Based On Request Signal Patents (Class 455/456.2)
  • Patent number: 11928317
    Abstract: A device with a display and, optionally, a touch-sensitive surface detects a first input corresponding to a request to share first content from a first application while displaying the first application on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device displays a sharing interface that includes a plurality of options for sharing the first content. While displaying the sharing interface, the device detects selection of an affordance in the sharing interface. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a respective user-first sharing option for a respective user, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content with the respective user. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a protocol-first sharing option for a respective protocol, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content using the respective protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah D. Shaw, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Martin O. Pedrick, Marcel van Os, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11929780
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and non-transitory machine-readable mediums are provided for wireless communication in communication networks comprising a wireless device, a radio access network node and a wireless light communication network node. In one embodiment, a method is performed by a node (102, 104, 120) of a wireless communication network (100), the wireless communication network comprising a wireless device (104), a radio access network node (102) and one or more wireless light communication (LC) network nodes (106). At least one of the wireless device and the radio access network node comprise a plurality of antenna elements configurable to provide a transmit or receive beam (110, 112) for communication with the other of the wireless device and the radio access network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Athanasios Stavridis, Miguel Lopez, Leif Wilhelmsson
  • Patent number: 11921585
    Abstract: Run-time selection of optimal commands for accessing serial access resources is described. A system receives a request to access a serial access resource. The system identifies a first section to access in the serial access resource and a second section to access in the serial access resource which is separated from the first section to access by an intermediate section in the serial access resource. The system generates combinations of access commands associated with accessing the first and the second sections to access. The system estimates target values, based on locations of the first and the second sections to access in the serial access resource, corresponding to the combinations of access commands. The system selects a combination of access commands which corresponds to an optimal target value. The system enables performance of the selected combination of access commands on the first and the second sections in the serial access resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jehuda Shemer, Zion Drori, Maxim Drobachevsky
  • Patent number: 11924799
    Abstract: The location of a user equipment may be determined by having the user equipment use a radio carrier and/or a bandwidth part having the highest sub-carrier spacing available to the user equipment. A user equipment may communicate through a plurality of radio carriers, determine a first radio carrier or bandwidth part having a highest sub-carrier spacing, determine a timing advance value associated with the first radio carrier or bandwidth part, and transmit to a location server, the timing advance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Amit Jain
  • Patent number: 11917693
    Abstract: Infrastructure equipment for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the infrastructure equipment including: receiver circuitry configured to receive a second signal from a terminal device of the wireless telecommunications network; and transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a third signal to the terminal device, the third signal being transmitted in response to the reception of the second signal, the third signal being for the terminal device to determine, in combination with a first signal received by the terminal device, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a system information block (SIB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11917573
    Abstract: In various embodiments, crowd sourcing techniques are provided to enable RTT-based positioning of UE. To address issues of discovering which beacons (e.g., Wi-Fi APs, cellular base stations, BLE transmitters, etc.) support measurement of RTT (e.g., according to IEEE 802.11mc, 3GPP Release 16, etc.), beacon RTT capabilities may be crowd-sourced from UE and maintained by a cloud-based location platform in a beacon database (or more specifically, a RTT database portion thereof). To address the issue of determining physical antenna positions, RTT measurements may be crowd-sourced from UE for those beacons that are RTT capable, and used by a trilateration algorithm (e.g., a WLS multilateration algorithm) to determine physical antenna positions, which also may be maintained in the beacon database. Accuracy of the trilateration may be enhanced by obtaining raw GNSS measurements (e.g., psuedoranges) from the UE, and performing a cloud-based RTK GNSS position fix for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Skyhook Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Issakov, Larry Vincent Dodds, Robert Anderson
  • Patent number: 11917466
    Abstract: A method for user equipment (UE) service handover from the serving cell to a target cell includes information regarding a handover timer and an associated handover execution condition. For scheduled handover to be performed upon expiration of the handover timer, the associated handover execution condition comprises one or more abort conditions for aborting the scheduled handover. For two-stage triggered handover to be performed upon receipt of a subsequent triggering message, the handover timer is a handover validity timer and the associated handover execution condition comprises receipt of the handover triggering message prior to expiration of the handover validity timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongho Jeon, Kyeongin Jeong, Joonyoung Cho, Andrew Park, Eunsun Kim
  • Patent number: 11909561
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide control signaling mechanisms to support data transmission by a user equipment (UE) that is in the RRC_INACTIVE state and, more generally, in any inactive state. Beyond simply supporting data transmission by a user equipment that is in the RRC_INACTIVE state, aspects of the present application provide mechanisms for configuring the UE for preamble transmission or sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission and for toggling between such transmissions. Aspects of the present application relate to mechanisms for enabling Timing Advance estimation, which mechanisms are not burdened with high overhead and which allow the UE to remain in the RRC_INACTIVE state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sanjeewa Herath, Javad Abdoli, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 11904243
    Abstract: A location-based game system is provided. Such a system may take the form of any device (e.g., a wireless telephone) that includes a locating device (e.g., a GPS system). One such location-based game may operate such that the actual, physical location of a user on a physical playfield corresponds to the location of a virtual character on a virtual playfield. Such location based games are referred to herein as actuality games. In one multiplayer actuality embodiment, two game devices may communicate location, and other, information to a remote database such that the two user's may interact on different physical playfields, but play on the same virtual playfield. A number of wireless communications protocols, self-configurations, and auto-download software applications are also provided to optimize integration with, for example, a wireless telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Jeffrey David Mullen
  • Patent number: 11901964
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a next generation wireless communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) wireless communication system, and the like. According to various embodiments, a method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting same can be provided. Various other embodiments can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunsu Cha, Suckchel Yang, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim, Jeongsu Lee
  • Patent number: 11895610
    Abstract: In various embodiments, crowd sourcing techniques are provided to enable RTT-based positioning of UE. To address issues of discovering which beacons (e.g., Wi-Fi APs, cellular base stations, BLE transmitters, etc.) support measurement of RTT (e.g., according to IEEE 802.11mc, 3GPP Release 16, etc.), beacon RTT capabilities may be crowd-sourced from UE and maintained by a cloud-based location platform in a beacon database (or more specifically, a RTT database portion thereof). To address the issue of determining physical antenna positions, RTT measurements may be crowd-sourced from UE for those beacons that am RTT capable, and used by a trilateration algorithm (e.g., a WLS multilateration algorithm) to determine physical antenna positions, which also may be maintained in the beacon database. Accuracy of the trilateration may be enhanced by obtaining raw GNSS measurements (e.g., psuedoranges) from the UE, and performing a cloud-based RTK GNSS position fix for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Skyhook Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Issakov, Larry Vincent Dodds, Robert Anderson
  • Patent number: 11871325
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media providing emergency data to public safety answering points (PSAPs). Also provided are systems, methods, and media for utilizing location data and geofences to provide emergency data to PSAPs and interactive graphical displays to efficiently display relevant emergency data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: RAPIDSOS, INC.
    Inventors: William Pellegrini, Gabriel Mahoney, Lucas Richard Eager Leavitt, Andrew Hwang, Bingjun Sy, Zvika Ferentz, Henry Katz, Riccardo Pellegrini
  • Patent number: 11870879
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, to manage device communications during emergent conditions are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, data indicating that a second computing device is configured to communicate using a first protocol. The actions include receiving data indicating that a third computing device is configured to communicate using the first protocol and a second protocol. The actions include determining that the second computing device is unable to communicate with a fourth computing device. The actions include determining a context. The actions include generating an instruction for the third computing device to communicate with the second computing device using the first protocol. The actions include outputting, to the third computing device, the instruction for the third computing device to communicate with the second computing device using the first protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: Getac Technology Corporation, WHP Workflow Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Adeel, Thomas Guzik
  • Patent number: 11860290
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a position using a rotatable antenna array is provided. The method and system may include receiving first location information at a first stopping point by one or more antenna of a rotatable antenna array, the first stopping point of each of the one or more antenna being different, rotating the one or more antenna from the first stopping point to a second stopping point using the rotatable antenna array, receiving second location information at the second stopping point by the one or more antenna of the rotatable antenna array, the second stopping point of each of the one or more antenna being different, and determining an average location using the first location information and the second location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lazer Layout, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A Luebke, Kevin R. Hicken
  • Patent number: 11861663
    Abstract: An information processing method to be carried out by a terminal that is configured to communicate with an electronic device, is provided. The electronic device is configured to manage information related to a vehicle that is provided with a display device for displaying an advertisement, and the information processing method may include: receiving vehicle usage fee information related to a vehicle usage fee for the vehicle from the electronic device through a communication interface of the terminal, the vehicle usage fee for the vehicle being based on advertisement information related to the advertisement displayed on the display device of the vehicle and information related to an advertisement display situation where the advertisement is displayed on the display device; and displaying a first display that is based on the vehicle usage fee information, in a display area of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazutaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 11847713
    Abstract: After determining a trip order has a high risk, verification information unavailable in a passenger information database system can be requested and provided for a passenger of the account. Validity of the verification information can be determined using a verification service and stored in a passenger information database. A decision for the trip order can be determined based on the validity of the verification information stored in the passenger information database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing DiDi Infinity Technology and Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Li, Huaiyu Zhu, Junbo Shi, Deyu Hu, Jing Chen, Haocheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11832168
    Abstract: Antenna weights of a plurality of beamformed directions are determined. Transmission on the first beamformed direction is prioritized over transmission on the second beamformed direction, e.g., during beam sweeping. Such techniques may find application in discovery of an access node by a device attached to a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yngve Selén, Jonas Kronander
  • Patent number: 11812325
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a database of geofences and registering geofences, with each geofence in the database being associated with an IP address, preferably an IPv6 address. Each geofence is defined using at least one geographic designator, preferably real property boundaries. Entitlements can be associated with geofences relating to permissive and prohibitive activities within the geofences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GEOFRENZY, INC.
    Inventor: Benjamin T. Jones
  • Patent number: 11809464
    Abstract: A device may obtain a location. The device may process the location to form a processed address. The device may obtain, from a plurality of geocoders, a plurality of sets of geographic coordinate candidates for the processed address. The device may obtain confidence information regarding the plurality of sets of geographic coordinate candidates. The device may determine a set of geographic coordinates for the processed address based on the plurality of sets of geographic coordinate candidates and the confidence information regarding the plurality of sets of geographic coordinate candidates. The device may assign a key to the processed address and the set of geographic coordinates for the processed address. The device may store, in a storage device, the key in association with the processed address and the set of geographic coordinates to facilitate access to the processed address or the set of geographic coordinates for the processed address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing InG.
    Inventors: Praveen K Nidumolu, Raj Kumar Narayan, Daniel S Clausen, Farid Feisullin
  • Patent number: 11808848
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to technical field of indoor positioning, and discloses a method and system for wide-area acoustic indoor positioning based on RF enhancement, comprising: design of an acoustic signal, using Blackman window function to control the amplitude of acoustic signal entering and leaving channel; a mixed multiple access transmission of the acoustic signal, combining three multiple access schemes of time, space and frequency, assisting a small amount of BLE signals, and constructing a wide-area coverage capability of the acoustic positioning signal; acoustic measurement based on RF enhancement, including TOA estimation of an acoustic signal and area identification based on low-power Bluetooth RSS; robust fusion positioning of an inertial sensor and multi-source measurement, including pedestrian walking speed estimation, multi-source heterogeneous measurement, acoustic measurement compensation and correction, measurement quality evaluation and control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Deqing Zhilu Navigation Technology Co., LTD
    Inventors: Guangyi Guo, Ruizhi Chen, Feng Ye
  • Patent number: 11802950
    Abstract: A disclosed method includes receiving a time-of-arrival range filter configuration and a reference signal physical transmission time from a network node at a reference signal physical reception time. The time-of-arrival range filter configuration includes at least one of a time-of-arrival filter status, a time-of-arrival filter distance range, and a time-of-arrival configuration. A time difference between the reference signal physical reception time and the reference signal physical transmission time is determined, and a distance to the network node based on the time difference is calculated. Whether the distance is within the time-of-arrival filter distance range is determined, and the time-of-arrival filter status is determined. Based on the time-of-arrival filter status, actions are performed in accordance with the time-of-arrival configuration applicable for the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Fabian Wiacek
  • Patent number: 11800486
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a user equipment (e.g., a mobile device) may receive a location request message from a server (e.g., a Location Management Function), wherein the location request message identifies a plurality of Quality of Service parameters for the LTE Positioning Protocol (LPP) positioning session. In at least one embodiment, the user equipment may receive a selection of one or more Quality of Service parameters for the LPP positioning session. In at least one embodiment, the user equipment may configure the user equipment according to the one or more selected Quality of Service parameters. In at least one embodiment, the user equipment may generate a location response message according to the selected QoS parameters. The user equipment may send the location response message to the server. A UE can select the QoS parameters during communication with a server and/or with a second UE via sidelink communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Wanshi Chen, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11796624
    Abstract: A direction detection device includes: antennas that receive a received wave; an intensity difference imparting unit that imparts intensity differences different depending on the received-wave arrival direction to intensities of the received wave; a storage unit that stores an intensity difference table in which the intensity difference between two of the antennas is associated with the received-wave arrival direction, for each combination of any two of the antennas; a detector that detects an intensity difference between the two antennas and a phase difference between the two antennas, of the received wave; an extractor that extracts, from the table, a received-wave arrival direction corresponding to the detected intensity difference, for each combination; a calculation unit that calculates a received-wave arrival direction corresponding to the detected phase difference; and a comparator that compares the extracted received-wave arrival direction with the calculated received-wave arrival direction to acquire
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyasu Kato
  • Patent number: 11785573
    Abstract: A method of determining a geographical location of an access point in a wireless local access network allowing access to a multimedia IP network core, implemented by an input server of the network core, is described. After receipt of a message from a terminal via the access point containing information on the location of the terminal inserted into the message signal, a material identifier of the access point is extracted and stored with the location information. A geographical location of the access point is determined using location information stored with the material identifier of the access point. The geographical location of the access point associated with the extracted material identifier may be inserted into the message signal as the geographical location of the terminal, prior to transmitting this message to another piece of equipment in the network core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: José Doree, Jean-Claude Le Rouzic
  • Patent number: 11778420
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying and tracking pets by use of a pet identification tag or image recognition techniques are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, a mobile computing device communicates with a pet identification tag over a near-field communication link and a remote server over a wireless communication link. The mobile computing device is configured to identify a pet based on a unique identifier for the tag and/or to provide an image of a pet to the remote server, and to download information about the pet from the remote server using the unique identifier or pet image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ICKOVIC & BLISS, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas S. Ickovic
  • Patent number: 11778084
    Abstract: A portable terminal apparatus includes a display unit displaying an image, an operation input unit inputting a user operation, and a wireless communication unit performing wireless communication by a wireless LAN, and at a time of startup from a sleep state, a remote control button is displayed on the display unit when a mutual communication with a predetermined access point can be performed in the wireless communication unit, and when the remote control button is selected, a remote control signal corresponding to the selected remote control button is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Masuoka, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11778528
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit, to a base station, a request for a cell switch based at least in part on a trigger condition associated with an uplink-only cell switch being satisfied; and perform the uplink-only cell switch based at least in part on a physical-layer or medium-access-control layer inter-cell mobility operation with the base station based at least in part on transmitting the request. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Junyi Li, Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Kiran Venugopal, Ling Ding, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11770694
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes a methods, systems, and computer readable media for validating location update messages. One method includes receiving, by a signaling firewall from a non-home network, an ingress location update request message related to a mobile subscriber, querying a directional state database to obtain predicted country trajectory data associated with the mobile subscriber, and comparing the obtained predicted country trajectory data with country code information included in the ingress location update request message. The method further includes validating the ingress location update request message if the predicted country trajectory data and the country code information match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Srinivasan Rajavelu
  • Patent number: 11759127
    Abstract: An authentication device according to an aspect of the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire measurement data including a measured value and measurement time information associated with the measured value from a biological information measuring device configured to measure a value related to biological information, a provision unit configured to provide a function to be used by one specific user, a sensor unit including at least one sensor, an estimation unit configured to estimate, on the basis of information acquired by the sensor unit, a state of the one specific user during a time range specified by the measurement time information, and an identification unit configured to identify whether the measured value pertains to the one specific user on the basis of whether the function is in an enabled state during the time range and an estimation result of the state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori Sato
  • Patent number: 11765683
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for determining a UE position within a coverage sub-area of a cell based on cell identity data are presented. In some embodiments, the UE detects one more cell identities, including a cell identity of a serving cell and possibly a cell identity of a neighbor cell of the serving cell. The one or more cell identities are included in cell identity data. The cell identity data is used in a look up of a data structure that associates coverage sub-areas of a coverage area of the serving cell with most likely positions within the coverage sub-areas and with cell identities. The result of the look up indicates that the UE is positioned at a most likely position within a coverage sub-area of the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Grant Marshall, Rayman Wai Pon
  • Patent number: 11762396
    Abstract: A positioning system and a positioning method based on WI-FI® fingerprints are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: PSJ INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Yuan Chen, Alexander I Chi Lai, Ruey-Beei Wu
  • Patent number: 11765029
    Abstract: A tracking device can be reconfigured after an amount of operation to preserve the battery capacity of the tracking device and to ensure that the tracking device can be operated for a pre-determined threshold period of time. The tracking device can provide diagnostic information representative of a state of the tracking device, such as a current power capacity of the tracking device's battery, to a mobile device within a threshold proximity of the tracking device. The mobile device can then provide the diagnostic information to a tracking server, which in turn can provide reconfiguration instructions to the mobile device. The mobile device can then pass on the reconfiguration instructions to the tracking device, in response to which the tracking device can reconfigure itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski, Michael George Farley, Josselin de la Broise, Mayank Kumar
  • Patent number: 11758502
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for determining a set of access points in response to a geo-location request are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining, based on geo-location information comprising a set of at least two coordinates attributed to at least one device, geo-location information attributed to a set of multiple access points; identifying two or more access point subs-sets from the set of access points, wherein each of the access point sub-sets comprises one or more of the access points; comparing geo-location information attributed to additional devices to the access points within each of the sub-sets; and outputting, to the at least one device as a response to a request for geo-location information comprising a set of at least two coordinates and based on said comparing, information pertaining to at least one of the sub-sets and the geo-location information attributed to the at least one device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Justin Lange
  • Patent number: 11747154
    Abstract: A computing system detects activation of a service application on a computing device of a user. Based on a set of service factors, the system determines that a likelihood of the user requesting service exceeds a confidence threshold. Before receiving a request for service from the computing device of the user, and upon determining that the likelihood of the user requesting service exceeds the confidence threshold, the system performs a selection process to select a service provider to provide service for the user. Subsequent to performing the selection process, the system receives, from the computing device of the user, the request for service, and transmits, to a provider device of the selected service provider, an invitation for providing service for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Mark Nickels, Eoin O'Mahony
  • Patent number: 11740315
    Abstract: A mobile body detection means 85: determines, in the case where a position of a first mobile body and a position of a second mobile body are approximately the same, that a mobile body is detected at the position; and determines, in the case where the position of the first mobile body and the position of the second mobile body are different and any of first reliability and second reliability exceeds a threshold, that a mobile body is detected at a position of a mobile body corresponding to the reliability exceeding the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoji Yachida
  • Patent number: 11743220
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for monitoring and notifying a user of changes to characteristics of interest list items. The method includes recording within a memory of a user device a specification of a user's interest list items and characteristics thereof, and a specification of the user's criteria for notification of changes to the characteristics. The method includes receiving at the user device update information including updated characteristics of interest list items, comparing the update information with the recorded specifications, and determining that the user's criteria for notification of changes to characteristics of interest list items are satisfied. In response, a notification of the changes is generated for the user. The method further includes replacing the recorded characteristics with the updated characteristics of the interest list items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Promptu Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Harry William Printz, Jason Simpson, Rhys McCane
  • Patent number: 11736946
    Abstract: According to one or more of the embodiments herein, systems and techniques for satellite relaying for geolocation and mitigation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) denial are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Higher Ground LLC
    Inventors: Robert S. Reis, Shmuel Shaffer, Darren Robert Reis, James M. Behmke, David Alexander Reuss
  • Patent number: 11714426
    Abstract: A positioning system and a method based on neural network models are provided. The positioning method includes collecting WI-FI® fingerprint data; configuring a computing device to receive the WI-FI® fingerprint data, and the computing device includes a processor and a database storing positioning map data and a group of neural network models including a global positioning model, a coarse positioning model and a fine positioning model; configuring the processor to input the WI-FI® fingerprint data and perform the following steps: estimating a global coordinate through the global positioning model; obtaining the corresponding coarse positioning model from a corresponding primary sub-region to estimate an estimated coarse coordinate of a current position; estimating a plurality of estimated fine coordinates of the current position from the corresponding fine positioning model; and performing a merging process on the estimated fine coordinates to generate a final coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: PSJ INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Yuan Chen, Alexander I Chi Lai, Ruey-Beei Wu
  • Patent number: 11693083
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for performing positioning operations. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits, to a positioning entity, a request for positioning assistance data message, the request for positioning assistance data message identifying a serving cell of the UE and one or more neighboring cells of the UE with which the UE is attempting to perform a positioning procedure, and receives, from the positioning entity, a positioning assistance data message in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11678348
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, devices, and computer-readable media that support base station-assisted and unassisted sharing of particular information between neighboring user equipments (UEs). In a particular implementation, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, at a base station from a first UE, an information request corresponding to neighbor UEs of the first UE. The method also includes retrieving, at the base station from one or more serving UEs, corresponding information. The method further includes transmitting, from the base station to the first UE, an information package that includes the information corresponding to at least one of the one or more serving UEs. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Taesang Yoo, Hamed Pezeshki, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni
  • Patent number: 11678143
    Abstract: A communication management resource receives notification of an incoming communication (such as from a calling party) directed to a mobile communication device in a wireless network environment. In response to receiving the notification, the communication management resource predicts a current location of the mobile communication device based on a prior history of tracking the mobile communication device and a time of receiving the call alert. The communication management resource initiates wireless transmission of the call alert in a wireless signal from a first wireless base station at the predicted current location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Saran Khalid
  • Patent number: 11678359
    Abstract: A network device transmits a communication indicating a location of the first UE, wherein the first UE is in proximity to a second UE. Further, the network device transmits data in a subframe or time slot, wherein the first UE transmits the data in the subframe or time slot and a second UE receives in the same subframe or time slot, based on the first UE and the second UE being in proximity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Wilkinson, Timothy James Speight
  • Patent number: 11663281
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes obtaining one or more pieces of crowd-sourced information. A respective crowd-sourced information is at least indicative of a location at which the respective crowd-sourced information was gathered. The method determines a set of tiles at least partially based on the one or more geographical areas. For at least one tile, the method obtains one or more pieces of fingerprint information comprised by the one or more pieces of crowd-sourced information that were gathered within the respective area of the respective tile and determines an area type and/or context information indicative of a type of venue located within the respective tile and/or context the respective area of the respective tile is used for. The area type and/or context information is determined at least partially based on the one or more pieces of fingerprint information. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Henri Jaakko Julius Nurminen, Pavel Ivanov, Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola
  • Patent number: 11665602
    Abstract: Automatic cell discovery of a source radio access network (RAN) cell by a neighboring, target RAN by initiating a fake handover of a user equipment (UE) from a source RAN cell to a target RAN. A source RAN cell initiates a handover request using handover signaling to the target RAN(s). The handover request is a fake handover request without actual intention of handing over UE to the target RAN. The source RAN cell includes information in initiated handover request that can be used by target RAN to discover source RAN cell. The handover request will fail, because the handover request is not for any actual UE moving from the source RAN cell to the target RAN. However, the target RAN becomes aware of the source RAN cell as a result of this process and can add the source RAN cell (e.g., its EARFCN) to a list of its neighboring cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventor: Kalle Ahmavaara
  • Patent number: 11651038
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining i) historical location data specifying geographic locations of the user over a period of time that is included in a user profile of the user and ii) predefined geographic location data specifying a predefined geographic location of the user that is included in the user profile of the user; identifying a pair of cross-contaminated geographic regions that both include geographic locations specified by the historical location data of the user profiles for each of a threshold number of users of the plurality of users, and in response, merging the pair of cross-contaminated geographic regions to define a merged geographic region; and merging the merged geographic region with additional geographic regions until a cross-contamination between a resulting merged geographic region created by the merging and other geographic regions is reduced to a specified level of cross-contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Fan Zhang, Nicolas H. Remy, Anne-Claire Haury
  • Patent number: 11647481
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide techniques to locate target devices. An electronic message is sent to a set of landmark devices, signaling each landmark device to transmit echo-request packets to a target device and to other landmark devices and measure network-communication delays. Indications of the network-communication delays are received from the set landmark devices. A first sequence is formed by sorting the set of landmark devices relative to the network-communication delays between the target device and each landmark device. For each respective landmark device, an additional sequence is formed by sorting other landmark devices relative to the network-communication delays between the respective landmark device and the other landmark devices. A sequence-matching operation is applied to the first sequence and the additional sequences to form a ranking of the set of landmark devices relative to the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Si Bin Fan, Yu Gu, Su Liu, Cheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11641612
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method and a computer program is described comprising: receiving a plurality of synchronisation symbol blocks; classifying the received synchronisation symbol blocks based on delay relative to an expected reception time; and identifying one or more candidate line of sight paths on the basis of the delay relative to the expected reception time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Samantha Caporal Del Barrio, Bo Holm Bjerrum, Christian Rom, Simon Svendsen
  • Patent number: 11641596
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
  • Patent number: 11637610
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for determining, at a first node, first beam orientation information for a second node to select one or more beams for beam training with a third node, determining, at the first node, second beam orientation information for the third node to select one or more of beams for beam training with the second node, transmitting, to the second node, the first beam orientation information, and transmitting, to the third node, the second beam orientation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Ling Ding, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li, Kapil Gulati, Jelena Damnjanovic, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 11637722
    Abstract: Provided are methods for determining a transmission parameter of an uplink signal, a terminal and a network device. The method includes that: a terminal determines a first SRS resource set receives, from a network device, first indication information which is for instructing the terminal to transmit an aperiodic SRS, determines a target SRS resource set according to the first indication information and the first SRS resource set, sends the aperiodic SRS to the network device on an SRS resource in the target SRS resource set, receives, from the network device, second indication information which is for indicating a target SRS resource in the target SRS resource set; and the terminal determines a transmission parameter used to transmit an uplink signal according to the target SRS resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang