Patents Examined by Dung B Huynh
  • Patent number: 11476982
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support multiplexing multicast and unicast feedback. A base station may provision different subsets of resources from a set of resources for multicast feedback message transmission based on channel metric(s) of a user equipment (UE). The set of resources may include a plurality of subsets of resources, with each subset of resources being associated with a corresponding channel metric or range of channel metrics associated with each UE receiving the multicast transmission. A UE may determine that a feedback indication is to be provided in response to the multicast transmission, and select a subset of resources from the plurality of subsets of resources based on its own channel metric. The UE may multiplex the multicast feedback, an indication of the selected subset, and unicast feedback in a multiplexed feedback transmission to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ayan Sengupta, Kazuki Takeda, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Le Liu, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Umesh Phuyal, Bharat Shrestha
  • Patent number: 11477760
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications networks may implement aspects of a single frequency network (SFN), which may support multicast and broadcast transmissions. In some cases, a base station may use directional beamforming techniques to transmit a message to a user equipment (UE) using a first frequency configuration of the SFN. The base station may adjust the first frequency configuration to a second frequency configuration, and may transmit a retransmission of the message to the UE using the second frequency configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Junyi Li, Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11477124
    Abstract: The present invention offers a network management technique that can realize effective acquisition of various data transmitted from terminals, while reducing the network congestion. In a network management system including a plurality of terminals that can transmit data, a plurality of destination devices that perform respective predetermined processes based on the data, a relay device arranged between them, and a management device communicable with the terminals, the destination devices, and the relay device, the management device receives a request regarding required data from the destination devices; and, in response to the request, instructs to integrate data items that are to be relayed to individual destination devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Takagi, Masahiro Yoshida, Kazuya Matsuo, Jun Shioda, Koya Mori
  • Patent number: 11452086
    Abstract: A radio station (1) transmits, to a radio terminal (3) on a licensed frequency (Cell #1), control signaling (S102) associated with at least one of a measurement timing and a measurement period of terminal measurement on an unlicensed frequency (Cell #2) and receives, from the radio terminal (3) on the licensed frequency (Cell #1), a result of the terminal measurement that is executed in response to the control signaling (S102) and in accordance with at least one of the measurement timing and the measurement period (S105). This contributes, for example, to acquisition of information useful for the radio station to determine whether to allow the radio terminal to perform communication on the unlicensed frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Futaki
  • Patent number: 11438448
    Abstract: A network application program product and a method for processing an application layer protocol are provided. The network application program product includes a network application program executed in a user mode and a packet filtering module executed in a kernel mode. The network application program transmits connection information, associated with network connection to the network application program, to the packet filtering module. The packet filtering module captures a to-be-processed packet on the network connection according to the connection information; analyzes the to-be-processed packet into at least one protocol data unit; compares the protocol data unit with preset code content; and transmits the protocol data unit to the network application program or the data access module according to the comparison result for later processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: QNAP SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Chin-Hsing Hsu
  • Patent number: 11432273
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide control information sending methods, control information receiving methods, and devices. The sending method may include determining, by an access network device, a control channel candidate set corresponding to a terminal device, where the control channel candidate set includes at least one control channel candidate, the at least one control channel candidate includes at least one control channel element, the control channel candidate set is contained in at least one control channel element set, a quantity of control channel elements contained in the control channel element set is greater than or equal to a quantity of control channel elements corresponding to a maximum aggregation level supported by the terminal device. The sending method may further includes sending, by the access network device, control information to the terminal device by using at least one control channel candidate in the control channel candidate set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lixia Xue, Hao Sun, Bingyu Qu
  • Patent number: 11425044
    Abstract: This technology enables a dynamic host configuration protocol (“DHCP”) Layer 2 relay in a Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (“VXLAN”) overlay fabric. A host device broadcasts a configuration request, such as a DHCP discover, across an Ethernet virtual private network (“EVPN”) overlay fabric. The DHCP discover is intercepted by a VXLAN Tunnel End Point (“VTEP”) device with Layer 2 bridging functionality. The VTEP device selects a centralized gateway (“CGW”) device with Layer 3 relay functionality as a destination for the DHCP discover. The VTEP device encapsulates the DHCP discover with a unicast VXLAN header comprising the media access control (“MAC”) address of the CGW device and transmits the encapsulated DHCP discover to the CGW device, resolving the destination address associated with the broadcast. The CGW device transmits the DHCP discover to an Internet Protocol (“IP”) address associated with a DHCP server that is external to the EVPN overlay fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramchander R. Nadipally, Ajinkya Abhay Chouthai, Rajagopal Venkatraman, Xiangqun Li, Rahul Kachalia
  • Patent number: 11418361
    Abstract: A method of controlling a master device includes, providing a measured service level by measuring a service level with respect to requests of a master device that is connected to a slave device through an interconnect device and generates the request to demand services from the slave device and controlling a power level of a request control circuit included in the master device based on the measured service level. Power consumption of the master device and the system including the master device is reduced without performance degradation by controlling the power level of the request control circuit adaptively based on the measured service level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Boeok Seo, Seonbong Kim, Hojun Shim
  • Patent number: 11411677
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. [Solution] A terminal device that communicates with a base station device includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to set an STTI channel setting through signaling of a higher layer from the base station device; and a receiving unit configured to receive a first PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is not set and receive a second PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is set. The first PDCCH is mapped to one or more resource blocks, the second PDCCH is mapped to one or more sub resource blocks, and the second PDSCH is demodulated using a reference signal mapped to a symbol including the sub resource block or a resource element before the symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 11395153
    Abstract: A system for networking Wi-Fi Access Points in a Distributed Antenna System includes a plurality of Digital Access Units (DAUs). The plurality of DAUs are coupled and operable to route signals between the plurality of DAUs. The system also includes a plurality of Digital Remote Units (DRUs) coupled to the plurality of DAUs and operable to transport signals between DRUs and DAUs and a plurality of DAU ports and DRU ports. The system further includes a Framer/Deframer, wherein the cellular payload data is separated from the IP data and a network switch. The IP data from a plurality of DAU and DRU ports are buffered and routed to a plurality of DAU and DRU ports. Furthermore, the system includes a plurality of Wi-Fi access points coupled via a mesh network to Wi-Fi access points connected to a plurality of DRUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DALI WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Sasa Trajkovic, Shawn Patrick Stapleton, Qianqi Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11395278
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource configuration method and an apparatus, to prevent user equipment (UE) from replying acknowledgement responses of different downlink subframes. The method includes: receiving, by UE, configuration information of an acknowledgement response resource, where the acknowledgement response resource is used by the UE to send a downlink data channel acknowledgement response of an nth transmission unit on an uplink control channel of an (n+k)th transmission unit, the configuration information includes first information, the first information is used to indicate a quantity of transmission units located before the nth transmission unit in a feedback window of the (n+k)th transmission unit; and sending, by the UE, the downlink data channel acknowledgement response of the nth transmission unit on the uplink control channel of the (n+k)th transmission unit based on the configuration information by using the acknowledgement response resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junchao Li, Zhengwei Gong, Chi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11374857
    Abstract: A network device management method for a first network device in autonomic networking includes obtaining management information of a service flow, the management information comprising a type of a management operation and an identifier of the service flow, and the first network device being an ingress network device of the service flow, determining a second network device on a forwarding path of the service flow based on the identifier of the service flow, the second network device being a next-hop network device of the first network device, sending a control packet having the management information to the second network device, the control packet indicating to the second network device to perform a management operation based on the type of the management operation and obtain information associated with the management operation, receiving, from the second network device, a response packet having information associated with the management operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongkang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11363553
    Abstract: A radio node may calculate one or more performance metrics based on measured satellite signals, which are associated with a global positioning system, or wireless signals that are associated with a cellular-telephone network. Then, the radio node may determine, based on the one or more performance metrics, whether the radio node is a synchronization master in a cluster of radio nodes. When the radio node is the synchronization master, the radio node may provide information intended for a computer specifying that the radio node is the synchronization master and the one or more performance metrics. In response, the radio node may receive a synchronization request associated with another radio node in the cluster. Furthermore, the radio node may provide the synchronization information intended for the other radio node, where the synchronization information specifies time, frequency, and phase synchronization for at least the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Paul Petrus, Yves Eteve, Rajiv Gupta, Shailender Potharaju
  • Patent number: 11350384
    Abstract: An information transmission method and a related device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a base station, to send downlink information to P user equipments of at least one user equipment within a first time period; generating, by the base station, an indication field according to the determined P user equipments, where the indication field includes M bits, each of the at least one user equipment is corresponding to K bits of the M bits, the K bits are used to indicate whether the corresponding user equipment needs to receive and read the downlink information sent by the base station within the first time period, K is a positive integer greater than 1 and less than M, and P is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and sending, by the base station, the indication field to the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolei Tie, Feng Yu, Steven James Wenham
  • Patent number: 11329843
    Abstract: A method of multichannel acquisition and geophysical data is provided. Individual and autonomous node operating systems are provided. Separate communication channels for upstream and downstream data transfer, high voltage transfer and synchronization signals are provided. The method provides for an alternating waveform of injected current to maximize data precision and minimize soil ionization. Node type assignment interleaving is also provided to compress survey time. Self calibration of nodes is provided as is self addressing of a node array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Earthsystems Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bryant, Frederick Hershel Savage, Timothy Beets
  • Patent number: 11323287
    Abstract: Methods, systems and software products for configuring a virtual port for a physical server to support packets transfer between the physical server and other network nodes over a virtual network, comprising transmitting one or more configuration Protocol Data Units (PDU) of an extended Link Layer Data Protocol (LLDP) to a Network Interface Card (NIC) of a physical server connected to a network, the configuration PDU(s) comprising one or more extension Type Length Values (TLV) defining one or more virtual network settings for a virtual network port mapping the physical server in a virtual network. The NIC is configured to deploy the virtual network port to support exchange of packets between the physical server and one or more of a plurality of nodes of the virtual network by processing outgoing and incoming packets according to one or more virtual network virtualization protocols using one or more of the virtual network settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Katherine Barabash, Renato Recio
  • Patent number: 11323285
    Abstract: An architecture for a multichannel geophysical data acquisition system is provided in the field of electrical resistivity tomography. Individual and autonomous node operating systems are provided. Separate communication channels for upstream and downstream data transfer, high voltage transfer and synchronization signals are provided. A novel use of high voltage isolation barriers is also provided. A direct memory access data transfer process is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Earthsystems Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bryant, Frederick Hershel Savage, Timothy Beets
  • Patent number: 11324014
    Abstract: In order to maintain conformance with exposure limits, in band measurements may be performed. A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus may be provided for wireless communication at a user equipment. The apparatus receives an indication of a cell specific resource, e.g., a cell specific resource available for MPE measurement. The apparatus then performs a measurement based on the cell specific resource and determines whether to adjust a transmission characteristic of the user equipment based on whether the measurement meets a threshold. In another aspect a base station apparatus may configure a cell specific resource in which a user equipment may perform an MPE measurement and control use of the cell specific resource for the MPE measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashwin Sampath, Joseph Burke, Raghu Challa, Udara Fernando, Andrzej Partyka, Muhammad Nazmul Islam
  • Patent number: 11323200
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method of allocating a radio resource and a device utilizing the same. The method comprises: a transmitter determines, according to an identification (ID) of a receiver at a present state, and based on a redefined rule, a channel time-frequency location where a control channel associated with the present state of the receiver is; and the transmitter transmits, via the control channel at the channel time-frequency location, and to the receiver, data time-frequency location indication information, a size of time-frequency resource occupied by data, and a data modulation and coding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Feng, Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11310817
    Abstract: A configurable new radio (NR) resource scheduling and indication transmission procedure that may be executed by a base station and a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. For example, a base station may determine a number of synchronization signal blocks available for transmission of non-scheduling data, and transmit an indication signifying at least one of the number of synchronization signal blocks or a location of each of the number of synchronization signal blocks. Further, a UE may receiving an indication signifying at least one of a number of synchronization signal blocks or a location of each of the number of synchronization signal blocks. The UE may further determine one or more resource elements forming the number of synchronization signal blocks where non-scheduling data has been scheduled for transmission. The UE may receive the non-scheduling data within the one or more resource elements forming the number of synchronization signal blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Heechoon Lee, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Bilal Sadiq, Makesh Pravin John Wilson