Samsung Patents a Two-Stage NAN Pairing System for Nearby Devices
Samsung is patenting a way for devices to negotiate a faster or more capable wireless channel before they've even fully connected —…
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Qualcomm Patents a Multi-Technology Cooperative Positioning System for Connected Devices
What if your phone's location wasn't just determined by GPS alone, but by a server that intelligently coordinated every positioning technology available…
Qualcomm Patents a Feedback-Driven Multi-Technology Positioning Engine
Your phone uses GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular towers all at once to figure out where you are — but what if those…
Sony Files Patent for Precise Round-Trip Time Signal Timing in 5G Networks
Getting a phone's location indoors is hard — and a lot of that comes down to timing. Sony's new patent tries to…
Apple Patents a System That Guides You Back to Cell Coverage When You Go Off-Grid
Lose cell signal on a hike and your iPhone currently just... gives up. Apple is patenting a system that instead tracks where…
Samsung Patents a BLE Audio System That Cuts Broadcast Overhead During Active Connections
Samsung is quietly solving a real Bluetooth headache: when your phone is simultaneously broadcasting audio to a crowd AND streaming directly to…
Qualcomm Patents a Variable Timeout System for Wireless Congestion Control
When a network is overloaded, rigid response timers are one of the hidden culprits behind dropped connections and retransmission storms. Qualcomm's latest…
Qualcomm Patents a Configurable FMCW Waveform Scheme for Wireless Nodes
Qualcomm is filing patents around FMCW — the same radar waveform technique used in self-driving cars — but applied to wireless communication…
Qualcomm Patents a Two-Phase RF Beam Narrowing System for Wireless Sensing
Qualcomm's latest patent describes a radar-like sensing trick for 5G radios: first scan wide with many beams to get a rough picture,…
Qualcomm Patents ML-Driven RF Fingerprint Positioning for 5G Devices
GPS is useless indoors, and cell tower triangulation is often too coarse. Qualcomm's latest patent proposes using machine learning to read the…
Qualcomm Patents Deep Auto Encoder System for Wireless Network Anomaly Detection
Qualcomm is filing patents on using deep auto encoders — a type of neural network that learns what 'normal' looks like —…
Qualcomm's New Patent Wants to Use Regular Wi-Fi to Sneak You Onto 60 GHz
Connecting to Wi-Fi at 60 GHz is fast — but getting there is complicated. Qualcomm's new patent wants to use your regular…
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