Contiguous Regions Interconnected By A Local Area Network Patents (Class 370/338)
  • Patent number: 11800373
    Abstract: A system and method for 3D propagation modelling for planning of a radio network, is disclosed. In the present invention, automatic tuning of propagation path loss parameters of a Continuous Wave (CW) based 3D propagation model for LOS (line of sight) and NLOS (non-line of sight) radio transmissions in a first geographical area, is performed. Further, in the present invention, 3D propagation models for remaining geographies having similar geographical area and clutter types as the first geographical area, are generated without performing any drive test while compensating the propagation path loss parameters of the generated model using periodically measured user equipment (UE) data. The generated 3D models may be updated dynamically as the 3D models are developed based on UE data updated from time to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Jio Platforms Limited
    Inventors: Deepak Gupta, Gaurav Dalwadi, Brijesh Shah, Nekiram Khosaya
  • Patent number: 11799540
    Abstract: A system includes control circuitry that obtains data from a repeater device of a network of repeater devices. A plurality of signal propagation indicators is determined, and a three-dimensional representation of a geographical area is generated based on the obtained data and the determined plurality of signal propagation indicators. The obtained data includes information of movement of a plurality of objects in the geographical area. A location and movement of a plurality of user devices is tracked and a beamforming scheme is selected for one or more repeater devices based on the generated three-dimensional representation and the movement of the plurality of objects. An out-of-band control of operations of the network of repeater devices is executed based on the generated three-dimensional representation, the selected beamforming scheme, the movement of the plurality of objects, and the tracked location and movement of the plurality of user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AR & NS Investment, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Arman Rofougaran, Alireza Tarighat Mehrabani
  • Patent number: 11792860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method in a wireless network comprising an access point and stations. The method comprises, at a station: receiving a trigger frame from the access point, the trigger frame reserving a transmission opportunity on at least one communication channel of the wireless network, the transmission opportunity including a random resource unit that the stations may access using a contention scheme; receiving parameters of the contention scheme in management frames from the access point, the parameters comprising a contention window range; contending access to the random resource unit of the transmission opportunity reserved by the received trigger frame, using a contention window value; and updating the contention window value based on the success or failure of the access to the random resource unit. The updated contention window value remains within the contention window range obtained from the most recently received contention scheme parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Pascal Viger, Stéphane Baron, Julien Sevin, Patrice Nezou
  • Patent number: 11789579
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for introducing asynchronous messaging concepts into a synchronous messaging system. As a conversation is carried out, different topics may be identified and highlighted as separate threads within the conversation. A new thread may be identified based on a number of factors, including (for example) time between messages, questions raised in a communication, discussions of dates, the inclusion of links, and any mentions of specific names. The beginning and/or end of a thread may be identified. Users may be notified of new messages on a thread-by-thread basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Carl Ertmann, Charles Donald Deets, Jr., Daniel M Giuditta
  • Patent number: 11791564
    Abstract: A system tests a device under test (DUT) that includes an antenna. The system includes a probe antenna, a network emulator, and a near-field antenna. The probe antenna measures beam characteristics of a beam-locked beam emitted over the air by the antenna of the DUT as the DUT is moved relative to the probe antenna during testing of the DUT. The network emulator emulates a base station of a communications network in communications with the DUT. The near-field antenna maintains a call link between the network emulator and the DUT using surface waves between the near-field antenna and the DUT as the DUT is moved relative to the probe antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory S. Lee, Dieter W. Vook
  • Patent number: 11792883
    Abstract: An Ethernet protocol data unit (PDU) over 5G service is provided. A network device in a core network stores addresses of advertised subnets, associated with multiple user equipment or customer premises equipment (UE/CPE) devices, in a subnet table that correlates a MAC address of each of the multiple UE/CPE devices to a subnet address. The network device receives an allocation and retention priority (ARP) request over a data link layer. The ARP request indicates an IP address for a target host of a data flow. The network device determines, based on the subnet table and the IP address, a MAC address of one UE/CPE device servicing the host address. The network device sends a directed ARP request to the UE/CPE device using the MAC address, receives in response a target MAC address for the target host, and sends a response to the ARP request with the target MAC address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kiritkumar Joshi, Jose M. Verger, Samirkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 11792043
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for governing VPN access using a device remote from a VPN endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Karl Seanor
  • Patent number: 11791918
    Abstract: A system and method of propagating signal links by using artificial neural networks and a relay link selection protocol to predict an optimal signal path. The artificial neural networks used in the method classify training and testing datasets into sufficient signal strengths and insufficient signal strengths, such that paths are evaluated for predicted propagation links, such that the strongest propagation link can be selected. Specifically, a multilayer perceptron method is used to identify and characterize new link candidates using the path loss parameter or the received signal strength, such that optimal links can be selected and updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventor: Saud Mobark Aldossari
  • Patent number: 11789910
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing data beacons are disclosed. In some embodiments the system can include a first node and a second node. Each node includes a read queue, a write queue and a parallel file system. Data is written from the write queue on the first node to the parallel file system on the second node and from the write queue on the second node to the parallel file system on the first node. The read queue on each node receives data from the parallel file system on the node itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: UMBRA TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventor: Joseph E. Rubenstein
  • Patent number: 11791970
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wireless communication method of an access point, wherein the wireless communication method comprises: generating a PPDU according to a traffic of the access point, wherein the PPDU includes a preamble and SIG field, a first data field, a midamble and SIG field and a second data field in sequence, the preamble and SIG field includes information of a first station and a first resource unit allocated to the first station, and the midamble and signal SIG field includes information of a second station and the first resource unit that is reallocated to the second station; transmitting the preamble and SIG field; using the first resource unit to transmit data corresponding to the first data field to the first station; transmitting the midamble and SIG field; and using the first resource unit to transmit data corresponding to the second data field to the second station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Tsai-Yuan Hsu, Chien-Fang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11784692
    Abstract: A first communication device transmits a null data packet (NDP) to a second communication device as part of a multi-user beamforming training transmission sequence and receives a first packet from the second communication device responsive to transmitting the NDP. The first packet includes an aggregate media access control protocol data unit (A-MPDU) having a plurality of fragments of beamforming training information that was generated by the second communication device based on the NDP. The first communication device determines that one or more of the fragments were not correctly received by the first communication device and generates a bitmap to indicate a set of at least one fragment that is to be retransmitted by the second communication device. The first communication device transmits a second packet having the bitmap to the second communication device to prompt the second communication device to retransmit the set of at least one fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, Yakun Sun, Rui Cao, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 11785509
    Abstract: A method is provided for avoiding context transfers by a first Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) connected to a first gNB to a second AMF when a user equipment (UE) in idle mode moves from the first gNB to a second gNB. The method may include provisioning the first AMF and the second AMF with the same tracking area identity (TAI), the first AMF and the second AMF s being connected to a respective enterprise gNB. The method may also include configuring the 5G packet core network comprising a session management function (SMF) in communications with the first AMF and the second AMF, to avoid transferring a UE context from the first AMF to the second AMF when the user equipment (UE) in the idle mode moves from a first AMF to the second AMF. The UE context remains with the first AMF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Anal Srivastava, Sangram Kishore Lakkaraju
  • Patent number: 11784767
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a transmission signal generator which, in operation, generates a transmission signal that includes a legacy preamble, a non-legacy preamble and a data field, wherein the non-legacy preamble comprises a first signal field and a second signal field, the second signal field comprising a first channel field for a first subband channel and, when the transmission signal occupies more than one subband channel, the second signal field further comprising a second channel field for a second subband channel different from the first subband channel, each of the first channel field and the second channel field comprising a user-specific field that includes a plurality of user fields, each user field carrying per-user allocation information for corresponding one of one or more terminal stations, and wherein the plurality of user fields are split equitably between the first channel field and the second channel field when a full bandwidth that covers the first subb
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Rojan Chitrakar, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 11785487
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a counting method, a terminal device, a chip, a computer readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. The method includes maintaining at least one counter, the at least one counter being used to record how many times first indication information is received; and determining to increase a count value of a counter corresponding to the first indication information based on received first indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 11778594
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for aggregating Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) destined for different peers, and may have the same or different source address information, e.g., within the same or across different virtual access points (VAPs). For example, trigger frames used to signal to devices which subchannel(s) those devices can utilize, may be aggregated. For example, a multi-VAP/multi-device block acknowledgement for acknowledging packets transmitted to devices belonging to different VAPs can be sent as an aggregated MPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Abhiruchi Dakshinkar, Gaurav Patwardhan, Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj
  • Patent number: 11777851
    Abstract: Enabling routing of traffic to/from a roaming host node roaming from a subnet of a home network to a visited network, the host node assigned an IP address in the home network, comprising configuring, in a router of the visited network, a subnet by assigning an IP address range to the subnet, which is in the same IP address range of the subnet of the home network; configuring a tunnel between a router of the home network and the router; configuring a static route to route traffic from a host node destined to the roaming host node; and configuring the router by applying a routing policy enabling the roaming host node to reply to received traffic from said host node received from a first interface and route traffic from the roaming host node through a network interconnecting the router of the visited network and the router of the home network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Babak Tamizkar
  • Patent number: 11778688
    Abstract: A method for enabling autonomous emergency assistance for a communication device, CD, registered in a regular cellular network is presented. The method is performed in an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, and comprises directing the UAV to a geographical region connected to a preregistered position of the CD, emulating a cellular network in the geographical region, wherein the UAV and the CD are without connectivity with the regular cellular network, and providing autonomous emergency assistance for the CD in the geographical region. A CD, a UAV, a computer program and a computer program product are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Tommy Arngren, Jonas Pettersson, Ylva Timner, Min Wang, Stefan Wänstedt
  • Patent number: 11777700
    Abstract: A ground station communicates with a satellite having a field of view (FOV), the satellite directly communicating with user equipment (UE) over uplink signals and downlink signals. The ground station has a Dynamic Time Division Duplex (DTDD) controller configured to establish UE uplink time slots during which the UE sends UE uplink signals, the UE uplink time slots based on a unique delay for the UE, whereby UE uplink signals are received at the satellite during a same satellite uplink time slot. The controller avoids overlapping uplink and downlink signals being received at the satellite, as well as at the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: AST & Science, LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Zhong Yu, Federico Pedro Fawzi
  • Patent number: 11778690
    Abstract: An access point (AP) allocates a broadcast resource unit (RU), and ii) one or more other RUs for a multi-user physical layer protocol data unit (MU PPDU). The AP generates the MU PPDU to include i) a physical layer (PHY) preamble, and ii) a management medium access control layer (MAC) frame in the broadcast RU. When the AP device is allowing unassociated stations to associate with the AP device, the AP device sets a station identifier in the PHY preamble corresponding to the broadcast RU to a first value that indicates the AP device is allowing unassociated stations to associate with the AP device. When the AP device is not allowing unassociated stations to associate with the AP device, the AP device sets the station identifier to a second value that indicates the AP device is not allowing unassociated stations to associate with the AP device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 11777844
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for distributing link state information are provided. Network nodes propagate link state information via a control plane flooding operation. A first network node can initiate this propagation in response to a local link state change. In addition, some network nodes can via data plane messaging to transmit link state information to a remote node of the network. The remote node responds to the message by initiating a control plane flooding operation at that location. The remote node can be selected based on a variety of criteria, such as network traffic conditions, location, or network topology. Multiple remote nodes can be prompted in this manner to initiate flooding operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mehdi Arashmid Akhavain Mohammadi, Michael Mayer, Peter Ashwood-Smith
  • Patent number: 11778046
    Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system capable of preventing a number of control signals, which could occur in a mobile communication network, from occurring when a VM is deleted in a node device without suspending a service. A communication system according to the present invention includes a communication device 1, and a communication device 2 configured to control a plurality of sessions set between the communication devices 1 and 2 by using a plurality of VMs, in which the communication device 2 notifies, by using a determination that a plurality of sessions that are controlled between the communication device 1 and a VM 3 should be controlled in a VM 4 different from the VM 3 as a trigger, the communication device 1 of identification information used in the VM 4 and updates the sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11770224
    Abstract: A method and system for implementing a guaranteed observance window is provided. Specifically, the guaranteed observance window may be implemented in telecommunication. The method may include determining an available message size, determining an observance window, and setting a time slot sensitivity based on the message size and the desired observance window. The method may further include detecting a first event, setting a first bit of a message to a logic high when the first event is detecting, and advancing a location of the first bit within the message with the passage of each time intervals that correspond to the time slot sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Preddio Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron T. Ganick, Scott Kelly, Brian Rheaume
  • Patent number: 11770798
    Abstract: A surveillance method performed by a surveillance apparatus is provided. The surveillance method includes determining whether an event has occurred based on detection data; in response to determining that the event has occurred based on the detection data, transmitting a first wireless communication to an outside of the surveillance apparatus by using a second communicator at a second frequency and switching a power-off state of a first communicator to a power-on state; and transmitting a second wireless communication, corresponding to the event, to the outside by using the first communicator at a first frequency higher than the second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jimin Kim, Kiyong Jeon
  • Patent number: 11765674
    Abstract: A wireless communications method for connecting a base station with each of a plurality of terminal stations set to differ in basic rate, the base station being equipped with a plurality of wireless communications units configured to be connectable with one or more of the terminal stations, includes: a collection step of collecting information about a transmission rate set for each of the terminal stations; a policy calculation step of calculating a setting policy for setting a basic rate permitted for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations, based on each item of the collected information about transmission rates; and a setting step of setting those of the terminal stations which are to be connected, for each of the wireless communications units based on the calculated setting policy and switching policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11765710
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling transmit power in a wireless local area network (WLAN). For example, a station may receive, from an access point (AP), a beacon frame that includes a field indicating a maximum transmission power for at least one of a plurality of operational bandwidth that the AP supports. The station may determine a transmission power for a signal to be transmitted to the AP based on the at least one of the plurality of operational bandwidths indicated in the received beacon. The station may then transmit the signal at the determined transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marian Rudolf, Vincent Roy
  • Patent number: 11765581
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to provide for the ability to optimize the caching of Fast Transition (FT) hierarchical keys based on a derived or statically defined neighbor relationship between wireless wide area (WWA) access network nodes and wireless local area (WLA) access network nodes and also user equipment (UE) mobility triggers in the WWA access network. In one example, a method may include instructing a UE to report detection of a WLA access network and based, at least in part, on obtaining a notification via a WWA access node indicating UE detection of the WLA access network, identifying WLA access nodes that neighbor the WWA access node. The method may further include generating FT key material for the UE and communicating a portion of the FT key material to the WLA access nodes that neighbor the WWA access node to facilitate authenticating the UE to the WLA access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Srinath Gundavelli
  • Patent number: 11765782
    Abstract: A system for monitoring and resolving issues associated with network connectivity. A first device may connect to an access point to communicatively couple with other computing devices on a network, such as a remote device. The first device and/or the remote device may monitor, in real-time, a health of network connection to provide one or more recommendations for resolving connectivity issues and/or instructing a second device to establish a connection with the first device. The connection may permit the first device to communicatively couple to the remote device via the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amit Kamlakar Rane
  • Patent number: 11758527
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide improved methods and systems for managing spectrum by intelligently allocating specific channels from a pool of available spectrum channels used to serve content. For example, one or more sources may send “content service requests” over a network to request the delivery of content, which may be any type or amount of data. In accordance with the disclosed embodiments, a spectrum management service (SMS) receives a content service request for delivery of a content over a wireless access network, and it allocates spectrum for serving the requested content in the wireless access network based on at least one radio-frequency criterion and at least one criterion relating to the content. Further to the disclosed embodiments, the SMS issues a message to a transmission center in the wireless access network indicating the allocated spectrum that may be used to serve the content in the wireless access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: FEDERATED WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventor: Deepak Das
  • Patent number: 11757522
    Abstract: A system includes control circuitry that obtains data from a repeater device of a network of repeater devices. A plurality of signal propagation indicators is determined, and a three-dimensional representation of a geographical area is generated based on the obtained data and the determined plurality of signal propagation indicators. The obtained data includes information of movement of a plurality of objects in the geographical area. A location and movement of a plurality of user devices is tracked and a beamforming scheme is selected for one or more repeater devices based on the generated three-dimensional representation and the movement of the plurality of objects. An out-of-band control of operations of the network of repeater devices is executed based on the generated three-dimensional representation, the selected beamforming scheme, the movement of the plurality of objects, and the tracked location and movement of the plurality of user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: AR & NS Investment, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Arman Rofougaran, Alireza Tarighat Mehrabani
  • Patent number: 11757585
    Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and a related apparatus. The method includes: A network device generates a first physical layer protocol data unit PPDU. The first PPDU includes a first universal-Signaling field U-SIG field and a first extremely high throughput-Signaling field EHT-SIG field, a sum of a quantity of information bits of the first U-SIG field and a quantity of information bits of the first EHT-SIG field is less than or equal to 78 information bits, and at least one of the first U-SIG field and the first EHT-SIG field includes an identifier indication field, where the identifier indication field is used to uniquely identify one station. The network device sends an encoded first PPDU to a station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Yu, Mengshi Hu, Ming Gan
  • Patent number: 11758515
    Abstract: A method and device is disclosed to select a network access link for an application in a user equipment (UE) device to use for communicating with a network. The method may include determining a plurality of network access links associated with the UE device and determining one or more criteria associated with a request to access a network. The criteria may include throughput, financial cost, latency, or signal strength. The method may include determining a score for each of the plurality of network access links with respect to the criteria. The score score may be based on historical data related to the criteria. The method may include comparing the score for each of the plurality of network access links with the criteria and selecting one of the network access links for an application to use to communicate with the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Arda Aksu, Lalit R. Kotecha, Vishwanath Ramamurthi, Donna L. Polehn
  • Patent number: 11751244
    Abstract: A method performed in an entity for transmitting in a communications system. The method comprises assessing a channel to be available for transmission by establishing an on-going transmission to have a received signal strength such as to allow simultaneous transmission in view of a first clear channel assessment threshold; establishing type of transmission of the on-going transmission; and determining, based on the established type of transmission, whether to transmit or to defer transmitting. A corresponding entity, computer programs and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Filip Mestanov, Johan Söder, Soma Tayamon, Yu Wang, Gustav Wikström
  • Patent number: 11751270
    Abstract: For providing data of an apparatus for applications, routing of the data via a communication node is provided. In this case, the apparatus communicates the data wirelessly to the communication node. This necessitates pairing the apparatus with the communication node beforehand, which is carried out with the aid of an installation key. The data transfer itself is then secured with a connection key defined during the pairing. If replacing or reconnecting the communication node necessitates carrying out re-pairing, at least one criterion relating to the reachability of the communication node is checked and the lack of reachability as per the criterion is made into the prerequisite for using the installation key instead of the connection key for re-pairing. At least one embodiment of the invention increases protection against interferers wanting to access the apparatus in an unauthorized manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Johann Dorrer
  • Patent number: 11751191
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method performed by a station to identify the maximum allowed transmit power spectral density (PSD) of a basic service set (BSS), including: receiving, by the station, a first field from an access point (AP) of the BSS, wherein the first field indicates that the BSS bandwidth is set to M times a unit channel bandwidth; receiving, by the station, a set of second fields from the AP, wherein the set of second fields includes K fields corresponding to K channels and wherein each of the K second fields indicates the maximum allowed transmit PSD for the K channels and the bandwidth of the channel is the unit channel bandwidth; and identifying, by the station, the maximum allowed transmit PSD of the M channels of the BSS bandwidth from the first M consecutive second fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, Yi-Ling Chao, Hongyuan Zhang, Huiling Lou, Young Hoon Kwon, Rui Cao
  • Patent number: 11751242
    Abstract: New radio (NR) unlicensed (NR-U) multi-channel access is disclosed for low-radio frequency (RF)-capable user equipment (UE). A base station may enable multi-channel access when single operator operations cannot be guaranteed within a shared communication spectrum. The primary and secondary channels are defined within the shared communication channel. The base station may then transmit a configuration message to one or more low-RF UEs that identifies the charnels and directs the UEs to monitor the primary channel for a successful listen before talk (LBT) indicator. The base station performs an LBT procedure on the primary channel and the secondary channel and signals the low-RF UEs to re-tune to the secondary channel for communication during a current transmission opportunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Jing Sun, Yongbin Wei, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11750323
    Abstract: A method performed by a STA may comprise receiving data of a MU-HE-PPDU, from an AP. The MU-HE-PPDU may comprise a HE-SIG-A field, a first HE-SIG-B portion and a second HE-SIG-B portion. The first HE-SIG-B portion may be received on a first channel and the second HE-SIG-B portion may be received on a second channel which is different than the first channel. The first HE-SIG-B portion may include one or more STA identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hanging Lou, Oghenekome Oteri, Rui Yang, Robert Olesen, Guodong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11751098
    Abstract: A method and a device for receiving transmitting data in in a wireless local area network are provided. The device receives a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) from a station over a transmission bandwidth and determines whether the station is a member of a basic service set (BSS) managed by the device based on the PPDU. When the PPDU is a multi-user (MU)-PPDU, the AP determines that the station is not a member of the BSS managed by the AP. Such MU-PPDU includes a first signal field and a second signal field, the first signal field having bandwidth information indicating the transmission bandwidth, the second signal field having user-specific information with allocation for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Ho Seok
  • Patent number: 11751243
    Abstract: A method for selecting operational channels in a communication network including a plurality of gathering nodes connected together by cable links and wireless links. The method includes: for each branch, selecting and using at least one operational channel, and informing the other branches of the selection thereof, and determining whether there exists at least one selected operational channel in common between the branch and another; identifying at least one group of branches wherein each branch has at least one selected channel in common with another in the group and wherein each branch sees from a radio-propagation point of view at least one other branch in the set; for each group of branches identified, selecting at least one operational channel by realigning within the group the selections of at least one operational channel made by branch; for each group of branches, applying the channel selected by the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS
    Inventors: Massinissa Lalam, Laurent Alarcon, Stanislas Faye
  • Patent number: 11743803
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for device routing management are disclosed. A client device of a wireless network may roam from a first access point to a second access point of the wireless network. The second access point, or the client device itself, may send a network message indicating the client device is currently being served by the second access point. The message may cause a network mapping stored at the first access point and/or at each device associated with the wireless network to be updated to indicate the client device is associated with the second access point, thereby enabling proper routing of network traffic to the client device via the second access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Prasad Ramanahally Siddalinga, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Billy Stephens
  • Patent number: 11742693
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a vehicle telematics device is disclosed with a hibernate control circuit. The hibernate control circuit can selective switch battery power on and off to hibernatable circuits. The hibernate control circuit can be responsive to external main power availability, battery charge condition, and a periodic low frequency clock in the generation of a battery switch enable A power supply switch can be selectively controlled by the battery switch enable signal to switch battery power on and off to the hibernatable circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CALAMP CORP.
    Inventors: Russell Cook, Justin Flor
  • Patent number: 11742980
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for signaling mechanisms associated with transmission puncturing schemes for rateless coding. In some aspects, a transmitting device may encode a message using a rateless code associated with a cumulative encoding of various portions of the message and may perform transmission puncturing to adapt a bit rate of related signal transmissions. The transmitting device may signal an indication of the transmission puncturing scheme, and potentially one or more modifications to the transmission puncturing scheme, to a receiving device via control signaling. The transmitting device may modify the transmission puncturing scheme in accordance with prioritizing retransmissions for some cumulative portions of the message ahead of other cumulative portions, such as by granting prioritized cumulative portions of the message relatively earlier transmission occasions in the transmission puncturing scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: David Yunusov, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Assaf Touboul, Tal Oved, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
  • Patent number: 11743079
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for Uplink operation in LTE unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U). A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive licensed assisted access (LAA) configuration information, e.g., for a first cell from a second cell. The first cell may be associated with operation in an unlicensed band, and the second cell may be associated with operation in a licensed band. The WTRU may determine whether a first subframe is a sounding reference signal (SRS) subframe for the first cell. If the first subframe is an SRS subframe for the first cell, the WTRU may determine SRS resources for the first subframe and determine whether the WTRU is triggered to transmit an SRS transmission in the first subframe. If it is determined the WTRU is triggered to transmit the SRS transmission in the first subframe, the WTRU may transmit the SRS transmission on the SRS resources for the first subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Pouriya Sadeghi, J. Patrick Tooher, Samian Kaur, Marian Rudolf, Pascal M. Adjakple
  • Patent number: 11743230
    Abstract: A method enables communication between Session Management Function (SMF) and User Plane Function (UPF) instances which are separately deployed behind Network Address Translation (NAT) services. The method includes configuring an SMF or a UPF to initiate an association with a corresponding UPF or SMF. The SMF registers first information with a Network Repository Function (NRF) enabling the remote UPF to communicate with the SMF through a NAT service. The method further includes obtaining second information from the NRF enabling the SMF to communicate with the remote UPF through the NAT service. The method also includes sending an association request to the remote UPF based on the second information and receiving an association response from the remote UPF through the NAT service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble, Irfan Ali, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli, Ravi Shekhar
  • Patent number: 11741350
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a neural network model for implementation using a processing element array, where the neural network model includes a convolution operation on a set of input feature maps and a set of filters. The method also includes determining, based on the neural network model, that the convolution operation utilizes less than a threshold number of rows in the processing element array for applying a set of filter elements to the set of input feature maps, where the set of filter elements includes one filter element in each filter of the set of filters. The method further includes generating, for the convolution operation and based on the neural network model, a first instruction and a second instruction for execution by respective rows in the processing element array, where the first instruction and the second instruction use different filter elements of a filter in the set of filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Huynh, Ron Diamant, Hongbin Zheng, Yizhi Liu, Animesh Jain, Yida Wang, Vinod Sharma, Richard John Heaton, Randy Renfu Huang, Sundeep Amirineni, Drazen Borkovic
  • Patent number: 11743955
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing wireless functionality, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing faceplate-based wireless device functionality and wireless extension functionality. In various embodiments, one or more antennas, a power adapter, and at least one processor may be attached to an inner surface of a faceplate configured to be attached to a wall. The one or more antennas may be electrically coupled to the power adapter and communicatively coupled to the at least one processor. Alternatively, a wireless functionality device might include one or more antennas, a power adapter, and at least one processor. The wireless functionality device may be attached to an inner surface of a faceplate configured to be attached to a wall. The one or more antennas of the wireless functionality device may be electrically coupled to the power adapter and communicatively coupled to the at least one processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Luree Melvin, Gregory Wallace
  • Patent number: 11743913
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for compact downlink control information (DCI) signaling design for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). A method for wireless communications performed by a base station (BS) is provided. The method generally includes generating DCI, the DCI scheduling at least one transmission, according to a first DCI format. The first DCI format is compressed relative to a second DCI format and includes a carrier indicator field (CIF) and/or a rate-matching indicator field. The BS transmits the DCI to a user equipment (UE). The UE communicates with the BS based on the received DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Jing Jiang, Chih-Ping Li, Tingfang Ji, Linhai He
  • Patent number: 11736236
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for hybrid ARQ acknowledgement and retransmission requests for decoding failed MPDUs of an A-MPDU received by an STA. The source address and receiver address of a failed MPDU can be verified according to a MAC header CRC that can be included in an A-Control frame, for example. For verifying the source address and the receiver address in MAC header, according to some embodiments, the MAC header CRC is jointly calculated over the first two octets of the MPDU delimiter of an A-MPDU subframe. Moreover, a Hybrid ARQ frame is defined to include Block Ack Bitmap subfield representing the received status of a plurality of MPDUs according to starting sequence control number, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Mediatek Singapore PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Yongho Seok, Jianhan Liu, James Chih-Shi Yee, Thomas Edward Pare, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11736533
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for implementing a call service, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium, the method includes: deciding whether a first state of a terminal in an eMSC is consistent with a second state of the terminal in an IMS; if they are inconsistent, sending a registration request to the IMS to cause the terminal to complete an initial call service, wherein the eMSC does not subscribe to registration state information in the IMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yongsheng Miao, Jingxiang Liu, Lei Pan
  • Patent number: 11736978
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for receiving a common public radio interface (CPRI) data stream, a method and an apparatus for receiving an Ethernet frame, and a system, where a first network apparatus receives a first CPRI data stream using a CPRI of the first network apparatus, where the first network apparatus generates a segment of the first CPRI data stream according to the first CPRI data stream, the first network apparatus generates an Ethernet frame, where the Ethernet frame includes the segment of the first CPRI data stream and a CPRI data identifier, and the CPRI data identifier indicates that the Ethernet frame carries CPRI data, and the first network apparatus sends the Ethernet frame to a second network apparatus using an Ethernet interface of the first network apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11737016
    Abstract: Some of examples disclosed herein relate to classifying access points (APs). Some of the example may enable automatically classifying a set of APs based on at least one AP attribute of each AP in the set of APs, determining, based on the automatic classification, that a subset of APs in the set of APs are classified into a same class; and automatically determining a recommended configuration setting for the subset of APs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Jose Tellado, Bernd Bandemer, Yusuke Sakamoto