Power Conservation Patents (Class 455/574)
  • Patent number: 10278162
    Abstract: A device and method controlling working state change of a small cell and a base station including the device. The device includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires interference between a small cell to be controlled and an adjacent small cell and/or load of the small cell to be controlled or load distributed by other small cells and to be borne by the small cell to be controlled; and a state change determination unit that determines working state change to be performed by the small cell to be controlled according to the acquired interference and/or load. The working state includes multiple sleep levels from low to high. A sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a low sleep level is less than a sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a high sleep level, the working state change being performed among multiple sleep levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Ningyu Chen, Jiahui Liu, Yingni Zhang, Liang Zeng, Zhongbin Qin
  • Patent number: 10271361
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless LAN system. The method for transmitting data comprises the steps of: generating a master-beacon frame including identifier information of an end-point terminal connected to a relay device; and transmitting the master-beacon frame. As a result, the occurrence of a buffer overflow in the relay device can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: KT Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Seok Jeong, Joo Young Kim
  • Patent number: 10264084
    Abstract: Some implementations allow users to create and share data including playlists. Such playlists may be subscribed to by other users. Changes to such playlists, such as updates by the curator of the playlist, must be propagated to subscribers in a timely manner while efficiently utilizing resources. Some implementations allow updates to be propagated using a push notification to cause client devices to request the update (push). Alternatively, updates may be made when the client devices of the subscribers next accesses the system (pull). An aggregator system may be used to make decisions on which users to send push notifications, and which users to wait to pull updates on their own. Additionally, the aggregator may determine that certain playlist updates should be distributed using push notifications. The aggregator may determine that only certain playlist subscribers should receive push notifications regarding playlist updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Arvind S. Shenoy, Priyo Mustafi, Paul C. Irvine, Venkat Kranthi Chalasani, Thomas Alsina, Cody D. Jorgensen
  • Patent number: 10257781
    Abstract: Context-based coordinated data retrieval for mobile devices is provided. An interface between application code of a mobile device and an operating system of the mobile device receives a declarative language based data-retrieval request made by the application code for data from an I/O device of the mobile device. Based on operating context of the mobile device, opportunistic coordination rule(s) are selected from a local rules cache, the rule(s) representative of at least one power-saving option for retrieving data for responding to the request. The rule(s) are evaluated to determine how to retrieve data for responding to the request, and action(s) are performed based on the evaluating, the action(s) including responding to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vijay Ekambaram, Roger C. Snook, Leigh A. Williamson, Shinoj Zacharias
  • Patent number: 10255481
    Abstract: A display device for displaying an image and a method by which the display device operates to display an image are provided. The display device may include a display configured to output a screen image, an image sensor configured to acquire an image signal, a bending detection sensor configured to detect a bending motion or a bent state of the display device, and a control unit configured to control the display to display an image, which is generated based on the image signal, in a region according to a position at which the display is bent on the screen image if the bending detection sensor detects the bending motion or a bent state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shi-yun Cho, So-young Kim, Woo-ram Jeon, Youn-ho Choi, Dae-myung Kim, Kyung-wan Park, Jae-young Huh
  • Patent number: 10250457
    Abstract: A node availability estimation service can be used at a service layer of an M2M/IoT network. Value-added services can leverage this node availability information to improve the operation intelligence, quality of service, communication overhead as well as energy efficiency for M2M/IoT systems. A Real-time Data Collection (DC) component can collect real-time data from input sources at service layer (e.g., other existing CSFs). A Data Processing for Estimating Node Availability component (DP) can execute data processing for estimating node availability based on the data collected by DC. A Node Availability Service Provisioning component (SP) can store the estimated node availability results from DP and expose them to service clients in terms of “node availability estimation services”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Xu Li, Guang Lu, Lijun Dong, Dale N. Seed, Hongkun Li, William Robert Flynn, IV, Phillip Brown, Catalina M. Mladin
  • Patent number: 10237369
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for opportunistic backhauling of data in a deployment of FTM Responder systems. An example FTM Responder may include a backhaul payload processing circuit configured to determine a requirement to transmit a first instance of backhaul data to a first destination device. The FTM Responder may also include an FTM request handler circuit configured to receive a first FTM request from a first mobile station. The FTM Responder may further include an FTM response generation circuit configured to generate an FTM response that includes FTM data responsive to the request and a first backhaul payload message. The first backhaul payload message includes an address of the first destination device and further includes the first instance of backhaul data. The FTM Responder may further include a transceiver circuit configured to transmit the FTM response to the first mobile station. The FTM Responder may be an FTM capable wireless access point (AP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Elad Eyal
  • Patent number: 10231145
    Abstract: A mobile network comprises a cell, with one or more subordinate cells having regions that are each located at least partially within a coverage region of the cell. A base station serving the cell receives a measurement report from a further base station. The further base station is operable for serving one of the subordinate cells. The measurement report indicates a result of a measurement performed by the further base station on an uplink reference signal transmitted by a user equipment. On the basis of the measurement report, the base station controls activity of the subordinate cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Hanzhi Zhang, Gen Li
  • Patent number: 10225753
    Abstract: A terminal, and a control method for a terminal in a wireless communication system including a network of base stations, operating under extended discontinuous reception. The method comprises the steps of performing discontinuous reception of signals from a serving base station so as to listen for a paging message, with a reception periodicity having a first interval; performing radio link measurements so as to determine the need for cell selection, with a measurement periodicity having a second interval; wherein the second interval is shorter than the first interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Rickard Ljung, Basuki Priyanto
  • Patent number: 10211857
    Abstract: Described herein are front-end architectures that use switch-combining in a MIMO module to provide uplink carrier aggregation and simultaneous MIMO operations in a plurality of band combinations. The front-end architectures include a combination of low-band, mid-band, high-band, MIMO, and uplink carrier aggregation modules to provide the described functionality. To provide certain band combinations, one or more of the modules can implement switchplexing to provide the targeted functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Joel Richard King, David Richard Pehlke, John Chi-Shuen Leung
  • Patent number: 10204595
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for adjusting screen brightness. The method may include: determining a screen brightness adjusting curve corresponding to current time, and determining current screen brightness according to current ambient luminance and the screen brightness adjusting curve. With the technical solutions provided in the present disclosure, the screen brightness can be adjusted to be most suitable for human eyes according to time; the problem of unsatisfactory screen brightness caused by adjusting a screen into same brightness according to same ambient brightness in different time periods is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kailun Song, Yuzhen Wan, Jiankai Zhao
  • Patent number: 10206124
    Abstract: Many applications used in communication systems involve bidirectional data transfer. In bidirectional data transfer applications, a client terminal has to turn on its hardware components such as transmitter at the time of transmitting the data and the receiver at the time of receiving the data. When the transmission and reception of data happens at different time instances, the client terminal has to turn on and off the transmitter, the receiver and other modules at separate time instances. This may lead to increased power consumption. A method and apparatus are disclosed for the modem in a client terminal that bring the transmission and the reception instances close to each other or overlap with each other when performing bidirectional communication. This may reduce the rate at which the client terminal has to turn on and off its transmitter, receiver and other modules which may in turn reduce its power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: MBIT WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventor: Sivakumar Govindassamy
  • Patent number: 10200528
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for performing a function in the electronic device are provided. The method includes recognizing that the electronic device is at a first state, the first state including that the electronic device is in an overturned state or that a predetermined amount of a display is covered; detecting a specific event in the first state; outputting a color notification associated with the detected specific event through at least a portion of the display, the portion of the display wrapping around a side edge of the electronic device; receiving a specific user input corresponding to the color notification, while outputting the color notification; and performing a function associated with the received specific user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hyun Jung Song, Wan Soo Lim, Seung Min Choi, Ji Hyun Choi, Kyoung Taek Kim, Jun Ho Park
  • Patent number: 10200820
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for updating directions to a container. In one embodiment an apparatus for updating directions to a container comprises a container housing, a movement sensor attached to the container housing, a wireless transceiver; and a control circuit coupled to the movement sensor and the wireless transceiver. The control circuit being configured to: detect a relocation of the container housing via the movement sensor, determine an estimated new location of the container, and send, via the wireless transceiver, the estimated new location to a computing device to initiate an update of a direction to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventor: Bruce W. Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 10200933
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless LAN system. The method for transmitting data comprises the steps of: generating an activation request frame including end-point terminal identifier information for operating an end-point terminal connected to a relay device and in a wake mode; and transmitting the activation request frame to the relay device. As a result, the occurrence of a buffer overflow in the relay device can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: KT Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Seok Jeong, Joo Young Kim
  • Patent number: 10193945
    Abstract: Systems and methods for distributing media to computing devices are provided. Specifically, customers of airlines frequently desire media during a flight. The present invention provides various media, including audio, video, periodicals, maps for tracking purposes, and other like media to personal electronic devices, such as would be desired for a flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Inventor: Robert T. Valentine
  • Patent number: 10189426
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for operating a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) board in a driverless vehicle. The method according to a specific embodiment includes: collecting driving scenario information on a driving scenario of the driverless vehicle; determining, based on the driving scenario information, a speed at which the driverless vehicle executes a computing operation in the driving scenario; comparing the speed with a speed threshold; switching a working mode of the FPGA board in the driverless vehicle executing the computing operation to reduce power consumption of the FPGA board, in response to the speed being lower than the speed threshold. This embodiment implements the adaptive adjustment of the working mode of the FPGA board, thereby reducing the overall power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhao Zhang, Jian Ouyang, Jing Wang, Peng Wu, Liang Gao, Yupeng Li
  • Patent number: 10182326
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling a connection between a first device and a second device by using a Bluetooth LE (Low Energy) or a Bluetooth BR/EDR. According to the present invention, the control device transmits first control information for changing the mode of the device to at least one of the first device and the second device, and connects the first device to the second device The second device can control the connection between the first device and the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsoo Lee, Hyunsik Yang
  • Patent number: 10178614
    Abstract: The techniques discussed herein reduce the power consumption of a Wi-Fi tethering device by switching the Wi-Fi functionality of the Wi-Fi tethering device from a normal operational mode to a sleep mode during idle intervals. The techniques implement a sleep protocol where a Wi-Fi tethering device and the Wi-Fi client device coordinate and establish a sleep schedule. Moreover, the techniques describe a sleep interval adaptation algorithm to establish sleep duration intervals based on data packet exchange patterns associated with different applications executing on the Wi-Fi client device and/or different operations being performed by the Wi-Fi client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yunxin Liu, Guobin Shen, Yongguang Zhang, Hao Han
  • Patent number: 10178199
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking resources used by triggers such as alarms and timers that are used by mobile applications to schedule tasks and intelligently manipulating the timing of the triggers to optimize usage of resources such as, but not limited to: network, battery, CPU and/or memory are disclosed. In one embodiment, an intelligent alarm manipulator and resource tracker tracks triggers from multiple applications on a mobile device and corresponding use of resources resulting from the triggers on a mobile device. The intelligent alarm manipulator and resource tracker further determines correlations between the triggers and the corresponding use of the resources on the mobile device and manipulates, based on the correlations, timing or frequency of some or all of the triggers to optimize the use of the resources on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Seven Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Abhay Nirantar, Ari Backholm
  • Patent number: 10172099
    Abstract: Logic may comprise hardware and/or code to coordinate communications of wireless communications devices to reduce power consumption by stations. Logic may coordinate communications in an access point. Logic may generate and transmit a wake frame from the access point to the station to wake the receive circuitry of the station. Logic of the station may wake the receive circuitry from an idle mode, which may be a less linear and less sensitive mode, to a receiver (RX) active state, which is a high linear and high sensitivity mode. Once the receiver circuitry enters the RX active state, the station is ready to receive a transmission. Logic may implement the wake frame as a medium access control frame or as a null data packet, physical layer frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Minyoung Park, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Patent number: 10156889
    Abstract: Inductive peripheral retention device techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a plug configured to removably engage a communication port of a device to form a communicative coupling with the device. The plug is securable to and removable from the device using one or more hands of a user. The apparatus also includes a peripheral securing portion connected to the plug and configured to removably engage a peripheral device via an inductive element formed as a flexible loop and configured to form a communicative coupling between the peripheral device and the device, which may be used to support charging of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Allen Jakoboski, Shiu Sang Ng, William H. Standing
  • Patent number: 10152108
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus that can surely execute desired actuation and devises control of actuation to realize power saving and a power feed control method for the mobile apparatus are provided. Therefore, a mobile apparatus of the present invention includes an acceleration detecting section configured to detect acceleration, a state identifying section configured to identify switch operation, and a power-feed control section configured to perform power feed control. The power-feed control section performs control to start power feed when the acceleration detecting section detects acceleration and continue the power feed when the state identifying section identifies the switch operation after the acceleration detecting section detects the acceleration and performs control to stop the power feed when the state identifying section does not identify the switch operation after the acceleration detecting section detects the acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Miura, Kenta Yumoto, Masatoshi Tobinai, Ko Kimura
  • Patent number: 10154522
    Abstract: There is provided a communication control device including a communication path selecting unit that selects one or more wireless communication paths by which a wireless communication terminal performing communication using two or more wireless communication paths and a processing executing device executing processing for providing a communication service to the wireless communication terminal communicate with each other and a communication setting control unit that performs setting such that, when a plurality of wireless communication paths are selected, communication is performed between at least one processing executing device corresponding to the plurality of selected wireless communication paths and the wireless communication terminal, using the plurality of wireless communication paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Takamura, Nishiki Mizusawa, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10153990
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method in a user equipment (605) for communicating with a base station (603) in a communications network (600). The user equipment (605) is configured to communicate with the base station (603) according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories. The user equipment (605) selects one of the at least two user equipment categories if information indicating the one of the user equipment categories is received from the base station (603). The user equipment (605) selects a default of the user equipment categories if no information indicating which of the user equipment categories is received from the base station (603). The user equipment (605) determines a soft buffer size according to the selected user equipment category. The user equipment (605) communicates with the base station (603) according to the selected user equipment category and applying the determined soft buffer size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dirk Gerstenberger, Daniel Larsson, Kai-Erik Sunell, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 10149241
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for starting a mobile hotspot, including: a password sending module, configured to send a Bluetooth pairing password and a preset start password to a mobile terminal that previously accessed a mobile hotspot via WIFI; a working state detecting module, configured to: detect the working state of mobile hotspot; a sleep triggering module, configured to trigger the mobile hotspot to enter into a sleeping state when detecting that the mobile hotspot has no user access and/or no data service; a Bluetooth module, configured to establish a Bluetooth connection with the mobile terminal and receive a password sent by the mobile terminal when the mobile hotspot is in the sleeping state; a start controlling module, configured to compare the password with a locally stored start password and control the mobile hotspot to enter into the working state when the comparison result is that they are consistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Zhang, Jin Han
  • Patent number: 10149188
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and device are provided. The wireless communication method includes the steps of directly monitoring a paging channel (PCH) without detecting a paging indicator (PI) in a paging indicator channel (PICH) by user equipment; and decoding data of the PCH by the user equipment. The wireless communication method further includes the step of monitoring the PCH according to information of the PCH received from a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Lai Chen, Chen-Yi Wang, Hsin-Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 10142816
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, servers, apparatus, computer-/processor-readable media, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving by a device a triggering message from an emergency call server responsive to an indication of an emergency condition at the device to trigger a tracking session to periodically collect and send tracking session data associated with the device to one or more servers, establishing the tracking session, separate from an emergency call session established between the device and the emergency call server, with the one or more servers, and sending, by the device to the one or more servers, the tracking session data collected during the tracking session by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Dirceu Cavendish, Ashok Bhatia
  • Patent number: 10129829
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for reducing power consumption in a portable terminal that transmits digital broadcast data through an ad hoc network are provided. If a terminal receiving digital broadcast transmits the received digital broadcast to a neighboring terminal, a control unit enters a sleep mode after buffering received data for a predefined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bu-Seop Jung, Jong-Mu Choi, Jung-Hun Lee, Jae-Ki You
  • Patent number: 10129376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal. Provided is a mobile terminal comprising: a display unit having a window; a main body on which the display unit is seated, wherein an internal space is formed between the main body and the display unit; a sliding unit having a first battery accommodated therein, wherein the sliding unit implements a first state where the sliding unit is inserted into the internal space and a second state where the sliding unit is extracted from the internal space; and a second battery provided in the internal space to supply electric power when the first battery is extracted, wherein in the first state, wireless communication for mobile communication and an operation by software are performed using the first battery, and in the second state, the wireless communication for mobile communication is interrupted, and the operation by the software is performed using the second battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Soheon Cho, Hokyoung Koong, Minbok Lee, Woosun Kang
  • Patent number: 10117222
    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving, at a second device of a data link group of a neighbor aware network (NAN), a message including an indication of whether a first device corresponding to a particular service is available during a particular time period during which devices of the data link group are configured to operate in an active operating mode. The method also includes transitioning to a low-power operating mode during one or more transmission windows corresponding to the particular time period in response to determining that the first device is unavailable during the particular time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, Santosh Paul Abraham, George Cherian, Alireza Raissinia, James Cho, Guido Frederiks
  • Patent number: 10103785
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method that may select a target for a wireless power transmission. A resonance power transmitter may include a source resonance unit including a plurality of source resonators that are each configured to transmit AC power to a resonance power receiver; a path-multiplexer configured to supply the AC power to each of the plurality of source resonators; a detector configured to transmit a wake-up signal to at least one resonance power receiver; and a source controller configured to control the path-multiplexer in order to transmit the AC power to the at least one detected resonance power receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam Yun Kim, Sang Wook Kwon
  • Patent number: 10091725
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a system and method for providing flexible receiver configuration in wireless communication systems, such as 802.11 WLAN systems. In one embodiment, a wireless device may transmit a first data frame including first configuration information specifying a first configuration of the receiver to notify a remote device that the wireless device intends to configure its receiver according to the first configuration. After receiving an acknowledgement frame confirming the first configuration information, the wireless device may configure the receiver according to the first configuration. In another embodiment, a wireless device may receive a first data frame including first configuration information and further including a request that the wireless device configure its receiver according to the first configuration. In response, the wireless device may configure the receiver according to the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chiu Ngok E. Wong, Christiaan A. Hartman, Guoqing Li, Jarkko Lauri Sakari Kneckt, Joonsuk Kim
  • Patent number: 10091467
    Abstract: In a battery-powered audio/video recording and communication device having a camera, the length of a preset interval (the interval between instances of the device sending a request to a network to check whether any user requests to access the camera have been received) may be adjusted upward or downward in order to balance the competing interests of reducing latency (e.g. reducing the delay that the user may experience when trying to access the camera) and conserving battery life. The present embodiments advantageously balance these competing interests by initially setting the length of the preset interval to be relatively short to reduce latency, but automatically increasing the length of the preset interval as the battery charge is depleted, thereby extending battery life. The present embodiments also advantageously enable the length of the preset interval to be increased after the battery is recharged, thereby reducing latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Modestine, Joshua Roth
  • Patent number: 10085172
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for low power consumption in wireless communication systems are disclosed herein. An evolved node B (eNodeB) is configured to provide a connection reconfiguration message to user equipment (UE) connected to the eNodeB, the connection reconfiguration message configuring the UE to indicate a power preference. The eNodeB receives assistance information from the UE. The assistance information includes a low power preference indication and a timer length, wherein the timer length indicates a preferred duration for a low power mode. The eNodeB provides, in response to receiving the assistance information, a connection release message to the UE. The connection release message includes paging discontinuous reception (DRX) information that includes the timer length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Puneet K. Jain, Varun N. Rao, Ali T. Koc, Maruti Gupta
  • Patent number: 10085233
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method for determining PO by UEs in an eDRX cycle. The method includes determining PHs in the eDRX cycle based on estimated values of UE_ID_H and number of hyper-frames in the eDRX cycle. The method includes determining a first radio frame of PTW based on a determined value of NPTW and ieDRX. The method includes determining a last radio frame of PTW based on the first radio frame and length of the PTW. The method includes determining PFs in the PTW. The determination of PFs is based on the UE_ID. The method includes determining the POs, in each of the determined PFs, based on an index associated with each of the POs. The index associated with each PO is computed based on the UE_ID, number of frames available for paging in a DRX cycle, and number of sub-frames available for paging in each PF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pravjyot Singh Deogun, Anshuman Nigam
  • Patent number: 10080194
    Abstract: A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for awaking electronic equipment. The method for awaking the electronic equipment includes monitoring whether a first processor needs to be awaked, when the first processor is powered off; and controlling a power supply module to supply power to the first processor to awake the first processor, if the first processor needs to be awaked. The monitoring whether the first processor needs to be awaked can be performed by a wireless module included in the electronic equipment, rather than by an additional Microcontroller Unit (MCU).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Kangxi Tan, Li He, Xiaohe Yang
  • Patent number: 10075199
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are front-end architectures for wireless communication that support a wide range of combinations of uplink carrier aggregation (UL CA) and simultaneous multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) functionality. Embodiments can include a separate mid-band power amplifier module and a separate high band power amplifier module, and can establish various numbers of antenna outputs from these modules to connect to available diplexers or triplexers in selected ways to cover all intended use cases. Duplication of filters, duplexers, and/or quadplexers is reduced or minimized by re-using filtering in a selectively designed MIMO receive module that supports switch-combined TX filters. A UL CA power amplifier module makes use of the MIMO receive module, as well as the re-use of available filters in the mid-band primary power amplifier module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Joel Richard King, David Richard Pehlke, John Chi-Shuen Leung
  • Patent number: 10070393
    Abstract: A method for control of data transmission in a wireless communication system includes receiving, by an application, from a modem, information indicative of a radio coverage condition, where a user equipment (UE) includes the application and the modem; based on the received information, determining that the UE is in an enhanced coverage state; and in response to the determining, controlling uplink data transmission by the modem to reduce power consumption of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario, Inc.
    Inventors: Claude Jean-Frederic Arzelier, Stephen John Barrett, Rene Faurie, Karen Lynn Bachman
  • Patent number: 10070388
    Abstract: In one aspect, a node in a mesh network receives presence messages from neighbor node in the mesh network, and determines a number of neighbor nodes, based on the received presence messages. The node determines a duty cycle percentage to be requested of the neighbor nodes, based on the number of the neighbor nodes, the duty cycle percentage indicating a minimum percentage of time the neighbor nodes should be awake to receive messages, so as to ensure a predetermined probability of successful reception of messages transmitted by the node. The node broadcasts the duty cycle percentage for reception by the neighbor nodes. The node also receives requested duty cycle percentages from corresponding neighbor nodes, sets an operating duty cycle of the node based on a greatest duty cycle percentage of the received duty cycle percentages, and sleeps and wakes according to the set duty cycle of the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Roman Chirikov, Piergiuseppe Di Marco
  • Patent number: 10070274
    Abstract: Method and system for controlling a plurality of communication devices. One system includes a server for a communication system in which each of a plurality of communication devices is affiliated with at least one talk group among a plurality of talk groups. The server includes an electronic processor configured to determine whether each communication device of the plurality of communication devices is in a connected state. The electronic processor is further configured to determine that at least one talk group does not include any communication devices affiliated with the at least one talk group that are in the connected state. The electronic processor is further configured to place at least one communication device affiliated with the at least one talk group in an artificially-connected state based on at least one characteristic of the communication devices affiliated with the at least one talk group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Madhusudan K. Pai, Dominic Lazara
  • Patent number: 10064026
    Abstract: A unified message delivery between multiple devices is disclosed. Sending messages through a local communications link, such as but not limited to at least one of a Bluetooth connection and a peer-to-peer WiFi connection, can lead to faster transmission times and reduced server load. When the local communications link is unavailable or not suitable, the messages can be sent through a network and a push server. In some examples, messages can be sent through both the local communications link and through the network and the push server. Duplicates of a received message can be avoided by utilizing indicators. In some examples, one or more devices can include queue(s) to ensure ordered delivery of a plurality of messages when a local communications link and network connection become unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel B. Pollack, Pierre Jonathan De Filippis, Hyeonkuk Jeong, Berkat S. Tung, Yan Yang, Gobind Johar, Justin Wood, Roberto Garcia, Gokul Thirumalai
  • Patent number: 10057405
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and apparatuses covering subscriber initiated handoff to improve call quality, change networks, record a quality event, or for other purposes. The subscriber initiated handoff is primarily designed to be used in conjunction with a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Inventor: Peter O. Roach
  • Patent number: 10055076
    Abstract: In a second-conductive-sheet for a touch-panel, a plurality of upper-detection-electrodes disposed in a detection region and a plurality of second terminal wiring portions disposed in a peripheral wiring region to electrically connect the upper-detection-electrodes to second terminal portions and are formed. Each of the upper-detection-electrodes is made of a mesh-patterned first metal mesh having intersecting thin conductive metal wires, and each of the second terminal wiring portions is made of a mesh-patterned second metal mesh having intersecting thin conductive metal wires made of the same material as the thin conductive metal wires constituting each of the upper detection electrodes. The wire width of the first metal mesh is set to be equal to or less than 5 ?m, and the extension direction of the thin conductive metal wires constituting the first metal mesh and the second metal mesh is inclined with respect to a bending line direction of a bent portion of a second-resin-film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masaya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10051653
    Abstract: Embodiments of techniques and systems for extended discontinuous reception (DRX) are described herein. In some embodiments, a user equipment (UE) configured for extended DRX may include receiver circuitry and paging circuitry. The receiver circuitry may be configured to receive a system frame number from an eNB and receive extension data from the eNB. The paging circuitry may be configured to determine an augmented system frame number based on the system frame number and the extension data, determine a paging frame number based on the extension data, and monitor for paging occasions when the augmented system frame number is equal to the paging frame number. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Sangeetha Bangolae, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Puneet Jain, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 10045309
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an operation device and a controller. The operation device receives an instruction to turn off a power supply from a power supply device. when the operation device receives the instruction to turn off the power supply from the power supply device, the controller transmits a request of disconnection of the communication to the external apparatus. Further, the controller turns off the power supply from the power supply device after waiting for a predetermined time period after the transmission of the disconnection request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kaoru Uematsu
  • Patent number: 10034146
    Abstract: A control system a control device, and a mobile device for controlling a vehicle are provided. The control device is adapted to be disposed on a vehicle. The mobile device is configured to establish a connection with the control device via a bluetooth transmission interface. When the connection is established, the control device and the mobile device perform an audio verification means (or optionally also perform a bluetooth verification means) such that the control device performs verification on the mobile device via the transmission of an audio signal (or optionally also via the transmission of a bluetooth signal) and accordingly detects the relative position between the mobile device and the vehicle. In particular, when the mobile device is verified, the control device performs a control function on the vehicle according to the operating state of the vehicle and the relative position between the mobile device and the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventor: Yu-Nien Chen
  • Patent number: 10028216
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure resolve problem of power consumption caused because an AP is frequently woken up. This solution includes: receiving, by a modem, pre-processing information, which is sent by an application processor AP, of an application, where the pre-processing information includes at least a period range value and first data that are of the application, the period range value is used to represent frequency at which the application needs the AP to send and receive the first data, and the first data is data that the application needs the AP to send to a server; invoking, by the modem, preset functions according to the period range value and a time at which the modem receives the pre-processing information, to determine a sending time of the first data; and sending, by the modem, the first data to the server according to the sending time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Deng, Konggang Wei, Yu Peng
  • Patent number: 10027785
    Abstract: A method for switching a screen state, a terminal, and computer-readable medium are provided. The method includes: transmitting a transmission sound wave when it is detected that the screen state of the terminal is in a light-on state during a voice communication session, the transmission sound wave being a sound wave of a pre-defined frequency; determining a target detection region when a target receiving sound wave is received through a plurality of pre-installed sound wave receiving devices, the target receiving sound wave being formed by reflecting the transmission sound wave by a target object; and switching the screen state of the terminal from the light-on state into a light-off state when it is determined that the target object is located in the target detection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiafu Yen, Peng Zhang, Penglong Hu, Dawei Xiong
  • Patent number: 10015838
    Abstract: A method for controlling data communication in a terminal is provided. The method includes sensing whether a voice call occurs in the terminal, determining whether a data suspension condition is satisfied during the voice call, and suspending the data communication in the terminal during the voice call if the data suspension condition is satisfied. An apparatus for controlling data communication in a terminal is provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate data between the terminal and a base station, and a controller configured to detect whether a voice call occurs in the terminal, determine whether a data suspension condition is satisfied after the voice call occurs, and cause the communication unit to suspend the data communication in the terminal while the data suspension condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Seunghoon Nam