Marvellworld Trade Ltd.

Marvell International Limited

Sap Se

International Business Machines Corporation

Agere Systems Inc.

Marvell Asia Pte., Ltd.

Shanghai Abup Technology Co.,ltd

Xing Zhao

Zhike Jia

Jing Yu

Jun Yang

BoChih Liu

Yuan Ren

Xin Zhang

Thandapani Venkataramani

Yang Liu

Mengze Liao

Nevin C Heintze

Richard Joseph Byrne

Silvester Tjandra

Eu Gene Goh

Zhi He

Yun Peng

Xuemin Wang

Geng Tian

Rajnish Prasad

Yu Wang

Qing Shan Zhang

Hong Tao Liu

Pengfei Wang

Haiyang Yu

Qian Xu

Lin Cai

Ambalavanar Arulambalam

Mobo Qiu

Rui Shen

Ying Zeng

Michael James Hunter

Richard Choi

Liujun Shao

Rongwei Sun

Xuejing Wan

Chihhe Chiu

Thomas Klucsarits

Donghua Zhou

Martin Orsag

Cheng Hu

Agnes DiMayuga

Fagen Zhou

Baoguo Zhang

Wei Liu

The invention relates to the field of the Internet of Things, and in particular, to an OTA differential upgrade method and system of a master-slave architecture. The method comprises: Step S1, obtaining an upgrade scheme, and determining a master-slave connection relationship and an upgrade manner according to the upgrade scheme; Step S2, downloading a differential upgrading file; Step S3, determining a processing mode of a master node according to the upgrading manner of a slave node; if the upgrading manner of the slave node is a first manner, the node flashes and restores the differential upgrading file and sends the differential upgrading file to the slave node, so that the slave node completes upgrading; if the upgrading manner of the slave node is a second manner, the master node flashes and restores the differential upgrading file and sends the differential upgrading file to the slave node for upgrading.

OTA differential upgrade method and system of master-slave architecture

A system and method to determine a location of a device in a wireless local area network (LAN) based on positioning assistance data acquired from a server is disclosed. The host-offload wireless LAN device may determine a location based on the location computations done inside the wireless LAN module. The device includes a storage medium configured to provide a database of positioning assistance data, a wireless LAN module configured to receive beacon signals broadcast from one or more access points, and a processor configured to store the access point identification information and the signal strength detected by the wireless LAN module in a first memory section, access the previously-stored positioning assistance data from the storage medium, assemble positioning assistance data based on a comparison, store the assembled positioning assistance data in a second memory section, and determine a location of wireless LAN device using assembled positioning assistance data.

Wireless LAN device positioning

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for tracking shop information using blockchain. In an embodiment, a shop application system may gather information related to a shop using various sensors within the shop. For example, the shop application system may identify a flow rate of traffic within the shop or outside of the shop. The shop application system may securely transmit this information to a blockchain cloud platform to be stored onto a blockchain. The blockchain may also maintain store information from a client application system related to shop ownership or tenancy. In this manner, the blockchain may provide a public means for accessing transactions related to a shop as well as provide confidence in the information provided.

Shop platform using blockchain

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for vehicular telematics with virtual-reality monitoring capabilities. An example system may establish a data connection to a plurality of sensors corresponding to at least one component of a vehicle, retrieve status information corresponding to the at least one component of the vehicle, from the plurality of sensors, send the status information retrieved from the plurality of sensors to a data set, receive at least one result of predictive analytics performed with the data set, and generate output via an interface. Other embodiments may additionally place requests for new parts or service based on the at least one result of the predictive analytics. The data set may be a structured database or an unstructured cluster. Big data analytics may use simulations for predictions. Output may leverage virtual reality or augmented reality to improve ease of use and intuitiveness for any role of users.

Big-data driven telematics with AR/VR user interfaces

Aspects of the disclosure provide a method. The method includes storing a database of positioning data. Each positioning data can associate position information of a location with an identifier of a wireless station for providing wireless connection at the location and a characteristic of a wireless signal received at the location. Further, the method includes receiving a position request from a wireless device that receives an identifier and a specific characteristic of a wireless signal from a specific wireless station, identifying the specific wireless station using the identifier to retrieve a group of positioning data from a database, selecting a subset in the group of positioning data using the specific characteristic, and determining position information of the wireless device using the selected subset of positioning data.

Method and system for positioning wireless device

Systems and methods are provided for positioning determination for mobile devices. A system includes: a database configured to store positioning data associated with one or more base stations in a network, and a data management component configured to compare the parameters with one or more parameter thresholds, and update the positioning data based at least in part on the comparison of the parameters and the parameter thresholds. The updated positioning data is used for positioning determination of a mobile device.

Positioning database management applied to server-based positioning system

Systems and methods are provided for location determination in wireless communication networks. A client device with a location provider installed is configured to provide location data to a data engine server and to obtain location service from a positioning engine server or the location provider itself. The location provider based on one or more components implements the reference data delivery function and the client location determination function. The data engine server is configured to process the location data received from one or more client devices and maintain a location database. The data engine server based on one or more components implements the reference data retrieval function, station position calculation function, reference data management function, and assistance data delivery function, as it interacts with the client device. The positioning engine server is configured to process the location request data received from one or more client devices and calculate the locations of the client devices. The positioning engine server based on one or more components implements the positioning data retrieval function and device position calculation function, as it interacts with the client device. The location database stores the previously obtained location data.

Server-based positioning system architecture

In an approach for controlling voltage, a computer obtains a magnitude of a current of a processing unit. The computer determines an optimized magnitude of a voltage based on the obtained magnitude of the current. The computer generates an updating instruction based on the determined optimized magnitude of the voltage. The computer supplies the generated updating instruction to the processing unit.

Dynamic voltage control

Systems, methods, and other embodiments are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes a first processor configured to, in response to a first request for a location of a device, determine a first location of the device, and provide the first location as the location of the device. The system includes a second processor with position update logic configured to, in response to a second request for a location of the device, determine whether the device has moved from the first location. When the device has not moved from the first location the second processor is configured to provide the first location. When the device has moved from the first location, the second processor is configured to determine a second location of the device using less power than the first processor in determining the first location and provide the second location as the location of the device.

Low-power device positioning method using position updates calculated by low power processor

The present disclosure provides a method for determining a real-time position of a mobile device using a global positioning system (GPS) and wireless local area network (WLAN) hybrid positioning mode. The method includes determining, by a mobile device, the mobile device's environment area based on GPS satellite signals; determining an absolute position of the mobile device based on the GPS satellite signals while the mobile device is moving from an outdoor area to an indoor area; estimating a reference position of the mobile device based on the determined absolute position and WLAN access point signals while moving to a shadow area; and while moving to an indoor area, determining an estimated position of the mobile device based on calculated regressive coefficients and the WLAN access point signals, and updating the estimated position of the mobile device based on motion information and indoor floor map information.

GPS and WLAN hybrid position determination

The present disclosure describes systems and techniques relating to determining a real-time position of a mobile device. According to an aspect of the described systems and techniques, a data processing apparatus includes: one or more integrated circuit (IC) devices including a location processor configured to acquire and track measurements of location for a mobile wireless communication device; and a host processor programmed with a host software manager configured to obtain various positioning input signals from different device positioning technologies and assemble a selected set of the various positioning input signals into a unified format; wherein the data processing apparatus includes a hybrid fusion engine configured to receive data from the host software manager in the unified format and calculate a position of the mobile wireless communication device using the received data in accordance with input type information for the received data.

Method and apparatus for tracking, in real-time, a position of a mobile wireless communication device

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with determining a position of a device are described. According to one embodiment, a method for determining a position of a device is disclosed. The method includes detecting access points and classifying one or more of the access points as being either fixed or mobile. An access point classified as being mobile indicates that the access point is mobile. An access point classified as being fixed indicates that the access point is located at a fixed position. The method also includes determining a position of the device based, at least in part, on one or more channel powers of signals respectively received from one or more access points classified as being fixed. In this manner, the position of the device is not determined based on channel powers of signals received from access points classified as being mobile.

Method and apparatus for filtering access points for WiFi positioning

A mobile communications device and a method for reducing energy usage in a mobile communications device are provided. An example mobile communications device includes an application processor. The application processor includes a first central processing unit (CPU), where the first CPU consumes a relatively high amount of power when operating in an active mode. The mobile communications device includes a microcontroller coupled to the application processor. The microcontroller includes a sensor subsystem configured to process, using a second CPU, first data received from one or more sensors. The second CPU consumes a relatively low amount of power when operating in an active mode. The microcontroller includes a location subsystem configured to receive satellite signals and process, using the second CPU, second data that is based on the received satellite signals. The first CPU operates in a sleep mode during the processing of the first and second data.

System and method for reducing energy usage in a mobile communications device

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Xing Zhao