Patents Examined by Tri H. Phan
  • Patent number: 10638459
    Abstract: An information transmission method, an apparatus, and a system are disclosed. A first base station may identify, according to indication information, global information and local information in uplink information sent by user equipment. If the indication information indicates that the uplink information includes the global information, the first base station uploads the global information to a core network device. If the indication information indicates that the uplink information includes the local information, the first base station directly delivers the local information to a neighboring base station to cause the neighboring base station to deliver the local information to user equipment in a cell covered by the neighboring base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yalin Liu, Rongdao Yu, Tizheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10638476
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a beacon signal including first information to specify a first wireless communication device to be reassigned a slot and a start timing to allow use of a reassigned slot, and transmit, after transmission of the first information, a first signal including second information to specify the reassigned slot, the first signal being a signal different from the beacon signal and a receiver configured to receive a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Toshihisa Nabetani, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10638483
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiver may receive a beam switch command for a first link between the receiver and a transmitter, wherein the beam switch command is received via a second link between the receiver and the transmitter. The receiver may transmit an acknowledgement (ACK) corresponding to the beam switch command, wherein the ACK is transmitted via the second link. The receiver may perform a beam switch procedure on the first link based at least in part on transmitting the ACK via the second link. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10631309
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device-to-device D2D data transmission method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: receiving first data sent by a second device by using a first logical channel of multiple logical channels on a first link, and identifying a first channel feature of the first logical channel; determining, according to preset configuration information about a correspondence between channel feature information about the first link and channel feature information about a second link, a second channel feature on the second link that corresponds to the first channel feature of the first logical channel on the first link; and mapping, according to the second channel feature, the first data onto a second logical channel that that is of multiple logical channels on the second link and that corresponds to the second channel feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenzhen Cao, Tao Zhang, Bo Lin
  • Patent number: 10616106
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for establishing virtual network (VN) routes includes receiving, at a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller and from a customer network, a first routing request. The first routing request includes a destination address for a VN and a first Quality of Service (QoS) indicator associated with a first service of the VN. The SDN controller determines a first VN route in a provider network based on the first QoS indicator and the destination address. The SDN controller associates a first VN label with the first VN route. The SDN controller transmits a first routing response to the customer network. The first routing response includes the first VN label. The SDN controller transmits the first VN label and first routing information indicating the first VN route to an edge router of the provider network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Guichard, Young Lee
  • Patent number: 10616795
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for reduction of interference between a plurality of wireless interfaces. In one exemplary embodiment, a device having a first (e.g., Wi-Fi) interface and a second (e.g., Bluetooth) interface monitors interference between its interfaces. A reduction in transmit power of the Wi-Fi module causes a disproportionately larger reduction in undesirable interference experienced at the Bluetooth antennas. For example, when the Bluetooth interface detects interference levels above acceptable thresholds, the Wi-Fi interface adjusts operation of one or more of its transmit chains based on various conditions such as duty cycle, Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), etc. Various embodiments of the present invention provide simultaneous operation of WLAN and PAN interfaces, without requiring time division coexistence, by reducing power on a subset of interfering antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Applie Inc.
    Inventors: Camille Chen, Lei Li, Chris Zimmermann, Michael J. Giles, Jaime Tolentino, Chris Hartman, Arthur Lin
  • Patent number: 10609660
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for synchronization for wideband coverage enhancement. A user equipment (UE) may receive a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) in a subframe of a frame. In one example, the PSS may be received in each of a first plurality of consecutive symbols of the subframe. In another example, the SSS may be received in each of a second plurality of consecutive symbols of the subframe, wherein the second plurality of consecutive symbols is after the first plurality of consecutive symbols within the subframe. The UE may synchronize with a base station based at least in part on the PSS and the SSS received in the subframe. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Srinivas Yerramalli, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 10609690
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a terminal device, in which a processing module selects one or more normal carriers or special carriers from a first carrier set for an uplink subframe, where the first carrier set includes all carriers in carrier aggregation that are used by the terminal device to send a first uplink subframe; and a sending module cancels sending of the uplink subframe on one or more carriers, where the special carrier is a carrier on which the terminal device sends neither uplink data nor uplink control information in uplink, and the normal carrier is a carrier that is used by the terminal device to send uplink data and/or uplink control information. An uplink subframe on some carriers is rejected, thereby resolving a problem that information such as a downlink channel characteristic of a carrier cannot be obtained when no uplink reference signal is sent on the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yang, Jian Zhang, Yongxia Lyu, Wei Quan
  • Patent number: 10601882
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for binding two or more communication devices through their common association with one or more other devices. Information associated with a common device is stored at a first device. The information associated with the common device is also stored at a second device. A message is transmitted from the first device using the stored information as at least part of a broadcast address identifier. The message can then be accepted at the second device as a result of the information being known to the second device. A “binding by association” is thus effected by virtue of each of the first and second devices having been privy to the same information affiliated with the common device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Nichols
  • Patent number: 10582543
    Abstract: This application provides a random access method, a terminal, and a network device. The random access method includes: determining, by a terminal, whether a resource used for random access conflicts with a resource used for receiving a downlink signal; and if the resource used for the random access conflicts with the resource used for the downlink signal, preferentially using the conflicting random access resource for receiving the downlink signal but not for the random access. This avoids a conflict between receiving of the downlink signal and sending of an uplink random access preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huang Huang, Mao Yan, Kuandong Gao
  • Patent number: 10582462
    Abstract: According to a synchronization method and apparatus provided in this application, a source station sends location information of the source station; and after obtaining a signal propagation delay that is calculated according to the location information of the source station and location information of a to-be-synchronized station, the to-be-synchronized station performs synchronization with the source station according to a synchronization reference time obtained by subtracting the propagation delay from a receiving time of a first network reference signal received from the source station. It can be learned that, in a process in which the to-be-synchronized station performs synchronization with the source station, the signal propagation delay between the to-be-synchronized station and the source station is used to compensate for the receiving time of the first network reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Man Wang, Henrik Olofsson, Liwei Qiu
  • Patent number: 10575204
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating by a user equipment (UE) connected with a master base station (BS) and a secondary BS in a wireless communication system. The UE configures a first cell supporting a contention based random access and a second cell other than the first cell. The first cell and the second cell are associated with the secondary BS. The UE determines whether a radio link problem is occurred on the first cell or the second cell. The UE indicates the radio link problem to an upper layer only if the radio link problem occurs on the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi, Sungjun Park
  • Patent number: 10555220
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes contending for access to a first channel of a radio frequency spectrum, and transmitting, upon winning contention for access to the first channel, a first channel reservation indication. The contending may be performed by a first node operating according to a first radio access technology. The first channel reservation indication may be understood by a second node operating according to a second radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivasa Yerramalli, Tao Luo, Siddhartha Mallik, Xiaoxia Zhang, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Kiran Kumar Somasundaram
  • Patent number: 10548171
    Abstract: Provided is a method for performing random access, the method comprising: obtaining information associated with a phase pattern vector set and information associated with a sequence set to be used during a random access process; selecting one phase pattern vector corresponding to the number of repetitive transmissions of an RACH signal, among a plurality of phase pattern vectors included in the phase pattern vector set; transmitting, to a base station, an RACH signal during a time section corresponding to the number of repetitive transmissions of an RACH signal, at a predetermined transmission point in the entire time section corresponding to the maximum number of repetitive transmissions; and receiving, from the base station, an RACH response signal indicating an estimated sequence, an estimated phase pattern vector, and an estimated transmission point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kilbom Lee, Jiwon Kang, Kitae Kim, Kungmin Park, Heejin Kim
  • Patent number: 10541779
    Abstract: A method is provided, including: learning, by a terminal, a first CQI index according to a first CQI table, and sending the first CQI index to a base station; receiving, by the base station, the first CQI index sent by the terminal device, determining a first MCS index according to the first CQI table, a first MCS table, and the received first CQI index, and sending the determined first MCS index to the terminal device; and receiving, by the terminal, the first MCS index sent by the base station, and determining a modulation order and a code block size according to the first MCS table and the received first MCS index, where the first CQI table includes an entry in which a modulation scheme is higher than 64QAM, and the first MCS table includes an entry in which a modulation scheme is higher than 64QAM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Xia, Yuan Xia
  • Patent number: 10536928
    Abstract: A resource conflict reducing method, including determining, by a first user equipment (UE), N available resources from S resources detected at the UE, where S is a quantity of resources that are indicated by resource configuration information obtained by the first UE, and where S is an integer greater than or equal to 1, determining, by the first UE, M resources according to the N available resources, and sending, by the first UE, data to at least one second UE by using the M resources, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to S, and wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xingwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10531343
    Abstract: The present invention discloses for the ability for processing circuit switched (CS) services in an evolved packet network. For example, embodiments provide a method that includes: by a mobility management entity (MME), receiving a mobile terminated (MT) service indication from a mobile switching center (MSC); sending the MT service indication to user equipment (UE); and receiving an MT service response returned by the UE and performing subsequent operations according to the MT service response. In the method of the present invention, when an MT service arrives, the MME does not trigger the evolved NodeB (eNodeB) to hand over the packet switched (PS) services of the UE but notifies the UE of the MT service and performs subsequent operations according to the MT service response returned by the UE, thus avoiding the waste of network resources caused by a meaningless handover of PS services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yijun Yu
  • Patent number: 10531509
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods to support IP flow mobility (IFOM) via multiple wireless accesses in a wireless device are disclosed. The wireless device initiates network-based IFOM (NB-IFOM) to establish and manage IP flows. Support for NB-IFOM is negotiated during initial attach procedures to either or both wireless accesses and by using packet data network (PDN) connectivity procedures. The wireless device sends routing rules including priorities to apply to both existing and future IP flows or to future IP flows only. The wireless device requests to move IP flows from a source access to a target access. When a new wireless access is added to an existing PDN connection, an identical IP address for the wireless device is allocated as used for the existing PDN connection. The network establishes a GPRS tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnel for the new wireless access while maintaining a previously established GTP tunnel for the existing wireless access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Krisztian Kiss
  • Patent number: 10523536
    Abstract: A network node (110) samples data packets of network traffic. For each sampled data packet, the network node (110) compares a packet header of the sampled data packet to a set of one or more packet header patterns. Depending on the comparison, the network node (110) determines a length of a packet header portion to be extracted from the sampled data packet. Then the network node (110) extracts the packet header portion of the determined length from the sampled data packet and generates a datagram comprising the extracted packet header portions of the sampled data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jonas Emanuel Rosenberg, Daniel Kang, Shahryar Khan, Shuo Yang
  • Patent number: 10524156
    Abstract: A 3GPP monitoring architecture framework provides monitoring event configuration, detection, and reporting for machine-type and other mobile data applications by configuring monitoring on a mobility management entity (MME), a serving general packet radio service support node (SGSN), or a home subscriber service (HSS) node through existing interfaces, such as Tsp, T4, and T5 interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Puneet K. Jain, Varun N. Rao, Muthaiah Venkatachalam