Patents Examined by Paul H Masur
  • Patent number: 10595335
    Abstract: A scheduling method for a communication network supporting an unlicensed band is disclosed. An operation method of UE comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, an unlicensed band burst including a plurality of subframes in an unlicensed band; acquiring control information from the unlicensed band burst; and acquiring data from the unlicensed band burst on the basis of the control information. Therefore, the performance of the communication network can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hoi Yoon Jung, Jung Sun Um, Sung Jin Yoo, Seung Keun Park
  • Patent number: 10595306
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving a RRC message including a first parameter related to a maximum number of scheduling request transmission for a secondary cell, performing a scheduling request procedure based on the first parameter, and transmitting a scheduling request on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) on the secondary cell. The RRC message further includes a second parameter related to a maximum number of scheduling request transmission for a primary cell and the scheduling request procedure is performed further based on the second parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Katsunari Uemura, Yasuyuki Kato, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 10595317
    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: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid
  • Patent number: 10587519
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a Clos network load balancing method and apparatus. In certain embodiments, the method includes receiving, by a first switch, a first packet and determining, by the first switch, a third switch. The third switch is a switch in a second group of switches. The method includes performing, by the first switch, tunnel encapsulation on the first packet, a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address in a tunnel-encapsulated IP header being an IP address of a second switch. The method includes performing, by the first switch, Internet Protocol in Internet Protocol (IP-in-IP) encapsulation on the tunnel-encapsulated first packet and sending, by the first switch, the IP-in-IP encapsulated first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Shen, Chuang Wang, Nongda Hu, Hewen Zheng, Jinfeng Yan
  • Patent number: 10588082
    Abstract: A wireless communication system that enables a wireless terminal to perform communication using a plurality of component carriers having different frequencies. The wireless communication system monitors a communication state of each of the component carriers allocated to the wireless terminal; distributes, to the component carriers, data to be transmitted, based on the communication state of each of the component carriers; starts a reception operation at a predetermined timing in a non-reception period of a second cycle during a discontinuous reception operation at the second cycle in some of the component carriers allocated to the wireless terminal, and performs the reception operation a predetermined number of times, the second cycle being longer than a first cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamada, Akira Kamei, Masahiro Serizawa, Hotaka Sugano, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Patent number: 10588104
    Abstract: A device synchronization method in D2D communication implements synchronization between devices. One such method includes receiving first device-to-device (D2D) synchronization information sent by a first device in a D2D communication, including a secondary D2D synchronization signal (SD2DSS). The method further includes determining a synchronization source identifier and a forwarding hop count according to preset correspondences between the SD2DSS and the synchronization source identifier and between the SD2DSS and the forwarding hop count. A synchronization source which corresponds to the synchronization source identifier is synchronized with. The forwarding hop count in the first D2D synchronization information is updated in response to determining that the forwarding hop count in the first D2D synchronization information is less than a set threshold, to obtain second D2D synchronization information, and the second D2D synchronization information is sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chao Li
  • Patent number: 10587383
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for allocating resources for a machine type communication user equipment (MTC UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station indicates a transport block size (TBS) directly, adapts a code rate according to repetition numbers across multiple subframes in a MTC physical downlink shared channel (M-PDSCH) for the MTC UE, and allocates resources for the M-PDSCH by using the indicated transport block size and the adapted code rate. The TBS may be determined based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Hyangsun You, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10582520
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently scheduling simultaneous uplink transmissions of a plurality of terminals. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal, the terminal including: a transceiver; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: generate an uplink packet, wherein a predetermined field of a MAC header of the uplink packet indicates information on uplink data of the terminal, and transmit the generated uplink packet to a base wireless communication terminal, and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Yongho Kim, Jinsam Kwak, Juhyung Son
  • Patent number: 10582481
    Abstract: A terminal device (UE) includes a reception unit configured to monitor multiple enhanced physical downlink control channels (EPDCCHs) on a Secondary cell. In a case that the Secondary cell is a licensed assisted access Secondary cell and a higher layer parameter of the Secondary cell indicates that a starting position of downlink transmission is either a Subframe boundary or a slot boundary, the terminal device is configured to monitor both a first set of UE-specific search space candidates in a first EPDCCH and a second set of UE-specific search space candidates in a second EPDCCH, in a subframe. A starting symbol for the first EPDCCH is specified by an index in a first slot in the subframe. A starting symbol for the second EPDCCH is specified by the index in a second slot in the subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Patent number: 10581742
    Abstract: A congestion control method includes obtaining, by a first network node, a current queue buffer status of each of N second network nodes, combining, by the first network node, current queue buffer statuses of the N second network nodes and a current queue buffer status of the first network node into a state vector, updating, by the first network node, the current queue buffer status of the first network node according to the state vector and a coupling vector; and repeating all the above steps till an absolute value of a difference between each of the queue buffer statuses of the N second network nodes and the queue buffer status of the first network node is less than or equal to a preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Liang, Gong Zhang, Guanrong Chen
  • Patent number: 10575281
    Abstract: A method and device for narrowband allocation, and a method and device for acquiring narrowband allocation are provided. In the method, at least one narrowband is allocated to a User Equipment (UE), and at least one Physical Resource Block (PRB) contained in each of the at least one narrowband is not overlapped, or at least one PRB contained in part or all of the at least one narrowband is partially overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Zhang, Shuqiang Xia, Bo Dai, Jing Shi
  • Patent number: 10575201
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A control method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 10555292
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for processing an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH), a network-side device, and a user equipment. The method includes: notifying a user equipment (UE) of M physical resource block (PRB) sets used for EPDCCH transmission and N reference signal (RS) configurations used for EPDCCH downlink control information (DCI) rate matching and/or EPDCCH resource mapping, and notifying the UE of correspondence between the M PRB sets and the N RS configurations, where N is a positive integer greater than 1, and M is a positive integer; and performing the EPDCCH DCI rate matching and/or the EPDCCH resource mapping according to the correspondence between the M PRB sets and the N RS configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongfeng Li, Zhenfei Tang, Jianmin Lu, Ke Wang
  • Patent number: 10555290
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for wireless communications. Cells may be grouped into a plurality of cell groups. 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: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 10554567
    Abstract: A route processing method, a device, and a system, where the method includes obtaining, by a first network device, a flow effective time parameter and a route related to the flow effective time parameter, processing, by the first network device in the specified time interval, service traffic corresponding to the route related to the flow effective time parameter, generating a route control message, where the route control message carries the flow effective time parameter and the route, and sending, by the first network device, the route control message to a second network device. Therefore, limited-time effective information is automatically disseminated, a limited-time effective requirement for a traffic control policy is met, configuration workload is reduced, and maintenance difficulty is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiandeng Liang, Shunwan Zhuang, Jianjie You
  • Patent number: 10523380
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a user equipment, an access network device, and a feedback information sending and receiving method. The user equipment includes: a processor, configured to: determine an uplink subframe used for sending feedback information, and determine a channel resource, where a first downlink subframe set associated with the uplink subframe includes a first subset and a second subset, the first subset includes at least two downlink subframes, and the first subset is a proper subset of the second subset; and a transmitter, configured to send the feedback information on the channel resource in the uplink subframe by using a channel format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lei Guan
  • Patent number: 10524234
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an uplink data packet transmission method. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a CP length of a first uplink data frame; if the terminal device is in a state of out of uplink synchronization with a base station and in an RRC connected state, or is in an RRC idle state, generating the first uplink data frame for an uplink data packet according to the CP length and sending the first uplink data frame to the base station. The CP length is greater than a CP length of an uplink data frame sent by a terminal device that is in a state of uplink synchronization and in an RRC connected state. Therefore, signaling procedures such as random access and uplink synchronization can be omitted, so that the terminal device can directly send the uplink data packet by performing signaling exchange once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaijie Zhou, Tianle Deng, Xinzheng Wang, Xingxing Hu
  • Patent number: 10516627
    Abstract: Frame injection apparatus for injecting frames from a host device into a switched Ethernet network comprises a frame memory operable to receive and store one host frame at a time and to inject the frame onto the Ethernet switched network between network frames and to buffer network frames received during the time that the host frame is being injected onto the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: INNOVASIC, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew David Alsup
  • Patent number: 10516450
    Abstract: A method, system, and device for transmitting coding instruction information, for use in solving the problem as current codebooks are designed for horizontal beamforming/pre-coding, direct application of the codebooks to a three-dimensional beamforming/pre-coding technology causes performance degradation. The method of embodiments of the present invention comprises: a user equipment determines and transmits to a network side first pre-coding instruction information and second pre-coding instruction information, where a first component pre-coding matrix is a block diagonal matrix, a submatrix on the diagonal is equal to the Kronecker product of two matrices, a second component pre-coding matrix is constituted by a weighted column selection vector, with the exception of a P-number of nonzero elements, the remainder of the weighted column selection vector is all zeros, and P is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Qiubin Gao
  • Patent number: 10506035
    Abstract: Provided are a connection method and apparatus for smart home devices. A method for connecting a user equipment to smart home devices may include: identifying, when a connection request for a smart home device is detected, reception of a first broadcast message conforming to a first communication mode; checking, upon reception of the first broadcast message, whether the first broadcast message contains information indicating support of a smart home function conforming to the first communication mode; and making a connection to the smart home device in conformance to the first communication mode or a second communication mode on the basis of the checking result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Junhyung Kim, Dongkeon Kong, Sehoon Kim, Jaiick Chun, Yumi Sohn, Kangjin Yoon