To Or From Mobile Station Patents (Class 455/517)
  • Patent number: 11233889
    Abstract: A digital device including a display unit; a sensor unit; a display unit; a wireless communication unit to be paired with an external device; and a controller configured to receive a message, transmit information of the received message to the external device paired with the digital device, and display detailed information of the received message in response to detection of a predetermined motion using the sensor unit within a predetermined period of time while the digital device is paired with the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunhyung Cho, Sinae Chun, Jihwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11212343
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for intelligently managing sessions in a mobile network. A selection engine receives a trigger to select a peer node for a subscriber session. The selection engine chooses a peer selector among one or more available peer selectors in response to the trigger and determines whether the chosen peer selector is associated with a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). In response to determining that the chosen peer selector is associated with the FQDN, the selection engine determines whether a domain name system (DNS) server is configured. In response to determining that the DNS server is configured, the selection engine requests a peer list associated with the FQDN from the DNS server and selects the peer node from the peer list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Narsi Veldanda, Anupama Raghavan
  • Patent number: 11172519
    Abstract: A method by which a terminal transmits an RRC connection request in a wireless communication system can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information of the base station beam index; receiving information on a mapping relationship between the base station beam index and an uplink reference signal port; selecting a preferred base station beam index on the basis of the information of the base station beam index; and transmitting an RRC connection request message on the basis of the information on a mapping relationship by using the uplink reference signal port corresponding to the selected base station beam index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kilbom Lee, Ilmu Byun
  • Patent number: 11134469
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communications system may support multicast transmissions from a base station to multiple user equipments (UEs). Each UE may have uplink resources allocated for providing feedback to the base station regarding multicast transmissions. For example, a UE may not successfully decode one or more frames of a multicast transmission. When a UE does not successfully decode the one or more frames, the UE may transmit negative acknowledgment (NACK) feedback indicating the one or more frames that were not successfully received. A serving base station may store frames within a buffer for a transmission window and retransmit each of the frames indicated within the NACK feedback from the stored frames. In some cases, the serving base station may not retransmit frames that were not indicated within the NACK feedback (e.g., frames that may have been received successfully by the UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, Miguel Griot, Linhai He, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11101869
    Abstract: A UE may receive a beam modification command that indicates a set of transmit beam indexes corresponding to a set of transmit beams of a base station, and each transmit beam index of the set of transmit beam indexes may indicate at least a transmit direction for transmitting a transmit beam by the base station. The UE may determine a set of receive beam indexes corresponding to receive beams of the UE based on the set of transmit beam indexes, and each receive beam index of the set of receive beam indexes may indicate at least a receive direction for receiving a receive beam by the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a signal through at least one receive beam corresponding to at least one receive beam index included in the set of receive beam indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Bilal Sadiq, Tao Luo, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11096207
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for requesting scheduling in a wireless communication system is provided. The method requests scheduling for transmitting uplink data in a wireless communication system and may include transmitting, by user equipment (UE), a Scheduling Request (SR) of an SR type selected from multiple SR types to an eNB, receiving, by the UE, an uplink grant determined according to the selected SR type from the eNB, and transmitting, by the UE, uplink data to the eNB through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource allocated by the uplink grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kitae Kim, Eunjong Lee, Giwon Park, Jaehoon Chung, Jiwon Kang, Hyeyoung Choi
  • Patent number: 11070956
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for managing mission critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) communication. The method includes receiving, by a floor control server, a first floor request message, from a primary floor participant, while a floor is given to a secondary floor participant and a first media transmission is performed by the secondary floor participant; in response to receiving the first floor request message, transmitting, by the floor control server, to the secondary floor participant, a first floor revoke message for stopping the first media transmission of the secondary floor participant, and transmitting, by the floor control server, a first floor grant message to the primary floor participant; and transmitting, by the floor control server, a first floor taken message to the secondary floor participant, wherein the first floor taken message includes information of the primary floor participant given the floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventors: Nishant Gupta, Basavaraj Jayawant Pattan, Suresh Chitturi
  • Patent number: 11070661
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for selectively restricting a mobile device. In one implementation, a visual capture can be to identify one or more indicators within the visual capture. Based on the indicators, an implementation of a restriction at the mobile device can be adjusted. In another implementation inputs can be processed to compute a determination, determination reflecting at least one of the in-vehicle role of the user as a driver and the in-vehicle role of the user as a passenger; and, an operation state of the mobile device can be modified based on such a determination. According to another implementation, one or more outputs can be projected from a mobile device, inputs can be received, and such inputs and outputs can be processed to determine a correlation between them. A restriction can then be modified based on the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Cellepathy Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Abramson, Itzhak Pomerantz, Yuval Kashtan, Sean Ir, Ohad Inbar, Talia Lavie, Shay Gigi
  • Patent number: 11071091
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed toward communicating determined contention levels of resource pools to user equipments enabling the user equipments to select from available resource pools. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include assigning determined contention levels to respective ones of a group of resource pools. The operations can further include communicating, to a user equipment device, the determined contention levels, enabling the user equipment device to select a resource pool of the group of resource pools based on the determined contention levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Salam Akoum, Aditya Chopra, Andrew Thornburg, Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 11064406
    Abstract: A method in a radio access node for communicating with a radio terminal in a network system includes transmitting to the radio terminal a mapping between a first set of identifiers and a second set of identifiers, each identifier identifying a reference signal in a network system, and communicating with the radio terminal using at least one identifier in the first set of identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Claes Tidestav, Stephen Grant
  • Patent number: 11044644
    Abstract: A method and apparatus may include transmitting a measurement split request to a network node. The measurement split request designates a first measurement layer and a second measurement layer. The first measurement layer corresponds to a measurement configuration for the apparatus. The second measurement layer corresponds to a measurement configuration for the network node. The method may also include receiving an acknowledgement that the measurement split request is accepted by the network node. The method may also include transmitting the measurement configuration for the apparatus and the measurement configuration for the network node to a user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Amaanat Ali
  • Patent number: 11021446
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I, a stereoisomer, enantiomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or an amino acid conjugate thereof; wherein variables are as defined herein; and their pharmaceutical compositions, which are useful as modulators of the activity of Farnesoid X receptors (FXR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Donatella Chianelli, Runyan Li, Valentina Molteni, John Nelson, Jason Thomas Roland, Paul Vincent Rucker, David Charles Tully, Xiaoyang Wang, Liladhar Murlidhar Waykole, Yubo Zhang, Bo Zhou
  • Patent number: 11012373
    Abstract: Provided are a resource allocation method, device and system. The method includes: a network device allocating in advance, to the terminal device according to information associated with prediction of a service required by a terminal device, a network resource for subsequent service transfer. The resource allocation method, device and system provided in an embodiment of the invention enable a terminal to perform subsequent service transfer according to a network resource allocated in advance by a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 10984354
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: receiving a tank-nearly-full message indicating that a tank at an oil or gas related facility is or will be ready for a truck to unload and transport fluid accumulating in the tank; in response to the tank-nearly-full message, creating a tank-run record; sending a description of the tank-run to a mobile device of a driver of an oilfield truck; receiving, from the mobile device of the driver of the oilfield truck, a tank-run claimed message indicating that the driver will drive to the oil or gas related facility and transport at least some of the fluid accumulating in the tank; and after the tank-run claimed message, performing steps including: confirming that the tank-run has not yet been claimed; after the confirmation, designating the tank-run as claimed by the driver; and sending confirmation to the mobile device of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SitePro, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Phillips, David Bateman, Britt Wuensche, Jordan Kutscherousky, Linlin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10959060
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for implementing MTC group message delivery. The MTC-IWF obtains policy information from the PCRF and controls the delivery of the MTC group message according to the policy information by introducing the policy information of the MTC group message delivery in the PCRF. By introducing a flexible policy control mechanism, it can help the operators to define and customize various MTC group message delivery rules. With the increase in MTC ASes and MTC groups, operators can choose the network better, control the use of network resources, thereby achieving the purpose of improving or optimizing the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Xiangyang Li, Yigang Cai
  • Patent number: 10945163
    Abstract: A method and subscriber unit provide mission critical talkgroup service while minimizing truncation and delay when at least one member talkgroup radio is on a Broadband LTE (Long Term Evolution) system. A dual-mode subscriber unit preferably obtains LMR coverage map data to predict the entry point and remaining duration for when the subscriber unit will operate in the backup LTE system. The subscriber unit falls back to the LTE system when the subscriber unit is out of the coverage area of the LMR system. Because the subscriber unit set the connected state prior to using the LTE network and continuously optimizes RRC mode parameters, audio truncation and call delay are greatly reduced without draining the battery of the subscriber unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yunhai Yang, Daniel J. McDonald
  • Patent number: 10901732
    Abstract: A method of initializing a subsystem by reading microcode from a block of a static blockchain associated to the subsystem, executing the microcode to configure the subsystem, and building event blocks associated with the subsystem using the block of the static blockchain as a genesis block of a live subsystem blockchain. The method comprises reading a block associated to a subsystem by an application executing on a processor of the subsystem, where the block associated to the subsystem is one of a plurality of blocks in a static blockchain, executing microcode of the block read by the application, based on executing the microcode, configuring the subsystem for operation, creating an event block by the application, where the event block stores information about an event generated by the subsystem operating based on the configuration, and attaching the event block to a live subsystem blockchain associated with the subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Tracy L. Nelson, Lyle W. Paczkowski
  • Patent number: 10904248
    Abstract: Gaming console user sign-in systems, methods, and services are provided herein. In one example, a user device, such as a gaming console, detects a connection event for a user input device and responsively determines a device identifier provided by the user input device associated with the connection event. The method includes linking a user identity for use on the user device to the device identifier, and persisting the linking between the user identity and the device identifier over more than one power cycle of the user device for sign-in of the user identity on the user device based on subsequent connection events involving the user input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel J. Dannemiller, Michelle Larez Mooney, Tina Marie Lemire
  • Patent number: 10869298
    Abstract: A wireless access point transfers first user data to a first User Equipment (UE) in first carrier-aggregated resource blocks according to an initial UE Carrier Aggregation (CA) schedule. The wireless access point transfers second user data to a wireless relay in second carrier-aggregated resource blocks according to an initial relay CA schedule. The wireless relay transfers the second user data to a second UE. The wireless access point translates the amount of first user data into a new UE CA schedule and a new relay CA schedule. The wireless access point transfers third user data to the first UE in third carrier-aggregated resource blocks according to the new UE CA schedule. The wireless access point transfers fourth user data to the wireless relay in fourth carrier-aggregated resource blocks according to the new relay CA schedule. The wireless relay transfers the fourth user data to the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Saravana Velusamy, Vanil Parihar, Nitesh Manchanda
  • Patent number: 10863332
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a roadside communication apparatus and an in-vehicle communication apparatus capable of reducing an increase in a traffic amount in a roadside-to-vehicle communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Kawai, Masahiko Ikawa, Yoshiaki Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10841127
    Abstract: A method establishes a vehicle area network on a vehicle having a tractor with a tractor wireless hub, the tractor being connected to a first trailer having a first trailer wireless hub. The method activates the tractor hub and the first trailer wireless hub, and shares credentials between the tractor wireless hub and the first trailer wireless hub in accordance with out of band pairing techniques. Typically, the tractor wireless hub acts as an access point for the vehicle area network but the access point can be centralized by: searching down a length of the vehicle to determine relative locations of the tractor wireless hub, the first trailer wireless hub and the second trailer wireless hub; determining a centrally located hub based on the locations; and establishing the centrally located hub as the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Sensata Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Greer, David Galbraith, Pete Tasker, Philip Catherwood, Alan Millen, Paul McGrotty
  • Patent number: 10819437
    Abstract: A self-organizing network of nodes communicates with uncollimated optical pulses. The nodes use low-power, unmoving, broad-beam optical interfaces, low-power processors, and communication algorithms based on timeslots within a timeframe. Nodes self-organize to form the network by pulsing detectors and sources to find neighboring nodes, confirm connections, transmit and store data, and exchange partner node identities. Two- or three-dimensional networks can thereby self-organize without external awareness of network topology, and can repair themselves when nodes move or fail. Node communication may be synchronous, thereby allowing for images of the environment status, and activation of the environment is possible via node stimulators. After forming a network, a cluster of nodes may be read out to provide data from node sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MEADOWAVE, LLC
    Inventor: Lee James Johnson
  • Patent number: 10805019
    Abstract: A lighting system serving as a wireless network system includes a plurality of lighting appliances, which are a plurality of wireless devices, that each have unique identifier and transmit/receive a radio signal. Under control performed by a lighting controller, an operation is sequentially performed with respect to each of the plurality of lighting appliances in which one lighting appliance from among the plurality of lighting appliances broadcasts a measurement signal that includes the identifier of that lighting appliance and the other lighting appliances receive the measurement signal and measure reception quality, which depends on the distance between the lighting appliances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suguya Ibaraki, Hisaki Honjo, Tetsu Nishimura, Yuki Maruno, Nobumitsu Amachi
  • Patent number: 10804994
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are an antenna beam management method and related device, used for solving the problem in current large-scale antenna technology wherein the overhead of beam management control signaling is large. The method is: a terminal sending related information of a downlink beam of the terminal to a base station so that the base station determines a first downlink sending beam on the basis of the related information of the downlink beam; the terminal receiving notification information related to the first downlink sending beam send by the base station, the notification information comprising indication information that is used by the terminal to determine at least one first downlink receiving beam; the terminal determining the at least one first downlink receiving beam on the basis of the notification information; and the terminal receiving a downlink signal on the basis of the at least one first downlink receiving beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Qiubin Gao, Runhua Chen, Tamrakar Rakesh, Xin Su, Chuanjun Li
  • Patent number: 10791526
    Abstract: A wireless communication device that includes circuitry that receives a physical layer (PHY) header from a first wireless communication device belonging to a first wireless communication network different from a second wireless communication network to which the wireless communication device belongs, and controls transmission power on a basis of allowance signal information obtained in reception of the PHY header, and the PHY header includes the allowance signal information in which allowance of another signal for signal reception in a first destination wireless communication device which is a destination of a frame subsequent to the PHY header is specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito Mori, Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 10785690
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing a cell change procedure in the wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving configuration information indicating an identifier of a radio bearer to which a cell change procedure be performed; and performing the cell change procedure in RLC (Radio Link Control) and PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) entities of the radio bearer indicated in the configuration information, wherein the cell change procedure comprises a re-establishment of the RLC and PDCP entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungjune Yi, Sunyoung Lee, Youngdae Lee, Sungjun Park
  • Patent number: 10778490
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a reference signal transmission method. A transmitting apparatus multiplies M first symbol sequences by M coefficients respectively to obtain M second symbol sequences, where M is a positive integer greater than 1, the symbol sequence includes L symbols, L is a positive integer greater than 1, and the M coefficients each have a magnitude of 1. The transmitting apparatus maps the M second symbol sequences onto a first time-frequency resource to obtain a frequency domain signal. The transmitting apparatus performs an IFFT operation on the frequency domain signal to obtain a time domain signal. And the transmitting apparatus sends the time domain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinlin Peng, Zongjie Wang, Mengying Ding
  • Patent number: 10772040
    Abstract: A method includes: determining, by a terminal device, M pilots of N air interface technologies on a carrier, where each of the N air interface technologies corresponds to one of the M pilots; measuring, by the terminal device, at least one cell by using the M pilots, to generate a measurement report; and determining, by the terminal device, a target cell in the at least one cell based on the measurement report. After determining the target cell, the terminal device may access the target cell. In this way, a plurality of services that are greatly different may be transmitted by using the N air interface technologies, corresponding air interface technologies are provided based on different service requirements of the terminal device, and resources may be dynamically allocated to the plurality of air interface technologies, thereby effectively improving radio resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Yada Huang, Qinghai Zeng, Xilei Cai
  • Patent number: 10771953
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for selecting a transmission mode for a transmission to at least one further user equipment, by selecting a communication profile for communication with the at least one further user equipment out of a set of provided communication profiles as a function of at least one determined location property, wherein each communication profile defines a set of transmission parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Maik Bienas, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans, Achim Luft
  • Patent number: 10768008
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing remotely captured sensor data. A computing platform having at least one processor, a communication interface, and memory may receive, via the communication interface, from a user computing device, sensor data captured by the user computing device using one or more sensors built into the user computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may analyze the sensor data received from the user computing device by executing one or more data processing modules. Then, the computing platform may generate trip record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the trip record data in a trip record database. In addition, the computing platform may generate user record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the user record data in a user record database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Pratheek M. Harish, Benjamin Robertson Yeomans, Alexander Herrmann, Kyle Patrick Schmitt, Venu Madhav Tammali, Samantha Mait
  • Patent number: 10739823
    Abstract: A motion control assembly includes a motion control device electrically connected to a battery pack and to a mobile computing device for at least data transmission therebetween. The motion control device can generate inputs, such as inputs corresponding to an attribute of a sensed object, for transmission to the mobile computing device. The drain on a battery of a battery-powered mobile computing device can be reduced when used with a motion control device as follows. A motion control assembly, comprising a motion control device and a battery pack, capable of powering the motion control device, as an integral, one-piece unit, is selected. The motion control device is connected to an electrical connector of a battery-powered mobile computing device. The motion control device is supplied with power from the battery pack during use so the motion control device can be operated using the power from the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Gordon, Paul Alan Durdik
  • Patent number: 10735148
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an acknowledgement indication method for data transmission and a related device. The method includes: detecting, by a base station, whether each user equipment (UE) in an acknowledgement group transmits data, to obtain a detection result; generating, by the base station, an acknowledgement indication message according to the detection result, where the acknowledgement indication message indicates a flag bit status corresponding to each UE in the acknowledgement group, the flag bit status includes a first state or a second state, the first state indicates that the base station finds data, and the second state indicates that the base station does not find data; and sending, by the base station, the acknowledgement indication message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Sun, Qiang Wu, Lixia Xue
  • Patent number: 10728727
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing interference in wireless communication among computing devices are disclosed herein. In accordance with an aspect, a first wireless communication device is provided that is operably connected to a first server and configured to wirelessly communicate information associated with the first server. The method includes determining, at the first wireless communication device, presence of a second wireless communication device operably connected to a second server. The method also includes negotiating with the second wireless communication device to establish a plan for sharing wireless communication airspace between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device. Further, the method includes controlling communication based on the plan for sharing wireless communication airspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Fred A. Bower, Charles C. Queen
  • Patent number: 10728785
    Abstract: A radio communication device includes a transceiver and a cell measurement reporting circuit configured to determine for a signal reception quality related event, whether an event entry condition is fulfilled, in case the condition is fulfilled concerning a cell for the event, to add the concerned cell into a candidate reporting list, to trigger and carry out a first measurement report process for the cell included in the candidate reporting list, after having carried out the first measurement report process, to determine, for each cell included in the candidate reporting list and for which no first measurement report process has been carried out, as to whether a measurement criterion for the respective cell is fulfilled with respect to a cell for which the first measurement report process has been carried out, and to trigger and carry out a second measurement report process for each cell which fulfills the measurement criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Wang, Yucheng Dai, Ralf Rossbach
  • Patent number: 10715229
    Abstract: Facilitating semi-open loop based transmission diversity for uplink transmissions in a communications network is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise receiving, from a network device, information related to a sounding reference resource. The information related to the sounding reference resource can be based on a sounding reference signal resource transmission detected during a defined time interval. The operations can also comprise, based on a selected weight vector cycling, selecting a weight vector from defined weight vectors stored in the memory, resulting in a selected weight vector. Further, the operations can comprise transmitting, to the network device, a signal that comprises the selected weight vector multiplied with the sounding reference signal, during the selected weight vector cycling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh, SaiRamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 10708874
    Abstract: A method of adjusting a reference frequency of a frequency component of a first mobile communications device configured to communicate with one or more further mobile communications devices via a wireless interface and in accordance with a communication protocol. In accordance with the communication protocol, a first synchronization signal is provided on the wireless interface for timing and frequency tuning and a reference signal is provided on the wireless interface for channel estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Brian Alexander Martin, Shinichiro Tsuda, Jussi Tapani Kahtava
  • Patent number: 10693575
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system identifies a plurality of performance indicators comprising device performance indicators for a plurality of communication devices on a cellular network and network performance indicators for the cellular network. The method also includes obtaining historical data regarding the plurality of performance indicators for each of a series of time points during a past time period; the historical data for each of the plurality of performance indicators form an array of values for that performance indicator. The method further includes generating from each array a set of inputs to an algorithm for predicting a throughput of the cellular network during a future time period; the set of inputs comprises quantiles of the array, and the algorithm comprises a machine learning algorithm. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., University College Cork—National University of Ireland
    Inventors: Rittwik Jana, Emir Halepovic, Rakesh Sinha, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Ahmed Zahran, Darijo Raca, Cormac John Sreenan, Balagangadhar G. Bathula, Matteo Varvello
  • Patent number: 10660103
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (alternatively, device, WDEV, etc.) includes at least one processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processing circuitry, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A WDEV determines capabilities of other WDEVs and generates a first orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame that includes resource unit (RU) allocation specified for the other WDEVs and media access controller (MAC) padding (e.g., selected based on capability of at least one of the other WDEVs. The WDEV then transmits the first OFDMA frame to the other WDEVs to be processed by them and then receives a second OFDMA frame from the other WDEVs based on the RU allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Zhou Lan, Matthew James Fischer
  • Patent number: 10631067
    Abstract: A highlight transmission service allows users of communication devices to view highlights of sporting events while the sporting events are occurring without having to watch the sporting events. For example, a computer-implemented method may comprise: determining that a highlight of a sporting event is to be conveyed to a communication device; and transmitting data regarding the highlight of the sporting event to the communication device over a network during the sporting event in order to allow a user of the communication device to view the highlight of the sporting event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventors: Housam Badaan, Martin Tremblay
  • Patent number: 10630846
    Abstract: An intercommunication system with Adaptive Transmit Delay patches audio sources to a radio system (e.g., a trunked-radio system) such that outgoing audio is sent to the radio system as soon as a channel has been acquired, without further transmit delay. The intercommunication system generates a pattern representative of the radio's Talk Permit Tone. The intercommunication system then buffers outgoing audio while analyzing incoming audio from the radio and comparing the incoming audio to the generated pattern to determine when a Talk Permit Tone has been received. When the Talk Permit Tone is received, the intercommunication system releases buffered outgoing audio for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: QRT Software, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Alan Mastro
  • Patent number: 10609758
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for discontinuous reception for a shortened transmission time interval and processing time includes a device monitoring for data transmission scheduling assignments during an active time of a DRX cycle, and detecting a transmission during the active time. The method further includes the device starting a first timer, in response to the detecting, wherein the first timer is set for a first timer value that specifies an amount of time between detecting the transmission and starting a second timer that extends the active time by a second timer value. The first timer value is determined based on one or both of a selected first TTI length from multiple TTI lengths for which the device can be enabled and/or a selected shorter first processing time over a second processing time associated with a TTI length used by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Hossein Bagheri, Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 10609745
    Abstract: A method for pairing authentication between a vehicle and a mobile device is proposed. After a host computer of the vehicle is operated to send out a vehicle identification code for pairing and the mobile device is operated to select the vehicle identification code, the host computer enables both of a host display of the vehicle and the mobile device to display a pairing code at the same time. After a pairing procedure is performed within a predetermined pairing operation period, the host computer completes pairing authentication between the host computer and the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KWANG YANG MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Yang Tsai, Hsi-Kun Chen
  • Patent number: 10587326
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to select a cell that is more preferable for a terminal device in an environment in which beamforming is performed. [Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire first received power information indicating received power of a reference signal for measurement transmitted by a target base station using a weight set for beamforming in a terminal device and second received power information indicating received power of a reference signal for measurement transmitted by another base station using a weight set for beamforming in the terminal device; and a control unit configured to calculate received quality of the reference signal transmitted by the target base station in the terminal device based on the first received power information and the second received power information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10587503
    Abstract: Techniques for a selection or reselection a user-plane path in a mobile network are disclosed herein. A user-plane gateway (GW-U) can be configured to decode a packet received from a control plane gateway (GW-C) in a packet data network gateway (PGW) to determine a forwarding policy. Additionally, the GW-U can decode, from an evolved node B (eNB), an internet protocol (IP) packet having a header field. Furthermore, the GW-U can determine a user-plane path for the IP packet based on a comparison of the header field and the forwarding policy. Based on the determined user-plane path, the GW-U can forward the IP packet to a local application server (AS), encapsulate and forward the IP packet to the PGW, or discard the IP packet. Moreover, the GW-U can encode the IP packet for transmission based on the determined user-plane selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yifan Yu
  • Patent number: 10568092
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for improved scheduling and/or scheduling configuration. A base station may receive, from a user equipment (UE), an indication of one or more UE capabilities. The base station may determine, based on the one or more UE capabilities, when a grant to be transmitted is usable by the UE. The base station may transmit the grant to the UE, the grant including an assignment of resources based on when the grant is usable. In some examples, a UE may identify one or more UE capabilities in association with different grant characteristics and transmit, to a base station, an indication of the one or more UE capabilities. The UE may receive, from the base station, a grant having one of the different grant characteristics and including an assignment of resources, the assignment of resources based on the one or more UE capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Hao Xu, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 10548081
    Abstract: A data sequence to be transmitted is constituted by a data body and preceding data. The amount of preceding data is smaller than that of data body. If it is determined as a result of executing carrier sensing that a frequency band of radio waves to be transmitted is not being used by another contending communication system, the preceding data is transmitted after the lapse of a predetermined time. If it is determined as a result of executing carrier sensing after completion of transmitting of the preceding data that the frequency band is not being used by another contending communication system, the data body is transmitted after the lapse of a predetermined time. If it is determined that the frequency band is being used, the contention for the frequency band is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Horibe, Nobumitsu Amachi
  • Patent number: 10531365
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method of cell processing is disclosed, which includes disposing a plurality of cells on a substrate across which a plurality of projections are distributed and an electrically conductive layer at least partially coating said projections, exposing the cells to a cargo to be internalized by the cells, irradiating the substrate surface (and in particular the projections) with one or more laser pulses having a pulse width in a range of about 1 ns to about 1000 ns so as to facilitate uptake of the cargo by at least a portion of the cells (e.g., the cells positioned in the vicinity of the projections (e.g., within hundreds of nanometer (such as less than 100 nm) of the projections)). In some embodiments, the laser pulses have a pulse width in a range of about 10 ns to about 500 ns, e.g., in a range of about 5 ns to about 50 ns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Samian Kaur, Amir Helmy, Dimitrios Karampatsis, Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad, Mahmoud Watfa, Loic Canonne-Velasquez
  • Patent number: 10524102
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method for operating an electronic device. The method comprises transmitting a signal including a list of one or more objects, receiving a signal including beacon recognition information of at least one object included in the list of one or more objects, storing the beacon recognition information, and making a request for information on the at least one object to a server when receiving at least one beacon signal that matches with the stored beacon recognition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Jung Kim, Kiseok Lee
  • Patent number: 10524309
    Abstract: A method is provided for interacting with audience members in an event, each of the potential attendees having available thereto a unique identifier. The method comprises creating, for an attendee, a unique ID (UID) on a mobile wireless device (MWD) by the steps of inputting to the MWD one of the unique identifiers, combining the obtained unique identifier with a UID time stamp at the time of creation of the UID; receiving with a server on a first wireless channel communications from the MWD; registering the UID at the physical location of the event; generating a visual query; displaying on the MWD response indicators; receiving at the server from the registered attendee a response, to the query over the first wireless channel; and storing in a database on the server the received response in association with the displayed query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: TESLA LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventor: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer
  • Patent number: 10514757
    Abstract: Systems and methods for configuring wireless communications using motion vectors in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (xR) applications are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive motion vector data representative of a direction of travel of a user wearing xR headset; and change a configuration of an antenna based upon the motion vector data, wherein the antenna enables the IHS to wirelessly transmit xR content to the xR headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael S. Gatson, Thanh T. Tran