Patents Assigned to AND Communications
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Patent number: 11641509Abstract: Methods and systems for an intelligent tap with dynamically configurable amplifier gain. The intelligent tap includes a filter configured to process a signal received from a service provider system via a hybrid fiber-coaxial network, an amplifier connected to the filter, the amplifier configured to apply a feedback controlled gain value to the signal to generate an output signal, where the feedback controlled gain value is based on a comparison of a target signal strength to a sampled output signal strength, and a signal strength measuring component connected to the amplifier in a feedback loop, the signal strength measuring component configured to sample the output signal, and compare a signal strength of a sampled output signal to the target signal strength to generate the feedback controlled gain value, where application of the feedback controlled gain value maintains the output signal at a constant amplitude pursuant to the target signal strength.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventor: Charles Cook
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Patent number: 11641666Abstract: An uplink transmission method and a device are provided. The method includes: determining, in a case that transmissions of at least two uplink channels conflict in a time domain, priorities of the at least two uplink channels according to at least one of a transmission-related time duration, a transmission start time or carried information; and performing uplink transmission according to the priorities of the at least two uplink channels.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.Inventors: Na Li, Xiaodong Shen, Xueming Pan
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Patent number: 11641654Abstract: An uplink transmission method and an uplink transmission device are provided. The uplink transmission method includes: detecting an UL grant on a target time-domain resource and a target frequency-domain resource in a first time unit, the UL grant being to schedule one or more UEs to perform uplink transmission in a target time unit, a time unit having a predefined length of B1 subframes or B2 symbols, where B1 and B2 are each an integer greater than or equal to 1; acquiring scheduling information for the UE in the target time unit from the UL grant; and performing the uplink transmission on a time-domain resource and a frequency-domain resource scheduled in the target time unit in accordance with the scheduling information.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Fangchen Cheng, Xueming Pan
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Patent number: 11641580Abstract: Method and device used for wireless communications, including receiving a second media access control packet data unit (MAC PDU) group, a MAC Header of any MAC PDU in the second MAC PDU group comprising information corresponding to a first portion of a first old identifier (ID); the second MAC PDU group comprising a first packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) PDU, and a header of the first PDCP PDU comprising a first key ID; the first key ID being used to identify a first key, and the first key being used to generate a key for a security algorithm applied to the first PDCP PDU; transmitting a first MAC PDU group comprising a second PDCP PDU, the second PDCP PDU comprising information corresponding to a first portion of the first PDCP PDU; by determining a first key ID and a second key ID, reliability is improved, and risks during communications are avoided.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Xiaobo Zhang
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Patent number: 11641606Abstract: A resource configuration method, a mobile terminal, a network-side device, and a medium are provided. The method includes: receiving configuration of at least one target cell resource, where the configuration of the at least one target cell resource includes at least one trigger condition for user equipment UE to use the target cell resource; based on a signal quality measurement quantity of a current serving cell of the UE, evaluating whether the at least one trigger condition is satisfied; and determining that the trigger condition is satisfied, and initiating, based on the configuration of the target cell resource, a communication process associated with the trigger condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Qian Zheng, Yumin Wu
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Patent number: 11641639Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node for wireless communications. The communication node first receives first information, the first information being used to determine a target time-frequency resource pool; and then monitors a first signaling; after that, when the first signaling is detected, the communication node receives a first radio signal; a first code block is used to generated the first radio signal; time-frequency resources occupied by the first signaling comprise a first time-frequency resource, while time-frequency resources occupied by the first radio signal comprise a second time-frequency resource; whether the first radio signal can be excluded from being used for combined decoding for the first code block is dependent on whether the first time-frequency resource belongs to the target time-frequency resource pool. The present disclosure manages to improve the flexibility of buffer configurations.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMIIEDInventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang, Lin Yang
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Patent number: 11641632Abstract: A method for determining a synchronization source and a terminal are provided. The method includes: detecting a synchronization signal of a global navigation satellite system GNSS; when the synchronization signal of the GNSS is detected, using the GNSS as the synchronization source of a terminal; otherwise, determining the synchronization source of the terminal according to receiving capability of the terminal and network configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Li Zhao, Ying Peng, Rui Zhao, Chenxin Li
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Patent number: 11641341Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for performing targeted filtering of network traffic generated by user equipment (UE) devices connected to a customer premise equipment (CPE) device in a communication system that includes a distributed residential gateway. A network server may determine that the communication system includes a UE device that is compromised, misconfigured, or operating outside normal communication parameters, identify the UE device, determine an Internet protocol (IP) address or a media access control (MAC) address of the identified UE device, generate a quarantine request message that includes the IP address or the MAC address of the identified UE device in response to determining that the preconfigured virtual local area network access control list (VACL) on the CPE lists source IP addresses from which the CPE will filter outbound traffic, and send the generated quarantine request message to a bridged residential gateway (BRG) associated with the CPE device.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: Timothy Bleidorn, Cheryl Warne, Shane Newberg, Christopher Teague
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Patent number: 11641269Abstract: A method for implementing a fast UBDM transform includes receiving a first, input vector via a processor, and partitioning the first vector to produce a magnitude vector and a sign vector. A second vector, including a modified magnitude vector and a modified sign vector, is generated by: applying a permutation to the magnitude vector to produce the modified magnitude vector, converting the sign vector, based on an algorithm, into an intermediate sign vector, and applying nonlinear layers to the intermediate sign vector. Each nonlinear layer includes a permutation, an S-box transformation, a diffusive linear operation and/or an Xor operation. Multiple linear layers are applied to the second vector to produce a third vector, the third vector being a transformed version of the first vector. A first signal representing the third vector is sent to at least one transmitter for transmission of a second signal representing the transformed data vector.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Rampart Communications, Inc.Inventor: Matthew Brandon Robinson
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Patent number: 11638538Abstract: A system for fall prevention includes a platform for supporting a patient, the platform including rails and rail sensors, an image capturing device for capturing images of the patient, a patient monitor for interactive communication with the patient, a health monitoring station for receiving rail sensor data and communicating with the patient monitor, and an edge network device co-located with the platform and communicating with the station and the image capturing device. The edge network device receives image data from the image capturing device when the rail sensors indicate that the rail is down and the patient is at risk to themselves, anonymizes the image data to generate a skeleton image, determines a posture associated with the skeleton image, triggers alerts at the station when the patient is predicted to be sitting, and triggers escalated alerts at the station when the patient is predicted to be standing.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: Wael Guibene, Muhammad Khan, Hossam Hmimy
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Patent number: 11641626Abstract: A method of monitoring a power saving signal, a method of configuring a power saving signal, a terminal, and a network-side device are provided. The method includes: receiving configuration information of a power saving signal, the configuration information being at least used to indicate a resource location of the power saving signal; monitoring the power saving signal at the resource location indicated by the configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinhua Miao, Meiying Yang, Jing Fu, Meng Xu, Jing Liang
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Patent number: 11641325Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for controlling Quality of Service (QoS) within a service provider network by retrieving from the network QoS related data, processing the retrieved QoS related data via one or more time series prediction algorithm to determine QoS prediction data, and responsively generating network management or configuration commands adapted to ensure continued services delivery in accordance with QoS requirements.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCInventor: Sandeep Reddy Mereddy
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Patent number: 11641451Abstract: One disclosed example system includes a reception room meeting device configured for establishing a video conference with a device associated with a remote receptionist. The reception room meeting device sends a request for a video meeting with one of a plurality of candidate remote receptionists in response to receiving an activation signal triggered by a visitor to a reception area, and establishes the video meeting with a device associated with one remote receptionist selected based on the request. The system further includes a virtual receptionist system configured to access visitor data obtained by various input devices at the reception area, and determine the status of the visitor based on the visitor data. The virtual receptionist system further transmits the status of the visitor to the device associated with the selected remote receptionist to facilitate the check-in process.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Cynthia Lee, Stephen Newton
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Patent number: 11641679Abstract: The present application discloses a sidelink data indication method and a terminal equipment. The method includes: determining indication information, the indication information including at least one of a first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the first identifier is used to identify a first logical channel, the second identifier is used to identify a second logical channel, the first logical channel is used to carry original sidelink data, the second logical channel is used to carry duplicated sidelink data, the duplicated sidelink data is obtained by duplicating the original sidelink data; and sending the indication information.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanxia Zhang, Xiaodong Yang, Qian Zheng, Jingzhi Ma
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Patent number: 11641442Abstract: A system and method to facilitating selecting or otherwise providing access to electronic content and services. Access to the content and services may be provided in such as a manner as to facilitate access to higher quality forms of the content. The higher quality forms of the content may be relate to any number of characteristics associated with displaying, transmitting, compressing, securing, and/or otherwise manipulating the content to more suitable forms relative to another form.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Derek T. Harrar, Jack M. Birnbaum
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Patent number: 11641653Abstract: A method of configuring a control resource set CORESET, a network equipment and a terminal are provided. The method includes: configuring, for a terminal, indication information for indicating time-frequency domain position information of the CORESET of data information; transmitting the indication information to the terminal. The indication information includes: a first indication field for indicating downlink numerology information and a second indication field for indicating a CORESET configuration codebook.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Siqi Liu, Yu Ding, Zichao Ji
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Publication number: 20230129797Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a UE and a base station for wireless communications. The UE receives first information, and transmits a first radio signal in a first time window in a first sub-band. The first information is used for determining the first time window; a time offset of a start time for a transmission of the first radio signal relative to a reference time belongs to a target offset set, the target offset set comprising W offset value(s); time offset(s) of W start time(s) respectively relative to the reference time is(are) respectively equal to the W offset value(s); any of the W start time(s) belongs to one of N time units, any of the N time units comprises at least one of the W start times.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Lu WU, Xiaobo ZHANG, Lin YANG
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Publication number: 20230127578Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer implemented method receives flow data for one or more flows that correspond to a device-circuit pair. The method calculates a time difference for each flow that corresponds to a device-circuit pair. Based on the calculated time differences and the received flow data, the method updates a probability distribution model associated with the device-circuit pair. Then, the method determines whether a time bucket is complete or open based on the updated probability distribution model.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: Sergey Yermakov
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Publication number: 20230128817Abstract: Disclosed is reducing starting time for a GNSS receiver that has an imprecise initial starting location by requesting starting assistance from a CDN that caches predictive data including first data indicated predicted LOS visibility from the receiver to individual satellites, wherein the request includes the imprecise initial staring location, receiving, from the CDN, data that includes a first block of the predictive data for the imprecise initial staring location and further adjoining second blocks of predictive data for areas surrounding the imprecise staring location, determining, by the GNSS receiver, commonly available satellites that have visibility from locations in both the first block and the second block, and calculating a first starting position using weighted values for the satellites, the commonly available satellites having higher weighted value than satellites without visibility in both locations, whereby position uncertainty of the first starting position is reduced from the imprecise initialType: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Spirent Communications PLCInventors: Jeremy Charles BENNINGTON, Richard WEST, Paul HANSEN, Esther ANYAEGBU, Matthew POTTLE
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Publication number: 20230125097Abstract: Optimization of a photography position is intended. According to one embodiment, photography recommended positions are sequentially set based on reference points set on a two-dimensional coordinate plane of a plan view of a floor to be photographed, a graphic pattern representing a set photography recommended position is combined with a finder display image output from a camera CM to thereby generate photography guide information composed of an AR image, and the generated photography guide information is transmitted to the user terminal MT and displayed. In addition, it is determined whether or not the movement position of the user is within a predetermined range including the photography recommended position. If the photography is performed outside the predetermined range, a message is displayed to that effect or notification is given by vibrating a vibrator, and the image data photographed at this time is discarded.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicants: NTT Communications Corporation, 3i, IncInventor: Ken KIM