Patents Examined by Christopher M Crutchfield
  • Patent number: 11979946
    Abstract: A system and a method for a transient gateway, including a storage device storing a set of data, and a gateway engine coupled to the storage device accessing and updating the set of data, the gateway engine configured to share bandwidth and resources, across a plurality of organizations. The transient gateway organizes the set of data to act as a broker amongst the plurality of organizations. The transient gateway is configured to provide resources as a monetized commodity. The transient gateway provides protocols handling capabilities of its connected devices of one organization to another organization from among the plurality of organizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Mohan Mangalvedkar, Shalini Kapoor
  • Patent number: 11979328
    Abstract: A method for traffic flow classification in a communication network includes (1) identifying a traffic flow in communication network traffic, (2) extracting features of the traffic flow, and (3) using a machine learning model, classifying the traffic flow at least partially based on the features of the traffic flow. The features of the traffic flow include, for example, a distribution of packet size values of a sliding window sample of the traffic flow, a distribution of inter-arrival time values of a sliding window sample of the traffic flow, standard deviation of data packet size, average of data packet size, standard deviation of data packet inter-arrival time, and average of data packet inter-arrival time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Junwen Zhang, Bernardo Huberman, Jingjie Zhu, Karthik Sundaresan, Zhensheng Jia
  • Patent number: 11973679
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced frame exchange. A device may generate a first subset of a plurality of fields, wherein the first subset is mandatory in a probe request frame. The device may generate a second subset of the plurality of fields, wherein the second subset is optional in the probe request frame regardless of capability information of the device. The device may generate the probe request frame comprising the first subset and the second subset. The device may cause to send the probe request frame to an access point (AP) device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Robert Stacey, Daniel Bravo, Ido Ouzieli, Danny Alexander, Ofer Hareuveni
  • Patent number: 11973712
    Abstract: Coordinated multi-point transmission of user data from a first cell serving a wireless terminal and a neighboring second cell site is performed. The first cell site maps control signals and user data to time-frequency resources according to a first mapping pattern. The second cell site maps control data and traffic data to time-frequency resources according to a second mapping pattern. A wireless terminal extracts user data according to the first mapping pattern and detects a control element transmitted by the first cell site. The control element indicates that user data associated with the control element is mapped to the time-frequency resources according to the second mapping pattern. In response, the wireless device extracts user data according to the second mapping pattern from time-frequency resources of a second transmission for the wireless terminal transmitted from the second cell site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: George Jöngren, Erik Dahlman
  • Patent number: 11968012
    Abstract: An information transmission method and a terminal are disclosed. The method includes: when resource overlapping occurs between a first CSI report and a second CSI report, performing the following operations: if a physical channel corresponding to the first CSI report is a physical uplink control channel PUCCH, a physical channel corresponding to the second CSI report is a PUCCH, and a multi-CSI-physical uplink control channel-resource list is configured, transmitting the CSI reports with overlapping resources based on a resource in the multi-CSI-physical uplink control channel-resource list; and/or, if a physical channel corresponding to the first CSI report is a PUCCH, a physical channel corresponding to the second CSI report is a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, and the PUCCH and the PUSCH are transmitted on different carriers, discarding the PUCCH and the CSI report carried on the PUCCH, and transmitting the PUSCH and the CSI report carried on the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Na Li, Peng Sun, Yang Song
  • Patent number: 11963171
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuration and scheduling of sidelink resources for sidelink communications in a wireless communication network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first wireless communication device, includes: determining a sidelink resource unit in a sidelink resource set according to a resource aggregation level, wherein the sidelink resource unit in the sidelink resource set comprises a first number of first resource units in the time domain and a second number of second resource units in the frequency domain, and wherein the first number of the first resource units in the time domain is determined according to the resource aggregation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youxiong Lu, Weimin Xing, Jin Yang
  • Patent number: 11962479
    Abstract: In an abnormality detection method, for a detection target packet stream made up of a plurality of detection target packets that are consecutive, a plurality of distances between the plurality of detection target packets are calculated, a feature amount of the detection target packet stream is extracted using the plurality of distances calculated, and information about the degree of abnormality in the detection target packet stream is calculated using the extracted feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Tatsumi Oba
  • Patent number: 11963186
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive, downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and indicating a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetition factor. The UE may transmit, and the base station may receive, a PUCCH that includes hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement feedback associated with the PDSCH. In some aspects, one or more instances of the PUCCH are transmitted across one or more uplink slots or sub-slots based at least in part on the PUCCH repetition factor indicated in the DCI. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Tingfang Ji, Hwan Joon Kwon, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11963041
    Abstract: Various embodiments generally may relate to Load Balancing Optimization (LBO) and Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO). Some embodiments of this disclosure are directed to the following 5G SON solutions: use cases and requirements for the management of distributed LBO and centralized LBO; procedures for the management of distributed LBO and centralized LBO; and management services and information needed to support the management of distributed LBO and centralized LBO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joey Chou, Yizhi Yao
  • Patent number: 11962533
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, a base station and respective methods. The user equipment (UE) receives a single uplink grant for a plurality of PUSCH transmissions. The single uplink grant comprises an antenna port field with an index value that is to be used for the plurality of PUSCH transmissions. The UE determines time-domain resources based on the received uplink grant. The determined time-domain resources prescribe a number of PUSCH transmissions and a length of each of the number of PUSCH transmissions. The UE transmits the number of PUSCH transmissions using the determined time-domain resources. Each of the number of PUSCH transmissions comprises at least one front-loaded demodulation reference signal, DMRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Suzuki, Hongchao Li, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 11956660
    Abstract: Systems and methods for triggering measurements before the completion of connection resumption are provided. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for performing measurements where a current Radio Resource Control (RRC) status is: IDLE or INACTIVE. The method includes monitoring for a potential reception of a downlink message in a cell that the wireless device is camping on; detecting, based upon the reception of the downlink message, information regarding performing measurements; performing measurements based on the information regarding performing the measurements; and reporting the measurement results. In some embodiments, the message is a paging message or a message multiplexed with the paging message. In this way, latency might be reduced to start performing measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Antonino Orsino, Oumer Teyeb, Jens Bergqvist, Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz, Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Ali Nader
  • Patent number: 11956668
    Abstract: A duplicated data-based transmission method and related devices are provided. The method is applicable to a scenario where there are duplicated data under both dual connectivity (DC) and carrier aggregation (CA). The method includes the following. A first communication device receives first information sent by a second communication device, where the first information is used for determining information of at least three radio link control (RLC) entities corresponding to a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICAIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Qianxi Lu
  • Patent number: 11956847
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described related to timer-based sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX). A UE may receive configuration information for a sidelink DRX mode from a base station or another UE, which may indicate one or more parameters of the sidelink DRX mode. When operating in the sidelink DRX mode, a group of UEs may have shared active durations and inactive durations for coordinating sidelink communications. In a timer-based sidelink DRX mode, if a UE receives or transmits a sidelink communication, the UE may initiate an inactivity timer, and the UE may continue to monitor a sidelink channel for other sidelink communications while the timer is running. One or more rules may govern the operation of an inactivity timer with respect to the shared inactive durations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaidong Wang, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Juan Montojo, Junyi Li, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11956795
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a forwarding node may receive, from a first wireless communication device and during a receipt occasion, an unscheduled communication for forwarding to a second wireless communication device or a control node. The forwarding node may transmit, to the second wireless communication device or the control node and based at least in part on receiving the unscheduled communication during the receipt occasion, an indication of receipt of the unscheduled communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Ashwin Sampath, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11950129
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication device including a communication circuit, a memory and a microprocessor coupled to the memory and the communication circuit. The communication circuit includes a radio frequency circuit and a first communication branch and a second communication branch sharing a frequency band and coupled to the radio frequency circuit. The memory is configured to store a network environment parameter index. The microprocessor is configured to detect a current state of a wireless network in real time based on the network environment parameter index to obtain current wireless network status data; obtain a time division multiplexing parameter according to an optimization goal and the current wireless network status data; and control the first communication branch and the second communication branch by using time division multiplexing according to the time division multiplexing parameter. Thus, spectrum and radio frequency resources can be optimally used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SUZHOU PANKORE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: XiaoDan Xu
  • Patent number: 11949632
    Abstract: Uplink resources for semi-persistent channel state information (SP-CSI) reports and other uplink transport block transmissions may be managed. If resources allocated to the SP-CSI reports overlap, in time, with resources allocated to the uplink transport block transmissions, a determination of whether to drop an SP-CSI report may be made. Various selection criteria may be used to make this determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 11949590
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for maintaining processing unit core affinity for fragmented packets. In one example, a service physical interface card (PIC) implementing a service plane of a network device receives fragmented and/or non-fragmented packet data for a traffic flow. The service PIC comprises at least one processing unit comprising multiple cores. A routing engine operating in a control plane of the network device defines one or more core groups comprising a subset of the cores. The routing engine assigns the traffic flow to a core group and a forwarding engine operating in a forwarding plane of the network device forwards the packet data for the traffic flow to the assigned core group. A core of the assigned core group applies a network service to the fragmented and/or non-fragmented packet data for the traffic flow, and the forwarding engine forwards the packet data for the traffic flow toward a destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Dipankar Barman, Chin Man Kim
  • Patent number: 11943772
    Abstract: Method for performing an unscheduled uplink transmission by a user equipment UE, in an unlicensed portion of a radio spectrum, the method comprising: performing, by the UE, a listen before talk, LBT, operation in the unlicensed portion of the radio spectrum, wherein the LBT operation includes sensing the portion of the radio spectrum for a pre-determined minimum amount of time for traffic; and performing, if no traffic was sensed, the unscheduled uplink transmission, by the UE, of data in an unscheduled mode of operation for at least one transmission burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Evanny Obregon, Jung-Fu Cheng, Amitav Mukherjee, Reem Karaki, Du Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 11943823
    Abstract: An example playback device is configured to detect an input indicating a command to power up the playback device and, based on the input, begin initialization of a wireless network interface. After beginning initialization of the wireless network interface but before the playback device is capable of establishing a connection to at least one wireless network type via the wireless network interface, the playback device causes the wireless network interface to scan for available wireless networks of the at least one wireless network type. The playback device identifies at least one available wireless network and stores an indication of the at least one available wireless network. After the playback device is capable of establishing a connection, the playback device uses the stored indication of the at least one available wireless network to establish a connection to a given wireless network of the at least one available wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng Lu, Stuart Eichert
  • Patent number: 11930507
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may communicate in an unlicensed spectrum (e.g., a shared radio frequency spectrum band). As such, the UE may determine a codebook size for transmitting hybrid access request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) feedback with respect to the unlicensed spectrum. Accordingly, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a number of HARQ processes with which the UE has been configured. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a number and/or duration of downlink channel monitoring occasions indicated by the base station. In some cases, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a combination of the techniques described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Zhifei Fan, Kapil Bhattad, Jing Sun, Tamer Kadous, Srinivas Yerramalli