Patents Assigned to Alcatel
  • Patent number: 11917550
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and device for uplink power control. The method comprises receiving a plurality of sets of power control parameters from a network device, each of the plurality of sets being associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of sets of candidate beam patterns for the terminal device. The method further comprises selecting, based on a beam pattern for the terminal device, one of the plurality of sets of power control parameters for uplink transmit power control, the beam pattern for the terminal device being included in the set of candidate beam pattern that is associated with the selected set of power control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Pingping Wen, Huan Sun, Tao Yang, Xun Li, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11881957
    Abstract: The method comprises the steps of: the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) receiving (Step 1) user's subscription information, in order to determine an initial policy; the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) applying (Step 2) the initial rules; the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) triggering (Step 3) the Extended Online Charging System (EOCS) for the user's service/network resource usage; the Extended Online Charging System (EOCS) rating and charging (step 4) the user, in real time; the Extended Online Charging System (EOCS) triggering (Step 5) a change of policy in the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF); the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) determining (Step 6) new rules for the new policy; the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) receiving (Step 7) the new rules and applying them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: ALCATEL LUCENT, NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kim Brouard, Thomas Levy, Yigang Cai
  • Publication number: 20230422295
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for assisting a UE to implement a UL channel access in a base station of an eLAA-based communication system. The method comprises determining a listen-before-talk (LBT) priority for the UE; and transmitting a first signaling indicating the determined LBT priority to the UE. An enhanced UL channel access mechanism is proposed by the dis-closure. In this mechanism, the eNB call provide some assistance to facilitate UL access. Chances of multiple user multiplexing and spectrum efficiency in LAA UL can be improved by this solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Tao Tao, Jianguo Liu, Yan Meng, Junrong Gu, Dawei Wang, Zhe Luo, Gang Shen
  • Patent number: 11828631
    Abstract: A method for measuring a response from an optical fiber providing distributed back reflections using a system comprising an optical source comprising a laser, an optical receiver and a processing unit is disclosed. The method comprises generating an interrogation signal and an optical local oscillator using the optical source, the interrogation signal being represented by an interrogation phasor and the optical local oscillator being represented by a local oscillator phasor; transmitting the interrogation signal into the optical fiber; and mixing the optical local oscillator with reflected light from the optical fiber and detecting a mixing product with the optical receiver to achieve a receiver output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Submarine Networks
    Inventors: Erlend Ronnekleiv, Ole Henrik Waagaard
  • Patent number: 11821784
    Abstract: A fibre-optic hydrophone comprising a substantially incompressible tubular body, the tubular body generally having a geometry of a cylindrical shell defining an axis, and a deflectable outer wall, arranged to surround the tubular body in a distance thereof, and defining an axis that is arranged to substantially coincide with the axis of the tubular body. The hydrophone further comprising an optical fibre coil arranged on an outer surface of the outer wall, and a first and a second end lid arranged to seal the tubular body and the outer wall at a first end and a second end thereof, respectively, the first end lid and the second end lid being substantially incompressible. Additionally, the hydrophone comprising an outer cavity defined by an inner surface of the outer wall, an outer surface of the tubular body, the first lid, and the second lid; and an inner cavity defined by an inner surface of the tubular body, the first lid, and the second lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Submarine Networks
    Inventor: Arne Berg
  • Patent number: 11757528
    Abstract: Various example embodiments for supporting supervision in optical communication systems are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting supervision in optical communication systems may be configured to support supervision of an optical path including a remote optically pumped amplifier (ROPA) and, thus, supervision of the ROPA. Various example embodiments for supporting supervision of an optical path including a ROPA may be configured to support supervision of the optical path including the ROPA based on a pair of optical supervisory paths configured to extract a pair of optical supervisory signals from an optical path in a first direction and to insert the pair of optical supervisory signals into an optical path in a second direction. Various example embodiments for supporting supervision of an optical path including a ROPA may be configured to support supervision of the optical path including the ROPA based on a pair of optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Submarine Networks
    Inventors: Hans Bissessur, Omar Ait Sab
  • Patent number: 11737104
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communications. For example, scheduling information is received at a terminal device from a network device, the scheduling information at least indicates physical resource blocks shared by a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of the terminal device and a further DMRS of at least one further terminal device, and different sub-carriers allocated to the DMRS and the further DMRS in each of physical resource blocks, and the number of physical resource blocks is indivisible by a total number of the terminal device and the at least one further terminal device. The DMRS is generated, and a length of the DMRS is determined based on the number of physical resource blocks and the number of at least one further terminal device. The DMRS is transmitted to the network device on the sub-carriers allocated to the DMRS in the physical resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY, ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Ling Su, Min Zhang, Xiaoyi Wang, Frank Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11729823
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for determining a channel sensing threshold in uplink channel detection of licensed-assisted access. The method comprises determining one or more parameters associated with the user equipment; and determining a channel sensing threshold for the user equipment based on at least one of the one or more parameters. The threshold determination method may realize suitable threshold determination, flexible channel access, and balance of channel access opportunity among a plurality of radio access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Junrong Gu, Jianguo Liu, Tao Tao, Yan Meng, Sigen Ye, Gang Shen
  • Patent number: 11729811
    Abstract: A base station and a user equipment device and a method for sending data from the user equipment device to the base station is proposed. The method for transmitting data comprises the steps of determining disadvantageous transmission conditions for the user equipment device and if such disadvantageous transmission conditions are determined, transmitting data in a reserved frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Thorsten Wild, Andre Fonseca Dos Santos, Husain Nizamuddin
  • Patent number: 11729164
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include an entity, such as ePDG or TWAN entity, capable of serving a User Equipment for WLAN access to a Packet Core such as EPC of a mobile network, said entity configured to: provide at least one of: an indication whether IMEI checking is requested, an indication whether IMEI checking by a visited EIR or by a home EIR is requested, an indication of an action to be taken upon IMEI check result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Nicolas Drevon, Laurent Thiebaut, Bruno Landais
  • Patent number: 11696201
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device and a computer-readable medium for guaranteeing communication service. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a source network device that currently serves the terminal device transmits, to a target network device which will serve the terminal device, information about the amount of resources of network slices utilized by the terminal device. The target network device configures the amount of resources based on the information. In this way, successful handover of the terminal device from the source network device to the target network device is guaranteed, so as to ensure continuity of communication services of the terminal device. In addition, embodiments of the present disclosure creates a network slice in the target network device, which avoids possible interruptions of communication service caused by mapping from the terminal device to the slices supported by the target network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Junrong Gu, Xiaobing Leng, Dawei Wang, Dongyao Wang, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 11678313
    Abstract: A base station requires one or more channels in an unlicensed frequency band for a predetermined time interval and schedules one or more user equipment for uplink transmission on the one or more channels during the predetermined time interval. User equipment transmits, over a licensed frequency band, a request for resources for uplink transmission in an unlicensed frequency band. The user equipment receives scheduling information indicating a first portion of a predetermined time interval that is allocated to the first user equipment for uplink transmission on one or more channels in the unlicensed frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Mohammad R. Khawer, Teck H. Hu, Matthew P. J. Baker, Sigen Ye
  • Publication number: 20230174339
    Abstract: An automated system for coiling a large (e.g., >1000 km) length of cable in a cable tank. In an example embodiment, the system comprises a gantry positioned above the cable tank and a swarm of robots deployed on the floor of the tank. The gantry operates to controllably move a touchdown point of the cable, which is being fed into the tank by a cable engine. Each of the robots is equipped with a rake that can be used to push or pull downed sections of the cable on the floor of the tank. An electronic controller operates to control the speed of the cable engine and movements of the gantry and individual robots to coil the cable in the tank in spirally wound, vertically stacked layers. Different embodiments of the system may be used for cable coiling at the cable factory and on the deck of a cable-laying ship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Alcatel Submarine Networks
    Inventors: Francois-Xavier ABRIAL, Guillaume CHOQUEL, Michele BAREZZANI
  • Patent number: 11632145
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication controller (131; 132) and method for controlling communications between an access node (101; 102) and a plurality of remote communication units (211; 212) coupled to the access node via at least one wired transmission medium (20; 40). At least one communication unit (111, 211; 112, 212) of the access node and of the plurality of remote communication units is configured to operate in full-duplex mode according to a first full-duplex communication profile (OP1) when using a first subset of transmission resources (TSSET1; TONESET1) selected from a whole set of transmission resources available for communication over the at least one transmission medium, and according to a second full-duplex communication profile (OP2) when using a second non-overlapping subset of transmission resources (TSSET2; TONESET2) selected from the whole set of transmission resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Paschalis Tsiaflakis, Jochen Maes
  • Patent number: 11616539
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a beamforming method for a massive MIMO system. Specifically, S routes of data streams to be transmitted via the antenna array are subjected to horizontal direction baseband beamforming processing, to obtain T routes of data streams; the T-routes of data streams are subjected to vertical direction digital beamforming processing to map the T routes of data streams onto a corresponding channel according to a predetermined rule; a data stream on each channel is subjected to analog beamforming processing to map the data stream on each channel onto a corresponding array element of the antenna array for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Zhenhao Cai, Kun Zhao, Xunyong Zhang, Yang Xu
  • Patent number: 11601853
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of and apparatus for controlling a ProSe service in a communication system. An eNB sends a first PLMN identifier, and carrier frequency information of another PLMN to indicate at least one carrier frequency at which a UE of the other PLMN can carry out the ProSe service, to a UE in a shared cell, and if the UE is in an idle state, then the UE reselects a cell or selects a PLMN; or if the UE is in a connected state, then the UE performs a handover procedure. If the handover procedure fails, then the UE releases an RRC connection to enter the idle states, or is DRX-configured and carries out the ProSe service in a DRX sleep time. With the solution of the invention, the UE can reselect or be handed over to the cell to carry out the ProSe service at the carrier frequency indicated by the carrier frequency information to thereby avoid the problem of an overload arising from too many ProSe services being carried out concurrently in the shared cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Yun Deng, Seau Sian Lim, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 11558066
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes determining a second sequence of numbers of digits for encoding the respective integer coefficient values of the first sequence, the second sequence including, as first element, a first number of digits for encoding the first integer coefficient value of the first sequence, and as second and subsequent elements, constrained numbers of digits that are greater than or equal to respective minimum required numbers of digits for encoding the second and subsequent integer coefficient values of the first sequence. The constrained numbers of digits are such that any two successive elements of the second sequence do not differ from each other by more than a given threshold value. The method further includes encoding difference values between the successive elements of the second sequence; and encoding the integer coefficient values of the first sequence using the respective numbers of digits of the second sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Carl Nuzman
  • Patent number: 11539563
    Abstract: The method includes receiving indicator information indicating a processor should use a first type preamble sequence or a second type preamble sequence to generate a first preamble sequence, generating the first preamble sequence, transmitting a first request message to request network resources, the first request message including the first preamble sequence, a processor being capable of generating both the first type preamble sequence and the second type preamble sequence for the first request message to initially request network resources, receiving a feedback message from the receiver, and controlling the network data traffic based on the feedback message. The second type preamble sequence has a higher robustness against frequency impairments compared to the first type preamble sequence. The second type preamble sequence is used in high carrier frequency scenarios, within 5G networks, in case of low-cost terminals, or in ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) use cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: Alcatel Lucent, Nokia of America Corporation
    Inventors: Gerhard Schreiber, Marcos Tavares
  • Patent number: 11520930
    Abstract: A set of raw data relating to activity of one or more users in accordance with a communication network is obtained. The communication network is managed by a network operator. The obtained set of raw data is processed in accordance with at least one data isolation policy maintained by the network operator to generate a first set of data comprising at least a portion of the set of raw data with sensitive data associated with the one or more users removed; a second set of data comprising the sensitive data removed from the set of raw data; and a third set of data comprising a mapping between portions of the set of raw data and the first set of data. The first set of data is exposed to a third party, while the second set of data and the third set of data are isolated from the third party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Zhiyuan Hu, Wen Wei, Xueqiang Yan, Zhigang Luo
  • Patent number: 11516696
    Abstract: A method for data exchange between a user equipment and a network node over a bearer service in a communication system. A virtual access network identifier identifies a connectionless bearer service on which a network service is mapped. A logical channel identifier identifies a connection oriented bearer service on which the network service is mapped. The data is exchanged between the user equipment and the network node over the connection oriented bearer service or over the connectionless bearer service depending on the amount of exchanged data and/or the data bit rate and/or the expiration of a timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Dietrich Zeller, Hajo-Erich Bakker