Patents Assigned to AND Communications
  • Patent number: 11012137
    Abstract: Wireless communications are described. A wireless device and/or a base station may provide improved resource management. A base station may configure and/or transmit a beam failure recovery medium access control control element (BFR MAC CE) to a wireless device to configure particular cells to use particular assigned candidate beams from a pool of shared candidate beams during beam failure recovery operations. The BFR MAC CE may provide orthogonality in beams that may be designated for use by active cells out of a shared pool of beams that may not be orthogonal across all potentially available cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11013014
    Abstract: According to one configuration, a wireless network includes first wireless stations and second wireless stations. The first wireless stations and second wireless stations support different wireless communication protocols and compete to use a wireless channel. Via monitoring of a control channel generated by a management resource associated with at least the first wireless stations, a given wireless station of the second wireless stations determines availability (unused time slots, frames, etc.) of the wireless channel via monitoring of the wireless channel itself and/or a control channel. In the latter instance, the control channel indicates scheduled usage of the shared wireless channel by at least the first wireless stations. In accordance with the scheduled usage as indicated by the control channel, the given wireless station transmits over the wireless channel during free slots, times, gaps, etc., to communicate with a remote wireless station of the second wireless stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Amitav Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11006920
    Abstract: Controlling a multi-device module includes a physiological sensor configured to sense physiological characteristics of a subject and generate a signal indicative of an instantaneous physiological state. A first device is configured to generate a first signal indicative of an operating state of the first device. A second device is configured to generate a second signal indicative of an operating state of the second device. A remote-control device includes a repository for storing computer executable files aggregated from a plurality of changing private networks. The remote-control device includes an electronic record (ER) client to make a wireless connection with each of the private networks and to query ER database associated with the private networks for electronic records residing within the private networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Netspective Communications LLC
    Inventor: Shahid N. Shah
  • Patent number: 11012726
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of using video viewing activity data as input to an aggregation engine built on the Hadoop MapReduce framework which calculates second-by-second video viewing activity aggregated to the analyst's choice of (a) geographic area, (b) video server, (c) video content (channel call sign, video program, etc.), or (d) viewer demographic, or any combination of these fields, for each second of the day represented in the video viewing activity data. Also calculates overall viewing for use as a denominator in calculations. The source data may be extracted from a database defined according to the Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Media Measurement Data Model defined in “Audience Data Measurement Specification” as “OpenCable™ Specifications, Audience Measurement, Audience Measurement Data Specification” document OC-SP-AMD-I01-130502 or any similar format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Alan Orlowski
  • Patent number: 11012430
    Abstract: A mechanism of mediating an encrypted communication channel via a user equipment (UE) relay is described. This includes receiving an indication of a sensitive transaction from an application operating on a UE. The UE relay establishes a downstream encrypted communication channel to the application via a communication port at the UE. The UE relay then receives an end point for the sensitive transaction from the application over the downstream encrypted communication channel. The UE relay can then create an upstream encrypted communication channel to the end point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: David Hufker, Lyle W. Paczkowski, George Jason Schnellbacher, Michael David Svoren, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11012153
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for monitoring optical communications between a managed location and a remote location. In particular, an optical signal is transmitted over an optical fiber and passed-through a test device. A portion of the optical signal is filtered from the original optical signal and passed to a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit may instruct one or more switches in the test device to loop the optical signal back toward the managed location. Subsequently, testing and monitoring may be performed at the managed location. The device may provide a test output or may transmit the information to the managed location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Storey, John F. Waters, Andrew Dugan, Salvador Paredes, Gary Ratterree
  • Patent number: 11012969
    Abstract: Location of an electronic device is determined using signals received from a first set of reference radios. The first set of reference radios include at least one secondary reference radio, each secondary reference radio established as a secondary reference radio by registering a corresponding location with a server. The corresponding location of the secondary reference radio is determined as a function of signals received by the secondary reference radio from a second set of reference radios. The second set of reference radios include radios qualified as reference radios in a database of primary se reference radios and secondary reference radios, each primary reference radio being a fixed-location radio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Lars Nord, Basuki Priyanto, Anders Larsson
  • Patent number: 11012857
    Abstract: A Fifth Generation Core (5GC) Long Term Evolution (LTE) network authenticates a wireless User Equipment (UE) for LTE data service using a 5GC Subscriber Concealed Identifier (SUCI). A Mobility Management Entity (MME) receives the 5GC SUCI and transfers the 5GC SUCI to a 5GC authentication system. The 5GC authentication system determines a 5GC Subscriber Permanent Identifier (SUPI) and authentication vector based on the 5GC SUCI. The 5GC authentication system transfers the 5GC SUPI and the 5GC authentication vector to the MME. The MME exchanges 5GC authentication data with the UE. The MME authenticates the UE based on the 5GC authentication vector and the 5GC authentication data. In response to the 5GC authentication, the MME initiates the LTE data service for the UE based on the 5GC SUPI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Rajil Malhotra, Anuj Sharma, Anil Kumar Mariyani
  • Patent number: 11012410
    Abstract: An apparatus for preventing data traffic overload of a customer enterprise network in a networked computing system includes a plurality of data centers, each of the data centers being in operative communication with one another via a secure connection. The data centers form at least one floating gateway for providing a distributed interface between a public network and an Internet Protocol (IP) interface of the customer enterprise network, the IP interface of the customer enterprise network being inaccessible using a public IP address. The apparatus further includes at least one controller in operative communication with the data centers. The controller is configured to synchronize state information among the data centers and to control ingress and egress data traffic for each of the data centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventor: Marek Hajduczenia
  • Patent number: 11012988
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are described relating to wireless communications. A wireless device may determine a received signal in a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. A first signal corresponding to a first base station may be generated based on demodulating, descrambling, and decoding signals received on subcarriers in the first OFDM symbol. A processed first signal may be generated based on encoding, scrambling, modulating, and scaling the first signal. A second signal corresponding to a second base station may be generated based on subtracting the processed first signal from the received signal. The second signal may be used by the wireless device to determine system parameters associated with the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 11013011
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may transmit a buffer status report. Based on the buffer status report, the wireless device may receive a control command to use radio resources of a secondary cell. The wireless device may transmit a random access preamble via the secondary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Publication number: 20210144741
    Abstract: Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are a semi-persistent grant uplink transmission method, terminal device and a network-side device. The method comprises: receiving configuration information, wherein the configuration information is used to configure a plurality of semi-persistent grant resources, each of the plurality of semi-persistent grant resources corresponds to at least one unlicensed sub-band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohang CHEN, Lei JIANG
  • Publication number: 20210144690
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides a state detection method and a configuration method for network communication, a terminal, and a network device. The state detection method for network communication, applied to a terminal, includes: obtaining a monitoring configuration parameter of a reference state, where the monitoring configuration parameter includes at least one set of reference state configuration parameters; and performing, based on the monitoring configuration parameter, a detection process corresponding to the reference state, where the reference state includes radio link monitor RLM and/or beam failure detection BFD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li CHEN
  • Publication number: 20210144798
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a channel detection indication method, a terminal, and a network device. The method includes: obtaining at least two sets of configuration information, where the at least two sets of configuration information are related to monitoring a physical downlink control channel PDCCH; determining target configuration information from the at least two sets of configuration information; and monitoring the PDCCH based on the target configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Dajie JIANG, Xueming PAN
  • Publication number: 20210143925
    Abstract: A digital broadcast receiver includes a first receiving module tunable to a foreground broadcast service to extract a program information, a first decoder module coupled to the first receiving module and decoding the program information, an output module switchably coupled to the first decoder module and adapted to output the program information, at least one second decoder module coupled to the first receiving module and tunable to a background broadcast service to decode a program information associated with the background broadcast service, and a control unit adapted to tune the first receiving module and the first decoder module to the foreground broadcast service and to tune each of the at least one second decoder modules to a background broadcast service. The control unit determines the foreground broadcast service based on a user input and determines the background broadcast services based on the foreground broadcast service and a predefined rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Hirschmann Car Communication GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Mueller
  • Publication number: 20210143841
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for interleaving data including creating a buffer, writing input data, and reading output data out of the buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Pierre Humblet
  • Publication number: 20210144621
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a serving node update method and a device. The method includes: sending a first message to a target node; receiving, from the target node, a second message used for responding to the first message; and sending a third message to a terminal device when the second message indicates that the target node rejects a multi-connectivity serving node update, where the third message is used to indicate the terminal device to perform a serving node update in a legacy serving node update manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Yanxia ZHANG, Yumin WU
  • Publication number: 20210144322
    Abstract: An image sensor, a mobile terminal and a photographing method are provided. The image sensor includes: a pixel array, where the pixel array includes a preset quantity of pixel units arranged in a predetermined manner, the pixel unit includes a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel, the first pixel includes a red subpixel, a green subpixel, and a blue subpixel, the second pixel includes a red subpixel, a green subpixel, and an infrared subpixel, and both the first pixel and the second pixel are dual photodiode pixels, where a location of the blue subpixel in the first pixel is the same as that of the infrared subpixel in the second pixel, and each of the first pixel and the second pixel includes four dual photodiode subpixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Danmei WANG, Huazhao ZHOU, Panpan ZHU
  • Publication number: 20210144199
    Abstract: A content delivery system comprising one or more one management servers comprising one or more processors for executing a code of one or more management agent instances. The code comprising code instructions to monitor a plurality of delivery servers of a distributed network to update dynamically a content record listing a plurality of content objects according to availability parameter(s) of each delivery server, code instructions to receive a content request from (user) client device to retrieve requested content object(s), code instructions to select preferred delivery server(s) from the delivery servers to provide the requested content object(s) to the client device according to analysis of the availability parameter(s) of each delivery server and code instructions to provide the client device with an IP address of the selected delivery server(s) to allow the client device to retrieve the requested content object(s) via a transmission session established with the selected delivery server(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Vimmi Communications Ltd.
    Inventors: Amnon SHERF, Max MASHNITSKY, Ehud SPIEGEL
  • Publication number: 20210143926
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are an FM channel finding and searching method, a mobile terminal and a storage apparatus. By means of establishing a data table of different channels and priority levels of corresponding numbers of times connecting thereto or pre-determined priority levels, ordering current FM channel information by priority level according to the data table, and acquiring an updated channel list, then loading and displaying corresponding channels, thereby increasing speed of a user finding and searching FM channels, and making use more convenient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: HuiZhou TCL Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qicai GU, Lei SHI, Qiqi LIN, Yanming LAI, Hua ZHANG, Danping GUO