Patents Examined by Shah M Rahman
  • Patent number: 11329906
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Mehul Rajeshbhai Dalal
  • Patent number: 11317362
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: University of Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Fangzhou Wu, Li Chen, Xiaohui Chen, Weidong Wang
  • Patent number: 11310783
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas David Novlan, Boon Loong Ng, Young Han Nam, Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11310009
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11309998
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Liwen Chu, Hongyuan Zhang, Sudhir Srinivasa, Huiling Lou
  • Patent number: 11303395
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunli Liang, Shuqiang Xia, Jing Shi, Xianghui Han
  • Patent number: 11296762
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Sartori, Vipul Desai, George Calcev, Anthony C. K. Soong, Jialing Liu, Qian Cheng, Weimin Xiao
  • Patent number: 11296946
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fuencisla Garcia Azorero, Susana Fernandez Alonso, Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos
  • Patent number: 11291018
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 11291031
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Duckhyun Bae, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang, Ilmu Byun
  • Patent number: 11290903
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SiTune Corporation
    Inventors: Mahdi Khoshgard, Marzieh Veyseh, Vahid M Toosi
  • Patent number: 11290246
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Song, Xin Su
  • Patent number: 11284468
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gunnar Mildh, Icaro L. J. da Silva, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 11272538
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yajun Zhao, Hanqing Xu, Xincai Li, Ling Yang
  • Patent number: 11271668
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rixin Li, Zhigang Zhu, Min Zha, Haizhou Xiang, Yuchun Lu
  • Patent number: 11259285
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ravi Gidvani, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian
  • Patent number: 11259212
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
    Inventors: David J. Montsma, Erhard G. Trudrung, Paul J. Powers, Marc A. Nesheim
  • Patent number: 11251923
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Renqiu Wang, Yi Huang, Seyong Park, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11252106
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Israel Cidon, Prashanth Venugopal, Aran Bergman, Chen Dar, Alex Markuze, Eyal Zohar
  • Patent number: 11252733
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Yunjung Yi