Patents Examined by Afsar M Qureshi
  • Patent number: 10945295
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an access point device (AP) for communicating with a client device (STA). The AP may include a transceiver configured to transmit a first data packet indicating a set of groups, wherein each group of the set of groups is associated with a specific set of transmission parameters. The transceiver of the AP may also be configured to transmit a second data packet indicating an allocation for at least part of the groups. Furthermore, the transceiver of the AP may also be configured to receive a response frame using at least part of random access (RA) resources selected by the STA for the at least part of the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Genadiy Tsodik, Shimon Shilo, Doron Ezri, Avi Weitzman, Oded Redlich
  • Patent number: 10931350
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for collaborative wireless communication in a wireless network are described. One example method includes performing, by a first node of a plurality of nodes, a communication with at least a second node of the plurality of nodes, receiving, by the first node from a destination node of the plurality of nodes, a probe, computing, based on the probe, a phase of a strongest tap of a channel estimate between the first node and the destination node, computing a phase correction based on the phase of the strongest tap and a phase difference between a first phase of the first node and a second phase of a reference node, wherein the phase difference is based on the communication, and transmitting, to the destination node, a message with the phase correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TRELLISWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Andreas Polydoros, Cenk Köse
  • Patent number: 10931354
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives, from a base station, a trigger for reporting M CSI reports, M being an integer greater than 0. The UE determines that P processing units are available for calculation of CSI reports, each of the P processing units indicating a predetermined amount of computing power of the UE. The UE selects N CSI reports from the M CSI reports in accordance with a predetermined rule, N being a maximum integer that allows total processing units assigned for calculation of the N CSI reports to be smaller than or equal to the P processing units. The UE updates the N CSI reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Lung-Sheng Tsai, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 10932285
    Abstract: Techniques for improving data rates at mobile terminals that are subject to periodic channel interruptions in a beyond-line-of-sight communication system are disclosed, including improved encoding and decoding systems that identify blockages and modify receiver operation during blockages to reduce data errors. In certain embodiments, encoding, symbol mapping, interleaving, and use of unique periodic identifiers function to enable a series of packets that may be received in a blockage impaired channel with reduced errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Viasat Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Wilcoxson, John O'Neill, Daniel Chester, Brian Sleight, Changping Li
  • Patent number: 10917852
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus is configured to wirelessly communicate with a base station using a first retransmission parameter in a first frame transmission scheme. In some embodiments, the apparatus is configured to determine a current performance metric and, based on the current performance metric, use a second, different retransmission parameter in a second frame transmission scheme for subsequent communications. In some embodiments, the retransmission parameter is a number of retransmissions or a number of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Li Su, Jianxiong Shi
  • Patent number: 10912007
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for a WTRU to act as a mobile relay, the method comprising the WTRU connecting to the network, the WTRU receiving a message from the network indicating that the WTRU is to act as a mobile relay for one or more devices outside of the coverage of the network, the WTRU discovering one or more devices outside of the coverage of the network, and the WTRU receiving a message from the out-of-coverage device that indicates that the out-of-coverage device has selected the WTRU to act as a mobile relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Martino M. Freda, Diana Pani, Benoit Pelletier, Paul Marinier
  • Patent number: 10904927
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates with a base wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver, and a processor. The processor is configured to set an integer selected from a range of 0 to a value equal to or smaller than an OFDMA Contention Window (OCW) as a counter for random access, receive a trigger frame for triggering random access using one or more resource units (RUs) allocated for the random access from the base wireless communication terminal using the transceiver, decrement a value of the counter based on the one or more RUs allocated for the random access, randomly select one RU based on the one or more RUs allocated for the random access when the value of the counter is 0 or reaches 0, and attempt transmission to the base wireless communication terminal using the selected RU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geonjung Ko, Juhyung Son, Woojin Ahn, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 10904883
    Abstract: A communication device is a communication device connected to a mobility network which is a network mounted in a mobility and which is used by a plurality of electronic control devices for communication. The communication device includes: a holding unit which holds range information indicating a transferable path range determined for a message on the mobility network; a receiving unit which receives the message on the mobility network; and a determining unit which determines validity of the received message by using the range information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Yuishi Torisaki, Tomoyuki Haga, Hiroyasu Terazawa, Ryo Kato
  • Patent number: 10897750
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a resource allocation method, a first node, and a second node. The method includes the following steps: A first node receives downlink control information (DCI) from a second node, where the DCI includes resource indication information, and the resource indication information is used to indicate a transmission resource allocation manner; the first node determines a first resource allocation manner based on the resource indication information, where the first resource allocation manner is used to allocate a transmission resource greater than one narrowband; the first node determines an allocated transmission resource based on the first resource allocation manner and the resource indication information; and the first node transmits data by using the allocated transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheng Yu, Yongqiang Fei, Xingqing Cheng, Fang Nan, Chao Luo
  • Patent number: 10897782
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for transmitting MSG3 in a random access procedure in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) determines a frequency resource for transmitting MSG3 in a random access procedure and transmits the MSG3 to a network via the frequency resource. The starting position of the frequency resource is the smallest physical resource block (PRB) of an active uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP), and the bandwidth of the frequency resource is the same as the bandwidth of an initial UL BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10897718
    Abstract: A method for a terminal performing beam refinement in an mmWave communication system can be provided according to an embodiment of the present description. A method for a terminal performing beam refinement can comprise the steps of: transmitting a RACH preamble to a base station; receiving a RACH response from the base station; transmitting an RRC connection request message to the base station; and receiving a response message to the RRC connection request message. If beam inconsistency occurs in the terminal, ID information of a pre-connected terminal can be comprised in a terminal ID field of the RRC connection request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kilbom Lee, Kijun Kim, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 10863497
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products directed to phase-continuous frequency selective precoding are provided. Included among these classes are methods for use in connection with dynamic precoding resource block group (PRG) configuration and with codebook based transmission configuration. A representative of such methods may include any of receiving signaling indicating transmit precoding information; determining a candidate PRG size using any of the transmit precoding information, a rule for determining a PRG size and configured PRG sizes; and configuring or reconfiguring a wireless transmit/receive device in accordance with the candidate PRG size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Afshin Haghighat, Oghenekome Oteri, Alphan Sahin, Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, Moon-il Lee, Prasanna Herath Mudiyanselage
  • Patent number: 10849178
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for a user equipment (UE) supporting dual connectivity (DC) with a master node and a secondary node are disclosed. According to these, the UE receives first configuration information from the master node and second configuration information from the secondary node. The UE applies the first configuration information first. And, the UE transmits a new configuration request message to the secondary node, if the UE cannot apply the second configuration information after applying the first configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungjune Lee, Sangwon Kim, Sunyoung Lee, Jaewook Lee
  • Patent number: 10841826
    Abstract: A transmitter reports channel quality information by partitioning channel quality values, based on a channel quality information reporting parameter, into at least two partitions corresponding to different frequency bands in a bandwidth associated with the communications system. A channel quality value of the channel quality values of at least one of the at least two partitions is encoded to obtain signaling information on channel quality, including at least one of first channel quality information and second channel quality information, based on the channel quality information reporting parameter, wherein the second channel quality information is different from the first channel quality information. The transmitter transmits the signaling information on the channel quality by reporting the first channel quality information or the second channel quality information at different reporting frequencies depending on the channel quality information reporting parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 10840996
    Abstract: The present invention is applicable to the field of communications technologies, and provides a repeating method of a wireless repeating device and a wireless repeating device. The method includes the following steps: synchronizing network connection information of an upstream AP to a downstream WLAN AP interface of the wireless repeating device; obtaining, according to the downstream WLAN AP interface corresponding to the synchronized upstream AP, downstream wireless STA MAC address information, and establishing an upstream WLAN Client interface which is in a mapping relationship with an STA MAC address; and performing, according to the mapping relationship between the STA MAC address and the established upstream WLAN Client interface, management on data forwarded between the upstream AP and a downstream wireless STA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chong Zhu, Wei Du
  • Patent number: 10833912
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to wireless Internet of Things. In one example, a time reversal client is disclosed. The time reversal client comprises a processor, a memory communicatively coupled with the processor, and a set of instructions, when executed by the processor based on the memory, that cause the time reversal client to perform the following steps: communicatively coupling with a time reversal server through a network, obtaining a set of channel state information (CSI), wherein the set of CSI is captured when at least one probing signal is sent from the wireless transmitter to the wireless receiver through a wireless multipath channel associated with a space, and causing the set of CSI to be sent to the time reversal server through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: ORIGIN WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Oscar Chi-Lim Au, Masato Marumo, Beibei Wang, Hung-Quoc Duc Lai, K. J. Ray Liu, Chen Chen, Qinyi Xu, Yi Han, Zhung-Han Wu, Feng Zhang, Zoltan Safar, Jeng-Feng Lee, Thomas Nelson Buttermore, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10826670
    Abstract: A signal resource configuration method, a terminal, and an access network device to reduce impact on an existing standard and save Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources. The method includes obtaining, by the access network device, a 2N-port CSI-RS resource sequence number, and sending, by the access network device, the 2N-port CSI-RS resource sequence number to a terminal device, where the 2N-port CSI-RS resource sequence number notifies the terminal device of an N-port CSI-RS resource in two adjacent physical resource blocks (PRBs), and N is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanliang Sun, Bin Liu, Kai Xu, Xiaodong Sun
  • Patent number: 10812996
    Abstract: Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide autonomous vehicle network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable network of autonomous vehicles comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes. In particular, systems and methods for operating self-organized fleets of autonomous vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: VENIAM, INC.
    Inventors: Nuno Alexandre Tavares Coutinho, Ricardo Jorge Magalhães de Matos, João Francisco Cordeiro de Oliveira Barros
  • Patent number: 10812954
    Abstract: User Equipment (UE) receives a system information block for V2X service, and transmits V2X related UE side information. The system information block includes at least an information element indicating resource pool configuration for V2X service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Xusheng Wei
  • Patent number: 10812230
    Abstract: Provided are technologies for data transmission and reception using an interworking interface between heterogeneous radio access network base stations, such as between NR and LTE, for a 5G non-standalone (NSA) network. A base station for controlling downlink data transmission may include a controller configured to setting up an X2 interface for transmitting the downlink data to a UE by interworking with another base station, a transmitter configured to transmit downlink use data information including information indicating whether to perform retransmission of an associated downlink data packet to another base station through the X2 interface, and a receiver configured to receive downlink data transfer status information from another base station through the X2 interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ha Sung Kim, Hyung-joon Song, Sung-Yeop Pyun