Operable On More Than One System Patents (Class 455/552.1)
  • Patent number: 11546841
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate interworking a plurality of cellular radio access networks and wireless local area networks (WLANs). In the context of a method, a set of information is maintained for a plurality of different cellular radio access networks that defines a relative priority of selection among the cellular radio access networks. The method also includes maintaining wireless access selection information defining a relative priority of selection among one or more WLANs relative to the cellular radio access networks. The method also permits the relative priority of the WLANs to be modified without modification of the set of information. For example, the relative priority the WLANs may be modified in a manner specific to the user equipment or specific to a cell. The method may also include causing notification to be provided to user equipment of the set of information and the wireless access selection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Mika Rinne, Sami Kekki
  • Patent number: 11540716
    Abstract: Systems and methods for aiding, supplementing, and/or increasing the monitoring capabilities of responsible persons over a supervised person are disclosed herein. In some implementations, the system includes one or more controlling persons, one or more supervising persons, a supervised person, and a cloud server. Each of the controlling persons and the supervising persons can have a personal electronic device. The supervised person can have a wearable electronic device. The electronic devices allow the controlling persons and the supervising persons to actively communicate with the cloud server to upload data related to the supervised person that is accessibly stored in the cloud server. In turn, the wearable device can include one or more sensors to measure and communicate various bioindicators to the cloud server. The system allows the controlling persons to monitor the health of, development of, and/or current control over the supervised person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Littlebird Connected Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Monica Marie Plath, Gadi Amit, Stanislav Moiseyenko, Christopher James Foster, Tim Suleymanov
  • Patent number: 11528602
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for transferring application data. In one aspect, a method includes causing, by a first component on a first device to establish a wireless connection with a second device; receiving, from a second component on the second device, data specifying one or more applications that are installed on the second device and supported by the second component, each of the applications being separate from the second component; determining, by the first component, that a first application installed on the first device matches one of the applications installed on the second device, the first application being separate from the first component; receiving, by the first component, first application data from the first application; and causing, by the first component, the first device to send the first application data to the second component running on the second device using the wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Wei-Kang Chen, Paul Lee, Gregory M. Hecht, Erdi Chen, Jenny Chun-yi Chen, Marina-Ines Carrera, Estelle Laure Myriam Comment, Eric Chu, Peter Jin Hong, Christopher John Adams, Lucas Gill Dixon
  • Patent number: 11516485
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for a mobile device to decode video based on available power and/or energy. For example, the mobile device may receive a media description file (MDF) from for a video stream from a video server. The MDF may include complexity information associated with a plurality of video segments. The complexity information may be related to the amount of processing power to be utilized for decoding the segment at the mobile device. The mobile device may determine at least one power metric for the mobile device. The mobile device may determine a first complexity level to be requested for a first video segment based on the complexity information from the MDF and the power metric. The mobile device may dynamically alter the decoding process to save energy based on the detected power/energy level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: VID SCALE, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuwen He, Yan Ye, Yong He, George W. McClellan, Eun Seok Ryu
  • Patent number: 11510071
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques enable a first wireless device (e.g., an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node in an IAB system) or a network entity (e.g., a centralized unit (CU) in the IAB system) to select a set of wireless devices for communication. The first wireless device, the CU, or both may select the set of wireless devices for communication based on a pathloss mode of the first wireless device, whether an angular separation between a group of nodes (e.g., one or more of the set of wireless devices) is less than an angular separation threshold, or both. The first wireless device may communicate with the set of wireless devices with one or more communications beams. For example, the device may communicate with multiple wireless devices using a single communication beam if the angular separation between the multiple devices is relatively low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Vasanthan Raghavan
  • Patent number: 11510240
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for entering a connected state with a network for continuing transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. The method may include starting a Time Alignment Timer (TAT). The method may include leaving a connected state with a network. The method may include performing transmission with a configured grant, wherein the configured grant is received from the network, while in leaving the connected state. The method may include performing a random access (RA) to the network, after the TAT is expired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Hyunjung Choe
  • Patent number: 11490231
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for responding to congestion-sensitive preemptive data download requests in a V2X network. An example method for downloading data on a mobile device includes determining an estimated time of arrival at a station based at least in part on almanac information, generating a data download request based at least in part on the estimated time of arrival at the station, transmitting the data download request, and receiving one or more data packets from the station based on the data download request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Dan Vassilovski, Bala Ramasamy, Edwin Chongwoo Park, Benjamin Lund, Soumya Das, Justin Tse, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 11481594
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods disclosed herein provide technical solution for on-demand manufacturing of a payment instrument that includes an integrated circuit chip. Apparatus and methods provide technical solutions for securely validating and activating the manufactured payment instrument. The customer may submit a request to manufacture a payment instrument through an automated teller machine (“ATM”), online banking channel or mobile banking channel. Apparatus and methods allow a customer to manufacture a payment instrument at home using a 3D printer or use a 3D printer installed at an ATM. Using a secure validation methods, the newly manufactured payment instrument may be activated at an ATM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Shailendra Singh, Sandeep Kumar Chauhan, Rama Rao Gaddam
  • Patent number: 11477170
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a decoding method and apparatus in the communications field. The method includes: extracting at least one piece of prior information from at least one first transport block that has been successfully decoded, and assembling the at least one piece of prior information into a prior information set, where one piece of prior information includes header information of a transmission protocol layer of one first transport block; when a to-be-decoded second transport block sent by a transmit end is received, selecting first prior information from the prior information set, where the second transport block is a transport block obtained by the transmit end by coding a third transport block; and decoding the second transport block based on the first prior information and first demodulation information of the second transport block, to obtain the third transport block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kedi Wu, Yuejun Wei, Xu Wang
  • Patent number: 11445426
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for setting handover thresholds and dynamically initiating handovers based on antenna parameters and wireless device location. A processor identifies an antenna having a sector power ratio exceeding a predefined threshold. Undesirable locations for wireless devices relative to the antenna are determined based on stored information and a first handover threshold is set for wireless devices served by the antenna and in undesirable locations. When a wireless device is found in the undesired location and the sector power ratio exceeds the predefined threshold, the first handover threshold is met. A handover may be initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11445547
    Abstract: A method to operate a first radio terminal of a radio communications network, is provided, wherein the method comprises: determining a SPS configuration for the first radio terminal, wherein the SPS configuration indicates a set of SPS, semi-persistently scheduled, radio resources of a shared device-to-device radio channel, in particular of a sidelink channel, SL-CH, wherein the indicated SPS radio resources are intended for a transmission by the first radio terminal; transmitting, towards at least one second radio terminal, data via a first subset of the set of the SPS radio resources; selecting at least one sensing resource out of the set of SPS radio resources; sensing the at least one sensing resource; determining a contention indicator in dependence on the sensing of the at least one sensing resource; and refraining from transmitting data via a second subset of the set of SPS radio resources if the contention indicator indicates a contention situation at the at least one sensing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan, Maria Bezmenov, Klaus Sambale, Nadia Brahmi
  • Patent number: 11435837
    Abstract: A dual mode mouse device including a first mouse and a wireless signal transceiver is provided. When the first mouse is electrically connected to the wireless signal transceiver through a first wire, a first mouse control signal of the first mouse is transmitted to the wireless signal transceiver through the first wire. A USB signal processing module of the wireless signal transceiver converts the first mouse control signal into a USB communication protocol control signal that is provided to an electronic device. When the first mouse is not electrically connected to the wireless signal transceiver through the first wire, the first mouse control signal of the control module of the first mouse is transmitted to the wireless communication module of the wireless signal transceiver to control the electronic device through the first mouse communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: DEXIN ELECTRONIC LTD., DEXIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ho-Lung Lu, Yuan-Jung Chang
  • Patent number: 11428780
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment receives a sliding window of measurements associated with a radar signal transmitted by the UE; determines that a user is within a threshold distance of the UE, wherein the threshold distance is determined to be a first distance when an energy measurement, associated with the radar signal, indicates an energy reduction satisfying a threshold energy reduction, or wherein the threshold distance is determined to be a second distance when the sliding window of measurements indicates an amount of energy variation satisfying a threshold amount of energy variation associated with the radar signal; and performs, based at least in part on determining that the user is within the threshold distance, an action associated with a communication signal of the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nan Zhang, Roberto Rimini, Jong Hyeon Park, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11431843
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing non-associative communications between devices is provided. A first call chain that indicates a routing between phone numbers is stored. A first phone call or a first SMS text is received from a first session initiation protocol (SIP) provider. Based on information provided by the first SIP provider, (i) a sender identity of the first phone call or the first SMS text; (ii) a receiver identity of the first phone call or the first SMS text; and (iii) an access mode of the call chain are determined. If the receiver identity corresponds to a first phone number in the first call chain, a second phone call or a second SMS text is initiated via a second SIP provider, from a second phone number in the first call chain, based on the sender identity and the access mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Cyber IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Delaney, Chava Louis Jurado, Carl Bailey Jacobs, William Theodore Schoon
  • Patent number: 11431365
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes: a module board that includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the module board; a first power amplifier configured to amplify a transmission signal in a first frequency band; a second power amplifier configured to amplify a transmission signal in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band; and a switch having a first pole connected to an input terminal of the first power amplifier and a second pole connected to an input terminal of the second power amplifier. The first power amplifier and the second power amplifier are disposed on the first principal surface, and the switch is disposed on the second principal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukiya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11424771
    Abstract: A radio-frequency impedance tuner can include first and second nodes, a bypass path, first and second series capacitance paths, and an inductance path, with each path being implemented between the first and second nodes and including a switch configured to allow the path to couple or uncouple the first and second nodes. The tuner can further include first and second shunt paths, with each shunt path being implemented between the second node and ground and including a switch configured to allow the shunt path to couple or uncouple the second node and the ground. The tuner can further include a switchable grounding path implemented along the inductance path and configured to allow the inductance path to function as a series inductance path between the first and second nodes, or as a shunt inductance path between the ground and a node along the inductance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: William J. Domino
  • Patent number: 11419094
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of transmitting and receiving a paging message, access network equipment, and terminal device equipment. The method of transmitting a paging message comprises: access network equipment determines a paging message; the access network equipment determines a paging start time and a continuous paging transmission time interval; and the access network equipment transmits, by employing beam sweeping, and according to the paging start time and the continuous paging transmission time interval, the paging message. Therefore, the embodiment can enhance quality of receiving a paging message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11399323
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for non-access stratum (NAS) message processing during handover are provided. The method includes the steps of sending a first message to a radio access network node, wherein the first message including a non-access stratum (NAS) message, and receiving a second message from the radio access network node, wherein the second message comprising the NAS message and cause information indicating a handover is triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongzhuo Zhang, Yong Qiu, Ying Huang, Qiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11394409
    Abstract: A circuit component may determine whether first signal indicative of at least one of the plurality of communication interface circuits accessing the FEM during a respective communication slot associated with the FEM has been received, determine a first Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) value for the respective communication slot used by the FEM based on data associated with the respective communication slot, and store the first RSSI value in response to the first signal not being received. The circuit component may then determine a first gain for a subsequent slot based on the first RSSI value and discard the first RSSI value in response to the first signal being received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Farouk Belghoul, Tideya Kella, Ehsan Haghani
  • Patent number: 11395065
    Abstract: An audio device, an audio system, and an audio processing method that implement noise (echo) cancellation techniques are provided. The audio device includes a primary microphone(s) that is arranged closer to a desired sound source and configured to collect first audio signals containing more of target audio signals. In addition to the primary microphone(s), an auxiliary microphone(s) is arranged away from the desired sound source and configured to collect second audio signals containing less of the target audio signals. A microcontroller is configured to process the first audio signals and the second audio signals to generate a data stream. An encoding scheme(s) is implemented in encoding the audio signals, optionally with to-be-played audio signals outputted to a loudspeaker, into the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: KIKAGO LIMITED
    Inventor: Chao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11394428
    Abstract: According to one embodiment a circuit comprises a supply pin operable to receive a supply voltage, a non-volatile memory for storing one or more parameters, and a Near Field Communication (NFC) transceiver that is operable to receive data representing the one or more parameters. The circuit is operable to deactivate the NFC transceiver in response to receiving the supply voltage at the supply pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Doris Keitel-Schulz, Renate Angelika Muehlbauer, Matthias Schneider, Qi Zhu, Dieter Zipprick
  • Patent number: 11395355
    Abstract: A method for controlling a connection procedure for a terminal device requesting a radio connection to a cell supported by network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunication system, the method comprising: determining, at the terminal device, that a request to connect to the cell supported by the network infrastructure equipment is to be made, establishing, at the terminal device, application information relating to an operating context for the terminal device: transmitting a connection request message from the terminal device to the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the connection request message comprises a request for the terminal device to connect to the cell and an indication of the application information; and determining, at the network infrastructure equipment, whether to allow the request for the terminal device to connect to the cell based, at least in part, on the application information received by the network infrastructure equipment from the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11388640
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for enhanced user equipment (UE) capability exchange for transitioning a connection from a first radio access technology system to a second radio access technology system. An exemplary method performed by a UE includes communicating with a first base station (BS) via a connection of a first radio access technology (RAT), determining, based on the first RAT, to omit a set of capabilities of the UE from capabilities information of the UE regarding a second RAT, transmitting the capabilities information of the UE regarding the second RAT to the first BS via the first RAT, communicating with a second BS via the second RAT according to the capabilities information, and sending an update of the capabilities information of the UE regarding the second RAT via the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muralidharan Murugan, Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi
  • Patent number: 11380968
    Abstract: A transmit/receive switching assembly includes a symmetrical PIN diode-based switch to selectively connect an antenna port to one of a transmit port and a receive port, transmit bias control circuitry that receives a first bias control signal, receive bias control circuitry that receives a second bias control signal, and shunt bias control circuitry coupled between the symmetrical PIN diode-based switch and a reference node. The first and second bias control signals are simultaneously and oppositely switchable between first and second voltage values and together configured to operate the switch between a transmit mode where RF signal flow is enabled from the transmit port to the antenna port and isolation is provided between the antenna port and the receive port, and a receive mode where RF signal flow is enabled from the antenna port to the receive port and isolation is provided between the antenna port and the transmit port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Mark Puente, Chi Nang Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11374883
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing presence-based communications in a controlled environment. In an embodiment, a presence management system monitors communication status information related to communication devices within a controlled facility as well as communication device external to the controlled facility. Communication statuses indicate the availability of users to receive certain types of communications, such as, for example, video conferencing, audio calls, and/or textual messages. In an embodiment, an inmate of the controlled environment can view communication statuses of external individuals. The presence management system informs the inmate of the availability of the external individuals and facilitates communications between the inmates and external individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: GLOBAL TEL*LINK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
  • Patent number: 11368174
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an RF frontend IC device includes a first RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within a first frequency band and a second RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within a second frequency band that is different than the first frequency band. The RF frontend IC device further includes a converter and a multi-band local oscillator (LO) generator to provide LO signals to the converter. The multi-band LO generator includes a phase-lock loop (PLL) circuit operating at a PLL operating frequency, wherein the PLL operating frequency is outside of the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The multi-band LO generator also includes multiple frequency multipliers coupled to the PLL circuit to upscale the PLL operating frequency and to generate an LO signal having a frequency within a predetermined proximity from the frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SWIFTLINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Yu Huang, Thomas Chen
  • Patent number: 11362626
    Abstract: A high frequency amplifier circuit includes an input terminal and an output terminal, transmission power amplifiers (11L, 11H) that amplify a high frequency signal in first and second frequency bands, each of which is a part of a communication band, at equal to or higher than a prescribed amplification factor, respectively, switches (21, 31) that exclusively switch connection between the input terminal, the transmission power amplifier (11L), and the output terminal, and connection between the input terminal, the transmission power amplifier (11H), and the output terminal, and a transmission filter that is connected between the output terminal and the switch (31) and has a communication band as a pass band, the first frequency band including a frequency band other than the second frequency band, the second frequency band including a frequency band other than the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Ono
  • Patent number: 11362443
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of antennas, and a communication circuit electrically connected with the plurality of antennas. The communication circuit includes a plurality of circuits receiving a signal in a first band and is configured to simultaneously receive the signal in the first band through two or more circuits of the plurality of circuits from two or more antennas, which are positioned adjacent to each other, from among the plurality of antennas. The number of the plurality of antennas is the same as the number of plurality of circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Young Ju Kim, Jong Hyuk Kim, Sung Chul Park
  • Patent number: 11363512
    Abstract: A wireless network environment includes communication management hardware, a wireless base station, a core network, and multiple remote networks. The communication management hardware monitors traffic associated with first radio access technology and second radio access technology supported by the wireless base station. The monitored traffic is conveyed through a core network such as from the wireless base station to the remote networks or from the remote networks to the wireless base station. The controller produces control information to convey the traffic through the core network between the wireless base station and multiple remote networks. Based on the control information, the communication management hardware controls conveyance of the monitored traffic through the core network depending on whether the traffic is associated with first radio access technology or second radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Saran Khalid, Perwaiz Akhtar
  • Patent number: 11363597
    Abstract: A method of managing carrier aggregation for a multi-radio access technology (RAT) wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The method may include: receiving, by the WRTU over a primary channel associated with a RAT of a first type, provisioning information for provisioning a supplementary channel associated with a RAT of a second type; establishing the supplementary channel associated with the RAT of the second type based on the received provisioning information; and wirelessly exchanging, by the WRTU, first data associated with a communication over the primary channel via the RAT of the first type, while wireless exchanging second data associated with the communication over the supplementary channel via the RAT of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Diana Pani, Ghyslain Pelletier
  • Patent number: 11356215
    Abstract: A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: receiving a resource allocation message indicative of a plurality of resource groups allocated for a signal; and transmitting the signal using a portion of the plurality of resource groups, wherein, in a frequency domain, the portion of the plurality of resource groups presents a hopping pattern comprising at least a first hopping path that is associated with a first plurality of increasing frequency spacings and a second hopping path that is associated with a second plurality of decreasing frequency spacings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kun Liu, Bo Dai, Xianming Chen, Weiwei Yang, Huiying Fang
  • Patent number: 11350357
    Abstract: Methods and devices for selecting a communication network by a node of an Out of Band Control Channel Network (OBCCN) for use by a User Equipment (UE) are described. One or more communication networks that are available to provide service to the UE may be determined. The node of the OBCCN may select the communication network out of the communication networks that are available. The node of the OBCCN may provide control information to the UE for connecting to the communication network that was selected. The OBCCN may be operated independently from one or more Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) associated with the one or more communication networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Telcom Ventures, LLC
    Inventor: Rajendra Singh
  • Patent number: 11337175
    Abstract: In a slice management device 10, a storage request accepting unit 11 acquires correspondence information in which a service, a slice, and tracking areas are associated with each other. A presence-in-area identifying unit 13 identifies a presence-in-area status of a UE 130. An assignment unit 14 assigns a slice corresponding to a service used by the UE 130 and tracking areas represented by the correspondence information. In this case, the slice management device 10 assigns a slice to a service in accordance with the presence-in-area status of the UE 130, and accordingly, a slice assigned to the service can be dynamically changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuya Shimojou, Shigeru Iwashina, Masayoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11330616
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a scheduling method, a data transmission method, and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, so as to resolve a problem that an existing LTE system does not support a new type of terminal. The scheduling method includes: sending, by a base station, downlink control information DCI to a first-type terminal, where the DCI includes scheduling information used to instruct the first-type terminal to send uplink data by using a first-mode frame format; the first-mode frame format includes at least one uplink subframe, and each uplink subframe includes at least one first-mode frame format symbol; and duration of the first-mode frame format symbol is at least four times of duration of a second-mode frame format symbol, and the second-mode frame format symbol is a single carrier frequency division multiple access SC-FDMA symbol in an LTE system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jinhuan Xia
  • Patent number: 11323952
    Abstract: A method for multiple attachment of a mobile terminal to access points of a plurality of access points to at least one cellular network. The method is implemented by the terminal and includes: reception of messages diffused by access points of the plurality of access points, including an identifier relating to the pertaining of a resource used by the respective access point, called a GRP identifier, to a shared risk group; first attachment of the terminal to a first access point of the plurality of access points; and second attachment of the terminal to a second access point of the plurality of access points, selected according to the GRP identifier thereof and the GRP identifier of the first access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Charles Hartmann, Antoine Mouquet
  • Patent number: 11316254
    Abstract: A multicell access method using beamforming in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method for operating a terminal, an access procedure for accessing a first base station using a first antenna and accessing a second base station using a second antenna is performed. Communication with the first base station is performed using the first antenna. Communication with the second base station is performed using the second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Jin Kim, Yung-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 11317294
    Abstract: A radio device (100) receives a radio transmission on a carrier frequency. While receiving the radio transmission, the radio device (100) transmits an indication that the carrier frequency is in use by the radio transmission to the radio device (100). This indication may then be used by a further radio device (10, 11) for controlling a radio transmission to the radio device (100), e.g., by deciding whether, when, or how to use the carrier frequency for this radio transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gabor Fodor, Osama Al-Saadeh
  • Patent number: 11310706
    Abstract: This document discloses a solution for providing a terminal device with one or more candidate cells for link setup. A network node providing the candidate cell(s) may compute a validity window for each candidate cell and indicate the validity window(s) to the terminal device. The terminal device may then perform the link setup with a candidate cell within the respective validity window of the candidate cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jeroen Wigard, István Zsolt Kovacs
  • Patent number: 11290225
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present invention, disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a first antenna element configured so as to transmit and receive a signal of a first frequency band or a second frequency band; a second antenna element configured so as to transmit and receive the signal of the first frequency band or the second frequency band; a first RF block electrically connected to the first antenna element and the second antenna element and including a first transmission and reception circuit and a second transmission and reception circuit; an RF reception circuit for receiving the signal of the first frequency band or the second frequency band from the first antenna element or the second antenna element; and a transceiver, wherein the first transmission and reception circuit processes the signal of the first frequency band or the second frequency band, the second transmission and reception circuit processes the signal of the first frequency band or the second frequency band, and th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo Seung Kim, Young Ju Kim, Jung Joon Kim, Sung Chul Park
  • Patent number: 11281786
    Abstract: An information handling system includes an endpoint device and a service processor. The endpoint device is configured to share a passphrase with the service processor via shared memory architecture transfer mechanism. The service processor is configured generate the sent hash of a message; encrypt the message, the sent hash, and the nonce value using the passphrase to form an encrypted message; and transmit the encrypted message to the endpoint device over a sideband interface. The storage controller is further configured to decrypt the encrypted message using the passphrase to obtain the message, the sent hash, and the nonce value; compare the nonce value to a counter to determine if the nonce value is an old nonce value; calculate an observed hash of the message; and accept the message when the nonce value is not an old nonce value and the observed hash matches the received hash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Dambal, Chandrashekar Nelogal, Marshal Savage, Choudary Maddukuri
  • Patent number: 11272415
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for handover of a UE (100) from a source node (20, 30) connected to a first core network (50, 60) to a target node (20, 30) connected to a second core network (50, 60). The UE (100) receives, from the source node (20, 30), a mobility command including an indication of the radio access technology (RAT) used by the target node (20, 30) and a message container containing configuration information for the target node (20, 30). The UE (100) further determines, based on the indication of the RAT used by the target node (20, 30), whether to treat the handover as an inter-RAT handover or as an intra-RAT handover with a core network change, and performs a radio resource control procedure for one of an inter-RAT handover or an intra-RAT handover with a core network change based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Lian Araujo, Patrik Rugeland, Oumer Teyeb
  • Patent number: 11272489
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first device. In one embodiment, the method includes the first device receiving a configuration, from a network node, of a first sidelink resource pool without any Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) resource. The method further includes the first device receiving a first sidelink grant transmitted, configured, or scheduled by the network node, wherein the first sidelink grant schedules or indicates at least a first sidelink resource in the first sidelink resource pool. Furthermore, the method includes the first device expecting or considering that the first sidelink grant provides no Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource for reporting Sidelink (SL) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Che Li, Li-Chih Tseng, Chun-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11272563
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from appropriate indication of support for communication protocols. In particular, certain wireless systems that use handover may use selective proprietary protocol support indication removal. A method can include determining protocol support based on a first configuration received from the source access node. The method can also include determining whether to continue, after a handover, using a proprietary protocol based on whether a first configuration remains unchanged. The method can further include using or ceasing from using the proprietary protocol based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: John Harris, Antti Matti Juhani Kuurne, Patrycja Bukowiecka
  • Patent number: 11265028
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes a first transmission power amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency signal of a first communication band, a second transmission power amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency signal of a second communication band, and a module board which includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the module board, and on which the first transmission power amplifier and the second transmission power amplifier are mounted. The first transmission power amplifier is disposed on the first principal surface, and the second transmission power amplifier is disposed on the second principal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 11251859
    Abstract: A reconfigurable, multi-band hybrid beamforming architecture is introduced. The present invention is related to a Cartesian-Combining architecture to efficiently implement RF beamforming for a single downconversion chain employing direct downconversion in which the Cartesian-Combining architecture is extended to hybrid beamforming and to heterodyne downconversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeyanandh Paramesh, Susnata Mondal
  • Patent number: 11240864
    Abstract: Configurations are described for maintaining a continuity and quality of wireless signal connection between a mobile device and systems accessible through the internet. In particular, configurations are disclosed to address the challenge of a mobile device that moves through a physical environment wherein the best wireless connectivity performance is achieved by switching between available connection sources and constantly evaluating a primary connection with other available connections that may be switched in to become a new primary connection. The mobile device may be self-propelled or carried by some other mobilizing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Blue Ocean Robotics ApS
    Inventor: Blaise Laurent Patrick Gassend
  • Patent number: 11228327
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes a first transmission power amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency signal of a first communication band, a second transmission power amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency signal of a second communication band, and a module board which includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the module board, and on which the first transmission power amplifier and the second transmission power amplifier are mounted. The first transmission power amplifier is disposed on the first principal surface, and the second transmission power amplifier is disposed on the second principal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 11229075
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a wireless communications device may determine that the wireless communications device is hardware capable of supporting DSDA operation, where the wireless communications device is a DR-DSDS wireless communications device that is configured for at least one of UL CA or MIMO operation. In some aspects, the wireless communications device may operate as a DSDA wireless communications device based at least in part on determining that the wireless communications device is hardware capable of supporting DSDA operation. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhu, Fei Lu
  • Patent number: 11223666
    Abstract: A system to provide second generation (2G) voice services over internet protocol, the system including: a voice gateway (VGW) including a 2G stack to communicate control plane information and user plane information with a 2G user terminal (UT) via a circuit-switched network without modifications to the 2G-UT, an Iu-CS IP stack, and a relay to map the control plane information between the 2G stack and the Iu-CS IP stack, and vice-versa; a mobile switching center (MSC), connected to the VGW via the Iu-CS IP stack, to manage and establish the voice services between the 2G-UT and a public switched telephone network (PSTN) based on the mapped control plane information; and a media gateway (MGW) connected to the VGW via the Iu-CS IP stack, where the MGW communicates the user plane information between the 2G-UT and the PSTN after the MSC 2-G UT vocoder, e.g. AMBE, has established voice services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Channasandra Ravishankar, Gaguk Zakaria
  • Patent number: 11211911
    Abstract: Examples of a capacitive-coupled bandpass filter include a plurality of coupling capacitors connected in series along a signal path extending between an input contact and an output contact, a first harmonic suppression notch circuit configured to provide a first harmonic suppression notch in a frequency response of the capacitive-coupled bandpass filter, and a second harmonic suppression notch circuit configured to provide a second harmonic suppression notch in the frequency response of the capacitive-coupled bandpass filter. The first harmonic suppression notch circuit includes a first pair of series L/C resonators connected in shunt between the signal path and a reference potential, and the second harmonic suppression notch circuit includes a second pair of series L/C resonators connected in shunt between the signal path and the reference potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Dongjin Jung, Hanseung Lee, Weimin Sun