Patents Examined by Stephen M. D'Agosta
  • Patent number: 12010527
    Abstract: A beam indication device and method, the method including receiving first information from a network device, where the first information is used to determine at least one of a first receive beam for a downlink signal or a first transmit beam for an uplink signal, and determining the at least one of the first receive beam for the downlink signal or the first transmit beam for the uplink signal based on the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hua Shao, Ziming Yu, Huang Huang
  • Patent number: 12003671
    Abstract: Voicemail spam detection is performed based on content of voicemail messages. The content of an incoming voicemail message is compared to a spam template that includes a representation of a spam voicemail. Spam templates may be generated based on spam indications provided by users for voicemail messages they have received. User indications for sufficiently similar voicemail messages may be aggregated by maintaining a vote count for a spam template that reflects how many times a user has indicated a matching voicemail message is spam. A spam template may also include an occurrence count that reflects how many times voicemail messages matching a spam template have been detected in a telephony system. An incoming voicemail message may be compared to spam templates and, responsive to a match of content and/or a corresponding vote count or occurrence count meeting a condition, the voicemail message may be identified as spam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Melinda Min Xiao-Devins, Haifeng Geng, Mengxiao Qian, Fengcai Sun, Hui Wen
  • Patent number: 12003996
    Abstract: A measurement method includes: determining a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) used for radio resource management (RRM) measurement; and performing RRM measurement according to the DMRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11997538
    Abstract: A communication method enables a base station to allocate a radio resource to a data packet of a time sensitive networking (TSN) network in a scenario in which the TSN network transmits the data packet through a 5G network. The method includes: obtaining, by an access network device, a first traffic pattern, and allocating a radio resource to a first traffic based on the first traffic pattern. The first traffic pattern includes time information of the first traffic with respect to a first clock. The first clock is a clock used by a first network. The access network device belongs to the first network. The time information includes a time point and/or a period at/in which a data packet of the first traffic arrives at the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qufang Huang, Qiang Fan
  • Patent number: 11991673
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: receive (1302) a resource configuration for a first cell group link; receive (1304) a resource configuration for a second cell group link; determine (1306) a mode of operation; and determine a resource type for the first cell group link or the second cell group link based on the resource configuration for the first cell group link, the resource configuration for the second cell group link and the mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Esa Tiirola, Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu, Ilkka Keskitalo, Juha Korhonen
  • Patent number: 11985634
    Abstract: A sidelink resource configuration method includes: configuring or pre-configuring a sidelink resource pool for a user equipment (UE) to perform sidelink communications using a resource in the sidelink resource pool; where the sidelink resource pool uses a second time slot as granularity and includes resource blocks; and where a length of the second time slot is determined according to a second time-frequency parameter for defining the sidelink resource pool, the second time slot is determined by mapping from a first time slot included in a set of alternative resources according to a conversion relationship between the second time-frequency parameter and a first time-frequency parameter used by the set of alternative resources, and a length of the first time slot is determined according to the first time-frequency parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Weimin Xing, Youxiong Lu
  • Patent number: 11973710
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resource configuration method and a device. The method includes: sending configuration information to a terminal device, where the configuration information is used to configure a target SRS resource in M SRS resource sets, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ang Yang, Peng Sun, Yu Yang
  • Patent number: 11974295
    Abstract: A communication system is presented in which a base station is provided for communicating with a plurality of mobile communication devices in a cellular communication system. The base station operates one of more communication cells and communicates subframes, with each of the plurality of communication devices within the cell(s), each comprising the communication resources of a control region for communicating a control channel and the communication resources of a data region for communicating a respective data channel. The base station communicates a control channel having a first DMRS sequence in a control region of some subframes and a control channel having a second DMRS sequence in a control region of other subframes. The second control channel may be transmitted in a radio beam focused spatially in a direction of a communication device. The first control channel may be transmitted omnidirectionally throughout the cell(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Yasushi Maruta, Toshifumi Sato
  • Patent number: 11963007
    Abstract: Example embodiments include a method for receiving, at a user device from a home access point, a first digital certificate for a residential wireless roaming mode, wherein the residential wireless roaming mode provides the user device remote access to a wireless local area network corresponding to the home access point, and wherein the first digital certificate is issued by a certificate authority of a service provider associated with the home access point; transmitting at least one probe request message to at least one public access point, wherein the probe request message includes at least the first digital certificate; receiving from the at least one public access point a probe response message including information for remotely accessing the wireless local area network via a virtual private network connection established between the public access point and the home access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Gino Dion, Randall B. Sharpe
  • Patent number: 11963228
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, specifically, to a method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: performing a RACH procedure for an initial access; receiving, from a base station, information about an A/N feedback scheme on the basis of the RACH procedure; and performing the A/N feedback procedure on the basis of the information about the A/N feedback scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 11956720
    Abstract: System, method and computer-readable storage medium including a first communications device including a host processor to wake up upon receipt of a message and stream audio directly to another device via wireless communication, a second communications device including circuitry to control the streaming of the audio by sending messages to the first communications device and to control a display. The host processor of the first communications device enters a sleep state during audio streaming while a state of the display is off. Reduction in the number of messages sent by the second communications device, or offloading of message handling by the host processor, allows the host processor to remain in a sleep state for longer periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Raghavendra Ramappa, Ravi Nagarajan, Avish Vijaykumar Shah
  • Patent number: 11950281
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of transmitting data, including monitoring a data transmission of a first base station in a preset license before talk (LBT) time-frequency region in at least one fixed frame period (FFP). The preset LBT time-frequency region includes at least one time-frequency sub-region. The method can further include determining FFP transmission mode information of the first base station based on a monitoring result on each time-frequency sub-region in the preset LBT time-frequency region in each FFP, and determining an FFP transmission mode of the first base station based on the FFP transmission mode information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Juejia Zhou
  • Patent number: 11950266
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for supporting wireless access network service request capability in a user equipment (UE) device that is operable in wide area cellular network (WACN) bands as well as in wireless access network bands (e.g., GAN bands and/or UMA bands). The UE device includes capability for gaining Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity with a wireless access network node (e.g., a GAN controller (GANC) or UMA network controller (UNC)). Thereafter, the UE device is operable to initiate a registration request message towards the wireless access network node, wherein the registration request message includes at least one information element pertaining to wireless access network services required by the UE device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Buckley, George Baldwin Bumiller, Paul Marcus Carpenter
  • Patent number: 11943738
    Abstract: In an aspect, a position estimation entity (e.g., LMF) determines at least one shared requirement (e.g., a timing requirement, an RF chain requirement, etc.) for both of a first differential timing (DT) procedure of a double differential timing (DDT) procedure (e.g., TDOA-based or RTT-based) and a second DT procedure of the DDT procedure, the first DT procedure based on timing measurements between a target user equipment (UE) and first and second wireless nodes, and the second DT procedure based on timing measurements between a reference wireless node and the first and second wireless nodes, and transmits, to at least the target UE and the reference wireless node, requests to perform the DDT procedure along with an indication of the at least one shared requirement for the DDT procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11943017
    Abstract: This application discloses a precoding method and apparatus, and an information transmission method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to help improve overall performance of a plurality of data streams corresponding to a same codeword. The precoding method includes: decomposing a channel matrix into a product of a matrix Q, a matrix R, and a matrix PH, where the matrix PH is a conjugate transpose matrix of a matrix P, both the matrix Q and the matrix P are unitary matrices, and the matrix R is an upper triangular matrix; and precoding to-be-sent data based on the matrix P.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Xia, Zhenbing Zhang, Yun Liu, Lu Guan
  • Patent number: 11943681
    Abstract: The invention relates to a human mobility measuring method comprising a structuring step where CDR raw metadata is filtered so as to identify a device identification, a cell site identification, a date, and a time; a data frame generating and sorting step where the filtered CDR metadata is sorted and the filtered sorted CDR metadata are projected into an occupancy grid comprising a location vs. time-bin matrix, a probabilistic map generating step of a device's location in space and time, and a filtering step to accurately represent human mobility from patterns that reflect errors, uncertainties, or patterns not related with real human mobility. The method further comprises a gap filling process allowing for a continuous localization of the device by extrapolating any trajectory in space and time of any device and a projecting step comprising projecting the trajectories defined at a Voronoi grid defined by the sites and towers to the road and street grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KIDO DYNAMICS SA
    Inventors: Alberto Hernando De Castro, David Mateo
  • Patent number: 11937203
    Abstract: A signal transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: a location management device receives first SRS resource configuration information from a serving cell and/or a neighboring cell. The location management device sends second SRS resource configuration information to a terminal device, where the second SRS resource configuration information includes third SRS resource configuration information and a downlink reference signal associated with an SRS resource indicated by the third SRS resource configuration information, and the third SRS resource configuration information is a part or all of the first SRS resource configuration information. The location management device configures the SRS resource for the terminal device, so that the SRS resource can be associated with the downlink reference signal. This helps the terminal device obtain information about a transmission beam for sending an SRS, and therefore SRS receiving efficiency of the cell can be improved to some extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Huang, Lei Chen, Keyvan Zarifi
  • Patent number: 11936572
    Abstract: A carrier aggregation system includes a TDD carrier and an FDD carrier, and a method for the carrier aggregation system includes: a terminal device receives downlink information by using a secondary component carrier; and the terminal device sends feedback information for the downlink information by using a primary component carrier. When the primary component carrier or the secondary component carrier is a TDD carrier, at least one first subframe that includes P consecutive sTTIs exists in the TDD carrier, and at least one sTTI that occupies two OFDM symbols exists in the P consecutive sTTIs, where P is an integer greater than 1. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a corresponding terminal device and network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaoyi Yan, Zezhou Luo
  • Patent number: 11921522
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to sub-meter level navigation accuracy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using broadband communication signals, such as cellular long-term evolution (LTE) signals. A framework and methods are provided using a receiver and controller to produce at least one of carrier phase, code phase, and Doppler frequency measurements from received LTE signals. Single difference measurements may be used to remove clock bias. LTE ENodeB clock biases are initialized using the known initial position of the UAV. The measurements are fused via an extended Kalman filter (EKF) to estimate the UAV position and integer ambiguities of the carrier phase single difference measurements. LTE signals can have different carrier frequencies and conventional algorithms do not estimate the integer ambiguities. Processes are described to detect cycle slip, where the carrier phase measurements from the LTE eNodeB multiple antenna ports are used to detect cycle slip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Zak Kassas, Kimia Shamaei
  • Patent number: 11889318
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide reliable voice connections dual-connectivity environments, given limitations of available spectrum. A system includes a first wireless station and a second wireless station. The first wireless station provides a shared spectrum of a first frequency band, the shared spectrum including a first spectrum for a first cellular wireless standard and a second spectrum for a second cellular wireless standard. The second wireless station is at least partially within a coverage area of the first wireless station and provides a third spectrum for the second cellular wireless standard. The third spectrum is a millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The first wireless station broadcasts a parameter barring an end device in an idle mode from camping on the second spectrum. The first wireless station or the second wireless station triggers the end device to swap to the second spectrum when a paging request for a voice call is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Ratul Kumar Guha, Jignesh S. Panchal, Balaji L. Raghavachari, Niranjan B. Avula, Timothy M. Dwight, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Imtiyaz Shaikh, Kalyani Bogineni, Andrew E. Youtz, Xin Wang, Sagiv Draznin