Patents Examined by Shah M Rahman
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Patent number: 11329906Abstract: A handheld maintenance tool operates to detect the existence of a fault in a communication line or bus, including detecting short circuit or other low impedance faults, open circuit or other high impedance faults, etc. Additionally, the handheld maintenance tool may operate to detect an approximate location of a fault within the communication line with respect to the handheld device, to thereby enable an operator or maintenance person to more easily find and repair a detected fault.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Mehul Rajeshbhai Dalal
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Patent number: 11317362Abstract: A wireless sensor network deployment structure combined with SFFT and COA and a frequency spectrum reconstruction method therefor. The wireless sensor network deployment structure includes: frequency spectrum acquisition sensor nodes dispersed in each region, and a sink node, wherein all the frequency spectrum acquisition sensor nodes have the same structure, and include: a broadband frequency spectrum antenna, a delayer, an ADC, a first baseband processing module, a DAC and a transmitting antenna that are successively connected; all the frequency spectrum acquisition sensor nodes are cooperated to realize SFFT and COA of signals; the signals transmitted by all the frequency spectrum acquisition sensor nodes are superimposed over the air and received by the sink node; and the sink node extracts a data domain from a received signal frame by post-processing, thereby completing frequency spectrum reconstruction.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: University of Science and Technology of ChinaInventors: Fangzhou Wu, Li Chen, Xiaohui Chen, Weidong Wang
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Patent number: 11310783Abstract: A method includes configuring one or multiple pools of Device-to-Device (D2D) communication resources by an eNodeB (eNB), signaling of the configured pool(s) of D2D communication resources by the eNB to a first User Equipment (UE) and a plurality of UEs using a common broadcast channel; sending a request for one or multiple D2D communication resources to an eNB by the first UE configured to transmit D2D messages; determining one or multiple resources for D2D communication by an eNB for the first UE; communicating D2D resource allocation information to the first UE; communicating D2D resource allocation information by the first UE to multiple UEs; and transmitting D2D data by the first UE to multiple UEs. Methods for configuring and signaling D2D communication resources by relay or out-of-coverage UEs are also considered.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Thomas David Novlan, Boon Loong Ng, Young Han Nam, Aris Papasakellariou
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Patent number: 11310009Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques associated with the acquisition of reference signals. In some aspects, a network may request a user equipment (UE) to measure a timing difference between neighbor cells and use that information to generate a CSI-RS configuration. The network sends the CSI-RS configuration to the UE to enable the UE to acquire a CSI-RS from a neighbor cell. In some aspects, a network may send timing-related information to a neighbor cell and the neighbor cell uses that information to transmit a CSI-RS.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Alexandros Manolakos
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Patent number: 11309998Abstract: A first communication device generates and transmits a first physical layer (PHY) data unit as part of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) session, the first PHY data unit having a first plurality of media access control (MAC) protocol data units (MPDUs) including a first MPDU. The first communication device determines that a second communication device did not acknowledge successfully receiving the first MPDU. The first communication device generates and transmits a second PHY data unit as part of the HARQ session, the second PHY data unit having a second plurality of MPDUs, the second plurality of MPDUs including the first MPDU.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: NXP USA, INC.Inventors: Yakun Sun, Liwen Chu, Hongyuan Zhang, Sudhir Srinivasa, Huiling Lou
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Patent number: 11303395Abstract: Disclosed are an uplink control information sending method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method comprises: with respect to a terminal supporting P minimum HARQ timings, determining a downlink subframe set S(n) corresponding to the P minimum HARQ timings, wherein S(n) is a union set of all sets ?(n,Ki); and the terminal sending, on an uplink subframe n, the set S(n) or a HARQ-ACK corresponding to transmission data in the downlink subframe set ?(n,Ki).Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Chunli Liang, Shuqiang Xia, Jing Shi, Xianghui Han
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Patent number: 11296762Abstract: A method for providing user equipment access to millimeter wave stations through a microwave station includes receiving an indication of millimeter wave stations operating within a microwave coverage area of a microwave station. In a microwave band, information associated with the millimeter wave stations is broadcasted to user equipment in the microwave coverage area. A request is sent to the millimeter wave stations to transmit configuration signals over a microwave band. An instruction is transmitted over the microwave band to the user equipment to perform proximity measurements of the configuration signals. According to the proximity measurements, a request is sent to a particular millimeter wave station to transmit beamforming signals over a millimeter wave band. An instruction is transmitted over the microwave band to the user equipment to perform beamforming measurements of the beamforming signals. According to the beamforming measurements, the user equipment is switched to millimeter wave operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philippe Sartori, Vipul Desai, George Calcev, Anthony C. K. Soong, Jialing Liu, Qian Cheng, Weimin Xiao
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Patent number: 11296946Abstract: Methods, a policy server (110) and a traffic steering server (120) for managing traffic steering policies for steering of traffic of a user equipment are disclosed. The policy server (110) generates (A020) a policy request, wherein the policy request comprises the traffic steering policies, wherein the traffic steering policies include a first traffic steering policy and a second traffic steering policy, both the first and second traffic steering policies being applicable to the traffic in one direction with respect to the user equipment. The policy server (110) sends (A030) the policy request to the traffic steering server (120). The traffic steering server (120) applies (A070) at least one of the first and second traffic steering policies to manage the traffic. Corresponding computer programs and computer program carriers are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Fuencisla Garcia Azorero, Susana Fernandez Alonso, Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos
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Patent number: 11291018Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters. The configuration parameters indicate: a mapping restriction indicating that a logical channel is mapped to an unlicensed resource type and a licensed resource type; and a prioritized bit rate of the logical channel. The wireless device receives: first uplink grants of the unlicensed resource type; and second uplink grants of the licensed resource type. First unlicensed resources within the first uplink grants are allocated to the logical channel. Second licensed resources within the second uplink grants are allocated to the logical channel based on a difference between the allocated first unlicensed resources and the prioritized bit rate of the logical channel. The wireless device transmits transport blocks corresponding to the first uplink grants and the second uplink grants.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Dinan
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Patent number: 11291031Abstract: A method for a terminal performing transmission using a grant-free resource in a wireless communication system is a method for transmitting/receiving a signal associated with a grant-free resource, the method comprising the steps of: generating uplink control information (UCI); and transmitting at least one among the generated UCI and data, wherein the transmission of at least one among the UCI and the data is dropped or delayed according to a correlation between the time point at which the UCI was generated and the position of the grant-free resource on a time axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Duckhyun Bae, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang, Ilmu Byun
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Patent number: 11290903Abstract: Approaches provide for determining spectral information for a communications signal, such as a wideband communications signal. For example, a communications signal (e.g., a wideband signal) is received at a set of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The output of the ADCs is divided into a set of segments. A center frequency for each segment is determined based on the segment bandwidth and a number of segments in the set. The segments can be filtered, buffered, and analyzed using at least one digital signal processing technique (e.g., Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) technique to generate a representation of the segments in the frequency domain. Thereafter, the spectrum of frequency components (i.e., the frequency-domain representation) of the segments can be used to determine the power spectral density of the communications signal for different resolutions based on a resolution mode of the system or other criteria of the system.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SiTune CorporationInventors: Mahdi Khoshgard, Marzieh Veyseh, Vahid M Toosi
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Patent number: 11290246Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) indication method, a terminal, and a base station. The method in the present invention comprises: a first terminal obtains transmission data flow quantity indication information of all scheduled terminals in at least one scheduling resource, or obtains resource element (RE) quantity indication information occupied by DMRSs corresponding to transmission flows of all the scheduled terminals in the at least one scheduling resource; and the first terminal determines, according to the obtained indication information, RE positions configured or occupied by the DMRSs corresponding to an interference data flow of the first terminal in the scheduling resources. By means of the present invention, DMRSs in transmission of multiple data flows can be indicated, and the present invention is particularly applicable to an MU-MIMO system of a large-scale antenna array.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang Song, Xin Su
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Patent number: 11284468Abstract: According to an aspect, a wireless device enters an RRC inactive state from a RRC connected state, in response to a message received from the wireless network. The wireless device subsequently transitions from the RRC inactive state to the RRC connected state and resumes one or more measurements according to one or more measurement configurations stored while the wireless device was in the RRC inactive state.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Gunnar Mildh, Icaro L. J. da Silva, Henning Wiemann
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Patent number: 11272538Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a system for transmitting information and a computer storage medium. The method for transmitting information in the embodiments of the present disclosure comprises: a base station acquiring a configured self-contained structure, the self-contained structure comprising a time-frequency resource structure; and the base station sending data information or receiving data information according to the self-contained structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yajun Zhao, Hanqing Xu, Xincai Li, Ling Yang
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Patent number: 11271668Abstract: A data transmission apparatus, a data transmission system, and a data transmission method for implementing flexible Ethernet (FlexE) data transmission in an upstream/downstream asymmetric manner includes obtaining a plurality of first data packets that come from different Media Access Control (MAC) clients, where the different MAC clients receive respective second data packets over respective second FlexE virtual links; and sending the plurality of first data packets to a transmit end of the second data packets over a first FlexE virtual link that corresponds to the different MAC clients.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Rixin Li, Zhigang Zhu, Min Zha, Haizhou Xiang, Yuchun Lu
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Patent number: 11259285Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for co-located Basic Service Sets (BSSs). A BSS refers to an access point (AP), wireless channel configuration, and associated stations (STAs). In one aspect, a wireless local area network (WLAN) apparatus may operate multiple virtual access points (VAPs) and multiple BSSs. The BSS may be considered co-located if they are implemented in the same physical device (such as a WLAN apparatus). Furthermore, the BSSs may be considered co-hosted if they share the same band and wireless channel, but independently signal different management frames. To aid STAs in learning about the co-located or co-hosted BSSs, the present disclosure provides techniques to advertise the co-located or co-hosted BSSs. Further improvements for co-hosted BSSs include the use of control frames that can aggregate information for more than one co-hosted BSS sharing a same wireless channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ravi Gidvani, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian
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Patent number: 11259212Abstract: A dynamic satellite load balancing system measures geographic position and travel information of in-flight aircraft in a fleet of aircraft equipped to establish in-flight connectivity services from a plurality of satellite beams. The in-flight aircraft include an on-board satellite map program with satellite map parameters to indicate which satellite beam of a group of available satellite beams is the most desirable based on the in-flight aircraft's geographic location. The system selects in-flight aircraft, determines load balanced satellite map parameters for the selected aircraft, and transmits the load balanced satellite map parameters to the aircraft to assemble load balanced satellite map programs to relieve wireless data communication saturation conditions on one or more of the satellite beams.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLCInventors: David J. Montsma, Erhard G. Trudrung, Paul J. Powers, Marc A. Nesheim
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Patent number: 11251923Abstract: Systems, methods, computer-readable medium, and apparatus are disclosed that allow for control information to be provided in an efficient manner during short burst transmission. For example, an apparatus may be configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) that indicates an allocated resource from a base station. The apparatus may also receive data from the base station. The apparatus may generate a cyclically shifted sequence that corresponds to a sequence that is cyclically shifted based on at least one of an ACK or NACK for the received data and a SR. The apparatus may then transmit the cyclically shifted sequence in the allocated resource within one symbol period of a slot of a subframe to the base station. Thus, by transmitting the SR and the ACK/NACK in one symbol, control information for short burst transmissions can be provided in a more temporally efficient manner without adding excessive complexity to the UE.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Renqiu Wang, Yi Huang, Seyong Park, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
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Patent number: 11252106Abstract: A method for deploying different virtual networks over several public cloud datacenters for different entities. For each entity, the method (1) identifies a set of public cloud datacenters of one or more public cloud providers to connect a set of machines of the entity, (2) deploys managed forwarding nodes (MFNs) for the entity in the identified set of public cloud datacenters, and then (3) configures the MFNs to implement a virtual network that connects the entity's set of machines across its identified set of public cloud datacenters. In some embodiments, the method identifies the set of public cloud datacenters for an entity by receiving input from the entity's network administrator. In some embodiments, this input specifies the public cloud providers to use and/or the public cloud regions in which the virtual network should be defined. Conjunctively, or alternatively, this input in some embodiments specifies actual public cloud datacenters to use.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: VMWARE, INC.Inventors: Israel Cidon, Prashanth Venugopal, Aran Bergman, Chen Dar, Alex Markuze, Eyal Zohar
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Patent number: 11252733Abstract: Provided are a method for receiving a signal in a control resource set (CORESET) of a wireless communication system and a user equipment (UE) using the method. The method includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) signal including a plurality of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, receiving a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) informing one of the plurality of TCI states and receiving a signal in the CORESET based on the one TCI state. When the CORESET is CORESET #0, the one TCI state is related with a reference signal associated with a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB).Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Yunjung Yi