementation, a secret shared value jointly stored by multiple parties in a first modular representation is cast into a second modular representation having a larger most significant bit. The parties use a secret shared masking value in the first representation, the range of which is divided into two halves, to mask and reveal a sum of the secret shared value and the secret shared masking value. The parties use a secret shared bit that identifies the half of the range that contains the masking value, along with the sum to collaboratively construct a set of secret shares representing the secret shared value in the second modular format. In contrast with previous work, the disclosed solution eliminates a non-zero probability of error without sacrificing efficiency or security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mariya Georgieva, Nicolas Gama, Dimitar Jetchev
  • Patent number: 11716197
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a cryptographic key using a sequence of data segments selected by a user from one or more data resources. Raw data from the one or more data resources corresponding to each of the selected data segments, and the sequence in which such data segments are selected, is extracted and processed to generate a key. The key can be used for any cryptographic and authentication purpose. By enabling a user to select the sequence of data segments from the one or more data resources in any manner the user desires, the user can create a strong key, but also easily remember the underlying data resource and chosen sequence. This technique provides enhanced security while maintaining ease of creation and use of such security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CHOL, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Coleridge, Malcolm Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 11716198
    Abstract: One-time password (“OTP”) generation on a smartwatch is provided. OTP generation may include communication between an application on a smartwatch and an application on a smartphone. The request for an OTP may be received at the smartwatch. The smartwatch application may communicate with the smartphone application. An OTP may be generated within a third-party library within the smartphone application. The generated OTP may be transmitted from the smartphone application to the smartwatch application. The OTP may be displayed on the smartwatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Miranda N. Harris, Robert S. Mumma, Srinivas Chavali, Patrick Burgess, Sangeetha Mohan, Jonathan Daley, Vishwas Korde
  • Patent number: 11716199
    Abstract: The blockchain generation apparatus 1 includes: a parameter calculator 122 that identifies a parameter type to be used for linkage of the new block, based on block approval method data 114, and calculates a value for the identified parameter type based on transaction datasets which are related to an identifier of a generating party; a block generation condition checker 125 that determines whether the generating party is qualified to generate the new blockchain data, based on the value calculated by the parameter calculator 122; and a blockchain generator 126 that tries to generate the new blockchain by referring to the shared data when the block generation condition checker 125 determines that the generating party is qualified. An identifier of the blend pattern included in the block approval method data 114 specifies a combination of the plurality of parameter types that conflict with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Watanabe, Akihito Akutsu, Yasuhiko Miyazaki, Atsushi Nakadaira, Shigeru Fujimura, Junichi Kishigami
  • Patent number: 11716200
    Abstract: The system and methods described herein may be utilized to perform operations in a faster and less complex manner than provided by conventional systems. An encrypted record may be stored at a user device. The encrypted record may include entries related to operations that were previously requested by the user device. The encrypted record may have been encrypted using a dynamic value and a key that is associated with an entity associated with the user. A recipient computer of a request by the user device may be configured to utilize the dynamic value provided in the request and the key associated with the entity to derive the encryption key(s) last used to encrypt the record. The recipient computer may decrypt and modify the decrypted record to perform the requested operation while the user device is precluded from doing so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sivanarayana Gaddam, Rohit Sinha, Atul Luykx, Hao Yang
  • Patent number: 11716201
    Abstract: A method for maintaining a log of events in a shared computing environment is provided. One example of the disclosed method includes receiving one or more data streams from the shared computing environment that include transactions conducted in the shared computing environment by a first entity and a second entity that is different from the first entity. The method further includes creating a first blockchain entry for a first transaction conducted in the shared computing environment for the first entity, creating a second blockchain entry for a second transaction conducted in the shared computing environment for the second entity, where the second blockchain entry includes a signature that points to the first blockchain entry, and then causing the first and second blockchain entries to be written to a common blockchain data structure in a database that is made accessible to both the first entity and the second entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY AB
    Inventor: Krzysztof Fabjański
  • Patent number: 11716202
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing secure blockchain routing utilizing an extended blockchain protocol. In some embodiments, a blockchain routing node may join an overlay network including a plurality of blockchain routing nodes. The blockchain routing node may receive a plurality of forwarding tables from the plurality of blockchain routing nodes in accordance with an extended blockchain protocol. The blockchain routing node may determine a routing table for the overlay network based at least on part on the plurality of forwarding tables. In some embodiments, the blockchain routing node may route a payload message to a destination blockchain routing node in the overlay network in accordance with the determined routing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Quan Wang
  • Patent number: 11716203
    Abstract: A method for providing evidential data is described includes obtaining data items, generating a respective first hash value for each data item, generating a second hash value for a data set comprising the first hash values but excluding the one or more data items, obtaining one or more transaction identifiers including one or more static identifiers, generating a respective third hash value for each of the one or more static identifiers, transmitting a first message comprising the one or more data items, the one or more first hash values, the second hash value, and the one or more third hash values to a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Y R FREE LABS LIMITED
    Inventor: Phil Davies
  • Patent number: 11716204
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of mining a block of a distributed ledger. The methods include: receiving a block to be mined, the block including a header hash and a plurality of transactions; creating a first signature based on a first function, where inputs to the first function include the header hash and the plurality of transactions; and creating a second signature based on a second function, where an input to the second function is the first signature. In one example, the second function is a multiplicative inverse function and the method further includes creating the second signature that is a multiplicative inverse value of the first signature with respect to a first irreducible polynomial. The method additionally includes creating a chain of signatures, where each of the signatures is a multiplicative inverse value of a previous output with respect to a respective irreducible polynomial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Ravindraraj Ramaraju
  • Patent number: 11716205
    Abstract: A memory device includes nonvolatile memory cells, and a secure module to process first data including information about the device stored in the cells to generate a first password key, process second data including information about the device stored in the cells to generate a second password key, generate a public key and a secret key by a public-key cryptography algorithm, using the first password key and the second password key, and provide the first password key, the second password key, the public key, and the secret key to the cells to store the first password key, the second password key, the public key, and the secret key, where the second data is different from the first data, a value of the first password key value and a value of the second password key are prime numbers, and the public key is provided to a host connected to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chan Ho Kim, Dae Seok Byeon
  • Patent number: 11716206
    Abstract: Establishing secure communications by sending a server certificate message, the certificate message including a first certificate associated with a first encryption algorithm and a second certificate associated with a second encryption algorithm, the first certificate and second certificate bound to each other, signing a first message associated with client-server communications using a first private key, the first private key associated with the first certificate, signing a second message associated with the client-server communications using a second private key, the second private key associated with the second certificate, the second message including the signed first message, and sending a server certificate verify message, the server certificate verify message comprising the signed first message and the signed second message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Gray, Narayana Aditya Madineni, Simon D. McMahon, Matthew Green, Peter T. Waltenberg
  • Patent number: 11716207
    Abstract: Dynamic-PKI social Certificate Authority (CA) systems and methods are provided, which generate and issue certificates at time of device deployment instead of time of manufacture. The provided systems and methods utilize an interface to initiate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), and which then generates and signs the CSR with a public key. The signed CSR is then securely transmitted to a Certificate Signing Request Processor (CSRP), which undergoes an optional verification process and is then processed to return a signed certificate. The signed certificate is then directly or indirectly provided to the device for provisioning into the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Darshak Thakore
  • Patent number: 11716208
    Abstract: A method for registering and provisioning an electronic device is provided. The method includes a step of inserting a first keypair into a secure element of the electronic device. The first keypair includes a public key and a private key. The method further includes a step of requesting, from a server configured to register and provision connected devices, a provisioning of credentials of the electronic device. The method further includes a step of verifying, by the server, the electronic device credentials. The method further includes a step of registering, by the server, the electronic device. The method further includes a step of transmitting, from the server to the electronic device, a device certificate. The method further includes steps of installing the transmitted device certificate within the secure element of the electronic device, and provisioning the electronic device according to the installed device certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Massimiliano Pala, Ronald H. Ih
  • Patent number: 11716209
    Abstract: Systems and methods for azimuthal multiplexing using three-dimensional diffractive optics An azimuthal optical multiplexing system includes a light source. The system includes two or more at least partially transparent plates. Each plate of the two or more plates has a structured or patterned surface positioned in an optical path of the light source. The system includes means for rotating at least one plate of the two or more plates axially with respect to at least one other plate of the two or more plates. The means for rotating is operatively coupled to the at least one plate. The structured or patterned surface is configured to modulate light directed along the optical path and through the two or more plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
    Inventors: Rafael Piestun, Haiyan Wang
  • Patent number: 11716210
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication module, an external module and a signal integration circuit. The signal integration circuit includes a first input port, a second input port, a third input port and an output port. The first input port is for inputting an input signal. The second input port is for selectively inputting a first L1 band signal. The third input port is for selectively inputting a second L1 band signal. The output port selectively outputs a first output signal or a second output signal. When the third input port is coupled to an external module, the third input port is for inputting the second L1 band signal, and the output port outputs the second output signal. When the third input port is not coupled to the external module, the second input port is for inputting the first L1 band signal, and the output port outputs the first output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min-Yu Wang, Kuan-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11716211
    Abstract: A distributed manufacturing platform and related techniques connect designers, manufacturers (e.g., 3D printer owners and other traditional manufacturers), shippers, and other entities and simplifies the process of manufacturing and supplying new and existing products. A distributed ledger or blockchain may be used to record transactions, execute smart contracts, and perform other operations to increase transparency and integrity of supply chain. Blockchain enabled packaging can be used to track movement and conditions of packages from manufacture, through transit, to delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: James L. Schmeling, David A. Divine, David S. Thompson, Shay C. Colson
  • Patent number: 11716212
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing software applications on a client device with dynamic control over low-latency mode (LLM) operations of the client device. The client device may monitor downlink data packets of a client software application operating on the client device to detect trigger events. The client device may determine operating parameters of the modem based on a detected trigger event and dynamically adjust the low-latency mode of the modem based on the detect trigger event or the determined operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vinay Melkote Krishnaprasad, Prashanth Haridas Hande, Sandeep Kanakapura Lakshmikantha, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Deepak Khandelwal, Ravi Agarwal, Ajit Venkat Rao
  • Patent number: 11716213
    Abstract: Sharing a perspective view with users in a web conference by identifying each user participating in a web conference, determining a role of at least two users participating in the web conference, determining a first user provides screen content to the web conference, wherein the provided screen content of the first user corresponds to a first view of the first user, generating a second perspective view of the provided screen content of the first user for a second user, and providing the second view of the provided screen content to the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Madeleine Wilson, Jordan Hodges, Kimberly Flores, Carly Joanne Fife, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Patent number: 11716214
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for the dynamic adjustment of traffic associated with audiovisual conferences or other types of communication sessions in situations where a network connection of one or more conference participants exhibits issues that may affect audio and/or video quality. The adjustment may include the determination at a particular conference participant (e.g., a particular User Equipment (“UE”)) of degraded network conditions, the generation of condensed conference information at the UE, and the outputting of the condensed conference information via the network. The condensed conference information may be included in control signaling. The condensed conference information may be used to generate reconstructed conference information, which may be distributed to other conference participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: John Aceron, Rohit Shirish Saraf, Andrew Philip Genualdi
  • Patent number: 11716215
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for dynamically generating a note with captured content from a communication session. In one embodiment, a method presents, to each of a number of participants within a communication session, a UI which includes session content produced during the communication session. The method records at least a portion of the session content. The method receives a request from one of the participants to generate a note. In response to receiving the request, the method generates a note which includes at least a designated portion of the recorded session content. Finally, the method provides access to the requesting participant to the portion of the session content in the note upon demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Thanh Le Nguyen, Shane Paul Springer