Motorola Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Motorola Mobility LLC

Other

Google Inc.

Research in Motion Corporation

Malikie Innovations Limited

Eric Thomas Eaton

Von Alan Mock

David Jeffery Hayes

Salvador Sibecas

David F Willard

Barbara Diaz Laflin

James A Lamb

William J Kuznicki

Paul Edward Gorday

Dusan Veselic

Michael Joseph DeLuca

Jeffrey Charles Bos

Glafkos K Stratis

Robert Mark Gorday

Mark H Aronson

Rodney S Whaley

Edgar Herbert Callaway, Jr

Robert J Schwendeman

Stephen Rocco Carsello

Scott Leonard Dill

Jyh-Han Lin

Clinton C Powell, Ii

Charles W Mooney

Philip P Macnak

Ryan Alexander Geris

Jorge Luis Perdomo

Adrian Napoles

Henry Yao-Tsu Chen

John J Parkes, Jr

Omid Tahernia

James Michael Keba

Pha C Nguyen

Mahesh Babubhai Bhuta

Jon Stacey Miller

Ronald Hugh Evoy

Mauricio Flores

Thomas Mark Jones

Matthew Joseph Stanislawski

James Abraham Keane

Ronald S Friday

Shogo Ito

Brian N Nover

Peter K Laute

Robert Lockhart

David Jeffrey Hayes

Zakir Hussain Ansari

Gabriel Solana

Yasushi Yamao

Martin Earl Holman Iv

Dalier J Ramirez

Michael Gregory Smith

Robert Kennon Lockhart

Viral Rajnibhai Shah

Jaime Diaz

Exemplary embodiments described in this disclosure are generally directed to systems and methods for assigning parking spots to autonomous vehicles based on data transfer throughput and other considerations. In one exemplary method, a server computer receives from a first autonomous vehicle, information regarding a size of a first dataset available for uploading from the first autonomous vehicle into the server computer. The server computer may further receive from a second autonomous vehicle, information regarding a size of a second dataset that the second autonomous vehicle has available for uploading into the server computer. The server computer may then assign parking spots to the two autonomous vehicles based on evaluating various factors such as the size of one or both datasets, characteristics of wireless links for carrying out data transfer in the parking area, characteristics of various access points in the parking area, and priorities associated with the data transfer.

Systems and methods for assigning parking spots to autonomous vehicles based on factors such as data transfer throughput

Systems and methods are disclosed for an external vehicle wireless connection. Example methods may include: determining a condition associated with a vehicle; determining, based on the condition, a switching state between a first antenna external to the vehicle and a second antenna internal to the vehicle associated with the vehicle; transmitting, based on the switching state and via the first antenna, a first signal on a first frequency and on a first network or on a second network; and transmitting, based on the switching state and via the second antenna, a second signal on a second frequency on the first network.

Systems and methods for an external vehicle wireless connection

Systems and methods are disclosed for integrated antennas in vehicles and corresponding techniques for use in connection with location determination and wireless communication protocols. Example methods may include determining a condition associated with a vehicle; and determining, based on the condition, to switch from a first antenna associated with wireless communication, or a second antenna associated with location determination, to a backup antenna associated with the vehicle. Moreover, the backup antenna may have a wireless communication capability and a location determination capability.

Systems and methods for integrated antennas

NFC-enabled systems and devices, and related methods, for determining the orientation of an NFC-enabled mobile device within a covering. The orientation determination may include determining which way each face of an NFC-enabled mobile deviceis facing in the covering, and which end of the NFC-enable device is oriented in which way in the covering, through the use of particular arrangements of at least one NFC device attached to the covering and at least one NFC antenna of the NFC-enabled mobile device. By determining the orientation of the NFC-enabled device within the covering, the NFC-enabled device may then be configured for executing a particular command, such as to optimize some aspect of the NFC-enabled device based on the device orientation.

Smart covering for mobile communications device

A communication system () comprises a plurality of clients () including a first client () and a second client (). Within the communication system (), continuity of one or more of a plurality of broadcast events () is provided between the plurality of clients (). The first client () monitors a broadcast event (). Thereafter, the second client () launches monitoring of the broadcast event () in response to an occurrence associated with the broadcast event ().

System for providing continuity of broadcast between clients and method therefor

A power source device and a power charge device interoperate according to a wireless charging protocol. The power source device inductively wirelessly transmits charging energy signal via an inductive wireless power transmitting circuit. The power charge device wirelessly receives the inductively wirelessly transmitted charging energy signal via an inductive wireless power receiving circuit. The power charge device transfers wirelessly received charging energy signal to a re-chargeable battery of the power charge device. In response to determining that the power source device and the power charge device are in a charging arrangement, the power source device controls user access to a lockable user interface based on receiving information from the power charge device and can display messages received by the power charge device from a wireless communication network. The power source device can include a personal computing system and the power charge device can include a mobile phone.

Wireless charging and communication with power source devices and power charge devices in a communication system

A personal computing system and a mobile phone interoperate according to a wireless charging protocol while in a charging arrangement. The personal computing system can wirelessly charge a power source of the mobile phone. The personal computing system and the mobile phone are in a communication system. A server communicatively coupled to a first network and a wireless communication network can inhibit in the wireless communication network transmission of messages destined for reception by one of the personal computing system and the mobile phone, in response to determining that the personal computing system and the mobile phone are in a charging arrangement.

Wireless charging and communication with wireless communication devices in a communication system

A power management method with a portable electronic device () includes identifying, with a controller () of the portable electronic device, a power consumption event in the portable electronic device, the power consumption event having a power consumption requirement. The method further includes selecting (), in response to the identifying, one of a collection of energy storage devices () in an energy storage device farm () for the portable electronic device, the selecting being based at least on the power consumption requirement of the power consumption event and on one or more characteristics of the one of the plurality of energy storage devices. The portable electronic device executes the power consumption event using energy stored in the selected one of the plurality of energy storage devices. The portable electronic device () may be a mobile phone or other wireless communication device.

Hybrid battery system for portable electronic devices

A system () and method () is provided for validating a location of a tracking device. The method can include monitoring () a set of signal strengths () to one or more personal area networks () and one or more cellular towers (), generating () a Radio Frequency Time Profile RFTP () from the set of signal strengths, comparing () the RFTP o coverage variation limits () of one or more pre-calibrated paths, and signaling () an alert if the set of signal strengths are not within the coverage variation limit of the one or more pre-calibrated paths. The RFTP is a time series of the signal strengths between the tracking device and the one or more PANs resulting from a change in location of the tracking device.

Method and system for personal area networks

A communication system () dynamically manages a plurality of objects (). Each object () has a communication device () placed within or in close proximity to the object () for communicating a plurality of object information (). A group controller () communicates with the communication device () and takes over responsibility for communication within the communication system () for the communication device () when the object location () comes within a communication range of the group controller ().

Communication system for dynamic management of a plurality of objects and method therefor

A method of tracking objects uses an anchor beacon that can emit a broadcast over a range that is detectable by an object tracking device. The object tracking device can automatically detect a presence or absence of the broadcast. When the broadcast is present, the object tracking device can take no action. When the broadcast is absent, the object tracking device can determine a current location for the object tracking device and can convey an OTA communication to a tracking server. The OTA communication can indicate the absence of the broadcast and can also including the current location. The tracking server can selectively send a notification to a previously designated communication device to notify a user that the object tracking device is outside the range.

Selectively sending notifications when an object tracking device is outside a range of an anchor beacon

An online communication system () includes a plurality of remote session clients () and one or more online servers (). The online communication system () provides continuity of an online session () between a server () and one of the remote session clients (). A first session client () participates in the online session (), including receiving and accumulating a plurality of session information () for the online session (). The first session client () initiates a transfer of the session information () to a second session client () to enable the second session client () to seamlessly continue the online session () in place of the first session client () after the transfer of the session information ().

System for providing continuity between session clients and method therefor

A method for tracking objects in a way that conserves power resources. The method can establish a designed range defining a safe area based upon the broadcast signal of an anchor beacon. When the tracking device is within the designed range, the tracking device can be placed in a mode of low power consumption. Should the tracking device move outside of the designated range, then the tracking device can be placed in mode for active tracking. The level of power consumption can be achieved by only enabling a WAN transceiver in the active tracking mode.

Tracking device that conserves power using a sleep mode when proximate to an anchor beacon

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