Location Monitoring Patents (Class 455/456.1)
  • Patent number: 11657420
    Abstract: A system predicts a value estimate for a user who provides a service that involves moving among geographical regions (e.g., a transportation service). The system determines the value estimate by identifying a sequence of time periods, each time period having an associated set of geographical regions. Possible transitions between geographical regions in different time periods are analyzed, for example, using statistical or machine-learned models, to determine likelihoods that the user will move between the geographical regions from one time period to another, and to determine expected values for a transition. Such models may be trained or developed using historical service data and user profile data stored by the system. Transitions are analyzed over a sequence of time periods to determine accumulated values associated with estimated overall values for each geographical region. The system predicts an overall value estimate for the user based on the accumulated values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Haowei Zhang, Monique Johanna Maria van den Boogaart, Hao Min
  • Patent number: 11659516
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide network-based user equipment receive/transmit capability exchange for positioning in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 11650332
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a location of a mobile terminal is determined by obtaining a location of a first access point (AP), receiving a visibility indication indicating that a second AP received a signal from the first AP or the first AP received a signal from the second AP, determining a location of the second AP based on the received visibility indication and the location of the first AP, determining a location of the mobile terminal in communication with the second AP based on the determined location of the second AP, and transmitting a message indicating the location of the mobile terminal on a digital communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Russell Andrew Penar, Mahendra D. Sekaran
  • Patent number: 11653324
    Abstract: A location control subsystem is provided that allows a user of an electronic device to define the granularity used to provide location coarseness. A user can define a coarse location granularity for an application. When a coarse device location is reported to an application, the location can be provided with at least a minimum degree of variable specificity based on the selected location coarseness. When an application is granted a coarse location, the application is to interpret the provided location indicating that the user may be anywhere within a geographic region of variable specificity, as opposed to being close to a center point with a horizontal accuracy based on the precision of the location fix, as when a fine granularity location is provided. In addition to reducing the spatial resolution of the location that is reported to the application, the temporal resolution may also be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam M. Driscoll, Siraj T. Abidi, Jessica Aranda, Matthew B. Ball, Krishna M. Behara, Patrick L. Coffman, Charles D. Deets, Christopher C. Foster, Ronald K. Huang, Erik C. Neuenschwander, Stephen J. Rhee, Maria Ryen, Brandon J. Van Ryswyk, Christian Schroeder, Shuli Zhou
  • Patent number: 11652689
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for zero touch deployment and dynamic configuration. A management server receives a dynamic configuration value for a configuration setting via a configuration service, and generates configuration information including a mapping of a configuration setting to the dynamic configuration value. Further, the management server receives a configuration information request including an identifier associated with a remote client device, and sends the configuration information to the remote client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: ELO TOUCH SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael James Power, Ragini Rajendra Prasad, Haroun Ansari Mohammed Ansari, Kenneth North, Ahmed Zaytoun, Oren Lavi Stern, Praveen George
  • Patent number: 11644316
    Abstract: A computer program product for navigation in an establishment site for a first user using a first mobile electronic device are provided. The embodiment may include scanning an area around a current location of the first user to identify a set of second mobile electronic devices. The embodiment may also include referencing one or more resources for: identifying a set of second users for each of the set of second mobile electronic devices; analyzing schedules of the set of second users to identify expected current locations of each of the set of second users in an establishment site; and identifying the current location of the first user relative to the expected current locations of at least some of the set of second users by referencing a map of the establishment site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John J. Wood, Giacomo G. Chiarella, Eunjin Lee, Daniel T. Cunnington
  • Patent number: 11647480
    Abstract: A positioning method includes: identifying a plurality of anchor devices of an anchor group, including a first UE, based on a geographic similarity of the plurality of anchor devices, each of the plurality of anchor devices being capable of exchanging PRS with a second UE; and transmitting an anchor group message to the second UE, the anchor group message identifying the plurality of anchor devices and indicating a transient property of the anchor group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11647387
    Abstract: A one-time password (OTP) is transmitted to an authorized wireless device for use an authentication factor, even though the OTP may be intercepted or otherwise viewed with an unauthorized device. When a secure request is initiated that requires entry of an OTP as an authentication factor, a hyperlink is transmitted to a wireless device from which the secure request is initiated. When the hyperlink is selected, a connection is established with an entity that determines mobile number information associated with the SSL connection. Comparison of the determined mobile number information and the mobile number of the wireless device to which the hyperlink was intended to be sent indicates whether the wireless device that has established the SSL connection is the authorized wireless device. The OTP is displayed on the wireless device after that device has been verified as the authorized wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: ZUMIGO, INC.
    Inventors: Chirag C. Bakshi, Harish Manepalli, Venkatarama Parimi
  • Patent number: 11640671
    Abstract: Monitoring system and method for identifying object of interest after the object of interest has undergone a change in appearance. The method includes detecting an appearance of a first object of interest in a first zone and determining whether the first object of interest has appeared in a second zone adjacent the first zone within a predetermined time. When the first object of interest has not appeared in the second zone within the predetermined time, the method includes adding the first object of interest to a disappearance database and detecting an unexplained appearance of a second object of interest in a third zone of the plurality of zones. When an unexplained appearance of the second object of interest is detected, the method includes adding the second object of interest to a suspect database, and generating a notification for a first responder regarding the second object of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Heng Cheng Chiam, Zhe Heng Lee, Uvarajan Moorthy, Chun Seng Song
  • Patent number: 11637668
    Abstract: Provided are a signal transmission method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium. The method includes generating a second narrowband positioning reference signal sequence according to a system frame number (SFN); obtaining a second narrowband positioning reference signal according to the second narrowband positioning reference signal sequence; and transmitting a first narrowband positioning reference signal on a first radio frame set, and transmitting the second narrowband positioning reference signal on a second radio frame set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youjun Hu, Bo Dai, Huiying Fang, Kun Liu, Weiwei Yang
  • Patent number: 11635297
    Abstract: A method for assigning a processing plan to a mobile unit data set of a mobile unit of an indoor location system of a manufacturing hall is provided. The method includes: providing a manufacturing control system for industrial processing of workpieces with a machine tool in accordance with workpiece-specific processing plans, each processing plan storing order information for a workpiece to be processed, providing a mobile unit with an image acquisition unit for acquiring image data, mobile unit data set belonging to the mobile unit and position data of the mobile unit acquired with the indoor location system being stored in the manufacturing control system, acquiring image data of a processing plan-specific object for identifying the processing plan to be assigned with the manufacturing control system, and assigning the identified processing plan to the mobile unit data set of the mobile unit in the manufacturing control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen SE + Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Ottnad, Ulrich Schneider, Benjamin Schwarz, Korbinian Weiss
  • Patent number: 11637678
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for determining a Zone identifier (ID), Zone Center, and negative acknowledgement (NACK) ranges. Included are operations and means at a receiving user equipment (UE) to determine a current geographic location (GLL) of the receiving UE, and select a Zone ID based on a two-dimensional (2-D) lookup into an indexed array with the current GLL, the indexed array storing Zone data for one or more geographic Zones. The Zone data for each geographic Zone may be indexed according to geographic position, and include a Zone ID, Zone center, and one or more NACK ranges, each NACK range corresponding with a geographic Zone disposed about the geographic Zone corresponding to the Zone ID. Operations further include performing a NACK operation based on the selected Zone ID and a NACK range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohit Narula, Richard Reid Hovey, Shailesh Patil, Deviprasad Putchala, Dan Vassilovski, Hong Cheng, Michael Mitrani, Arthur Gubeskys
  • Patent number: 11638122
    Abstract: Various example embodiments are described in which a network node transmits to a user device preconfiguration information for a plurality of on-demand positioning signal (ODPS) preconfigurations. An ODPS preconfiguration may be selected and communicated. The transmitted ODPS preconfiguration may be a request for transmission, or a notice of transmission, of the selected ODPS. An ODPS, which is associated with or based on the selected ODPS preconfiguration, may be transmitted. The ODPS may include any positioning signal (e.g., any signal that may be used for positioning) that may be transmitted upon request or as needed, and, e.g., may include downlink on-demand positioning reference signals (ODPRS), uplink on-demand sounding reference signals (ODSRS), or other positioning or reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz, Diomidis Michalopoulos, Taylan Sahin
  • Patent number: 11636087
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes an identification unit that identifies a telecommunications carrier with which the mobile terminal is subscribed; an input unit that receives an input of an access request to a link destination, including information regarding multiple access destinations, selected by the user of the mobile terminal; a selection unit that, based on information regarding the telecommunications carrier identified by the identification unit, selects an access destination indicating, among the multiple access destinations, an access destination in a server corresponding to the telecommunications carrier; and a communication unit that accesses the access destination selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuuki Nagai, Hideyuki Kotou, Akira Kozawa, Atsushi Mikasa
  • Patent number: 11637618
    Abstract: A system includes control circuitry that obtains radar data from each repeater device of a network of repeater devices. A plurality of signal propagation indicators is determined, and a three-dimensional representation of a geographical area is generated based on the obtained radar data and plurality of signal propagation indicators. A location and movement of a plurality of user devices in the geographical area is tracked and a beamforming scheme is selected for one or more repeater devices of the network of repeater devices. An out-of-band control of operations of the network of repeater devices is executed based on the generated three-dimensional representation, the selected beamforming scheme for the one or more repeater devices, and the tracked location and movement of the plurality of user devices in the geographical area, for example, to achieve high dates, less interference, and increased signal strength and gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: AR & NS Investment, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Arman Rofougaran, Alireza Tarighat Mehrabani
  • Patent number: 11628313
    Abstract: Images obtained by a camera system (10) arranged to obtain images of a patient (20) undergoing radio-therapy are processed by a modeling unit (56,58) which generates a model of the surface of a patient (20) being monitored. Additionally the patient monitoring system processes image data not utilized to generate a model of the surface of a patient being monitored to determine further information concerning the treatment of the patient (20). Such additional data can comprise data identifying the relative location of the patient and a treatment apparatus (16). This can be facilitated by providing a number or retro-reflective markers (30-40) on a treatment apparatus (16) and a mechanical couch (18) used to position the patient (20) relative to the treatment apparatus (16) and monitoring the presence and location of the markers in the portions of the images obtained by the stereoscopic camera (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: VISION RT LIMITED
    Inventors: Ivan Meir, Kathryn Cooper, Norman Smith, Gideon Hale, Martin Allen
  • Patent number: 11631253
    Abstract: Various techniques are provided for counting and/or tracking objects within a field of view of an imaging system, while excluding certain objects from the results. A monitoring system may count or track people identified in captured images while utilizing an employee identification system including a wireless signal receiver to identify and remove the employees from the result. The system includes algorithms for separating employee counts from customer counts, thereby offering enhanced tracking analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Teledyne FLIR, LLC
    Inventors: Shuen Yan Stephen Se, Ralph Newton Crabtree
  • Patent number: 11628360
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling game applications are provided. In the method, when an operating system receives a game starting command, the operating system determines a manner to start a corresponding game application according to whether the game application has resided in a memory, and when a cold boot manner is used, the operating system triggers the game application to report an amount of memory required currently by the game application, and determines whether a requirement of running the game application is met according to the amount of memory required and an amount of memory currently used, or the operating system ensures to meet the requirement of running the game application through background application freezing and clearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huaiwei Ju, Hua Liu, Kun Zhou, Yong Huang, Yuan Li, Chao Zhu, Chengming Xia, Wenfang Zhao, Ying Wang, Jingyang Jia, Pan Wang
  • Patent number: 11624627
    Abstract: Augmented reality displays for locating vehicles are disclosed herein. An example method includes determining a current location of a mobile device associated with a user, determining a current location of a vehicle, and generating augmented reality view data that includes a first arrow that identifies a path of travel for the ridehail user towards the vehicle. The path of travel is based on the current location of the mobile device and the current location of the vehicle. The first arrow is combined with a view obtained by a camera of the mobile device or a view obtained by a camera of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Woo, Jeremy Lerner, Jae Hyung Lim, Xiangrui Zeng
  • Patent number: 11625755
    Abstract: A targeting system based on a predictive targeting model based on observed behavioral data including visit data, user profile and/or survey data, and geographic features associated with a geographic region. The predictive targeting model analyzes the observed behavioral data and the geographic features data to predict conversion rates for every cell in a square grid of predefined size on the geographic region. The conversion rate of a cell indicates a likelihood that any random user in that cell will perform a targeted behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: FOURSQUARE LABS, INC.
    Inventors: David Shim, Elliott Waldron, Weilie Yi, Michael Grebeck, Siddharth Rajaram, Jeremy Tryba, Nick Gerner, Andrea Eatherly
  • Patent number: 11627538
    Abstract: A method performed by a system of a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method relates to provisioning of a time-sensitive service related to a wireless device. The wireless communication network comprises a plurality of antenna reference points, ARPs, of one or more radio access network nodes of the wireless communication network. The method comprises obtaining information that a first ARP and a second ARP of the plurality of ARPs are to provide the time-sensitive service to the wireless device, determining, by inter-ARP radio signalling between ARPs of one or more pairs of the plurality of ARPs, one of the one or more pairs including the first ARP and one of the one or more pairs including the second ARP, a relative timing error between the first ARP and the second ARP, and taking the determined relative timing error into consideration when providing the service to the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Garry Irvine, Alexandra Mikaelsson, Magnus Sandgren, Mårten Wahlström, Mikael Johansson, Ohan Khodaverdian, Stefano Ruffini
  • Patent number: 11627621
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinating wireless communication are disclosed. One method includes generating, by a wireless radiator, a plurality of selectable directional wireless communication links capable of providing connectivity across a plurality of cells, wherein each of the cells is spatially different from other cells, and wherein each of the cells covers a cell area, wherein a plurality of hubs are located within the cell area, generating, by a controller, a cell map, wherein the cell map maps which of the directional wireless links, which of the plurality cells, and which of the hubs are active as a function of time, thereby supporting a wireless communication link between the base station and the hubs of the cell area corresponding with the active directional wireless link, and providing the cell map to the base station and the hubs of each of the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Lewis, Meghna Agrawal, Keijo Tapio Lehtinen, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Christopher Acker, Rounak Salim, Andrew Nuttall
  • Patent number: 11627437
    Abstract: A device searching method includes: a first device obtains a relative location between a second device and the first device based on location information of the first device and the location information of the second device; if it is determined, based on the relative location, that the second device is not within a shooting range of the first device, the first device indicates to move the first device toward the second device until the second device is within the shooting range of the first device; and the first device highlights the area in which the second device is located in the shooting range of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanshan He, Qiang Xu, Xuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11619703
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting, according to selection information wirelessly transmitted from one or more anchors, a particular position estimation mode from among a group of position estimation modes that are each associated with a different radio measurement locating process. One or more radio measurements can be obtained from at least one of the one or more anchors and position information can be determined for the mobile device based on the one or more radio measurements by applying a particular radio measurement locating process of the particular position estimation mode. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Red Point Positioning Corporation
    Inventors: Chunjie Duan, Georgiy Pekhteryev, Mingda Zhou
  • Patent number: 11622044
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system, method, and computer-readable medium with instructions for recommending a service provider based on a user's approximate current location. The service provider may be recommended for a service that is verified under a user's insurance policy and is also within proximity to the user's approximate current location. The user's approximate current location may be determined by location-based technology. The entity that receives and/or recommends the service provider may initiate a request for the service from the service provider. Further embodiments are related to routing a call to provide information to the user that is responsive to the user's location-relevant request. For example, systems, such as an automotive telematics system, may request information and be routed to the appropriate division of a user's insurance provider such that the automotive telematics system can provide services to the user that are user-specific (e.g., covered by the user's insurance policy).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Charles Lee Oakes
  • Patent number: 11622326
    Abstract: A method including receiving, at a mobile device, a request to provision a first geofence. The first geofence has a first predicted duration that expires before a second predicted geofence is provisioned by the mobile device. Provisioning the first geofence and the second predicted geofence together consume a first amount of power. The method also includes determining a predictive geofence radius based on a predicted speed of the mobile device. The method also includes provisioning a first predictive geofence having the predictive geofence radius and further having a second predicted duration that is different than the first predicted duration and that expires before a second predictive geofence is provisioned by the mobile device. Provisioning the first predictive geofence and the second predictive geofence together consume a second amount of power, the second amount of power less than the first amount of power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan A. McIntyre, Jared Isaac Guttromson, Devin Shively, Joshua Andrew Yundt
  • Patent number: 11622371
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a serving cell, an uplink positioning reference signal (UL-PRS) resource configuration, the UL-PRS resource configuration comprising a plurality of N resource elements (REs) staggered in frequency across a plurality of M consecutive symbols of a resource block (RB) such that the plurality of N REs spans a plurality of N consecutive subcarriers of the RB, receives, from the serving cell, an indication of a PRS symbol cancelation group to be used for uplink cancelation, the PRS symbol cancelation group identifying a set of the plurality of M consecutive symbols that is expected to be canceled for uplink transmission, and cancels transmission of UL-PRS on one or more of the set of L symbols identified by the PRS symbol cancelation group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Alexandros Manolakos, Jingchao Bao, Yih-Hao Lin, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11617153
    Abstract: A method includes receiving call records from a control plane, each call record including a cell list identifying the server cell for the UE call session at the time the call record was generated and an ordered set of neighbor cells, ordered based on a characteristic of signals from the neighbor cells. Call records having truth data are selected, wherein the truth data includes geolocation (GL) data reported to be a GL associated with the call record. GL data of the selected call records is stored in association with the cell list for the selected call records. A centroid is determined as a function of the GL data associated with each of the selected call records that includes the associated cell list. The centroids are stored in association with the corresponding cell list, and can be retrieved as a prediction for a GL based on submission of a cell list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NetScout Systems Texas, LLC
    Inventor: Sunil Bhat
  • Patent number: 11616699
    Abstract: Obtaining location metadata for network devices using augmented reality (AR) is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an AR computing device receives first user inputs indicating boundary points of a device region, and determines first spatial coordinates for each boundary point. The AR computing device next receives a second user input that indicates a network device within the device region, and determines second spatial coordinates for the network device. The AR computing device may also correlate the network device with a known connected network device. The AR computing device then transmits, to a server computing device, first metadata that includes the first spatial coordinates and an identifier of the device region, and second metadata that includes the second spatial coordinates and an identifier of the indicated network device. In some embodiments, the metadata may be employed, e.g., to generate a floorplan visualization and/or a signal strength map of the device region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Ethan Wright, Matthew J. Wright, Micah Labbee
  • Patent number: 11617059
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing timely location estimates when a user equipment initiates a call to an emergency number are disclosed. The system enables a user equipment and network nodes (e.g., eSMLC/LMF) to send multiple location responses instead of just one so that the PSAP can benefit from accurate location techniques in a timely manner. For example, when a user equipment is located in an outdoor environment, it can immediately send its A-GNSS location after meeting quality-of-service (QoS) criteria, and the eSMLC/LMF can forward the location estimate to the PSAP immediately without first waiting for all of the other location estimates. When location estimates become available from other technologies (e.g., E-CID, or DBH, or both), the eSMLC/LMF can send to the PSAP another location response for that technology. As a result, the PSAP can always have the most accurate and up-to-date location information available to timely and accurately respond to emergency calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Ming Lan
  • Patent number: 11614510
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In a wireless communications system, one or more user equipments (UEs) may implement distance-limited sidelink-based ranging techniques. An initiating UE may transmit one or more positioning reference signal (PRS) request messages to one or more target UEs via a sidelink channel. In some cases, the initiating UE may receive one or more response messages from at least one target UE that is located within a threshold distance from the initiating UE. In some examples, based on receiving the one or more response messages, the initiating UE may transmit PRSs to each target UE that transmitted a response message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Dan Vassilovski, Hong Cheng, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11615359
    Abstract: Techniques for detecting cycle data can include determining object properties and motion properties in a set of consecutive frames of a sensor stream. The cycle data can be determined from the object properties and motion properties without detecting constituent objects. The object properties and motion properties enable improved detection of cycle data in the presence of different object poses, different positions of the object, partial occlusion of the object, varying illumination, variation in the background, and or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Drishti Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishnendu Chaudhury, Ananya Honnedevasthana Ashok, Sujay Narumanchi, Devashish Shankar, Ritesh Jain
  • Patent number: 11609299
    Abstract: The positions of multiple user equipments (UEs) are jointly determined by a location server using positioning measurements from a comment set of positioning reference signals (PRS), which may include downlink (DL) PRS, uplink (UL) PRS, sidelink (SL) PRS, or a combination thereof. The common set of PRS may be selected by the location server, e.g., based on a rough estimate of position of the UEs determined by the location server, a recommendation from the UEs, or a position report from the UEs. Once selected by the location server, an indication of the common set of PRS is sent to the UEs. The common set of PRS, alternatively, may be selected by one or more UEs, e.g., by a controlling UE or consensus, and one or more UEs provide an indication of the common set of PRS to the location server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11611851
    Abstract: This document discloses a solution for event-triggered positioning of an asset tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HALTIAN OY
    Inventors: Ville Ylläsjärvi, Teemu Vaattovaara, Marko Parttimaa, Jyrki Okkonen
  • Patent number: 11609929
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes accessing, by a server provider server of a service provider, a database storing associations between network addresses and locations. Additionally, the method includes determining a subset of the database corresponding to a first network address, each association included in the subset corresponding to an association between the first network address and a respective location. The method also includes in response to determining that the subset of the database satisfies one or more clustering criteria, calculating a representative location corresponding to the first network address, and storing an association between the first network address and the representative location in a second database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Avishay Meron, Anna Livshits-Rozenman, Adam Cohen, Avihay Nathan, Oded Ben Haim, Raz Alon
  • Patent number: 11611894
    Abstract: A method includes generating a test call from a user device to a public safety access point, wherein the test call is generated on a schedule, wherein the test call is configured to test call parameters, and wherein the test call parameters comprise a planned base station site and a planned base station sector, acquiring call detail data associated with the test call, in which the call detail data includes an identification of an actual base station site and an actual base station sector used for the test call and the public safety access point receiving the test call, and wherein the actual base station site collects the call detail data, determining whether the call detail data matches the test call parameters, and generating a pass or fail determination based on the determining step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Craig Mullings, Stalin Fernando Albanes, Chhavi Sharma, Justin Kenneth Kirsten
  • Patent number: 11611941
    Abstract: A roaming method based on MESH WIFI executable by an electronic device, comprising: calculating noise values and interference coefficients of a primary access point (AP) and surrounding APs, adjusting power values between the primary AP and the surrounding APs based on the noise values and the interference coefficients according to normalization, and, when a target AP from the surrounding APs reaches a preset condition, switching the client to connect to the target AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nanning FuLian FuGui Precision Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 11611906
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems, methods and software for determining an optimal burst transmission time through a modem, such as a cable modem, a wireless access point, a node in a cable network, or a satellite communication link. Particularly, the present disclosure makes it possible for a burst of queued data, defined as data above a certain percentile of a monitored traffic rate, to be transmitted by the modem at a time that provides the best chance of avoiding a collision with a co-occurring burst of data from another user connected to the same modem. In an embodiment, the systems, methods and software disclosed herein use the optimal transmission time to replace a contention window transmission time, at least for bursty data, or they completely eliminate the need for contention windows, at least for bursty data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernardo Huberman, Scott H. Clearwater
  • Patent number: 11604068
    Abstract: There is described a floor selection system for location tracking within a structure. A communication component receives sensor data, associated with a beacon received from a tag, from sensors. A processor identifies features based on the sensor data, identifies decision tree stumps arranged in a particular order, assigns weights to the decision tree stumps based on the features and the feature thresholds. The processor further determines whether an aggregate of the weights is greater than a resultant threshold and selects a floor location of the tag based on whether the aggregate of weights is greater than the resultant threshold. The floor location is selected from floor locations of the structure proximal to the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Building Robotics, Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Gao
  • Patent number: 11606769
    Abstract: In various embodiments, techniques are provided for deploying a positioning applet to a SIM (e.g., a physical SIM card or an embedded SIM (eSIM)/integrated SIM (iSIM)) via an over-the-air (OTA) update or by permanent programming (i.e. “burning in”) during manufacture. The positioning applet may run solely on a processor of the SIM, functioning without support of application, OS or baseband software executing on the CPU or baseband processor of the UE, or network deployed infrastructure support. In operation, the positioning applet collects positioning measurements from a baseband processor (e.g., a baseband chipset) of the UE (e.g., via 3GPP protocols) which are sent (e.g., as an encrypted payload) to a remote location platform that compares the positioning measurements to known positioning data in a database (e.g., a crowd sourced database) to determine UE position. The remote location platform may provide an estimated position to a designated recipient system, without involvement of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Skyhook Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Issakov, Robert J. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11606705
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for determining round-trip time (RTT) of a user equipment (UE). In an aspect, each gNodeB in a plurality of gNodeBs measure signaling data related to an uplink RTT reference signal received from the UE and the downlink RTT reference signal transmitted by each gNodeB. The signaling data comprises one of a processing delay between a time of arrival (TOA) of the uplink RTT reference signal and a time of transmission (TOT) of the downlink RTT reference signal or a total RTT between the TOT of the downlink RTT reference signal and the TOA of the uplink RTT reference signal. The signaling data is sent to a single entity, other than the UE, e.g., another gNodeB or a location server, where signaling data relevant to the UE is aggregated. The aggregated signaling data may be sent to the UE to determine the RTT for the UE or used by the location server to determine the RTT for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Sony Akkarakaran, Naga Bhushan, Stephen William Edge, Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 11605029
    Abstract: A system for connecting a driver and a rider comprises a processor and an interface. The processor is configured to select a driver for a requested ride from the rider. The interface is configured to, in the event that the driver accepts the rider, provide a connect notification to the rider. The connect notification comprises an image associated with the driver, an image associated with the driver's car, and an anonymized interface for contacting the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Taehyun Yoo, Evan Goldin, Sebastian Rolf Johan Brannstrom, Eduardo Alfio Perez Rico
  • Patent number: 11602306
    Abstract: A system for remote transdermal alcohol monitoring includes and/or interfaces with a transdermal alcohol sensing device. Additionally or alternatively, the system can include and/or interface with any or all of: a user device; a supplementary alcohol sensing device; a set of supplementary sensors; a computing subsystem; a user interface; and/or any other components. A method for remote transdermal alcohol monitoring includes: receiving a set of inputs; determining a set of outputs; and triggering an action based on the set of outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: KHN Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Harry Nothacker
  • Patent number: 11606340
    Abstract: A method for anonymizing user identifiable information to be transmitted outside of a local network includes generating a network entity hash input based on (i) a first MAC address assigned to a client station of the local network, (ii) a second MAC address assigned to the network gateway device of the local network, and (iii) an identifier of a cloud entity of an external network to which data of the client station is to be transmitted. The method further includes generating a hash value output based on the network entity hash input and a random token value using a hashing function, generating an anonymized MAC address associated with the client station based on the hash value output, and transmitting the anonymized MAC address associated with the client station to the cloud entity of the external network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Alan Lumbatis, William Charles Hare, Jr., Ali Negahdar
  • Patent number: 11606843
    Abstract: A system includes one or more assets disposed within a physical location. Each asset is coupled to a wireless tag, and each wireless tag is configured to wirelessly transmit beacon signals at predetermined intervals. The system also includes a gateway configured to cover the range of the physical location. The gateway is configured to scan the physical location to identify beacon signals transmitted by each of the wireless tags and receive the beacon signals from each wireless tag at the predetermined intervals. The gateway is also configured to dynamically optimize a function of the gateway by adjusting a current total scan time based at least in part on the number of beacon signals received from previously unknown or new wireless tags disposed within the physical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alfred Lupper, Muhammad Salman Malik
  • Patent number: 11601235
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, an assisting user equipment (UE) receives a request to perform a positioning procedure from a target UE over a sidelink between the assisting UE and the target UE, wherein the assisting UE and the target UE are both out of network coverage, determines, based at least on the request, a set of time and/or frequency resources on which to transmit one or more positioning reference signals for the positioning procedure, and transmits the one or more positioning reference signals to the target UE via the set of time and/or frequency resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11598900
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for resource management are described. The method includes selecting trouble regions within the service area, generating clustered regions, and training a trouble forecast model for the trouble regions for each type of damage, the training for each trouble region using training data from every trouble region within the clustered region associated with the trouble region. The method also includes applying the trouble forecast model for each trouble region within the service area for each type of damage, determining a trouble forecast for the service area for each type of damage based on the trouble forecast for each of the trouble regions within the service area, and determining a job forecast for the service area based on the trouble forecast for the service area, wherein the managing resources is based on the job forecast for the service area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Utopus Insights, Inc.
    Inventors: Fook-Luen Heng, Zhiguo Li, Stuart A. Siegel, Amith Singhee, Haijing Wang
  • Patent number: 11598881
    Abstract: A method of processing signal paths includes receiving an estimated location for a GNSS receiver in an environment. The method also includes generating a plurality of candidate positions about the estimated location where each candidate position corresponds to a possible actual location of the GNSS receiver. The method further includes, for each available satellite at each candidate position, modeling a plurality of candidate signal paths by ray-launching a raster map of geographical data. Here, the plurality of candidate signal paths includes one or more reflected signal paths. At each candidate position, the method also includes comparing, the plurality of candidate signal paths modeled for each available satellite at the respective candidate position to measured GNSS signal data from the GNSS receiver and generating a likelihood that the respective candidate position includes the actual location of the GNSS receiver based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mohammed Khider, Frank Van Diggelen, Imad Fattouch, Zifei Tong, David Orendorff, Arastoo Zabolestani Moradi, Kevin Watts, Guoyu Fu
  • Patent number: 11599870
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus in which an electronic device, which does not have a payment function, determines an electronic device most suitable for a current situation among neighboring electronic devices having a payment function, and can provide the determined electronic device to user. According to various embodiments, a server may generate a list comprising information on payment-capable devices related to an account of a user associated with a first electronic device. The list may be generated based on a priority for the payment-capable devices. The list may be transmitted to the first electronic device and a signal for selection of one of the payment-capable devices included in the list may be received from the first electronic device. A signal comprising information related to payment may be transmitted to the selected payment-capable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongmin Je, Dongun Lim
  • Patent number: 11600063
    Abstract: A system and method for a guided inspection of an apartment, home or other physical space is disclosed. The system and method use augmented reality to guide a user through a physical space. The system and method further use machine learning to automatically detect and classify damage to various physical structures in the physical space. In response to detected damage, the system may prompt a user to move closer to the detected damage for further inspection. The system can also detect obscured structures and prompt a user to make changes to the environment to increase the visibility of the obscured structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Carlos J P Chavez, Quian Antony Jones