Location Monitoring Patents (Class 455/456.1)
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Patent number: 12047293Abstract: A packet sending method includes: A first device obtains geographical location information of the first device, and generates a first Internet Protocol version 6 IPv6 packet, where the first IPv6 packet carries the geographical location information of the first device; and the first device sends the first IPv6 packet.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuping Peng, Zhenbin Li
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Patent number: 12047847Abstract: Methods and techniques are described for supporting location services for a user equipment (UE) in a Fifth Generation wireless network using a Location Management Function (LMF) based control plane (CP) location solution. The LMF serves as the main anchor point for location support instead of an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF). The LMF may be in either a serving Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) for a UE or in a Home PLMN for a roaming UE. The LMF may obtain location information for a UE via an AMF from a Next Generation Radio Access Network or the UE and may interact with a Gateway Mobile Location Center to receive location requests from and return location information to an external client. The LMF solution may be more efficient and require less implementation than an AMF based CP location solution.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Stephen William Edge
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Patent number: 12047899Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a UE. The instructions configure the UE for low latency NR positioning in a 5G NR network and cause the UE to perform operations comprising decoding configuration signaling received from a base station. The configuration signaling includes measurement gap information and scheduling information for a UE measurement report. A downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) received from the base station is decoded. Positioning measurements are performed using the DL PRS. The positioning measurements are performed based on a measurement gap corresponding to the measurement gap information. The UE measurement report is encoded for a UL transmission to the base station based on the scheduling information. The UE measurement report includes the positioning measurements.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Artyom Lomayev, Andrey Chervyakov, Sergey Sosnin
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Patent number: 12044789Abstract: Wireless device free “occupancy detection” in residential or small industrial properties is an essential function within the broader scope of smart environments. Applications include, monitoring a subject's, e.g. an elderly person, behaviour for health assessments or moving towards more efficient energy usage in smart homes. Changes and disruption of wireless signals transmitted and received by the plurality of wireless devices are collected and analyzed to infer the presence of a subject the sensing area. More particularly, CSI information over time analysed with one or models can estimate the presence of a subject within the sensing area whether the subject moves or stays still.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Inventors: Azar Zandifar, Negar Ghourchian, Michel Allegue Martinez
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Patent number: 12041547Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in discontinuous reception (DRX) mode receives a configuration of a plurality of DRX groups, receives one or more positioning reference signal (PRS) configurations for the plurality of DRX groups, each of the one or more PRS configurations indicating one or more PRS resources for each of the plurality of DRX groups, receives one or more wakeup signals (WUS) for the plurality of DRX groups, the one or more WUS indicating whether or not the UE is expected to wake up for a next DRX cycle of each of the plurality of DRX groups, and measures/transmits the one or more PRS resources for each of the plurality of DRX groups during the next DRX cycle of each of the plurality of DRX groups based, at least in part, on the one or more WUS.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Alexandros Manolakos, Juan Montojo
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Patent number: 12041513Abstract: A system (1) for selecting one or more devices in a wireless network for transmitting, receiving and/or processing a radio frequency signal for presence and/or location detection comprises at least one processor (5) configured to determine a suitability of each of a plurality of devices (11-15) for transmitting, receiving and/or processing a radio frequency signal for presence and/or location detection, select a subset of devices from the plurality of devices based on the suitability determined for each of the plurality of devices, and instruct at least one of the subset of devices to act as a device for transmitting, receiving and/or processing a radio frequency signal for presence and/or location detection.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Peter Deixler, Hugo José Krajnc, Leendert Teunis Rozendaal
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Patent number: 12041511Abstract: In an aspect, a serving BS of a UE measures ToAs of a DL-PRS from a non-serving base station of the UE and an UL-SRS-P from the UE. The serving BS transmits measurement information based on the ToA measurements of the DL-PRS and the UL-SRS-P to a position estimation entity. The position estimation entity determines a positioning estimate for the UE based in part upon the measurement information.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Jing Lei
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Patent number: 12041061Abstract: An information processing system includes: a user information accumulation unit that accumulates information regarding a user on a basis of an action of the user; a specifying unit that specifies information corresponding to sensitive information among the accumulated information as corresponding to the sensitive information; and a disclosure control unit that controls a disclosure mode of the information corresponding to the sensitive information in a case where the information corresponding to the sensitive information is disclosed to a third party other than the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Suguru Aoki, Kazuhito Iwasa, Shimizu Itaru
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Patent number: 12038512Abstract: A control method, a control apparatus and a device for preventing pseudo GNSS signal interference, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: in response to detecting that a received GNSS signal includes a pseudo GNSS signal, restraining a time service system of a communication device from tracking the received GNSS signal; and removing the restraining on the time service system in response to detecting that the pseudo GNSS signal disappears.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Li Luo, Xiaoming Fu, Quanshi Zhang
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Patent number: 12035269Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, at least one processor coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable media, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: detect a presence of a first multiple-universal subscriber identity module (USIM) based operation and a second USIM based operation in the UE, the first USIM based operation belonging to a first Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), the second USIM based operation belonging to a second PLMN different than the first PLMN; perform a first registration procedure, using the first USIM based operation, with the first PLMN; perform a second registration procedure, using the second USIM based operation, with the second PLMN; wherein the UE receives information of one or more operation gaps during the first registration procedure, and performs the second registration procedure during at least one of the operationType: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kamel M. Shaheen
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Patent number: 12032071Abstract: Satellite echoing for geolocation and mitigation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) denial are provided herein, where an example method comprises: transmitting, by a processing device, an echo message along a communication path having a communication satellite and a target device with an unknown distance to the communication satellite; receiving, by the processing device, a return of the echo message from the communication satellite over the communication path; determining, by the processing device, a time of travel of the echo message associated with only a single traversal of a portion of the communication path that is between the communication satellite and the target device; calculating, by the processing device, a distance between the communication satellite and the target device based on the time of travel; and performing, by the processing device, one or more actions based on the distance between the communication satellite and the target device.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Higher Ground LLCInventors: Robert S. Reis, Shmuel Shaffer, Darren Robert Reis, James M. Behmke, David Alexander Reuss
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Patent number: 12035201Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For example, a process can include determining a subset of radio frequency (RF) sensing devices from a plurality of available RF sensing devices for performing an RF sensing technique for a target object. The subset of RF sensing devices may be determined based on a plurality of factors associated with the plurality of available RF sensing devices. The process can include transmitting, to at least one RF sensing device of the subset of RF sensing devices, at least one message instructing the subset of RF sensing devices to perform the RF sensing technique for the target object to obtain one or more characteristics of the target object.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yucheng Dai, Sony Akkarakaran, Wooseok Nam, Jingchao Bao, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12035198Abstract: The present invention relates to a system to facilitate the identification of geo-cells, and the distribution of media content. A visitation tracking system is configured to retrieve location data from a client device, identify a geo-cell from among a set of geo-cells based on the location data, access a database that comprises media content associated with one or more physical location within the geo-cell, ranking a first media content among the media content, and loading the first media content at the client device based on the ranking, according to certain example embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Xueyin Chen, Mehrdad Jahangiri
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Patent number: 12035270Abstract: A terminal (10) includes an Initiator functional unit (13) for acquiring information to be used for estimating position information of the terminal by performing frame exchange with a neighboring Responder terminal, a Responder functional unit (14) for providing the information to be used for estimating the position information of the Initiator terminal by performing the frame exchange with a neighboring Initiator terminal, and a control unit (12) for controlling the Initiator functional unit (13) and the Responder functional unit (14). The control unit (12) estimates the position information of the terminal (10) based on the information acquired by controlling the terminal (10) to function as the Initiator terminal using the Initiator functional unit (13) and by controlling the terminal (10) to exchange frames with the neighboring Responder terminal, and then controls the terminal (10) to function as the Responder terminal using the Responder functional unit (14) and the position information.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Leonardo Lanante, Yuhei Nagao, Hiroshi Ochi, Tatsumi Uwai
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Patent number: 12035268Abstract: The application provides a method for obtaining a timing advance (TA) and an apparatus. A terminal device receives first time information broadcast by a first cell, and second time information broadcast by a neighbor cell. The terminal device obtains a TA from the terminal device to the neighbor cell based on the following information: a time point indicated by the first time information, a TA from the terminal device to the first cell, a time difference between receiving of the first time information and receiving of the second time information, and a time point indicated by the second time information..Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Chen, Bingzhao Li, Hong Wang
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Patent number: 12032085Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a position estimation entity provides assistance data to sidelink anchors and a UE. The assistance data may include a set of proximity-based sidelink positioning reference signal (PRS) pre-configurations for on-demand PRS position estimation. The target UE transmits a sidelink PRS trigger to trigger an on-demand sidelink PRS position estimation session with a dynamic sidelink anchor group, the sidelink PRS trigger configured to indicate a sidelink zone associated with the UE and a proximity requirement for participation in the on-demand sidelink PRS position estimation. At least one sidelink anchor determines that the proximity requirement to the sidelink zone is satisfied, selects a proximity-based sidelink PRS pre-configuration based on a dynamic proximity to the sidelink zone, and performs a sidelink PRS exchange with the UE.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
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Patent number: 12028780Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that comprises a processing system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include obtaining timing advance data regarding a communication device served by the network; the timing advance data is collected by a network element coupled to the network device, and the network element communicates with the communication device using control-plane signaling. The timing advance data is processed using location data regarding the network element to determine a geolocation of the communication device. The geolocation is stored at a storage device; the network device and storage device are included in a secure portion of the network. The geolocation is provided to equipment of a network customer accessing the secure portion of the network via a secure interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Jeff Bartlett, Jordan Alexander, Thomas Becker
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Patent number: 12022923Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a near-field communication (NFC) ornament, including an ornament main body, an NFC chip, an NFC antenna, an NFC antenna housing and a decorating part; a surface of the ornament main body is provided with an insert hole and a supporting face located at a periphery of the insert opening; a groove is formed in the NFC antenna housing; an apertural face of the NFC antenna housing is connected with a supporting face of the ornament main body; a magnetic isolation component is arranged between the apertural face of the NFC antenna housing and the supporting face.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Inventor: Jieming Wang
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Patent number: 12028151Abstract: Techniques for leveraging information from a first satellite network to improve communications with a second satellite network are described. According to some embodiments, an endpoint device in an LPWAN communicates with satellites in a GNSS as well as with satellites in another satellite network (e.g., an LPWAN satellite network). By communicating with the GNSS satellites, the endpoint device is able to determine one or more locations in the sky overhead that provide favorable (e.g., unobstructed) communication paths between the endpoint device and satellites in those locations. Then, using ephemeris data for both satellite constellations, the endpoint device determines a time when one or more satellites of the LPWAN satellite network will be in (or near to) one or more of those same locations. At the determined time, the endpoint device transmits data to be received by the one or more satellites of the LPWAN satellite network.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Hubble Network Inc.Inventors: Louis Legrand, Ben Juda Wild
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Patent number: 12028775Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may determine its position by receiving locations from one or more other UEs capable of network-based positioning. For example, a second UE may determine its location using network-based positioning and may transmit its location information to the first UE. The first UE may determine its location based on the received location information (e.g., by calculating a weighted average of different locations, by setting its location to be the same as the received location). In some cases, the first UE may receive location information from other UEs during or after a discovery process with other UEs. In some other cases, the first UE may receive messages (e.g., periodic safety messages) from the other UEs, and the messages may each include location information of the respective other UEs.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Junyi Li, Hong Cheng, Kapil Gulati
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Patent number: 12028827Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a wireless receiver to receive station signals from transmitting stations via communication channels and to emit a selected one of the station signals. The method selects communication channels to transmit the selected one of the station signals, detects reception properties for the selected communication channels, detects position data of the wireless receiver, assigns the position data of the wireless receiver to the reception properties detected with regard to the selected communication channels, determines a position-related received data set for the selected one of the station signals, and transmits the position-related received data set to a server device that stores the position-related received data set to be retrievable by the server device.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Klaus Bischof
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Patent number: 12028273Abstract: Systems and methods electronically produce a local estimate of less-than-critical resources based on a client-side version of digital rules and coarse values received from an online service provider. Although using the client-side version of digital rules and the coarse values may not include all the parameters and values needed to provide a fully accurate estimate of the resource, the ability to locally estimate resources without having to make network calls to the online service provider, such as when there are unfavorable conditions or latency of the network, imminent overloading of the online service provider or other operating conditions or demands on the online service provider preventing it from producing a timely more accurate estimate, provides a faster and more efficient way of obtaining a potentially useful estimate of resources.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Avalara, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Lee Robles, Nikki Nash, Mark Janzen, Rahul Aggarwal, Gregory T. Kavounas, Hemendra Pal
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Patent number: 12028829Abstract: An information processing device provided in a mobile object, including: a processor for obtaining, while a communication unit connects to a first access point and executes wireless communication through the first access point, information representing a first communication quality being communication quality for wireless communication between the communication unit and the first access point, and information representing a second communication quality being communication quality for wireless communication between the communication unit and a second access point, switching, if a difference between the second communication quality and the first communication quality is greater than a predetermined quality reference value, a connection target of the communication unit from the first access point to the second access point, and preventing, such that the faster a moving speed of the mobile object is, the less often switching of the connection target occurs.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaru Otaka
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Patent number: 12019167Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for determination of multipath for determining a location of user equipment (UE) are presented. In some embodiments, the UE may, based on a first indication of signal strength associated with a first polarization type, and a second indication of signal strength associated with a second polarization type, determine an indication of multipath reflection along a path of signal propagation between a space vehicle (e.g., GNSS satellite) and the UE. Circularly polarized positioning signals may be received by the UE via natively present linearly polarized antennas and converted into circularly polarized signals. Converted circularly polarized signals may include right-handed and left-handed components, and signal strengths for each component may be compared to determine the presence of multipath. Positioning signals may be given a weight or disregarded based on the multipath determination when determining the position of the UE.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Rayman Wai Pon, Pranav Iyengar
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Patent number: 12022352Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for enforcing at least one rule associated with a geofence. At least one device is constructed and configured in network communication with a server platform and a database. The server platform defines at least one geofence for a region of interest and specifies at least one rule associated with the at least one geofence, thereby creating a rule-space model for the region of interest. The at least one geofence comprises a multiplicity of geographic designators with each geographic designator assigned with a unique IPv6 address. The at least one device receives at least one notification signal regarding the at least one rule from the at least one server platform and implements the at least one rule when the at least one device is within a predetermined distance from the at least one geofence for the region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: GEOFRENZY, INC.Inventor: Benjamin T. Jones
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Patent number: 12022354Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a reduced-capability user equipment (UE) receives, from each of one or more premium UEs, one or more parameters indicating a quality of a location estimate of the premium UE, selects at least one premium UE based on the quality of the location estimate of the at least one premium UE, and derives a location estimate of the reduced-capability UE based on the location estimate of the at least one premium UE. In another aspect, a reduced-capability UE transmits, to at least one premium UE, a request to perform one or more positioning measurements of one or more downlink reference signals, receives, from the at least one premium UE, a measurement report comprising the one or more positioning measurements, and determines a location estimate of the reduced-capability UE based on the one or more positioning measurements in the measurement report.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Huilin Xu, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Pui Lok Ang
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Patent number: 12019174Abstract: A method for configuring a positioning reference signal resource, a method for configuring a measurement gap, and a related device are provided. The method includes: determining a resource position of a PRS within a BWP based on a start PRB position of a PRS resource and the number of PRBs; and performing measurement on the resource position.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ye Si, Peng Sun, Huaming Wu
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Patent number: 12022361Abstract: This position estimation system comprises a first wireless node for forming a wireless area; second wireless nodes which move within the wireless area; a plurality of third wireless nodes which are provided within the wireless area; and a position estimation device which estimates the position of the second wireless nodes on the basis of information indicating wireless reception quality at the third wireless nodes and the second wireless nodes. The position estimation device determines, for each of section areas, and on the basis of information pertaining to time resource capacity for wireless communication directed towards second wireless nodes, section areas which collect, in place of the first wireless node, information containing wireless reception quality at the second wireless nodes, and transmits, to one of third wireless nodes provided in the determined section area, and instruction to collect wireless reception quality at second wireless nodes within said section area.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Takahashi, Mei Okamoto, Kazuma Nishiyasu, Naganori Shirakata, Junichi Morita
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Patent number: 12016677Abstract: A caregiver assistance system is disclosed for helping caregivers manage the care of existing bed sores and/or reduce the risk of a patient developing bed sores. The system may also help the caregiver to perform rounding tasks and/or to reduce the likelihood of patient falls. The system comprises a server application in communication with the patient's bed and one or more mobile electronic devices (e.g. smart phones). The mobile devices receive individual assessments of a plurality of bed sore risk factors and forward them to the server. The server generates bed sore risk scores from the answers and forward them to an EMR server. The server may also determine one or more risk reduction steps, display them on the mobile electronic device, and/or forward them to the patients' beds for implementation thereon. Additional bed sore information may be captured and sent to the EMR.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Thomas Joseph Durlach, Ross Michael Nave
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Patent number: 12022556Abstract: Methods and apparatus for wireless communication by a first user-equipment (UE). The method generally includes monitoring for signaling from a second UE during a DRX cycle associated with a DRX configuration for at least one of the first UE or the second UE, determining whether the first UE and the second UE are within range for communication based on the monitoring, and taking one or more actions based on the determination.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ling Ding, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12022338Abstract: A wireless device suspends a connection with a first access network and enters an inactive state. While the connection with the first access network is suspended and the wireless device is in the inactive state, the wireless device camps in a specific area of a second wireless communication network that is included in a notification area within which the wireless device is allowed to move without notifying either the second wireless communication network or a first wireless communication network that includes the first access network. Upon camping in the specific area, the wireless device starts a timer. Responsive to expiry of the timer, the wireless device switches from the inactive state to an idle state and/or transmits to the second access network signaling indicating that the wireless device is in the specific area or that the wireless device requests a connection to the second access network.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Patrik Rugeland, Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Gunnar Mildh
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Patent number: 12015459Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for modifying a position of an adaptive phase-changing device, APD. In aspects, a base station receives, from a user equipment, UE, at least one link quality parameter that is indicative of a channel impairment. The base station then identifies, using the at least one link quality parameter, a surface configuration for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) of an adaptive phase-changing device (APD) and transmits a first indication of the surface configuration using an adaptive phase-changing device control channel, APD control channel. In aspects, the base station determines using the at least one link quality parameter, a position configuration for the APD and transmits a second indication of the position configuration to the APD. The base station then communicates with the UE using the APD.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
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Patent number: 12013475Abstract: The present invention is an information processor including: a storage configured to store information related to an area in which a user moves around; a position calculator configured to calculate, based on a transmission signal of a communication device that moves together with the user, positions in the area of the communication device with the lapse of time; and a measuring unit configured to measure time during which each of virtual points continuously exists in a region with movement of the user, each of the virtual points being defined at a point of intersection between virtual lines that are arranged in grid in the area, the region centering at each position that is calculated by the position calculator, wherein a size of the region is set to contain at least two of the virtual points.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki Tachinami
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Patent number: 12015941Abstract: Techniques are provided in which a target UE can be provided with a processing window (PW) configuration that defines a PW during which the target UE may measure one or more RS resources. The PW optionally may allow the target UE to transmit an uplink (UL) RS. The PW configuration may be provided to the target UE by a serving base station of the target UE in response to a request for the PW configuration by the target UE or a location server. The request may include information regarding an RS configuration provided to the target UE.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12015738Abstract: A method of processing an emergency call in an emergency communication network can include receiving an emergency call from an emergency caller from a first mobile communication device that is received via a SIP INVITE message; obtaining location information of the location of the first mobile communication device; determining a PSAP that is in the vicinity of the location of the first mobile communication device, and forwarding the emergency call to the PSAP for being handled by a call taker at the PSAP. The ESRP can request location information of all mobile communication devices that are in the vicinity of the first mobile communication device and, upon receipt of the location information, create a list of all mobile communication devices that are in the vicinity of the first mobile communication device for transmitting the list to the PSAP to be displayed at a display device of a call taker.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: UNIFY PATENTE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Rodrigo Kaminski Biermayr, Amauri Crovador, Nadya Hauenstein
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Patent number: 12008143Abstract: Described herein are techniques that provide privacy protection for a user by preventing user device tracking via device fingerprints. A communication may be received from a user device that includes metadata having information related to the user device. An intended recipient of the communication may be identified. Based on one or more of the user device or the recipient, a determination may be made as to what data within the metadata should be scrambled or selectively replaced. The data may then be overwritten with alternative data that may be selected at random, and the communication is forwarded to the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventor: Jay Stark
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Patent number: 12010588Abstract: Disclosed are indoor positioning methods, apparatuses, electronic device and computer readable storage medium. The indoor positioning method includes: obtaining state data of a mobile terminal; based on a pre-trained position classification model, determining a position classification of the mobile terminal according to the state data of the mobile terminal; when the position classification of the mobile terminal is an anchor point position, taking the mobile terminal as a beacon terminal and sending an anchor point position broadcast instruction to the beacon terminal to enable the beacon terminal to broadcast the anchor point position. In the technical solution, a mobile terminal meeting anchor point requirements is taken as a beacon terminal to provide convenient positioning services, so as to avoid deployment and maintenance of a large number of beacons, hardware of routers, and related mapping relationship, thus greatly reducing investment costs and facilitating promotion of use.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: RAJAX NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Tian He, Yi Ding, Yun Ji, Tianye Zhang, Jiaming Lu, Zhigang Dai
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Patent number: 12003289Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: monitoring transmissions representing estimation of a wireless channel, between at least one wireless access point (AP) and a plurality of wireless stations (STAs); at a training stage, training a machine learning model on a training dataset comprising: (i) a plurality dataframes of a standard beamforming protocol associated with at least some of the monitored transmissions, and (ii) labels indicating an association between the dataframes and the STAs; and at an inference stage, applying the trained machine learning model to a target transmission representing estimation of a wireless channel, to predict whether the target transmission was transmitted from one of the STAs.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: LEVL PARENT, LLCInventors: Noam Janco, Nuriel Rogel
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Patent number: 11996973Abstract: 5G and especially 6G are susceptible to phase faults due to rapid phase fluctuations, usually in the local oscillator of the user device. Low-cost IoT applications that 6G is intended to serve may be impractical unless phase noise mitigation can be applied on each uplink and downlink message. Accordingly, a single-branch phase-tracking reference is disclosed occupying just a single resource element, in which one quadrature branch is transmitted with a predetermined maximum modulation amplitude, and the other branch has zero amplitude. The receiver can then quantify the phase noise (or the phase rotation angle) according to a ratio of the as-received branch amplitudes, and mitigate a concurrent message by de-rotating each message element by the same phase angle, thereby restoring high reliability at high frequencies at negligible cost.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
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Patent number: 11997561Abstract: A method includes receiving information indicative of a perimeter of a first portion of a work surface, generating, based on the information, a first geofence substantially overlaying the perimeter, and causing a display to display the first geofence. The method also includes receiving a first input indicating an accuracy of the first geofence. The method further includes determining that at least part of the first geofence is less than a threshold distance from a second geofence associated with the work surface. The method also includes generating, based on determining that the at least part of the first geofence is less than the threshold distance from the second geofence, a third geofence associated with the work surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.Inventors: Nathaniel S. Doy, John L Marsolek, Sangameshwar Sonth, Robert J. McGee
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Patent number: 11994531Abstract: A method of determining an uncertainty estimate of an estimated velocity of an object includes, determining the uncertainty with respect to a first estimated coefficient and a second estimated coefficient of the velocity profile equation of the object. The first estimated coefficient being assigned to a first spatial dimension of the estimated velocity and the second estimated coefficient being assigned to a second spatial dimension of the estimated velocity. The velocity profile equation represents the estimated velocity in dependence of the first estimated coefficient and the second estimated coefficient. The method also includes determining the uncertainty with respect to an angular velocity of the object, a first coordinate of the object in the second spatial dimension, and a second coordinate of the object in the first spatial dimension.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AGInventors: Mateusz Stachnik, Dariusz Cieslar
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Patent number: 11989566Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for controlling an electronic device. The electronic device includes a processor, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), an image sensor control (ISC) circuit, an image signal processor (ISP) and a communication interface circuit. The method includes: in response to the electronic device being powered up, executing a first program code in the ROM by the processor to initialize the communication interface circuit; transmitting identification information to an external device through the communication interface circuit; receiving, through the communication interface circuit, a second program code that the external device sends in response to the identification information so as to store the second program code to the RAM; and executing the second program code by the processor to initialize the ISC circuit and the ISP.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventors: Lijin Chen, Suzhen Liu, Ye Chen
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Patent number: 11988805Abstract: The system as described collects and utilizes weather data sensor information in order to rapidly collect and update weather forecasts using real-time weather data collected at high rates of frequency, and use this collected high frequency weather data to rapidly correct and update the weather forecasts generated by the system.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: The Tomorrow Companies Inc.Inventors: Shimon Elkabetz, Jacob Ribnik, Itai Zlotnik, Rei Goffer, Nir Nossenson, Daniel Alexander Rothenberg, Karl Ginter
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Patent number: 11988778Abstract: Various embodiments determine a position of a wireless device and enable the wireless device to retrieve the determined location. In one embodiment, a system comprises of at least one wireless transmitting device, a plurality of wireless receivers, and at least one server. Each of the plurality of wireless devices receive signals from the wireless transmitting device with unknown position and send time stamped information to the server. Each of the plurality of wireless device also sends unique identifying information about the wireless transmitting device. The server calculates a position of the wireless transmitting device by considering the inputs received from the plurality of wireless receivers. The wireless device obtains its position from the server. The process can be executed on demand or at regular frequent intervals.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Inventor: Nicholaus J. Bauer
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Patent number: 11991689Abstract: A method and apparatus for positioning in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for positioning includes receiving by a terminal from a base station a SIB1 comprising a first scheduling information and a second scheduling information, transmitting to request the second positioning SIB a first uplink message based at least in part on the second scheduling information if the terminal is in RRC_INACTIVE, transmitting to request the second positioning SIB a second uplink message based at least in part on the second scheduling information if the terminal is in RRC_CONNECTED, acquiring a SI based on the first scheduling information and the second scheduling information the SI includes a positioning SIB and transmitting to request the second PRS data a RequestAssistanceData the RequestAssistanceData includes a physical cell identity of Primary Cell and a second identifier related to the second PRS data.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignees: BLACKPIN INC.Inventor: Soenghun Kim
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Patent number: 11991772Abstract: Systems and methods for extending connectivity with a cellular network are disclosed herein. A UE may monitor a serving cell of the UE and a neighbor cell of the UE to determine whether there is a network condition wherein the UE is to transition to an out-of-service (OOS) state if it were to fall to a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Idle state. The UE may react by, before expiration of an inactivity period corresponding to a transition to an RRC Idle mode, initiating signaling activity with a radio access network (RAN) node of the serving cell. In other embodiments, the UE may determine, based on a number of secondary devices connected to the UE, to initiate signaling with the RAN node of the serving cell before expiration of an inactivity period and according to whether a maximum number of extensions of an extension activity period has been reached.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Vijay Ventkataraman, Karan R. Sachdev, Neeraj D. Vaghela, Raghuram Mungara, Sharad Garg, Vijay Gadde
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Patent number: 11989069Abstract: Systems and methods for managing the distribution of electrical power are disclosed. The system can maintain a status of each account of a plurality of accounts. Each account can correspond to an electrical power generation device, an electrical power consumption device, and an electrical power transmission device. The system can generate a first record object in response to the generation of a unit of power. The system can identify a first path identifying a source device and a destination device to transmit the unit of power. The system can generate a control signal to route the unit of power from the source device to the destination device. The system can update an event tracker to indicate the routing of the unit of power. The system can generate a second record object corresponding to the destination device. The system can update a second account to include the second record object.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: DMK Nano LLCInventors: David Michael King, Robert Dean King
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Patent number: 11985286Abstract: An information processing apparatus connectable to one or more devices via a network. The apparatus includes a measuring unit measuring an inclination of the apparatus; a determining unit determining whether the inclination of the apparatus relative to a given surface of one of the one or more devices is within a predetermined inclination range; a receiving unit that receives radio waves; an obtaining unit obtaining identification information from the radio waves; a radio wave strength measuring unit measuring strength of the radio waves; a selection unit determining whether to select a given one of the one or more devices based on the strength of the radio waves; and a connection unit connecting the information processing apparatus to one of the one or more devices selected by the selection unit and for which the inclination of the apparatus is within the predetermined inclination range.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Teruaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11979790Abstract: A system for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of an object in an area includes: at least one base station; at least one user equipment (UE) configured to communicate with the at least one base station; and at least one object to be localized. Each object of the at least one object comprises an identification (ID) tag. The at least one UE and/or the at least one base station is configured to localize a respective object via a respective ID tag. The at least one base station is configured to localize the at least one UE in the area based on 5G communication. The at least one UE is configured to localize the object based on the respective ID tag and configured to transmit a relative position of the respective object with respect to the at least one UE to the at least one base station.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AGInventor: Ingo Rechenberger
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Patent number: RE50016Abstract: Systems and methods provide, to emergency operators at an emergency call center, the ability to communicate through textual messages with wireless mobile devices from which emergency voice calls have been placed. By virtue of such textual communication, callers using wireless mobile devices can receive emergency instructions and/or provide information about their current location.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: TRITECH SOFTWARE SYSTEMSInventors: David J. Leggett, Christopher David Maloney, Scott Michael MacDonald, Mark David Hamilton, Erik Christian Loberg, Chen-Lu Meng, Ken D. Martin