Having Measuring, Testing, Or Monitoring Of System Or Part Patents (Class 455/67.11)
  • Patent number: 11979305
    Abstract: A method and system for diagnosing a communication channel state in an in-vehicle network includes requesting information on devices connected to a controller, receiving the information on the connected devices from the controller, requesting channel state diagnostics for a channel to which, among the devices connected to the controller, a diagnostics target device is connected, and receiving channel state diagnostics result from the controller, where the channel state diagnostics result includes diagnostic results of some of the devices connected to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Beom Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 11974335
    Abstract: A first user equipment includes: an interface configured to send and receive signals wirelessly; and a processor configured to: establish a sidelink connection with a second user equipment; exchange, using the sidelink connection, sidelink information with the second user equipment to at least one of: transmit, via the interface to the second user equipment, first SL PRS-related data (sidelink positioning reference signal related data) including at least one of first SL PRS assistance data or first SL PRS configuration data; or receive, via the interface from the second user equipment, second SL PRS-related data including at least one of second SL PRS assistance data or second SL PRS configuration data; and exchange, via the interface with the second user equipment using the sidelink connection, one or more sidelink positioning reference signals in accordance with at least one of the first SL PRS-related data or the second SL PRS-related data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11974273
    Abstract: A system includes a network node configured for operation in a wireless communication network. The network node includes radio circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a measurement period and an associated reporting window to be used by a wireless device for generating and sending charging reports indicating Device-to-Device (D2D) communications activity by the wireless device. The processing circuitry is further configured to transmit configuration information via the radio circuitry. The configuration information indicates the measurement period and the reporting window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: David Shrader, Stefano Sorrentino
  • Patent number: 11967999
    Abstract: One disclosure of the present specification provides a UE performing sidelink communication. The UE may comprise: at least one transceiver; at least one processor; and at least one memory that stores instructions and is operably electrically connectable with the at least one processor. An operation performed on the basis of an instruction executed by the at least one processor may comprise the steps of: receiving, via a PSSCH or a PSCCH, a DMRS from another UE; and measuring an RSRP of the DMRS on the basis of RSRP measurement requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoonoh Yang, Sangwook Lee, Suhwan Lim, Jinyup Hwang, Jongkeun Park
  • Patent number: 11962394
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an aerial base station determining operating frequencies of terrestrial base stations, and taking one or more actions to reduce the potential for interference between the aerial base station and the terrestrial base stations. Actions taken by the aerial base station may include changing frequency, changing altitude, changing location, and changing transmit power. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11956762
    Abstract: Facilitating improved performance in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) with multiple transmission points is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise determining respective port numbers for respective ranks of a first transmission to a user equipment device. The operations also can comprise receiving an indication, from a second network device, of a first demodulation reference signal associated with a port number for a rank of a second transmission to the user equipment device from the second network device. Further, the operations can comprise facilitating a conveyance of the first transmission to the user equipment device. The first transmission can comprise a second demodulation reference signal on a different port number than the port number associated with the second transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11956643
    Abstract: A station placement design method includes: extracting candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station from point group data in accordance with designated conditions for an installation location of a wireless base station; determining presence/absence of visibility between a plurality of designated wireless terminal stations and the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station based on the point group data and generating a first list including information in which the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station and wireless terminal stations determined to have presence of visibility for the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station are associated with each other; generating a second list including information representing combinations of the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station that enable all of the plurality of designated wireless terminal stations to be accommodated based on the first list
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Toshinaga, Naoki Kita, Yushi Shirato, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Kazuto Goto
  • Patent number: 11956040
    Abstract: A method for a base station includes sending a request for a report on beamforming capability to a target user equipment; receiving the report on the beamforming capability from the target user equipment; allocating at least one positioning reference signal resource for use by the target user equipment based on at least the capability information included in the report; determining a beam sweeping mle based on the at least one positioning reference signal resource allocated for the target user equipment; and sending the positioning reference signal resource allocation and the beam sweeping mle to the target user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yan Meng, Tao Tao, Ryan Keating, Jianguo Liu
  • Patent number: 11946736
    Abstract: Various aspects of tape measures with one or more of a sensor, a motor, and a clutch, are shown. The sensors described herein detect, through various mechanisms, the position of the retraction system of a tape measure. The measurements by the sensors may be used to control a motor to adjust an amount of tension in the spiral spring of a tape measure. In various embodiments a motor interacts with the retraction system of the tape measure via a clutch, which moderates an amount of force that the motor can communicate to the retraction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Gareth J. Mueckl, Scott Earl McKinster
  • Patent number: 11943635
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for facilitating the deployment of a wireless extender in combination with a base station at a customer premises are described. Support is provided for data rate testing in combination with configuring one or more aspects of the system such as wireless extender and/or base station transmission power level. By using testing a system can be deployed where one or more devices may use transmission power levels which are less than the maximum permitted transmission power level while still supporting an expected data rate corresponding to a subscriber service level in a reliable manner. In various embodiments DFS channel black and/or white lists are generated for each link taking into consideration the determined transmit power to be used for a given link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Dillon, Taren G. McCullough, Christopher W. Watson
  • Patent number: 11943164
    Abstract: Provided are a Minimization of Driving Test (MDT) Logs reporting method and device, a MDT Logs reporting control method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. UE receives first Logged MDT configuration information configured for a master base station, and receives second Logged MDT configuration information configured for at least one secondary base station; the UE exits a multi-connectivity operation mode, executes a first Logged MDT operation according to the first Logged MDT configuration information to acquire first MDT Logs, and executes a second Logged MDT operation according to the second Logged MDT configuration information to acquire second MDT Logs; and the UE re-establishes the multi-connectivity operation mode with a current master base station and at least one current secondary base station, and reports the first MDT Logs and/or the second MDT Logs to the current master base station and/or the at least one current secondary base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li Yang, Dapeng Li, Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 11941928
    Abstract: An access control device and a method for operating an access control device are provided. The access control device includes a detection sensor, a communication module, and a processor. The detection sensor is configured to detect a status event (e.g., a rotation of a handle, or an insertion or closure of a keybox). The communication module is in wireless communication with a mobile device. The communication module is configured to receive an advertising signal from the mobile device. The processor is in communication with at least one of the detection sensor and the communication module. The processor is configured to determine whether a distance between the mobile device and the access control device is greater than a threshold when the detection sensor detects the status event. The processor is configured to trigger a notification when the distance is greater than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventors: Nadeem Shaikh, Ramesh Lingala, Avineet Nanda, Adam Kuenzi
  • Patent number: 11937092
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Armando Montalvo, Dwight Inman
  • Patent number: 11936438
    Abstract: Provided are an interference finding method and apparatus, a receiving device, a transmitting device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving measurement configuration information configured by a transmitting device; and performing, according to the measurement configuration information, a receiving measurement on a transmit beam associated with the measurement configuration information, where the receiving measurement includes a received signal strength indicator and/or a channel occupancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Li Niu, Yajun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11936492
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an architecture for redundant control of wireless devices (e.g., wireless light fixtures, wireless light strips, wireless window shades, or other wireless devices) of a home automation system is provided that uses a combination of WLAN and WPAN communication. During normal operation of the home automation system, control commands generated in response to user input in a control application (app) on a control device (e.g., a remote control, mobile device, or other electronic device) are transmitted via a WLAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) to a bridge device (e.g., a lamp module or wireless keypad) proximate to the wireless device, which forwards the commands over a WPAN (e.g., BLE) to the wireless device. In the absence of an available WLAN connection (e.g., due to failure, prior to its configuration, etc.), the control device may send control commands via the WPAN (e.g., BLE) directly to the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Savant Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert P. Madonna, Kevin C. Kicklighter, Swapnil Bora
  • Patent number: 11930382
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for spectrum data management for a radio frequency (RF) environment are disclosed. An apparatus comprises at least one receiver, an automatic signal detection (ASD) module, and a learning and conflict detection engine. The apparatus is at the edge of a communication network. The at least one receiver processes RF energy received from the RF environment, thereby generating processed data. The ASD module is configured to extract meta data and detect anomaly based on the processed data. The learning and conflict detection engine is configured for conflict recognition and anomaly identification based on the processed data. The apparatus is operable to generate at least one report for the RF environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: David William Kleinbeck, Ronald C. Dzierwa, Daniel Carbajal
  • Patent number: 11922746
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of access control as described. A touch of a touch zone of an access controller including a body area network (BAN) transceiver is detected. In response to detecting the touch, a request from an access controller comprising a BAN transceiver via a body area network is transmitted to a user of a portable device including a BAN transceiver and a biometric sensor. The request is received by the portable device via the BAN network. In response to receiving the request, the portable device transmits a digital key comprising biometric data detected by the biometric sensor and a digital identifier from the portable device to the access controller via the BAN network. The user is authenticated by the access controller using the digital key. The access controller controls and actuator to lock or unlock a door in response to the user being authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Rinze Ida Mechtildis Peter Meijer, Pramod Rajan Kesavelu Shekar
  • Patent number: 11924648
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Armando Montalvo, Dwight Inman, Edward Hummel
  • Patent number: 11923913
    Abstract: Provided is a satellite pointing system and a satellite pointing method of an automatic satellite tracking antenna using auxiliary LNBs including: an antenna unit configured by coupling a main feeder receiving a satellite broadcast signal and two or more auxiliary feeders to an antenna and a controller tracking a location of a target satellite by analyzing strength of each satellite signal received through the auxiliary feeders and generating a control signal for controlling a pointing direction of the antenna unit based on location information of the tracked target satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: WIWORLD CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chan Goo Park
  • Patent number: 11924142
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication device (101) includes receiving (3002) at least one downlink control message (411, 412, 4002) from a communications network (100), the at least one downlink control message (411, 412, 4002) being indicative of a frequency density (401-404) of uplink reference signals (31), the uplink reference signals (31) being for an estimation of a radio channel (114) between the wireless communication device (101) and the communications network (100) to coherently decode data signals encoding data of a uplink data transmission (4012), the uplink reference signals (31) and the data signals using the same precoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GOUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erik Bengtsson, Olof Zander, Fredrik Rusek, Kun Zhao, Jose Flordelis
  • Patent number: 11924657
    Abstract: This application provides a minimization of drive tests (MDT) measurement solution, which may be used to implement an MDT measurement of a network device with an architecture in which a central unit (CU) entity and a distributed unit (DU) entity are separated. A centralized unit control plane (CU-CP) determines configuration information, and sends the configuration information to a centralized unit user plane (CU-UP) of the network device. The configuration information is used to perform an MDT measurement on a measurement object. The solution in this application may be applied to a communications system, for example, may be applied to a 5th generation (5G) network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingxing Hu, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11923892
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for updating data in a computer network. An exemplary method includes: scanning to capture a first set of signals; identifying from the first set of received signals a second set of signals having on times longer than a specified minimum dwell time; providing a plurality of signal profiles associated with a plurality of pulsed patterns of a signal of interest; identifying from the second set of signals a third set of signals that match at least one of the signal profiles; receiving demodulated data regarding the third set of signals; obtaining characteristic information for each of the third set of signals; verifying for each of the third set of signals their relevant information; determining whether the verification of the third set of signals produced a match; and upon determining of the match, providing an indication of a signal of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian W. Snodgrass, David Murray, Jeffrey R. Gilson, Nikolaus Kleber, Joy Nyenhuis-Rouch
  • Patent number: 11924778
    Abstract: Systems and methods may optimize power consumption for RAN devices. A device obtains field data of user equipment (UE) devices for a group of cells during a time interval. The field data includes signal strength measurements. The device computes cell boundaries for each cell based on the field data and predicts signal strength values inside each of the cell boundaries for a future time period. The device computes a cumulative overlap feature and a weighted signal strength feature for each cell of the group of cells during the future time period and generates an energy consumption predictive model that applies the cumulative overlap feature and the weighted signal strength feature for the future time period. The device determines, based on the energy consumption predictive model, optimal cell boundaries that correspond to a reduced energy consumption needed to meet service requirements during the future time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Farid Khafizov, Mark Ernest Newbury
  • Patent number: 11917420
    Abstract: An enhanced network environment is provided by provisioning a device to utilize the 6 GHz frequency band. The device requires provisioning so as not to interfere with legacy systems. The provisioning requires that the two-dimensional location of the device be obtained and sent to a topographical mapping network resource to obtain an accurate ground location for the terrain. The elevation is then modified based on an actual height from ground level of the device. The location of the device can then be sent to an automated frequency controller (AFC) resource to obtain an equivalent isotropically radiated power mask that can be used to provision the device so that the device can operate in the 6 GHz frequency band without causing interference with any other systems. Once provisioned, the device can be registered with the AFC resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: James R. Flesch
  • Patent number: 11917425
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a system comprises height-measuring circuitry coupled to a vehicle, in which the height-measuring circuitry is configured to measure a height parameter of the vehicle. The system further comprises a radio transceiver coupled to a portion of the vehicle, in which the radio is configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal. The system further comprises at least one processor configured to receive the height parameter from the height-measuring circuitry. The system further comprises at least one antenna coupled to the radio transceiver and coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one antenna is configured to output the RF signal at a beamwidth, and the at least one processor is operative to configure the at least one antenna to vary the beamwidth of the RF signal based on the height parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Donald C. Kauffman, Willard R. True
  • Patent number: 11909124
    Abstract: An electronic device having multiple antenna groups for data communication may determine a temperature of a first antenna group and determine a power gain of a second antenna group. The electronic device may communicate using the second antenna group in response to determining that the temperature of the first antenna group exceeds a temperature threshold and the power gain of the second antenna group exceeds a gain threshold. In some embodiments, the electronic device may receive communication link preferences, determine an antenna group that is disposed outside of thermal hotspots of the electronic device, and determine a beam that enables the communication link preferences via the antenna group. The electronic device may then transmit or receive data via the antenna group by forming the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Franz J. Eder, Carlo Tosetti, Kenan Kocagoez, Prashant H. Vashi, Murali Mohan Chakka, Muthukumaran Dhanapal
  • Patent number: 11910204
    Abstract: An enhanced network environment is provided by provisioning a device to utilize the 6 GHz frequency band. The device requires provisioning so as not to interfere with legacy systems. The provisioning includes obtaining exterior multiple fixed power measurements to obtain a virtualized location and a virtualized power level. The elevation is then modified based on an actual height from ground level of the device. The location of the device and a virtualized equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) can then be sent to an automated frequency controller (AFC) resource to obtain an EIRP mask that can be used to provision the device so that the device can operate in the 6 GHz frequency band without causing interference with any other systems. Once provisioned, the device can be registered with the AFC resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: James R. Flesch
  • Patent number: 11901871
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes the following configuration. A detection circuit detects a state of a clock signal. An amplification circuit changes a gain based on the state of the clock signal detected by the detection circuit. An amplification circuit amplifies a first voltage with the gain and outputs a second voltage obtained as a result of amplification. A conversion circuit converts the second voltage output from the amplification circuit to first data. An isolation circuit includes a driver and a receiver electrically isolated from the driver. The driver transmits a signal corresponding to the first data to the receiver. The receiver outputs second data corresponding to the signal transmitted from the driver. The output circuit outputs the second data output from the isolation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Imai
  • Patent number: 11902952
    Abstract: Methods, media, and systems are provided for carrier aggregation grouping based on user device location. For example, the methods, media, and systems receive one or more Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) beam reports from one or more user devices. Further, a base station divides a coverage area associated with a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) service into carrier aggregation (CA) groups associated with one or more component carriers. Upon receiving or determining the location of the one or more user devices associated with each of the one or more SSB beam reports, the one or more component carriers are assigned to at least one of the CA groups based on the location of the one or more user devices and the SSB beam reports. Furthermore, if interference from a neighboring base station is detected, the one or more component carriers experiencing the interference is grouped differently from the interfering carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Sanghoon Sung
  • Patent number: 11902804
    Abstract: The present technology is directed to providing fault management with dynamic restricted access in a tenant network. The tenant network can be a private 5G cellular network or other wireless communication network. The present technology can identify a fault event within the tenant network based on received telemetry data, associate the fault event with a vendor component included in the tenant network, and generate a vendor fault context. The vendor fault context can be generated to include only the portion of telemetry data that is determined to be related to the fault event or the vendor component. The present technology can further use the vendor fault context to create a time-bound user account for remotely accessing the tenant network for fault triage and management. The time-bound user account can be associated to a static role-based access control (RBAC) scheme configured with access restrictions determined based on the vendor fault context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Indira Viswambharan, Saravanan Radhakrishnan, Girish Thimmalapura Shivanna, Mahaveer Jain, Rishi Kant, Sarthak Udai Singh
  • Patent number: 11895496
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing and using a decentralized network using a blockchain. A provider (and/or miner) may provide network coverage to one or more devices in return for tokens on the blockchain. The blockchain may employ a proof-of-coverage scheme to verify (and even guarantee) that the miners are honestly representing the wireless network coverage they are providing. In some instances, the proof of coverage may require the providers to prove coverage periodically, upon demand, and/or at random intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: DECENTRALIZED WIRELESS FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Amir Haleem, Andrew Thompson, Andrew Allen, Marc Nijdam, Rahul Garg, Jay Kickliter
  • Patent number: 11895524
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for distinguishing minimization of drive tests (MDT) logging through different radio resource controller (RRC) states. One method may include receiving, from a network element, a logged measurement configuration comprising specific content for a user equipment depending on a connection state of the user equipment. The method may also include validating the logged measurement configuration, wherein the validating is embodied by the network element prior to transitioning to a different user equipment state, or by a user equipment after entering a logging state, for which the logged measurement configuration was designated. The method may further include performing logging of a measurement according to the content of the logged measurement configuration. In addition, the method may include tagging the logged measurement. The method may also include transmitting the tagged logged measurement to the network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Malgorzata Tomala, Guillaume Decarreau, Anna Pantelidou
  • Patent number: 11894897
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a base station configured to communicate with at least one user device includes transmitting a reference signal to the at least one user device, receiving channel quality information from the at least one user device, and forming a beam based on the channel quality information received from the at least one user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong, Ming Jia
  • Patent number: 11889559
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for channel sensing with self-interference awareness for unlicensed band. A node may transmit, via a first entity of the node, at least one signal during a LBT procedure of a second entity of the node. The at least one signal may include a signal energy. The LBT procedure may be associated with a total measured interference from all detected energy sources. The node may determine a self-interference at the second entity of the node based on the signal energy of the at least one signal transmitted via the first entity of the node and calculate an interference from at least one other source based on a difference between the total measured interference from all detected energy sources and the self-interference determined based on the signal energy of the at least one signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Navid Abedini, Naeem Akl, Tao Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11889510
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for frame based operation and medium contention procedures in wireless networks. In some aspects, devices of a wireless network may perform receiver side contention operations. To illustrate, reference signals from a receiving device may be transmitted to a transmitting device and used by the transmitting device to estimate interference for transmitter side transmissions. Such receiver side reference signals may more accurately reflect the interference profile that transmissions sent by the transmitting device will face, such as when operating in a spectrum shared with many devices. The transmitting device may utilize the beam(s) that satisfy interference criteria when receiving the reference signals to transmit data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Vinay Chande, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11889363
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, etc.) based on 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for logging and reporting information relating to a radio link failure. The method includes receiving, from a first base station that operates based on a first RAT, a UE information request including information indicating whether the terminal reports an RLF; and transmitting, to the first base station, a UE information response including an RLF report, in response to the information indicating a reporting of the terminal for the RLF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Sangyeob Jung, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11882469
    Abstract: Inter-cell mobility across serving and non-serving cells based on layer 3 measurements is accomplished at the cost of increased delay. Inter-cell mobility across serving and non-serving cells based on layer 1 measurements minimized delay. A user equipment (UE) apparatus that is served by a serving cell of a base station receives, from the serving cell, a configuration to perform layer 1 (L1) measurements based on one or more reference signals from a non-serving cell. The UE also receives the one or more reference signals from the non-serving cell. The UE performs the L1 measurements on the one or more reference signals received from the non-serving cell based on the configuration received from the base station. The UE may perform the L1 measurements on a synchronization signal block (SSB), a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), or a positioning reference signal (PRS) from the non-serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Fang Yuan, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11881976
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a reference signal transmission method, a device, and a system. The method includes: determining, by a first device, at least one reference signal generation sequence corresponding to at least one frequency-domain resource group that is on a symbol carrying a reference signal and that is used to send the reference signal, where one frequency-domain resource group is corresponding to one reference signal generation sequence; and generating, by the first device, the reference signal based on the at least one reference signal generation sequence, and mapping the reference signal to a time-frequency resource whose time domain is the symbol and whose frequency domain is the at least one frequency-domain resource group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Chi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11877195
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to method and apparatus for cell reselection in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication system comprises performing a cell reselection to a cell at a first time point during a time duration; receiving, from the cell, information comprising a first time range and a weight related to the first time range; determining a mobility counter based on the weight related to the first time range, wherein a time length between the first time point and a second time point at which a previous cell reselection is performed during the time duration is within the first time range; and determining a mobility state of the wireless device based on the mobility counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Oanyong Lee, Sunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 11870762
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for transparent Provider Backbone Bridge forwarding of MACsec key exchanges over public Ethernet provider backbones. The method includes the steps of receiving, at a first PBB device, an Ethernet frame from a first edge router for transmission to a second edge router via a MACsec connection, the Ethernet frame comprising a plurality of fields; performing a lookup of one or more fields of the plurality of fields to determine a match with one or more pre-defined values; determining that the one or more fields of the Ethernet frame match the one or more pre-defined values; rewriting the one or more fields of the Ethernet frame to one or more open values operable to allow the Ethernet frame to be transmitted to a next hop device; and transmitting the Ethernet frame to the next hop device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Craig Thomas Hill, Aaron Christopher Warner, Michael William Bessette, Chennakesava Reddy Gaddam
  • Patent number: 11870450
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate an output signal having a first frequency in response to a voltage level of a first input signal and a value of a second input signal. The second circuit may be configured to determine the value of the second input signal based on a reference frequency signal, the first frequency of the output signal, a reference voltage, and a value representing a target frequency for the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventors: Yueh Chun Cheng, Xuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11869330
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for automatic signal detection in an RF environment are disclosed. A sensor device in a nodal network comprises at least one RF receiver, a generator engine, and an analyzer engine. The at least one RF receiver measures power levels in the RF environment and generates FFT data based on power level data. The generator engine calculates a power distribution by frequency of the RF environment in real time or near real time, including a first derivative and a second derivative of the FFT data. The analyzer engine creates a baseline based on statistical calculations of the power levels measured in the RF environment for a predetermined period of time, and identifies at least one signal based on the first derivative and the second derivative of the FFT data in at least one conflict situation from comparing live power distribution to the baseline of the RF environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: David William Kleinbeck
  • Patent number: 11871103
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting UAVs in an RF environment are disclosed. An apparatus is constructed and configured for network communication with at least one camera. The at least one camera captures images of the RF environment and transmits video data to the apparatus. The apparatus receives RF data and generates FFT data based on the RF data, identifies at least one signal based on a first derivative and a second derivative of the FFT data, measures a direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, analyzes the video data. The apparatus then identifies at least one UAV to which the at least one signal is related based on the analyzed video data, the RF data, and the direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, and controls the at least one camera based on the analyzed video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: David William Kleinbeck
  • Patent number: 11863261
    Abstract: This base station comprises: a control unit that allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams; and a transmission unit that transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams. According to this base station communication method, the base station allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams, and transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhide Nonaka, Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 11854392
    Abstract: A method for an apparatus operating in a wireless communication network. The method includes: determining at least one functional safety indicator that indicates at least whether associated data, especially V2X data that comprises at least one of a vehicle operating parameter and a roadway event, or industrial data that comprises a machine operating parameter, or building technology data that comprises building operational data, is relevant according to at least one safety integrity level; and transmitting the data along with the at least one determined functional safety indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Hofmann, Khaled Shawky Hassan, Kurt Eckert, Tobias Frye
  • Patent number: 11849353
    Abstract: A bridge system establishes a network connection between each of a plurality of private computer networks and a public computer network. The bridge system includes a plurality of bridge devices, each bridge device being connected to the public computer network. Additionally, the bridge system includes a central controller in connection with each bridge device. The central controller configures each bridge device for wireless communication with a designated private network, with aspects of the bridge device configuration being reviewable and modifiable through a network interface in communication with the central controller. Accordingly, the bridge system creates a private-to-public network link between each private network and the public network. As a result, an internet-enabled device with access to the network link is afforded with all the network services and resources provided by the private network over the substantially broadened geographic area of coverage delivered by the public network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: 5321 INNOVATION LABS LLC
    Inventors: Edward William Neipris, David Rueben Doiron
  • Patent number: 11849500
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration information identifying a slot or sub-slot granularity for transitioning from a non-monitoring state to a monitoring state, wherein the information identifies, for each slot or sub-slot, whether to operate in the non-monitoring state or the monitoring state; and transition from the non-monitoring state, wherein the user equipment (UE) is not performing monitoring, to the monitoring state, wherein the UE is performing monitoring, in accordance with the DRX configuration information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ozcan Ozturk, Gavin Bernard Horn, Ravi Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11849390
    Abstract: Systems, devices and automated processes are provided for prolonging backup battery power for RF radio operations at a base station, including a radio controller configured to control routing of power from the backup battery; a detection unit for determining whether a source of commercial power is about to or has failed; a control unit located remotely to communicate with an RF radio controller, a server, and router to change a setting of a required level to reduce the power to the cell; a feedback mechanism responsive to the loss of power to crop the input power; an output control unit to reduce the output power from the RF radio; and a battery controller configured to reduce the draw on the UPS since input power requirement are dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventor: Anand Menon
  • Patent number: 11846716
    Abstract: A system for determining a position of a user in a building includes a control device, a plurality of stationary radio signal transmission devices, a radio signal receiving device, and a signal processing device. The signal processing device determines primary channel impulse responses based on the radio signals received by the receiving device. The signal processing device also determines a secondary channel impulse response based on a secondary radio signal received by the receiving device from a mobile device of a user. The channel impulse responses are evaluated to determine degrees of similarity that indicate how similar a first primary channel impulse response and the secondary channel impulse response are to one another. For each degree of similarity, a distance of the mobile device from the transmission device corresponding to the degree of similarity is determined. A position of the mobile device is determined based on the distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Florian Troesch, Armin Wittneben, Gregor Dumphart, Marc Kuhn
  • Patent number: 11848803
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device (e.g., user equipment (UE), base station) may determine a condition of a channel between the first device and a second device (e.g., UE, base station). The first device may apply pre-equalization to the signal based on one or more pre-equalization parameters. The one or more pre-equalization parameters may be based on the condition of the channel. The first device may transmit, to the second device, or a third device (e.g., UE, base station), or both, a report indicating the one or more pre-equalization parameters associated with the pre-equalized signal. The first device may transmit, to the second device, the pre-equalized signal over the channel. The second device may decode the pre-equalized signal based on the report. The third device may receive the pre-equalized signal and perform interference cancelation procedures to the pre-equalized signal based on the report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis, Assaf Touboul