Patents Examined by Bailor C. Hsu
  • Patent number: 11984969
    Abstract: Systems and methods for regaining phase synchronization between a CMTS core and an RPD, where the phase synchronization is regained over repeated temporal periods preferably divided between a first interval having a frequency adjustment of a first magnitude and a second interval having a frequency adjustment of a second magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Yair Neugeboren
  • Patent number: 11985026
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a processing method and device for a link recovery procedure, and a terminal. The method comprises: a terminal determining that there is no need to monitor a downlink control channel on a first cell; and the terminal skipping a link recovery procedure, or the terminal determining a set of reference signals and executing, on the basis of the set of reference signals, a link recovery procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Shi, Wenhong Chen, Yun Fang
  • Patent number: 11985218
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for master media clock recovery. In various embodiments, recovering a master media clock may comprise receiving clock reference format (CRF) packets carrying timestamps (Ts). Differences of Ts between adjacent CRF packets may be calculated, and an average difference of Ts between adjacent timestamps may be calculated. A recovered frequency of a master clock may be based on the calculated average difference of Ts between adjacent timestamps. The recovered frequency may be used to regulate a timing of, for example, a kernel module and/or a media application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Rabindra Kumar Paikaray, Yogesh Devidas Dusane, Hari Krishna Valluru, Chaitra Peddireddy Narayana Reddy
  • Patent number: 11979842
    Abstract: A method performed by a wireless device for determining a timing advance (TA) offset in a new radio (NR) network is described herein along with associated network devices and systems. An exemplary method includes obtaining an indication of whether a carrier frequency of the NR network coexists with a carrier frequency of a long term evolution (LTE) network, determining, based on whether the carrier frequency of the NR network coexists with carrier frequency of the LTE network, a TA offset for uplink transmission; and transmitting an uplink transmission using the determined TA offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Torgny Palenius, Magnus Sandgren, Magnus Larsson, Muhammad Kazmi, Robert Baldemair, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 11974226
    Abstract: A method for managing sleep duration in a 5th Generation (5G) and a user equipment (UE) are provided. The method includes sending, by the UE, a plurality of data packets to a network in a connected mode discontinuous reception (cDRX) cycle and detecting, by the UE, an initiation of a retransmission timer associated with the plurality of data packets. The method includes determining, by the UE, if a retransmission of at least one data packet the plurality of data packets is required, and causing, by the UE, to sleep before an expiry of the retransmission timer, in response to determining that the retransmission of the at least one data packet of the plurality of data packets is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rishav Agarwal, Jajohn Mathew Mattam
  • Patent number: 11968638
    Abstract: A host clock value may be provided to a client device. An Access Point (AP) may obtain a Timing Synchronization Function (TSF)-based time stamp. Next, the TSF-based time stamp may be placed in an Information Element (IE) that was intended to contain follow up information. The IE may then be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Jerome Henry, Sanjay Katabathuni
  • Patent number: 11968023
    Abstract: Space-based systems, methods, and apparatus transmit data between terrestrial nodes using route creation and data transmission protocols that establish radio routes that transmit data over long distances between large numbers of terrestrial nodes via one or more satellites and/or other types of non-terrestrial aerial nodes. One approach uses satellites in stochastic orbits, in which some of the satellites receive and transmit signals simultaneously in different frequency bands to more readily create optimum radio routes for data transmissions between terrestrial nodes. Other approaches use route creation and data transmission protocols that increase the number of terrestrial nodes supported by the system. Still another approach uses a multi-level system in which drones and/or balloons service local areas while longer distance data transmissions are supported by one or more layers of satellites in cohorts in uncontrolled orbits at different altitudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: STAR MESH LLC
    Inventor: Gerald R. Schloemer
  • Patent number: 11956071
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving a message from a sending service and addressed to a destination service. The message is sent to the destination service using a synchronous message modality responsive to a communication history parameter for the destination service indicating a synchronous message type. The message is sent to the destination service using an asynchronous message modality responsive to the communication history parameter indicating an asynchronous message type. A reply is received from the destination service and the reply is sent to the sending service. The synchronous message modality comprises waiting for a reply to be received from the destination service for a predetermined time interval. The asynchronous message modality comprises storing identification data associated with the message in a correlation data store, receiving the reply from the destination service, and determining whether the reply is associated with the message based on the identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Randolph Torres, Ralph Stagg, Michael T. Bayne, Sutap Chatterjee, Tri Bui
  • Patent number: 11949495
    Abstract: A system and method for operating a hybrid 4G satellite network. The method includes providing a NGSG including a satellite AS/NAS stack, a terrestrial 4G stack and a relay to connect the satellite AS/NAS stack and the terrestrial 4G stack; transporting a 4G traffic between a 4G UE and the NGSG using a satellite air interface; utilizing a terrestrial network between the NGSG and a 4G CN to transport the 4G traffic; and mapping, with the relay, the 4G traffic between the satellite AS/NAS stack and the terrestrial 4G stack and vice versa, where the satellite air interface is better suited for satellite communications than the terrestrial network. A system and method for multiplexing a first-generation UE and a second-generation UE on a satellite channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Channasandra Ravishankar, James Jehong Jong, Gaguk Zakaria, Nassir Benammar
  • Patent number: 11916848
    Abstract: Full-duplex communication techniques are described. Some aspects may utilize full-duplex-slot formats, such as may be provided in addition to or in the alternative to uplink, downlink, and flexible slot formats. A full-duplex slot implemented in accordance with a full-duplex-slot format provides a slot in which the frequency band may be used for both uplink and downlink transmissions. Downlink and/or uplink transmissions of a full-duplex slot may occur in overlapping frequency bands or in adjacent frequency bands. A first wireless device may transmit slot signaling comprising one or more full-duplex-slot-indicator parameters. A second wireless device may base one or more full-duplex slot configuration determinations on a full-duplex-slot configuration. The second wireless device may apply one or more full-duplex-slot-indicator-parameter rules with respect to full-duplex-slot-indicator parameters for determining a full-duplex-slot format. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Huilin Xu, Wanshi Chen, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Shimman Arvind Patel
  • Patent number: 11916798
    Abstract: A method of estimating available bandwidth for a network comprising a transmitting device and a receiving device, the method comprising: transmitting a media packet stream over the network to the receiving device, the media packets comprising media data for streaming media at the receiving device; transmitting one or more probe packets over the network so as to test the available bandwidth of the network, wherein the probe packets comprise duplicate data of the media packet stream; and determining, during transmission of the probe packets, a measure of network bandwidth availability in dependence on one or more metrics associated with receiving the media packet stream at the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Senthil Kumar Mani, Bala Manikya Prasad Puram
  • Patent number: 11910388
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described. In some wireless systems (e.g., new radio (NR) systems), a system may employ fixed or variable length uplink burst regions (e.g., in an uplink-centric slot). The base station may semi-statically or dynamically configure a user equipment (UE) or group of UEs for uplink control channel transmissions within an uplink burst region. In semi-static configuration, the UE may determine the uplink control channel transmission based on values transmitted or indicated via higher-layer signaling or based on default values. In dynamic configuration, the UE may receive an indication of actual resources used by the base station in a physical layer message. The UE may transmit using an uplink control channel transmission based on the indication. In some cases, the base station may allocate code division multiplexing (CDM) groups based on which UEs are semi-statically configured and which are dynamically configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Renqiu Wang, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jing Jiang, Yi Huang, Shimman Arvind Patel
  • Patent number: 11909505
    Abstract: UE parameter determination method and apparatus, storage medium and base station are provided. The method includes: determining a minimum round trip time between each UE in a cell and a satellite; determining frame information of a network-side uplink radio frame based on the minimum round trip time and frame information of a network-side downlink radio frame, where the minimum round trip time is a timing difference by which the network-side uplink radio frame lags behind the network-side downlink radio frame; and determining a UE parameter of each UE based on the network-side uplink radio frame and the network-side downlink radio frame, where UE parameter includes at least one of TA or K2. By the method, an NTN network can be supported on the premise that modification of software and hardware of a terrestrial network UE is minimized, thereby effectively avoiding extra maintenance cost of software and hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangxin Gu
  • Patent number: 11902923
    Abstract: A network includes an intermediate node to communicate with a child node via a wireless network protocol. An intermediate node synchronizer in the intermediate node facilitates time synchronization with its parent node and with the child node. A child node synchronizer in the child node to facilitates time synchronization with the intermediate node. The intermediate node synchronizer exchanges synchronization data with the child node synchronizer to enable the child node to be time synchronized to the intermediate node before the intermediate node is synchronized to its parent node if the intermediate node has not synchronized to its parent node within a predetermined guard time period established for the child node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ariton E. Xhafa, Jianwei Zhou, Xiaolin Lu
  • Patent number: 11888787
    Abstract: Current frame structures in Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and New Radio (NR) are not designed to accommodate full duplex (FD) communication. Embodiments are disclosed in which frame structures are provided that support FD communication and frequency division duplex (FDD) communication and time division duplex (TDD) communication. In some embodiments, there is defined two separate and independent frame structures: a frame structure for reception (e.g. a downlink frame structure) and a frame structure for transmission (e.g. an uplink frame structure).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongxia Lyu, Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Liqing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11877231
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms or apparatus configured to provide ad hoc, peer to peer communications among a plurality of wireless devices, wherein at least one wireless device is selected to further communicate with a wireless network to provide thereby backhaul services to other wireless devices, wherein the at least one wireless device providing backhaul services is dynamically selected in accordance with respective wireless network signal strength indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Diwelawatte Jayawardene, Manish Jindal
  • Patent number: 11864142
    Abstract: A method and a user equipment (UE) for timing alignment is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a first configuration indicating at least one of a scheduling offset, a common Timing Advance (TA), and satellite ephemeris information; receiving, from the BS, a second configuration indicating a TA offset for a TA variable; determining a UE-specific TA based on the satellite ephemeris information; determining a total TA based on at least one of the TA variable, the TA offset for the TA variable, the common TA, and the UE-specific TA; and starting, from a transmission by the UE, a time window after an additional time based on the total TA and the scheduling offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Cheng, Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Wan-Chen Lin, Hai-Han Wang, Chia-Hung Wei
  • Patent number: 11863500
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: a communication unit that periodically transmits, with an interval assigned by TDD (Time Division Duplex) being one TDD time slot and a plurality of TDD time slots being one period, a plurality of application packets corresponding to a plurality of serial signals generated by a plurality of applications to a communication partner device; and a transmission control unit that changes, for every one period, a priority of part of application packets corresponding to part of two or more applications of the plurality of applications, the part of application packets being transmitted in at least one specific TDD time slot for transmitting the part of application packets, the plurality of TDD time slots including the at least one specific TDD time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Hyakudai, Satoshi Ota, Junya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11864219
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for handling multi-UE scheduling conflicts. A first UE may receive group common DCI that schedules each of a plurality of UEs including the first UE for an uplink transmission or a downlink reception. The group common DCI may include per UE priority indications for each of the plurality of UEs. The first UE may resolve a conflict between first resources scheduled for the first UE that overlap in time with second resources scheduled for a second UE of the plurality of UEs. Resolving the conflict may include reducing self-interference associated with a full-duplex communication based on the per UE priority indications included in the group common DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11856629
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The embodiments of the present invention provide methods and devices for network access. The method includes receiving a first request message forwarded by a distributed unit in a base station and indication information of the distributed unit with respect to the first request message, the first request message requesting to connect a user equipment to a network; determining a processing to be performed on the first request message based on the indication Information; and transmitting an indication of the determined processing to the distributed unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiwei Wang, Lixiang Xu, Xiaowan Ke, Hong Wang