Location Monitoring Patents (Class 455/456.1)
  • Patent number: 11523262
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may implement service-based discovery in a network, such as a 3GPP or 3GPP2 network. A Discovery Server may be used to query and find services offered by the network or by entities that interface with the network. Situational context information or policy information, or both, may be communicated to the discovery server so that the Discovery Server can provide context-aware and policy-based discovery services. The Discovery Server may be used to control which of the entities that interface with the network can discover one another. The Discovery Server may support queries based on, for example, the type of MTC entity, the type of services hosted on the entity, the availability times of the entity, types of protocols supported, levels of Quality of Service (QoS) supported, and MTC-IWF services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: IOT Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale N. Seed, Michael F. Starsinic, Guang Lu, Kamel M. Shaheen, Dorothy Gellert, Zongrui Ding, Lijun Dong, Chonggang Wang
  • Patent number: 11523254
    Abstract: 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 5 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: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Peter Deixler, Hugo José Krajnc, Leendert Teunis Rozendaal
  • Patent number: 11523396
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a plurality of orthogonal sounding reference signals (SRS) from a plurality of user equipment (UEs), wherein each SRS of the plurality of orthogonal SRS is provided by a respective UE of the plurality of UEs, determining a downlink (DL) channel, in frequency division duplex (FDD), using spatial correlations relating to the plurality of UEs, wherein the spatial correlations are based on the plurality of orthogonal SRS, calculating a plurality of DL precoding weights for a plurality of coherent modular antenna panels responsive to the determining the DL channel, and applying the plurality of DL precoding weights to the plurality of coherent modular antenna panels to enable multi-user (Mu)-multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) for the plurality of UEs. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ernest Tsui, Paul Maxwell
  • Patent number: 11522898
    Abstract: The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of autonomous asset configuration modeling and management. The innovation includes probing elements of a networked architecture to compile information about elements in the networked architecture. The innovation learns a configuration for the at least one element in the environment based on the probing and determines vulnerabilities in the learned configuration. The innovation develops a threat model based on the learned configuration. The innovation applies the threat model to the elements of the networked architecture and deploys a configuration that resolves the vulnerabilities based on the threat model to the elements in the networked architecture. The threat model can be developed over time using machine learning concepts and deep learning of data sources associated with the elements and vulnerabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Lawrence T. Belton, Jr., Jon M. Welborn, Gary Simms, Sr., Peter Anatole Makohon, Jacob Lee
  • Patent number: 11515980
    Abstract: Disclosed is a positioning method, including: synchronizing, by a mobile terminal, with a network device according to preset configuration information; acquiring, from the configuration information, parameters for determining a time-frequency resource of a sounding reference signal (SRS); determining the time-frequency resource for sending the SRS, and sending, on the determined time-frequency resource, the SRS to a plurality of network devices; receiving, by each of the plurality of network devices, the SRS, determining an arrival time of the SRS and the time-frequency resource occupied, determining, according to the time-frequency resource occupied by the SRS, an identifier of the mobile terminal sending the SRS, and reporting the identifier to a location server; and determining, by the location server, a position of the mobile terminal sending the above SRS according to the arrival time of the SRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: BlueWave Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zhenrui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11514905
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that has an utterance function or controls the utterance function. The information processing apparatus includes a sending unit that sends interactive information regarding a voice agent, a receiving unit that receives interactive information regarding another voice, and a control unit that controls an utterance timing of the voice agent on the basis of the interactive information regarding another voice agent received by the receiving unit. The control unit causes utterance by the voice agent to stand by on the basis of the interactive information received from another voice agent. Moreover, the control unit causes the interactive information to be continuously sent during the utterance by the voice agent and during interaction between the voice agent and a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriko Totsuka, Kazuya Tateishi, Yuichiro Koyama
  • Patent number: 11511768
    Abstract: A device for virtualizing a driving environment surrounding a first node, which includes: a data acquisition device, configured to acquire position data of the first node, position data and sensing data of at least one second node, where the at least one second node and the first node are in a first communication network; and a scene construction device, configured to construct a scene virtualizing the driving environment surrounding the first node based on the position data of the fist node and the at least one second node, and on the sensing data of the at least one second node. Accordingly, by utilizing position data and sensor data of a node, a scene for virtualizing a driving environment can be constructed in real time for a driver, which improves driving safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Guoxia Zhang, Qingshan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11516624
    Abstract: An indoor location positioning system comprises at least one processor, Wi-Fi scanners, and a RSSI fingerprint database. The Wi-Fi scanners and the RSSI fingerprint database works with the processor. The Wi-Fi scanners are positioned at locations within an environment that is partitioned into interconnected zones. The Wi-Fi scanners receive anonymous probe messages from Wi-Fi devices that are present in the environment during a calibration phase of the indoor location positioning system. The RSSI values are collated to create RSSI fingerprints corresponding to the different locations respectively. One or more of the Wi-Fi scanners are used as anchor scanners to counter the difference in transmit power levels of different Wi-Fi devices that result in different RSSI fingerprints for the different types of Wi-Fi devices, wherein the RSSI value at each anchor scanner is subtracted from the RSSI values at rest of the Wi-Fi scanners to generate the RSSI fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HUGHES SYSTIQUE PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Abheek Saha, Mayank Maheshwari, Arjun Roychowdhury
  • Patent number: 11515998
    Abstract: A secure computation device obtains concealed information {M(i0, . . . , iS?1)} of a table M(i0, . . . , iS?1) having one-variable function values as its members. It is to be noted that M(ib, 0, . . . , ib, S?1) generated by substituting counter values ib, 0, . . . , ib, S?1 into the table M(i0, . . . , iS?1) represents a matrix Mb, ?, ?, which is any one of Mb, 2, 1, . . . , Mb, 3, 2. The secure computation device obtains concealed information {Mb, ?, ?} by secure computation using concealed information {ib, 0}, . . . , {ib, S?1} and the concealed information {M(i0, . . . , iS?1)}, and obtains concealed information {Mb, ?, MU} of a matrix Mb, ?, MU, which is obtained by execution of a remaining process including those processes among a process Pj, 1, a process Pj, 2, a process Pj, 3, and a process Pj, 4, that are performed subsequent to a process P?, ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dai Ikarashi, Ryo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11510172
    Abstract: Technologies directed to device detection and locationing are described. One method includes establishing a first wireless connection between a first wireless device and a second wireless device on a first channel. The first wireless device sends to the second wireless device a first indication that the first wireless device is to operate in an off-channel mode with a third wireless device at a first location a Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) procedure. The first wireless device performs a first FTM process between the first wireless device and the third wireless device. The first device determines first timing data including a signal round trip time (RRT) associated with the first FTM process and determines a first distance between the first wireless device and the third wireless device based on the first timing data. A second location of the first wireless device is determined using the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Feng, Chunho Lee, Haopeng Li
  • Patent number: 11509742
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for edge computing services are provided, and a method of caching, by an edge data network, data from a service server includes obtaining information about a location of a terminal from a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network, generating movement information of the terminal in a region of interest based on information about correspondence between the information about the location of the terminal and a configured region of interest, and caching data from the service server, the data being determined based on the movement information of the terminal in the region of interest and a configured cache rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jihwan Seo
  • Patent number: 11509512
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated identification of open space in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and determining information about the open space based upon the measured and analyzed data in near real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Carbajal
  • Patent number: 11509733
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and devices for determining a location context of a first device. The method includes receiving, at the first device, a wireless signal from a second device, determining a proximity of the first device to the second device based on the wireless signal, and determining an area inference based on characteristics of the second device and based on the determined proximity of the first device to the second device. The area inference includes a category of the area. The method also includes assigning an area label to the first device based on the area inference, and providing the area label to an application to enhance the performance of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Arnold Jason Gum
  • Patent number: 11507680
    Abstract: A system for controlling access includes a computing device, configured to: determine a first identifier associated with a first access point being used by the computing device to access a network; determine first access control data associated with the first identifier and a first application executing on the computing device; and control access to data over the network by the first application based on the first access control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventor: Simon Dominic Copsey
  • Patent number: 11510106
    Abstract: A system can include a network analysis platform for a two-level grid-based anomaly area identification and solution nomination in a radio access network. The network analysis platform can map key performance indicators for user sessions in the network to a grid that overlays a geographic area. The grid can be based on a military grid reference system. A machine-learning model can take a vector of key performance indicator samples as input and identify a problem for the grid. The network analysis platform can nominate cells to attempt to remediate based on ranking poor performing bins in the grid and determining the cells that contribute most to the problem in each bin. For a nominated cell, the network analysis platform can perform remediation actions to solve a coverage problem, throughput problem, or both. The problem can be solved for the grid while preventing conflicts between individual cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Helen Zeng
  • Patent number: 11510027
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for receiving information that is wirelessly transmitted to a mobile computing system by wireless devices that are proximal to a route being travelled by the mobile computing system, and presenting at least a portion of the received information through a display of the mobile computing system. The information can be displayed according to a computing experience that is determined for a user of the mobile computing system (e.g., user-selected, inferred based on a stored schedule of the user, and so forth). Different sets of location-based information can be transmitted to the mobile computing system from different wireless devices that the mobile computing system comes into proximity with while traveling along a route. In some instances, the information can be locally stored on the wireless device(s) to reduce latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: David Charles Lundmark
  • Patent number: 11501041
    Abstract: One example described herein involves a system receiving task data and distribution criteria for a state space model from a client device. The task data can indicate a type of sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) task to be implemented. The distribution criteria can include an initial distribution, a transition distribution, and a measurement distribution for the state space model. The system can generate a set of program functions based on the task data and the distribution criteria. The system can then execute an SMC module to generate a distribution and a corresponding summary, where the SMC module is configured to call the set of program functions during execution of an SMC process and apply the results returned from the set of program functions in one or more subsequent steps of the SMC process. The system can then transmit an electronic communication to the client device indicating the distribution and its corresponding summary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Xilong Chen, Yang Zhao, Sylvie T. Kabisa, David Bruce Elsheimer
  • Patent number: 11503433
    Abstract: There is described a system, method, and medium for managing a group of radio frequency (RF) sensors. The system comprising a first sensor, a second sensor and an upstream device. A sensor management system comprises a first sensor, a second sensor, and an upstream device. The first sensor is positioned at a first location and transmits a wireless signal. The second sensor is positioned at a second location and detects the wireless signal. The first and second locations of the first and second sensors correspond to an expected wireless signal of the first sensor. The upstream device performs an action in response to determining that a difference between the detected wireless signal and the expected wireless signal exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Building Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Tanuj Mohan, William Kerry Keal, Jun Gao
  • Patent number: 11503429
    Abstract: A relative position positioning system and a relative position positioning method thereof are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: controlling a plurality of receivers to broadcast a plurality of positioning signals; receiving the plurality of positioning signals and then returning a first reply signal; controlling a plurality of first receivers to transmit a first positioning data to a main device to calculate the plurality of distances to the plurality of first receivers, wherein the plurality of first receivers are devices that have received the first reply signal; returning a second reply signal from the device of interest; controlling a second receiver to transmit a second positioning data to the main device, wherein the second receiver belongs to the plurality of first receivers and has received the second reply signal; and calculating a relative position relationship between the main device and the device of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Gunitech Corp.
    Inventors: Huan-Ruei Shiu, Chung-Liang Hsu, Xiao-Juan Lin
  • Patent number: 11503509
    Abstract: An application server switching method, applied to a scenario in which a handover occurs between user plane network elements corresponding to a terminal device, includes obtaining, based on a user plane network element of the user plane network elements after the handover and a correspondence between the user plane network element and an address of a local application server of one or more application servers deployed on a network, the address of the local application server corresponding to the user plane network element after the handover. The correspondence between the user plane network element and the address of the local application server is used to indicate the address of the local application server. The method also includes sending the address of the local application server corresponding to the user plane network element after the handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liping Yuan, Xiang Hu
  • Patent number: 11503431
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a first instance of code to be simulated for a first mobile device and a second instance of code to be simulated for a second mobile device, and generating, on a graphical user interface, a first representation of the first mobile device and a second representation of the second mobile device. When a request for a ranging measurement between the mobile device representations is received, a first pixel representative of a first location of the first representation and a second pixel representative of a second location of the second representation is determined, and a separation value between the first and second pixels is determined. A ranging value is determined based on the separation value and provided to the first instance of code in response to the request, thereby enabling the first instance of code to simulate a physical ranging measurement between two physical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Russell A. Bishop, Jr., Jeremiah R. Sequoia, Jonathan R. Schoenberg, Yagil Burowski
  • Patent number: 11500056
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for wireless tracking with graph-based particle filtering are described. A described wireless monitoring system comprises a transmitter transmitting a series of probe signals, a receiver, and a processor. The receiver is configured for: receiving the series of probe signals modulated by the wireless multipath channel and an object moving in a venue, and obtaining a time series of channel information (TSCI) of the wireless multipath channel from the series of probe signals. The processor is configured for: monitoring a motion of the object relative to a map based on the TSCI, determining an incremental distance travelled by the object in an incremental time period based on the TSCI, and computing a next location of the object at a next time in the map based on at least one of: a current location of the object at a current time, the incremental distance, and a direction of the motion during the incremental time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ORIGIN WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Chenshu Wu, Feng Zhang, Beibei Wang, K. J. Ray Liu, Oscar Chi-Lim Au
  • Patent number: 11493588
    Abstract: A system and method for determining an Angle of Arrival (AOA) for frequency modulated communications. The system may include first and second antennas spaced apart from each other by a distance, and configured to receive wireless communications in the form of a modulated signal. The system may determine a phase difference between the received signals based on one or more samples of a dedicated portion of the received signals, where one or more aspects of the dedicated portion is variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: R. Michael Stitt, Warren Guthrie
  • Patent number: 11496987
    Abstract: A configuration for dynamically updating the neighbor list sent to a UE based on the location of the UE and the location of one or more mobile relays. The apparatus receives first location information for one or more UEs. The apparatus receives second location information for one or more mobile relays. The apparatus determines a distance between the one or more UEs and each of the one or more mobile relays. The apparatus sends assistance information to at least one of the one or more UEs in an area, the assistance information identifying at least one mobile relay of the one or more mobile relays based on the determined distance between the one or more UEs and the at least one mobile relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Haris Zisimopoulos, Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere, Hong Cheng, Karl Georg Hampel, Sebastian Speicher, Alberto Rico Alvarino
  • Patent number: 11496866
    Abstract: A locating and communication method for a radio terminal by means of a satellite locating and communication system, which implements a first step, in the course of which the radio terminal transmits to a non-geostationary satellite a repeating sequence a predetermined number of times N for the same data packet, which is time-shifted by the same predetermined time shift ?? each time is provided. Subsequently, a satellite access and processing ground station determines the location of the radio terminal from the data packets with access, which are extracted from a listening signal digitized and dated by the satellite and from the same detected sequence associated with said radio terminal, and from the ephemerides of the satellite by using a technique for measuring angle or angles of arrival by means of sequenced interferometry associated with a technique for measuring Doppler drift or drifts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Christian Peyrotte, Shadi Khureim Castiglioni, Nicolas Van Wambeke
  • Patent number: 11493645
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to estimate the reference position associated with fingerprint data by selectively utilizing an online positioning system. In the context of a method and in an instance in which a global navigation satellite system is available for location determination, the method determines the location of a data collection device in conjunction with the collection of fingerprint data. In this instance, the location is determined based upon information provided by the global navigation satellite system. However, in an instance in which the global navigation satellite system is unavailable for location determination, the method provides, via a computer network, an online positioning system with at least some fingerprint data collected by the data collection device. In this instance, the method also determines the location of the data collection device in conjunction with the fingerprint data based upon information provided by the online positioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Marko Luomi, Pavel Ivanov, Henri Jaakko Julius Nurminen
  • Patent number: 11496359
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving system information for changing a configuration. One apparatus includes a receiver that: receives first system information for a first configuration; and receives second system information for a second configuration based on the first configuration. The second system information includes changes to the first configuration without repeating information common to the first and second configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11496992
    Abstract: Methods and device for use in a wireless device of reporting positioning measurements comprises receiving network assistance information from a network node. The network assistance information is for assisting the wireless device in performing Observed Time Difference Of Arrival (OTDOA), and comprises: a list of reference cells; a list of neighbor cells; and a rule for terminating Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) measurements. The method further comprises performing RSTD measurement between a cell in the reference cell list and a cell in the neighbor cell list. Upon determining the RSTD measurement satisfies the rule for terminating RSTD measurements, the method includes reporting the RSTD measurements to the network node. Upon determining the RSTD measurement does not satisfy the rule for terminating RSTD measurements, performing another RSTD measurement between the cell in the reference cell list and a cell in the neighbor cell list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sara Modarres Razavi, Johan Bergman, Åke Busin, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Olof Liberg, Xingqin Lin, Henrik Rydèn, Yutao Sui, Martin Van Der Zee
  • Patent number: 11494757
    Abstract: A device may include a processor, a wireless transceiver in communication with the processor, and a non-transitory memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform processing. The processing may include receiving a command configured to be executed by an external user device. The external user device and the user device may be members of a network of trust. The processing may include detecting, by the wireless transceiver, a plurality of member devices of the network of trust in communication range of the device. The processing may include sending, by the wireless transceiver, the command to each of the plurality of member devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Adam R. Koeppel, James Zarakas, Molly Johnson, Tyler Locke, Rajko Ilincic, Kevan Emmott
  • Patent number: 11494206
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus directed to utilizing an automated messaging system to initiate and/or adapt a dialog with at least one user, where the dialog occurs via user interface input and output devices of at least one computing device of the user. In some of those implementations, the automated messaging system identifies at least one task associated with the user and initiates the dialog with the user based on identifying the task. The automated messaging system may initiate the dialog to provide the user with additional information related to the task and/or to determine, based on user input provided during the dialog, values for one or more parameters of the task. In some implementations, the automated messaging system may further initiate performance of the task utilizing parameters determined during the dialog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Guangqiang Zhang, Zhou Bailiang
  • Patent number: 11496910
    Abstract: An electronic equipment, a user equipment, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium. An electronic equipment configured in a wireless communication system that comprises a single base station equipment comprises a processing circuit and is configured to: estimate the distance between a network side equipment and a user equipment according to a downlink signal arrival angle measured by the user equipment and an uplink signal arrival angle measured by the network side equipment; and determine the position of the user equipment according to the distance between the network side equipment and the user equipment as well as the uplink signal arrival angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bin Sheng, Pingping Xu, Penshun Lu, Wenbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11494755
    Abstract: A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to provide low-latency access to cardholder location information by receiving periodically updated location information from a mobile device associated with the account holder and updated associated systems with the information prior to the user initiating a transaction. At the time of a transaction, necessary systems can quickly access the stored information and authenticate transactions appropriately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: First Performance Corporation
    Inventors: William M. Hernandez-Ellsworth, Sosh A. Howell, Walter G. Ley
  • Patent number: 11490316
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for predictive media streaming using microlocation. Microlocations of a mobile device can be determined by measuring one or more sensor values at one or more times, the one or more sensor values are determined from one or more signals emitted by a corresponding one or more signal sources. Streaming events can be stored at the mobile device. Each streaming event may include a destination device for playing media and a cluster location, the cluster location corresponding to sensor values that are spatially near each other. A selection of a media item is detected and one or more current sensor values are measured. A current cluster location can be identified using the one or more current sensor value. The current cluster location and the streaming events can identify a particular destination device for playing the selected media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Palmer, Jahshan A. Bhatti, Joao Pedro Lacerda, John L. Blatz, Joseph E. Meyer, Adam A. Sonnanstine
  • Patent number: 11490357
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a memory storing identifiers of a plurality of access points (APs) and position information associated with the plurality of APs, at least one communication circuit, and at least one processor operatively connected with the memory and the at least one communication circuit. The electronic device may be configured to receive an AP list including information on a plurality of first APs using the communication circuit, obtain a representative position corresponding to at least a portion of the plurality of first APs based on positions corresponding to the plurality of first APs stored in the memory, and update position information of at least one second AP of the plurality of first APs stored in the memory based at least on the representative position if a position of the at least one second AP is a specified distance or more away from the representative position. In addition to the above, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaiman Lim, Jinwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11488207
    Abstract: The method includes receiving a location of a client device and one or more items of interest to a user of the client device. The method further includes determining that the location of the client device is within a threshold distance of an item of the one or more items of interest. The method further includes generating a communication with the user of the client device. The method further includes receiving a response from the user of the client device. The method further includes determining if the received response indicates an intent to purchase the item. In one embodiment, the method further includes identifying a sales representative to assist the user of the client device, responsive to determining that the received response indicates an intent to purchase the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Siddique M. Adoni, Dhandapani Shanmugam
  • Patent number: 11489701
    Abstract: In some aspects, a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, by the UE on a component carrier (CC), a downlink (DL) control information (DCI) that triggers transmission, by the UE on another CC, of an uplink (UL) reference signal (RS) for positioning. The method additionally includes transmitting, by the UE in response to the DCI, the UL RS for positioning on the other CC. In other aspects, a method of wireless communication by a base station includes transmitting, by the base station to a UE on a CC, a DCI that triggers transmission, by the UE on another CC, of an UL RS for positioning. The method additionally includes receiving, by the base station from the UE in response to the DCI, the UL RS for positioning on the other CC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Patent number: 11488487
    Abstract: A system for collecting information regarding a flight restriction region includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to individually or collectively receive an input specifying a location of the flight restriction region from a user via a user input device, obtain information associated with the flight restriction region from one or more external data sources based on the location, and determine a space of the flight restriction region based on the information associated with the flight restriction region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng Liu, Jian Zhao, Yulong Deng, Nanning Li
  • Patent number: 11483673
    Abstract: A method of wirelessly connecting a first device to a target device is provided. The method includes searching for at least one device located in an orientation region of the first device, when a first input signal is received, determining the target device based on a direction that the first device is oriented, performing a wireless connection with the target device, and determining whether to maintain the wireless connection with the target device, when a second input signal is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang-min Lee, Hyun-geun Jo, Hyung-rae Cho, Gi-ppeum Choi, Jae-keun Na, Young-eun Lee
  • Patent number: 11481527
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining information about an item of equipment in a direction of interest based upon coordinates derived from wireless communication between wireless transceivers. A smart device assembly is operative to communicate via multiple antennas with a reference point transceiver. A set of coordinates is generated indicating a relative position and/or angle of the wireless transceiver in relation to the reference position transceiver. A query may be made based upon the relative position and angle of the wireless transceiver in relation to the reference position transceiver. A response to the query may include a human readable interface indicating one or more of: direction of travel, a virtual image based upon location and location and direction, and annotative and pictorial information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Middle Chart, LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. Santarone, Jason E. Duff, Michael Wodrich, Randall Pugh
  • Patent number: 11483793
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for determining a location of a user equipment (UE) communicating over a shared communication medium in unlicensed spectrum. In an aspect, the UE measures a positioning reference signal (PRS) from a first evolved NodeB (eNB) for a first secondary cell (Scell) and a second PRS from a second eNB for a second Scell. The UE reports the first and second PRS measurements and the first and second PRS measurement times to a location server. In an aspect, the first and second PRS are configured according to a common PRS configuration. The location server also receives transmission times of the PRS signals from the first and second eNBs. Using the measurement and transmission times, the location server can associate the first PRS measurement to the first eNB and the second PRS measurement to the second eNB, thereby assisting the location server to obtain a location for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hem Agnihotri, Stephen William Edge, Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi
  • Patent number: 11480595
    Abstract: The invention relates to the estimation of a time-variable physical quantity by a distributed system comprising a centralized platform and a set of distributed measurement devices each communicating with the platform via a communication network, on the basis of the measurement (100), by each device of the set, of a local datum representative of the physical quantity, the collection (120) by the centralized platform, over a predetermined sampling period, of measurement samples originating from a subset of devices of said set via said communication network, and the estimation (130) of the physical quantity over the sampling period on the basis of the collected samples. According to the invention, each device of said set executes (110), in each sampling period, a local algorithm deciding randomly and based on a sending probability associated with each device, whether the corresponding measurement device is part of said subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: VOLTALIS
    Inventors: Bruno Heintz, Mathieu Bineau, Marc Autord, Jean Marc Oury
  • Patent number: 11480650
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes obtaining or holding available radio positioning support map information and geographic map information. An overlapping geographic area is covered by the radio positioning support map and the geographic map, which is dividable into a plurality of subareas. The method also includes determining, for each subarea of the plurality of subareas, a respective observed radio positioning support device density at least partially based on the radio positioning support map and a respective expected radio positioning support device density at least partially based on the geographic map. The method further includes evaluating, for each subarea of the plurality of subareas, a respective radio positioning performance in a respective subarea at least partially based on the respective observed radio positioning support device density and the respective expected radio positioning support device density. A corresponding apparatus and computer readable storage medium are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Petri Rauhala, Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Marko Luomi
  • Patent number: 11480647
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium are provided that maintain a database including information identifying of one or more mobile devices. Each mobile device of the one or more mobile devices is configured to enable positioning based on radio signals. The positioning enabled by the respective mobile device is considered to be at least partially unexpected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Jari Syrjarinne
  • Patent number: 11483729
    Abstract: A radio resource adjustment method includes: receiving a network quality optimization request, sent by a path planning device, carrying a travel path and an estimated moment corresponding to a target location on the travel path through which a mobile terminal passes; matching the travel path with a coverage area of a base station, to determine a base station set to which a signal covering the travel path belongs; generating an optimization policy including configuration information for configuring a radio resource of the base station set based on the corresponding estimated moment; and sending an adjustment command to the network element management device based on the optimization policy, so that the network element management device instructs, based on the adjustment command, a target base station in the base station set to adjust allocation of the radio resource at the estimated moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huan Li
  • Patent number: 11475177
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for enhanced wireless determination of a position and direction of a smart device are describe which support the display of a virtual tag upon a user interface of the smart device. Wireless transceivers controlled by the smart device communicate with reference point transceivers to generate data sufficient to determine relative positions of the wireless transceivers and a direction of interest. Operation of LIDAR may be operative to verify the position and direction of the Smart Device as well as a topography of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Middle Chart, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Wodrich, Michael S. Santarone, Jason E. Duff, Fred Flitsch, Randall Pugh
  • Patent number: 11477754
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for resolving aliasing ambiguities produced when using channel state information reference signal, a sounding reference signal (SRS) or other transmission as a positioning reference signal (PRS) occupying a subset of tones of a PRS bandwidth. The aliasing ambiguity results in a plurality of different possible positioning measurements, such as time of arrival (TOA), reference signal timing difference (RSTD), or reception to transmission difference (Rx?Tx). The aliasing ambiguity may be resolved using a previous position estimate that may be used to produce an approximation of the expected positioning measurement. A position estimate may be generated using a multiple stage PRS configuration, in which one or more stages provide a coarse position estimate that has no ambiguity, which can be used to resolve the ambiguity of a more accurate position estimate resulting from the PRS signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Alexandros Manolakos, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 11473798
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for detecting that a state of an air-conditioning system in a building has changed and ultimately determining the air-conditioning system's operating pattern, which could help improve collection and/or use of crowdsourced data for an indoor positioning solution and thus lead to more accurate position estimates. According to the disclosed approach, processor(s) may receive sets of altitude data respectively from groups of mobile devices in the building, each set being associated with a respective time period, and could determine floor models of the building respectively based on the sets. Then, processor(s) could make a determination that at least one of the floor models is different from others, and could use this determination to detect that a state of the air-conditioning system has changed during particular time period(s), which are associated with set(s) of altitude data used to determine the at least one floor model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Henri Jaakko Julius Nurminen, Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Pavel Ivanov
  • Patent number: 11477680
    Abstract: An electronic device and an operation method of the electronic device are disclosed in various embodiments. The electronic device may include a first communication processor in primary cellular communication with a primary node and a second communication processor in primary cellular communication with a secondary node, wherein the first communication processor may be configured to control to receive a request signal requesting for measurement of quality of the secondary cellular communication from the primary node, transmit a signal requesting to the second communication processor for measurement of the quality of the secondary cellular communication to the second communication processor at a predetermined interval based on receipt of the request signal, receive a secondary cellular communication quality measurement result from the second communication processor, and adjust the predetermined interval based on the measurement result. Other various embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonsuk Chung, Junsuk Kim, Sangho Lee, Jangbok Lee
  • Patent number: 11477847
    Abstract: A system can receive, over one or more networks, location data from a computing device of a requesting user, where the location data indicates a current position of the requesting user. The system can repeatedly determine, based at least in part on location data corresponding to a directional heading of a proximate transport provider in relation to the current position of the requesting user, an optimal rendezvous location for the requesting user prior to the requesting user transmitting a service request to the network computer system. The system may then transmit, over the one or more networks, data corresponding to the optimal rendezvous location to the computing device of the requesting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Pan Pan, Jon Petersen, Kevin Su, Ronak Trivedi
  • Patent number: 11474187
    Abstract: A positioning method comprises acquiring positioning information of a 5G base station from a satellite, obtaining calibration information based on the positioning information, and broadcasting outwards the calibration information; acquiring initial positioning information of a user terminal from the satellite; accessing a nearest 5G base station in real time, monitoring and acquiring calibration information broadcasted by the nearest 5G base station; and calibrating the initial positioning information acquired in the initial positioning step according to the calibration information acquired in the monitoring step to obtain positioning result information. As described above, the positioning of centimeter level precision can be realized by utilizing the 5G base station, and there is no need to additionally establish a CORS base station and a data center, thereby the cost of precise positioning can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CHINA UNIONPAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiqi Yu, Sishuang Wan, Xiaoyun Wang, Guobao Liu, Yue Jin, Yinhe Lan