Hand-off Control Patents (Class 370/331)
  • Patent number: 11546820
    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a first cellular station and a second cellular station. The controller continues to send or receive UP data to or from the first cellular station via the wireless transceiver after receiving a handover command message for a handover of the UE from the first cellular station to the second cellular station, and receives a Radio Resource Control (RRC) request message from the second cellular station via the wireless transceiver after sending a handover complete message to the second cellular station. Also, the controller detaches from the first cellular station in response to receiving the RRC request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Fan Tsai, Yuanyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11546906
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for switching control beams in multi-link systems using new radio (NR) technology multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques. A user equipment (UE) may obtain a configuration from a base station (BS) comprising at least one first pattern of beams to monitor when performing a beam recovery procedure, communicate using beamforming, with the BS, via an active transmit and receive beam pair, determine a beam failure of the active transmit and receive beam pair, and monitor the beams according to the first pattern in response to the beam failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Xiao Feng Wang, Sumeeth Nagaraja
  • Patent number: 11546886
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for communications are provided. In the methods, a network device sends first indication information to a terminal device, where the first indication information indicates a first bandwidth part (BWP) that is to be activated, other than a primary BWP, to the terminal device, and the primary BWP is a BWP that remains activated between the terminal device and the network device. The network device communicates with the terminal device in an activated first BWP and the primary BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinxian Li, Hao Tang, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 11540190
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for deploying an unmanned vehicle base station (BS) are provided. One method may include receiving an indication from at least one device of its capability to switch to a temporary cell of an unmanned vehicle base station (BS), and determining, based on knowledge of locations on a planned path of the unmanned vehicle base station (BS), which of the at least one device is located within coverage of one of the locations on the planned path. The method may then include configuring discontinuous reception cycles or Power-Saving Mode (PSM) of the at least one device so that the at least one device is awake when the unmanned vehicle base station (BS) establishes the temporary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Nitin Mangalvedhe, Istvan Kovacs, Benedek Schultz, Elena Virtej, Jeroen Wigard, Mikko Säily
  • Patent number: 11540203
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) dynamically adjusting a non-access stratum (NAS) timer. Specifically, the UE may determine operation in a wideband and support of an extended coverage (EC) restriction. The UE may further identify a duration of a non-access stratum (NAS) timer based on determining operation in the wideband and the EC restriction. The UE may further transmit an access request message to a network entity to trigger a mobility management procedure. The UE may further receive an acceptance message from the network entity indicating an unrestricted or restricted status of the EC restriction. The UE may further apply the duration to the NAS timer based on the acceptance message indicating the unrestricted or restricted status of the EC restriction received from the network entity or a history of EC restrictions of a public land mobile network (PLMN) in a defined geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Osama Lotfallah, Amer Catovic, Liangchi Hsu, Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam
  • Patent number: 11540180
    Abstract: When an access node is providing a UE with carrier-aggregation service on a PCell in combination with one or more SCells and the UE engages in a voice call including uplink voice communication on the PCell, the access node will determine that there is a threshold high level of IMD on the uplink resulting from concurrent downlink transmissions, and the access node will responsively swap the UE's PCell with one of the UE's one or more SCells. In a representative implementation, the decision to swap these carriers in the UE's connection could be based on a further determination that the level of IMD on the uplink of the SCell is not threshold high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum LLC
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Mark Wade
  • Patent number: 11540188
    Abstract: In a terminal roaming steering method, a steering protocol supported by a terminal and a second AP are determined, and the terminal is steered, based on the steering protocol supported by the terminal, to roam from a first AP to the second AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fuqing Sun, Zhi Ma, Xiaofei Bai, Dewei Bao
  • Patent number: 11533780
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to provide a 6 GHz backhaul within a premise. Adapters may facilitate a conversion of communications between one or more local area networks and one or more wide area networks. A 6 GHz backhaul may be used by one or more access points to support various wireless services having unique or differing operational and bandwidth requirements. A 6 GHz backhaul may be used to pass communications between an adapter and a network interface device and/or between the adapter and one or more access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPIRSE LLC
    Inventors: Carol J. Ansley, Charles Peter Cheevers, Ian G. Wheelock, Thomas B. Gravely
  • Patent number: 11533591
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a V2X communication configuration based on geographical location. Configuring the V2X communication can include generating a partitioned cell communication area; determining a presence of a UE in a geographical location of the partitioned cell communication area, wherein the UE is associated with a vehicle; and configuring a UL communication between the UE and the V2X server based on the geographical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mikhail Shilov, Alexey Khoryaev, Sergey Panteleev, Dmitry Belov
  • Patent number: 11528221
    Abstract: A method including communicating, by a first device in communication with a second device in a mesh network, meshnet data with the second device based at least in part on utilizing a meshnet local port dedicated for communicating the meshnet data; and transmitting, by the first device to a control infrastructure device, a binding request based at least in part on utilizing the meshnet local port, the binding request requesting the control infrastructure to determine a currently allocated public port associated with the first device. Various other aspects are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: UAB 360 IT
    Inventors: Benas Orlovas, Kristupas Antanavi{hacek over (c)}ius
  • Patent number: 11528643
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). Embodiments include reporting, to a network entity, a capability of the UE to support beam failure recovery (BFR) on one or more secondary cells (SCells). Embodiments include detecting a beam failure of a beam pair link (BPL) associated with an Scell of the one or more SCells. Embodiments include performing a BFR in accordance with the reported capability, in response to the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11528616
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication at a device. A Long Term Evolution Unlicensed (LTE-U) device may transmit an enhanced preamble that may be understood by Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) devices, in addition to conveying a characteristic that is detectable by receiving LTE-U devices. The transmitting LTE-U device may generate the enhanced preamble by generating a first training field and a second training field. The characteristic that is detectable by receiving LTE-U devices may be a phase shift between the first and second training fields. Additionally or alternatively, the characteristic may be a sequence or tone mapping of the first or second training field. In some cases, the transmitting LTE-U device may introduce a third training field to the preamble which serves as the characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Luo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Bin Tian, Rahul Malik
  • Patent number: 11523310
    Abstract: A redirection method, a communications system, and a communications apparatus, to implement redirection of a terminal between different systems, and further implement redirection between a 5th generation system (5GS) and an evolved packet system (EPS). The method includes: a mobility management network element in a first system determining, based on a cellular Internet of things (CIOT) feature supported by a terminal in a second system and a CIOT feature preferred by the terminal in the second system, to redirect the terminal to the second system; and the mobility management network element in the first system sending redirection indication information to the terminal, where the redirection indication information indicates the terminal to redirect to the second system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianghua Zhu, Fenqin Zhu, Wenfu Wu
  • Patent number: 11523308
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications apparatus, the method including receiving, by an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity, a first message from a first access network device, where the first message comprises information for indicating to hand over a voice service of a terminal from a packet switched (PS) domain to a circuit switched (CS) domain, the first message further comprises identification information of a target device, and the target device is a second access network device in a 3G network, and sending, by the AMF entity, through a mobility management entity (MME) a request message to a mobile switching center (MSC) entity, where the request message comprises information indicating a source of the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Xing Liu, Jing Chen, Qinghai Zeng, Yang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11523277
    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. Embodiments herein provide a method for authentication by dynamically generating security credentials in plug and play scenarios without a pre-configuration of F1 security credentials at an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) relay device in a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rajavelsamy Rajadurai
  • Patent number: 11523313
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication method and a 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 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 executing a handover by a UE in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, by a user equipments (UE), from a source cell a handover configuration comprising an execution condition associated with at least one candidate target cell from a plurality of candidate target cells and a configuration associated with the at least one candidate target cell from a plurality of candidate target cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fasil Abdul Latheef, Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale
  • Patent number: 11516816
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for performing remote interference management. The method comprises receiving, from a victim gNB, at least one RIM-reference signal (RS); transmitting, from a distributed unit (DU) of the aggressor gNB to a central unit (CU) of the aggressor gNB, a message comprising RIM information; and determining to stop monitoring the at least one RIM-RS based on the RIM information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuyuan Li, Hong Wang, Weiwei Wang, Lixiang Xu
  • Patent number: 11516733
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may establish connectivity to a local area network using cellular radio access technology (RAT). The UE may establish a signaling radio link with a cellular access node (AN) via a cellular RAT. The UE may transmit a connectivity request to a network node via the signaling radio link. The connectivity request may specify a connectivity type for establishing connectivity to a LAN. Based at least in part on an acceptance of the connectivity request, the UE may establish a data radio link with the cellular AN. In an example, the acceptance of the connectivity request may include at least one parameter for configuring the connectivity to the LAN. The UE may then establish a data flow for exchanging data link layer packets with the LAN via the data radio link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karl Georg Hampel, Vincent Douglas Park, Hong Cheng, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 11516711
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to further increase a possibility of a success in a handover. [Solution] A first apparatus of the present invention includes: a first communication processing unit configured to transmit reference signals using beamforming; and a second communication processing unit configured to receive a handover message from a source base station of a handover of a terminal apparatus. The handover message includes beam related information related to a beam. The first communication processing unit is configured to receive an access signal of the terminal apparatus based on the beam related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Oketani, Hisashi Futaki
  • Patent number: 11510142
    Abstract: A communication method and a 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) are provided. The 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. The disclosure relates to schemes for improving an operation of a terminal in an RRC inactive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim, Sangyeob Jung, Alexander Sayenko
  • Patent number: 11509626
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to analyzing historical network capacity allocations, using machine learning to predict future capacity needs and automating network capacity management activities such as allocations and de-allocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Prasanna Sagar Maddu, Pradeep Sai Ramisetty, Krishna Chaitanya Marreddy
  • Patent number: 11510112
    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: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Ozcan Ozturk, Gavin Bernard Horn, Punyaslok Purkayastha
  • Patent number: 11510115
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method. According to the method, a mark is added to a data packet. After user equipment is handed over from an original device to a target device, and before a user plane network element receives a handover notification, the user plane network element sends, through a path used before handover, a data packet that carries a first mark to the original device. The original device modifies the first mark in the data packet to a second mark, and then forwards, to the target device, a data packet whose mark is modified and that carries the second mark. After receiving the handover notification, the user plane network element sends, to the target device, a data packet that carries a fourth mark. The target device can distinguish between sources of the received data packets based on different marks in the received data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Xinpeng Wei, Fei Yang, Zhe Chen
  • Patent number: 11510223
    Abstract: A system, an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for transmission of data packets using wireless data priority services in wireless communications system. A priority level for a user equipment is determined. Based on the determined priority level for the user equipment, an admission control procedure to reserve transmission capacity for the user equipment is executed. Based on the determined priority level for the user equipment and the reserved transmission capacity, at least one data packet for transmission to and/or from the user equipment is scheduled. Based on the scheduling, the data packet is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Altiostar Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Si Nguyen, Shabbir A. Bagasrawala
  • Patent number: 11510221
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communication method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: determining priority of information related to the V2X communication; selecting a transmission time interval (TTI) on the basis of the priority; and transmitting the information on the basis of the selected TTI. If the information related to the V2X communication is information having high priority, a first TTI is selected, and if the information related to the V2X communication is information having relatively lower priority than the information having high priority, a second TTI is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hyukjin Chae, Youngtae Kim, Kijun Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Hanjun Park
  • Patent number: 11510253
    Abstract: A random access control method can be applied to electronic devices and include: determining, when a medium access control layer receives a beam failure instance indication sent by a physical layer, whether a count value of a beam failure indication counter is greater than or equal to a preset value; detecting, when the count value of the beam failure indication counter is greater than or equal to the preset value, whether the electronic device is currently performing a random access; triggering, when the electronic device is not currently performing the random access, a new random access. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the user device can be prevented from occupying resources for a contention free random access (CFRA) for a long time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11503524
    Abstract: A method for changing a communication network for video communication is provided. The method includes performing, by a user equipment (UE), video communication through a mobile communication network; searching for whether there is a wireless local area network (WLAN) accessible by the UE; displaying, if a WLAN accessible by the UE is found, the accessible WLAN; and when the displayed WLAN is selected by a user, changing a communication network for the video communication to perform the video communication through the selected WLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Rae Cho, Sun-Ae Kim, Ji-Young Kwahk, Hyun-Joo Oh
  • Patent number: 11503555
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for dynamically adjusting the access link timing alignment at the integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node. Specifically, features of the present disclosure provide techniques for signaling to one or more child nodes the timing advance and timing offset values associated with each operational mode of the IAB node that may impact the access link timing for the child node (for uplink and/or downlink transmissions). Additionally or alternatively, aspects of the present disclosure identify whether a gap period may be included in order to ensure that the child node has sufficient time to transition between states during the transition period (e.g., from downlink to uplink) when the IAB node dynamically adjusts the access link timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11503525
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a connectivity handover operation. The connectivity handover operation includes: identifying a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) link, the WWAN link having an associated WWAN location quality identifier; identifying a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) link, the WLAN link having an associated WLAN location quality identifier; monitoring the associated WWAN location quality identifier and the associated WLAN location quality indicator; determining whether the WWAN link should be activated based upon the associated WLAN location quality identifier; and, performing the connectivity handover operation based upon the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Harpreet S. Narula, Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Minho Cheong, Liam B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 11502947
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a gateway label edge router (G-LER) receives a packet destined for a mobile domain that comprises a vehicle label edge router. The G-LER identifies, from among a plurality of primary domains, a particular primary domain that currently has a label switched connection with the mobile domain. The label switched connection connects the vehicle label edge router of the mobile domain and a cluster label edge router of the particular primary domain. The G-LER sends the packet to the cluster label edge router of the particular primary domain for transmission to the vehicle label edge router via the label switched connection. The G-LER tracks when the vehicle label edge router of the mobile domain establishes a new label switched connection with a second cluster label edge router of a different primary domain in the plurality of primary domains than that of the particular primary domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: FLUIDMESH NETWORKS S.R.I.
    Inventors: Luca Bisti, Alessandro Erta, Umberto Malesci
  • Patent number: 11496629
    Abstract: A spectrum access system (SAS) grants one or more channels of a shared spectrum to a base station, e.g., in response to receiving a registration request from the base station. The SAS increments a usage of a connection between the base station and the SAS in response to the SAS receiving information indicating that the base station has an active connection with the apparatus during a service time interval. The processor does not increment the usage if the base station does not have an active connection with the apparatus during the service time interval. In some cases, the active connection is indicated by heartbeat messages exchanged between the base station and the SAS. A customer associated with the base station is charged a cost based on the usage determined by the SAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Mohammad Riaz Khawer, Milind M. Buddhikot
  • Patent number: 11496990
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for positioning of a mobile device in a wireless network using directional positioning reference signals (PRS), also referred to as PRS beamforming. In an example method, a plurality of directional PRSs are generated for at least one cell for a base station, such that each of the plurality of directional PRSs comprises at least one signal characteristic and a direction of transmission, either or both of which may be distinct or unique. The plurality of directional PRSs is transmitted within the at least one cell, such that each of the plurality of directional PRSs is transmitted in the direction of transmission. A mobile device may acquire and measure at least one of the directional PRSs which may be identified using the associated signal characteristic. The measurement may be used to assist position methods such as OTDOA and ECID and to mitigate multipath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen William Edge, Sven Fischer, Rayman Pon
  • Patent number: 11497079
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for performing discontinuous reception (DRX) in a wireless communication system. An operating method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes detecting a wake-up signal (WUS), and determining whether to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a paging message for a specific time occasion based on the WUS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Alexander Sayenko, Seungri Jin, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11496382
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for recording a routing path within a network packet. In particular, the embodiments provide a mechanism to modify a payload of a network packet to include a hop identifier that uniquely corresponds to the computing device on both a forward path and a return path. The system is configured to return the network packet if an ingress address of the computing device matches a destination address of the network packet. Accordingly, in certain embodiments, a single network packet records in the payload a forward path and return path of the network packet through the network. The solution is inexpensive, simply implemented, and easily executed without relying on new hardware and/or software applications executed at an origin computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick P. Hunter
  • Patent number: 11490318
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to migrating a communication session from a path including a stressed user plane function (UPF) to a path including a replacement UPF. A communication session may traverse a first path including the first UPF. After establishing the communication session, the first UPF may be determined to be stressed. In response, the communication session can be proactively migrated to a second path including a second UPF. According to various implementations, the existing communication session can be maintained during the migration, thereby substantially eliminating interruptions caused by the stressed first UPF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Suliman Albasheir, Boris Antsev, Christopher H. Joul, Rahul Pal, Suresh Thanneeru, Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Salvador Mendoza, Rushabhkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 11490246
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a network component (e.g., eNB) of a terrestrial wireless communication subscriber network determines whether a drone-coupled user equipment (UE) is engaged in a flying state based upon one or more wireless signals transmitted by the drone-coupled UE. The determination can occur in a variety of ways, such as based on a message from the drone-coupled UE itself (e.g., an express flying-state notification from the drone-coupled UE, a request particular to a flying state, a measurement reporting message, an identifier used by the drone-coupled UE, uplink signal strength measurement(s) or uplink AoA measurements, whether any intervening base station(s) were skipped over in conjunction with a handoff of the drone-coupled UE, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Umesh Phuyal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Haris Zisimopoulos, Masato Kitazoe
  • Patent number: 11490443
    Abstract: A data transmission method, a data transmission apparatus, and a session management device are provided. The data transmission method includes obtaining state information of a UE to which downlink data is destined; selecting, for the UE, a first gateway function entity for transmission of the current downlink data according to the state information of the UE; determining a first data transmission path between the first gateway function entity and a second gateway function entity; and performing the transmission of the downlink data according to the first data transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hucheng Wang, Ming Ai, Yunjing Hou
  • Patent number: 11490306
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for reducing likelihood of selecting a cell identified by a Radio Access Network (RAN) Notification Area ID (RNA ID) that is different from that identifying a last or current serving cell so as to avoid an RNA update procedure; reducing Random Access Channel (RACH) transmissions for an RNA update procedure and a mobile originated (MO) data transmission in response to a Radio Resource Control (RRC) triggered RNA update procedure; and selecting a band or beam in a multi-band/beam cellular system that improves RACH efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Vijay Venkataraman, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Li Su, Sharad Garg, Syed A. Rahim, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Jia Tang, Vijay Gadde, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Muhammad Saad
  • Patent number: 11490358
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for supporting paging of a low complexity UE, including: determining, by a target base station during handover of a UE, whether a source base station during the handover supports low complexity UE, and transmitting paging capability information of the UE to a Mobility Management Entity MME in response to determining that the source base station does not support low complexity UE, wherein the paging capability information of the UE is used by the MME for paging the UE. The method provided by embodiments of the present disclosure is able to enhance paging with respect to the low complexity UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Xiaowan Ke
  • Patent number: 11489765
    Abstract: A data processing method and device, and a computer readable storage medium, the data processing method, applied to a node in an Information-Centric Network (ICN), includes: acquiring a first offset address corresponding to a first ICN packet; querying a record pointed to by the first offset address and performing data processing according to a query result; the record pointed to by the first offset address is used to store a storage address of a second ICN packet or forwarding information of the second ICN packet in response to the second ICN packet corresponding to the first ICN packet being stored locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yansong Wang, Fangwei Hu, Guangping Huang, Zhuo Li, Kaihua Liu
  • Patent number: 11489690
    Abstract: A method of storing a communication path between neighboring home-control networks is provided. Each home-control network includes a network controller and a plurality of network devices. Each network device is configured to transmit and receive messages using at least one of powerline signaling and radio frequency signaling. A server receives a notification from a first network controller indicating that a first network device within a first home-control network received a message transmitted from a second network device within a second home-control network. The server stores an indication of a communication path from the server to the first network device via the second home-control network in a memory of the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SMARTLABS, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Brian Cregg
  • Patent number: 11489782
    Abstract: A system for optimizing network traffic is described. The system includes a transport communication protocol (TCP) controller configured to acquire data regarding a flow of a plurality of data packets over a link and to determine TCP characteristics for the flow, a traffic prioritization module configured to assign a flow priority to the flow, and a traffic priority controller configured detect congestion on the link and determine a congestion window size for the flow based on the flow priority and the TCP characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chaitra Maraliga Ramaiah, Praveen Raja Dhanabalan
  • Patent number: 11490291
    Abstract: A first base station receives, from a second base station, a message comprising a network slice configuration parameter associated with a closed access group that one or more cells of the second base station support. The first base station determines based on the network slice configuration parameter, a handover for the wireless device to a cell of the one or more cells. The first base station sends, to the second base station, a request message for the handover, the request message comprising an identifier of the closed access group of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Peyman Talebi Fard, Esmael Dinan, Jinsook Ryu, Kyungmin Park, Weihua Qiao, Jayshree Bharatia
  • Patent number: 11490298
    Abstract: A method (420) performed by a network node (102, 700, 800, 960a, 1320) for channel selection for inter-frequency handover. The method comprises generating (400) information usable by a user equipment (UE) (101, 500, 600, 910a, 1330) for determining a sequence of channels to be successively measured by the UE for availability for inter-frequency handover. The method comprises transmitting (410) the information to the UE. A method (320) performed by a wireless device for measuring channels available for inter-frequency handover. The method comprises determining (300) a channel order defining a sequence of channels to be successively measured for availability for inter-frequency handover. The method comprises performing (310) measurement of the channels according to the channel order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Joel Berglund, Henrik Rydén, Mirsad Cirkic
  • Patent number: 11483744
    Abstract: A wireless communication method is provided to comprise: receiving, by a first computing device, a notification that a wireless communication device that has previously established a protocol data unit session via a first network access has registered for a second network access; and establishing, by the first computing device, one or more quality of service (QoS) flows for the protocol data unit session for the wireless communication device over the second network access by transmitting, to a second computing device, a message that includes information to associate the one or more quality of service (QoS) flows with the second network access, and wherein the first computing device is configured to carry out a session management function and the second computing device is configured to carry out an access and mobility management function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jinguo Zhu, Xingyue Zhou, Fei Lu, Shuang Liang
  • Patent number: 11483886
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods relate to performing Internet Protocol (IP) Media Subsystem (IMS) bearer activation and radio bearer activation at different times. In some embodiments, a radio bearer is activated after the IMS bearer is activated. The radio bearer that is activated after the IMS bearer is activated may utilize a different Radio Access Technology (RAT) than an initial radio bearer. In certain instances, a device initiates activation of the radio bearer upon receiving confirmation that the IMS bearer is activated, or initiates activation of the radio bearer a predetermined period of time after initiating activation of the IMS bearer. In various embodiments, staggered IMS bearer activation and radio bearer activation can prevent collisions at components of an Evolved Packet Core (EPC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11481173
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which is provided to display advertisement information on a display apparatus installed with a display surface directed to a road, is configured to execute acquisition of a traveling situation of a vehicle which travels on the road; selection of a first display form or a second display form having an amount of information larger than that of the first display form, as the display form of the advertisement information on the basis of the traveling situation; and display of the advertisement information on the display apparatus in the display form selected on the basis of the traveling situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Harunobu Saito, Daiki Kaneichi, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Megumi Amano, Masato Endo, Tae Sugimura
  • Patent number: 11480442
    Abstract: An output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of a user is allowed to timely output information desired by the user. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure is an information processing apparatus to be used by a mobile user, the information processing apparatus comprising a controller which executes acquisition of a content designated by the user; specification of an output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of the user; and transmission of the acquired content to the specified output apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Harunobu Saito, Daiki Kaneichi, Ryotaro Fujiwara, Megumi Amano, Masato Endo, Tae Sugimura
  • Patent number: 11483891
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method and system for performing a bearer type change of a plurality of radio bearers configured for a User Equipment (UE). The proposed method includes changing the bearer type of specific bearer by the network. Further, the proposed method includes checking any changes in keys or Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) termination point or PDCP version change. Furthermore, the proposed method includes notifying the UE to change the bearer type either through reconfiguration procedure without handover or Secondary Node (SN) change procedure or reconfiguration procedure with handover or SN change procedure. The network indicates one or more operations to the UE for performing the bearer type change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Neha Sharma, Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11483743
    Abstract: This application discloses a handover method to hand over relay UE and remote UE between different eNBs. The handover method includes: a source eNB determines based on a measurement report of the relay UE, to hand over the relay UE to a target eNB; sends a first handover required message to a source MME of the relay UE and sends a second handover required message to a source MME of the remote UE; the source MME sends a mobility management context of the remote UE and a mobility management context of the relay UE to a target MME to which the target eNB belongs; the target MME receives a redirection request message from the source MME; and sends information about the remote UE and information about the relay UE to the target eNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiangwei Ying