Patents Examined by Brenda H. Pham
  • Patent number: 11971294
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems, methods, and structures that employ a distributed fiber optic sensor placement procedure that advantageously provides a desirable sensor coverage over a network at minimal cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip Ji, Ting Wang, Zilong Ye
  • Patent number: 11974282
    Abstract: A method of user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), a downlink signal including position information for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a short physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), determining, based on the position information, a position of the OFDM symbols of the short PUCCH included in a slot, and transmitting, to the BS, the short PUCCH using the OFDM symbols based on the determined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Han Nam, Sudhir Ramakrishna, Li Guo, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 11968707
    Abstract: A communication method and a communication apparatus are described. A network device explicitly indicates, by using indication information, a transmission priority of data that can be carried on a scheduled transmission resource. After receiving the indication information, a terminal device can determine whether data currently to be sent can be sent on the scheduled transmission resource, to reduce a probability of a communication failure caused by resource preemption in a scenario in which data of at least three transmission priorities coexists. The terminal device may further determine, based on the indication information, whether to-be-received data exists on the scheduled transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shurong Jiao, Meng Hua
  • Patent number: 11963248
    Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a UE. The instructions configure the UE for small data transmission (SDT) in a 5G NR network and cause the UE to perform operations comprising detecting while in an RRC_Inactive state, a radio link failure during a first SDT of UL data to a base station. A secure key for a second SDT is generated based on the radio link failure. A configuration message including an indication of the second SDT is transmitted to the base station. A response message including a UL grant is received from the base station. The UL data is encoded for the second SDT using the secure key. The second SDT is performed using the UL grant while the UE is in the RRC_Inactive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sudeep K. Palat, Yi Guo, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Sangeetha L. Bangolae, Ansab Ali, Seau S. Lim, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 11963152
    Abstract: A method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: receiving a higher layer message including information related to a configuration of a PUSCH (multi-TU PUSCH) transmitted in a plurality of time units, the plurality of time units (TUs) being classified into a plurality of TU groups; receiving a lower layer message related to a spatial relation RS applied to the transmission of the multi-TU PUSCH; determining beams for each of remaining TU groups other than at least one specific TU group of the plurality of TU groups based on the lower layer message; determining a beam for at least one specific TU group based on the beams for each of the remaining TU groups; and transmitting the multi-TU PUSCH based on the determined beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park
  • Patent number: 11963088
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enable the base station to apply coverage enhancement for one or more SSB beam(s) or a subset of SSB beams for broadcasting system information in a more efficient manner, where the base station and the UE may adapt the system information differently for different SSB beams. In one aspect, a UE may receive, from a base station, RMSI indicating beam-specific system information in association with one or more SSB beams for receiving an SSB. Then, the UE may receive the SSB from the base station based on the received RMSI indicating the beam-specific system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11950254
    Abstract: A method for configuring a data transmission mode includes generating first configuration information and second configuration information for a preset link, the first configuration information including information indicating whether preset information configured for each logical channel of the preset link is shielded, and/or a data transmission mode of each logical channel, the data transmission mode including a first transmission mode and a second transmission mode, and the second configuration information including a first scheduling mode corresponding to the first transmission mode, a resource pool provided by the first scheduling mode, and a second scheduling mode corresponding to the second transmission mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xing Yang
  • Patent number: 11937212
    Abstract: Disclosed are a UCI combined transmission method, a terminal, and a network device. The method comprises: when determining that a transmission resource of a first UCI overlaps transmission resources of a plurality of second UCIs in a time domain, a terminal selects the transmission resource of one second UCI from the transmission resources of the plurality of second UCIs according to an initial position of the transmission resource of the first UCI and the initial position of the transmission resources of the second UCIs, so as to simultaneously transmit the first UCI and the selected second UCI on the transmission resource of the selected second UCI. Accordingly, a network can also simultaneously receive the first UCI and the selected second UCI on the transmission resource of the selected second UCI with the same method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuejuan Gao
  • Patent number: 11937286
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide SCell activation. In one example, an SCell activation procedure may be extended by a duration based on cancelation of CSI-RS reception. In another example, a base station may use particular configuration parameters to avoid cancelation of CSI-RS reception. In yet another example, a UE and a base station may use particular information for a CSI-RS reception/transmission on an SCell that is being activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Huaning Niu, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Wenshu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11923956
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for determining a network configuration. For instance, a system may include a controller including one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to receive information from each of a plurality of available nodes within a network, the plurality of available nodes including at least one aerial vehicle; determine a plurality of constraints for a future point in time, each one of the plurality of constraints including one or more minimum service requirements for a geographic area; attempt to determine a first network configuration for each of the plurality of available nodes that satisfies all of the constraints; when unable to determine the first network configuration, determine a second network configuration for the plurality of available nodes and at least one additional ground-based node that satisfies all of the constraints; and send instructions in order to affect the second network configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Aalyria Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Barritt, Mauro de Oliveira Filho
  • Patent number: 11917571
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a locating method for an uplink time difference of arrival, and an apparatus thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Fang-Chen Cheng, Hui Li, Haiyang Quan, Bin Ren, Xueyuan Gao, Qiubin Gao
  • Patent number: 11917007
    Abstract: Operating a data network of a motor vehicle, the data network being used by at least one mobile terminal that is external to the vehicle. Respective identification data of at least one terminal are recorded, on the basis of the identification data for the at least one terminal, a respective selection element is displayed and each terminal, the associated selection element of which is selected, is registered and each registered terminal is entered in a blocking function of an Internet routing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sascha Jurthe, Thomas Grummel, Stefan Bosse
  • Patent number: 11909920
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selectively routing an unanswered communication session to a voicemail system based at least on a voicemail system identifier (FQDN) mapped to a voicemail pilot number (present within the voicemail routing profile) are described herein. The system generates the voicemail routing profile in response to a provisioning request that identifies one or more messaging services, including a voicemail service, that are to be provided to a user profile. The voicemail profile is stored within a database that is accessed to obtain the voicemail routing profile when a user device registers with a communication network and is associated with the user profile. The system utilizes internal lookup tables and repository functions to identify the voicemail system associated with the user profile and the voicemail routing profile in response to a communication session being unanswered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Dhurjati Brahma
  • Patent number: 11909641
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for validating data in a data structure used for forwarding packets by a network device comprising sending a data packet probe identifying a destination and including a segment ID, wherein the segment ID maps to a first interpretation by a receiving router to perform an action on the data packet probe to rewrite a portion of a destination address in a header of the data packet probe, and to redirect the data packet probe to the network device that initiated the data packet probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Zafar Ali, Syed Kamran Raza
  • Patent number: 11902473
    Abstract: A link management device with a special function is connected to the IP network, and the link management device controls a process of establishing a link between an IP converter device and a signal transfer point. The IP converter device transmits a request including a point code to the link management device, and the link management device determines the IP address and the like of the signal transfer point as a connection destination from the received point code. The link management device transmits information for identifying the signal transfer point to the IP converter device, and also transmits information for identifying the IP converter device to the signal transfer point as the connection destination. The port number of the IP converter device is determined by the link management device. The port number of the signal transfer point is determined by the link management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11895673
    Abstract: An method includes determining to perform inter-cell multi-downlink control information (multi-DCI) based multi-transmission reception point (multi-TRP) operation for a user device based on the following: receiving, by the user device from a network node, transmission configuration index (TCI) states for a plurality of control resource sets (CORESETS), wherein the TCI states for the plurality of CORESETs are associated with a plurality of cells having different physical cell identities (PCIs) or associated with a plurality of cell groups; and determining, by the user device, that at least one of the following conditions is present: 1) a multi-DCI based multi-TRP-related high layer parameter has been configured to the user device; 2) a default mode of multi-TRP operation has been configured to the user device; or 3) the user device has received control information indicating physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) TCI state activations corresponding to two different CORESETPoolIndex values; and, performing in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu, Timo Koskela
  • Patent number: 11886280
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for managing faulting network devices. A first network device can receive an error. The first network device can generate one or more frames including data indicative of the error. The first network device can broadcast the one or more frames to one or more neighboring network devices. It may be determined that the first network device is inaccessible. The first data can be retrieved and presented from a second network device among the one or more neighboring network devices. In some embodiments, a network management system can utilize the first data to generate a machine learning model that classifies whether network devices are instances of network devices designated for a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) process. In some embodiments, the network management system can apply the first data to a machine learning classifier to determine whether to initiate the RMA process for the first network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kailash Chandra Panda, Samir Kumar Patro, Pon Murugesh P, Guru Prasanna Prusty, Varun Mahajan, Sumit Kumar Gupta
  • Patent number: 11872108
    Abstract: A base plate for an ostomy appliance and related methods are disclosed, the base plate comprising a first adhesive layer with a proximal side configured for attachment of the base plate to the skin surface of a user a plurality of electrodes including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode comprising a first connection part and the second electrode comprising a second connection part; a monitor interface for forming mechanical and electrical connection with a monitor device, the monitor interface comprising a coupling part and a plurality of terminals including a first terminal; and a multiplexer with a number of N input pins and a number of M output pins; wherein the N input pins includes a first input pin and a second input pin, and the M output pins include a first output pin, wherein the first input pin is connected to the first connection part and the second input pin is connected to the second connection part, and the first output pin is connected to the first terminal of the moni
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Jais Ask Hansen, Lars Erup Larsen, Niels Hvid, Finn Speiermann, Klaus Thoegersen
  • Patent number: 11877280
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a buffer status report transmitting method, including: receiving a configuration message sent by a base station; determining uplink resource allocation indication information sent by the base station and an uplink transmission time interval corresponding to the information based on the configuration message; determining an estimated duration based on the time interval; determining whether there is an uplink shared channel resource available in an uplink transmission opportunity within the estimated duration from the buffer status report trigger time or the time of the physical downlink control channel; sending a buffer status report to the base station if there is an uplink shared channel resource available in the uplink transmission opportunity. According to an example of the present disclosure, it may be avoided that the user device cannot transmit the buffer status report to the base station because the available uplink shared channel resources cannot be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11876885
    Abstract: A timing system including timing circuitry which includes an arming queue, a clock work queue, and a clock completion queue. At least the clock work queue is to provide timing information, and the arming queue is to arm the clock work queue. Related apparatus and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Dotan David Levi, Ariel Shahar, Shahaf Shuler, Ariel Almog, Eitan Hirshberg, Natan Manevich