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Michael J. Borgh to Join Greenhill in San Francisco as Managing Director Focused on the Technology Sector
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NEW YORK, July 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE: GHL), a leading independent investment bank, announced today that Michael J. Borgh will join the Firm in San Francisco as a Managing Director focused on the technology sector, with a particular focus on companies in the enterprise and applied technologies area.
Mr. Borgh was most recently a Managing Director and Head of Applied and Communication Technology Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan, based in San Francisco. He spent 13 years at J.P. Morgan, and prior to that was a software engineer at Motorola and InterDigital Communications.
Scott L. Bok, Chief Executive Officer of Greenhill, said, "We are pleased to expand our coverage of technology companies by adding Michael to our team in San Francisco. He brings us deep knowledge in a range of technology subsectors, based on his experience as a banker and as a software engineer. His expertise will also be of great use in advising our industrial clients, who are increasingly interested in applied technologies in relation to their businesses."
Greenhill & Co., Inc. is a leading independent investment bank entirely focused on providing financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financings and capital raising to corporations, partnerships, institutions and governments globally. It acts for clients located throughout the world from its offices in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Melbourne, San Francisco, São Paulo, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
Contact:
David M. Trone
Director of Investor Relations
Greenhill & Co., Inc.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/michael-j-borgh-to-join-greenhill-in-san-francisco-as-managing-director-focused-on-the-technology-sector-300484850.html
I've been wondering the same thing about him.
United States Patent 9,699,779
Marinier , et al. July 4, 2017
Physical layer operation for multi-layer operation in a wireless system
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing physical layer resources to a plurality of medium access control (MAC) instances that are associated with different serving sites that are independently scheduled. For example, a WTRU may utilize a first physical layer configuration for transmitting to a first serving site associated with a first MAC instance. The WTRU may utilize a second physical layer configuration for transmitting to a second serving site associated with a second MAC instance. The WTRU may prevent conflicts between transmission requests from the first MAC instance and transmission requests from the second MAC instance. For example, preventing the conflicts may include utilizing one or more of time segregation or frequency segregation for transmissions associated with the first MAC instance and transmissions associated with the second MAC instance.
Inventors:
Marinier; Paul (Brossard, CA), Tooher; J. Patrick (Montreal, CA), Pelletier; Ghyslain (Laval, CA), Pani; Diana (Montreal, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002689134
Appl. No.:
13/974,911
Filed:
August 23, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20140056278 A1 Feb 27, 2014
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61692548 Aug 23, 2012
61726262 Nov 14, 2012
61808013 Apr 3, 2013
61821154 May 8, 2013
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/044 (20130101); H04B 7/024 (20130101); H04W 52/365 (20130101); H04W 52/367 (20130101); H04W 72/1268 (20130101); H04W 52/146 (20130101); H04W 52/265 (20130101); H04W 52/281 (20130101); H04W 88/06 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 72/12 (20090101); H04W 52/36 (20090101); H04W 88/06 (20090101); H04B 7/024 (20170101); H04B 7/02 (20170101); H04W 52/14 (20090101); H04W 52/26 (20090101); H04W 52/28 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;370/330
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United States Patent 9,699,798
Zhang , et al. July 4, 2017
Wireless communication method and apparatus for transferring buffered enhanced uplink data from a mobile station to a Node-B
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transferring buffered enhanced uplink (EU) data is disclosed. The WTRU transmits an EU data transmission request message. The WTRU determines, based on the EU data scheduling message, whether granted resources allow for the amount of EU data stored in the buffer to be transmitted and transmits a portion of the EU data stored in the buffer along with an indication indicating whether the granted resources allow the amount of EU data stored in the buffer to be transmitted.
Inventors:
Zhang; Guodong (Syosset, NY), Terry; Stephen E. (Northport, NY), Dick; Stephen G. (Nesconset, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002689153
Appl. No.:
13/941,781
Filed:
July 15, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20130301579 A1 Nov 14, 2013
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
10945361 Sep 20, 2004 8488457
60520227 Nov 14, 2003
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/10 (20130101); H04W 72/1252 (20130101); H04W 28/14 (20130101); H04W 72/1278 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 72/10 (20090101); H04W 72/12 (20090101); H04W 28/14 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;370/329
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Nokia, Xiaomi sign patent sharing agreement
The deal will give the companies access to a wider pool of patents and equipment.
By Charlie Osborne for Between the Lines | July 5, 2017
Nokia and Xiaomi have signed a patent licensing agreement to share cellular and network knowledge, patents, and equipment.
On Wednesday, the Finnish network equipment maker and Chinese smartphone maker said they have signed a business collaboration agreement and a multi-year patent deal, which includes a cross-license to each other's cellular standard-essential patents.
According to the companies, Xiaomi has also purchased patent assets from Nokia as part of the agreement.
Financial details were not disclosed.
Under the terms of the deal, Nokia and Xiaomi will work together on optical communications solutions for data centers, IP Routing for the Nokia FP4 processor, and a data center fabric solution.
Nokia will provide network infrastructure equipment for the projects, and both firms will also collaborate on research in areas including the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented and virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.
Nokia already has licensing agreements with smartphone manufacturers including Samsung and Apple, but this is the first time the Finnish company has inked a deal with a Chinese firm. However, as OP Equities analyst Hannu Rauhala told Reuters, this could be "a good head start to negotiations with other Chinese manufacturers."
"As a company seeking to deliver more exciting technological innovations to the world, we are excited at the opportunity to work more closely with Nokia in future," said Lei Jun CEO of Xiaomi. "Xiaomi is committed to building sustainable, long-term partnerships with global technology leaders."
"Our collaboration with Nokia will enable us to tap on its leadership in building large, high-performance networks and formidable strength in software and services, as we seek to create even more remarkable products and services that deliver the best user experience to our Mi fans worldwide," Jun added
http://www.zdnet.com/article/nokia-xiaomi-sign-smartphone-patent-agreement/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
Sierra Wireless Announces Industry’s First Global Dual-Mode LPWA Module with Integrated Application Processing and GNSS
June 28, 2017 By Nick Waddell
VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) (TSX: SW), the leading provider of fully integrated device-to-cloud solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced the industry’s first global, dual-mode Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) cellular modules. The AirPrime® WP77 smart wireless modules simplify LPWA deployments for customers developing products that need to connect to multiple networks where different LPWA technologies are supported.
The WP77 supports both LTE-M (Cat-M1) and NB-IoT (Cat-NB1) with optional 2G fallback, allowing customers to deploy the same device with multiple network operators worldwide. For those deploying in regions where 4G LTE coverage is not as widely available, 2G fallback ensures their devices stay connected to the network.
ABI Research forecasts that cellular LPWA network technologies will begin to see rapid growth from 2018 onward as carriers upgrade their networks in 2017, however, carriers have varying plans and timelines for LTE-M and NB-IoT.
“A module with dual-mode, global coverage will be very attractive for global equipment manufacturers, especially for applications such as telematics, metering, and location tracking, which we expect will lead the way for LPWA volume deployments,” said Dan Shey, Managing Director and Vice President at ABI Research.
With the commercialization of LTE-M and NB-IoT LPWA technologies, cellular is now a superior option for many IoT applications that were previously restricted to short-range technologies due to cost and battery life. LPWA technologies combine lower cost, broader coverage and better battery life with globally available and secure cellular networks and will connect millions more things to the Internet.
“With the AirPrime WP77 modules, IoT developers have everything they need in a single module to quickly build low-power connected products that can be deployed anywhere in the world,” said Dan Schieler, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Embedded Solutions, Sierra Wireless. “The integrated open source Legato® platform and AirVantage® cloud provide our customers with a proven device-to-cloud architecture to design innovative LPWA solutions that extend the IoT into new applications.”
The WP series dramatically simplifies development for secure telematics and gateway applications, providing a dedicated application CPU core running the Linux-based open source Legato application framework. With integrated GNSS for tracking and location-based services, low-power modes, and a comprehensive set of interfaces for connecting sensors and companion chips, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, customers can develop multi-service platforms for the transportation market, and use the WP77 for applications requiring low throughput and optimized power performance.
Availability
The AirPrime WP77 is fully compliant with the 3GPP Release 13 standard and compatible with other devices in the WP family, retaining the same footprint, form factor, application framework and Linux distribution. Sierra Wireless AirPrime HL and WP Series modules are the smallest embedded modules (22 x 23 mm) to be completely interchangeable across 2G, 3G, 4G and LPWA technologies. They use the CF3™ form factor, which is footprint compatible across product lines, providing customers with the option to develop smarter by building their connected IoT product or service on a single module. WP77 modules are sampling with lead customers, with general availability in early 2018. For more information about the new AirPrime Cat-M1 and Cat-NB1 cellular modules, visit http://www.sierrawireless.com/LPWA.
Resources
For more information about LPWA for IoT, see the LPWA infographic and white paper, LPWA Technologies: Separating Fact from Fiction, and watch the on-demand webinar, The Future of Connectivity for IoT.
To contact the Sierra Wireless Sales Desk, call +1 877-687-7795 or visit http://www.sierrawireless.com/sales.
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February 22, 2012
InterDigital and Sierra Wireless Expand Worldwide Patent License Agreement to Cover 4G Standards
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC) today announced that its patent holding
subsidiaries have entered into an amendment of its worldwide royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Sierra Wireless,
Inc. to include a license for products designed to operate in accordance with 4G wireless technologies, including LTE, LTEAdvanced,
and WiMax™.
"We are pleased to add Sierra Wireless to our list of licensees with coverage under our portfolio to sell 4G products,"
commented Lawrence Shay, President of InterDigital's patent holding subsidiaries. "Sierra Wireless offers a comprehensive
portfolio of mobile computing and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications products and solutions and is a proven leader in
bringing new innovative 4G products to market. We are pleased to have come to an expanded agreement with them in a timely
fashion."
About InterDigital®
InterDigital develops fundamental wireless technologies that are at the core of mobile devices, networks, and services
worldwide. We solve many of the industry's most critical and complex technical challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient
broadband networks and a richer multimedia experience years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and
strategic relationships with many of the world's leading wireless companies.
For more information, visit www.interdigital.com.
InterDigital is a registered trademark of InterDigital, Inc. All other marks are the sole property of their respective owners.
InterDigital, Inc.
Media Contact:
Jack Indekeu, +1 610-878-7800
jack.indekeu@interdigital.com
or
Investor Contact:
Janet Point, +1 610-878-7800
janet.point@interdigital.com
Source: InterDigital, Inc.
United States Patent 9,693,240
Tsai , et al. June 27, 2017
Methods and apparatuses for advanced receiver design
Abstract
Disclosed are embodiments of apparatuses and methods of use thereof for frequency domain (FD) chip level (CL) equalizers used in wireless receivers. The FD-CL-EQ may further selectively apply a higher order matrix inverse or a lower order matrix inverse in the calculation of a channel estimate based on whether interference is present or not. Further disclosed are embodiments of methods and apparatuses for estimating pilot signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) in the wireless receivers. Further disclosed are methods and apparatuses for compensating for phase errors in received demodulated data symbols to improve performance of the wireless receivers.
Inventors:
Tsai; Allan Y. (Boonton, NJ), Lawton; William E. (Pottstown, PA), Iyer; Lakshmi R. (King of Prussia, PA), Fazili; Muhammad U. (Audubon, PA), Raghavan; Manasa (Sunnyvale, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
Interdigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002675957
Appl. No.:
15/169,100
Filed:
May 31, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160353293 A1 Dec 1, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
62168241 May 29, 2015
62168104 May 29, 2015
62168431 May 29, 2015
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 24/02 (20130101); H04B 17/336 (20150115); H04L 5/005 (20130101); H04L 27/265 (20130101); H04L 27/3494 (20130101); H04W 28/0236 (20130101); H04W 52/12 (20130101); H04W 56/0035 (20130101); H04M 2207/206 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04B 17/336 (20150101); H04W 52/12 (20090101); H04L 27/26 (20060101); H04W 56/00 (20090101); H04W 28/02 (20090101); H04L 27/34 (20060101); H04L 5/00 (20060101); H04W 24/02 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,693,303
Sammour , et al. June 27, 2017
Method and apparatus for efficient addressing and power savings in wireless communications
Abstract
A method and apparatus may be used for assigning groups of stations in wireless communications to one or more groups. Groups may be assigned by an access point (AP) based on information received from a station (STA). Group information may be signaled to each station and a group identifier may be indicated in a frame. The group information may be applied to a performance enhancement, for example power savings for the station, wherein the station enters a power saving mode on a condition that the station determines that it is not a member of the group.
Inventors:
Sammour; Mohammed (Amman, JO), Grandhi; Sudheer A. (Pleasanton, CA), Chandra; Arty (Manhasset Hills, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002676016
Appl. No.:
14/684,896
Filed:
April 13, 2015
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20150223163 A1 Aug 6, 2015
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14162251 Jan 23, 2014 9042290
13036456 Jan 28, 2014 8639257
12539837 Mar 1, 2011 7899462
11406877 Aug 18, 2009 7577438
60674811 Apr 25, 2005
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 52/0209 (20130101); H04W 4/08 (20130101); H04W 8/186 (20130101); H04W 52/0216 (20130101); H04W 52/0219 (20130101); H04W 52/0229 (20130101); H04W 84/12 (20130101); H04W 88/08 (20130101); Y02B 60/50 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04W 52/02 (20090101); H04W 4/08 (20090101); H04W 8/18 (20090101); H04W 84/12 (20090101); H04W 88/08 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;370/310,311,329,341,330
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United States Patent 9,693,338
Zhao , et al. June 27, 2017
Resource selection for device to device discovery or communication
Abstract
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to manage interference caused by D2D communications. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may include a processor. The processor may be configured to perform one or more of the following. The processor may determine to send information using a device-to-device transmission via a resource pool from a plurality of resource pools. Each resource pool may be associated with a range of reference signal receive power (RSRP) values. The processor may determine a RSRP measurement of a cell associated with the WTRU. The processor may select a resource pool from the plurality of resource pools based on the RSRP measurement of the cell. The RSRP measurement of the cell may be within the range of RSRP values associated with the selected resource pool. The processor may send the information using the selected resource pool.
Inventors:
Zhao; Yuxin (Linkoping, SE), Pani; Diana (Montreal, CA), Pelletier; Ghyslain (Laval, CA), Marinier; Paul (Brossard, CA), Pelletier; Benoit (Roxboro, CA), Kaur; Samian (Plymouth Meeting, PA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002676047
Appl. No.:
14/609,188
Filed:
January 29, 2015
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20150215903 A1 Jul 30, 2015
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61933238 Jan 29, 2014
61955746 Mar 19, 2014
61990046 May 7, 2014
62075768 Nov 5, 2014
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/04 (20130101); H04W 8/005 (20130101); H04W 72/082 (20130101); H04W 72/02 (20130101); H04W 76/023 (20130101); H04W 88/04 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 4/00 (20090101); H04W 8/00 (20090101); H04W 72/08 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 72/02 (20090101); H04W 76/02 (20090101); H04W 88/04 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,693,354
Rudolf , et al. June 27, 2017
Method for transmit and receive power control in mesh systems
Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling transmit power in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A station may transmit capability information to another station and may include an indicator that indicates a maximum transmission power for an operational bandwidth that the station supports. The station may receive a signal that has a transmission power based on at least one of the operational bandwidths of the transmitted capability information.
Inventors:
Rudolf; Marian (Montreal, CA), Roy; Vincent (Montreal, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002676063
Appl. No.:
15/069,020
Filed:
March 14, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160198476 A1 Jul 7, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14535986 Nov 7, 2014 9301261
11398122 Dec 9, 2014 8909945
60669599 Apr 8, 2005
60684452 May 25, 2005
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 84/18 (20130101); H04W 72/0473 (20130101); H04W 4/06 (20130101); H04W 52/18 (20130101); H04W 52/362 (20130101); H04W 52/367 (20130101); H04W 52/46 (20130101); H04L 1/0001 (20130101); H04L 12/18 (20130101); H04L 27/2655 (20130101); H04W 52/146 (20130101); H04W 52/243 (20130101); H04W 52/286 (20130101); H04W 52/50 (20130101); H04W 52/54 (20130101); H04W 74/002 (20130101); H04W 84/12 (20130101)
Current International Class: G06F 1/00 (20060101); H04W 52/18 (20090101); H04W 84/18 (20090101); H04W 52/36 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); G06F 1/32 (20060101); H04W 52/46 (20090101); H04W 4/06 (20090101); H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04L 27/26 (20060101); H04L 12/18 (20060101); H04W 52/24 (20090101); H04W 74/00 (20090101); H04W 52/54 (20090101); H04W 52/14 (20090101); H04W 84/12 (20090101); H04W 52/50 (20090101); H04W 52/28 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;713/300,330 ;370/318
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United States Patent 9,693,366
Adjakple , et al. June 27, 2017
End-to-end architecture, API framework, discovery, and access in a virtualized network
Abstract
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed such that a WTRU may obtain network operator agnostic wireless access for a service. The WTRU may receive a system information (SI) broadcast from a radio access network (RAN) node. The SI broadcast may indicate that an operator of the RAN node supports service-based network access. The WTRU may send a service request to a virtual service provider to request the service. The WTRU may receive a service response from the virtual service provider. The WTRU may receive a service response from the virtual service provider, the service response indicating a mobile network operator (MNO) to use for obtaining the service and subscription information for accessing the MNO, wherein the MNO is different than the operator of the RAN node. The WTRU may access the MNO to obtain the service.
Inventors:
Adjakple; Pascal M. (Great Neck, NY), Wang; Peter S. (E. Setauket, NY), Liu; Kai (S. Huntington, NY), Olvera-Hernandez; Ulises (Kirkland, CA), Ahmad; Saad (Montreal, CA), Rahman; Shamim Akbar (Cote St. Luc, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002676074
Appl. No.:
14/039,133
Filed:
September 27, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20140086177 A1 Mar 27, 2014
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61706469 Sep 27, 2012
61730834 Nov 28, 2012
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 74/04 (20130101); H04L 67/10 (20130101); H04W 4/003 (20130101); H04W 12/08 (20130101); H04W 48/18 (20130101); H04W 8/18 (20130101); H04W 88/10 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 12/16 (20060101); H04W 48/18 (20090101); H04W 12/08 (20090101); H04W 74/04 (20090101); H04W 4/00 (20090101); H04L 29/08 (20060101); H04W 88/10 (20090101); H04W 8/18 (20090101)
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Judge denies Qualcomm motion to dismiss FTC’s competition lawsuit
by Ted Greenwald
Published: June 27, 2017 8:51 a.m. ET
A U.S. federal judge ruled against Qualcomm Inc.’s motion to dismiss a Federal Trade Commission case arguing that the large supplier of smartphone chips used its position in the market to compete unfairly.
The Monday ruling by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh is a setback—though not an unexpected one—in Qualcomm’s QCOM, -0.63% broad legal battle over its business practices. That fight includes a separate lawsuit filed by Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.04% against Qualcomm which makes legal arguments similar to the U.S. government’s.
Judge Koh’s decision that the government’s case could move forward rejected Qualcomm’s claim, filed in April in a Northern California federal district court, that the FTC’s complaint failed to support even basic elements of an antitrust violation.
The FTC says Qualcomm, whose technology is used in almost all smartphones, acts unfairly by refusing to sell its chips to handset makers who don’t buy a license to use its patents—which are deemed essential to cellular communications—and by refusing to sell licenses to competing chip makers. The government says Qualcomm further impaired competition by using its dominant position to compel Apple to use its chips exclusively.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/judge-denies-qualcomm-motion-to-dismiss-ftcs-competition-lawsuit-2017-06-27-81035111?siteid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20marketwatch%2Finternet%20(MarketWatch.com%20-%20Internet%20Industry%20News)
The updated note conversion rate implies an IDCC common stock price of $93.75 ........[$72.12 X 130%]
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Conversion of Notes
SECTION 10.01. Right to Convert. Upon compliance with the provisions of this Article 10, a Holder may convert, at such Holder’s option, its Notes based on the Conversion Rate (the “Conversion Obligation”). Unless the Company has previously purchased the Notes, at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding December 1, 2019, Holders shall have the right to convert any portion of the principal amount of any Notes that is an integral multiple of $1,000 only under the following circumstances:
(1) Conversion Based on Common Stock Price. On any date during any calendar quarter (and only during such calendar quarter) beginning after March 31, 2015, if the Closing Sale Price for the Common Stock was more than 130% of the applicable Conversion Price on each applicable Trading Day for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) in the period of the 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on the last Trading Day of the immediately preceding previous calendar quarter;
See page 58: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1405495/000119312515087314/d888367dex41.htm
I wonder why IDCC provided the 6/21/2017 update to the convertible note conversion rate. To my recollection, there was no comparable notification during 2016 and I am not aware of any requirement to provide such an update to the conversion rate. Why now?
Qualcomm fires back, says Apple charges more for wall plugs than it pays in royalties
Mike Wehner @MikeWehner
June 21st, 2017 at 1:52 PM
Apple’s battle with Qualcomm is showing no signs of calming down. The companies have been frozen in a legal staring contest since January, when Apple slapped its foe with a massive $1 billion lawsuit over what it claims are unfair patent royalties. Now, after Apple’s recent shot against Qualcomm in which it alleged that the company’s business practices are illegal, Qualcomm is going on the offensive with a statement of its own, and it’s a doozy.
In the statement, issued by Qualcomm’s legal team, the company attacks Apple’s own business practices, while taking credit for the iPhone’s most beloved features. What’s more, Qualcomm is using this opportunity to highlight Apple’s own pricing structure in an effort to put its own patent royalty fees into perspective.
“The per-device royalty Qualcomm charges Apple’s contract manufacturers for the right to use our licensed technologies in the iPhone is less than what Apple charges for a single wall plug,” the statement reads. Ouch!
This courtroom back-and-forth is something Apple is well versed in, and Qualcomm has no shortage of high-powered legal experts on their side as well, so don’t expect this kind of posturing to end any time soon. Still, it’s undeniably entertaining to watch two tech behemoths duke it out like a couple of kids spitting insults on a street corner.
Check out Qualcomm’s full statement below:
Apple is trying to distract from the fact that it has made misleading statements about the comparative performance of its products, and threatened Qualcomm not to disclose the truth. But Apple’s bigger distortions come in its depiction of Qualcomm’s technological contributions to Apple’s mobile products as well as our licensing practices for that technology. Apple says Qualcomm’s innovations are limited to technology implemented in the cellular modem, when Apple knows well that Qualcomm has been the de facto R&D arm of the industry. Qualcomm’s patented inventions make possible not only connectivity and high-speed data transmission across mobile networks, but also high-precision GPS navigation, app store operations, power management and battery efficiency, mobile video including advanced compression, graphics, camera imaging and facial-recognition technology, audio quality and audio file compression, and much, much more.
Qualcomm’s innovations are at the heart of every iPhone and enable the most important uses and features of those devices. It simply is untrue that Qualcomm is seeking to collect royalties for Apple innovations that have nothing to do with Qualcomm’s technology. Moreover, the per-device royalty Qualcomm charges Apple’s contract manufacturers for the right to use our licensed technologies in the iPhone is less than what Apple charges for a single wall plug.
As Apple recently acknowledged it is rarely first to market with any new technology, which shows it is relying heavily on the R&D investments in the most revolutionary technologies by companies like Qualcomm. We are confident these truths will prevail in our legal disputes with Apple.
http://bgr.com/2017/06/21/apple-v-qualcomm-lawsuit-case/
European Industrial and Academic Partners Join to Develop a 5G Mobile Transport Platform for Verticals
Date : 06/21/2017 @ 3:30AM
A consortium of European industrial and academic partners launched its activities towards the development of a Software Defined Networking/Network Function Virtualization-based 5G Mobile Transport and Computing Platform. The consortium, 5G-TRANSFORMER, targets support of multiple vertical tenants with a diverse set of networking and computing requirements, from industries including automotive, healthcare, and media. The consortium comprises 18 partners, including leading international vendors (NEC, Ericsson, Nokia, InterDigital), operators (Orange, Telefonica), vertical industries (CRF – The Research Center of FCA, ATOS, Ayuntamiento de Madrid), SMEs (Nextworks, Mirantis), and research institutes and universities (b<>com, University Carlos III of Madrid, CTTC, Politecnico di Torino, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Eurecom, ITRI (Taiwan)). The 30-month project, which started on 1st June 2017, received a grant of 7.98 M€ from the European Commission.
The 5G-TRANSFORMER concept originates from enabling standard technological frameworks for slicing, namely Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). The networking and computing fabric aggregates and federates multiple domains and infrastructure providers into a single platform where multiple transport slices will be created and managed. The 5G-TRANSFORMER project will leverage on the solutions developed in the H2020 5G-PPP phase-1 projects, such as 5G-Crosshaul and 5GEx.
5G-TRANSFORMER envisions three main architectural building blocks, which are Vertical Slicer for supporting the creation and management of slices to verticals; Service Orchestrator for end-to-end service orchestration and federation of resources from multiple domains; and MTP as the underlying integrated fronthaul and backhaul transport. The project will focus on the following activities to accelerate the deployment of mobile transport network slices tailored to vertical industries (with special focus on low latency):
•Develop the mobile transport network slicing mechanisms for enabling dynamic creation and management of slices for vertical industries through abstraction, simple interfaces and service blueprints.
•Evolve the 5GEx cross-domain orchestration and federation mechanisms and apply them to the mobile transport network, considering interworking with the domains of vertical industries.
•Augment the current design of the underlying 5G-Crosshaul transport network by integrating emerging MEC service platform deemed necessary for the support of vertical industries.
The concept will be designed, developed and demonstrated for three vertical industries: eHealth, Automotive, and Media & Entertainment, in addition to the more conventional mobile (virtual) network operator scenario. Trials are scheduled at different test beds in Europe during the course of the project in 2018 and 2019.
“InterDigital Europe is excited to be part of this pioneering project that is exploring the frontiers of network slicing and related technologies that will provide the foundation for next generation 5G networks,” said Alan Carlton, Vice President, InterDigital Europe.
For more information:
Project Web Page:
https://5g-transformer.eu
Social media:
Twitter and Instagram: @5g_transformer
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/5g-transformer-eu-project-a05311144/
Youtube: https://goo.gl/uB5TlL
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Apple Says Qualcomm Has Overcharged Billions of Dollars By 'Double-Dipping' on iPhone's Innovation
Tuesday June 20, 2017 9:32 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Apple has expanded its lawsuit against Qualcomm, accusing the wireless chipmaker of "double-dipping" by way of unfair patent licensing agreements, according to an amended complaint filed with a United States federal court in San Diego today.
The complaint broadens the claims Apple made in its original lawsuit against Qualcomm in January, when it sued the chipmaker for $1 billion in alleged unpaid royalty rebates. Apple also accused its longtime supplier of the iPhone's wireless chip of engaging in anticompetitive licensing practices.
Since the original iPhone, Qualcomm has supplied Apple with modems that enable the smartphone to, for example, connect to a Wi-Fi or LTE network. But as the iPhone has gained more features, Apple argues that Qualcomm has been unfairly "levying its own tax" on those innovations through "exorbitant royalties."
Apple said Qualcomm wrongly bases its royalties on a percentage of the entire iPhone's value, despite supplying just a single component of the device.
As Apple innovates, Qualcomm demands more. Qualcomm had nothing to do with creating the revolutionary Touch ID, the world’s most popular camera, or the Retina display Apple’s customers love, yet Qualcomm wants to be paid as if these (and future) breakthroughs belong to it. Qualcomm insists in this Court that it should be entitled to rely on the same business model it applied over a decade ago to the flip phone but while that model may have been defensible when a phone was just a phone, today it amounts to a scheme of extortion that allows Qualcomm unfairly to maintain and entrench its existing monopoly.
The licensing agreements are in addition to paying for the wireless chips themselves. Apple said Qualcomm's "double-dipping, extra-reward system" is precisely the kind that the U.S. Supreme Court recently forbade in a lawsuit between Lexmark and a small company reselling its printer cartridges.
If that were not enough, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., condemned Qualcomm’s business model as a violation of U.S. patent law. The Supreme Court flatly rejected Qualcomm’s business model, holding that a patent holder may demand only “one reward” for its patented products, and when it has secured the reward for its invention, it may not, under the patent laws, further restrict the use or enjoyment of the item. Qualcomm, by its own admission, will not sell chips to manufacturers who do not also pay separate royalties and enter Qualcomm licenses at usurious rates. This is precisely the kind of double-dipping, extra-reward system that the Court’s decision in Lexmark forbids.
Apple said it has been "overcharged billions of dollars" due to Qualcomm's so-called "illegal scheme," including the $1 billion in unpaid royalty rebates that led Apple to sue Qualcomm in January.
In its countersuit, Qualcomm accused Apple of failing to engage in good faith negotiations for a license to its 3G and 4G standard essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
Apple, however, argues that Qualcomm's monopolistic licensing demands violate its FRAND obligations.
By tying together the markets for chipsets and licenses to technology in cellular standards, Qualcomm illegally enhances and strengthens its monopoly in each market and eliminates competition. Then, Qualcomm leverages its market power to extract exorbitant royalties, later agreeing to reduce those somewhat only in exchange for additional anticompetitive advantages and restrictions on challenging Qualcomm’s power, further solidifying its stranglehold on the industry.
Apple also claims that Qualcomm has never made it a worldwide offer on FRAND terms for a direct license to its patented technologies.
Apple said Qualcomm subsequently filing lawsuits against iPhone manufacturers Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron, and Compal reveals "its true bullying nature," calling it "a blatant attempt to exert pressure on Apple to acquiesce to" its "non-FRAND royalty demands" by attacking its smaller contract manufacturers.
Qualcomm knows that these are companies who have been effectively coerced by its monopoly practices in the past. Qualcomm knows that these companies merely pass through the usuriously high royalty demanded by Qualcomm and so have little incentive to resist its monopolistic tactics.
Apple has called for the court to declare Qualcomm's patents in the lawsuit unessential to 3G/4G standards used in the iPhone and its other products, and to prevent Qualcomm from taking any adverse or legal action against Apple's contract manufacturers related to the allegations in today's amended complaint.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/20/apple-vs-qualcomm-double-dipping/
United States Patent 9,686,713
Farley , et al. June 20, 2017
Application specific traffic optimization in a wireless link
Abstract
A packet data system such as a TCP/IP network transmits packets containing a variety of data types along links in the network. Packets are transmitted in a stream between nodes interconnected by the links connections, which conform to a transport layer protocol such as TCP, UDP, and RSTP, and include wireless links, which transmit packets using a radio frequency (RF) medium. By examining the data in a packet, performance characteristics such as a port number are determined. The performance characteristics indicate the application type, and therefore, the data type, of the packets carried on the connection. Since certain data types, such as streaming audio and video, are more loss tolerant, determination of the data type is used to compute link control parameters for the wireless link which that are optimal to the type of data being transmitted over the link.
Inventors:
Farley; Kevin L. (Wake Forest, NC), Proctor; James A. (Indialantic, FL)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
IPR Licensing, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
IPR Licensing, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002666505
Appl. No.:
14/927,718
Filed:
October 30, 2015
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160050584 A1 Feb 18, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
13108481 May 16, 2011 9210616
11193587 May 17, 2011 7944845
09777555 Aug 30, 2005 6937562
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 28/0268 (20130101); H04L 1/0015 (20130101); H04L 1/0017 (20130101); H04L 1/18 (20130101); H04L 43/00 (20130101); H04L 47/2416 (20130101); H04L 47/2441 (20130101); H04L 65/60 (20130101); H04L 65/80 (20130101); H04L 69/16 (20130101); H04L 69/165 (20130101); H04L 69/18 (20130101); H04W 28/18 (20130101); H04L 43/087 (20130101); H04L 43/0829 (20130101); H04L 43/0852 (20130101); H04W 24/00 (20130101); H04W 28/06 (20130101); H04W 80/00 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 28/02 (20090101); H04L 12/851 (20130101); H04L 12/853 (20130101); H04L 1/18 (20060101); H04L 29/06 (20060101); H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04L 12/26 (20060101); H04W 28/18 (20090101); H04W 80/00 (20090101); H04W 28/06 (20090101); H04W 24/00 (20090101)
PPP
United States Patent 9,686,635
Watfa , et al. June 20, 2017
System level procedures and methods to enable data sharing in cellular network
Abstract
Methods and systems may enable the setup and configuration of proximity services between wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) over different sharing paths including via a direct air interface, a radio access network (RAN) or one or more network nodes. Mobility management entities (MMEs) may exchange messages to initiate, modify or terminate a proximity service session between WTRUs, and may negotiate data paths for proximity services with or without the assistance of WTRUs. WTRU-to-WTRU control plane messages may be exchanged between WTRUs with limited involvement from other network entities and may avoid the setup of resources for data plane communications. Mobility management entities (MMEs) may exchange messages to initiate, modify or terminate a proximity service session between WTRUs, and may negotiate data paths for proximity services with or without the assistance of WTRUs.
Inventors:
Watfa; Mahmoud (Saint Leonard, CA), Wang; Peter S. (East Setauket, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002661544
Appl. No.:
13/891,586
Filed:
May 10, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20130303088 A1 Nov 14, 2013
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61645437 May 10, 2012
61682910 Aug 14, 2012
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 4/008 (20130101); H04W 4/00 (20130101); H04W 76/023 (20130101); H04W 4/001 (20130101); H04W 4/02 (20130101); H04W 4/023 (20130101); H04W 84/08 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04B 7/00 (20060101); H04W 4/00 (20090101); H04W 76/02 (20090101); H04W 4/02 (20090101); H04W 84/08 (20090101
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United States Patent 9,686,707
Pani , et al. June 20, 2017
Method and apparatus for detecting and measuring for Home Node-Bs
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to detect and perform measurements with respect to Home Node-Bs (HNB) and Home evolved Node-Bs (H(e)NB) (collectively "HNB"). The methods may include generating and transmitting a request for a measurement configuration that may include gap allocations to detect and measure a primary scrambling code or a physical cell identity of a target HNB for at least one frequency or radio access technology (RAT). The request may be in response to the WTRU entering a HNB cell for which the WTRU has stored fingerprint information and whose closed subscriber group ID is in the WTRU's whitelist. The network may configure the WTRU to measure the requested frequency or RAT in response to the proximity report/request. Methods are described for releasing the measurement configuration.
Inventors:
Pani; Diana (Montreal, CA), Marinier; Paul (Brossard, CA), Gomes; Sylvie (Manhasset, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002661610
Appl. No.:
14/626,235
Filed:
February 19, 2015
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20150163690 A1 Jun 11, 2015
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14106077 Dec 13, 2013 8996015
12818474 Jan 21, 2014 8634836
61218824 Jun 19, 2009
61248003 Oct 2, 2009
61247968 Oct 2, 2009
61250255 Oct 9, 2009
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 24/10 (20130101); H04W 8/005 (20130101); H04W 48/16 (20130101); H04W 48/20 (20130101); H04W 84/045 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 36/00 (20090101); H04W 48/16 (20090101); H04W 24/10 (20090101); H04W 8/00 (20090101); H04W 48/20 (20090101); H04W 84/04 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,686,721
Shaheen June 20, 2017
Method and system for interworking of cellular networks and wireless local area networks
Abstract
A method and system for interworking between cellular networks and wireless local area networks (WLANs) are disclosed. At least one cellular network, at least one WLAN, and an IP network may be deployed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may establish a connection to a WLAN and a tunnel between an access point (AP) and a packet data gateway (PDG) may be established. The PDG may establish a tunnel to an IP network. The WTRU may invoke a service which is delivered through the WLAN. As signal quality from the AP degrades below a predetermined threshold, a handover from the WLAN to the cellular network may be performed. A new connection to the cellular network may be established either before or after breaking the current connection to the WLAN or the two connections may be maintained simultaneously.
Inventors:
Shaheen; Kamel M. (King of Prussia, PA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
Shaheen; Kamel M.
King of Prussia
PA
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002661623
Appl. No.:
13/412,198
Filed:
March 5, 2012
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20120163341 A1 Jun 28, 2012
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
11285684 Nov 22, 2005 8130718
60634679 Dec 9, 2004
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 36/0022 (20130101); H04W 36/14 (20130101); H04W 84/12 (20130101); H04W 92/02 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 36/14 (20090101); H04W 36/00 (20090101); H04W 88/16 (20090101); H04W 92/02 (20090101); H04W 84/12 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;370/331 ;455/436-444
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United States Patent 9,686,771
Watfa , et al. June 20, 2017
Method and apparatus for using control plane to transmit and receive data
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting and receiving data by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) over the control plane. The methods may receive data without the use of an Internet Protocol (IP) address. In an example method, a WTRU may enter an evolved packet system (EPS) mobility management (EMM)-registered control plane only (CPO) state after receiving an attach accepted message for CPO operation, and enter an EMM-deregistered state after receiving a detach message, a tracking area update (TAU) reject message or an attach reject message. In another method, a WTRU may switch between operational modes that use an IP address and a user plane to transmit and receive data, and the CPO mode.
Inventors:
Watfa; Mahmoud (Saint Leonard, CA), Olvera-Hernandez; Ulises (Montreal, CA), Adjakple; Pascal M (Great Neck, NY), Liu; Kai (Dublin, OH), Wang; Peter S (E. Setauket, NY), Ahmad; Saad (Montreal, CA), Aghili; Behrouz (Commack, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002661670
Appl. No.:
15/213,009
Filed:
July 18, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160330717 A1 Nov 10, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
13464132 May 4, 2012 9398555
61483385 May 6, 2011
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/04 (20130101); H04W 60/04 (20130101); H04W 76/02 (20130101); H04W 76/022 (20130101); H04W 76/046 (20130101); H04W 80/04 (20130101); H04W 84/042 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 60/04 (20090101); H04W 84/04 (20090101); H04W 76/02 (20090101); H04W 80/04 (20090101); H04W 76/04 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,686,801
Miller June 20, 2017
Method and apparatus for coordinating a radio network controller and node B resource management for high speed downlink packet data service
Abstract
The architecture of the high-speed shared service provides a Node B yielding various sets of information that answer a set of basic questions that a data service needs. Many potential measurements the Node B can make are provided to the RNC to enable a resource manager to perform certain functions and which can be used to answer the set of basic questions.
Inventors:
Miller; James M. (Verona, NJ)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002661696
Appl. No.:
13/965,702
Filed:
August 13, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20130329698 A1 Dec 12, 2013
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
10321308 Dec 17, 2002 8619718
60370739 Apr 5, 2002
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/085 (20130101); H04W 28/26 (20130101); H04W 72/0433 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04B 7/216 (20060101); H04W 72/08 (20090101); H04W 28/26 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101
PPP
Apple accuses Qualcomm of double-dipping, wants end to pay-per-iPhone deal
Ben Lovejoy - Jun. 20th 2017 5:44 am PT
In a new development in its legal battle with Qualcomm, Apple is arguing that the patent deal which forces the company to pay a licence fee for every iPhone manufactured is invalid. It is accusing Qualcomm of double-dipping by charging once for a licence fee for use of its patented technology and again for the chip which uses that technology.
Apple had previously accused Qualcomm of exacting revenge against the Cupertino company, but this is the first time it has specifically attacked the basis of the license deal between the two companies …
Apple had originally argued only that Qualcomm illegally withheld $1B worth of rebates because Apple helped Korean regulators to investigate the chipmaker. Qualcomm says that Apple breached its contract by doing so, Apple disagrees.
But Reuters reports that Apple is now relying on a new legal ruling to suggest that the pay-per-iPhone licence between the two companies is invalid.
In a Tuesday brief seen by Reuters, Apple took aim at Qualcomm’s practice of requiring customers to sign patent license agreements before purchasing chips, known in the industry as “no license, no chips”. The license allows Qualcomm to take a percentage of the overall selling price for iPhone in exchange for supplying the modem chips that let phones connect to cellular data networks.
Apple argued that [a recent] ruling involving Lexmark showed that Qualcomm was entitled to only “one reward” for its intellectual property and products.
The Lexmark case found that the printer company had no right to use patent law to stop third-party companies reselling used ink cartridges, effectively suggesting that Lexmark could either sell or licence the cartridges but not both.
Apple is also asking the court to stop lawsuits against its four iPhone manufacturers, saying that the dispute is purely between Apple and Qualcomm.
A recent Bloomberg report suggested that the dispute may prevent Apple offering new gigabit mobile data speeds to iPhone 8 owners.
https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/20/apple-qualcomm-trial-patent-or-chip/
olddog967 - Very interesting data. Thank you. EOM
United States Patent 9,679,142
Cha , et al. June 13, 2017
Staged control release in boot process
Abstract
Integrity validation of a network device may be performed. A network device comprising a secure hardware module, may receive a root key. The secure hardware module may also receive a first code measurement. The secure hardware module may provide a first key based on the root key and the first code measurement. The secure hardware module may receive a second code measurement and provide a second key based on the first key and the second code measurement. The release of keys based on code measurements may provide authentication in stages.
Inventors:
Cha; Inhyok (Seoul, KR), Shah; Yogendra C (Exton, PA), Case; Lawrence (Austin, TX)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002646484
Appl. No.:
14/507,205
Filed:
October 6, 2014
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20150026471 A1 Jan 22, 2015
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
13084840 Apr 12, 2011 8856941
61323248 Apr 12, 2010
61357474 Jun 22, 2010
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04L 63/08 (20130101); H04W 12/10 (20130101); G06F 21/57 (20130101); H04L 9/0861 (20130101); G06F 21/86 (20130101); H04W 84/045 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 29/06 (20060101); H04W 12/10 (20090101); G06F 21/57 (20130101); H04L 9/08 (20060101); G06F 21/86 (20130101); H04W 84/04 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;713/168
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United States Patent 9,680,538
Xia , et al. June 13, 2017
Method for WiFi beamforming, feedback, and sounding (WiBEAM)
Abstract
Methods for WiFi beamforming, feedback, and sounding (WiBEAM) are described. Codebook based beamforming feedback signaling and sounding mechanisms for use in wireless communications are disclosed. The methods described herein improve the feedback efficiency by using Givens rotation based decompositions and quantizing the resulting angles of the Givens rotation based decompositions using a range from a subset of [0, 2.pi.]. Feedback may also be divided into multiple components to improve feedback efficiency/accuracy. Time domain beamforming reports for taking advantage of channel reciprocity while still taking into account practical radio frequency (RF) channel impairments are also described. Beamforming feedback that prioritizes the feedback bits in accordance with the significance of the bits is also disclosed. A preamble structure to enable the use of smoothing methods for improved channel estimation, codebook designs that may be used for codebook based beamforming feedback, and multi-resolution explicit feedback are disclosed as well.
Inventors:
Xia; Pengfei (San Diego, CA), Ghosh; Monisha (Chappaqua, NY), Lou; Hanqing (Mineola, NY), Olesen; Robert L. (Huntington, NY), Oteri; Oghenekome (San Diego, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002647695
Appl. No.:
14/040,249
Filed:
September 27, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20140093005 A1 Apr 3, 2014
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61707452 Sep 28, 2012
61770879 Feb 28, 2013
61783918 Mar 14, 2013
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04B 7/0421 (20130101); H04B 7/066 (20130101); H04B 7/0617 (20130101); H04B 7/0628 (20130101); H04B 7/0634 (20130101); H04B 7/0639 (20130101); H04B 7/0641 (20130101); H04L 1/007 (20130101); H04L 1/0073 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04B 7/04 (20060101); H04B 7/06 (20060101); H04L 1/00 (20060101)
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United States Patent 9,681,296
Meyerstein , et al. June 13, 2017
Secure remote subscription management
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing secure remote subscription management. Secure remote subscription management may include providing the Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) with a connectivity identifier, such as a Provisional Connectivity Identifier (PCID), which may be used to establish an initial network connection to an Initial Connectivity Operator (ICO) for initial secure remote registration, provisioning, and activation. A connection to the ICO may be used to remotely provision the WTRU with credentials associated with the Selected Home Operator (SHO). A credential, such as a cryptographic keyset, which may be included in the Trusted Physical Unit (TPU), may be allocated to the SHO and may be activated. The WTRU may establish a network connection to the SHO and may receive services using the remotely managed credentials. Secure remote subscription management may be repeated to associate the WTRU with another SHO.
Inventors:
Meyerstein; Michael V (Ipswich, GB), Shah; Yogendra C. (Exton, PA), Cha; Inhyok (Gangnam-Ku, KR), Leicher; Andreas (Frankfurt, DE), Schmidt; Andreas (Frankfurt am Main, DE)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002648358
Appl. No.:
14/460,444
Filed:
August 15, 2014
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20140359278 A1 Dec 4, 2014
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
12718853 Mar 5, 2010 8812836
61157796 Mar 5, 2009
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 12/06 (20130101); H04W 8/265 (20130101); H04W 12/04 (20130101); H04L 63/0428 (20130101); H04L 63/0869 (20130101); H04W 4/005 (20130101); H04W 88/18 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 29/06 (20060101); H04W 12/04 (20090101); H04W 8/26 (20090101); H04W 12/06 (20090101); H04W 88/18 (20090101); H04W 4/00 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,681,377
Sammour , et al. June 13, 2017
Method and apparatus for transmission management in a wireless communication system
Abstract
A method and apparatus may be used in wireless communications. The apparatus may be an access point (AP), and may transmit a power save frame. The power save frame may include one or more Uplink (UL) Transmission Times (ULT)s. The apparatus may determine that a station (STA) did not transmit during its respective ULT. The AP may transmit another power save frame. The other power save frame may include a modified ULT. The modified ULT may be for a STA that did not transmit during its respective ULT. The other power save frame may include an unmodified ULT. The unmodified ULT may be for a STA that did not transmit.
Inventors:
Sammour; Mohammed (Amman, JO), Grandhi; Sudheer A. (Pleasanton, CA), Olesen; Robert L. (Huntington, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002648431
Appl. No.:
14/135,758
Filed:
December 20, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20140112230 A1 Apr 24, 2014
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
11533072 Dec 31, 2013 8619658
60719035 Sep 21, 2005
60720967 Sep 27, 2005
60736255 Nov 14, 2005
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 52/0219 (20130101); H04J 3/0605 (20130101); H04W 52/0216 (20130101); H04W 72/005 (20130101); H04W 72/042 (20130101); H04W 72/14 (20130101); H04W 74/04 (20130101); H04L 43/10 (20130101); H04W 74/06 (20130101); Y02B 60/50 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 52/02 (20090101); H04W 72/14 (20090101); H04J 3/06 (20060101); H04W 72/00 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 74/04 (20090101); H04W 74/06 (20090101); H04L 12/26 (20060101)
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United States Patent 9,681,462
Wang , et al. June 13, 2017
Multi-user parallel channel access in WLAN systems
Abstract
Method and apparatuses may provide multi-user parallel channel access (MU-PCA). For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is provided that belongs to a MU-PCA group of a plurality of WTRUs that are configured to simultaneously communicate via a plurality of channels managed by an access point (AP). The WTRU may include a receiver configured to receive a data message, from the AP, over a channel associated with the WTRU of the plurality of channels, wherein the data message is one of a group of multiple data messages transmitted simultaneously by the AP over the plurality of channels; and a transmitter configured to transmit a message to the AP over the channel associated with the WTRU, wherein the message includes an indication bit for notifying the AP whether the WTRU has uplink (UL) data to transmit to the AP.
Inventors:
Wang; Xiaofei (Cedar Grove, NJ), Lou; Hanqing (Syosset, NY), Ghosh; Monisha (Chicago, IL), Shah; Nirav B (San Diego, CA), Zhang; Guodong (Syosset, NY), Murias; Ronald (Calgary, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002648511
Appl. No.:
15/097,048
Filed:
April 12, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160227569 A1 Aug 4, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
13781909 Mar 1, 2013 9338789
61605538 Mar 1, 2012
61669505 Jul 9, 2012
61684051 Aug 16, 2012
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/121 (20130101); H04L 1/0025 (20130101); H04L 1/1664 (20130101); H04L 1/1685 (20130101); H04W 72/04 (20130101); H04W 72/0413 (20130101); H04W 72/1278 (20130101); H04W 74/004 (20130101); H04W 74/006 (20130101); H04W 74/04 (20130101); H04B 17/318 (20150115); H04L 1/007 (20130101); H04W 84/12 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 72/12 (20090101); H04W 74/04 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 74/00 (20090101); H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04L 1/16 (20060101); H04W 84/12 (20090101); H04B 17/318 (20150101)
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United States Patent 9,681,480
Adjakple , et al. June 13, 2017
Method and apparatus for using non-access stratum procedures in a mobile station to access resources of component carriers belonging to different radio access technologies
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to perform a multi-radio access technology (RAT) access (MRA) operation. The apparatus may include a WTRU non-access stratum (NAS) entity to communicate with a first and second NAS entity of a first and second core network (CN). Alternatively, the first WTRU NAS entity communicates with a first NAS entity of a first CN, and a second WTRU NAS entity communicates with a second NAS entity of a second CN. The apparatus may include a radio resource control (RRC) entity which controls a first RAT connected to the first CN and a second RAT connected to the second CN. Alternatively, the apparatus includes an RRC entity which controls a first connection using a first RAT connected to the first CN and a second connection using a second RAT connected to a second CN.
Inventors:
Adjakple; Pascal M. (Great Neck, NY), Watfa; Mahmoud (Saint Leonard, CA), Olvera-Hernandez; Ulises (Kirkland, CA), Wang; Peter S. (E. Setauket, NY), Liu; Kai (S. Huntington, NY), Ahmad; Saad (Montreal, CA), Pelletier; Ghyslain (Laval, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
Adjakple; Pascal M.
Watfa; Mahmoud
Olvera-Hernandez; Ulises
Wang; Peter S.
Liu; Kai
Ahmad; Saad
Pelletier; Ghyslain
Great Neck
Saint Leonard
Kirkland
E. Setauket
S. Huntington
Montreal
Laval
NY
N/A
N/A
NY
NY
N/A
N/A
US
CA
CA
US
US
CA
CA
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002648528
Appl. No.:
13/588,901
Filed:
August 17, 2012
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20130044709 A1 Feb 21, 2013
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61525432 Aug 19, 2011
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 76/025 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 12/28 (20060101); H04W 76/02 (20090101); H04J 1/16 (20060101)
Field of Search: ;370/252,329,419,463
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InterDigital Hosts 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Date : 06/14/2017 @ 4:30PM
InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, held its annual meeting of shareholders today on the Internet through an interactive webcast.
At the meeting, InterDigital shareholders approved the election of Jeffrey K. Belk, Joan H. Gillman, S. Douglas Hutcheson, John A. Kritzmacher, John D. Markley, Jr., William J. Merritt, Kai O. Öistämö, Jean F. Rankin and Philip P. Trahanas as members of the Board of Directors for a one-year term expiring at the 2018 annual meeting of shareholders.
Shareholders also adopted and approved the company’s 2017 equity incentive plan, passed an advisory resolution to approve the company's executive compensation as reported in the company's 2017 proxy statement and approved, on an advisory basis, one year with respect to the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation. Finally, the shareholders ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2017.
An archive of the webcast of the annual meeting will be available within 24 hours at IDCC.onlineshareholdermeeting.com, and will also be available shortly on the "Events and Presentations" page of the Investors section of the company's website, http://ir.interdigital.com/event.
About InterDigital®
InterDigital develops technologies that are at the core of mobile devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve many of the industry's most critical and complex technical challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband networks and a richer multimedia experience years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and strategic relationships with many of the world's leading wireless companies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ and is included in the S&P MidCap 400® index.
InterDigital is a registered trademark of InterDigital, Inc.
For more information, visit: www.interdigital.com.
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Apple may deny iPhone 8 owners new gigabit data speeds due to Qualcomm dispute -Bloomberg
Ben Lovejoy - Jun. 9th 2017 6:30 am PT
iPhone 8 owners may not be able to take advantage of the faster data speeds expected to be available later this year in the USA, says a Bloomberg report, and Apple’s dispute with Qualcomm may be the reason.
AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and other carriers have promised to introduce a new generation of wireless data later in the year, offering speeds as high as a gigabit per second – some fifty times faster than typically available today. But it appears that this speed won’t be supported in the iPhone 8, even if the modems it contains are compatible.
The Bloomberg report says that while Qualcomm offers a suitable modem capable of gigabit speeds, Apple’s dispute with the company means that it is trying to loosen its dependence on the chipmaker. It says that Apple will therefore use a mix of modems from Qualcomm and Intel, and that the Intel ones won’t support the faster speeds.
To avoid different iPhone owners experiencing wildly different speeds depending on which modem their phone happens to use, Apple will limit the speed of the Qualcomm modems.
Until Intel is able to offer its chips with matching features, Apple won’t enable some of capabilities of the phones running with Qualcomm modems, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plan isn’t public.
As the piece notes, Apple is generally slow to adopt faster wireless data standards.
The original iPhone launched in 2007 without support for 3G networks, and it was still wildly successful. It wasn’t until 2012 that the iPhone supported LTE technology that’s the basis of 4G networks – a year after Samsung Electronics Co. added that capability to its smartphones.
It appears this will also be the case this year, Samsung’s S8 flagship is already equipped with the modem needed for gigabit speeds.
Apple’s legal battles with Qualcomm are growing increasingly heated, with the chipmaker recently accusing Apple of blackmail.
https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/09/will-the-iphone-8-support-offer-gigabit-data/
Intel's not very happy about Qualcomm-powered Windows 10 PCs
It's making litigious noises about Qualcomm's Microsoft partnership.
Steve Dent, @stevetdent
As its 8086 chip architecture nears 40 years old, Intel has put Qualcomm on notice about recent news that Windows 10 PCs will run Snapdragon 835 chips with x86 emulation. "There have been reports that some companies may try to emulate Intel's proprietary x86 ISA without Intel's authorization," said chief lawyer Stephen Rodgers and Intel Labs Director Richard A. Uhlig in a blog post. "We do not welcome unlawful infringement of our patents, and we fully expect other companies to continue to respect Intel's intellectual property rights."
The 8086 launched on June 8th, 1978, and Intel ran through its innovations over the last 39 years including SIMD multiprocessing, SSE media rendering, encryption enhancements, security and more. It points out that it has a portfolio of over 1,600 patent to protect all that tech.
The article then shifts into a more lawyerly tone, pointing out that "Intel carefully protects its x86 innovations, and we do not widely license others to use them." Specifically, it cited past battles with AMD, Cyrix, Chips and Technologies, and others over the last few decades.
Making note of the x86 and Win32 emulation that Qualcomm plans to use, the company wrote, "Emulation is not a new technology, and Transmeta was notably the last company to claim to have produced a compatible x86 processor using emulation ('code morphing') techniques." It said despite the emulation, Intel enforced its patents against Transmeta, adding that the company exited the CPU business a decade ago.
As Engadget's Cherlynn Low pointed out, there are some pretty nice benefits to having Qualcomm on Windows 10. Those include lighter, smaller machines thanks to Qualcomm's tinier parts, integrated 5G LTE connectivity and much better battery life, all part of Microsoft's "always connected" dream for Windows 10. Qualcomm notably built the Snapdragon 835 with 10-nanometer technology, while Intel's latest chips still use last-gen 14-nanometer parts.
Unlike Transmeta, Qualcomm has vast resources, and we imagine that the company's lawyers didn't let it jump onto Intel's turf without serious due diligence. Microsoft is also fully behind the partnership, because its new strategy for Windows 10 S seems to depend on Qualcomm's participation. Other OEM partners, including Lenovo, HP and ASUS are also on board. And as much as Intel blusters, it's very dependent on Microsoft, which could easily sidestep its IP with Windows 10 if it decided to.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/09/intels-not-very-happy-about-qualcomm-powered-windows-10-pcs/
Huawei Wins Approval to Run CBRS Demo for Comcast
by Diana Goovaerts
Huawei is taking another stab at penetrating the U.S. telecom equipment market, this time taking aim at new wireless entrant Comcast.
The Chinese-based company has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to demonstrate its equipment for Comcast on 3.5 GHz CBRS spectrum in Philadelphia. The test will be conducted at the Wells Fargo Center next week using Huawei's RRU3232 remote radio unit.
The tests comes about a month after Comcast announced a new wireless partnership with Charter and opened enrollment for its new wireless service. The latter is being delivered via an MVNO agreement with Verizon; Comcast is using a hybrid approach that combines its WiFi hotspots with Verizon's cellular network as a backup.
Comcast and Huawei are both members of the CBRS Alliance, which was formed last year following the FCC's move in April 2015 to open the airwaves between 3550 MHz and 3700 MHz for shared wireless broadband use. The Alliance was created to accelerate the development and rollout of LTE-based solutions in the band.
Proponents of the band – like the Alliance – have cast it as the new, better WiFi. As Baicells Technologies President Patrick Leary recently put it, “this spectrum offers the same capabilities of WiFi to the industry and companies and organizations, but with none of the problems that plague WiFi.” Comcast could be looking to enhance its own network using CBRS as a supplement for its existing WiFi assets.
CBRS also appears to present another chance for Huawei to break back into the U.S. telecom equipment market via cooperation with Alliance partners. The company has been fighting to convince U.S. carriers to use its technology ever since 2012, when U.S. government officials suggested Chinese-made equipment presented a national security threat.
Huawei's RRU3232 supports frequencies from 3.4 GHz to 3.7 GHz in carrier bandwidths of 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz. In 4x4 mode, the unit supports two carriers; but when functioning as two 2x2 units, each unit supports two carriers.
https://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2017/06/huawei-wins-approval-run-cbrs-demo-comcast
Realism in Augmented Reality
Motivation / background
The promise of augmented reality (AR) is the ability to embed virtual information directly into our
physical environment, so realistically rendered that virtual elements become indistinguishable from real
ones. Using AR to add realistic virtual elements to our physical surroundings will allow for new kinds of
experiences where the world is improved by virtual content blending seamlessly with the real, all tailored
to meet our individual needs and desires.
Early head-mounted display devices (HMD), such as the Microsoft Hololens, do a fine job in overlaying
virtual information directly on top of our normal view. As they become more widely adopted
by consumers, the level of realism and the quality of the illusion will become significantly more
important. With the advent of these devices, we are in the early days of a completely new form
of media. The transition is imminent, as HMDs are almost at the level of usability expected by the
average consumer, and the computing power enabling real-time high-end graphics, limited to desktop
computers only a few years ago, is rapidly becoming commonplace on mobile computing platforms.
Despite the relatively recent commercial availability of consumer devices, various market forecasts are
expecting a rapid increase in the number of users and the market value of AR content in the coming
years. Indeed, Pokémon Go, a mobile game developed by Niantic, became a worldwide phenomenon
in a matter of weeks. Its success has demonstrated that even more primitive forms of mobile AR
can take off quickly when the content and usability are nailed down correctly. This underscores a
significant point – when it comes to media consumption, the quality of the experience is the major
driving factor for success.
In the near future, AR will be used as an ingredient for completely new kinds of experiences, new
types of entertainment, and productive applications. However, when crafting novel AR experiences,
the details will be extremely important, as they can mean the difference between being just one app
among thousands or a killer app – the next Pokémon Go.
With future AR experiences, the realism of the content will be a key factor in determining the quality of
the overall experience. This white paper will highlight some key aspects of realism in the context of AR
and introduce related solutions developed by InterDigital’s Innovation Partners open innovation initiative.
Varieties of realism
Ignoring optical filtering and scattering in the eye, physical realism means that the image produced
by the computer has to be an accurate point-by-point representation of the spectral irradiance values
at a particular viewpoint in a real world scene. A computer-generated image should contain identical
representations of all objects in all light energy spectral and intensity ranges that the real world
scene features.
Photorealism means that the produced image needs to be photo-metrically realistic. The image
produced by the computer has to produce the same visual response as the real world scene, even if
the physical energies between the two vary in spectral and intensity ranges.
The criterion for functional realism suggests that the image produced by the computer has the same
visual information as the real world scene. Information helps the user to understand meaningful
properties of objects in a scene, such as shapes, sizes, positions, motions, and materials, and
therefore enables the user to perform useful visual tasks.
The emphasis of academic research on computer graphics has traditionally been on photorealism, which has led to the steadily
increasing quality of real-time rendered 3D graphics. Despite having a close connection with computer graphics, the realism
in AR needs to be considered from a wider perspective. AR is not only about the visual appearance. AR experiences are meant
to be consumed as a part of the real physical environment and, as such, they are interactive, reacting to both the user and the
environment. To address the interactive and physical aspects of AR, we propose criteria to rate AR experiences that are similar
to Ferwerda’s for computer graphics with some subtle, and some not-so-subtle, modifications:
1. Physical realism in AR: Virtual and physical elements are indistinguishable from each other; all elements look
and behave as if they were physically part of the reality.
2. Photorealism in AR: All virtual elements look as if they are physically part of the real world scene that the
user is observing.
3. Functional realism in AR: All virtual elements behave according to the physical reality. They represent the virtual
object correctly in relation to the physical space and help the user perform tasks assisted by AR.
With a closer examination of each of these aspects of realism in AR, we can determine how close we are to achieving full
realism, and what novel solutions have recently been developed to move us closer to that goal.
Physical realism in AR
Full physical realism with true Holodeck-like experiences will remain a distant ultimate goal for AR. Steps towards increasing
physical realism in AR involve developing not only how virtual elements appear to the viewer, but also interactivity - how a
viewer can literally touch, feel, and manipulate virtual objects directly with their bare hands.
A complexity and richness of interaction is required when moving towards a fully natural and intuitive interaction versus
the traditional point-and-click style of interaction lifted from Windows-based user interfaces that is prevalent in early AR
applications. Advanced AR applications require completely new methods for input and output, as well as a different approach to
crafting the user experience.
From an input and output technologies perspective, to enable a new level of interaction, there is a need for accurate detection
and structural understanding of the physical environment and the users within it. Methods for enabling users to directly
manipulate virtual elements by touching them are also needed. This not only requires accurate detection of user actions and
gestures, but a means for providing the realistic haptic sensation of virtual objects so that the user “feels” what they would if
they were touching real physical objects.
An accurate structural understanding of the physical environment requires the use of various depth-sensing technologies,
which solve the biggest challenges – to an extent. Depth cameras, or RGB-D sensors as they are often called, consist of a camera
sensor providing regular 2D RGB information and a depth sensor operating on structured light or time-of-flight principle,
providing depth information in the form of depth map images. Data collected by such RGB-D sensors enable reconstruction
of full 3D models of the local physical environment surrounding the user. These RGB-D sensors are now being integrated with
many of the AR HMD devices in development. We are also seeing mobile phones with embedded RGB-D sensors entering
consumer markets, led by Google’s Tango (formerly Project Tango), which paved the way for RGB-D mobile device sensor
integration, allowing the development of new applications and uses.
RGB-D sensors can also be used for the detection of user hand poses and gestures, which form a control input for AR
applications. Despite the relatively good accuracy of these solutions, there is room for new innovations to better support natural
input. There are a limited number of hand gestures that can be accurately recognized from RGB-D data today. Robust detection
of individual physical objects, user interaction with them and context of use cases are areas of study still in their infancy. Speech
recognition has been often used as an alternative or supplementary input method for cases where hand gesture and direct
manipulation do not suffice. Traditional input methods, such as a keyboard, do not work well with AR.
Compared to other relevant interaction technology areas, haptic feedback is both the single most important area and one that
is severely lacking in easy-to-deploy solutions. Haptic feedback, the sensation of touch that we get when we are in contact with
physical objects, is an essential input channel we use when carrying out tasks in everyday life. At this time, there are a number
of AR haptic feedback approaches under consideration, which range from ultrasonic to mechanical haptic force feedback. These
approaches tend to be experimental in nature. The haptic approach used is very application-specific, as no single approach is
suitable for all generic, easy-to-deploy applications. Until radically new approaches exist, the use of physical proxy objects and
the replacement of haptic feedback using other sensory channels such as audio will often need to be used.
Even with these shortcomings, goals for increasing physical
realism in AR are worthwhile. Any solutions, even with limited
use cases and poor interaction fidelity, that increase the
physical realism can result in a dramatic change in the nature
of the experience. Often, when using several sub-optimal input
and output methods in combination, a user’s brain will fuse the
feedback from different sensory systems, resulting in a jump to
a completely new level of immersion as compared to the use of
a single sensory channel such as vision.
One example of increasing physical realism with a combination of feedback channels is a solution developed by InterDigital to
provide haptic feedback with relatively flat physical proxy objects. AR is used to generate visual feedback and track the user’s
hand for input. In this solution, proxy objects can be compressed so that instead of the full 3D shape matching the virtual
object, the proxy objects are compressed along the depth axis, resulting in a physical proxy that is easy to produce with current
3D or 2.5D printing methods and is easier to handle than full 3D objects matching the virtual elements. When a user touches
the physical proxy object, the point of touch is detected and a simultaneous AR visualization of the virtual object is aligned
with the touch point. The depth axis compression of the proxy object can be substituted, and the user feels as if they are really
touching the full 3D shape of the virtual object.
Photorealism in AR
From the photorealistic point of view, the focus is on the image quality that the AR system is capable of producing. The goal of high
photorealism is to combine virtual elements with a real world view so that the virtual elements are indistinguishable from real
ones using visual inspection alone.
To achieve such photorealistic visual quality, virtual elements need to be lit with lighting identical to that present in the
environment, and the visual implications of the virtual elements on the physical environment need to be considered. This is
easier said than done. Lighting solutions simulating lighting effects that capture the look of the real world are required. A detailed
understanding of the environment’s structure and materials, the simulation of light interaction between the virtual and real
elements, and the seamless embedding of the computer-generated synthetic elements with the real world view make this a
challenging problem to solve. For some of these tasks, solutions already exist, but for others such as seamless composition, it is
quite hard to solve and requires novel approaches.
Seamless composition of virtual elements blended with the real world view has specific challenges. For example, with optical seethrough
AR, the viewer sees an unobstructed view of the real world, and virtual elements need to be overlaid on top of it. With
any of the currently available display technologies used for existing AR HMDs, the mismatch of image quality between the virtual
and real view causes virtual elements to stand out clearly from the composited view. This is often even further highlighted by
mismatched lighting, unwanted transparency, and erroneous occlusions featured on the virtual elements.
The dynamic range of the human visual system and the accommodation of visual perception to prevailing conditions further
complicates the reproduction of virtual objects. Existing displays can reproduce only a fraction of the dynamic range of the human
visual system and optical see-through display systems generally suffer from image transparency, which causes virtual elements to
appear semi-transparent with a ghost image of the background environment bleeding through. Much of these shortcomings need
to be solved by the display hardware, but solutions that enable better matching of lighting conditions between virtual and real
elements as well as correct handling of occlusions and better tone range matching can improve the realism of AR significantly and,
by doing so, enhance the photorealism of the AR.
InterDigital has developed solutions that enable automatic adjustment of virtual content elements so that the content as a
whole features uniform lighting conditions, thus improving the photorealism of the AR as well as allowing methods enabling full
re-lighting of real-time captured 3D content. These enable use cases where the visual appearance of a user is captured in real-time
and augmented to photorealistic quality in another physical space with a significantly different kind of lighting setup.
Functional realism in AR
Functional realism is the least rigid variety of AR realism. When looking at realism from this point of view, the quality comes
from how accurately the AR content manages to convey meaningful information. As an example, in an AR-assisted maintenance
use case where the goal for the AR system is to help a maintenance worker see which parts of the machinery need to be
worked on, it is essential that the AR system can point out the correct parts and effectively illustrate operational details with
an easy-to-understand graphical style. Functional realism is a measure of how effectively the AR system helps the user perform
the assigned task.
When considering functional realism, the augmented elements can be rendered with any rendering style, be it shell shading, line
drawing or photorealistic textured materials. For the user to be able to carry out the task with the help of AR, the rendering style is
irrelevant as long as it helps the AR system provide information necessary to execute the task. When focusing on the effectiveness
of information transfer, a much wider range of content types can be considered and compared. The realism here is not so much
dependent on the details of the rendering, but rather on underlying technology. Accuracy of 3D tracking (i.e., knowing where the
AR device is in relation to the environment), understanding of the environment, object recognition, and context recognition are
some of the key elements that enable an AR application to display correct information at the correct moment for the user, thus
providing needed information efficiently.
If the aim of AR technology is to move towards a ubiquitous
computing dream, where users wear AR HMDs throughout
their daily lives, then functional realism becomes a very
important consideration. AR devices need to be able to adjust
operation according to many different contexts, always aiming
for the most efficient way of delivering needed information to
the user at the moment when it’s needed.
In addition to core technologies, such as robust 3D tracking
and context recognition, solutions aimed at improving
functional realism can include ways to extract richer
information from the environment, which in turn can
be used to tailor content delivered back to the user.
The dynamic range of the human visual system and the accommodation of visual perception to prevailing conditions further
complicates the reproduction of virtual objects. Existing displays can reproduce only a fraction of the dynamic range of the human
visual system and optical see-through display systems generally suffer from image transparency, which causes virtual elements to
appear semi-transparent with a ghost image of the background environment bleeding through. Much of these shortcomings need
to be solved by the display hardware, but solutions that enable better matching of lighting conditions between virtual and real
elements as well as correct handling of occlusions and better tone range matching can improve the realism of AR significantly and,
by doing so, enhance the photorealism of the AR.
InterDigital has developed solutions that enable automatic adjustment of virtual content elements so that the content as a
whole features uniform lighting conditions, thus improving the photorealism of the AR as well as allowing methods enabling full
re-lighting of real-time captured 3D content. These enable use cases where the visual appearance of a user is captured in real-time
and augmented to photorealistic quality in another physical space with a significantly different kind of lighting setup.
InterDigital has been developing a concept system for collecting and refining information from different
user environments, which can then be used to improve functional realism. With this solution, the
data collected by device sensors (such as RGB-D sensors, motion, etc.) that are embedded in the
AR HMDs are collected in a continuous and centralized manner in order to create an extremely rich
information repository. From this information repository, deeper insight into the environment, users,
and relationships between them can be extracted with further analysis. Such extracted information
enables the improvement of functional realism for various AR experiences and services, as well as
the development of completely new kinds of services that can identify situations where users need
assistance, match virtual experiences with physical environments, and offer the potential to perform
virtual product placement for advertisers.
Conclusions
We have discussed some views on the realism of AR experiences and the differences as compared to
realism for computer graphics. Clearly, we see that computer graphics are an essential component of AR
and, as such, they have much similarity with AR when viewed from the perspective of realism. However,
we have also pointed out that there are significant differences between the two, especially as AR has a
much more profound connection with the physical environment and the interaction between virtual,
real, and user. Based on these observations, we have extended the viewpoint of realism from purely
visual aspects addressed by computer graphics to a wider perspective that also considers the interaction
between virtual content, the real physical environment, and the user. We see that with this wider
perspective, the visual aspects of realism are not necessarily the ones most severely lacking solutions,
and we believe solutions that add physical realism in AR such as haptic feedback and natural interaction
are very much in demand, since they carry the potential of elevating the realism and immersion of AR to
the next level. We have also introduced recent solutions developed by InterDigital aimed at improving
the realism of AR, and we want to conclude this white paper by encouraging everyone to continue to
push the limits of realism in AR.
Innovation Partners
www.innovation-partners.com
Here’s what you need to know about LoRa and how it could change our city
Jun. 6, 2017 12:54 pm
Low-cost IoT is finally within reach, and there's a hackathon to prove it.
The problem of IoT and why it hasn’t caught on as some originally hoped has to do with price. Why spend more on a “smart fix” than on the problem itself?
But with LoRa, a low-powered wide area network, that cost might be reaching a sweet spot for a whole slew of new IoT applications. It’s the technological medium that Comcast is using in a new initiative of theirs called machineQ.
“Historically people have been using cellular, satellite, which is ridiculously expensive,” explained Rick Bullotta, the managing partner of Next Big Thing and founder and former CEO of ThingWorx, an IoT startup. “When you can draw that expense down by two orders of magnitude, then you’re really changing things. The big adopters of this will probably be utilities, urban infrastructure, basically anywhere you’ve got lots of sensors and widely-distributed sensing.”
LoRa is a low-bandwidth network that can communicate over very long distances and uses minimal energy to do so. Unlike cellular networks, over which you could send video and other big packets of data, LoRa isn’t good for much more than sending a few blips and bits. But that’s fine, because IoT sensors don’t need to be sending vids, they need to be sending a little blip every half hour that says, “I’m still not broken.”
Like WiFi, LoRa transmits its information at 915MHz on the electromagnetic spectrum, sitting between the lower frequency, but super durable radio waves, and the higher frequency, but more temperamental WiFi microwaves we know and love. Data rates range from 0.3 kbps to 50 kbps, according to the LoRa Alliance, which is about 100 times slower than the device you’re currently reading this on.
“The advantage here is that if you can cover a city in low cost wireless connectivity then you can easily start to make it into a smart city,” explained Leonid “Lenny” Kravetz, a director of research at design firm InterDigital Communications.
“You can start to connect all the infrastructure that’s out there to create smart applications. The classic example is you could put a sensor into a parking spot and create an application to show you where there’s open parking. We have the Big Belly trash cans that are able to wirelessly communicate when they’re full.”
Low-powered wide-area networks fall into two categories: open and closed. Closed networks include proprietary technology for use only by a single corporation. Open networks are a bit more like open-source code, where everyone can incorporate the technology into their own products.
LoRa is an open framework. That openness was a key fact for Comcast, explained Bryan Witkowski, who’s leading IoT Product Strategy for machineQ.
“It was critical that a key underpinning of our IoT strategy not be reliant on a proprietary technology ultimately owned by one entity,” he wrote in an email. “We believe this will create a much richer ecosystem and ensure that the tech is widely adopted by not only large corporations, but by a diverse group of startups and technologists. We are seeing this happen on a quickly accelerating scale: A year ago, we saw maybe one new LoRa device per week, now it’s literally a new one everyday.”
That’s nowhere more clearer than down in South Philly, where startups at makerspace NextFab are thinking up new uses for this type of low-bandwidth IoT device.
Efficiency is the first promise here. The ability to turn off and turn on devices when they’re needed, rather than leaving them on constantly could save a lot of energy, and money, for the city. But it goes quite a bit further than that.
“A handful of companies are making different connected devices here,” said Ken Tomlinson, the chief financial officer at NextFab. “Stratis Labs are making cardio pulmonary devices to do early detection of respiratory distress. CircaLux is doing a smart, connected lighting system for hospitals which changes brightness with distance from caregivers and is circadian friendly so it doesn’t mess up people’s sleep cycles.”
So what applications could LoRa be used for? Traffic lights? Bike safety? We’d love to hear from you. On June 9 and 10, Technical.ly will host the (now sold out) machineQ Smart City Hackathon for technologists and civic hackers interested in developing IoT applications for the network.
https://technical.ly/philly/2017/06/06/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-lora-change-our-city-machineq/
United States Patent 9,674,833
Shaheen , et al. June 6, 2017
Authorizing IUT replication and distinguishing requests for replication from transfers
Abstract
A method comprising: a Service Centralized and Continuity Application Server (SCC AS) receiving, from a first WTRU, a collaborative session request to replicate a media flow to a second WTRU; the SCC AS authorizing the request; the SCC AS allocating a media resource at a media resource function (MRF) for the media flow; the SCC AS establishing a second-WTRU access leg; the SCC AS updating a first-WTRU access leg for the first WTRU; and the SCC AS updating a remote leg to communicate the replicated media flow to the MRF, wherein, unless the remote party rejects the replication of the media flow, the media flow then flows from the remote party to the MRF, from the MRF to the first WTRU, and from the MRF to the second WTRU.
Inventors:
Shaheen; Kamel M. (Cairo, EG), Patel; Milan (Middlesex, GB)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002632260
Appl. No.:
15/068,182
Filed:
March 11, 2016
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US 20160198447 A1 Jul 7, 2016
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Current International Class: G06F 15/173 (20060101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04L 29/06 (20060101); H04W 12/06 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,674,834
Terry , et al. June 6, 2017
Hybrid apparatus using physical channels
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink signal, including a resource assignment having a first indication of a first resource of a plurality of resources and a number of resources of the plurality of resources in a sequence. The downlink signal may include a second indication as to applying the resource assignment to a single time interval or plurality of time intervals, which the UE may determine. The UE may receive a second downlink signal in the first time interval in the first resource and in the number of consecutive resources in the sequence on a condition that the resource assignment is for a single time interval, and a second downlink signal in each of the plurality of time intervals in the first resource and in the number of consecutive resources in the sequence on a condition that the resource assignment is for the plurality of time intervals.
Inventors:
Terry; Stephen E. (Northport, NY), Dick; Stephen G. (Nesconset, NY), Miller; James M. (Verona, NJ), Zeira; Eldad M. (Huntington, NY), Zeira; Ariela (Huntington, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000002632261
Appl. No.:
13/963,447
Filed:
August 9, 2013
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US 20130322411 A1 Dec 5, 2013
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Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/0446 (20130101); H04B 7/0686 (20130101); H04B 7/2618 (20130101); H04J 13/16 (20130101); H04W 72/042 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04B 7/212 (20060101); H04B 7/06 (20060101); H04J 13/16 (20110101); H04W 88/00 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04B 7/216 (20060101); H04B 7/26 (20060101); H04W 74/02 (20090101)
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