Patents Examined by Ovidio Escalante
  • Patent number: RE49217
    Abstract: A monitoring system 22 for a distributed antenna system (DAS) 10 is provided. The DAS comprises central transmitter 12 which is connected by a signal transmission network 14 to a plurality of distributed antenna devices (DAD) 16.1 to 16.n. The network comprises physical branches. Each of the DAD's is connected to a respective sub-branch 14.11 and comprises at least one antenna 18. The antenna is associated with a frequency band having a center frequency fc and an associated wavelength Ac. The monitoring system comprises a central monitoring unit (CMU) 24 which is coupled to the network 14. A monitoring device 28.1 is associated with at least one of the DAD's and permanently mounted a distance d<2?c away from the antenna of the DAD. The monitoring device comprises a controller 30, a transceiver 32 and an antenna 34.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: JD DESIGN ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Andries Petrus Cronje Fourie, Derek Colin Nitch
  • Patent number: RE49274
    Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor storage device includes: a memory cell array having memory cells arranged therein, the memory cells storing data in a non-volatile manner; and a plurality of transfer transistors transferring a voltage to the memory cells, the voltage to be supplied for data read, write and erase operations with respect to the memory cells. Each of the transfer transistors includes: a gate electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate via a gate insulation film; and diffusion layers formed to sandwich the gate electrode therebetween and functioning as drain/source layers. Upper layer wirings are provided above the diffusion layers and provided with a predetermined voltage to prevent depletion of the diffusion layers at least when the transfer transistors become conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dai Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kutsukake, Kenji Gomikawa, Takeshi Shimane, Mitsuhiro Noguchi, Koji Hosono, Masaru Koyanagi, Takashi Aoi
  • Patent number: RE49275
    Abstract: Known intra-domain routing methods (e.g., OSPF and IS-IS) are link-state routing protocols with hop-by-hop forwarding that sacrifice optimal traffic engineering for ease of implementation and management. Known optimal traffic engineering procedures are either not link-state methods or require source routing—characteristics that make them difficult to implement. Certain embodiments of the present invention include a fully distributed, adaptive, link-state routing protocol with hop-by-hop forwarding configured to achieve optimal traffic engineering. Such embodiments facilitate significant performance improvements relative to known intra-domain routing methods and decrease network infrastructure requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Nithin Michael, Ao Tang
  • Patent number: RE49368
    Abstract: The present solution ensures that the UEs are able to make use of all the available reference signals that can be used in a cell for performing UE measurements, estimations or demodulations. That is achieved by indicating on a downlink common or shared channel, the MIMO mode settings associated with a specific network node. The indicated MIMO mode settings explicitly or implicitly indicate available common reference signals and/or dedicated reference signals to be used for said UE measurements, estimations or demodulations, which implies that measurements, estimations or demodulations can be performed based on said received indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Lei Wan, David Astely, Muhammad Kazmi
  • Patent number: RE49395
    Abstract: A service implementation method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. The service implementation method includes: receiving, by a serving gateway, a data packet of a terminal device sent by a packet data network gateway; if the data packet is a data packet with a serving priority and the serving gateway has sent a paging trigger message with a serving priority to a mobility management element, skipping, by the serving gateway, sending a paging trigger message to the mobility management element; or if the data packet is a data packet with a serving priority and the serving gateway has sent no paging trigger message with a serving priority to a mobility management element, sending, by the serving gateway, a paging trigger message to the mobility management element; wherein the paging trigger message is used to enable the mobility management element to page the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fenqin Zhu, Yan Li, Wei Lu
  • Patent number: RE49396
    Abstract: A method, a base station, a User Equipment (UE) and a system for sending and receiving Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signaling are disclosed. A method includes determining locations of a first search space and a second search space of a User Equipment (UE). A method also includes sending PDCCH signaling with no Carrier Indication Field (CIF) to the UE in a physically overlapped region between the first search space and the second search space if the physically overlapped region exists and a length of the PDCCH signaling with no CIF in the first search space is equal to a length of PDCCH signaling with the CIF in the second search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingyu Qu, Lei Guan, Lixia Xue
  • Patent number: RE49497
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for desynchronizing notifications across multiple electronic devices are provided. The method includes receiving, by a primary electronic device, a notification, transmitting, by the primary electronic device, the notification to a companion electronic device with which the primary electronic device is synchronized, and desynchronizing a providing of the notification at the companion electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiyun Li, Andrew Mast, Rajesh Yengisetty
  • Patent number: RE49635
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for supporting multiple IMSIs. The method includes: receiving a response message that is returned by a server in response to an IMSI update request message and transmitted by a user terminal; and executing an IMSI update operation for a smart card according to information carried in the response message, where the smart card is a smart card supporting multiple IMSIs, and the IMSI update operation for the smart card includes: an operation of adding an IMSI in the smart card or an operation of deleting an IMSI from the smart card. The foregoing technical solution may dynamically update an IMSI in the smart card, thereby avoiding a phenomenon that one user must occupy multiple IMSIs all along, improving a utilization ratio of IMSIs, and saving IMSI resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jieping Shi
  • Patent number: RE49601
    Abstract: A cloud system data management method for alleviate a data leakage problem occurring when a user accessed by another user when a virtual data volume of the user is mounted to a virtual machine of another user includes creating a first virtual machine for a user and allocating a virtual data volume to the first virtual machine, setting an identifier of the virtual data volume as an identifier corresponding to a home identifier of the first virtual machine, determining, according to the identifier of the virtual data volume and a home identifier of a second virtual machine, whether the virtual data volume and the second virtual machine belong to a same user when the virtual data volume needs to be mounted to the second virtual machine, forbidding the virtual data volume to be mounted to the second virtual machine when they do not belong to the same user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sihai Ye
  • Patent number: RE49644
    Abstract: Systems and/or Methods are disclosed for acquiring data from a transceiver responsive to one or more signals that are received at the transceiver from one or more devices. In one embodiment, a transceiver is configured to transmit a signal responsive to having received a first signal from a first device, wherein the signal that is transmitted by the transceiver is configured to trigger a second device to transmit a second signal. The transceiver is further configured to transmit data responsive to having received the second signal that is transmitted by the second device. In other embodiments, a transceiver is configured to receive a signal from a first device over frequencies of a predetermined frequency band that the first device is authorized to use, to receive a signal from a second device over frequencies of the predetermined frequency band and to transmit data responsive to having received both the signal from the first device and the signal from the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Peter D. Karabinis
  • Patent number: RE49719
    Abstract: A server or other computing device manages meetings in a virtual meeting room on behalf of a virtual meeting room owner. A request is received from an attendee to join a meeting in the virtual meeting room. A determination is made, based on configurations set by the virtual meeting room owner, whether to connect the attendee to a virtual waiting room. The attendee is connected to the virtual waiting room in accordance with the configurations set by the virtual meeting room owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: James E. Coffman, Jonathan Rosenberg, Jorunn Aarseth, Keith Griffin, John K. Restrick, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE49727
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding frames of a compressed video data stream having at least one frame divided into partitions, includes a memory and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to read partition data information indicative of a partition location for at least one of the partitions, decode a first partition of the partitions that includes a first sequence of blocks, decode a second partition of the partitions that includes a second sequence of blocks identified from the partition data information using decoded information of the first partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yaowu Xu, Paul Wilkins, James Bankoski
  • Patent number: RE49729
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to session information management methods. One example method includes sending, by a session management function (SMF) network element, identification information of a terminal device, a data network name (DNN), and slice information to a data management network element to request first subscription data that is of the terminal device and that is associated with the DNN and the slice information, where the slice information is used to identify a network slice served by the SMF network element, and receiving, by the SMF network element, the first subscription data from the data management network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruizhi Liu, Chunshan Xiong, Yizhuang Wu, Haiyang Sun
  • Patent number: RE49801
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner. The input signal is represented for first and second bands by first and second resolution data, respectively, the second resolution being lower than the first. The patch generator generates first and second patches from the first band of the input signal according to first and second patching algorithms, respectively. A spectral density of the second patch generated using the second patching algorithm is higher than a spectral density of a first patch generated using the first patching algorithm. The combiner combines both patches and the first band of the input signal to obtain the bandwidth extended signal. The apparatus scales the input signal according to the first and second patching algorithms or scales the first and second patches, so that the bandwidth extended signal fulfills a spectral envelope criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Frederik Nagel, Sascha Disch, Max Neuendorf, Stefan Bayer, Marc Gayer, Markus Lohwasser, Nikolaus Rettelbach, Ulrich Kraemer
  • Patent number: RE49806
    Abstract: Techniques are presented herein to facilitate latency measurements in a networking environment. A first network device receives a packet for transport within a network domain that comprises a plurality of network devices. The plurality of network devices have a common time reference, that is, they are time synchronized. The first network device generates timestamp information indicating time of arrival of the packet at the first network device. The first network device inserts into the packet a tag that comprises at least a first subfield and a second subfield. The first subfield comprising a type indicator to signify to other network devices in the network domain that the tag includes timestamp information, and the second subfield includes the timestamp information. The first network device sends the packet from to into the network domain to another network device. Other network devices which receive that packet can make latency measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Edsall, Wei-Jen Huang, Chih-Tsung Huang, Yichou Lin
  • Patent number: RE49813
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving, by an audio processing apparatus, an audio signal including a first data of a first block encoded with rectangular coding scheme and a second data of a second block encoded with non-rectangular coding scheme; receiving a compensation signal corresponding to the second block; estimating a prediction of an aliasing part using the first data; and, obtaining a reconstructed signal for the second block based on the second data, the compensation signal and the prediction of aliasing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Hyen-O Oh, Chang Heon Lee, Hong-Goo Kang, Jeungook Song
  • Patent number: RE49823
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving signals in a mobile communication system are provided. A method for transmitting a signal by an evolved Node B (eNB) in a mobile communication system includes transmitting a same control channel signal to each of a plurality of Radio Units (RUs), and transmitting a different data channel signal to each of the plurality of RUs. A data channel signal transmitted to each of the plurality of RUs may be determined taking into account at least one of a location of a User Equipment (UE) that will receive the data channel signal, and load balancing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Yong Kim, June Moon, Chung-Ryul Chang, Young-Ky Kim, Eun-Seok Ko
  • Patent number: RE49824
    Abstract: A server or other computing device manages meetings in a virtual meeting room on behalf of a virtual meeting room owner. A request is received from an attendee to join a meeting in the virtual meeting room. A determination is made, based on configurations set by the virtual meeting room owner, whether to connect the attendee to a virtual waiting room. The attendee is connected to the virtual waiting room in accordance with the configurations set by the virtual meeting room owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: James E. Coffman, Jonathan Rosenberg, Jorunn Aarseth, Keith Griffin, John K. Restrick, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE49837
    Abstract: A method for identifying a device comprising generating, by a control device, an identification identifier of a multimedia device according to device description information of the multimedia device, sending the identification identifier to the multimedia device, so that the multimedia device displays the identification identifier, acquiring, by the control device, the identification identifier displayed by the multimedia device and an appearance image of the multimedia device, and acquiring the device description information according to the identification identifier displayed by the multimedia device, and associating, by the control device, the device description information with the appearance image of the multimedia device, so that a user equipment identifies the multimedia device according to the appearance image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yajun Zhang, Yu Zhu
  • Patent number: RE49915
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method including receiving indication information related to a PUCCH resource set of a specific PUCCH format through system information, the PUCCH resource set comprising a first RB offset, receiving a PDCCH including a resource indicator RI through CCE, and transmitting the control information on the PUCCH, wherein an RB index of the PUCCH is determined based on the first RB offset and a second RB offset related to a first bit value of the RI, and wherein a CS index of the PUCCH is determined based on a combination of [a second bit value of the RI, a 1-bit value based on a starting CCE index of the PDCCH (hereinafter, a CCE-based 1-bit value)] in a CS index set, and an apparatus therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Hanjun Park, Seonwook Kim