Patents Examined by Paul H Masur
  • Patent number: 11178651
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for active interference management. Active interference management may be provided for designated data regions and/or superzones. UAV-specific or other designated data regions (e.g., with data zones) may enable dynamic inter-cell interference management and high reliability command & control for UAVs in interference prone in environments. Data zone/region specific control channel search space may support inter-cell interference cancellation. Aggregation N levels (e.g., during EPDCCH encoding) may be dependent on an interference level of a zone. Data zone specific reference signals (DS-RS) may enable UAVs connected to neighboring cells to estimate an interference channel per zone. Interference management may be provided during semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) transmissions. Reliability of Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) may be enhanced (EPDCCH), e.g., with interference assistance signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Ravikumar V. Pragada
  • Patent number: 11166273
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining a transport block size, the method including determining, by a communications device, a type of an available resource element (RE) for data scheduling according to a quantity of available REs in one slot and one resource block (RB), and determining, by the communications device, a transport block size of data according to the type of the available RE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ting Wang, Yuanjie Li, Hao Tang, Zhenfei Tang, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11159598
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for network labeling in order to enhance real time data transfers. A network for a real time data transfer is identified and predictive models for network performance are compared against to determine if the network is suitable for the data transfer. If the network is predicted to be unsuitable for transmission an alternate means for connection may be suggested. The alternate suggestion may include delaying the data transfer until the network is expected to be in better conditions, connecting to another access point in the network, or switching to another network entirely. During the data transfer, the quality of the network is monitored in order to update the predictive models for the network's quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Agora Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Li, Bin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11160083
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus in which long-term evolution (LTE) and new radio access technology (NR) coordinate/negotiate information on user equipment (UE) capabilities when the LTE and the NR are linked through a dual connection in a wireless communication system. A first radio access network (RAN) node transmits the UE capability already used by the first RAN node and/or the UE capability remaining or recommended to be used by a RAN node 2 to the second RAN node. The second RAN node transmits the UE capability to be used by the second RAN node to the first RAN node on the basis of the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Xu, Seokjung Kim, Daewook Byun
  • Patent number: 11146972
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an information transmission method and apparatus. The method comprises: a first device obtains first indication information sent by a second device, the first indication information being used for indicating first system information required by the second device; and the first device sends the first system information according to the first indication information. By means of the embodiments of the present application, the sending efficiency can be improved, signaling overheads can be reduced, and a resource waste can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11133918
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives downlink control information used for scheduling a physical shared channel and a processor that determines a symbol section that is allocated to the physical shared channel by using information, included in the downlink control information, regarding a resource to be allocated. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11128573
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for load balancing for IP failover. A backend address of a first node is identified as a routing destination to which a request is to be routed by a load balancer based upon a load balancer rule mapping a frontend address, specified by the request as a request destination, to the backend address of the first node. The request is routed to a primary network interface of the first node using the backend address. The first node has a loopback interface with an address matching the frontend address for routing the request to a destination data structure based upon the request maintaining the frontend address as the request destination. Health probes are used by the load balancer for detecting a failure of the first node in order to failover to routing requests to a second backend address of a second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NetApp Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Busick, Mohinish Vinnakota, James Silva, Rajesh Rajaraman
  • Patent number: 11128487
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a physical layer circuit coupled to a data bus, and a processing circuit that controls the physical layer circuit and performs communications processing through the data bus. The processing circuit operates with a voltage supplied from a ground line as a power supply voltage VSS on a low potential side, and the physical layer circuit operates based on a power supply voltage VSSA on the low potential side supplied from a power supply line not coupled to the ground line in the circuit device, and a power supply voltage HVDDA on a high potential side set with reference to the power supply voltage VSSA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshimichi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11121976
    Abstract: System, device, and method for providing distributed quality-of-service control and policy enforcement. A tree hierarchy representation is constructed for distributed enforcement of a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy on incoming packets that are intended for transmission towards a destination, by at least two separate Processing Units (PUs) that separately process different packets that are intended for transmission towards that destination. A cross-PU Instances Synchronization Unit automatically determines that a first PU caused modification of a first set of instances of parent-child Policy Objects that are utilized by the first PU, and dynamically causes a corresponding modification to a second set of instances of parent-child Policy Objects that are utilized by a second PU. The QoS policy is enforced, on a packet-by-packet basis, by different member entities of the tree hierarchy representation, to achieve the overall QoS policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ALLOT LTD.
    Inventors: Lior Plat, Idan Bariach, Michal Rapaport, Liran Sinay, Itai Weissman, Boris Lifshitz
  • Patent number: 11102823
    Abstract: Various aspects include methods for receiver (RX) beam sweep configuration of a millimeter wave (MMW) repeater during random access channel (RACH) procedures. Various embodiments may include determining two or more different RX beam sweep configurations for one or more RACH occurrences (ROs) associated with a synchronization signal block (SSB), generating a RACH configuration message indicating the two or more different RX beam sweep configurations for the one or more ROs, and sending the RACH configuration message to an MMW repeater. Various embodiments may also include receiving a RACH configuration message indicating two or more different RX beam sweep configurations for one or more ROs associated with an SSB, and controlling one or more RX antennas of the MMW repeater to perform RX beam sweeping during the one or more ROs according to the RACH configuration message to receive a RACH message 1 from a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Ashwin Sampath
  • Patent number: 11102739
    Abstract: For the purpose of properly controlling communication using a number of cells including cells that use different numerologies than existing LTE systems, a user terminal that communicates by using a number of cells including a first cell and a second cell has a receiving section that receives, from the first cell, information about synchronization between the first cell and the second cell and/or information about a configuration of a synchronization signal block in the second cell, and a control section that controls a processes for connecting with the second cell based on the information about synchronization and/or the information about the configuration of the synchronization signal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11089597
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that communication is performed properly when contention-based UL transmission is used. A user terminal has a transmission section that transmits a first reference signal and a UL data signal, without a UL transmission indication from a radio base station, and a control section that controls generation of the first reference signal by using code resource associated with the user terminal, and the control section controls generation of the first reference signal by using more code resources than code resources that can be used for a second reference signal that is transmitted with the UL data signal in response to the UL transmission indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11082564
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a set of VoIP servers configured to route VoIP calls to and from a plurality of VoIP-enabled devices. Each of the VoIP-enabled devices is respectively associated with one of a plurality of client accounts. A control circuit is communicatively connected to the one or more VoIP servers and directs the VoIP servers to route VoIP calls for a client account according to a respective routing policy for the client account. The routing policy indicates one or more routing algorithms for selecting paths of a network for routing each of the VoIP calls. The routing policy also indicates a selection algorithm configured to, for each VoIP call, one of the set of routing algorithms based on a set of criteria such as date or time of the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan R. Martin, Garth Judge, Zhishen Liu
  • Patent number: 11076025
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for generating and examining a signature that corresponds to a plurality of data packets. The data packets can be packets forwarded by a network device. By examining the signature, information pertaining to the plurality of data packets can be determined. A determination can be made if one of the plurality of data packets is not received by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Volpe
  • Patent number: 11076369
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for power control and user multiplexing for coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission and reception in heterogeneous networks (HetNet).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Xiliang Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11076392
    Abstract: Wireless communications are described. A device may receive a message indicating a request for transmission of packets to a communication device. The device may receive the packets via a first cell group and a second cell group, and the device may transmit the packets to the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11071113
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. The system evaluates signal quality metrics for each frequency band and selects a communication method based on the evaluation. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the system such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The system monitors communications and can report link performance for adaptive control of the selected communication methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid
  • Patent number: 11057168
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission apparatus capable of properly performing cross carrier scheduling in ePDCCHs. In this apparatus, when communication is performed using a plurality of component carriers (CCs), configuration section 102 configures a first search space as a candidate to which control information for a first CC is assigned and a second search space as a candidate to which control information for a second CC other than the first CC among the plurality of CCs is assigned, within a same allocation unit group among a plurality of allocation unit groups included in a data-assignable region within the first CC, and transmission section 106 transmits control information mapped to the first search space and control information mapped to the second search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 11050664
    Abstract: An encapsulation method, an encapsulation device and an encapsulation node are disclosed. The encapsulation method includes: embedding, at an encapsulation node in an in-situ operation administration and maintenance, IOAM, domain, IOAM information in a segment routing multi-protocol label switching, SR MPLS, header. The IOAM information includes: an IOAM header and an IOAM payload. The IOAM header includes a MPLS label value assigned by internet assigned numbers authority, IANA; and the IOAM header further includes at least one of: a value identifying whether the IOAM header is at a bottom of a stack, a packet priority field, and an encoded time-to-live value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ran Chen, Min Xiao
  • Patent number: 11050615
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first processor; a first commissioning element to communicate with external devices using wireless communication and a first memory storing programs for commissioning a target device onto a communication network. The communication network has configuration data including a network identifier and a network key. The programs provide a user interface for commissioning the target device. The target device includes a second processor, a second wireless radio, and a second commissioning element to receive the network configuration data. The target device decodes the network configuration data to commission the target device onto the communication network. The electronic device sends the network configuration data to the target device and receives confirmation that the target device has successfully connected to the communication network. The electronic device displays the success in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Mathews, Lee R. Taylor