Patents Examined by Alpus Hsu
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Patent number: 11979867Abstract: An apparatus configured to store a bandwidth part arrangement of the bandwidth part into plural physical resource blocks which are grouped into bundles forming a bundle grid, wherein the bandwidth part includes at least one guard band, to determine at least one of the bundles as partially overlapping with the at least one guard band, each partially overlapping bundle including overlapping and non-overlapping physical resource blocks, and to at least one of: 1) re-assign at least one of the non-overlapping physical resource blocks to a non-overlapping bundle immediately preceding or immediately following, in the bundle grid, the partially overlapping bundle, 2) re-align a first physical resource block of the non-overlapping bundle immediately following the partially overlapped bundle to coincide with a guard band end, and 3) re-align a last physical resource block of the non-overlapping bundle immediately preceding the partially overlapped bundle to coincide with a guard band start.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Esa Tiirola, Kari Hooli, Timo Lunttila, Sami-Jukka Hakola, Karol Schober
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Patent number: 11979220Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to non-terrestrial communication systems, and in some embodiments to the integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial communication systems. Non-terrestrial communication systems can provide a more flexible communication system with extended wireless coverage range and enhanced service quality compared to conventional communication systems. A method representative of aspects of the present application includes receiving, by an apparatus connected in a first sub-system, from a radio access network, configuration information for performing a channel condition measurement on a second sub-system, reporting, by the apparatus to the radio access network, channel condition measurement of a downlink reference signal received from the second sub-system, transmitting, by the apparatus, a wireless transmission to the second sub-system responsive to the channel condition measurement meeting a predefined condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong
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Patent number: 11974212Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a cellular device-satellite communications service is provided. The service may provide establishment, maintenance, and termination of uplink and downlink connections via a satellite network, a terrestrial network, and both based on network information and satellite information. The service may also provide scheduling for user plane traffic via the uplink and downlink connections.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Corey J. Christopherson, Manuel Bedoya, James Byron Jones, Fred Weisbrod
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Patent number: 11968269Abstract: A multi-tenant cloud native system for providing network connections between a plurality of gateway endpoints using tags and secure tunnels. The system includes an end-user device, a cloud control plane, and a cloud provider. The end-user device includes a client endpoint providing a request for establishing a network connection with a service endpoint of the gateway endpoint. Zones and tenants are identified from the request. Tags are assigned to the gateway endpoints in the network based on a tag policy. Connectivity of the tags and tunnels between the gateway endpoint are identified from network traffic of devices corresponding to the gateway endpoints. A database of devices with device addresses is identified to determine routes between the gateway endpoints. A secure tunnel is determined from the plurality of tunnels based on the tags corresponding to the tenant and the network connection is established via the secure tunnel using the routes.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Netskope, Inc.Inventors: Parag Pritam Thakore, Sunil Mukundan, Anupam Rai
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Patent number: 11968725Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitter may include an interference avoidance preamble in a wireless transmission. The interference avoidance preamble may identify resources for transmitting an interference avoidance request associated with the wireless transmission. A receiver may experience interference between the wireless transmission and another wireless transmission, and the receiver may transmit the interference avoidance request using the resources identified in the interference avoidance preamble. The transmitter may receive the interference avoidance request and, in response, may enable an interference avoidance mechanism, for example, a listen before talk (LBT) procedure, a frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) scheme, a time-division multiplexing (TDM) scheme, a spatial multiplexing scheme, or a combination.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
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Patent number: 11962403Abstract: A method of operating a network having one or more nodes which are in communication with a server, the server including or being in communication with a high precision time source, to estimate a time delay between the server and each node is provided. The method includes initiating a delay request from the server which is transported over a physical layer to the node, the server receiving a delay response from the node receiving the delay request, wherein a timestamp for the delay request and a timestamp for the delay response are times recorded from the high precision time source, wherein the time delay is estimated from half of a time difference between the timestamps.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Matthew Grosvenor
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Patent number: 11963117Abstract: A method performed by a wireless communication device includes determining whether to transmit a first Sidelink Synchronization Signal (SLSS) according to a priority parameter when an occasion of the first SLSS collides with a Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) that carries Sidelink Feedback Control Information (SFCI). The priority parameter is associated with a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) that corresponds to the PSFCH.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Hannibal IP LLCInventors: Yu-Hsin Cheng, Tsung-Hua Tsai, Chie-Ming Chou, Yung-lan Tseng
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Patent number: 11956178Abstract: A signal sending method, a signal receiving method, and a device for signal transmission or receiving are provided. A part that is of a first signal and that is carried on a kth subcarrier in an ith subcarrier group in N subcarrier groups is xi,nid(k), and a sequence {si,nid(k)} related to xi,nid(k) is one of enumerated sequences. The enumerated sequences are sequences with relatively good cross-correlation. Therefore, for two subcarrier groups, provided that selected {si,nid(k)} is two of the enumerated sequences, cross-correlation between signals carried in the two subcarrier groups can be ensured to be relatively good, thereby reducing interference between the signals and improving channel estimation performance.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Mingxin Gong, Bingyu Qu, Yongxing Zhou
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Patent number: 11950309Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit indications of target received powers for a random access procedure and a beam failure recovery procedure. A wireless device may transmit a random access preamble and a beam failure recovery preamble using different transmission powers based on the indications of target received powers.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park
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Patent number: 11943818Abstract: A high frequency data network access system leverages commodity WiFi chipsets and specifically multi spatial stream (e.g., 802.11 ac) chipsets in combination with phased array antenna systems at the aggregation nodes. Examples can be very spectrally efficient with both polarization and frequency diversity.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Starry, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Thaddeus Lipowski, Chaitanya Kanojia, Nicholas John Kalita, Joseph Anthony Kaiser, Jr., Daniel Tracy Pond
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Patent number: 11937298Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for performing coordinated clear channel assessments (CCAs) in a shared radiofrequency band are provided. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication performed by a first wireless communication device includes: receiving a control signal indicating a CCA trigger associated with the first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device; performing, based on the CCA trigger, a CCA; transmitting, to the second wireless communication device based on the CCA, a first CCA success signal; receiving, from the second wireless communication device, a second CCA success signal; initiating, based on the first CCA success signal and the second CCA success signal, a channel occupancy time (COT); and amplifying and forwarding a communication in the COT.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jianghong Luo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Naeem Akl
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Patent number: 11929918Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for utilizing a CIC value field in signaling information of a communication to provide an identification of the ingress network to an egress or receiving network of a long distance telecommunications network. The system and method provides for the provisioning of a signaling CIC for an ingress trunkgroup or network to a telecommunications network for downstream signaling purposes by overriding a received CIC value with a provisioned CIC value specific to the ingress network. This provisioned CIC value identifies the ingress network to the long distance network to the egress network for use by the egress network.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: David A. Tschirhart
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Patent number: 11924681Abstract: A mechanism for adaptively performing in-band network telemetry (INT) by a network controller is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving one or more congestion indicators from a collector. An adjusted sampling rate is generated. The adjusted sampling rate is a specified rate of insertion of instruction headers for INT and is generated based on the congestion indicators. The adjusted sampling rate is transmitted to a head node, which is configured to perform INT via instruction header insertion into user packets.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Haoyu Song, Tianran Zhou, Min Liu, Zhenbin Li
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Patent number: 11917550Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and device for uplink power control. The method comprises receiving a plurality of sets of power control parameters from a network device, each of the plurality of sets being associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of sets of candidate beam patterns for the terminal device. The method further comprises selecting, based on a beam pattern for the terminal device, one of the plurality of sets of power control parameters for uplink transmit power control, the beam pattern for the terminal device being included in the set of candidate beam pattern that is associated with the selected set of power control parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, ALCATEL LUCENTInventors: Pingping Wen, Huan Sun, Tao Yang, Xun Li, Yi Zhang
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Patent number: 11916775Abstract: A control plane system for providing data exchange between a plurality of gateway endpoints using a secure tunnel between the gateway endpoints. The system includes an end-user device, a cloud control plane, and a cloud provider. The end-user device includes a client endpoint providing a request for accessing data using a gateway device by sending data packets. The cloud control plane uses a data plane and a control plane for provisioning the request. The control plane is isolated from the data plane. Routing information of network traffic is received, a tenant associated with the request is identified and isolated. A network policy associated with the access to the data is identified based on the network patterns. The network policy specifies routing for access to the data and the secure tunnel. The access to the data is provided from the cloud provider to the client endpoint on the gateway device.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Netskope, Inc.Inventors: Parag Pritam Thakore, Sunil Mukundan, Anupam Rai
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Patent number: 11916661Abstract: Systems and methods for timing over a Metro Transport Networking (MTN) path include detecting a specific block in a stream of blocks, wherein each block is encoded based on a line code, and sampling an output of a clock to determine a timestamp reference based on detection of the specific block, and transmitting timing information based on the timestamp reference. The specific block can be a control block. The timing information can be transmitted via a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) message. The timing information can be transmitted via a plurality of subsequent specific blocks.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Sebastien Gareau, Andrew McCarthy
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Patent number: 11909662Abstract: Reservations of resources within a dynamic workspace are made and facilitated including by pushing configurations specific to a worker for whom a reservation is made to the resource for a limited time period for the reservation. When the worker arrives for the reservation and checks in, configurations associated with the worker are obtained and pushed to the resource to configure the resource for use by the worker for a time period of the reservation. In some cases, an identity of the worker may be verified to complete the check in process for the reservation. In response to an end time of the reservation being determined, such as based on a scheduled end time for the reservation or based on a determination that the resource has gone unused for some amount of time, the configurations are removed from the resource to prepare the resource for use by a next worker.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Harold David Moseley, Jeffrey William Smith
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Patent number: 11903000Abstract: A wireless device may receive at least one control message. The at least one control message may comprise at least one pathloss reference parameter that may indicate a downlink carrier.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
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Patent number: 11894891Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to scheduled multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) acknowledgement. A device may determine a block acknowledgment schedule associated with one or more destination devices. The device may cause to send a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) frame including the block acknowledgment schedule. The device may identify one or more acknowledgment frames received from at least one of the one or more destination devices based on the block acknowledgment schedule.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ilya Bolotin, Oren Kedem, Artyom Lomayev, Alexander Maltsev
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Patent number: 11894913Abstract: An airborne or spaceborne base station for a non-terrestrial cellular data communication system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the base station includes: a data transmission unit, a data reception unit, a memory element, and a data processing unit. The data transmission unit and the data reception unit are configured to establish one or more inter base station communication links with neighboring base stations of the non-terrestrial cellular data communication system. The data processing unit is configured to, in the memory element, store identifiers of neighboring airborne or spaceborne base stations of the non-terrestrial cellular data communication system with which the base station can exchange data via the one or more inter base station communication links. Furthermore, the data processing unit is configured to periodically update data describing a set of currently neighboring airborne or spaceborne base stations with which the base station can exchange data.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: OQ Technology S.รก.r.l.Inventors: Omar Qais Talib Qaise, Prasanna Balasubramanian Nagarajan, Cyril Marc Dufoing