Patents Examined by Paul H Masur
  • Patent number: 10993211
    Abstract: A wireless communication base station apparatus that allows the number of times of blind decodings at a mobile station to be reduced without increasing the overhead caused by notifying information. In this apparatus, a CCE allocation part allocates allocation information allocated to a PDCCH received from modulation parts to a particular one of a plurality of search spaces that is corresponding to a CCE aggregation size of the PDCCH. A placement part then places the allocation information in one of downstream line resources, reserved for the PDCCH, that is corresponding to the CCE of the particular search space to which the allocation information has been allocated. A radio transmission part then transmits an OFDM symbol, in which the allocation information has been placed, to the mobile station from an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 10993105
    Abstract: Provided are terminal devices and a method for establishing association between terminal devices. A first terminal device transmits information of terminal capabilities to a network device, the information of terminal capabilities being used to indicate that the terminal device has capabilities of receiving and forwarding data. The first terminal device receives confirmation information for confirming that the terminal device has the capabilities of receiving and forwarding data, from the network device. The first terminal device establishes an association with a second terminal device according to the confirmation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 10980048
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to wireless communication. According to one example embodiment described in this disclosure, a method for contention based signaling is proposed. A network element such as base station monitors a dedicated UL channel to determine whether the dedicated UL channel is occupied by UL data transmissions. In response to a determination that the dedicated UL channel is not occupied by UL transmissions, the network element prioritizes DL data transmissions over the dedicated UL channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonakbebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Gen Li, Robert Baldemair, Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 10979949
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a first measurement configuration from a first base station apparatus via a first SRB and receives a second measurement configuration from a second base station apparatus via a second SRB, and transmits via the first SRB a first measurement result for the first measurement configuration configured from the first base station apparatus via the first SRB and transmits via the second SRB a second measurement result for the second measurement configuration configured from the second base station apparatus via the second SRB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Shohei Yamada, Kazunari Yokomakura, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10979865
    Abstract: A network node, a device and methods therein are provided for handling of devices based on group membership. The method performed by the network node comprises obtaining of information indicating a group membership and further indicating reachable gateways of a set of devices. The method further comprises initiating a command to a number of devices out of the set of devices belonging to the same group, G1, to connect to one of the indicated gateways, gateway W, selected for the number of devices based on group membership.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oscar Novo Diaz, Parth Amin, Nicklas Beijar
  • Patent number: 10979946
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing handover coordination between base stations are disclosed. In a first embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: receiving, at a base station, a first serving cell signal measurement and a first neighbor cell signal measurement from a particular user equipment (UE); sending an adjustment message, from the base station to the UE, containing a cell-specific offset of the serving cell and a cell-specific offset of the neighbor cell in a reporting threshold based on at least one handover adjustment factor received from a coordinating node; receiving, at the base station and subsequent to adjusting the cell-specific offsets, a second serving cell signal measurement and a second neighbor cell signal measurement; and deciding whether to trigger a handover event based on the first and the second serving cell signal measurement and the first and the second neighbor cell signal measurement and the cell-specific offsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Cao, Zeev Lubenski, Kaitki Agarwal, Prashanth Rao, Rahul Atri
  • Patent number: 10972980
    Abstract: An apparatus for implementing power control for a radio device that has multiple radio transceivers operating in different bands, including sub-bands of a single frequency band. The device implements a power control protocol for communications between the device and a similar peer device. The device sets-up the power control protocol by generating a request to use one of the multiple bands to signal power control operations, and to use another one of the multiple bands to transfer data between the device and the peer device. The device sends the request to the peer device and receives a response. Based on the response, the device identifies a control channel band and a data channel band from among the multiple bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Yaron Alpert, Robert J. Stacey
  • Patent number: 10958561
    Abstract: A device determines traffic and costs associated with a network that includes network devices interconnected by links, and determines traffic assignments for the network based on the traffic and the costs associated with the network. The device determines tunnel use for the network based on the traffic assignments, and determines peer link use for the network based on the tunnel use. The device determines costs associated with the traffic assignments, the tunnel use, and the peer link use for the network, and generates traffic plans based on the traffic assignments, the tunnel use, the peer link use, and the costs associated with the traffic assignments, the tunnel use, and the peer link use. The device causes one of the traffic plans to be implemented in the network by the network devices and the links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Sidebottom, Patricio Giecco, Julian Kazimierz Lucek
  • Patent number: 10952243
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to vehicle communication systems, in particular, toward contention resolution on a shared medium in vehicle communication systems. The present disclosure can provide a modified version of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3 standard to handle physical layer (PHY), and data link layer's (DLL) media access control (MAC) of the wired communication links in the vehicle communication subsystem utilizing a shared medium and half-duplex mode. As a result, the modified MAC and PHY may provide fair access and deterministic latency for shared access to the medium of vehicle communication systems independent of the offered network load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NIO USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongbum Kim, Stephen Eric Sidle, Luna Chen, Jerry L. Petree, Suma Prabhakara, George T. Feltovich
  • Patent number: 10952198
    Abstract: [Object] To cause the transmission efficiency of the entire system to be significantly improved. [Solution] A terminal device configured to perform communication with a base station device, including: a wireless transmitting unit configured to transmit an uplink channel using a first signal waveform or a second signal waveform on the basis of control information notified by the base station device. The first signal waveform is a multicarrier signal, and the second signal waveform is a single carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10951367
    Abstract: Disclosed are a feedback information sending method and apparatus thereof. The method comprises: receiving downlink control information from an access network device; receiving a data channel scheduled by the downlink control information; determining an uplink time unit to send feedback information corresponding to the data channel; determining a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for the feedback information according to resource indication information, wherein the first PUCCH resource is a part of a second PUCCH resource that is included in a second PUCCH resource set, and wherein the second PUCCH resource is indicated by the resource indication information, which raises resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lei Guan
  • Patent number: 10945263
    Abstract: A communication method includes: generating a first radio frame by a communication apparatus, a time domain length of first symbol in the first radio frame exceeding any time domain length of any one of remaining symbols in the first radio frame; and transmitting the first radio frame by the communication apparatus. According to the communication method, communication can be achieved between communication apparatuses in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 10945300
    Abstract: The invention describes a method for dynamic switching between a control plane data transmission and user plane data transmission avoiding the Detach and consecutive re-attach procedure or TAU procedure. In particular the decision for switch between the different transmission schemes is based on various criteria like the size of the data packet or on total amount of data, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Genadi Velev, Iskren Ianev, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 10932143
    Abstract: According to one configuration, a system includes provisioning hardware and a wireless station that supports communications with one or more communication devices. The wireless station receives a first notification from the provisioning system. The first notification indicating that the wireless station is assigned to a first allocation management resource. The first allocation management resource operable to allocate wireless resources for use by the wireless station to support wireless communications. The wireless station communicates with the first allocation management resource to receive allocation information indicating the wireless resources allocated for use by the wireless station. In response to receiving a second notification that the wireless station has been reassigned to a second allocation management resource, the wireless station communicates with the second allocation management resource instead of the first allocation management resource to receive the allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Lakhbir Singh
  • Patent number: 10931565
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for a VRF and multi-service insertion on edge gateways is described. In an embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a rule configuration. Based on, at least in part, the rule configuration, a rule table is created. The rule table comprises rule data records, wherein a rule data record comprises packet attributes and a redirection identifier. A policy configuration comprising policy records is obtained. Each policy record comprises a redirection identifier, a next_hop, and an address pair for interfaces. A mapping between VRF identifiers and address pairs is generated. Based on, at least in part, the mapping and the policy configuration, a policy table is generated. The policy table comprises table records, wherein a table record comprises a redirection identifier, a next_hop, and an address pair. The rule and policy tables are used to redirect a packet from an edge gateway to a service virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Mishra, Kantesh Mundaragi, Stephen Tan, Akhila Naveen, Pierluigi Rolando, Raju Koganty
  • Patent number: 10931420
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed to reduce pilot overhead by providing common reference signals coded with cover codes that are orthogonal in time and frequency domains. Common reference signals that are coded by cover codes orthogonal in both domains can be de-spread in both the time and frequency domains for improved resolution and larger pull-in windows for both. Also disclosed is semi-uniform pilot spacing in both the frequency and time domains. In a time domain, a first pilot symbol pair is spaced by a first time interval from each other and a second pilot symbol pair is spaced by a second time interval from the first pair, the second interval being greater than the first. In a frequency domain, a first set of pilot symbols is densely placed in a selected frequency band and a second set of pilot symbols is sparsely placed surrounding and including the selected frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Jiang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Huilin Xu, Naga Bhushan, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Peter Pui Lok Ang, John Edward Smee
  • Patent number: 10931483
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be used in a base station and/or user equipment (UE) to support or otherwise provide device-to-device (D2D) communication in a shared radio frequency spectrum between candidate UEs. For example, a base station may determine that a first UE and a second UE are candidates for D2D communication, and provide and indicate that a Grant-free Uplink (GUL) resource allocation for D2D communication between the first and second UEs. The base station may further monitor the D2D communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li, Chong Li, Hua Wang
  • Patent number: 10932181
    Abstract: A method and device for discovering a WiFi display service in a Wi-Fi direct (WFD) network, the method includes: generating a service discovery request frame for discovering a service supported by a second WFD device in the WFD network; transmitting the service discovery request frame to the second WFD device; and receiving a service discovery response frame from the second WFD device in response to the service discovery request frame, wherein the service discovery request frame and the service discovery response frame are generated by using a generic advertising service (GAS) initial request frame of 802.11u and a GAS initial response frame of 802.11u, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lochan Verma, Ii-ju Na
  • Patent number: 10925108
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging a 5G communication system, which is provided to support a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. The embodiment of the disclosure relates to an uplink data retransmission method. In addition, the embodiment of the disclosure relates to a method for adjusting time synchronization of an uplink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyuk Jang, Seungri Jin, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 10904904
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a terminal device for controlling override of a configured grant associated with a first radio resource. The method includes: receiving from a network device a dynamic grant associated with a second radio resource; and determining whether the dynamic grant is to override the configured grant based on whether the first radio resource and the second radio resource at least partially overlap in both time domain and frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jinhua Liu, Min Wang