Patents Examined by Hoang-Chuong Q Vu
  • Patent number: 11424955
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for qualitative analysis of baseband building automation networks. The system may include a processor configured to carry out a plurality of tests on a serial communication network that includes at least one field device that carries out building automation communications on the network. A first test may include: transmitting a series of queries for devices on the network, in which the queries are transmitted at incrementally lower transmission signal levels until message loss is detected; and determining a first lower signal level at which transmissions of queries occur without message loss on the network. In addition, the processor may be configured to determine and output on a display device at least one classification of the relative quality of the network with respect to at least one predetermined scale of relative network quality based at least in part on the first lower signal level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe White, Juan Cabrera
  • Patent number: 11411668
    Abstract: This application discloses a multi-codeword transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a network device, downlink control information corresponding to each of a plurality of code words to be sent to a terminal device, where the downlink control information corresponding to each code word includes at least one of the following: a physical downlink shared channel resource element mapping and quasi-co-location indicator, and an antenna port(s), scrambling identity and number of layers; and sending, by the network device, downlink control information corresponding to the plurality of code words to the terminal device. Corresponding apparatuses are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaona Wang, Jingjing Cheng
  • Patent number: 11405118
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication system comprises multiple unlicensed carriers. The electronic device comprises: one or more processing circuits configured to: configure each of a plurality of unlicensed carriers to be a primary channel or a secondary channel, so as to obtain at least two primary channels and at least one secondary channel; perform a first channel detection process over each of the primary channels to detect whether each of the primary channels is idle, and perform a second channel detection process over each of the secondary channels to detect whether each of the secondary channels is idle; and perform downlink data transmission over the primary channel determined to be idle by means of the channel detection or over the primary and secondary channels determined to be idle by means of the channel detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Haowei Wang, Xiaofeng Tao, Bingshan Hu
  • Patent number: 11399312
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer implemented method and architecture for managing data in mobile communication network which includes core and access components. This embodiment performs specialized data handling through processing nodes referred as Storage Retention and Intelligent Function (SRIF) nodes, an evaluation operation on control plane and user plane data received from the mobile communication network. This action determines whether any portion of the data needs intelligent processing and applies knowledge extraction algorithm for build-up retention or policy decision. As responsive to the evaluation operation, the SRIF nodes apply decisions on data or enable network nodes to apply data processing rules. The architecture of SRIF is hierarchical comprising end node as serving node, middle node as load balancing node providing flexibility, and central node as the brain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dharmendra Misra, Seetharaman Sankara Ramasubramanian, Abhinav Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 11399373
    Abstract: A method for receiving a broadcasting signal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH) content over a PBCH, and determining the PBCH content including a payload, wherein the payload includes uncommon information within a transmission time interval (TTI) of the PBCH that comprises at least a portion of a 10-bit system frame number (SFN), a half frame index within a radio frame, and at least part of a synchronization signal (SS) block time index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongbo Si, Le Liu, Eko Onggosanusi, Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11399263
    Abstract: A method and apparatus. In response to a first mobile device not being connected to the broker service apparatus, it is ascertained that a second mobile device is connected to the broker service apparatus. A first control signal was received, prior to ascertaining that the second mobile device is connected to the broker service apparatus, by the broker service apparatus from a telephony service. The first control signal includes a first unique identifier and data targeted to the first mobile device. In response to the ascertaining, a second control signal is issued to the second mobile device in order to forward the data to the second mobile device. The second control signal includes an identifier of the first mobile device. The second control signal causes the second mobile device to use the identifier of the first mobile device to forward the data to the first mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hamish C. Hunt, Nicholas K. Lincoln, Christopher J. Poole, Mark A. Woolley
  • Patent number: 11381311
    Abstract: An analog distributed antenna system having a set of small cells as a signal source is provided. A proposed cellular communication system includes an upper small cell unit including upper protocol processors configured to process an upper first part of a protocol stack of a small cell, a lower small cell unit including lower protocol processors configured to process a remaining second part of the protocol stack of the small cell, and a first matching switch configured to respectively match the lower protocol processors to a plurality of remote units. According to one aspect, the cellular communication system includes a common controller configured to control activation of the plurality of upper protocol processors of the upper small cell unit and the plurality of lower protocol processors of the lower small cell unit according to a required service capacity and appropriately control an operation of the first matching switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SOLiD Inc.
    Inventors: Young Man Cho, Hee Hwan Kwak
  • Patent number: 11374687
    Abstract: This application discloses a data sending method, a data receiving method, and an apparatus. The data sending method includes: if first type data is punctured, preserving, by a network device, a punctured first data subset in the first type data and puncture location information of the first data subset in the first type data, and retransmitting the first data subset within a second scheduling period to a user equipment. In this way, the network device does not need to wait for feedback from the user equipment before the network device can perform a retransmission operation, so that latency of retransmission is reduced. In addition, the network device only needs to retransmit the punctured first data subset within the second scheduling period but does not need to retransmit the entire first type data, so that an amount of data to be retransmitted is reduced and fewer transmission resources are consumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Guan, Bo Fan
  • Patent number: 11375384
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes transmitting, with a base station (BS), multiple first signals using respectively different radio resources. The multiple first signals include a common signal component. The radio resource is identified by a radio resource ID. The method further includes receiving, with a user equipment (UE), out of the radio resources the multiple first signals from the BS, selecting, with the UE, a radio resource based on a reception quality of the multiple first signals, transmitting, from the UE to the BS, feedback information including the radio resource ID corresponding to the selected radio resource, and transmitting, from the BS to the UE, a second signal using the radio resource corresponding to the received radio resource ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Satoshi Nagata, Chongning Na
  • Patent number: 11363592
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus determines the parameter fc(i), based on at least whether an RRC layer parameter symPUSCH_UpPTS is configured for the terminal apparatus, calculates transmit power for PUSCH transmission in a subframe i, based on at least the parameter fc(i), maps a PUSCH to a SC-FDMA symbol of a special subframe, based on the RRC layer parameter symPUSCH_UpPTS, and transmits the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Liqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11356356
    Abstract: Systems and methods for permitted network risks in diverse route determinations introduce the concept of permitted network risks which are risks that may be present in a disjoint path calculation. This removes the binary logic in conventional shared risk path determination, i.e., either exclude or include. With the present disclosure, a network risk may be excluded (must never use) or shared (may use if needed). In an embodiment, if a route for a backup tunnel or path excluding all network risks is not possible, then a route for the backup tunnel or path may be found excluding some network risks of the primary tunnel or path except specified network risks that are determined/specified as permitted network risks. Such permitted network risks can be explicitly specified by a network operator or implicitly determined based on a category (e.g., node and/or equipment may be shared network risks whereas links may not).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Darek Skalecki, Gerald Smallegange, Amal Karboubi
  • Patent number: 11336382
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives a demodulation reference signal; and a processor that controls reception of the demodulation reference signal based on a parameter related to mapping of the demodulation reference signal, wherein when the parameter is configured to a specific value, a specific multiplexing method for the demodulation reference signal is supported. In other aspects, another terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Saito, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Patent number: 11336584
    Abstract: A communication control device includes a frame configuration section configured to reconfigure a frame by changing a ratio of each of data partitions in a data field according to a communication state of a network including multiple nodes, and a process command section configured to instruct the multiple nodes to execute configuration process such that the multiple nodes are enabled to transmit and receive the reconfigured frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Teranishi
  • Patent number: 11337232
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in wireless communication. In one embodiment, the UE first receives a first signaling, then receives a second signaling, and finally receives a first radio signal on target time-frequency resources; wherein the target time-frequency resources comprise time-frequency resources among second time-frequency resources other than first time-frequency resources, and the second signaling is used for determining whether the target time-frequency resources comprise the first time-frequency resources and the second time-frequency resources. The present disclosure makes effective use of the remaining time-frequency resources that transmit control information in a time interval less than 1 millisecond, thus improving resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11323283
    Abstract: Methods for commissioning a domestic appliance, as provided herein, may include the transmission and receiving of signals between the domestic appliance, a previously-commissioned appliance, a remote user-interface device, and a remote server such that a network credential for a local wireless network is transmitted from the previously-commissioned appliance to the domestic appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Michael Helms
  • Patent number: 11323385
    Abstract: A communication system includes a flow collector that collects traffic of an NW edge accommodating CPE, an NFVO that provides an instruction to add or remove a resource of a VNF, a resource management device that notifies the NFVO of an increased or decreased resource amount and an addition or removal instruction of the VNF based on an increase or decrease of the traffic of the NW edge collected by the flow collector, and that decides on the VNF which becomes a redirection destination of the traffic of the NW edge in response to execution of addition or removal of the VNF by the NFVO, a VIM that adds or removes the VNF in accordance with an instruction from the NFVO, and a flow controller that instructs the NW edge to set the VNF decided by the resource management device as the redirection destination of the traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Satomi Inoue, Masayuki Nishiki, Takayuki Fujiwara, Satoshi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11317274
    Abstract: In an access and mobility management policy association termination method, a first access and mobility management function apparatus sends first policy control function identifier information of a first policy control function apparatus to a second access and mobility management function apparatus, and sends first deletion request information to the first policy control function apparatus. The first deletion request information is for requesting the first policy control function apparatus to delete an access and mobility management (AM) policy association between the first policy control function apparatus and the first access and mobility management function apparatus for a terminal device. Both the first access and mobility management function apparatus and the first policy control function apparatus then delete AM policy control information for the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiyang Sun, Chunshan Xiong
  • Patent number: 11310750
    Abstract: Techniques for determining power levels of radios, including a time domain duplexing (TDD) system, in shared frequency spectrum is provided. A TDD radio, of the TDD system, in a neighborhood having a largest interference contribution in the frequency spectrum at the point. Transmit power levels are determined for (a) the selected TDD radio, (b) other radios in the neighborhood that are not part of the TDD system, and (c) at least one radio in the TDD system that is not the TDD radio having the largest interference contribution in the frequency spectrum. Thus, interference margin may be fairly allocated to radios in neighborhood(s) about protection points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ariful Hannan, Raina Rahman, Navin Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11304220
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communication, and in particular, to a wireless communication method and a device. This application provides a method, including: if a time unit used to transmit control information is different from a time unit used to transmit data, and the control information is related to the data, determining a time sequence based on a same time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinlin Peng, Hao Tang, Yi Wang, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 11291000
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal including a system information block (SIB) with a first time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration. Also, the WTRU may receive a second PDSCH signal including dedicated radio resource control (RRC) signaling with a second TDD UL/DL configuration; and may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including an uplink grant indicating at least one repetition transmission on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). Further the WTRU may determine at least one time interval of the at least one repetition transmission would overlap with a downlink time interval indicated by the first TDD UL/DL configuration, the second TDD UL/DL configuration, or both. Also, the WTRU may transmit at least one repetition transmission on the PUSCH in at least one time interval that is non-overlapping with the indicated downlink time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Pouriya Sadeghi, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz