Hand-off Control Patents (Class 370/331)
  • Patent number: 11924397
    Abstract: A method for generating content includes receiving information regarding electronic devices respectively capturing content associated with an event. The method also includes identifying, based on the received information, one or more parameters for the electronic devices to use in capturing the content, the one or more parameters identified to assist in generating multi-view content for the event from the captured content. The method further includes identifying, based on the received information, a common resolution for the electronic devices to use in capturing the content. Additionally, the method includes identifying, based on the received information, a common frame rate for the electronic devices to use in capturing the content. The method also includes sending information indicating the one or more parameters, the common resolution, and the common frame rate to the electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Indranil Sinharoy, Abhishek Sehgal, Nishith Tripathi, Madhukar Budagavi, Esmaeil Faramarzi
  • Patent number: 11924294
    Abstract: There is provided a method for handling a service request. The method is performed by a first service communication proxy (SCP) node. In response to receiving a first request from a first Network Function (NF) node for a further NF node to provide a first service, the first SCP node selects (102) a second NF node to provide the first service and stores (104) an identifier of the second NF node. The first SCP node also initiates transmission (106) towards the second NF node of the first request. In response to receiving, from the second NF node, a first response, the first SCP node stores (108) location information of the second NF node. The location information of the second NF node is stored in association with the identifier of the second NF node. The first SCP node also initiates transmission (110) of the first response towards the first NF node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Maria Cruz Bartolome Rodrigo, Magnus Hallenstål, Aldo Bolle
  • Patent number: 11924701
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for support of energy efficient operation of a wireless device, e.g., a user equipment (UE), in a 5th generation new radio access technology (5G NR) is provided. A source node acquires information related to power consumption of a wireless device and transmits a message for initiation of handover. The message includes information related to energy efficiency of the wireless device. The information related to energy efficiency is based on the information related to power consumption of the wireless device. The target node performs admission control and/or resource allocation for the wireless device based on the information related to energy efficiency of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC
    Inventors: Daewook Byun, Hongsuk Kim, Jian Xu, Seokjung Kim
  • Patent number: 11924651
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a base station that supports self-configuration and self-optimization and a method thereof. A method performed by a target base station in a mobile communication system includes: receiving a radio link failure (RLF) report of a user equipment (UE) from a source base station or a third base station; detecting a reason for an occurrence of a failure based on the RLF report of the UE; and transmitting a message to the source base station based on the detected reason for the occurrence of the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Hong Wang, Weiwei Wang
  • Patent number: 11924904
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) optimization for supporting Wi-Fi connectivity in a network of moving things. Wi-Fi connectivity of a mobile access point (MAP) configured for deployment within a vehicle may be managed, with the managing including applying, in one or both of the mobile access point (MAP) and a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, one or more timing measures for shortening an amount of time needed to obtain a DHCP lease associated with at least one of a plurality of Wi-Fi access points in the network, and one or more optimization measures for optimizing at least one parameter used by the mobile access point (MAP) to secure DHCP lease for connecting to a particular Wi-Fi access point from the plurality of Wi-Fi access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: VENIAM, INC.
    Inventors: Hernán Perrone, Lídia Miguel Barros Cerqueira, Pedro Samuel Nunes da Silva, André Manuel Longo Moreira
  • Patent number: 11924865
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for determining a data transmission mode, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, a small data transmission mode corresponding to service data based on a preset policy, where small data refer to data of which data amount is less than or equal to a preset value; acquiring, by the terminal, the small data transmission mode supported by the base station through a system message; and transmitting, by the terminal, the service data through the small data transmission mode; where the small data transmission mode comprises at least one of: the terminal migrates from an inactive state to a full connection state, and transmits the service data in the full connection state; or the terminal transmits the service data in the inactive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meifang He, He Huang
  • Patent number: 11924900
    Abstract: In order to provide a communication system capable of charging control in accordance with a bearer used by a UE even when the UE performs dual connectivity, a communication system according to the present disclosure includes a communication terminal (11) configured to communicate with a communication device (12) and a communication device (13) by using a different radio bearer for each of the communication device (12) and the communication device (13), and a control device (14) configured to determine whether to cause the communication device (12) to measure the traffic of each radio bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11917396
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for increasing local area network (LAN) device privacy. One aspect provides a method for wireless communications at an access point (AP). The method generally includes: determining a mapping between a first distribution system (DS) medium access control (MAC) address and a second DS MAC address; obtaining, from a source access terminal, a frame having the second DS MAC address; and sending at least a portion of the frame to a target access terminal based on the mapping between the first MAC address and the second MAC address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Philip Michael Hawkes, George Cherian, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Jouni Kalevi Malinen
  • Patent number: 11917723
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system for transmitting Protocol data units (PDUs). Example embodiments include a system comprises a radio link control (RLC) layer for storing a RLC PDU list of RLC Protocol Data Units (PDUs) received from a ProtocolData Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer. The control layer comprises a transmission block for transmission to a Media Access Layer (MAC) layer in a transmission event, wherein the transmission block is populated with a subset of PDUs in the RLC PDU list. When the transmission block is near a storage limit, the system scans the RLC PDU list for a PDU that best fits a remaining grant of the transmission block to complete population of the transmission block. The control layer further comprises a priority list for storing PDUs of the RLC PDU list scanned by the system that were greater in size than the remaining grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Sarma Pullabhatla, Mohammad Rawoof
  • Patent number: 11917524
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage communication between a communication device and a base station via a relay unit, and an update unit configured to, based on an update of first logical information used for access between the relay unit and the base station, update second logical information used for access between the communication device connected to the relay unit, and the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Hamada
  • Patent number: 11917474
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a source base station, configuration information for a conditional handover indicating an execution condition and one or more secondary cell group (SCG) configurations associated with one or more candidate base stations. The UE may transmit, to the source base station, a measurement report indicating one or more measurements associated with at least one of the source base station or the one or more candidate base stations. The UE may perform the conditional handover with a candidate base station, of the one or more candidate base stations, using an updated SCG configuration associated with the candidate base station, wherein the updated SCG configuration is based on an SCG configuration, of the one or more SCG configurations, and the one or more measurements. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11917467
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Devices in a wireless communications system may exchange information related to one or more default operating frequencies. A wireless device may identify default operating frequencies within an ultra-wide bandwidth and transmit an indication of the default operating frequencies to one or more other wireless devices. A first wireless device may identify one or more default operating frequencies of a second device (e.g., a user equipment (UE)), and the first wireless device may provide the default operating frequencies of the UE to another wireless device. For example, a UE may be handed over from a source device to a target device, and the source device may provide the UE's default operating frequencies to the target device when handing over the UE to the target device. The UE and the target device may communicate over the bandwidth based on the default operating frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11909780
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system for enabling peer-to-peer media streaming using service enabler architecture layer (SEAL). The method may be executed by one or more processors, and the method may include receiving, by a vertical application layer (VAL) server, a request for a media session negotiation between one or more client devices, and retrieving, by the vertical application layer (VAL) server, transport layer information associated with each of the one or more client devices using network address translation traversal. The method may further include transmitting, by the vertical application layer (VAL) server, agreed session description protocol (SDP) parameters based on the transport layer information, wherein the agreed session description protocol (SDP) parameters are used to establish a peer-to-peer media streaming session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Shuai Zhao, Stephan Wenger, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11909585
    Abstract: A system for configuring a Wi-Fi access point for communication with the Internet includes a Wi-Fi access point configuration system connected with one or more cellular networks and being configured to receive information from at least one of the one or more cellular networks. The Wi-Fi access point configuration system is connected with the Wi-Fi access point to configure the Wi-Fi access point according to the information received from the at least one of the one or more cellular networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Nextivity, Inc.
    Inventor: Michiel Petrus Lotter
  • Patent number: 11910251
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for handling a radio link failure timer in the presence of a conditional handover command. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a serving cell, a conditional handover command for handing over the UE to a target neighbor cell, wherein the conditional handover command includes one or more triggering conditions for executing a handover to a candidate target cell; monitoring one or more first signals from the candidate target cell for the one or more triggering conditions; and performing one of: stopping a timer based on performing a conditional handover to the target candidate cell; or detecting a timer has expired while monitoring the one or more first signals from the candidate target cell for the one or more triggering conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Ozcan Ozturk, Gavin Bernard Horn, Punyaslok Purkayastha
  • Patent number: 11910465
    Abstract: A mobile wireless communication user equipment device (mobile device) logs an inactive duration indicative of a duration of time from receiving a release to inactive message to the transmission of a resume request. The release to inactive message placing the mobile device in an inactive state comprising connection to a network in a connection management connected (CM_Connected) state without a capability of transmitting or receiving user data between the mobile wireless communication device and the network. The resume request requesting transition to a connected state where the mobile device is capable of exchanging user data with the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Chang, Masato Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 11910459
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for user plane path failure and recovery handling A method comprises detecting that a user plane path is failed; and monitoring the user plane path within a configurable period to determine whether the user plane path is recovered or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jinyin Zhu, Yingjiao He, Kai Zhang, Yong Yang
  • Patent number: 11910248
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than a 4G communication system such as LTE. A method performed by a UE in a communication system includes: receiving, from a base station associated with NR, a command message for inter-RAT handover from the NR to a target RAT, wherein the command message includes information on a type of the target RAT; performing a procedure associated with the inter-RAT handover based on the command message; in case that a failure condition for the inter-RAT handover is satisfied, identifying that the inter-RAT handover fails; and in case that the type of the target RAT is set to EUTRA and the UE supports a radio link failure report for inter-RAT MRO EUTRA, storing handover failure information in a variable for the radio link failure report based on an identification that the inter-RAT handover fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sangyeob Jung
  • Patent number: 11902948
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for improving pairing of user equipment (UE) in a Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system using carrier aggregation are provided. Component carriers (CC) used for communication with UEs in the network may undergo routine beamforming calibration checks to determine if the CCs are calibrated. If a CC fails calibration, then UEs that communicate with the CC as their primary component carrier (PCC) may not be receiving the high data throughput typically experienced through the PCC. In response to determining that a CC fails calibration, a computing device may pair UEs with another CC as their PCC until the original CC passes a calibration check. The computing device may determine which CC to pair to the UEs based on uplink capacity, bandwidth, or a passed calibration check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Siddharth S. Oroskar, Jasinder P. Singh, Ravi Kallepalli
  • Patent number: 11902868
    Abstract: According to an example aspect, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, with the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to obtain information characterizing physical surroundings of the apparatus, transmit the information characterizing the physical surroundings to a network entity, and responsive to the transmission, receive provisioning information and associate the apparatus with the provisioning information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Arto Palin, Jukka Pekka Reunamäki
  • Patent number: 11902824
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive an RRC reconfiguration message including a DRB configuration and a processing unit, wherein the processing unit establishes an SDAP entity based on conditions that a DRB identity included in the DRB configuration is not part of a configuration of the terminal apparatus, an SDAP configuration is included in the DRB configuration, and an SDAP entity corresponding to a PDU session information element included in the SDAP configuration does not exist, and indicates establishment of a user-plane resource for a PDU session to an upper layer based on an additional condition that the SDAP entity corresponding to the PDU session information element does not exist before the RRC reconfiguration message is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11902895
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for Load Balancing Optimization (LBO) and Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO) for fifth generation (5G) systems. In particular, some embodiments may be directed intra-radio access technology (RAT) energy saving scenarios while other embodiments may be directed to and inter-RAT energy saving scenarios. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joey Chou, Yizhi Yao
  • Patent number: 11902844
    Abstract: This application provides a data processing method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium. When a PDCP entity over a UM DRB is re-established, or when a cell handover occurs and the PDCP entity over a UM DRB uses a key used before the handover, the PDCP entity determines a first SDU, where the first SDU is an SDU that is associated with a sequence number by the PDCP entity but whose corresponding data has not been transmitted through an air interface; and delivers a PDU corresponding to the first SDU to an RLC entity. Data corresponding to the first SDU is redelivered, to avoid a data packet loss caused by preprocessing of the PDCP entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuting Yao, Haibo Xu, Bingzhao Li, Zhenzhen Cao, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 11902783
    Abstract: One apparatus includes a processor that creates a second request on behalf of a remote unit from a first request received from a non-3GPP access network, the second request including a subscriber identity of the remote unit. The processor sends the second request to a mobile core to initiate connection of the remote unit to the mobile core and receives a third request from the mobile core, the first request being part of a first authentication procedure and the third request being part of a NAS authentication procedure different than the first authentication procedure. The processor transforms the third request into a fourth request of the first authentication procedure and uses an authentication response of the first authentication procedure to complete connection of the remote unit to the mobile core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Apostolis Salkintzis
  • Patent number: 11895542
    Abstract: A technique of performing a HO includes the source BS sending a HO resume message to the UE at the conclusion of a RACH access procedure that occurs in response to a HO command while a second TRX of the UE continues to exchange data packets with the source BS as if no HO command were issued. By continuing to exchange data with the source BS as if there were no HO command until the HO resume message reintroduces a RACH-less HO procedure, the interruption may be reduced to about 4 msec. At any point in time the UE handles only one protocol stack and only one security, which avoids the complexity of the advanced prior art methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Ingo Viering, Jedrzej Stanczak, Ahmad Awada, Tero Henttonen
  • Patent number: 11895552
    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 present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for switching resource pools by a device arranged to transmit according to a first resource pool is provided. The method includes sensing a second resource pool, determining whether the second resource pool has been sensed sufficiently long to apply sensing based resource selection, and selecting resources from an exceptional pool by using random resource selection, if the second resource pool has not been sensed sufficiently long to apply sensing based resource selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Himke Van Der Velde, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 11894906
    Abstract: An apparatus including: at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory 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 to: associate communication beams into at least two different groups, where at least one of the groups has at least two of the communication beams; based upon beam-group specific key performance indicators, where the beam-group specific key performance indicators have been based upon the association of the communication beams into the at least two different groups, use the beam-group specific key performance indicators to determine at least one beam-group specific mobility parameter for at least one of the groups of communication beams; and transmit the at least one beam-group specific mobility parameters to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sina Khatibi, Ingo Viering, Umur Karabulut, Andreas Lobinger
  • Patent number: 11892927
    Abstract: A method for error handling of an interconnection protocol, a controller, and a storage device are provided. The method includes receiving a frame error position indication signal to indicate whether an error occurs in a frame in each clock cycle and a symbol position corresponding to the error, and receiving a frame correction position indication signal to indicate whether the frame in each clock cycle is correct and a symbol position corresponding to the frame that is correct; according to the frame error position indication signal and the frame correction position indication signal, determining that a frame error occurs in a first clock cycle, and after requesting for NAC frame transmission, sending a request for disabling the NAC frame transmission; and after the first clock cycle, comparing the frame error position indication signal and the frame correction position indication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Fu Hsiung Lin
  • Patent number: 11895704
    Abstract: This application discloses a method and apparatus for transmitting a signal, a terminal device, and a network device. The method for transmitting a signal includes: transmitting, by a terminal device in a first-type random access process, a first message to a network device, and obtaining first indication information from the network device, the first message including a first preamble and first uplink data; and determining, by the terminal device based on the first indication information, whether to make another transmission of the first message to the network device another time, the retransmitted first message including the first preamble and/or the first uplink data, or whether to fall from the first-type random access process back to a second-type random access process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11895725
    Abstract: A user equipment, apparatus and method for a user equipment includes receiving, from a network, configuration information indicating whether transmission of a specific uplink signal is possible when the user equipment is in a specific state where an RRC connection of the user equipment is suspended. The specific uplink signal is an uplink signal that the user equipment can transmit when the user equipment is in an RRC connected state. A determination is made, based on the configuration information, whether to transmit the specific uplink signal when the user equipment is in the specific state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Noriyoshi Fukuta, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 11895694
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a prioritization rule that indicates a relative priority for different uplink communications included in a group of uplink communications, wherein the group of uplink communications includes at least a first uplink communication and a second uplink communication to be transmitted by the UE using time-division multiplexing during a make-before-break handover procedure. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the prioritization rule, the first uplink communication to a target base station and the second uplink communication to a source base station using time-division multiplexing during the make-before-break handover procedure. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Ozcan Ozturk, Peter Gaal, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Hung Dinh Ly
  • Patent number: 11895011
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method and a related product. The method includes: when it is detected that a data replication transmission function of a PDCP layer entity is activated, a terminal enabling a first RLC layer entity, a second RLC layer entity being in an enabled status; and invoking the PDCP layer entity to determine a first PDCP PDU associated with a first PDCP SDU, and sending the first PDCP PDU to the first RLC layer entity, wherein the first PDCP PDU is used for the first RLC layer entity and a MAC layer entity to process the first PDCP PDU into a MAC PDU and send same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11889360
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to devices, methods, and computer program products of communication networks in relation to, e.g., involved in initial access from an idle status, connection reestablishment, handover, or synchronization. A terminal apparatus may include: a control module configured to detect receipt of a group information indicative of a group of at least two network apparatuses, the group information being descriptive for a certain configuration of communication parameters enabling the terminal apparatus to communicate with anyone of the network apparatuses of the respective group, and request connecting to at least one of the network apparatuses of the group by use of the certain configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Richard Waldhauser, Hanns Jurgen Schwarzbauer, Bernhard Raaf, Juergen Michel
  • Patent number: 11889368
    Abstract: Methods to perform, maintain and report measurements on a transmission-reception point (TRP) using limited reference signal transmission are described herein. The mobility measurement reports may utilize physical channels. Methods to obtain measurements on neighbor TRPs using limited RS transmissions are also described herein. Random-Access procedures to enable the addition of a neighbor TRP or handover without requiring higher layer signaling (and possibly without an interface between source and target TRP) are also described herein. New triggers to perform RA in order to decrease handover latency are also described herein. Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) behavior upon receiving RAR from multiple possible TRPs are also described herein. For example, a WTRU may store RAR information and use it later in an interrupted RA procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Patrick Tooher, Ghyslain Pelletier, Benoit Pelletier, Paul Marinier, Yugeswar Deenoo, Martino M. Freda
  • Patent number: 11889555
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating control information are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) may include performing a clear channel assessment (CCA), transmitting, to a first UE based on the CCA being successful, a first transport block (TB) via a first sub-PSSCH associated with a first sub-slot, and transmitting, to at least one of the first UE or a second UE, a second TB via a PSSCH associated with a slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Lik Hang Silas Fong, Piyush Gupta, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11889371
    Abstract: A method for performing seamless relocation of a mobile terminal in a wireless network includes selecting a first serving gateway (SGW) among a plurality of SGWs and a first packet data network gateway (PGW) among a plurality of PGWs, wherein the first SGW connects to the first PGW to setup the first S5 session, establishing a first communication channel between the terminal and the first PGW and assigning an internet protocol (IP) address to the terminal, selecting a second SGW among the plurality of SGWs when the terminal is about to move out of an area being served by the first SGW, connecting the second SGW to the second PGW to setup a new S5 session when a second PGW among the plurality of PGWs is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW or connecting the second SGW to the first PGW to modify the first S5 session when no PGW is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW, establishing a second communication channel between the terminal and the second SGW using the IP address allocated to the terminal,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
    Inventors: David Aaron Claassen, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 11889346
    Abstract: Example methods and systems for quality-aware user data forwarding in a mobile communications system are described. One example may involve a first virtualized network function (VNF) instance supported by a computer system establishing a user plane tunnel with a second VNF instance; and learning path quality information associated with multiple paths over the user plane tunnel. In response to receiving a packet that includes user data for forwarding in an uplink direction or a downlink direction, the first VNF instance may select the first path over the second path based on at least the path quality information; and generate and send an encapsulated packet over the user plane tunnel towards the second VNF instance. The encapsulated packet may include the packet and an outer header specifying the first outer source port number associated with the first path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Deepika Kunal Solanki
  • Patent number: 11882486
    Abstract: A method, performed by a terminal, in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a source base station, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including data radio bearer (DRB) configuration information, wherein the DRB configuration information includes an identifier of a DRB and an indicator for a dual active protocol stack (DAPS) handover, and in case that the DRB configuration information includes service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) configuration information, and completion of a random access to a target base station is indicated by a target medium access control (MAC) entity for the target base station, reconfiguring a SDAP entity based on the SDAP configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Anil Agiwal, Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11877194
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a method for performing, by a user device, measurement report in a wireless communication system may include: receiving, by the user device, a measurement resource from a base station; performing measurement based on the measurement resource; and, transmitting a measurement report including a measurement result to the base station based on a result of the performing. Herein, the measurement report may include the measurement result and information indicating whether or not self-interference cancellation is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Soojin Kim
  • Patent number: 11877202
    Abstract: To facilitate a handover of mobile devices from 4th Generation (4G) networks to 5th Generation (5G) networks, a mobility management entity (MME) of the 4G network core inactivates a data session in which the mobile device is assigned an Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) address. The MME generates a modified context of the mobile device that omits the IPv4 address of the device. The inactivation of the IPv4 session causes the mobile device to initiate a new data session with the 5G core network, in which the device will be assigned a new IPv6 address for use on a data network. The modified context is used by the 5G network to configure communications for the mobile device without interrupting network service to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Romil Kumar Sood, Kunal Prakash Barawkar
  • Patent number: 11877185
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) packet duplication may be configured for a bearer of a wireless device. The bearer may use various cells to send packets. A base station central unit and/or a base station distributed unit may configure the cells for the bearer based on various types of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11877184
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The wireless communication method is used for the terminal device, and when the network device connected to the terminal device is switched from a source network device to a target network device, the connection between the terminal device and the source network device and the connection between the terminal device and the target network device are both maintained. Said method comprises: when the terminal device satisfies a first condition, releasing the connection between the terminal device and a source network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Xin You
  • Patent number: 11874724
    Abstract: An extension device is positioned within a point-to-point link to connect two devices, where the extension device includes error detection circuitry to detect a set of errors at the extension device. The extension device further includes memory to store an event register, where the extension device is to write data to the event register to describe detection of an error by the error detection circuitry. The extension device further includes a transmitter to transmit a notification signal to indicate the detection of the error and presence of data in the evert register associated with the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Haifeng Gong, Manisha M. Nilange, Shiwei Xu, Xiaoxia Fu
  • Patent number: 11870856
    Abstract: A session establishment method and an apparatus, such that an established packet data network (PDN) connection is transferred to a network slice in a fifth generation (5G) network during inter-system mobility of a terminal. The method includes receiving, by a terminal from a control plane function entity, corresponding network slice information used for transferring an established PDN connection to a 5G network, where the corresponding network slice information includes corresponding single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI). The method further includes sending a packet data unit (PDU) session establishment request, where the PDU session establishment request includes corresponding S-NSSAI used for transferring a first PDN connection to the 5G network and a corresponding data network name (DNN) used for transferring the first PDN connection to the 5G network, and the first PDN connection is any one of one or more established PDN connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zaifeng Zong, Fenqin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11871334
    Abstract: User equipment, UE, includes: a receiver configured to receive a parameter indicating whether the UE is restricted or authorized for transmission of user data in a message transmitted on Uplink Synchronization Channel, UL-SCH, from an access network node; and a hardware processor configured to process instructions to determine whether the transmission of the user data in the message is restricted or authorized based on the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Iskren Ianev, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11871291
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to data forwarding tunnel establishment between two user plane functions in fifth generation (5G). A device may determine an association of an access and mobility management function (AMF) with a first radio access network (RAN). The device may identify a handover request message received from the first RAN via the AMF. The device may identify a request to establish an indirect data forwarding associated with the handover, wherein the request is received from the first RAN via the AMF. The device may cause to send a response addressed to the AMF indicating that the indirect data forwarding is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Changhong Shan, Yifan Yu, Alexandre Saso Stojanovski
  • Patent number: 11871296
    Abstract: System and methods for delivering geofence geometries to a physical map are disclosed. At least one user device is constructed and configured in communication with a server associated at least one database. The at least one user device receives data regarding a scale unit of the physical map and latitude and longitude of all corners of the physical map. The at least one user device converts the latitude and longitude to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses via communication with the server. The at least one user device queries the at least one database for at least one geofence geometry associated with the IP addresses. The at least one user device decouples the at least one geofence geometry from the at least one database and delivers as an overlay to the physical map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: GEOFRENZY, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin T. Jones, Bennett Hill Branscomb
  • Patent number: 11871286
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Devices may exchange information regarding a radio link failure and/or a handover. The information may comprise a radio link failure report which may comprise an indication of packet duplication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11871303
    Abstract: A system and method of supporting access to content over first and second networks that allows a user to access content over different networks, either on the same device or with different devices. The access may be supported in a continuous or seamless matter without substantially interrupting access to the content, such as by instigating the transition during a period of time when minimal, if any content, or content of value, is likely to be missed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernie McKibben
  • Patent number: 11871271
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate dynamic switching for user equipment between unique cell and shared cell operating modes based on application traffic. In one example, a method may include determining, a quality of service (QoS) to be provided for a traffic flow of a user equipment (UE) in which the mobile network includes a radio access network (RAN) including a plurality of radio units (RUs) in which at least two RUs provides a shared cell and each RU provides a unique cell; identifying an operating mode for the UE based on the QoS in which the operating mode indicates whether the traffic flow is to be communicated using a shared cell or a unique cell operating mode; and causing the UE to communicate the traffic flow using the shared cell the unique cell operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Mark Grayson, Arun G. Khanna