Patents Examined by Steven Hieu D Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11991641
    Abstract: Network-controlled power control for side-link communications is disclosed. According to the described aspects, a power control framework is defined for network-controlled side-band or device-to-device (D2D) communications, in which transmission power for side-link communications may be stepped up enough for a base station in a connected mode with at least one of multiple user equipment (UE) devices to detect side-link communications between the UEs in order to take responsive action to enhance the reliability of the communications. The base station provides the configuration information to the UEs which may be used when preparing for transmissions of side-link traffic and/or feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Piyush Gupta, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Hua Wang
  • Patent number: 11991006
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication base station apparatus whereby it is possible to prevent degradation of throughput of LTE terminals, even when LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals are present together. In this apparatus, a setting section (105) sets in each subframe a resource block in which is arranged a reference signal that is employed solely by LTE+ terminals, based on the pattern of arrangement of reference signals employed solely by LTE+ terminals. In the case of symbols that are mapped to antennas (110-1) to (110-4), an arrangement section (106) arranges the characteristic cell reference signals employed by both LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals in all of the resource blocks in a single frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 11979275
    Abstract: Systems and methods for admitting new nodes into an existing network, for example a MoCA network. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for adding a new node to an existing network without requiring on-site manual configuration, for example utilizing communication between the new node and a network coordinator of the existing network prior to admission of the new node to the existing network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yoav Hebron, Na Chen, Ronald Lee
  • Patent number: 11973902
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a solution that allows a PBX to utilize bridged mobile or desktop applications for collaboration and softphone use is provided. The solution works in conjunction with existing hardwired PBX devices without requiring additional hardware such as an edge router to be integrated with the PBX hardware. Incoming calls are able to ring a user's hardwired device, such as a desk phone at an office, while simultaneously ring mobile device or desktop applications (apps). App users can place outbound PSTN calls and dial PBX extensions just as if they were using their hardwired device. Additionally, PSTN services are utilized from the existing PBX rather than bypassing the existing PBX, which makes tracking and billing more straightforward. A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) tie trunk is used between the existing PBX and a software bridge controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Intermedia.net, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Klein, Maria Ruinskaya, Anatoly Kanashin, Douglas Christiansen
  • Patent number: 11973635
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting incidents in a local area network by way of an incident detection device, the incident detection device being connected to the local area network via a wide area network, a data collection agent collecting data describing the local area network. The device is able to detect various types of anomaly and receives messages from the collection agent, validates and aggregates data contained in each received message into groups of data, calculates a severity score for each group of data, for each type of anomaly and calculates a total severity score for each group of data, calculates a total criticality score from all of the total severity scores, and generates recommendation messages or corrective actions at least on the basis of the total criticality score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS
    Inventors: Elyes Ben Hamida, Maxime Parolini
  • Patent number: 11968714
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for clear channel assessment (CCA) enabled narrowband (NB) communications. In some implementations, a device is configured to associate with an NB channel (such as a Bluetooth channel), perform a CCA to assess whether the NB channel is clear, and transmit on the NB channel when clear. If the NB channel is not clear, the device may prevent transmitting on the NB channel. The device may prevent avoiding the NB channel after the first time that the NB channel is not clear. If the NB channel remains not clear (such as over a number of CCAs for the NB channel), the device may avoid the NB channel by removing the NB channel for FH for an amount of time. In some implementations, the device may be configured to perform frame based equipment (FBE) CCAs for one or more NB channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Maarten Menzo Wentink, Marco Papaleo, Robin Heydon, Magnus Sigverth Sommansson
  • Patent number: 11956829
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes repeatedly transmitting, from a mobile device to a communication node, a first message using increasing power levels for initiating a two-step random-access procedure until a termination condition is met. The first message includes a payload part and optionally a preamble sequence. The termination condition includes (1) the mobile device receives an indication from the communication node that the payload part was received successfully, or (2) a number of repeated transmissions reaches a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 11949511
    Abstract: A first node receives a first signaling; receives a second signaling; and transmits a first bit block in a target radio resource block. A first sub-bit-block and a second sub-bit-block are used to generate the first bit block, the first sub-bit-block being associated with the first signaling, and the second sub-bit-block being associated with the second signaling; the second signaling is used to indicate the target radio resource block from a target radio resource block set, the target radio resource block being a radio resource block comprised in the target radio resource block set; size of the second sub-bit-block is used to determine a reference radio resource block set; the second signaling is used to indicate a first index, and the first index is used jointly with the reference radio resource block set to determine the target radio resource block set, the first index being an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Lu Wu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943005
    Abstract: A transmitter transmits a first signal via a first cable at a first baud rate. A receiver receives a second signal via the first cable concurrently with transmitting the first signal via the first cable. The second signal is transmitted by another device at a second baud. rate that is lower than both i) the first baud rate and ii) a third baud rate at which a third signal is being transmitted in a second cable that causes crosstalk in the second signal being received via the first cable. Reception of the second signal at the second baud rate that is lower than the third baud rate facilitates mitigation of the crosstalk in the second signal caused by transmission of the third signal in the second cable at the third baud rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard, Ragnar Hlynur Jonsson, David Shen
  • Patent number: 11943780
    Abstract: A physical downlink control channel detection method includes: sending, by a terminal device, control information to a network device; and determining, by the terminal device, a Search Space (SS) based on the control information, where the SS is used for the terminal device to detect a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 11943003
    Abstract: A scheme for identifying wireless devices by capturing out-of-band information in addition to in-band information from wireless devices for enabling accurate classification of wireless devices. Both the in-band and out-of-band spectrum emissions of the received signal are used to capture hardware signatures and features. These hardware signatures are used to discriminate different wireless devices uniquely and efficiently, even when the devices have the same hardware with significantly reduced distortions. The out-of-band information can be extracted using radios with software defined capabilities. Deep learning-based device classification technique is applied that uses IQ samples collected from the RF signals to efficiently identify and classify high-performing transmitters that have the same, minimally distorted hardware components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Oregon State University
    Inventors: Abdurrahman Elmaghbub, Bechir Hamdaoui
  • Patent number: 11930454
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for generating an STF signal usable in a wireless LAN system. The STF signal is included in a field used to improve AGC estimation of a MIMO transmission. A portion of the STF signal is used to transmit an uplink, and can be used for uplink MU PPDUs transmitted from a plurality of STAs. The STF signal that is disclosed, for example, is used for a 40 MHz band or an 80 MHz band, is desirably usable for the 40 MHz band, and can be generated based on a sequence in which a predetermined M sequence is repeated. The predetermined M sequence can be a binary sequence of which the length is 15 bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eunsung Park, Jinsoo Choi, Hangyu Cho
  • Patent number: 11924659
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may be configured to monitor a set of beams, and may request an update to a monitoring configuration based on a position of the UE, an orientation of the UE, a rate of change of the position or orientation, or any combinations thereof. In some cases, the position or orientation information of the UE may include information for a current time period, predictive information for one or more future time periods, other information, or any combinations thereof. The UE may transmit a beam monitoring request to a base station for an updated monitoring configuration, such as a subset of a set of configured beams or an identified scan angle to be monitored by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Yan Zhou, Wanshi Chen, Wooseok Nam, Jelena Damnjanovic, Ozcan Ozturk, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11917671
    Abstract: A station (STA) may include an antenna and a processor operatively coupled to the antenna. The processor and the antenna may be configured to send, to an access point (AP), a first message including an indication of one or more secondary channels in an operating band. The operating band may include a primary channel and the one or more secondary channels. The processor and the antenna may be further configured to receive, from the AP, a second message including an indication of a channel of the one or more secondary channels to use in a scheduled transmission period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofei Wang, Guodong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11902869
    Abstract: A communication device may execute a wireless communication of object data with a mobile device via a first target network using a second type of interface after executing a sending process of sending a wireless setting, for causing the mobile device to belong to the first target network, to the mobile device using a first type of interface in a case where the communication device is determined as currently belonging to the first target network. The communication device may execute the wireless communication of the object data with the mobile device via a second target network using the second type of interface after executing a specific process of causing both the communication device and the mobile device to belong to the second target network in a case where the communication device is determined as currently not belonging to the target network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takanobu Suzuki, Hirotaka Asakura, Munehisa Matsuda, Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11888698
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product to manage a network comprising a plurality of interconnected components are described. The method includes obtaining a set of all the components that are part of the network over time, and identifying one or more repeating patterns of components among the set of all the components as corresponding lower-level definitions to generate a hierarchical set of all the components. The method also includes obtaining time-varying information regarding topology and operational values within the network, and creating a representation of the network at a set of times based on the hierarchical set of all the components and the time-varying information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Utopous Insights, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulrich A. Finkler, Fook-Luen Heng, Steven N. Hirsch, Mark A. Lavin, Jun Mei Qu, Amith Singhee, Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 11888579
    Abstract: Provided are a base station device and a mobile station device, which can lighten a cell-search processing. The base station device includes a frame constitution unit for forming a frame, in which a pilot symbol multiplied by a base station scrambling code and a plurality of sequences contained in the corresponding sequence set is arranged in at least the head or tail, and a radio transmission unit for sending the formed frame. On the receiving side, the frame timing can be detected from the position of a pilot symbol contained in that frame. Since the base station scrambling code and the sequence set containing the sequences are made to correspond to each other, candidates can be narrowed to at most the base station scrambling codes of the number of the combinations of the sequences contained in the sequence set, by detecting the sequences multiplied by the pilot symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Naka, Hiroki Haga, Hidenori Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11881931
    Abstract: A data transmission time obtaining method, apparatus, and system are provided. The method includes: A first device sends a first packet to a second device, and obtains a first send timestamp of the first packet; the first device receives a second packet that is sent by the second device and that corresponds to the first packet, and obtains a first receive timestamp of the second packet; the first device calculates, based on timing frequency of the second device, a second receive timestamp at which the second device receives the first packet and a second send timestamp at which the second device sends the second packet; and the first device calculates a data transmission time between the first device and the second device based on the first send timestamp, the first receive timestamp, the second send timestamp, and the second receive timestamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiquan Zhang, Jun Guo, Weixian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11855785
    Abstract: A technique for performing a multi-layer transmission from a transmitting station to a receiving station on a radio frequency is described. The multi-layer transmission comprises multiple layers having different robustnesses (704, 706) on the radio frequency. As to a method aspect of the technique, first data of a first hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, process is transmitted on a first layer of the multi-layer transmission simultaneously with second data of a second HARQ process on a second layer of the multi-layer transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Leif Wilhelmsson, Rocco Di Taranto, Miguel Lopez, Jung-Fu Cheng
  • Patent number: 11848991
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for validating data associated with parameter/s. One or more embodiments of the invention describe a method comprising steps of receiving a first data associated with a parameter monitored by a first sensing device which is associated with a controller and determining validity of the first data. The method further comprising the steps of receiving a second data from a second sensing device by the controller if the first data is invalid. The method also comprising the steps of connecting with a server if connectivity with the second sensing device is not available and receiving a third data for the second sensing device, wherein the server receives the third data from the second sensing device. And then, the second data or the third data associated with the parameter is validated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suzankumar Gongate, Kanna Selvakani