Patents Examined by Duc C. Ho
  • Patent number: 11461527
    Abstract: A representative system, apparatus, method and protocol are disclosed for data communication between chiplets or SOCs on a common interposer. A representative system comprises: an interposer; a first integrated circuit arranged on the interposer, the first integrated circuit comprising a first common protocol interface circuit; a communication link coupled to the first common protocol interface circuit; and a second integrated circuit arranged on the interposer, the second integrated circuit comprising a second common protocol interface circuit coupled to the communication link to form a serial protocol interface between the first common protocol interface circuit and the second common protocol interface circuit. Serial data and control packets and parallel data and control packets having specified, ordered fields are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Tony M. Brewer
  • Patent number: 11463185
    Abstract: A communication technique for combining a fifth generation (5G) communication system with Internet of Things (IoT) technology for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a fourth generation (4G) system, and a system thereof, are provided. A method for identifying a transmission characteristic of a radio signal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: identifying a signal transmission position; identifying a signal reception position; identifying an area in which a movable object is located between the signal transmission position and the signal reception position; identifying a characteristic of the movable object in the area; and identifying a transmission characteristic of a radio signal transmitted from the signal transmission position to the signal reception position based on the characteristic of the movable object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soonyoung Lee, Sungbum Park, Sanghyun Chang, Minsung Cho
  • Patent number: 11463908
    Abstract: Some embodiments described herein provide a method for transmitting a preamble in accordance with a wireless local area network communication protocol. In some embodiments, a data frame may be obtained for transmission including a preamble compliant with the wireless local area network communication protocol. It may be determined that the preamble includes a first preamble portion that spans multiple symbol durations and a second preamble portion that spans a single symbol duration. The first preamble portion via beamforming may be transmitted based on a first beamforming matrix. When a transmission mode of the second preamble portion is beamforming, a second beamforming matrix may be generated based on the first beamforming matrix, each tone for the second preamble portion may be calculated based on the second beamforming matrix. Each calculated tone may be transmitted in accordance with the wireless local area network communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Hongyuan Zhang, Sudhir Srinivasa, Xiayu Zheng
  • Patent number: 11456888
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of replicating messages for a logical network. At a particular tunnel endpoint in a particular datacenter, the method receives a message to be replicated to members of a replication group. The method replicates the message to a set of tunnel endpoints of the replication group located in a same segment of the particular datacenter as the particular tunnel endpoint. The method replicates the message to a first set of proxy endpoints of the replication group, each of which is located in a different segment of the particular datacenter and for replicating the message to tunnel endpoints located in its respective segment of the particular datacenter. The method replicates the message to a second set of proxy endpoints of the replication group, each of which is located in a different datacenter and for replicating the message to tunnel endpoints located in its respective datacenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Subin Cyriac Mathew, Alexander Tessmer, Chidambareswaran Raman
  • Patent number: 11444824
    Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing a root cause of issues in a network, such as an optical communication network, are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes the steps of deriving symptoms indicative of issues in a network by utilizing performance data obtained from network elements in the network and storing the derived symptoms in a database. The method also includes the step of obtaining diagnostics from the network elements. Also, the method may include utilizing the database to compute distances between the derived symptoms and each of the diagnostics, whereby the computed distances may be configured to correspond to dissimilarities between the derived symptoms and the diagnostics. The distances are computed based on machine learning models, user feedback, and analytical functions. Also, the method includes analyzing a root cause of the derived symptoms based on a lowest distance selected from the computed distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Triplet, Arslan Shahid, Bruck Wubete
  • Patent number: 11438113
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for handling delayed sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission. A user equipment may be configured to receive, from a network, at least one SRS parameter and a first downlink control information (DCI), wherein the first DCI includes a first request for transmission of a first SRS; identify a first slot for transmission of the first SRS based on said at least one SRS parameter and the first DCI; determine that the first slot is not available for transmission of the first SRS; identify a second slot for transmission of the first SRS in response to the determining that the first slot is not available for transmission of the first SRS; determine a maximum SRS delay associated with the first SRS; and determine whether to transmit the first SRS in the second slot based on the maximum SRS delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Yi Huang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11438132
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing input and output ports to connect to channels are provided. Input and output ports are the basic building blocks to create more complex data routing IP blocks. By aggregating these modular ports in different ways, different implementations of crossbar or Network on Chip (NoC) can be implemented, allowing flexible routing structure while maintaining all the benefits of channels such as robustness against delay variation, data compression and simplified timing assumptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CHRONOS TECH LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Giaconi, Giacomo Rinaldi, Matheus Trevisan Moreira, Matthew Pryor, David Fong
  • Patent number: 11438919
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for time division multiplexing of uplink communications using a first wireless link with a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second wireless link with a second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11431618
    Abstract: Various example embodiments for supporting packet forwarding in communication networks are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting packet forwarding in communication networks may be configured to support forwarding of source routed packets in packet switched networks based on flexible path encoding. Various example embodiments for supporting forwarding of a source routed packet based on flexible path encoding may be configured to support forwarding of the source routed packets based on use of a bit string configured to encode the path for the source routed packet. Various example embodiments for supporting forwarding of source routed packets based on flexible path encoding may be configured to support forwarding of source routed packets based on various types of source routing, such as Segment Routing (SR), SR-Traffic Engineering (SR-TE), or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventor: Pranjal Kumar Dutta
  • Patent number: 11425714
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit or otherwise indicate a semi-static slot format configuration and a dynamic slot format configuration to a user equipment (UE). The UE may determine a slot format configuration based on the received semi-static and dynamic slot format configurations. In some cases, the UE may replace certain resources of the semi-static slot format configuration with resources from the dynamic slot format configuration depending on a certain embodiment. Additionally or alternatively, the base station may transmit an anchor slot configuration to the UE, which may indicate which resources of the semi-static slot format configuration can be overridden or replaced by the dynamic slot format configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Heechoon Lee, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11412523
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and computer programs for controlling the output of a transmission point. A method for controlling the output of a transmission point for a wireless communications network. The method comprises: determining an average output power of the transmission point over a period of time; comparing the average output power to an output power reference value; and allocating data, to be transmitted by the transmission point to one or more wireless devices, to a pool of radio resources. The pool of radio resources is adjusted as a function of the comparison between the average output power and the output power reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Torbjörn Wigren, Billy Hogan, Alexander Langereis, Yali Pei, Yuan Wang, Christer Törnevik
  • Patent number: 11411695
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for transmission of reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The terminal device comprises at least two physical antenna ports. The method comprises obtaining channel information. The method comprises determining, for at least one given precoder in a codebook, an uplink reference signal to physical antenna port mapping based on the channel information. The method comprises transmitting uplink reference signals in the physical antenna ports according to the determined mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sven Petersson, Fredrik Athley, Andreas Nilsson, Roy Timo, Xinlin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11411930
    Abstract: Described herein are examples of communications relays. Systems, methods, and storage media may: receive, at a processing device of a communications server including a networking device configured to enable electronic communication by the processing device with a user device and a third party device via a communications service, an inbound communication from the third party device; determine, using the processing device, a sender identity associated with the inbound communication; create, using the processing device, an inbound communication digest of the inbound communication; store, using the processing device, the sender identity and the inbound communication digest on an electronic data storage unit; recast, using the processing device, the inbound communication to a relayed inbound communication including the inbound communication and the sender identity; and send, using the processing device, the relayed inbound communication to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Realified, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Bernier, Stephen Hewitt, Shaun Davidson, Craig Bartholomaus
  • Patent number: 11405270
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile device connection device and a mobile device remote plug-and-play system. The mobile device connection device includes a USB port connected to a mobile device and a communication module for wireless communication with a WiFi access point (AP), and the mobile device connection device performs wireless communication through the WiFi AP. Instant plugging and unplugging can be achieved, the distance limitation can also be overcome, and the user experience is good.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Actions Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 11399013
    Abstract: A request to perform an operation associated with a service instance may be received by a processing device. The service instance may have an associated service instance identifier. A proxy instance associated with the service instance may be identified. The proxy instance may perform operations within a secure enclave associated with the processing device. The proxy instance within the secure enclave associated with the processing device may be used to verify that the secure enclave associated with the processing device contains the service instance associated with the service instance identifier. When the verification is successful, the proxy instance within the secure enclave associated with the processing device may be used to send a request to the service instance to perform the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Fortanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Nehal Bandi, Anand Kashyap
  • Patent number: 11387957
    Abstract: A first wireless device receives, from a base station, one or more radio resource control messages indicating a type of demodulation reference signal (DMRS). The first wireless device determines a length of the DMRS. The first wireless device determines a DMRS configuration of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) based on based on the type and the length of the DMRS. The first wireless device transmits, to a second wireless device, sidelink control information comprising the DMRS configuration of the PSSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Esmael Dinan, Youngwoo Kwak, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11387988
    Abstract: An application system includes a plurality of objects, one of which has one of a plurality of object types. A first object associated with a first message in a plurality of messages in the application system is determined from the plurality of objects, the first message being generated based on the first object. A second object type having a dependency on a first object type of the first object is acquired based on a type dependency between a set of object types in the plurality of object types. The plurality of messages are searched for a second message generated based on a second object of the second object type. The first message and the second message are displayed associatively. Associated messages in a plurality of messages may be acquired, and then the plurality of messages are presented more clearly and more effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Qian Wu, Bo Hu, Jing Ye
  • Patent number: 11388616
    Abstract: A method for performing radio link monitoring comprises performing, by a user equipment (UE), a radio link monitoring (RLM) procedure with first RLM parameters; receiving, at the UE, a message including at least one second RLM parameter; identifying, by the UE, a difference between the first RLM parameters and the at least one second RLM parameter; and resetting, at the UE, at least one of the first RLM parameters in response to identifying the difference between the first RLM parameters and the at least one second RLM parameter. The method may configure the UE upon performing RLM by adapting the difference between the current RLM parameters and the future parameters, so that the UE behavior may become clear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Iana Siomina, Muhammad Kazmi, Christopher Callender, Helka-Liina Määttanen, Icaro L. J. Da Silva
  • Patent number: 11381345
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data feedback, sending and receiving method and device, a receiving device and a sending device. The data feedback method includes generating a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for transmitted data; and feeding back the HARQ-ACK to a sending end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Gou, Peng Hao, Feng Bi
  • Patent number: 11375502
    Abstract: Provided are a resource indication method and device. The method includes: configuring a reference resource for preemptive transmission, dividing the reference resource into M portions in a time domain, and dividing the reference source into N portions in a frequency domain; and indicating a preempted resource in the M time domain portions and/or N frequency domain portions through indication information, where M?1, N?1, and the number of downlink symbols comprised in the time domain of the reference resource includes at least one of: a number less than 14 or a number greater than 14. Also disclosed are a computer storage medium and a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Shi, Shuqiang Xia, Xianghui Han, Min Ren, Wei Lin