Including Cell Planning Or Layout Patents (Class 455/446)
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Patent number: 10586385Abstract: A system for generating a three-dimensional geometric model of a structure, the system including a portable sensing device that can be transported through the structure, wherein the sensing device includes one or more sensors that generate sensor data at least partially indicative of a position of the sensing device relative to at least part of the structure and at least one electronic processing device that determines a captured map of at least part of the structure using the sensor data, determines at least part of a path traversed by the sensing device using the sensor data, identifies one or more model features using the part of the path and the captured map and generates a three-dimensional geometric model of the structure using the model features.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Peyman Moghadam, Thomas Lowe
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Patent number: 10567974Abstract: Monitoring non-supported wireless spectrum within a coverage area of a distributed antenna system (DAS) in which a listening module connected to a remote unit of the DAS monitors non-supported wireless frequencies (i.e., frequencies that are outside the frequency ranges supported by the downlink and uplink signals of the DAS), via one or more antennas. The listening module also transmits the wireless frequencies to a monitoring module connected to head-end equipment (HEE) of the DAS. In that manner, a monitoring module can use an existing DAS infrastructure to monitor non-supported portions of the wireless spectrum at remote locations. In addition to avoiding the need to run a parallel DAS infrastructure, the disclosed arrangements are also useful in shared spectrum environments and other environments where efficient spectrum utilization is desired.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Igor Berlin, Moshe Daniel, Yoni Henia, Rami Reuven, Motti Yakobi
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Patent number: 10560685Abstract: An advanced communication system is provided. The advanced communication system comprises generating a first signal with a polyphase coding based on a DFT spread OFDM with at least one CAZAC sequence in accordance with a configuration condition, applying a digital transmit beamforming to the generated first signal, converting the first signal to analog from digital, modulating the converted first signal with an energy source, emitting, using at least one energy emit element, the modulated first signal, detecting a second signal comprising at least a portion of the emitted first signal that is reflected from at least one object in a scene in a field-of-view, demodulating the detected second signal, converting the second signal to digital from analog, converting the converted second signal to a computational image, and generating a 3D image by applying coherent detection to the computational image. The first signal comprises a polyphase sequence.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Aura Intelligent Systems, Inc.Inventor: Jungah Lee
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Patent number: 10548036Abstract: A monitoring tool receiving a plurality of queries about the performance of a network, each query being a query about the performance of the network in a respective location. The tool groups queries that exhibit a predetermined spatial relationship with respect to one another. The locations of the queries in the group define a zone. If the number exceeds a threshold, then the zone warrants inspection and/or queries about network performance in the zone can be met with an indication that there appears to be a fault affecting the zone. Alternatively, the tool compares a plurality of stored areas, each area corresponding to a different time period and delimited by a boundary formed around the locations to which a plurality of network performance queries, in the respective time period, relate.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Spatialbuzz LimitedInventors: Andrew Robert Blake, Michael Robert John Shannon
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Patent number: 10541741Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums associated with a user equipment (UE) and a base station are provided for herein. In aspects, a UE may receive, from a base station, a beam modification command indicating at least one beam index for communicating through at least one beam on at least one channel. In an aspect, each beam index of the at least one beam index may indicate at least a direction for communicating through a corresponding beam of the at least one beam. The UE may communicate, with the base station, through the at least one beam corresponding to the at least one beam index on the at least one channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Bilal Sadiq, Tao Luo, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 10534521Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to a system and a method of managing an online social network having a plurality of neighborhoods. The system may receive a location from a user, and select, based on the location, a neighborhood from the plurality of neighborhoods. The system may further assign the user to the selected neighborhood and grant the user access to communications by users assigned to the selected neighborhood.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Nextdoor.com, Inc.Inventors: Nirav N. Tolia, Ryan Patrick Sims, David Michael Wiesen, Sean Christopher Bromage, Rishi Mukhopadhyay, Timothy Garleung Wong, Michael Philip Balaban, Madison Nixon Bell
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Patent number: 10531352Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a cell re-selection method used by a user equipment and a user equipment using the same method. In an aspect, the disclosure is direct to a cell re-selection method which is used by a user equipment and includes obtaining a recommended cell list; storing one or more first cells after a signal quality measurement; determining a second cell from the first cells based on the signal quality measurement; determining whether the second cell belongs to the recommended cell list; and performing cell reselection to the second cell in response to having determined that the second cell belongs to the recommended cell list.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Jung-Mao Lin, Wei-Chen Pao
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Patent number: 10531264Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for efficiently controlling access for system load adjustment in mobile communication systems. In a wireless communication system according to one embodiment, the method for transmitting and receiving data by a terminal including a user equipment (UE) non access stratum (NAS) and a UE access stratum (AS) includes the steps of: receiving by the UE AE, information including emergency call-related information which includes barring information by type for the emergency call, from a base station; transmitting, by the UE NAS, a service request for the emergency call to the UE AS; and determining, by the UE AS, whether to bar the service request on the basis of emergency call-related information.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang Bum Kim, Kyeong In Jeong, Soeng Hun Kim
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Patent number: 10524254Abstract: A system for managing a base station in a next generation mobile communication service includes a plurality of remote base stations configured to provide data transmission to a plurality of user terminals in a next generation mobile communication system; a centralized base station configured to perform interlocking among the plurality of remote base stations and perform resource allocation and scheduling for each user terminal; and a remote interlocking element configured to transmit corresponding control and data information to the plurality of remote base stations according to beamforming information and resource allocation information allocated by the centralized base station, and transmit channel information of a user terminal, which is received from the plurality of remote base stations, to the centralized base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: KT CorporationInventors: Hyung-Joon Song, Won-Yeol Lee
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Patent number: 10517050Abstract: Additional requirements for spectrum emissions may be matched with regional requirements, and an additional maximum power reduction (A-MPR) for a user equipment (UE) may be based on an actual antenna gain of the UE. For example, a UE may be located in a particular region and be required to meet regional requirements for wireless communications. In such cases, the UE may receive network signaling from a base station, and identify an antenna gain for its antenna. The UE may then identify a set of emission requirements based on the identified antenna gain and the network signaling. Additionally, the UE may identify an A-MPR based on the set of emission requirements and the antenna gain and may adjust a maximum output power in accordance with the identified A-MPR. In some examples, an output power threshold may be derived using a difference between a regional requirement and the UE's antenna gain.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Shailesh Patil, Kapil Gulati, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Gene Fong, John Forrester
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Patent number: 10515318Abstract: Wi-Fi connectivity issues are automatically resolved over SMS. An SMS message including a MAC address is received for a station having a wireless connectivity issue involving a Wi-Fi portion of the data communication network. The SMS message is converted according to an API (application programming interface) of the network manager. Error logs are retrieved according to the MAC address. Based on the error logs, a connectivity solution (or other type of solution) to the connectivity issue is determined. The connectivity solution from the network manager API to an SMS message. The SMS message with the connectivity solution is sent to the station. Subsequent SMS messages are sent to the station to determine whether the connectivity solution was effective in improving a client experience.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Stephen Talari, Lakshmi Narayana Dronadula
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Patent number: 10515392Abstract: A system for geographic, temporal, and location-based detection and analysis of mobile communication devices in a communication network is disclosed. The system comprises a database and a server communicatively coupled to the database that receives location data from a vendor server, sets a boundary around each location included in the location data, receives messages from mobile communication devices responsive to display of content on the mobile communication devices, analyzes mobile communication device data corresponding to determined mobile communication identifiers from cell sites, and applies a plurality of exclusions to the mobile communication devices based on the analysis to exclude mobile communication devices based on dwell times within the boundary, historical device patterns within the boundary, and/or dwell times patterns in relation to one or more geographic features in the boundary.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Michael A. Gailloux, Samuel Golomeke, Lauren King, Adam Pickett
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Patent number: 10509098Abstract: Results of measurements by a mobile device on radio signals transmitted by at least one transmitter are obtained. The results of measurements comprise characteristics of the radio signals at each of a plurality of locations of measurements at a particular site, and indications of the locations of measurement. The results of measurement and the indications of the locations are provided and used as a basis for a generation of a radio map for use in supporting a positioning of mobile devices at the site. In addition, a user input to the mobile device is detected, the user input defining a localization area at the site that is to be covered by the radio map. A representation of the defined localization area is provided in addition for use in connection with the radio map.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Pavel Ivanov, Jari Syrjärinne, Muhammad Irshan Khan, Lauri Wirola
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Patent number: 10506441Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to suppress deterioration of communication quality of a terminal device while reducing interference from a small cell. [Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information about a plurality of small cells; and a control unit configured to assign blank subframes in which no signal is transmitted and received to each of the plurality of small cells. The control unit assigns the same subframes to one or more small cells that are a part of the plurality of small cells as the blank subframes and does not assign the same subframes to the remaining small cells among the plurality of small cells as the blank subframes.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano
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Patent number: 10506418Abstract: Provisioning and communicating physical signals and channels in NR networks having a first subset of transmit and receive points that use a first cell ID and a second subset of transmit and receive points that use a second cell ID. Operations include transmitting from, and receiving from, a first transmit and receive point a first signal or channel wherein the first signal or channel is based on a first user equipment (UE) specific parameter assigned via the first subset of transmit and receive points and transmitting from, and receiving from, the first transmit and receive point the plurality of transmit and receive points a second signal or channel wherein the second signal or channel is based on a second UE specific parameter assigned via the second subset of transmit and receive points. A transmit and receive point and a UE for implementing the operations are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Amine Maaref, Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Jianglei Ma
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Patent number: 10499395Abstract: A communication system having a plurality of base stations for carrying out radio communication by arranging a plurality of carriers each taking a first frequency bandwidth in a second frequency band that is predetermined and to be exceeded by the carriers arranged in succession, wherein the communication system arranges the carriers in the second frequency band in such a manner that each of the carriers has an overlapping portion overlapping with each other, and a first base station for using a carrier A, one of the carriers having the overlapping portion, preferentially uses, over a second base station for using a carrier B, a radio resource of a part of the overlapping portion in assigning user data.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Sahara, Toshinori Iinuma
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Patent number: 10498630Abstract: A device including a processor and memory is disclosed. The memory includes executable instructions that cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of identifying a pool of assets to be covered by a pilot test; receiving attributes associated with the identified assets in the pool; identifying a set of pilot test parameters associated with the pilot test; comparing the attributes of the assets with the identified set of pilot test parameters associated with the pilot test; based on a result of the comparison, providing a unique ranked order of the identified assets in the pool and selecting an asset from the unique ranked order to be placed in a pilot test group. When a stop condition is not satisfied, a footprint of the asset placed in the pilot test group is removed from the pool and the set of pilot test parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Shashidhar Rajashekara, Muskan Kukreja, Vijay Krishnan, Sandi Ganguly
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Patent number: 10484207Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a channel estimation method and apparatus by a reception end. The reception device includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver receives a reference signal. The controller identifies a first set of channel values for resources allocated for reference signals. The controller performs interpolation on the first set of channel values so as to identify second set of channel values for remaining resources. The interpolation method is determined based on at least one of Doppler frequency of a channel and channel quality. The controller processes received signals using the first set of channel values and the second set of channel values.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dongjae Lee
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Patent number: 10478721Abstract: A collection of data corresponding to a player is assembled at a server from a data provider. A base value of the player based on at least the primary data is added as an attribute to an internal object stored at the server. A modifier is mapped to a second attribute of the internal object. The modifier is based on at least a portion of the secondary data and the tertiary data. A projected value is generated from the base value by applying a modifier and a rule converting the modified second attribute to a projected value. Internal objects are generated according to constraints including having a sum of limiting factors of the internal objects that does not exceed a maximum factor and a sum of projected values a maximum, subject to the first constraint. The server transmits application data including a list representing the internal objects.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Fantasy Sports CompanyInventors: Peter Groset, Erik Groset, William Switzer
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Patent number: 10484993Abstract: A distributed antenna system is provided that frequency shifts the output of one or more microcells to a 60 GHz or higher frequency range for transmission to a set of distributed antennas. The cellular band outputs of these microcell base station devices are used to modulate a 60 GHz (or higher) carrier wave, yielding a group of subcarriers on the 60 GHz carrier wave. This group will then be transmitted in the air via analog microwave RF unit, after which it can be repeated or radiated to the surrounding area. The repeaters amplify the signal and resend it on the air again toward the next repeater. In places where a microcell is required, the 60 GHz signal is shifted in frequency back to its original frequency (e.g., the 1.9 GHz cellular band) and radiated locally to nearby mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Jr., George Blandino, Irwin Gerszberg, Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III
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Patent number: 10477416Abstract: An example method includes estimating a number of people expected to attend a non-ticketed event, based on electronic data including social media postings, estimating a per-person amount of network traffic expected to be generated on a communications network during the non-ticketed event, based at least in part on historical per-person network traffic statistics for a historical event of a similar type to the non-ticketed event, calculating an amount of total network traffic expected to be generated during the non-ticketed event, based at least on the number of people expected to attend the non-ticketed event and the per-person amount of network traffic, and implementing a modification to an infrastructure of the communications network in a geographic location of the non-ticketed event, based at least in part on the amount of total network traffic expected to be generated during the non-ticketed event.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Abhijeet Bhorkar, Shraboni Jana
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Patent number: 10462751Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method (400) for use in a terminal device for coordinating resources between two different types of communications. The method comprises receiving (410) resource allocation information indicating the allocation of resource units for the two different types of communications and determining (420), based on the resource allocation information, whether there will be a collision between the two different types of communications on a specific resource unit. The method also comprises in response to determining that there will be a collision between the two different types of communications on the specific resource unit, adjusting (430) one of the two different types of communications on the specific resource unit such that the collision may be avoided. The method further comprises resuming (440) the adjusted one of the two different types of communications on a next non-colliding resource unit allocated for the adjusted type of communications.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Zhenshan Zhao, Qianxi Lu
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Patent number: 10455593Abstract: A method for allocating access and backhaul resources is provided, including: obtaining multiple coordinating sets in a network and a transmission mode corresponding to each coordinating set; determining, according to the multiple coordinating sets and the transmission mode corresponding to each coordinating set, an access and backhaul resource allocation manner corresponding to an optimal network access and backhaul joint utility; and instructing wireless access points in the network to use the access and backhaul resource allocation manner to transmit data to user terminals in the network. This ensures proper and flexible allocation of access and backhaul resources and improves system resource utilization.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongcheng Zhuang, Zezhou Luo, Jun Chen
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Patent number: 10448401Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for improving coverage contour and interference thresholds for general authorized access (GAA) channel assignment in a wireless communications environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Farhad Meshkati, Satashu Goel
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Patent number: 10448259Abstract: A wireless access point includes an antenna, a connection port providing wired communications with a network, one or more processors, and a storage device having software stored therein. When executed by the one or more processors the software causes the wireless access point to respond to a probe from a client device requesting a specific service set identifier according to a wildcard service set identifier response in order to facilitate wireless association of the client device with the wireless access point regardless of the specific service set identifier requested by the client device, and to provide the client device with wireless access to the network. In this way, the client device is enabled to associate with the wireless access point and receive access to the network without a specific service set identifier requested by the client device being preprogrammed into the wireless access point.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.Inventors: John Thomas Welch, Gary L. Smith, Michael David Drews, Wael R. Midani
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Patent number: 10412684Abstract: A wireless device receives from a base station one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells comprising one or more first cells of a first type and one or more second cells of a second type. The wireless device determines one or more transmission powers. The wireless device transmits, via one or more cells, one or more signals employing the one or more transmission powers.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
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Patent number: 10411781Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting vertical beamforming weights to influence a width of a vertical beam emitted from an antenna. A quantity of users present in a particular geographic area is determined, where the user devices have a line of sight with the antenna and are vertically distributed from other user devices. CQIs are received from the user devices. It is determined that the quantity of user devices is above a maximum threshold of user devices, and the CQIs indicated that channel quality is below a minimum threshold. The amplitude and phase components of the vertical beamforming weight are adjusted to modify the width of the vertical beam emitted from the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Sprint Communications Company, L.P.Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Andrew M. Wurtenberger
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Patent number: 10396949Abstract: A method for processing interference signals, comprising the following steps of: receiving, by a terminal, configuration information sent by a base station to obtain periodic scheduling configuration information of a neighbor cell on specific time-frequency resources; detecting, by the terminal, an interference signal of the neighbor cell according to the scheduling configuration information, and acquiring information about the interference signal; and, performing, by the terminal, interference cancellation and/or interference suppression on the detected interference signal according to the information about the interference signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Zixiong Chen, Xutao Zhou, Dajin Wang, Jinghui Xie, Songhui Shen, Yingyang Li
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Patent number: 10397798Abstract: A radio signal path design tool that provides for a visual depiction of the viability of alternative antenna locations around proposed fixed antenna sites. The design tool computes a radio link path profile at the proposed antenna sites while simultaneously displaying alternative locations around the fixed antenna sites that would potentially achieve the radio link design goals. In some embodiments, the alternative antenna locations are represented as an array of points, arranged in a grid pattern, surrounding the proposed antenna sites. The path design tool may change each displayed point so that the point visually reflects the extent to which the corresponding location satisfies the radio link design goals. By providing a robust visualization, the design tool allows for a ready assessment of alternative radio link paths adjacent to the proposed link path, which allows for flexibility in deploying radio antennas.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Wireless Applications Corp.Inventors: Eric Wills, Abdelelah Salama
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Patent number: 10386454Abstract: A system comprising location server, a localization module and a node manager. The location server comprises a network interface operable to receive measurement reports submitted from a plurality of reference nodes of a location network, each measurement report reporting a measurement of a signal received by a respective one of the reference nodes from a respective one of one or more mobile devices. The localization module is configured to determine a location of one or more of the mobile devices based on at least some of the plurality of measurement reports. The node manager is configured to control whether and/or when one or more of the plurality of measurement reports are submitted from one or more of the reference nodes, in dependence on a measure of relevance to the determination of the location of one or more of the mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Xiangyu Wang, Armand Michel Marie Lelkens, Jan Hendrik Poesse
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Patent number: 10383082Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to determining a scale associated with received signal strength indicators (RSSIs). In one example, a computing device receives access point (AP) RSSIs. The RSSIs are determined at APs. The APs are associated with coordinate information. In one example, records are maintained for AP reference pairs. Each AP RSSI can be determined at one AP with reference to another AP. In one example, the computing device determines a scale associated with each record.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Manas Sharma, Gopal Agarwal, Manaswini Lakshmikanth Sugatoor
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Patent number: 10383029Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an information processing method and a base station. The method comprises: determining N first regions based on N first thresholds; determining T third regions based on the N first regions and M second regions, the M second regions being determined based on M second thresholds, the second threshold representing reliability of a second communication connection, the second communication connection being a communication connection between a destination user terminal and a user terminal other than the destination user terminal within the cell of the base station; selecting a relay user terminal from among user terminals within the third regions, to establish a relay communication connection with the destination user terminal through the relay user terminal. Accordingly, computation cost and channel bandwidth for selecting the relay user terminal are saved, processing delay is small, and the communication connection with the destination user terminal can be established rapidly.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co. LTDInventor: Zhi Yan
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Patent number: 10383049Abstract: A communications method, device, and system for solving the connection and communications efficiency problem due to the presence of a large number of cells. The method comprises: a first local controller determines that a user equipment needs to establish a data bearer; data bearer configuration information for transmitting user data is generated; the data bearer configuration information is transmitted to a first local gateway and/or at least a first small base station, so that the network element entity that has received the data bearer configuration information establishes a data transmission channel according to the data bearer configuration information, the user equipment belonging to the first local controller and the first local gateway, the first small base station providing services to the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications TechnologyInventors: Jiamin Liu, Fei Qin, Yuan He
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Patent number: 10356636Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a base station, user equipment, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In some aspects, the apparatus may identify a user equipment as a drone-mounted user equipment, and/or may configure one or more parameters associated with the user equipment based at least in part on identifying the user equipment as a drone-mounted user equipment. In some aspects, the apparatus may determine, for a user equipment mounted on a drone, that a threshold is satisfied with regard to an uplink throughput, a downlink throughput, a signal strength, or a signal quality associated with the user equipment, and/or may configure a transmission power parameter or a measurement reporting parameter based at least in part on determining that the threshold is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sameh Guirguis, Kausik Ray Chaudhuri, Atanu Halder
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Patent number: 10355928Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a system comprising a first unit communicatively coupled to a second unit via a communication link. The second unit comprises a reconfigurable circuit, wherein first and second circuit configuration images are stored in the second unit, the reconfigurable circuit configured with the first or second circuit configuration image. The second unit further comprises an interface device configured to communicatively couple the second unit to the communication link, wherein first and second interface configuration images are stored in the second unit, the interface device configured with the first or second interface configuration image based on the reconfigurable circuit configuration. The second unit configured so the interface device is configured with the first interface configuration image or the second interface configuration image when the reconfigurable circuit is configured with the first circuit configuration image or the second circuit configuration image respectively.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Zhen Guo, Fred William Phillips
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Patent number: 10348394Abstract: A wireless communication network and wireless communication method are disclosed. The network has a plurality of transceivers forming a wireless communication network in which the plurality of transceivers include one or more central nodes and each end node capable of connecting to the one or more central nodes and forming a link. At least some of the transceivers of the network having a plurality of antennas and an array processing element coupled to the plurality of antennas and at least some of the transceivers are housed in an aerial communication node that may be a mini-satellite, a balloon or a drone.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: TARANA WIRELESS, INC.Inventors: Omar Bakr, Dale Branlund
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Patent number: 10339227Abstract: A method of designing a data center can include determining a design power density, determining an oversubscription ratio, and determining a spatial layout of the data center using the design power density and the oversubscription ratio. The design power density can be in units of power per unit length.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Xiaobo Fan, Luiz Andre Barroso
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Patent number: 10333748Abstract: The present invention discloses an adaptive parameter adjustment method for a hybrid precoding millimeter-wave transmission system. The method includes the following step: interacting between a transmitter and a receiver for a number of radio frequency chains that need to be established. The receiver calculates, according to a received signal power at the time of established a different number of radio frequency chains and a total power consumption at the time of established the different number of radio frequency chains, the number of the radio frequency chains that need to be established. According to the present invention, under a condition of balancing power consumption and a rate, a number of radio frequency chains that need to be established is adaptively selected, so as to optimally configure power consumption and a transmission rate in a millimeter-wave transmission system.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: SHANGHAI RESEARCH CENTER FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONSInventors: Xiu-mei Yang, Wu-xiong Zhang, Meng-ying Zhang, Yang Yang, Hai-feng Wang
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Patent number: 10327159Abstract: Convergence times associated with simulated annealing based (SA-based) optimization in wireless networks can be reduced by introducing an additional local or cell-level evaluation step into the evaluation of global solutions. In particular, new local solutions may be evaluated based on local performance criteria when the new solutions are in a global solution deemed to have satisfied a global performance criteria. New local solutions that satisfy their corresponding local performance criteria remain in the new global solution. New local solutions that do not satisfy their corresponding local performance criteria are replaced with a corresponding current local solution from a current global solution, thereby modifying the new global solution. The resulting modified global solution includes both new local solutions and current local solutions prior to being accepted as the current global solution for the next iteration.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yongxi Tan, Jin Yang, Nandu Gopalakrishnan, Yan Xin, James Mathew, Kamalaharan Dushyanthan, Iyad Alfalujah, Yanjie Fu
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Patent number: 10327254Abstract: A system and method for operating a first vehicle hotspot at a vehicle. The first vehicle hotspot operates to provide wireless connectivity for one or more wireless devices located in the vehicle or within a proximity of the vehicle. The method is carried out by the vehicle and includes the steps of: detecting one or more channels of operation occupied by one or more other hotspots; selecting a channel of operation for the first vehicle hotspot according to a hotspot coordination policy; and configuring the first vehicle hotspot to use the selected channel of operation thereby allowing the one or more wireless devices to connect to the first vehicle hotspot through wireless communication over the selected channel of operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Lakshmi V. Thanayankizil, David P. Pop, Fan Bai
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Patent number: 10320650Abstract: A network testing system includes a test station and a communication device running an application. A VNC client and a VNC server are provided on the communication device to control the application for network testing purposes. In operation, the test station communicates with the remote VNC client, providing information and context data for the network test. More than one communication device may be used in the test.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Gregory Lee, Jonathan Dunbar, Stuart Macfarlane
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Patent number: 10313032Abstract: A test system for testing a device under test is described, which comprises an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements and an adjustment unit having a Fresnel structure. The adjustment unit is placed between the antenna array and the device under test. Further, a method for testing a device under test is described.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Corbett Rowell, Hendrik Bartko, Adam Tankielun
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Patent number: 10299141Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for data-driven roll-out planning optimization. An optimized network roll-out plan may be determined for a mobile network comprising sectors fitted with multiple cells operating over respective carrier frequencies by gathering data from several network counters, and analyzing the data to derive the network roll-out plan. Analyzing the data comprises applying congestion detection based on a probability mass function (PMF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) modelling; and assessing based on the congestion detection achievable data throughput for users in a particular sector.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SWISSCOM AGInventors: Damiano Scanferla, Pavle Belanovic
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Patent number: 10285078Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method in a network node (103), a network node (103), a method in a user equipment (105) and a user equipment for handling base sequences in a communications network (100). The network node (103) is configured to communicate with a first user equipment (105). The network node (103) comprises information about a default base sequence and an alternative base sequence. The network node (103) determines (405, 505, 901), for the first user equipment (105), that the alternative base sequence should replace the default base sequence. The network node (103) sends (406, 506, 902) information about the determined alternative base sequence to the first user equipment (105).Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventor: Stefano Sorrentino
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Patent number: 10278177Abstract: Described herein are techniques for reducing efficient LTE operation in the unlicensed band. For example, the technique may involve establishing a connection with a primary component carrier on the licensed communication band or the unlicensed communication band. The technique may also involve determining at least one metric associated with a constraint on a transmissions channel of the unlicensed communication band. The technique may also involve sending the at least one metric to the primary component carrier. The technique may also involve receiving a message for one of switching on or switching off a secondary component carrier (SCC) for transmissions on the unlicensed communication band in response to sending the at least one metric.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Kamel Sadek, Tamer Adel Kadous
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Patent number: 10271219Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide a system and methods for determining a minimum number of communication nodes to substantially cover a particular geographical area and for optimizing an extension of an optical network to provide service to the communication nodes. In one implementation, at least one parameter for one or more forces configured to control interactions of a plurality of nodes is received. Each of the nodes has a node range corresponding to an effective operational limit of the node. Boundary information defining a geographical area to which coverage by a network may be provided is received. The one or more forces are simulated to distribute the plurality of nodes. The simulation of the one or more forces causes the plurality of nodes to become positioned in an overall layout such that the defined geographical area is substantially covered by the node ranges.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Benjamin K. Peterson, Samid Ameer Hoda
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Patent number: 10250476Abstract: Probes are coupled to a network via one or more communication channels. The probes capture a set of technical characteristics of the communication channel (e.g., signal intensity, signal quality, signal to noise ratio, etc.), which may include characteristics of data exchanges between third party systems and the probes. Captured characteristics are provided to an online system, which obtains information from users who are communicating content via the communication channel regarding user perception of content transmission or receipt. Based on the received characteristics and information describing user perception, the online system generates a value of a performance metric for the communication channel associated with a set of users having one or more common characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: CASE ON IT, S.L.Inventor: Agustin Batiz
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Patent number: 10242563Abstract: A method, device, and system for detecting/recognizing in a radio range repetitive motions with at least one motional speed and each at least one repetition, is provided. The method includes the steps of collecting as input data for the repetitive motion detection/recognition based on the reception of quantifiable radio signals of an intended or unintended communication between a transmitting radio terminal being mobile or fixed and a receiving local fixed radio device in the radio range “Received Signal Strength”-values related quantities or “Channel State Information”-quantities, and determining a pattern in the received radio signals, and accessing the peak value until the peak value in accordance with a threshold check provides a reliable statement, particularly being used for controlling purposes.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AGInventors: Kyle MacKenzie, Alejandro Ramirez, Corina Kim Schindhelm
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Patent number: 10237709Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a first session is established between an online charging system (OCS) and a user plane of a gateway device by using a service identifier, so that direct interaction between the user plane of the gateway device and the OCS is implemented, and a technical problem that a gateway device in a decoupled architecture has an extremely long charging path and a large charging delay is resolved.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Hui Cai, Weiqi Hu
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Patent number: 10229434Abstract: Provided is a process, including: receiving, with one or more processors, from a remote user computing device, a geographic location of the user computing device; determining that the user computing device is in a cache geographic area in which information about potentially relevant geographically-targeted offers is to be predictively loaded into memory of the user computing device before the user requests the information about geographically-targeted offers; selecting, with one or more processors, an offer from a repository of offers based on the selected offer being associated with the cache geographic area or a location in the cache geographic area; and in response to the determination, sending, with one or more processors, the selected offer to the user computing device for storage in cache memory of the user computing device before the user requests the selected offer.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: RetailMeNot, Inc.Inventors: Alexander M. Cheng, Jeffrey R. Rego, J. Seth Randle