Patents Examined by William D Cummings
  • Patent number: 11582826
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a user equipment, UE, in a suspended state in a Radio Access Network, RAN, in response to expiration of a first timer, transmits an RRCResumeRequest message. The UE receives a reject message in response to the RRCResumeRequest message. In response to the reject message, the UE starts a second timer and subsequently transmits a further RRCResumeRequest message. The further RRCResumeRequest message is received by the network during a period bounded approximately by the lesser of a duration of the second timer and a period of the periodic UE event and the greater of the duration of the second timer and the period of the periodic UE event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Gunnar Mildh
  • Patent number: 11576168
    Abstract: A wireless device receives, from a base station, configuration parameters indicating: power control parameters; and downlink reference signals. A determination is made, based on measurements of the downlink reference signals, of a downlink reference signal of the downlink reference signals. One or more power control parameters are selected from the power control parameters that is associated with the downlink reference signal. Based on the one or more power control parameters, an uplink transmission power for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is determined. An uplink transport block is transmitted with the uplink transmission power via the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Kai Xu, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11570706
    Abstract: Aspects relate to Layer 1/Layer 2-centric inter-cell mobility communication systems where measurement information from at least one user equipment (UE) is sent to a base station. Based on this information, the base station may select at least one of a remote radio head (RRH), a serving cell, or a cell assigned with a physical cell ID that serves a particular UE using one of Layer 1 or Layer 2 control signaling based on the received measurement information and a system serving cell configuration or mode of operation. Additionally, an indication may be provided of whether cell configurations are the same for target and source cells in an inter-cell handover and a UE may utilize the same source cell configuration during a handover when connecting with the target cell when the configurations match or at least partially match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11563528
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The method includes a method performed by a first terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising obtaining resource pool information associated with a side link, transmitting sidelink control information (SCI) associated with sidelink data on a physical sidelink control channel (PSSCH), and transmitting the sidelink data on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) based on the SCI. Feedback information associated with the sidelink data is received from a second terminal based on a distance between the first terminal and the second terminal, in case that a zone identity (ID) of the first terminal and information on a range requirement are included in the SCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunseok Ryu, Anil Agiwal, Jeongho Yeo, Jinyoung Oh
  • Patent number: 11558130
    Abstract: An apparatus transmits a quality of experience (QoE) support message to an access point (AP) within an access network. The QoE support message queries whether the AP supports providing key performance indicators (KPI(s)) indicative of QoE provided by the access network. An indication of whether the AP supports providing the KPI(s) is received in response to the QoE support message. The KPI(s) are received when the AP supports providing the KPI(s). A determination is made whether to communicate with the AP based at least in part on the KPI(s). The apparatus performs communications in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Bart A. Brinckman
  • Patent number: 11553524
    Abstract: A method for resource object level authorization at a network function (NF) includes maintaining, by a first NF, a service based interface (SBI) resource object access authorization policy database containing policies for controlling access to SBI resource objects and dynamically populating a resource object owner database containing records for resource objects and corresponding resource object owners. The method further includes receiving, by the first NF and from a second NF, a first SBI resource object access request for accessing a resource object, accessing, using information from the first SBI resource object access request, the resource object access authorization policy database and the resource object owner database, determining that an access to the resource object requested by the first resource object access request is not permitted, and preventing the access to the resource object requested by the first resource object access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Virendra Singh, Jay Rajput, Ankit Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11553545
    Abstract: A method for session method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, first information to a first network device, wherein the first indication is used for requesting for establishing a packet data network (PDN) connection; receiving, by the terminal device, second information from the network device, wherein the second information indicates that the request, initiated by the terminal device, for establishing the PDN connection is accepted, the second information includes first indication information for indicating whether a protocol data unit (PDU) session corresponding to the PDN connection supports multi-access (MA) after the terminal devices moves from a 4th-generation (4G) network to a 5th-generation (5G) network, and the PDU session, if supporting the MA, is able to implement data transmission with a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) network and a non-3GPP network simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11553328
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for provisioning and/or controlling operator profiles in terminals, each having an integrated circuit card identified by an integrated circuit card identifier. According to one aspect, a discovery server is configured with an authorization table including associations of integrated circuit card identifier, service provider identifier, and operator identifier(s). The discovery server receives, from a data preparation node, an event registration request that includes a number of elements. The discovery server determines whether the event is authorized. If so, the event is registered. This enables a terminal to seek to retrieve the event, to contact the data preparation node, and to eventually perform the profile operation. Some embodiments enable the network-initiated provisioning and/or controlling of operator profiles in machine-to-machine devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Antonio Alonso Alarcon, Maria Esther Bas Sanchez, Qiang Li
  • Patent number: 11546792
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling application of split-uplink mode in a wireless communication system including an access node. In an example implementation, a method includes determining a first count defining how many user equipment devices (UEs) are connected with the access node and do not support a split-uplink-mode operation in which uplink user-plane data flow is split between air-interface transmission to the access node and air-interface transmission to another access node. Further, the method includes determining a second count defining how many UEs are connected with the access node as part of dual connectivity and support the split-uplink-mode operation. And the method includes, based on the first count and the second count, controlling whether the access node will allow the split-uplink-mode operation, such as whether the access node will allow new activation of the split-uplink-mode operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SPRINT SPECTRUM LP
    Inventors: Vanil Parihar, Sreekar Marupaduga, Rashmi Kumar
  • Patent number: 11546741
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a call from a caller device that is initiated via a first communication channel and directed to first contact information for a recipient's device. The call is forwarded using a call forwarding option to the computing device. Second contact information for the recipient's device is retrieved where the second contact information different from the first contact information used in the call. The method initiates a communication to the recipient's device using the second contact information via a second communication channel that is different from the first communication channel. The communication avoids triggering the call forwarding option for the recipient's device. The call is connected between the caller device and the recipient's device upon initiating the communication where the computing device is in a call path of the call and performs a call feature for the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: PHONEIC, INC.
    Inventor: Enlai Chu
  • Patent number: 11540195
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform detection and mitigation of data stalls. The mitigation may occur during and/or at initiation of a data connection. The wireless device may establish a data connection(s) with a network over a Wi-Fi or cellular interface and monitor the data connection(s) for a data stall condition(s)/hint(s). The wireless device may perform a remedial action(s) responsive to detection of a data stall condition(s)/hint(s), including initiating a service recovery of the cellular interface, initiating a radio access technology (RAT) upgrade procedure, and/or initiating a handover procedure to a neighbor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Venkataraman, Amitabha Ghosh, Eyad Al-Shemali, Franco Travostino, Jinghua Ling, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Muhammad R. Dar, Murtaza A. Shikari, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Pankaj Subhash Vasandani, Ravish Samuel, Samuel J. Miller, Shivani Suresh Babu, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yifan Zhu, Irfan Khasim Mohammed, Sofheem Mohammed, Raghuram Mungara, Vijay Gadde, Sharad Garg
  • Patent number: 11533678
    Abstract: A radio access network (RAN) control unit for determining a functional operation of a dynamic small cell, in particular an unplanned small cell, a nomadic node or a relay, in a radio communication network is disclosed. The radio communication network includes at least one network slice associated with at least one user equipment (UE) and at least one radio channel connecting the at least one UE to the radio communication network. The RAN control unit includes a processor configured to determine a functional operation of the dynamic small cell (DSC) based on information based on channel measurements of the at least one radio channel and/or requirement information of the at least network one slice, and/or estimated or measured performance of the RAN, and/or location information of the DSC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH
    Inventors: Ömer Bulakci, Emmanouil Pateromichelakis
  • Patent number: 11533118
    Abstract: Various examples with respect to synchronization signal block (SSB) raster shift in mobile communications are described. A processor of a user equipment (UE) performs an initial cell search to identify a cell among one or more cells of a wireless communication system. The processor then camps on the identified cell. In performing the initial cell search, the processor scans through a plurality of SSB entries for frequency bands below 3 GHz with a SSB raster spacing and a SSB raster offset frequency that support sub-carrier spacing (SCS) spaced channel raster and 100 kHz channel raster for both 15 kHz SCS and 30 kHz SCS. A minimum channel bandwidth at 5 MHz or higher for 15 kHz SCS or at 10 MHz or higher for 30 kHz SCS is supported. The SSB raster spacing is a common multiple of 15 kHz and 100 kHz. The SSB raster offset frequency for 100 kHz channel raster is a multiple of 30 kHz plus/minus 10 kHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Mingchun Chiang, Fucheng Wang, Tsang-Wei Yu, Jun Ma, Tao Chen, Wen Yang Chou
  • Patent number: 11522656
    Abstract: An apparatus for wireless communication selects a recommendation for the need. The apparatus selects the resource to transmit a phase tracking reference signal based on a condition of a communication system. The apparatus performs at least one of transmitting an indication of the selected recommendation for the resource to a second wireless communication device or transmitting at least one of information or a reference signal to the second device to assist the second device in determining the resource. In an aspect, the selection may be made based on receiving a request for a recommendation from the second wireless communication device or the transmitting the at least one of the information or the reference signal are based on a request received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Juergen Cezanne, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11523465
    Abstract: A registration method, a session establishment method, a terminal, and an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity, where the method includes: sending, by a terminal, a first message to the AMF entity, where the first message includes first information, first network slice selection information, and second network slice selection information, the first information includes information for requesting to establish a protocol data unit (PDU) session, the first network slice selection information is used by the AMF entity to select a first session management function (SMF) entity, and the second network slice selection information is used by the AMF entity to select a second SMF entity; and receiving, by the terminal, a second message from the AMF entity, where the second message includes second information, and the second information includes PDU session establishment accept information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haorui Yang, Hui Jin, Guowei Ouyang, Yue He, Fenghui Dou, Xiaojuan Li
  • Patent number: 11523267
    Abstract: An aircraft cabin communication system includes a wireless access point (WAP) and a connectivity server. The WAP transmits a beacon indicating Hotspot capability and identifying an open SSID, establishes a connection with a first passenger electronic device (PED) carried onboard an aircraft responsive to communications received from the first PED using the open SSID, and provides a list of mobile network operators (MNOs) to the first PED. The connectivity server receive a request to setup a PDU session through the Internet for the first PED. The request identifies a mobile network operator (MNO) associated with the first PED. The connectivity server initiates authentication using extensible authentication protocol (EAP) communications with the first PED and an authorization, authentication, and accounting (AAA) server associated with a partner MNO connected with the MNO identified by the first PED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Thales Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Maneesha Sumien, Sam Martorella, Mitchell Miers, Martin A. Matura, Agnes Galzy
  • Patent number: 11516809
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, and a corresponding wireless communication method and computer-readable medium, where the electronic apparatus for wireless communication includes a processing circuit which is configured to: determine a first position range of a user equipment on the basis of first measurement information from the user equipment and regarding first beam scanning; when the first position range is lower than a predetermined accuracy requirement, determine adjustment of a beam configuration on the basis of the first position range; and determine a second position range of the user equipment on the basis of second measurement information from the user equipment and regarding second beam scanning performed by means of the adjusted beam configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Xu, Yucheng Wang, Wenbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11516683
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver that receives information regarding a measurement to be performed in a first serving cell using a synchronization signal block (SSB) and a processor that performs the measurement according to the information and determines whether transmission or reception can be performed using a second serving cell, at a specified timing, based on at least one of an SSB-based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window duration and an SSB to be measured in regard to the first serving cell. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal, a base station and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11510208
    Abstract: A telecommunication network associated with a wireless telecommunication provider can be configured to select RAN components for use by a UE in an open RAN. Hardware/software of a telecommunication network automatically selects one or more RUs, DUs, and CUs (which may come from different vendors) to use for a communication session with a UE. In some configurations, an application on the UE specifies the desired performance (e.g., bandwidth requirements, processing requirements, latency requirements, . . . ). For example, if an application requests a large throughput of data, a Massive MIMO RU can be selected for use, whereas if a moderate throughput is specified, then a traditional 4×4 antenna can be selected for the communication session. Similarly, if the network load is high, then multiple DUs can be activated by the telecommunication network to work together and provide necessary processing power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Gaviphat Lekutai
  • Patent number: 11510207
    Abstract: A device may determine a set of parameters related to a transmission of a packet. For example, a device may determine a transmission range indication for the packet, a Quality-of-Service (QoS) of the packet, or a combination thereof. The device may then determine a resource exclusion parameter related to the transmission of the packet based in part on the set of parameters. Following the determination, the device may transmit, to one or more other devices in a wireless communications system, control signaling including the resource exclusion parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Arjun Bharadwaj, Shuanshuan Wu