End-to-end Transmission System Patents (Class 375/133)
  • Patent number: 11974155
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may be configured with a frequency hopping pattern for communication between the UE and a base station, and also may be configured with a measurement gap pattern for measurement of one or more reference signals from one or more neighboring base stations. One or more switching timings of a set of switching timings of the frequency hopping pattern may be aligned with a reference point associated with the measurement gap pattern, which may provide aligned switching gaps in the frequency hopping pattern and the measurement gap pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Prashant Sharma, Changhwan Park, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11909519
    Abstract: Embodiments provide transfer methods. The method includes a step of transferring data of a first class from a data transmitter to a data receiver, wherein the data of the first class is transferred divided onto a first plurality of sub-data packets using a first hopping pattern. Furthermore, the method includes a step of transferring data of a second class from the data transmitter or a different data transmitter to the data receiver, wherein the data of the second class is transferred divided onto a second plurality of sub-data packets using a second hopping pattern, wherein transmission pauses between sub-data packets transferred according to the first hopping pattern are smaller than transmission pauses between sub-data packets transferred according to the second hopping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Guenter Rohmer, Maximilian Roth, Frank Nachtrab, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Michael Schlicht, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer
  • Patent number: 11728842
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support increasing a sidelink feedback channel reliability. A second user equipment (UE) may transmit a sidelink message to a first UE, and the first UE may provide feedback for the sidelink message via an associated feedback opportunity. The first UE may perform frequency hopping from one symbol to another during the feedback opportunity, may transmit the feedback using multiple physical resource blocks (PRBs) within one symbol of the feedback opportunity, or both. A pattern for frequency hopping, or for the multiple PRBs, or both, may be defined or determined by a base station, the first UE, the second UE, or any combination thereof. In some cases, a pattern for frequency hopping or for PRB bundling may be defined or preconfigured at the first UE, the second UE, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11711714
    Abstract: A device may receive threshold data identifying threshold ranges, and may receive, from a first access point of multiple access points, first network data identifying first quality measurement indicators associated with a first link. The device may determine whether a first quality of the first link is good, fair, or poor based on comparing the first network data and the threshold data, and may provide, to the first access point and when the first quality is determined to be poor, a request for second network data identifying second quality measurement indicators associated with multiple links between the device and the multiple access points. The device may receive, from the first access point, the second network data, and may select one of the multiple access points based on the second network data. The device may utilize a link associated with the one of the multiple access points to receive video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ganesan Rengaraju, Srinivasu Yelamarti, Anjaneya Pericharla
  • Patent number: 11671141
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information transmission method. The method includes that: a first communication node determines a resource or parameter for a second communication node to transmit a reference signal, and indicates the resource or parameter to the second communication node through signaling; and the second communication node receives the signaling transmitted by the first communication node, determines the resource or parameter for transmitting the reference signal based on the signaling or based on the signaling and a rule predefined by the first communication node and the second communication node, and uses the determined resource or parameter to transmit the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin Wang, Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li
  • Patent number: 11671118
    Abstract: A bit interleaving method involves applying a bit permutation process to bits of a QC-LDPC codeword made up of N cyclic blocks each including Q bits, and dividing the codeword after the permutation process into a plurality of constellation words each including M bits, the codeword being divided into F×N?/M folding sections (N? being a subset of N selected cyclic blocks and being a multiple of M/F), each of the constellation words being associated with one of the F×N?/M folding sections, and the bit permutation process being applied such that each of the constellation words includes F bits from each of M/F different cyclic blocks in a given folding section associated with a given constellation word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mihail Petrov
  • Patent number: 11528639
    Abstract: A system includes an IP communication unit that communicates by IP communication, a non-IP communication unit that communicates by non-IP communication for which a transmittable data size is smaller than the transmittable data size for IP communication, and a controller that controls a switching between communication by the IP communication unit and communication by the non-IP communication unit, such that communication is performed by non-IP communication in a case in which a size of data to transmit is equal to or less than a predetermined first size, and communication is performed by IP communication in the case in which the size of the data to transmit is greater than the first size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Teppei Aoki
  • Patent number: 11497031
    Abstract: A master station device connected to a secondary station device through a fronthaul includes a first base station signal processor having a first functional split configuration relating to a plurality of base station functional units for a first service type, and a second base station signal processor having a second functional split configuration relating to the plurality of base station functional units for a second service type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta Seki
  • Patent number: 11477766
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for uplink control information (UCI) reporting. In certain aspects, a method includes receiving an indication of a number of symbols of a subframe available for uplink transmission. In certain aspects, the method further includes rate matching uplink control information (UCI) to the subframe based on the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Chirag Sureshbhai Patel, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11474582
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate automated validation of power topology are provided. In various embodiments, a control component can transmit a transition command to a power-distribution node of a data center, wherein the transition command can cause an outlet of the power-distribution node to transition between power states. In various aspects, a verification component can verify that a power-consumption node of the data center is connected to the outlet by comparing a pre-transition power characteristic of the power-consumption node with a post-transition power characteristic of the power-consumption node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Lefurgy, Malcolm S. Allen-Ware, Amos A. Omokpo, Karthick Rajamani, Guillermo Jesus Silva
  • Patent number: 11477788
    Abstract: A method of operating a network on a plurality of frequency hopping channels is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a beacon on a beacon channel different from the frequency hopping channels and receiving a request from a node to join the network in response to the beacon. The method further includes adding the node to the network in response to the step of receiving and communicating with the node on the plurality of frequency hopping channels after the step of adding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Mark Schmidl, Ariton Xhafa, Arvind Khandalu Raghu
  • Patent number: 11456772
    Abstract: A network includes a first wireless node that communicates over a wireless network connection. The first wireless node includes a first encryption engine that processes a first initialization data set and a current transmit sequence associated with a current communication to generate a next transmit sequence that is employed to communicate with a second wireless node that derives a next received sequence that corresponds to the next transmit sequence to process a subsequent communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Ariton E. Xhafa, Xiaolin Lu, Janwei Zhou, Il Han Kim
  • Patent number: 11431527
    Abstract: Provided are a reference signal transmission method and device, a parameter sending method and device, a terminal and a base station. The reference signal transmission method includes: determining that frequency domain positions occupied by a reference signal satisfy a predetermined condition, where the predetermined condition includes: discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal; and transmitting the reference signal at the determined frequency domain positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, YuNgok Li, Yuxin Wang, Chuangxin Jiang, Hao Wu, Nan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11387862
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein CoMP communication can normally be performed without increasing the overhead of an upstream line control channel. In this apparatus, a spreading unit (214) primarily spreads a response signal by use of a ZAC sequence established by a control unit (209). A spreading unit (217) secondarily spreads the response signal, to which CP has been added, by use of a block-wise spread code sequence established by the control unit (209). The control unit (209) controls, in accordance with sequence numbers and a hopping pattern established therein, the circular shift amount of the ZAC sequence to be used for the primary spread in the spreading unit (214) and the block-wise spread code sequence to be used for the secondary spread in the spreading unit (217). The hopping pattern established in the control unit (209) is a hopping pattern common to a plurality of base stations that CoMP-receive the response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11368339
    Abstract: Provided are an SRS transmission method and device capable of realizing SRS transmission in a 5G system. The method comprises: receiving downlink control information (DCI) sent by a network device, wherein the DCI comprises SRS trigger information; and according to a transmission latency K, at or after a Kth time-domain resource unit after receiving the DCI, transmitting an SRS on an SRS resource in an SRS resource set indicated by the SRS trigger information, wherein K is an integer greater than or equal to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhong Chen, Zhihua Shi
  • Patent number: 11329702
    Abstract: A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) Bluetooth module with effectively suppressed mutual interference is disclosed. The MIMO Bluetooth module has multiple Bluetooth transceivers which operate in a synchronized transmission mode, in which no Bluetooth transceiver is permitted to transmit data when any of the Bluetooth transceivers are receiving data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Fang Hsu, Li-Chun Ko
  • Patent number: 11295103
    Abstract: A multifunctional handheld scanner includes a scanner main body (100) and a volume measuring module (200). The scanner main body (100) has a work surface (101) and a barcode capturing unit (102) exposed on the work surface (102). The volume measuring module (200) is disposed on the work surface (101) and has: photographic lenses (201a, 201b), an optical distance measuring unit (300) and an optical projection unit (400). The photographic lenses (201a, 201b) define a measuring zone (204). The optical distance measuring unit (300) is disposed corresponding to the measuring zone (204). The optical projection unit (400) projects an aiming indication cursor (410) toward a projection zone (401), wherein the projection zone (401) is located within the measuring zone (204).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CHAMPTEK INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Wang, Shu-Ying Huang, Cheng-Hsiang Hung
  • Patent number: 11240670
    Abstract: A domestic appliance, as provided herein, may include a cabinet, a user input positioned on an exterior of the cabinet, and a controller configured to initiate a commissioning operation. The commissioning operation may include opening a connection channel at a wireless access point on the domestic appliance according to a predetermined initial timeout period. The commissioning operation may further include establishing communication between a remote user interface device and the wireless access point via the open connection channel within the predetermined initial timeout period. The commissioning operation may still further include, in response to establishing communication, maintaining the connection channel between the user device and the wireless access point according to a predetermined extended timeout period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Michael Helms
  • Patent number: 11224047
    Abstract: A server device can effectively apply a network coexistence service to a mobile body whose location can change every moment. The server device includes a control unit configured to provide a plurality of lists in which an available frequency and transmission power of the frequency are described for each predetermined range determined on a basis of a predetermined criterion so that the frequency is not set in an overlapped manner in the same predetermined range, to an external device which uses the frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11206647
    Abstract: A wireless communications system configured to perform wireless communication by using a first band dedicated to the system and a second band shared by the system and another wireless communications system, the system including: a base station configured to transmit in the first band to the terminal, a control signal permitting data transmission in the second band from a terminal to the base station; and the terminal configured to detect an available carrier wave of the second band after a predetermined time from the transmission of the control signal by the base station, the terminal performing the data transmission after waiting until detection of the available carrier wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11206578
    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 system 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 method includes receiving, from a base station, scheduling information for a first uplink packet transmission in a first time slot, determining whether the first uplink packet transmission in the first time slot is restricted based on information corresponding to a second uplink packet transmission in the first time slot of another terminal, and if the first uplink packet transmission in the first time slot is restricted, skipping the first uplink packet transmission in a first time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Hyunseok Ryu, Peng Xue
  • Patent number: 11179069
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for processing, transmitting, and displaying data received from continuous analyte sensor, such as a glucose sensor. In some embodiments, the continuous analyte sensor system comprises a sensor electronics module that includes power saving features. One feature includes a low power measurement circuit that can be switched between a measurement mode and a low power mode, in which charging circuitry continues to apply power to electrodes of a sensor during the low power mode. In addition, the sensor electronics module can be switched between in a low power storage mode higher power operational mode via a switch. The switch can include a reed switch or optical switch, for example. A validation routine can also be implemented to ensure an interrupt signal sent from the switch is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Bohm, Mark Dervaes, Eric Johnson, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Shawn Larvenz, Jacob S. Leach, Phong Lieu, Aarthi Mahalingam, Tom Miller, Paul V. Neale, Jack Pryor, Thomas A. Peyser, Daiting Rong, Kenneth San Vicente, Mohammad Ali Shariati, Peter C. Simpson, Matthew Wightlin
  • Patent number: 11171815
    Abstract: In one illustrative embodiment, an equalizer includes: a shift register, an array of multipliers, an array of multiplexers, and a summer. The shift register provides receive signal samples at each tap. Each multiplier in the array multiplies one of said receive signal samples by a respective coefficient to produce a product, with at least one of said multipliers coupled to a fixed tap. Each multiplexer in the array supplies an associated one of said multipliers with a receive signal sample from a selectable tap. The summer sums the products to produce a filtered output signal. To reduce hardware requirements, coefficient multipliers may be multiplexed to a reduced set of taps, and the dynamic range of the coefficients may be increased by overlapping the sets for different multipliers. Methods of tap selection and coefficient adaptation are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: CREDO TECHNOLOGY GROUP LIMITED
    Inventor: Junqing Sun
  • Patent number: 11165607
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device determining, in a first time-domain resource unit, a plurality of second time-domain resource units for sending a sounding reference signal (SRS) of the terminal device; the terminal device determining, according to a frequency hopping pattern of the terminal device, a target resource for sending the SRS on the plurality of second time-domain resource units; and the terminal device sending, according to the target resource, the SRS to a network device. The present invention reduces the interference of SRS signals between different terminal devices, and also avoids the occurrence of a continuous strong interference situation between terminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11159199
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that determines an offset for a second frequency hop in a frequency hopping on an uplink shared channel based on an uplink Bandwidth Part (UL BWP) configuration; and a transmitter that transmits the uplink shared channel, wherein the UL BWP configuration includes information indicating a number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) in the UL BWP. In other aspects, a base station and a radio communication method for a terminal are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11121739
    Abstract: In an aspect, a UE receives an SRS configuration that indicates, for at least one frequency hop, an allocation of less than all subcarriers of a sounding bandwidth to SRS per OFDM symbol in a respective frequency hop. The UE transmits, to a BS in a first frequency hop, OFDM symbols with SRS across all subcarriers of a first sounding bandwidth associated with the first frequency hop. In another aspect, the UE receives an SRS configuration that indicates, for frequency hops associated with the same comb-type, a sequence of resource element offsets that is based on a number of OFDM symbols used in the respective frequency hop. The UE transmits OFDM symbols with SRS in accordance with the sequence of resource element offsets indicated by the SRS configuration for the respective frequency hop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11109360
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for frequency hopping in the unlicensed band are described. A NB-IoT UE receives a MIB from a RAN. The MIB includes a DL/UL configuration for communication with the RAN. Frequency hopping information is preconfigured in the UE. The MIB is received in an anchor segment of a fixed NB anchor channel in the unlicensed band. The frequency hopping sequence is determined based on timing information carried in a PBCH on the anchor channel. Data is communicated between the NB-IoT UE and the RAN in data segments on the data channels in accordance with the frequency hopping sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wenting Chang, Huaning Niu, Salvatore Talarico, Rongrong Sun
  • Patent number: 11082072
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting peaks in a multi-band transmit signal are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a multi-band transmitter for detecting peaks in a multi-band transmit signal which includes multiple transmit signals on a respective multiple frequency bands includes receiving a first band input signal for a first frequency band of the multi-band transmit signal and at least one additional band input signal for a respective at least one additional frequency band of the multi-band transmit signal. The method also includes detecting a peak of a combination of the first band input signal and the at least one additional band input signal taking into account phase information of the first band input signal and the at least one additional band input signal. In this manner, the detected peak might not be overestimated as when the peak detection fails to take into account the phase information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Tore André, Marius Cismasu
  • Patent number: 11057103
    Abstract: A communication system transmits data signals between communication nodes. A first data signal is transmitted as an electromagnetic wave along a first data transmission path to a receiver using skywave propagation. A second data signal, identical to the first data signal, is transmitted to the receiver along a second data transmission path. The two data signals are compared at the receiver to determine any distortion caused by the skywave propagation. Data regarding the distortion is sent back to the transmitter so that subsequent transmitted data signals may be preconditioned when sent by skywave propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Skywave Networks LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Babich
  • Patent number: 11038660
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for communicating with a machine-type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station (BS) configures a first MTC transmission time interval (M-TTI) for a first UE and a second M-TTI for a second UE in a subband, and communicates with the first UE and the second UE in the subband by using the first M-TTI and the second M-TTI. In this case, the first UE and the second UE have different coverage enhancement (CE) level from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11026197
    Abstract: A communication method includes: determining, by a first device, a first synchronization signal, where the first synchronization signal is used by a second device for symbol timing alignment and frequency synchronization; and sending, by the first device, the first synchronization signal on each group of subcarriers of M groups of subcarriers, where M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. According to the communication method in this application, the first device sends the first synchronization signal on each group of subcarriers of a plurality of groups of subcarriers, so that the second device can select, based on a reception capability of the second device, an appropriate bandwidth to receive the first synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohu You, Mao Wang, Jun Zhang, Yalin Liu, Hengjie Hu, Jun Zou
  • Patent number: 11019460
    Abstract: A smart multimedia transmission system includes a plurality of beacon signal transmitting apparatuses and a server. The smart multimedia transmission system enables a mobile data processing apparatus to quickly determine a selected beacon signal transmitting apparatus from the plurality of beacon signal transmitting apparatuses. The server transmits the multimedia data corresponding to the selected beacon signal transmitting apparatus to the mobile data processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Popworld Inc.
    Inventor: Sheng-Hung Huang
  • Patent number: 11017376
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a transaction initiation request from a first user via a first computing device. A first micro-location parameter relating to a micro-location of the first computing device is received. Approval of the transaction initiation request is requested from a second user via a second computing device. Approval of the transaction initiation request is received from the second user via the second computing device. A second micro-location parameter relating to a micro-location of the second computing device is received. The transaction is approved if the micro-locations of the first and second computing devices indicate that the first and second computing devices are at least a predetermined distance from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: David J. Dietrich, Diana Macias, Jinee K. Ellis
  • Patent number: 11006415
    Abstract: A base station (BS) may communicate with a user equipment (UE) using a subset of channels. The BS may select a subset of a set of channels for use in communication with the UE. The BS may transmit, to the UE, a signal to identify the subset of channels. In some aspects, the BS may transmit, and the UE may receive, a channel list indicator identifying the subset of channels. The channel list indicator may include an integer value, which the UE may use to identify a subset of combinatorial factors. Based at least in part on the subset of combinatorial factors, the UE may identify the subset of the set of channels for use in communication with the BS. The UE may communicate with the BS using at least one of the subset of the set of channels, such as in a frequency hopping communication system and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Tamer Kadous, Chih-Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 10985861
    Abstract: A reactive jamming software defined radio (SDR) apparatus to target Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum (FHSS) signals includes a peripheral module for SDR processing; a reactive jamming hardware IP core that implements time-sensitive operations on a field programmable gate array (FGPA); and a host computer that implements non-time-critical operations, such as jammer configuration, logging, and strategy composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Drexel University
    Inventors: Danh H. Nguyen, Marko Jacovic, Cem Sahin, Kapil R. Dandekar
  • Patent number: 10965339
    Abstract: A method of generating a channel hopping sequence for a link in a wireless sensor network includes receiving performance quality data for respective frequency channels of frequency channels in the link in a monitoring system, determining a channel quality indicator (CQI) by the monitoring system for each frequency channel based on the respective performance quality data, and determining a repetition factor by the monitoring system for each frequency channel based on the respective CQI. A repetition factor for a frequency channel indicates a number of times the frequency channel is repeated in the channel hopping sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jyotirmoy Banik, Il Han Kim, Jianwei Zhou, Xiaolin Lu
  • Patent number: 10931909
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for synchronizing playback of audiovisual content among multiple speakers. In some embodiments, a first smart speaker receives a spread spectrum signal from a second smart speaker over an audio data channel. The first smart speaker despreads the spread spectrum signal based on a spreading code. The first smart speaker determines a time of receipt of the spread spectrum signal based on the despreading. The first smart speaker receives a time of transmission of the spread spectrum signal. The first smart speaker then calculates a playback delay based on the time of receipt and the time of transmission. Then the first smart speaker controls the playback of the audiovisual content based on the playback delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Caston Curtis, Mark Ely, Brian Thoft Moth Møller
  • Patent number: 10917318
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for capturing network traffic in a virtualized computing environment. A packet to be captured in the virtualized environment is identified. The packet is tagged using a pattern of one or more bits in a header of the packet. The pattern indicates that the packet is to be traced. The pattern is propagated to an outer layer during encapsulation of the packet. A header of the encapsulated packet includes the pattern of one or more bits. At least one network device is caused to mirror identified packets based on the reserved bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lihua Yuan, Xinyan Zan, Deepak Bansal, David A. Maltz, Leiwen Deng, Sheng Lu
  • Patent number: 10917135
    Abstract: A hopping spread-spectrum wireless network for IoT applications operating in a predetermined frequency band, with mobile device that have unsynchronized local frequency references and receiving gateways that are capable of detecting whether modulated radio signals will collide in frequency in a collision time interval, and blanking the signals in the collision time. Preferably, the frequency band is subdivided into a sub-bands, and the mobile devices adapt the width of the sub-bands used for transmission based on a synchronization status indicative of the frequency error of the local frequency reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Semtech Corporation
    Inventors: Baozhu Ning, Olivier Bernard André Seller, Nicolas Sornin
  • Patent number: 10897694
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for personal area network (PAN) communication for wearable devices in a wireless network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a wearable user equipment (wUE) includes processing circuitry and transceiver circuitry. The processing circuitry is to: configure the wUE to enter into an active state; and configure the transceiver circuitry to: scan, in response to entering into the active state, for a Beacon signal from a network user equipment (nUE); upon failing to detect the Beacon signal, send a probe signal to the nUE; and upon detecting the Beacon signal or upon receiving a response to the probe signal, connect to a PAN associated with the nUE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qian Li, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 10863509
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reprogramming a Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) having a SINCGARS frequency-hopping waveform with a fixed retuning period operable in a network of SINCGARS. A system includes a controller programmed with a modified frequency-hopping waveform having one or more retuning periods, each of the one or more retuning periods being shorter in duration than the fixed retuning period of the conventional SINCGARS waveform, the modified frequency-hopping waveform compatible with each of the SINCGARS in the network. An interface is provided for programming each of the devices with the modified waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Raythen Company
    Inventor: August A. DiGregory, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10856317
    Abstract: A method for data receiving at a base station is provided. The base station receives data using a first transmission resource in a first symbol of an uplink control channel from a first UE. The base station receives UL data or control information using a second transmission resource in a second symbol of the uplink control channel from a second UE as well. The first symbol and the second symbol have different numerologies at a same sub band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Liqing Zhang
  • Patent number: 10798568
    Abstract: An intelligent terminal scans, as a scanned identification code, an identification code that is displayed by an intelligent wearable device. A wireless broadcast signal is transmitted by the intelligent terminal to identify the intelligent wearable device. A response to the wireless broadcast signal is received by the intelligent terminal and from the intelligent wearable device, where the response includes an identification code. The identification code is extracted by the intelligent terminal from the response and as an extracted identification code. The intelligent terminal compares the scanned identification code and the extracted identification code. If it is determined that the scanned identification code and the extracted identification code are the same, the intelligent terminal is paired with the intelligent wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xiaochen Wang, Mian Huang, Yuanbo Sun, Fei Meng, Xiaofeng Li
  • Patent number: 10775510
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus are claimed for receiving, blindly despreading, and determining geo-observables, of true civil Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) navigation signals generated by any of the set of satellite vehicles and ground beacons, amongst false echoes and malicious GNSS signals from spoofers and repeaters; for identifying malicious GNSS signals, and preventing those signals from corrupting or capturing Positioning, Navigation, and Timing tracking operations; and for geolocating malicious GNSS signals. The invention also provides time-to-first-fix over much smaller time intervals than existing GNSS methods and can operate both in the presence of signals with much wider disparity in received power than existing techniques, and in the presence of arbitrary multipath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Inventor: Brian G. Agee
  • Patent number: 10728896
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reprogramming a Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) having a SINCGARS frequency-hopping waveform with a fixed retuning period operable in a network of SINCGARS. A system includes a controller programmed with a modified frequency-hopping waveform having one or more retuning periods, each of the one or more retuning periods being shorter in duration than the fixed retuning period of the conventional SINCGARS waveform, the modified frequency-hopping waveform compatible with each of the SINCGARS in the network. An interface is provided for programming each of the devices with the modified waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: August A. DiGregory, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10716057
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques to minimize the electricity consumption of battery powered devices during network discovery and other phases of network operation. Example techniques include efficiently listening for other mains powered and battery powered devices within communication range of the battery powered device by, for example, shortening its listening window depending on how close the time reference maintained by the battery powered device is estimated to be to the time reference used by the other mains powered and battery powered devices within communication range. Other techniques include slowing the rate of listening by the battery powered device when the battery powered device is unlikely to be able to receive discovery messages or is already connected to the network. Other techniques include using knowledge of the network to listen for discovery messages on a channel or channels on which other devices are likely to be transmitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Itron, Inc.
    Inventors: Fabrice Monier, Thomas Uhling, Imad Jamil, Keith Barnes
  • Patent number: 10708910
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal to a base station by a terminal and an apparatus for supporting the same. Particularly, disclosed is a sounding reference signal transmission method comprising: determining a transmission time point of a first SRS within a first TTI, which has a length shorter than the length of one subframe, on the basis of the first TTI; and transmitting the first SRS at the determined transmission time point, wherein a frequency resource at which the first SRS is transmitted is configured independently from a frequency resource at which a second SRS based on a second TTI having a length corresponding to the length of one subframe is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanjun Park, Yunjung Yi, Eunsun Kim, Suckchel Yang, Hyunho Lee, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10700844
    Abstract: A communications apparatus and an uplink reference signal communication method. User equipment (UE) transmits an uplink reference signal of the UE according to reference signal bandwidth configuration information for the UE, reference signal frequency hopping interval information for the UE, and a frequency domain position parameter. Because the reference signal frequency hopping interval information for the UE is added as a parameter, further sampling is performed when frequency hopping of the uplink reference signal is performed. Therefore, a quantity of measurement times is reduced, and efficiency of channel quality measurement is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianqin Liu
  • Patent number: 10687740
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for processing, transmitting, and displaying data received from continuous analyte sensor, such as a glucose sensor. In some embodiments, the continuous analyte sensor system comprises a sensor electronics module that includes power saving features. One feature includes a low power measurement circuit that can be switched between a measurement mode and a low power mode, in which charging circuitry continues to apply power to electrodes of a sensor during the low power mode. In addition, the sensor electronics module can be switched between in a low power storage mode higher power operational mode via a switch. The switch can include a reed switch or optical switch, for example. A validation routine can also be implemented to ensure an interrupt signal sent from the switch is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Bohm, Mark Dervaes, Eric Johnson, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Shawn Larvenz, Jacob S. Leach, Phong Lieu, Aarthi Mahalingam, Tom Miller, Paul V. Neale, Jack Pryor, Thomas A. Peyser, Daiting Rong, Kenneth San Vicente, Mohammad Ali Shariati, Peter C. Simpson, Matthew Wightlin
  • Patent number: 10667168
    Abstract: A base station transmits, during a first period, a first plurality of voice packets of a first talking period on a first plurality of subcarriers of a first carrier. The base station transmits, during a second period, a second plurality of voice packets of a second talking period on a second plurality of subcarriers of a second carrier. The base station transmits, in the first period and the second period, data traffic packets on a third plurality of subcarriers. There is at least one guard band between at least two subcarriers in the third plurality of subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan