Samsung Files Patent for a Cell-Tower Timing Fix That Sharpens Indoor Phone Location
When GPS fails you indoors, your phone falls back on cell towers to guess where you are. Samsung's new patent targets a…
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IBM Patents a System That Pays for Services by Flashing Data Through Your Car's Lights
IBM has filed a patent for a payment system that skips Wi-Fi and cellular networks entirely, instead encoding your transaction details into…
Samsung Patents a Fix That Keeps Phone Connections Running During Wi-Fi Dropouts
When your phone is juggling a Bluetooth connection and a local Wi-Fi discovery session at the same time, one of them usually…
Samsung Patent Proposes Letting 5G Phones Switch Cells Without Network Approval
Your phone usually sits back and waits for the network to tell it which cell tower to connect to. Samsung is filing…
Samsung Patents Tech That Keeps Calls Stable When Phones Switch Cell Towers
Every time your phone jumps from one cell tower to another, it has to make a fast decision about where to go.…
Samsung Files Patent for a 5G Broadcast Data-Sizing Method
Sending the same video stream to thousands of phones at once sounds simple, but 5G networks still struggle to agree on how…
Samsung Patents a Way for Wi-Fi Devices to Warn Routers When They Go Offline
When your phone goes to sleep or switches tasks, your router often has no idea. Samsung wants to fix that with a…
Samsung Patents a Fix for Audio-Video Stream Conflicts in Emergency Radio Networks
When police officers or firefighters transmit video and audio over a push-to-talk network, two streams can accidentally get the same ID number,…
Samsung Patents a Method to Fix Corrupt Data Faster in 5G and 6G Networks
Every wireless signal you send gets wrapped in a layer of math that lets the receiver fix errors on the fly. Samsung…
Samsung's New Patent Logs Every Dead Zone Your Phone Hits Across Multiple Towers
Every time your phone silently fails to connect to a cell tower, that failure probably goes unrecorded. Samsung has patented a way…
Google's New Patent Stops Your Phone From Waiting on Its Own SIM Card
Every time your phone connects to a carrier network, your SIM card and modem go through a slow back-and-forth handshake. Google has…
Amazon Patents Technology to Stop Cloud Data From Arriving Scrambled
When your cloud server sends thousands of data packets at once, they don't always arrive in the right order. Amazon is patenting…
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