Patents Assigned to Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11218356
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a device that includes: a first quadrature modulator configured to receive an in-phase portion of a baseband signal and a quadrature portion of the baseband signal, and to produce a first portion of an output signal according to the in-phase and quadrature portions of the baseband signal; a second quadrature modulator configured to receive a first modified signal and a second modified signal, and to produce a second portion of the output signal according to the first and second modified signals; an output circuit configured to sum the first and second portions of the output signal, and to transmit the output signal to an antenna; and a mode selection circuit configured to turn on the first quadrature modulator, to receive a control signal, and to determine whether to turn on the second quadrature modulator according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong Jiang, Zhihang Zhang, Jamil Mark Forrester, Wael Al-Qaq
  • Publication number: 20210409332
    Abstract: A method for establishing a temporal label switched path (T-LSP) implemented in a node in a network. The method includes receiving a path request including a time interval and a set of constraints; obtaining traffic engineering information from a first database; computing, by the node, a path satisfying the time interval and the set of constraints based on the traffic engineering information obtained; storing the time interval and the set of constraints in a second database; and instructing an ingress node of the temporal LSP to signal the temporal LSP in the network along the path computed at a start of the time interval identified in the path request and to tear down the temporal LSP at an end of the time interval identified in the path request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Huaimo Chen
  • Patent number: 11211698
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a radio frequency (RF) antenna circuit; an antenna aperture tuning circuit; an antenna impedance measurement circuit; and a processor circuit electrically coupled to the tunable antenna aperture circuit and the impedance measurement circuit. The processor circuit is configured to: set the antenna aperture tuning circuit to an antenna aperture tuning state according to one or more parameters of an RF communication network; initiate an antenna impedance measurement; and change the antenna aperture tuning state to an antenna aperture tuning state indicated by the antenna impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Shi, Yonghua Wei
  • Patent number: 11206193
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and apparatuses of allocating resources in a network of computing service nodes to applications. Based on a first service level agreement (SLA) for a first application, a number of physical central processing unit cores and respective quantities of additional physical resources needed are determined to satisfy the first SLA; one or more of the service nodes are selected that collectively have available the number of physical CPU cores and the respective quantities of the one or more additional physical resources wherein the one or more additional physical resources comprise a last level cache (LLC); a first virtual machine on one of the selected service nodes is allocated for the first application; the number of physical CPU cores and the respective quantities of the one or more additional physical resources on the selected service nodes are reserved for use by the first virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Xu, Yan Sun
  • Patent number: 11196666
    Abstract: A method implemented by a receiving host entity comprises transmitting, by a transmitter of the receiving host entity, an anonymized identifier of the receiving host entity, wherein the anonymized identifier is a temporary and recyclable identifier identifying the receiving host entity, and receiving, by a receiver of the receiving host entity, a data packet from a sending host entity, wherein the data packet includes the anonymized identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Uma S. Chunduri, Alexander Clemm, Padmadevi Pillay-Esnault, Yingzhen Qu
  • Patent number: 11194478
    Abstract: It is possible to reduce the latency attributable to memory protection in shared memory systems by performing access protection at a central Data Ownership Manager (DOM), rather than at distributed memory management units in the central processing unit (CPU) elements (CEs) responsible for parallel thread processing. In particular, the DOM may monitor read requests communicated over a data plane between the CEs and a memory controller, and perform access protection verification in parallel with the memory controller's generation of the data response. The DOM may be separate and distinct from both the CEs and the memory controller, and therefore may generally be able to make the access determination without interfering with data plane processing/generation of the read requests and data responses exchanged between the memory controller and the CEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sushma Wokhlu, Lee Dobson McFearin, Alan Gatherer, Hao Luan
  • Patent number: 11190953
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology beam steering in which one or more antennas are configured to form a beam directed to a first beam direction based on a configuration corresponding to an environment. A change in direction of the beam is identified in response to a change in orientation of user equipment, the change in orientation determined via one or more sensors in the user equipment, and a second beam direction is calculated based on a the first beam direction and the change in orientation of the user equipment. The one or more antennas are then configured by steering the beam to the second beam direction to compensate for the change in orientation of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyin He, Ping Shi, Ricky Lap Kei Cheung
  • Patent number: 11190809
    Abstract: An apparatus including a memory operably coupled to a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether to use an intra smoothing filter for a rectangular prediction unit (PU), wherein a width of the rectangular PU is different from a height of the rectangular PU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Lingzhi Liu, Changcai Lai, Nam Ling, Jianhua Zheng, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11190134
    Abstract: A voltage controlled oscillator includes a resonator and an amplifier. The resonator includes a capacitive element and an inductive element. The inductive element has a plurality of conductive segments forming a physical loop. The inductive element has electrical connections on the physical loop to the plurality of conductive segments forming at least one electrical loop disposed within an interior space formed by the physical loop. The amplifier has an input and an output, the input coupled to a first conductive segment forming a first impedance and the output coupled to a second conductive segment forming a second impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Bushman, Charles J. Duey, James W. Caldwell
  • Patent number: 11184610
    Abstract: A video coding device receives a bitstream including video data. The device determines an intra-prediction mode subset. The intra-prediction mode subset include intra-prediction modes that correlate to a plurality of reference lines for a current image block and excludes intra-prediction modes that correlate to a primary reference line for the current image block. When a first intra-prediction mode is included in the intra-prediction mode subset, the device decodes the first intra-prediction mode by an alternative intra-prediction mode index. When the first intra-prediction mode is not included in the intra-prediction mode subset, the device decodes the first intra-prediction mode by an intra-prediction mode index. The device presents video data including an image block decoded based on the first intra-prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shan Liu, Xiang Ma
  • Patent number: 11184836
    Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for network adaptation and utilization of a discovery signal (DS). In an embodiment, a method in a UE for communicating in a wireless network includes receiving a parameter(s) from a network controller, wherein the parameter provides the UE with an activation time frame within which the UE can expect to receive a common reference signal (CRS) from a network component, a deactivation time frame within which the UE is not to expect to receive the CRS, and information for receiving and processing a DS from the network component; receiving the DS from the network component, wherein a structure and format of the DS conforms to the parameter received by the UE; refraining from attempting to perform CRS based procedures when the CRS is not received; and performing one of synchronization, cell identification, and DS based radio resource management (RRM) measurements according to the DS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jialing Liu, Weimin Xiao, Qian Cheng, Vipul Desai
  • Patent number: 11184073
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided to provide for Channel State Information (CSI) feedback of hybrid beamforming. In a first example embodiment, a method for signaling a beamforming reference signal (BFRS) is provided. A resource block is created for the BFRS, the resource block containing a plurality of resource elements, each resource element defined by a time-frequency resource within one subcarrier and one multiplexing symbol. A total number of analog transmit beams for the BFRS is then determined, along with grouping information for the analog transmit beams for the BFRS. Then, the resource block, the total number of analog beams, and the grouping information are transmitted from a first network controller to a user equipment (UE). Then the BFRS is transmitted from the first network controller to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qian Cheng, Weimin Xiao, Jialing Liu
  • Patent number: 11184283
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method tracks congestion in a service function chain. The method includes receiving a packet at a service function forwarding node of the service function chain, the packet having an information packet, a transport header, and a network service header, forwarding the packet to a service function in accordance with the network service header, detecting congestion, and updating a congestion field in the network service header to indicate congestion was encountered in the service function chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald Eggleston Eastlake, III
  • Patent number: 11177982
    Abstract: A method for transmitting feedback includes generating explicit channel feedback for a plurality of transmit beam-receive beam combinations (TRBCs) between the user device and a transmit-receive point (TRP), generating a modified resource in accordance with explicit feedback configuration information, the modified resource configured to convey the explicit channel feedback, wherein an explicit channel feedback associated with each TRBC is conveyed on a different data symbol of the modified resource, and transmitting the modified resource to the TRP using a single TRBC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Bin Liu, Pengfei Xia, Nathan Edward Tenny, Hongcheng Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11178667
    Abstract: A method for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in a wireless network, the method includes determining, by a first User Equipment (UE), a V2X carrier load in a coverage area of a base station, and transmitting, by the first UE, a data message over an air interface using either a random resource selection technique or a resource sensing multiple access technique based on the V2X carrier load in the coverage area of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Sartori, George Calcev
  • Patent number: 11171742
    Abstract: A method for generating a code, a method for encoding and decoding data, and an encoder and a decoder performing the encoding and decoding are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for lifting a child code from a base code for encoding and decoding data includes determining a single combination of a circulant size, a lifting function, and a labelled base matrix PCM according to an information length and a code rate using data stored in a lifting table. The lifting table was defined at a code generation stage. The method also includes calculating a plurality of shifts for the child code. Each shift is calculated by applying the lifting function to the labelled base matrix PCM with a defined index using the circulant size and using the derived child PCM to encode or decode data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gleb Vyacheslavovich Kalachev, Ivan Leonidovich Mazurenko, Pavel Anatolyevich Panteleev, Elyar Eldarovich Gasanov, Aleksey Alexandrovich Letunovskiy, Wen Tong, Carmela Cozzo
  • Patent number: 11171708
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure provide techniques for detecting and recovering from beam-failure events. In some embodiments, motion sensor information generated by motion sensors on a UE is used to detect, predict, and/or recover from a beam failure event that results, or would otherwise result, from movement of the UE. The motion sensor information may be used to adjust a current beam direction used by the UE to transmit or receive a signal, or to determine a recommendation for adjusting a current beam direction of the base station. The motion sensor information may be generated by any sensor that detects a movement of the UE, such as a gyroscope, an accelerometer, a magnetometer, a global positioning system (GPS) sensor, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) sensor, or any other device that detects a change in position/orientation of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pengfei Xia, Bin Liu, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Patent number: 11169710
    Abstract: A media management system including an application layer, a system layer, and a solid state drive (SSD) storage layer. The application layer includes a media data analytics application configured to assign a classification code to a data file. The system layer is in communication with the application layer. The system layer includes a file system configured to issue a write command to a SSD controller. The write command includes the classification code of the data file. The SSD storage layer includes the SSD controller and erasable blocks. The SSD controller is configured to write the data file to one of the erasable blocks based on the classification code of the data file in the write command. In an embodiment, the SSD controller is configured to write the data file to one of the erasable blocks storing other data files also having the classification code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yiren Huang, Yong Wang, Kui Lin
  • Patent number: 11158929
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing having a first panel connected to a second panel movable between folded and unfolded configurations. A first antenna is located adjacent to the first panel and a second antenna is located adjacent to the second panel. The second antenna is activated when the housing is in an unfolded configuration and is deactivated when the housing is in a folded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Shi, Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11159218
    Abstract: A system and method for feeding back channel information are provided. A method for communications device operations includes generating feedback information, encoding the feedback information to produce a feedback payload, and transmitting the feedback payload to a communications server serving a communications device. The feedback information includes at least a first long term wideband channel statistics and a second long term wideband channel statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pengfei Xia, Qiang Wu, David Jean-Marie Mazzarese, Yongxing Zhou, Yang Tang