Patents Assigned to AND Communications
  • Patent number: 11159365
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for discovery, synchronization and operation of network components. In one embodiment, the network comprises a passive optical network (PON), and the components being synchronized include an enhanced OLT (eOLT) and one or more enhanced ONUs (eONUs). The eOLT is configured in one variant to utilize control protocol messaging (such as those used in the MPCP or Multi Point Control Protocol) to communicate particular synchronization parameters and durations to the eONU(s), whether individually or via multicast/broadcast. The synchronization parameter and durations are selected to optimize discovery and synchronization of the eONU(s) with the eOLT, and also optimize (subsequent) normal operation, in one implementation through selection of synchronization patterns which enable most efficient AGC determination, clock recovery (CDR), SBD, and EBD identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Marek Hajduczenia
  • Patent number: 11159959
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may send, to a wireless device, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) comprising a bandwidth part identifier field and a channel state information (CSI) report configuration field. Based on the MAC CE, the wireless device may activate the CSI report configuration for a bandwidth part indicated by the bandwidth part identifier field. The wireless device may transmit one or more CSI reports based on the CSI report configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11159871
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a signal transmission circuit, a signal transmission system, a signal transmission method, and an intelligent terminal. The signal transmission circuit includes an earphone interface circuit, a comparison circuit, and a control circuit. The earphone interface circuit is configured for connection to an audio receiving device. The comparison circuit is configured to acquire a voltage value corresponding to an impedance of the audio receiving device via the earphone interface circuit, the voltage value is compared with a reference voltage of the comparison circuit, to output a comparison result to the control circuit. The control circuit judges whether the audio receiving device is a digital audio device according to the comparison result, and switches the earphone interface circuit to digital output when the audio receiving device is determined to be a digital audio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunxia Yan, Mingliang Liu, Min Yao
  • Patent number: 11155067
    Abstract: Devices, methods and systems disclosed herein relate to the application of a protective film on a surface of an electronic device that instantly reduces air bubbles and eliminates the waiting time usually required when using a wet fluid solution. In one embodiment, a flange may be configured to couple to the protective film. The flange may aid in the accurate application of the protective film to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Superior Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Shraddha Patel, Charlie LaColla, Vivian Chou
  • Patent number: 11160010
    Abstract: An access control method, a base station and a terminal are provided. The method comprises: receiving a system message transmitted by a base station; determining whether to camp on a cell of the base station according to the system message to obtain a determination result; and performing, according to the determination result, a procedure of camping on the cell of the base station or a procedure of not camping on the cell of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Ma, Xiaodong Yang, Yumin Wu, Yu Ding
  • Patent number: 11159405
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to managing a communications system based on software defined networking (SDN) architecture. An SDN controller is provided in the communications system to manage a wireless distribution system (WDS) and a local area network (LAN) based on SDN architecture. The SDN controller is communicatively coupled to a WDS control system in the WDS and a LAN control system in the LAN via respective SDN control data plane interfaces (CDPIs). The SDN controller analyzes a WDS performance report and a LAN performance report and provides a WDS configuration instruction(s) and/or a LAN configuration instruction(s) to the WDS control system and/or the LAN control system to reconfigure a WDS element(s) and/or a LAN element(s) to improve quality-of-experiences (QoEs) of the communications system. Monitoring and optimizing the WDS and the LAN based on a unified software-based network management platform can improve performance at reduced operational costs and complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Robert Fred Basile, Jason Elliott Greene
  • Patent number: 11160092
    Abstract: A service data transmission method, a UE and a network side device are provided. The service data transmission method includes: upon receipt of a scheduling command for an uplink resource from a network side device, acquiring attribute information of to-be-transmitted service data packets, the attribute information of the to-be-transmitted service data packets including a time delay; and mapping the to-be-transmitted service data packets to the uplink resource in accordance with a time delay requirement on the to-be-transmitted service data packets, and transmitting the to-be-transmitted service data packets on the uplink resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Chen, Wei Bao, Fangli Xu, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11159852
    Abstract: Dynamic ad insertion in cloud-based video recorded (cDVR) content is provided. A partially or fully recorded cDVR asset may be associated with a corresponding reference asset, such as a video-on-demand (VOD) catalog copy of a program. The cDVR asset and reference asset may be associated via a common identifier, such as a TMS or Gracenotes® identifier. The reference asset may include metadata that specifies ad breaks and that can be applied to the cDVR asset and used to dynamically insert up-to-date and relevant ads into those ad breaks during playback. Additionally, an option may be provided to a user to stream the reference asset instead of the recorded asset. Further, another option may be provided to replace the user's cDVR asset with the reference asset. Accordingly, up-to-date and relevant ads can be dynamically inserted into the reference asset on playback, and less storage space is required for storing the recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Ray Killick, Jayasri Devalapalli, Muhammad Asif Raza
  • Patent number: 11160003
    Abstract: An example technique is performed by a client on a device, and includes: detecting a mobility state of the device; making a determination, based on the mobility state, about how to manage one or more connections between the device and one or more wireless networks; and managing the one or more connections based, at least in part, on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: William Kenneth Logan, Oliver James Jauncey, Stephen Colias
  • Publication number: 20210329555
    Abstract: A method for reception mode switching and a terminal are provided. The method includes: switching a reception mode of the terminal from a first reception mode to a second reception mode if a reception mode switching event occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dajie JIANG
  • Publication number: 20210329474
    Abstract: An uplink signal transmission method includes: transmitting a target uplink signal on the basis of a target transmission pattern, wherein the target transmission pattern is related to at least one of the uplink beamforming capability of a terminal device or the number of retransmissions of the target uplink signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye SI, Peng SUN, Xiaodong SUN
  • Publication number: 20210329502
    Abstract: The embodiments of this application disclose a resource reserving method and a device and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining target information, where the target information includes at least one of first information and second information, the first information is used to indicate a resource reserving priority of first data, the second information is used to indicate a resource reserving priority of second data, the first data is data that occupies a first resource, and the second data is to-be-transmitted data; and according to the target information, determining whether to use the first resource as a candidate resource for transmitting the second data. The embodiments of this application are applied to a scenario where UE reserves a resource for to-be-transmitted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuyan PENG, Zichao Ji, Wei Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210329612
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device used in node for wireless communication. A first node transmits a first sequence and a first radio signal; receives a first signaling; and receives a second radio signal; the second radio signal carries a first information block and a second information block, the first information block being used to determine X characteristic sequence(s), X being a positive integer; the second information block comprises X second-type information sub-block(s), and the X second-type information sub-block(s) corresponds(correspond) to the X characteristic sequence(s) respectively. By interpreting the existing signaling in a new way, the method provided in the present disclosure prevents unnecessary signaling overhead and meanwhile supports a flexible switch between 2-step random access and 4-step random access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210329470
    Abstract: An information transmission method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving configuration information of a downlink transmission identification signal, where the configuration information includes: a detection period and/or a detection position; and a detection period and a detection period indicated by the configuration information; and detecting the downlink transmission identification signal on a first time-domain transmission unit according to the detection period and/or a detection position indicated by the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong SHEN, Xueming Pan
  • Publication number: 20210326199
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Publication number: 20210326479
    Abstract: A permission management method and a terminal device are provided, where the permission management method is applied to the terminal device including a first display area and a second display area. The permission management method includes: determining a target permission management policy corresponding to a first application based on a display area in which the first application is located (101); and controlling permission management for the first application according to the target permission management policy (102); where the target permission management policy includes a first permission management policy corresponding to the first display area and/or a second permission management policy corresponding to the second display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gen Li
  • Publication number: 20210329600
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for Discontinuous Reception. A first node receives first information; and senses a first radio signal in a first time resource pool; and selects a first time-frequency resource block from a first time-frequency resource pool, and transmits a first signaling in the first time-frequency resource block; herein, the first information indicates a first ID list; the first ID list comprises at least one Destination ID; the first radio signal comprises any Destination ID in the first ID list; any bit block identified by the at least one Destination ID is not a bit (bits) useful for the first node; the sensing action in the first time resource pool is used for determining the first time-frequency resource pool. The present disclosure prevents misunderstanding of the first time-frequency resource pool, thus reducing power consumption and radio interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210328349
    Abstract: This application provides a wireless electronic communications device, including: a metal frame on which a first antenna and a second antenna are disposed, where a first preset distance is spaced between the first antenna and the second antenna, and a feeding structure is disposed on each of the first antenna and the second antenna; and a slot structure disposed between the first antenna and the second antenna, where an extension distance of the slot structure in a width direction of the metal frame is less than a width of the metal frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xianjing JIAN, Huan-Chu HUANG
  • Publication number: 20210328856
    Abstract: The disclosed methods and systems of using TWAMP measurement architecture for testing a large network include a control-client running on a first network host initializing memory for test session parameters used to originate a test, parsing a configuration file to populate the memory with IP addresses, ports and QoS parameters for control-servers and session-reflectors; and originating test sessions using the test session parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Spirent Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Jyotikumar U. MENON
  • Publication number: 20210329505
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a transmission method with data offloading, a network master node MN, and a network secondary node SN. The method on the MN side includes: transmitting offloading request information to a network secondary node SN, where the offloading request information includes information about a target QoS flow and resource indication information, and the resource indication information is used to indicate that the SN transmits the target QoS flow by using a target data radio bearer DRB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Boubacar KIMBA DIT ADAMOU, Xiaodong YANG, Wei BAO