Patents Examined by Elisabeth Benoit Magloire
  • Patent number: 11611937
    Abstract: Methods are provided for enabling network operators to play a key role in allowing Cellular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to recharge batteries based on RF parameters and/or a class of service the UAVs provide to users/customers. For example, a particular mobile network operator (MNO) has a UAV charging station deployed in it leased towers where it has base stations (eNB/gNB) deployed. The MNO can provide charging as a service to the UAVs. When more than one drone is requesting a charge, the MNO can prioritize which UAV has the highest priority. In some aspects, the MNO can prioritize the UAVs for charging based on a Quality of Service identifier. Additionally or alternatively, the MNO can prioritize the UAVs for charging based on a Network Slice Selection Assistance Information indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Anurag Thantharate, Sreekar Marupaduga, Sougata Saha, Atul Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11606806
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for sidelink wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE), such as a vehicle UE, that supports full-duplex communications may transmit a sidelink control channel during a set of time resources including scheduling information for a subsequent transmission by the UE via a first set of resources. The UE may receive a sidelink control channel during the set of time resources from a second UE that may support full-duplex communications or half-duplex communications. The sidelink control channel may include scheduling information for a subsequent transmission via a second set of time-frequency resources that at least partially overlaps with the first set of time-frequency resources. The first UE may determine that a collision will occur and may perform a resource selection procedure or may transmit a request for the second device to perform the resource selection procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati, Navid Abedini
  • Patent number: 11582818
    Abstract: A method and device are disclosed from the perspective of a User Equipment-to-User Equipment (UE-to-UE) Relay to forward sidelink UE capability information. In one embodiment, the method includes the UE-to-UE Relay receiving a first sidelink UE capability information from a first UE. The method further includes the UE-to-UE Relay transmitting the first sidelink UE capability information of the first UE and a second sidelink UE capability information of the UE-to-UE Relay to a second UE or transmits a combined sidelink UE capability information to the second UE, wherein the combined sidelink UE capability information is derived from the first sidelink UE capability information and the second sidelink UE capability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 11539620
    Abstract: An anomaly flow detection device and an anomaly flow detection method thereof are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Phone Lin, Xin-Xue Lin, En-Hau Yeh, Chia-Peng Lee, Char-Dir Chung
  • Patent number: 11533733
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For instance, a UE or base station may identify a first portion of a payload associated with a first priority and a second portion of the payload associated with a second priority less than the first priority. The UE or base station may select a first matrix associated with a first domain for the first portion of the payload and a second matrix associated with a second domain for the second portion of the payload based on a first maximum index interval for the first matrix being larger than a second maximum index interval for the second matrix. The UE may transmit or the base station may receive the first portion of the payload using one or more sequences associated with the first matrix and the second portion of the payload using one or more sequences associated with the second matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Wei Yang, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11271868
    Abstract: Programmable switches and routers are described herein for enabling their internal network fabric to be configured with a topology. In one implementation, a programmable switch is arranged in a network having a plurality of switches and an internal fabric. The programmable switch includes a plurality of programmable interfaces and a buffer memory component. Also, the programmable switch includes a processing component configured to establish each of the plurality of programmable interfaces to operate as one of a user-facing interface and a fabric-facing interface. Based on one or more programmable interfaces being established as one or more fabric-facing interfaces, the buffer memory component is configured to store packets received from a user-facing interface of an interconnected switch of the plurality of switches via one or more hops into the internal fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Y. Frankel, Vladimir Pelekhaty, Daniel Rivaud, Ian Duncan
  • Patent number: 11265265
    Abstract: This application provides a data communications system and method. The system includes a first chassis and a second chassis. The first chassis includes a first high-performance switching module and a first low-performance switching module. The second chassis includes a second high-performance switching module and a second low-performance switching module. The first high-performance switching module is connected to the second low-performance switching module. The first low-performance switching module is connected to the second high-performance switching module. The first high-performance switching module is configured to connect to a third low-performance switching module in a third chassis that is to be added to the communications system. The second high-performance switching module is configured to connect to a fourth low-performance switching module in the third chassis that is to be added to the communications system. During capacity expansion, there is no need to change cables between deployed chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Anxue Du, Lianqiang Wang, Chong Chen
  • Patent number: 11251920
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving reference signals. In transmitting reference signals, reference signals are transmitted using a first group of configuration resources within a first transmission resource group; and the reference signals are transmitted using a second group of configuration resources within a second transmission resource group. The first group of configuration resources are determined based on allocated resource configurations for the reference signals and the second group of configuration resources are a subset of the first group of configuration resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11245632
    Abstract: Packet-switching operations in a network device are managed based on the detection of excessive-rate traffic flows. A network device receives a data unit, determines the traffic flow to which the data unit belongs, and updates flow tracking information for that flow. The network device utilizes the tracking information to determine when a rate at which the network device is receiving data belonging to the flow exceeds an excessive-rate threshold and is thus an excessive-rate flow. The network device may enable one or more excessive-rate policies on an excessive-rate traffic flow. Such a policy may include any number of features that affect how the device handles data units belonging to the flow, such as excessive-rate notification, differentiated discard, differentiated congestion notification, and reprioritization. Memory and other resource optimizations for such flow tracking and management are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Innovium, Inc.
    Inventors: William Brad Matthews, Rupa Budhia, Puneet Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11228974
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may determine at least one power configuration parameter for a wireless device. The at least one power configuration parameter may be based on information received from the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Ali Cirik
  • Patent number: 11228942
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scheduling data traffic in a wireless time sensitive network (TSN). A computer configured to synchronize clocks of all nodes with a common clock in the TSN. Obtain data traffic information for the TSN using a network scheduler to establish routing paths. Determine routing paths using the obtained data traffic information and stored routing information via a memory. Compute a link communication delay for each link of the one or more relay nodes connecting a source node to a destination node of the TSN for each TSN stream using a network scheduler. Determine interfering links for each wireless link using the network scheduler. Determining a scheduling period using the network scheduler. Determine optimal scheduling using an optimal scheduling module. Generate the gate control list for each egress port of the wired node and the wireless transmitter of the TSN, and begin transmission of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianlin Guo, Kyeong Jin Kim, Philip Orlik
  • Patent number: 11224026
    Abstract: Communication quality such as a delay time is stabilized when a plurality of communication devices on the same mobile object simultaneously perform communication. A wireless communication system that is mounted on a mobile object is a wireless communication system including a first communication device and a second communication device that are mounted on a first mobile object. When information is shared by mobile objects by transmitting packets based on information acquired from a network within the first mobile object to a communication device mounted on a second mobile object, the first communication device and the second communication device transmit packets having the same content by adopting the same communication method and using different channels, and a signal transmission timing from the second communication device is set to be later than a transmission timing from a communication device from the first communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Tamaki
  • Patent number: 11219026
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing quasi-licensed spectrum access within an area or application so as to enable “end to end” IoT (Internet of Things) device connectivity. In one embodiment, the quasi-licensed spectrum utilizes 3.5 GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) spectrum allocated by a Federal or commercial SAS (Spectrum Access System) to a managed content delivery network that includes one or more wireless access nodes (e.g., CBSDs (Citizens Broadband radio Service Devices) and IoT hubs or gateways) in data communication with a controller. In one variant, the controller dynamically allocates (i) spectrum within the area or venue within CBRS bands, and (ii) MSO (multiple systems operator) users or subscribers to CBRS bands or IoT (Internet of Things) bands (e.g., public ISM (industrial, scientific and medical)) bands to maximize connectivity and performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Umamaheswar Kakinada, Don Gunasekara, Ahmed Bencheikh, Shane Newberg
  • Patent number: 11218901
    Abstract: A method for operating a first apparatus in a wireless communication system is provided. The method may include receiving one or more traffic classes (TCs) related to one or more packets from a higher layer; mapping the one or more TCs and one or more proximity-based service per-packet priorities (PPPPs); and transmitting the one or more packets related to the one or more PPPPs to a second apparatus based on the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Jung, Seungryul Yang, Seoyoung Back
  • Patent number: 11212841
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order, which indicates initiation of a random access procedure, from a base station; transmitting a random access preamble to the base station; and receiving a random access response message from the base station, wherein the step of receiving the random access response message comprises receiving downlink data together with the random access response message when the PDCCH order indicates downlink data transmission in Msg2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Seokmin Shin, Seunggye Hwang
  • Patent number: 11206112
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a grant-free uplink transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, based on received configuration information, a target grant-free transmission area and a target air interface transmission parameter corresponding to the target grant-free transmission area, where the target grant-free transmission area is an air interface time-frequency resource formed by using a specified time range and frequency range, and the configuration information includes at least one grant-free transmission area and an air interface transmission parameter corresponding to each grant-free transmission area; and sending uplink data to a base station based on the target grant-free transmission area and the target air interface transmission parameter. In this application, it can be provided that the base station can correctly receive the uplink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongcheng Zhuang, Yunbo Han, Zhenguo Du, Zhiming Ding
  • Patent number: 11202273
    Abstract: In some examples, a source device categorizes a plurality of messages for transmission to a recipient device, the plurality of messages comprising vehicle-related information. Based on the categorizing, the source device identifies selected messages of the plurality of messages to be aggregated. The source device aggregates the selected messages into a single transmission from the source device to the recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Patent number: 11202323
    Abstract: An embodiment of this application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a base station, a random access preamble sequence from a terminal; and sending, by the base station, a media access control (MAC) packet data unit (PDU) to the terminal based on the random access preamble sequence, where the MAC PDU includes a type indication field, and the type indication field indicates a manner in which the terminal transmits data in first uplink information. In this embodiment of this application, a data transmission delay can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Zhao, Fang Nan, Zheng Yu, Xingqing Cheng
  • Patent number: 11197344
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some wireless communications systems, a transmitting device may identify a Radio Link Control (RLC) service data unit (SDU) to be transmitted to a receiving device. In some cases, the transmitting device may not have access to sufficient resources to transmit the entire RLC SDU. As such, the transmitting device may segment the RLC SDU into RLC SDU segments, and the transmitting device may transmit the RLC SDU segments to the receiving device. If an RLC layer at the receiving device receives one or more RLC SDU segments out of sequence, the RLC layer may initiate a reassembly (or reordering) timer. The RLC layer may reassemble the successfully received RLC SDU segments to be passed to upper layers. Once the timer expires, the RLC layer may declare that the missing RLC SDU segments are lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ruiming Zheng, Yu-Ting Yu, Keiichi Kubota, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 11184138
    Abstract: A method of reporting channel state information (CSI) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving a configuration for CSI (channel state information)-resource containing at least one CSI resource set, wherein each of the at least one CSI resource set consist of CSI-RS (channel state information-reference signal) resources comprising at least one of NZP (non zero power) CSI-RS resource and CSI-IM (channel state information-interference measurement) resource, and measuring CSI resources within one of the at least one CSI resource set, according to the configuration for CSI resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Inkwon Seo