Patents Examined by John J Lee
  • Patent number: 11363543
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a first transmit power that is to be used for a first transmission to a source cell and a second transmit power that is to be used for a second transmission to a target cell during a dual-active-protocol stack (DAPS) handover procedure. The UE may transmit, concurrently, the first transmission to the source cell using the first transmit power and the second transmission to the target cell using the second transmit power. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Hung Dinh Ly
  • Patent number: 11363542
    Abstract: A communication system includes a base station. The base station includes a plurality of distributed units (DUs), a central unit (CU) and a main processor. The main processor selects a mode corresponding to user equipment from a centralized control mode (CM) and a distributed control mode (DM) according to the current communication quality of the user equipment, wherein a functional split mode (FSM) includes the centralized control mode (CM) and the distributed control mode (DM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kai-Ten Feng, Yung-Ting Huang, Chun-Hao Fang, Li-Hsiang Shen
  • Patent number: 11350375
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for reporting power reduction information, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: a terminal device sending a first media access control control element (MAC CE) to a network device, the first MAC CE including power management-maximum power reduction (P-MPR) information of at least one carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Shukun Wang, Jinqiang Xing, Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 11349561
    Abstract: Systems are disclosed for a communication system optimized for low data volume communications. In embodiments of the invention, a terminal in the communication system is configured to send and a receiver in the network infrastructure is configured to receive bursts containing pilot waveforms that include time spacing and/or phase changes between short sequences. The time spacing and/or phase changes can be selected to reduce out-of-phase autocorrelation and achieve robust performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: eSat Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Parr, Gary John Ballantyne
  • Patent number: 11343778
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices shape waveforms associated with transmission of data from wireless communications devices. Methods may include identifying, using a processing device, a plurality of portions of a Bluetooth packet for transmission from a wireless communications device, the plurality of portions comprising a first portion and a second portion. Methods may also include determining, using the processing device, a first transmit power associated with the first portion and a second transmit power associated with the second portion, the determining being based, at least in part, on whether the first portion or second portion is used in packet detection. Methods may further include transmitting the first portion of the Bluetooth packet using the first transmit power, and transmitting the second portion of the Bluetooth packet using the second transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Kamesh Medapalli, Yanbing Zhang, Yan Li, David G. Wright
  • Patent number: 11337167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, specifically, provides a communication method and an apparatus therefor, in which: transmission power information relating to a first downlink (DL) signal is received from a parent node; the first DL signal is transmitted to a child node on the basis of the transmission power information; a first uplink (UL) signal is transmitted to the parent node on the basis of the transmission power information; the first DL signal and the first UL signal are multiplexed by frequency division multiplexing (FDM) or spatial division multiplexing (SDM); the transmission power information includes a maximum transmission power value of the first DL signal; and a magnitude of a transmission power of one of the first DL signal and the first UL signal is adjusted so that the magnitude of the transmission power of the first DL signal and the magnitude of the transmission power of the first UL signal do not differ by a value equal to or greater than threshold val
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11337163
    Abstract: Wireless communications may be used to support transmission power control. A reference signal may be mapped to a power control parameter set. A message to schedule a transmission may be received that indicates the power control parameter set. A transmission power for the scheduled transmission may be determined based on the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Youngwoo Kwak, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11337162
    Abstract: The disclosure provides techniques for power control for communications under a Very Low Power (VLP) mode. A communication device includes: processing circuitry, to encode a message to be transmitted to a second communication device, to indicate a setpoint, wherein the setpoint is defined as a minimum power at which a packet is required to be transmitted under a set of packet parameters, such that the packet could be successfully received by the communication device; and a transceiver, to transmit the message to the second communication device, and receive the packet transmitted at a power determined based on the setpoint and a margin, from the second communication device, wherein the margin is determined based on a probability of measurement errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas Kenney, Ehud Reshef, Hassan Yaghoobi
  • Patent number: 11335996
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training and using machine learning models to detect problems in a satellite communication system. In some implementations, one or more feature vectors that respectively correspond to different times are obtained. The feature vector(s) are provided as input to one or more machine learning models trained to receive at least one feature vector that includes feature values representing properties of the satellite communication system and output an indication of potential causes of a condition of the satellite communication system based on the properties of the satellite communication system. A particular cause that is indicated as being a most likely cause of the condition of the satellite communication system is determined based on one or more machine learning model outputs received from each of the one or more machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Arora, Archana Gharpuray, John Kenyon
  • Patent number: 11330534
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, and a base station may receive, a report that includes information related to a power headroom available to the UE at a current power level and information related to a duty cycle that the UE can sustain over a moving integration window based at least in part on a maximum permissible exposure limit. In some aspects, the base station may transmit, and the UE may receive, scheduling information based at least in part on the information related to the power headroom available to the UE at the current power level and the information related to the duty cycle that the UE can sustain over the moving integration window. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Raghu Narayan Challa, Timo Ville Vintola, Tienyow Liu, Farhad Meshkati
  • Patent number: 11329679
    Abstract: Methods and systems for interference management are described. Methods and systems can be used for minimizing interference among communication and/or electronic devices. Interference data can be gathered/received from interference sources such as weather and natural patterns, various electronic devices, and one or more network protocols. The interference data can be used to generate interference patterns of each interference source in an interference map. The interference map can be used to determine how a particular interference pattern can affect a system. The interference map can also be used to evaluate a new source of interference (e.g., cordless phones, weather conditions) to determine how a system can be affected. The interference data can also be associated with an interference signature (e.g., an interference pattern, a fingerprint) for an interference source in a database. The database can be used based on the interference signature to identify known and/or unknown interference sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Erami Botchway, Phillip Chang, Mark Francisco, Jim Poder, Jorge Salinger
  • Patent number: 11317356
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive a plurality of sets of parameters for uplink transmit power control configuration; select a set of parameters, from the plurality of sets of parameters, based at least in part on a configuration of an uplink communication; select one or more parameters from the set of parameters based at least in part on the configuration of the uplink communication; and transmit the uplink communication in accordance with the one or more parameters. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11309944
    Abstract: A method and device for allocating transmission powers, wherein the method and the device are applied to a base station. The method includes: acquiring channel data of terminals that are connected to the base station; according to the channel data of the terminals, from the terminals, virtually pre-dispatching first terminals of a first preset quantity; performing interference suppression to the first terminals, to obtain beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the first terminals; dispatching second terminals of a second preset quantity from the first terminals, and, from the beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the first terminals, screening out beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the second terminals; and according to the beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the second terminals, allocating transmission powers to the second terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yuetan Chen, Xi Wang, Wenjing Wang, Shaoyuan Li
  • Patent number: 11309929
    Abstract: An example electronic device includes a wireless communication component and a controller. The controller is to set an output power of the wireless communication component based on: whether a first external object is in proximity to a first side of the electronic device; whether the electronic device is stationary; and whether a second external object is in proximity to a second side of the electronic device, where the second side is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Simon Wong, Shih-Huang Wu
  • Patent number: 11310633
    Abstract: A multicast control device capable of reducing the distribution time of multicast data is provided. A multicast control device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a determination unit (11) configured to determine whether the number of communication terminals joining a multicast service exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a session control unit (12) configured to start a multicast session for a plurality of communication terminals joining the multicast service when it is determined that the number of communication terminals joining the multicast service exceeds the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Masahiro Serizawa, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Patent number: 11310747
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for distinguishing between an antenna of a user equipment (UE) being blocked by a cover (e.g., a protective rubber or plastic case) or by human tissue (e.g., a finger or palm). The transmission power of uplink (UL) signals may be adjusted accordingly, with relatively higher transmission power for open space or a cover and relatively lower transmission power for human tissue. One example method for wireless communications by a UE generally includes transmitting a first signal from the UE, receiving a plurality of signals at the UE based on the transmitted first signal, determining values for at least two different types of parameters based on the received plurality of signals, determining an environmental scenario for the UE based on the values for the at least two different types of parameters, and transmitting a second signal using a transmission power based on the determined environmental scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seunghwan Kim, Udara Fernando, Eyosias Yoseph Imana, Robert Gilmore
  • Patent number: 11302098
    Abstract: A system for supporting timely, informed decision making with respect to commencing and terminating offshore construction operations within a predetermined zone using a situational awareness tool not compromised by weather, poor-visibility, or a simple protected species observer (PSO) conundrum of not being able to see all things at all times, and for identification of marine mammalian species present at an offshore construction site that is sensor and platform agnostic comprises a plurality of sensors, a predetermined subset of the plurality of sensors operational without requiring daylight, the sensors operative to deliver data from which targets are determined and from which their position information can be derived; a data communicator operative to allow provide real-time data to a data viewer; a data processor operatively in communication with the plurality of sensors and the data communicator; and a display operatively in communication with the data communicator and operative to display a representation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric H Galerne, Miles Roden, Nat Spencer
  • Patent number: 11301186
    Abstract: A communication system may comprise an information processing device and a communication device. Communication between the communication device and the information processing device using the first wireless communication scheme may be performed. The communication device may send the connectable network identification information to the information processing device. Communication between the information processing device and the communication device using the second wireless communication scheme and using the second network may be executed, in case that the first network is not included in one or more networks identified by the connectable network identification information. Communication between the information processing device and the communication device using the second wireless communication scheme and using the first network may be executed, in case that the first network is included in the one or more networks identified by the one or more connectable network identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kubota, Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu
  • Patent number: 11288524
    Abstract: A system is comprised of one or more processors coupled to memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive image data based on an image captured using a camera of a vehicle and to utilize the image data as a basis of an input to a trained machine learning model to at least in part identify a distance of an object from the vehicle. The trained machine learning model has been trained using a training image and a correlated output of an emitting distance sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: James Anthony Musk, Swupnil Kumar Sahai, Ashok Kumar Elluswamy
  • Patent number: 11272459
    Abstract: Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently transmitting uplink signals to a base station using shared antennas associated with different power classes. A first device may be in communications with a base station using local antennas and may identify a second device having auxiliary antennas available for transmitting uplink signals to the base station. The local and auxiliary antennas may be associated with different power classes, and the first device may transmit a message to a base station indicating that the first device is capable of transmitting using antennas associated with different power classes. The first device may then receive configurations from a base station of different transmit powers to transmit on the antennas associated with the different power classes, and the first device may transmit uplink signals to the base station in accordance with the different transmit power configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Prashanth Haridas Hande, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Gokul Sridharan, Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Allen Minh-Triet Tran, Joseph Patrick Burke, Naga Bhushan