Patents Examined by Kevin D Mew
  • Patent number: 11533227
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for optimizing bandwidth utilization and services in a data network infrastructure. In one embodiment, the data network is a managed Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) cable network, and the network infrastructure is configured to enable dynamic allocate of frequency bands to individual consumer premises device (e.g., DOCSIS-compliant cable modems). In one variant, the improved network infrastructure enables creation of virtual Service Groups (vSGs), and allocation of individual ones of the CM to such vSGs, to some degree irrespective of topological or “hardwired” location within the network. The allocations can be dynamic, and based on factors such as load balancing, evacuation of portions of the physical network topology (such as to support infrastructure upgrades or replacement), or for yet other reasons such as relating to subscriber tier or service level agreement (SLA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Petersen, David Claussen, Roger Stafford
  • Patent number: 11533257
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for interconnecting SDWANs through segment routing. A first SDWAN and a second SDWAN of a SDWAN fabric can be identified. A segment routing domain that interconnects the first SDWAN and the second SDWAN can be formed across a WAN underlay of the SDWAN fabric. Data transmission between the first SDWAN and the second SDWAN can be controlled by performing segment routing through the segment routing domain formed between the first SDWAN and the second SDWAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Balaji Sundararajan, Khalil A. Jabr, Anand Oswal, Vivek Agarwal, Chandramouli Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11522626
    Abstract: Exemplary of embodiments of the disclosure include a method which includes determining, by a first device, whether the first device has a current time and transmitting a request for the current time to a second device if the first device does not have the current time. The second device is in a local network. The method further includes receiving, by the first device, the current time from the second device, authenticating a certificate based on the current time received from the second device, and establishing a network connection to the local network based on the authenticated certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Danu Tjahjono, Rafiq Shaikh, Ajay K. Dassu
  • Patent number: 11523342
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises a first communication unit configured to connect to another communication apparatus and communicate by using a PCR (Primary Connectivity Radio) function, and a second communication unit configured to communicate with the other communication apparatus by using a WUR (Wake Up Radio) function. The communication apparatus stores, in a storage unit, a first transmission rate which is a transmission rate of the first communication unit used before the WUR mode is started, and sets the stored first transmission rate as a second transmission rate which is a transmission rate of the first communication unit used when the WUR mode has been ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuyoshi Yukawa
  • Patent number: 11516776
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to manage interference caused by D2D communications. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may include a processor. The processor may be configured to perform one or more of the following. The processor may determine to send information using a device-to-device transmission via a resource pool from a plurality of resource pools. Each resource pool may be associated with a range of reference signal receive power (RSRP) values. The processor may determine a RSRP measurement of a cell associated with the WTRU. The processor may select a resource pool from the plurality of resource pools based on the RSRP measurement of the cell. The RSRP measurement of the cell may be within the range of RSRP values associated with the selected resource pool. The processor may send the information using the selected resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuxin Zhao, Diana Pani, Ghyslain Pelletier, Paul Marinier, Benoit Pelletier, Samian Kaur
  • Patent number: 11515981
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may determine updated system information for a user equipment (UE), wherein the UE is associated with an initial access bandwidth part (BWP) and a configured BWP; and transmit the updated system information to the UE using at least one of unicast signaling, multicast signaling, the configured BWP, or a particular BWP that is different from the configured BWP. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Heechoon Lee, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11503536
    Abstract: A network selection, a random access method, and an apparatus of a Machine Type Communication (MTC) User Equipment (UE) for use in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) are provided. A cell selection method of an MTC terminal of the present disclosure includes receiving a message from a base station forming a cell, determining whether the message includes an MTC supportability indicator, and barring, when the message includes no MTC supportability indicator, scanning a frequency used in communication with the base station during a determined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyuk Jang, Boon Loong Ng, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde, Kyeongin Jeong
  • Patent number: 11497043
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support splitting resources among different types of control information and uplink data for transmission on an uplink shared channel. A base station may transmit a grant indicating resource elements (REs) of an uplink shared channel allocated to a user equipment (UE) for an uplink transmission. The UE may process the grant and split the granted REs between different types of uplink control information (UCI) and uplink data based on a reference payload size. The UE may generate an uplink transmission based on the splitting of the REs, and may transmit the uplink transmission in the REs of the uplink shared channel indicated in the grant. The base station may monitor the REs of the uplink shared channel for the uplink transmission in accordance with the splitting of the plurality of REs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Xiao Feng Wang, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11490337
    Abstract: A transmit power control method of a first station in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system includes: receiving path loss information from an (access point) AP, the path loss information containing a maximum value among path losses between the AP and at least one or more stations included in the WLAN system; controlling a transmit power by using the path loss information; and transmitting a frame according to the controlled transmit power. In said controlling the transmit power by using the path loss information, the transmit power is controlled by using a path loss obtained by adding the maximum value and a path loss between the first station and the AP or by using the path loss between the first station and the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: II-Gu Lee, Jeeyon Choi, Sok-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11489649
    Abstract: A user equipment performs a method comprising: receiving (S110) system information indicating a current numerology of a control region with configurable numerology; and decoding (S120) the control region in accordance with an assumption of a channel mapping which is selected from at least two predefined channel mappings on the basis of the current numerology. A base station performs a method comprising: transmitting (S210) system information indicating a current numerology of a control region with configurable numerology; generating (S220) a signal using a channel mapping selected from at least two predefined channel mappings; and transmitting (S230) the generated signal in the control region, wherein the channel mapping is selected on the basis of the current numerology of the control region or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, Robert Baldemair
  • Patent number: 11483891
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method and system for performing a bearer type change of a plurality of radio bearers configured for a User Equipment (UE). The proposed method includes changing the bearer type of specific bearer by the network. Further, the proposed method includes checking any changes in keys or Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) termination point or PDCP version change. Furthermore, the proposed method includes notifying the UE to change the bearer type either through reconfiguration procedure without handover or Secondary Node (SN) change procedure or reconfiguration procedure with handover or SN change procedure. The network indicates one or more operations to the UE for performing the bearer type change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Neha Sharma, Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11483735
    Abstract: This application provides an information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a control device, a first transmission channel in at least one transmission channel configured between a first network device and a second network device, where the first transmission channel is used to transmit a packet that belongs to at least one packet flow, a packet sending frequency currently supported by the first transmission channel is greater than or equal to a sum of packet sending frequencies of the at least one packet flow, and transmission performance of the first transmission channel meets transmission performance of the at least one packet flow; and sending, by the control device, first identification information to the first network device, where the first identification information is used to identify the first transmission channel. Therefore, this helps to meet a requirement for transmission performance of a packet in a mobile network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Su, Yan Wang, Yexing Li
  • Patent number: 11469999
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving energy efficiency data from a plurality of nodes within a network. The method also includes determining an energy efficiency node quotient for each of the plurality of nodes within the network to generate a plurality of energy efficiency node quotients and determining an energy efficiency path quotient for each of a plurality of paths within the network to generate a plurality of energy efficiency path quotients. The method further includes determining one or more policies associated with the plurality of paths and selecting a path from the plurality of paths based at least on the plurality of energy efficient path quotients and the one or more policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Robert Edgar Barton, Jerome Henry, Cesar Obediente
  • Patent number: 11456962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a transmission buffer in a transmission node of a transmission network transmitting data packets of a data packet flow, wherein each data packet includes a delay value indicating a transmission delay requirement of the data packet and a packet value indicating a level of importance of the data packet. The buffer includes different buffer regions and an arriving data packet is put into its respective buffer region based on the delay requirement indicated by a delay value contained in the data packet. The number of bytes waiting before the freshly arrived data packet cannot increase so that the delay requirement is met and possibly other packets in the buffer might be dropped for the newly arriving packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Szilveszter Nádas, Csaba Keszei, Sandor Laki, Gergo Gombos
  • Patent number: 11457491
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one communication processor configured to support a first network communication and a second network communication, and a memory configured to store information about at least one first band supporting dual connectivity for the first network communication and the second network communication among a plurality of bands which correspond to the first network communication supported by the electronic device, and the at least one communication processor may be configured to camp on a first cell supporting the first network communication, after camping on the first cell, perform a measurement on at least some of the at least one first band among the plurality of bands in an idle state, and perform a cell reselection based on a measurement result for the at least some of the at least one first band. Herein, a measurement on a remaining band except for the at least one first band among the plurality of bands may not be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keonyoung Lee, Daejun Kang, Yongjae Jung
  • Patent number: 11452024
    Abstract: A packet transmission system according to an example embodiment includes endpoint devices, a first transmission path connected to the endpoint devices and including a first radio section, a second transmission path connected to the endpoint devices and including a second radio section, bandwidth monitoring units that respectively monitor bandwidth information of the first radio section and the second radio section for each flow, a path switching unit that determines a packet transmission path for transmitting a packet on the basis of the bandwidth information of the first radio section and the second radio section, a bandwidth ratio calculation unit that calculates a bandwidth ratio of flows on the basis of the bandwidth information of the first radio section and the second radio section and determines a bandwidth control value, and a bandwidth control unit that controls a bandwidth of each flow on the basis of the bandwidth control value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11444844
    Abstract: The technology relates to simulating a dynamic hybrid network. A method for simulating a dynamic hybrid network includes modeling a transmission supply of a mesh network of moving stations on aerial vehicles in flight at each time step in a time series, modeling capacity demand as a function of user distribution data and user behavior data, and computing an aggregate network metric for the dynamic hybrid network including throughput. A method for optimizing throughput of a dynamic hybrid network includes modeling a dynamic hybrid network, including a transmission supply of a mesh network of moving stations, modeling capacity demand as a function of user distribution data and user behavior data, and computing an aggregate network metric; then providing feedback to a controller and causing a change to a station in the network to increase throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventor: Jin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11438391
    Abstract: In one or more examples, a method uses a system including data server, a processing circuit, and a data-communications server, with the server being used to route calls in the form of data communications to and from a plurality of telecommunication devices associated with respective user accounts. The server may store data generated by the plurality of telecommunication devices on the data server. The user accounts each have a settings file associated with the user account. In response to a set of criteria indicated in the settings file of one of the user accounts being satisfied, the processing circuit logs into a data server remote to the server may use login credentials included in the settings file. In further response to the set of criteria being satisfied, the processing circuit may copy one or more data files associated with the user account from the data server to the remote data server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhishen Liu
  • Patent number: 11425601
    Abstract: Based on a load prediction analysis performed by a machine learning enabled processor and a load balancer, the load of multiple distributed unit (DU) resources in a baseband unit (BBU) pool hub can be optimized. The BBU pool hub can comprise multiple DU functionality and redundant centralized unit (CU) functionality connected via a high-speed/low latency redundant switch to enable pooling of resources. DU resource pooling can facilitate efficiencies in the network by allocating resources based on active and/or inactive status, load, of radio units RUs as well Radio Bearers activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Dimas Noriega
  • Patent number: 11411759
    Abstract: An integrated circuit chip has a set of communication units, each unit being configured to operate according to a protocol in which a data packet sent by one unit is receivable by one unit only, each unit being configured to send at least one packet having one of a plurality of tiers to at least one other unit and being configured to specify, for each tier, a subset of destination units to which packets of that tier are to be sent, wherein each unit is configured to: receive a packet having one of the plurality of tiers; determine the tier of the received packet; and sequentially send packets having a different tier to the tier of the received packet to each of the respective subset of destination units for the different tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventor: Iain Robertson