Patents Examined by Marceau Milord
  • Patent number: 11963039
    Abstract: A base station includes, in an aspect, a first reception unit, a first transmission unit, and a second transmission unit. The first reception unit receives information related to a communication processing state of another base station from the other base station. The first transmission unit transmits duplication of data to be transmitted to a terminal device to the other base station. The second transmission unit transmits the data to the terminal device by using radio communication. Furthermore, the first transmission unit transmits, after the transmission of the data performed by the second transmission unit has been completed, in accordance with the information related to the communication processing state of the other base station, a transmission completion notification that indicates that the transmission of the data has been completed to the other base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira Hirata
  • Patent number: 11956842
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relates to a multi-link communication setup method and a related apparatus. The method includes: a non-AP MLD sends an association request frame on a first link, to request multi-link setup. An AP MLD returns an association response frame on the first link, to notify whether multi-link setup succeeds. The AP MLD sets a second status code field of a multi-link element of the association response frame to a newly defined value, to indicate that a cause why a link is not accepted is that the first link is not accepted. This application is applied to a WLAN system that supports a next generation Wi-Fi protocol of 802.11ax, for example, 802.11be, Wi-Fi 7, or EHT, and other 802.11 series protocols; and for another example, a next generation protocol of 802.11be: Wi-Fi 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuchen Guo, Guogang Huang, Yunbo Li, Ming Gan
  • Patent number: 11949613
    Abstract: An apparatus of a network (NW) configured to: encode a new radio (NR) Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) transmission, the NR DRS transmission including a synchronization signal block (SSB) and channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) (CSI-RS). The apparatus is further configured to configure the NW to transmit the NR DRS transmission. The RS-CSI may be a fragmented RS-CSI including a first fragmented portion and a second fragmented portion, where the apparatus is configured to encode a symbol of the NR DRS transmission to comprise the first fragmented portion, a symbol of the SSB, and the second fragmented portion, where the symbol of the SSB is encoded on a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) portion of the NR DRS transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bishwarup Mondal, Salvatore Talarico, Seau S. Lim, Dae Won Lee, Jeongho Jeon
  • Patent number: 11943833
    Abstract: A method for discovery signally is disclosed. The method, performed at a network node of a wireless communications network, comprises generating an indicator based on one or more control information to be transmitted in a control signal for discovery, and transmitting the indicator as a preamble to the control signal, wherein the indicator is indicative of content of the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Rickard Ljung
  • Patent number: 11943834
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic device includes: a communication interface comprising communication circuitry; a memory storing information for correcting a signal received from each of a plurality of other electronic devices; and a processor connected to the memory and the communication interface and configured to control the electronic device, wherein the processor is configured to: control the communication interface to perform communication with another electronic device operating as a software enabled access point, identify another electronic device that has transmitted a signal among the plurality of other electronic devices based on the signal based on the signal being received from another electronic device through the communication interface, and correct the received signal based on correction information corresponding to another electronic device among the information stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Minsoo Kim, Sungjin Shin, Kyeonghun Lee, Keuncheol Lee, Youngki Lee
  • Patent number: 11916610
    Abstract: An interference evaluation method for evaluating, over an area, radio-wave interference that occurs between a first radio station and a second radio station includes: a distinguishing step of acquiring information indicating topographic cross-sections of respective azimuths centered about the first radio station, and distinguishing the topographic cross-section into a segment in which there is visibility from the position of the first radio station and a segment in which there is no visibility from the position of the first radio station; and a specification step of specifying a position at which a desired interference amount is reached based on a distance between the first radio station and the second radio station in a segment distinguished as having visibility from the position of the first radio station, and specifying a position at which the desired interference amount is reached by evaluating the radio-wave interference for each square of an evaluation target region segmented into squares in a segment d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Hideki Toshinaga, Kazuto Goto, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Patent number: 11903084
    Abstract: One embodiment is a sidelink discovery-related UE operation method in a wireless communication system, the operation method comprising the steps in which: the UE generates a discovery message; and the UE transmits the discovery message, wherein the discovery message is delivered to a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer through a logical channel (LCH), and the LCH has a fixed Logical Channel Identity (LCID) and a fixed priority for the discovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seoyoung Back, Giwon Park, Seungmin Lee, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11903058
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for wireless communication at a first user equipment (UE) is provided. The UE receives an indication of one or more timers associated with a radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment procedure or an RRC connection re-establishment procedure with a network entity via a relay. The UE transmits a request associated with an RRC connection to a second UE to be relayed to the network entity and monitors for a response from the network entity based on the one or more timers associated with the RRC connection establishment procedure or the RRC connection re-establishment procedure via the second UE as the relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peng Cheng, Karthika Paladugu, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11902809
    Abstract: An information reporting method, a data transmission method, a user equipment and a network side device are provided. The information reporting method is applied to the user equipment and includes reporting retransmission times information to the network side device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingjing Chen, Xiaoran Zhang, Xueying Hou, Nan Li
  • Patent number: 11895738
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, at least one antenna located in the housing, a Wi-Fi module that is electrically connected with the at least one antenna, supports a Wi-Fi protocol, and includes one core, a processor that is located in the housing and is operatively connected with the Wi-Fi module, and a memory operatively connected with the processor. The memory stores instructions, when executed, causing the processor to establish a Wi-Fi link on a first channel with an access point (AP), through the Wi-Fi module, establish a mobile hotspot link on the first channel with an external electronic device, through the Wi-Fi module, detect an event associated with a change in state of the Wi-Fi link, and change a state of the mobile hotspot link, based at least on the detected event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungkuk Seo, Seungjae Lee, Sungjun Kim
  • Patent number: 11895729
    Abstract: Provided in implementations of the present disclosure are a discontinuous reception (DRX) method, a terminal device and a network device, which may optimize a DRX mechanism, thereby further reducing power consumption. The method includes: a first terminal device monitoring a downlink control channel, the downlink control channel carrying m pieces of DRX information which are form terminal devices respectively, the m terminal devices including the first terminal device, m being a positive integer, and each piece of DRX information among the m pieces of DRX information being used to indicate at least one of the following: a target BWP, a target DRX configuration, target DRX parameters and the duration during which a PDCCH is monitored within an active period of a DRX cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Weijie Xu
  • Patent number: 11889570
    Abstract: Systems and methods for contextual device pairing are disclosed. For example, when certain user input indicating intent to cause a first device to transition to a pairing mode is received, the first device may broadcast a non-bondable signal with an identifier of the first device. When a second device receives the non-bondable signal, that second device may send response data, which may be received at the first device. The first device may analyze the response data to determine whether a context associated with the first device and/or the second device indicates desirability to transition to the pairing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Apoorv Naik, Samer A. Sarhan Hussein, Shuangqing Yuan
  • Patent number: 11881965
    Abstract: A gateway module includes: a module housing, an operating device arranged on the module housing, which can be put, by user actuation, into a plurality of visually distinguishable operating device states, a first communication interface for communication with field level devices, a second communication interface for communication with an external server, and a control unit configured to receive field data from the field level devices via the first communication interface and to provide the field data to the external server via the second communication interface, wherein the control unit is further configured to provide, depending on which operating device state the operating device is in, a manipulation function for influencing the operation of the gateway module and/or the field level devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Hoffmeister, Thomas Berndorfer, Achim Ziegele, Olaf Westrik, Sven Haugstetter, Thomas Heubach, Matthias Prinzen
  • Patent number: 11877338
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to handling a link failure in a wireless communication system. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a first wireless device may receive a preliminary radio link failure (pre-RLF) indication from a second wireless device, and perform proper actions upon receiving the pre-RLF indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seoyoung Back, Giwon Park, Seungmin Lee, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11877212
    Abstract: A system and method for utilizing a network of Bluetooth devices to determine approximate location of Bluetooth device that was lost or misplaced in vicinity of the network. The network can be constructed from low-energy Bluetooth devices that would otherwise be only periodically active and/or networked for a purpose other than the localization of lost or misplaced devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Cesar Moreno
  • Patent number: 11870765
    Abstract: A method performed by a network node of a serving public land mobile network, PLMN, associated with a user equipment, UE, comprising: obtaining a secret identifier that uniquely identifies the UE, wherein the secret identifier is a secret that is shared between the UE and at least a home PLMN of the UE and that is shared by the home PLMN with the network node; and performing an operation related to the UE using the secret identifier. Other methods, computer programs, computer program products, network nodes and a serving PLMN are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Noamen Ben Henda, Christine Jost, Vesa Torvinen
  • Patent number: 11856623
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay user equipment (UE) may establish a sidelink unicast link with a remote UE via a sidelink signaling interface. The relay UE may identify configuration information for an adaptation layer of the sidelink signaling interface, the configuration information including at least one of: a remote UE identifier associated with the sidelink unicast link for a relay service, bearer identifier information identifying one or more bearers between the remote UE and a network entity for the relay service, a radio link control (RLC) channel mapping between a bearer identifier and one or more RLC channels, or data routing information associated with the relay service. The relay UE may relay communications between the remote UE and the network entity based at least in part on the configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Peng Cheng, Soo Bum Lee, Hong Cheng, Gavin Bernard Horn, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11856625
    Abstract: A method executed by a relay UE is provided. The relay UE establishes a first Radio Link Control (RLC) channel between a first remote UE and the relay UE, in which the first RLC channel is associated with a first end-to-end identifier. The relay UE establishes a second RLC channel between a second remote UE and the relay UE, in which the second RLC channel is associated with the first end-to-end identifier or a second end-to-end identifier. The relay UE receives an incoming SideLink (SL) transmission from the first remote UE on the first RLC channel, in which the incoming SL transmission includes the first end-to-end identifier. The relay UE sends an outgoing SL transmission to the second remote UE on the second RLC channel, in which the outgoing SL transmission includes one of the first end-to-end identifier and the second end-to-end identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Guan-Yu Lin, Xuelong Wang, Ming-Yuan Cheng
  • Patent number: 11842536
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, comprising: an optical sensor, comprising a kind determining region and an element analyzing region, wherein the optical sensor acquires first optical data via the kind determining region, and acquires second optical data via the element analyzing region, wherein the kind determining region and the element analyzing region are different regions of the optical sensor; a kind determining component, configured to determine an object kind of the object according to the first optical data; and an element analyzing component, configured to analyze element of the object according to the second optical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventor: Guo-Zhen Wang
  • Patent number: 11832317
    Abstract: There is provided a control method of performing communication using a first and second communication method includes: searching for, by the first and second communication method, communication apparatus; receiving a selection of one of the communication apparatus discovered by the first and second communication method, as a target; and if the target discovered by the first communication method is selected, transmitting first setting information to cause the target to establish connection by the first communication method to the target, and transmitting second setting information to cause the target to establish connection by the second communication method to the target, and if the target discovered by the second communication method is selected, transmitting the second setting information to the target by the second communication method, and transmitting the first setting information to the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke Uchida