Patents Examined by Amancio Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11304113
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor; a memory device; a wireless network interface device to communicatively couple the information handling system to a communication network; a wireless network connection module to determine whether the information handling system is communicatively coupled to one of a Wi-Fi communication network, a public long-term evolution (LTE) communication network, and a private LTE communication network; a velocity determination module to determine a velocity of the information handling system; and a network prioritization module to communicatively couple and consign the information handling system to a second communication network for data communication prioritization for efficient a hand-off process operation corresponding to, at least, the velocity of the information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Jace W. Files, Liam B. Quinn, Abu S. Sanaullah
  • Patent number: 11290931
    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment comprising circuitry configured to receive assistance information with a handover request acknowledge message from a target base station, and to deliver the assistance information received from the target base station to an UE with dedicated signalling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11284315
    Abstract: In an example aspect, a method performed by wireless device for communication establishment is provided. The method comprises, in response to a request for establishment of a communication with the wireless device using a first network, receiving a redirection instruction to redirect to a second network, and in response to whether a node in the second network supports communication with a node in the first network, selecting a first procedure or a second procedure for establishing the communication using the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ralf Keller, Christer Gustafsson, Åsa Larsen
  • Patent number: 11284326
    Abstract: A handover control method is disclosed for a wireless communication device connected to a serving network node which provides a serving cell. The method comprises establishing a handover control configuration, shared by the WCD and the SNWN, comprising a neighboring cell measurement triggering criterion, a handover triggering criterion, and transmission resource parameters for measurement signals of a neighboring cell. The method also comprises performing channel quality measurements of the serving cell and detecting fulfillment of the neighboring cell measurement triggering criterion based on the channel quality measurements of the serving cell. The method also comprises performing channel quality measurements of the neighboring cell and detecting fulfillment of the handover triggering criterion based on the channel quality measurements of the neighboring cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Torgny Palenius, Henrik Ronkainen, Christer Östberg
  • Patent number: 11284325
    Abstract: A cell signal quality determination method, a cell selection and reselection method, a communication device and a storage medium are provided. The cell signal quality determination method applied to user equipment, includes: determining the number of beams within a cell of which the beam quality exceeds a quality threshold; determining cell signal quality according to the number of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang Xie, Liang Xia, Nan Hu
  • Patent number: 11277193
    Abstract: Techniques are described for selecting transmit beam sets in multi-stream environments as part of beam selection procedures. The selection procedures and the reporting procedures of the beam selection procedures may include reporting information about potential sources of interference for the selected transmit beams. A base station may transmit reference signals to a user equipment (UE) as part of a beam sweep of directional beams. The UE may measure signal quality parameters associated with the reference signals and may select a plurality of transmit beam set candidates based on the signal quality parameters. The UE may report to the base station information related to inter-beam interference in multi-stream environments. The base station may determine which transmit beams to use to transmit information to the UE based on the report received from the UE that include information about inter-beam interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sungwoo Park, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11277784
    Abstract: A wireless communications device is configured to act as a remote node of a wireless access network by selecting, when the wireless communications device is in an idle mode in which it has not established a connection to the wireless communications network, an infrastructure equipment forming part of the radio access network of the wireless communications network to provide a network interface with a core network part of the wireless communications network via the selected infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei
  • Patent number: 11265750
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for network management, device and system and a computer-readable storage medium, and belong to the technical field of communication. The method includes that: first measurement configuration information is sent to a target terminal device in a high-speed-railway dedicated network; first measurement report information from the target terminal device is received, the first measurement report information being obtained after the target terminal device performs cell measurement based on the first measurement configuration information and the first measurement report information including cell type information of a cell measured by the target terminal device; and a network management is executed on the target terminal device based on the cell type information. According to the present disclosure, functions of the high-speed-railway dedicated network are enriched, and the flexibility in the use of the high-speed-railway dedicated network is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11265783
    Abstract: Disclosed are a handover processing method, a network device, a terminal device, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: when a first network device located in a first system network or a first core network is connected to a terminal device, the first network device establishes a candidate connection between the terminal device and a target system network or a target core network, wherein the candidate connection is used for handover to the target system network or the target core network when the terminal device meets a preset condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhua Liu, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11265673
    Abstract: A method of providing location services at a location server for a venue includes: receiving a request for location service, where the request for location service comprises at least one of a first identification of at least one mobile device or an identification of a target area; and sending a response, where the response comprises at least one of a second identification of at least one mobile device or an identification of a geographic area, where at least one of the first identification of at least one mobile device, the second identification of at least one mobile device, the identification of the target area, or the identification of the geographic area comprises a venue-specific identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen William Edge, Andreas Klaus Wachter
  • Patent number: 11265792
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for aerial vehicle state transition configuration. One apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (902) a state transition configuration corresponding to an aerial vehicle from a base unit. The apparatus (200) includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (904) a state transition report to the base unit based on the state transition configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co. LTD
    Inventors: Jing Han, Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang
  • Patent number: 11259218
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for maintaining and transferring context information for a Dual Connectivity (“DC”)-capable User Equipment (“UE”) and a secondary Next Generation Node B (“gNB”) in situations where the UE is connected to a primary gNB and the secondary gNB and is handed over to an evolved Node B (“eNB”). The context information may be provided to the eNB without releasing resources or tearing down bearers at the secondary gNB, such that the UE may seamlessly continue communicating with the secondary gNB while a primary connection associated with the UE is handed over from the primary gNB to the eNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Jignesh S. Panchal, Frank Jager, Maqbool Chauhan
  • Patent number: 11259229
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an electronic device. The electronic device can include transceiver circuitry and processing circuitry. The transceiver circuitry can be configured to receive signals from wireless service provider networks. The processing circuitry can be configured to detect, from the signals, a high speed rail (HSR) signature of one of the wireless service provider networks. The HSR signature can indicate that the one of the wireless service provider networks is a first network for a high speed rail usage. The processing circuitry can also be configured to determine a mobility of the electronic device based on the signals in a time duration. Further, the processing circuitry can be configured to selectively camp on a first cell of the first network based on the mobility of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhang, Yen-Chen Chen, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yih-Shen Chen, Chi-Yuan Peng
  • Patent number: 11246078
    Abstract: A mobility management optimizing function in a wireless network receives geographic location information associated with a user equipment device (UE), wherein the UE is associated with a vehicle and generates a predictive handover schedule based on the received location information. Handover processing is initiated based on the predictive handover schedule, wherein initiating the handover processing comprises: transmitting one or more handover initiation messages to a plurality of cell sites in a service provider wireless network at times based on the predictive handover schedule, wherein, upon receipt of a handover initiation message, the plurality of cell sites will initiate handover processing based on the received handover initiation message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Egemen K. Çetinkaya, Frank Jager
  • Patent number: 11240775
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communications method and device to implement an inter-system network handover in the case of flexible registration modes of a terminal device. The method includes: determining, by a first network device in a first system, a registration mode and/or a supported registration mode of a terminal device, where the registration mode is a single registration (SR) mode of registration with a single system or a dual registration (DR) mode of registration with dual systems, and a first cell in the first system is accessed by the terminal device; and determining, by the first network device according to the registration mode and/or the supported registration mode of the terminal device, a procedure that needs to be performed or cannot be performed for the terminal device to access a second cell in a second system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11234210
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to determine by a network node of a serving cell of a communication network signaling including at least one parameter indicating that page reception on a paging channel of a neighbor cell can be performed by a network device without system information acquisition by the network device; and send the signaling toward the network device. Further, a method and apparatus to receive by a network device of a communication network from a serving cell signaling including at least one parameter indicating that page reception on a neighbor cell by a network device can be performed by the network device without system information acquisition by the network device; and based on the signaling, listen for a paging message on a paging channel associated with the neighbor cell without system information acquisition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Jürgen Hofmann, Hartmut Wilhelm, Muneender Chiranji
  • Patent number: 11234178
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for high data mode operation in cellular networks. A UE may determine, for an interface to a high-speed cellular network, a categorization from a plurality of categorizations, determine availability of the high-speed cellular network, and select, based at least in part on the categorization and availability of the high-speed cellular network, the interface for a data connection to the high-speed cellular network. The categorization may be one of expensive or not expensive and/or one of a first level associated with a higher compression codec rate or a second level associated with a lower compression codec rate. The UE may receive, from one of the a low-speed cellular network or the high-speed cellular network, carrier plan information for a cellular data service carrier and analyze the carrier plan information to determine desirability of a switch, e.g., from the low-speed cellular network to the high-speed cellular network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, Patrick L Coffman, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Ajay Singh, Faraz Faheem, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Lakshmi N Kavuri, Samuel J Miller, Najeeb M Abdulrahiman, Rajesh Ambati, Arun G Mathias, Vivek Ramanna, Divyaprakash P Bhojkumar, Vikram B Yerrabommanahalli, Rafael L Rivera-Barreto, Sergey Sitnikov, Oleg M Moskalenko, Bao Q Ho, Rohan C Malthankar, Samy Touati
  • Patent number: 11229007
    Abstract: The present application relates to the application field of communication technologies. Provided are a message transmission method, apparatus and system. The method comprises: obtaining two sets of paging transmission information, the two sets of paging transmission information comprising paging transmission information of a relay user equipment (UE) and paging transmission information of a remote UE, the paging transmission information being used for indicating the transmission position of a paging message, and the relay the UE being a relay device between a base station and the remote UE; and sending the paging message to the relay UE according to the two sets of paging transmission information. The present application can reduce the network signaling overheads. The present application is used for paging message transmission in a mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11228895
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for determining the mobility state of user equipment (UE), UE and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: when a UE enters a connected state for a short time, keeping maintaining a movement state evaluation variable, and determining a movement state thereof based on the movement state evaluation variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11223993
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for mobility handling during Vehicle-to-Everything (“V2X”) communication. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that communicates using a first V2X resource while in a first serving cell having a first radio access technology. The processor a processor detects a mobility event of the first cell and switches to a second cell in response to the mobility event, the second cell different than the first cell. The processor communicates using the first V2X resource on the second cell until a trigger condition occurs and switches to a second V2X resource in response to occurrence of the trigger condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Karthikeyan Ganesan, Joachim Loehr, Ravi Kuchibhotla