Patents Examined by Robert C. Scheibel
  • Patent number: 11930401
    Abstract: A control device acquires information regarding a communication quality of a base station that performs a predetermined type of communication, and performs a control for moving a mobile base station to a position associated with the base station in a case where it is determined that the communication quality is lower than a predetermined communication quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Satoshi Onodera
  • Patent number: 11924697
    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 method performed by a first node is provided, comprising determining whether direct data forwarding between a third node and a second node is available, performing direct data forwarding if the direct data forwarding is available, otherwise, performing indirect data forwarding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, He Wang, Songhui Shen, Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 11924651
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a base station that supports self-configuration and self-optimization and a method thereof. A method performed by a target base station in a mobile communication system includes: receiving a radio link failure (RLF) report of a user equipment (UE) from a source base station or a third base station; detecting a reason for an occurrence of a failure based on the RLF report of the UE; and transmitting a message to the source base station based on the detected reason for the occurrence of the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Hong Wang, Weiwei Wang
  • Patent number: 11917540
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a target wake time (TWT) technique for multicast communication. For example, some embodiments relate to a method including configuring a target wake time (TWT) process for delivering one or more multicast packets to a group of electronic devices. The method further includes determining that a service period associated with the TWT process has started and transmitting, in accordance with the TWT process, the one or more multicast packets during the service period, where the one or more transmitted multicast packets are addressed to the group of electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jarkko L. Kneckt, Christiaan A. Hartman, Qi Wang, Su Khiong Yong, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 11917461
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, while camped on a first cell associated with a first radio access technology (RAT), a power management level for a communication using a second RAT, wherein the power management level indicates an available power for the communication using the second RAT, and wherein the available power is based at least in part on an exposure rate or an absorption rate. The UE may delay a transmission of a measurement report on the first cell based at least in part on the identification of the power management level. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Raghu Narayan Challa, Brian Clarke Banister, Troy Curtiss, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt, Ramesh Chandra Chirala, Lin Lu
  • Patent number: 11910313
    Abstract: A method for communicating over a WiFi channel. In some embodiments, the method includes determining, by a non-access point station, that a first skipping criterion is met; in response to determining that the first skipping criterion is met, skipping N1 target wait time service periods, N1 being a positive integer; after skipping N1 target wait time service periods, determining, by the non-access point station, whether a second skipping criterion is met; and in response to determining that the second skipping criterion is met, skipping N2 subsequent target wait time service periods, N2 being a positive integer greater than N1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md Majharul Islam Rajib, Tianyu Wu, Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • Patent number: 11882507
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for in-vehicle data-driven connectivity optimization in a network of moving things. An on-board unit configured for deployment in a vehicle may obtain, during operations in an area of the network of moving things, connectivity-related data relating to coverage within the area, and generate or update, based on processing of the obtained connectivity-related data, a networking decision model. The networking decision model is configured for optimizing connectivity to the one or more access points in or associated with the network of moving things. The networking decision model may be shared with other on-board units deployed in other vehicles and/or with a Cloud-based network node in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: VENIAM, INC.
    Inventors: Patricia Cristina Ramalho de Oliveira, Daniel Cardoso de Moura
  • Patent number: 11877297
    Abstract: A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, Sean Michael McBeath, Hua Xu, Yongkang Jia, Youn Hyoung Heo, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 11856444
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a mobile device, in particular a vehicle, or an application server, wherein the mobile device or the application server comprise: a processor, configured to: receive a notification from a network entity, in particular a base station, wherein the notification comprises information about available Quality of Service, QoS, and transmit a confirmation message to the network entity informing the network entity about an acceptance of the notified QoS. The disclosure further relates to a network entity, comprising: a network entity controller, configured to: transmit a notification to a mobile device, in particular a vehicle, or an application server, wherein the notification comprises information about available Quality of Service, QoS, and receive a confirmation message from the mobile device or the application server informing about an acceptance of the notified QoS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Apostolos Kousaridas, Karthikeyan Ganesan, Mate Boban, Malte Schellmann
  • Patent number: 11848811
    Abstract: A method performed by a base station may include transmitting a configuration message including at least information indicating a subset of a plurality of transmit beams to be used for transmitting a set of synchronization signals. The set of synchronization signals including a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal may be transmitted. A random access channel (RACH) transmission may be received using a receive beam associated with one of the subset of the plurality of transmit beams used by the base station to transmit the set of synchronization signals. The transmitted set of synchronization signals transmitted may have a signal quality above a signal quality threshold. A reference signal may be transmitted along with a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) transmission. The reference signal may have a sequence derived from a beam index associated with the one of the subset of the plurality of transmit beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Deng, Steven Ferrante, Ravikumar V. Pragada, Yugeswar Deenoo, Daniel R. Cohen, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Moon-il Lee, Mihaela C. Beluri
  • Patent number: 11811655
    Abstract: A network management method includes a controller receiving an underlay network identifier and a network segment identifier. The underlay network identifier and network segment identifier can be associated with entries in a forwarding information base and border gateway protocol speakers may be deployed in association with the entries. A virtual network can be associated with the underlay network and network traffic can be forwarded to the virtual network according to the entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yichen Wang, Ian Wells, Vasudevan Mahalingam
  • Patent number: 11805466
    Abstract: A method and a device for transmitting a message from a first node device to one or more node devices that are neighbours of the node device, the node devices belonging to an electrical supply network using powerline and radio communications. The first node device detects a disconnection of the electrical energy supply; the first node device checks in a routing table whether it is connected by a radio link to a neighbouring node device, if so, the first node device sends a unicast message by the radio link to the neighbouring node device indicating a disconnection of the electrical energy supply to the first node device, if not, the first node device sends a radio broadcast message indicating that a disconnection of the electrical energy supply is detected by the first node device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS
    Inventor: Kaveh Razazian
  • Patent number: 11800400
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a transmission processing method, a terminal, and a control node. The method includes: when first transmission collides with second transmission, performing collision processing on the first transmission and the second transmission according to a collision processing policy, where at least one of the first transmission and the second transmission is transmission performed based on a sidelink, and transmission modes of the first transmission and the second transmission are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zichao Ji, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11799614
    Abstract: A method, network node and wireless device for waveform selection are provided. A method includes selecting a waveform based on one of a modulation and coding scheme, MCS, a resource allocation, and transport block size, TBS, and transmitting using the selected waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Daniel Chen Larsson, Robert Baldemair, Jung-Fu Cheng, Ravikiran Nory, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 11792681
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving information for configuring a trigger condition that an integrated access and backhaul node reports load information of at least one integrated access and backhaul node; and reporting the load information of the at least one integrated access and backhaul node in the case that the trigger condition is met, wherein the load information includes a load status indicator of the integrated access and backhaul node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Lohr, Hongmei Liu, Haiming Wang, Jing Han
  • Patent number: 11785615
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive configuration information for a plurality of periodic resource allocations. A downlink control information (DCI) may be received comprising an indication of activation or release of at least one periodic resource allocation of the plurality of periodic resource allocations. After receiving the DCI, a medium access control (MAC) subheader comprising a logical channel identifier (LCID) that identifies a confirmation MAC control element may be sent. The confirmation MAC control element may comprise a plurality of fields, and at least one of the plurality of fields may indicate receipt of the indication of activation or release by using a same value to indicate either the activation or the release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11765700
    Abstract: A wireless terminal including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: communicate with a wireless base station using a wireless signal that is divided into sequential time segments, receive first information from the wireless base station, the first information including a length of a period for periodic wireless communication that is performed using the wireless signal, the length of the period being a specified number of time segments in the sequential time segments, and perform the periodic wireless communication with the wireless base station based on the first information, wherein the first information includes second information indicating at least one time segment within the period for the periodic wireless communication, the indicated at least one time segment in which a radio resource for the periodic wireless communication is allocated for the wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshihiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11758601
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may establish a first connection between a child wireless node and a first base station and a second connection between the child wireless node and a second base station, wherein the first connection is an F1-U direct path and the second connection is an F1-U alternative path. The wireless node may forward at least a portion of user-plane traffic between the child wireless node and the first base station via the second connection and the second base station. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Karl Georg Hampel, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11743825
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods directed to a user equipment (UE) limited-service mode for wireless communications. For a user equipment (UE) that is wirelessly communicating with a base station, a service-mode manager determines that a thermal, power, or battery condition local to the UE violates a threshold and causes the UE to transmit a message that indicates a request by the UE to enter a UE limited-service mode. The base station allocates a set of resources of the air interface to be used for wireless communications upon the UE entering the UE limited-service mode. The base station then transmits a message to the UE, directing the UE to enter the UE limited-service mode and wirelessly communicate with the base station using the allocated set of resources of the air interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 11736986
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE receives a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) message indicative of switching a Primary Cell (PCell) of the UE to a first cell, wherein the first RRC message is indicative of a first configuration of the first cell. The UE resets a Medium Access Control (MAC) entity associated with the PCell of the UE in response to receiving the first RRC message. The UE receives a second RRC message indicative of a second configuration of a second cell. The UE receives a signaling indicative of initiating a mobility procedure to switch the PCell of the UE to the second cell. The signaling includes a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signaling and/or a MAC Control Element (CE). The UE does not reset the MAC entity associated with the PCell of the UE in response to the mobility procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Hsuan Kung, Yu-Hsuan Guo