Patents Assigned to FutureWei Technologies
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 11153917
    Abstract: A method of performing a random access procedure includes randomly selecting a backoff time from within a backoff window ranging from 0 to a specified multiple of a random access preamble unit, waiting until a time initialized with the backoff time expires, and retransmitting a random access preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Liu, Yongbo Zeng, Jian Wang, Guorong Li, Yu Cai
  • Patent number: 11151111
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of relocating data in a distributed database comprises: creating, by one or more processors, a second table in the distributed database, the second table including all columns from a first table; copying, by the one or more processors, a first set of tuples from the first table to the second table; modifying, by the one or more processors, during the copying of the first set of tuples, data of the first table according to a modification; after the copying of the first set of tuples, modifying, by the one or more processors, data of the second table according to the modification; and switching, by the one or more processors, the second table for the first table in a catalog of the distributed database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Yang Sun, Cheng Zhu, Le Cai, Qingqing Zhou
  • Patent number: 11146940
    Abstract: A device is configured to perform a method of device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication network in accordance with a Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. The method includes entering an RRC-Idle state or an RRC-Connected state. The method also includes transmitting, in the RRC-Idle state or RRC-Connected state, a D2D discovery signal for receipt by at least one second device in the network. The method further includes receiving, in the RRC-Idle state or RRC-Connected state, at least one D2D discovery signal from the at least one second device in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Sartori, Hossein Bagheri, Vipul Desai, Anthony C. K. Soong, Mazin Ali Al-Shalash
  • Patent number: 11138178
    Abstract: A device such as a data storage system comprises a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions, and one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors execute the instructions to: map a different portion of data in a storage device to each of different caches, wherein each cache is in a computing node with a processor; change a number of the computing nodes; provide a modified mapping in response to the change; and pass queries to the computing nodes. The computing nodes can continue to operate uninterrupted while the number of computing nodes is changed. Data transfer between the nodes can also be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kamini Jagtiani
  • Patent number: 11138514
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for review-based machine learning. Included are a non-transitory memory storing instructions and one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory. The one or more processors execute the instructions to receive first data, generate a plurality of first features based on the first data, and identify a first set of labels for the first data. A first model is trained using the first features and the first set of labels. The first model is reviewed to generate a second model, by receiving a second set of labels for the first data, and reusing the first features with the second set of labels in connection with training the second model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Luhui Hu, Hui Zang, Ziang Hu
  • Patent number: 11139887
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a first user equipment (UE) from a second UE, identity information and transmitting, by the first UE to a communications controller, the identity information. The method also includes receiving, by the first UE from the communications controller, a first packet after transmitting the identity information and transmitting, by the first UE to the second UE, the first packet in accordance with the identity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Shi, Wee Kian Toh
  • Patent number: 11136149
    Abstract: A method for loading boxes in containers is provided. Characteristics of a set of containers having substantially equal dimensions are obtained. Characteristics of a plurality of boxes to be packed into one or more of the set of containers are obtained. A set of layer descriptors is created, each layer descriptor including a layer thickness, identifiers of boxes assigned to the layer, and a description of an arrangement of the boxes in the layer. Each of the boxes is assigned to a single layer descriptor. An optimized assignment of the layer descriptors to containers is determined. An ordered list of box loading instructions for each container is generated. The boxes are loaded in their assigned containers according to the ordered list for the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaocun Que, Jiangsheng Yu
  • Patent number: 11140661
    Abstract: A method for operating a communications controller includes selecting a search space configuration out of a set of candidate search space configurations for a user equipment served by the communications controller, wherein the search space configuration specifies one or more search spaces to be monitored out of a set of search spaces, and signaling the selected search space configuration to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Sartori, Jianghua Liu, Qiang Wu, Vipul Desai, Weimin Xiao, Brian Classon
  • Patent number: 11134521
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a base station (BS) transmits a first allocation of a plurality of channel subsets to user equipments (UEs) for contention transmission of the UEs to the BS. The first allocation allocates one or more channel subsets to each UE so that each UE can only contend for channels within a channel subset allocated to the UE using a contention-based mechanism. In response to receipt of the first allocation, one or more UEs send requests to the BS requesting for access of channels for uplink transmissions determined by the one or more UEs. The BS determines, based on at least the requests sent by the UEs, channels to be allocated to the UEs for performing uplink transmissions, and sends a second allocation indicating the allocated channels. The UEs then perform uplink transmissions based on the second allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Liu, Pengfei Xia
  • Publication number: 20210297362
    Abstract: Latency Based Forwarding (LBF) techniques are presented for the management of the latencies, or delays, of packets forwarded over nodes, such as routers, of a network. In addition to a network header indicating a destination node for receiving the packet, a packet also includes an LBF header indicating the packets accumulated delay since leaving the sender, a maximum latency for the entire journey from the sender to the receiver and a minimum latency for the entire journey from the sender to the receiver. When a packet is received at a node, based on the accumulated delay, the maximum latency, and the minimum latency, the node places the packet in a forwarding queue to manage the delays between the sender and the receiver. The LBF can also indicate a policy for the forwarding node to used when determining the enqueueing of the packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toerless Eckert, Alexander Clemm
  • Patent number: 11129168
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment includes receiving a set of first random access channel (RACH) parameters associated with a first group of identifiers, and wherein identifiers in the first group of identifiers are used for generating pseudo-random sequences, and performing a random access procedure in accordance with the set of first RACH parameters and the first group of identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jialing Liu, Bingyu Qu, Weimin Xiao
  • Patent number: 11129017
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes deriving security keys for a signaling radio bearer (SRB) in accordance with a first message received from an access node, initiating security for the SRB in accordance with the first message, receiving, from the access node, a second message including at least one security parameter for at least one data radio bearer (DRB), wherein the at least one security parameter is associated with a session that includes the at least one DRB, and wherein the second message is secured with the security keys for the SRB, and initiating security for the at least one DRB in accordance with the at least one security parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Yi Guo
  • Publication number: 20210288828
    Abstract: A method implemented by a controller in a software defined network (SDN), the method comprising sending, to an overlay edge node, a query message comprising a client specific multicast address, receiving, from the overlay edge node, one or more report messages corresponding to the query message, wherein each of the one or more report messages comprises an address of each of one or more virtual machines (VMs) coupled to the overlay edge node, and updating membership of a multicast group, which is identified by the client specific multicast address, such that the one or more VMs are members in the updated membership of the multicast group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Linda Dunbar, Michael McBride
  • Patent number: 11120937
    Abstract: An apparatus for a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) coil, comprising: a first coil layer of a PCB; a plurality of vias coupled to and distributed to cover substantially the surface of the first coil layer within the PCB; and a second coil layer of the PCB and coupled to the vias to cover substantially the surface of the second coil layer, wherein the vias are positioned between the first coil layer and the second coil layer and enable substantially high current and low equivalent series resistance (ESR) for the multilayer PCB coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Jorge Zabaco
  • Patent number: 11121975
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Huaimo Chen
  • Patent number: RE48742
    Abstract: Embodiments are provide for communicating data or other non-control information messages within a downlink control channel directly, rather than in a data channel or broadcast channel. Thereby, radio resource utilization can be substantially improved in the cellular system, such as in the case of transmitting smaller data packets. In an embodiment, a transmitter arranges a set of time-frequency radio resources, associated with a downlink control channel, for transmitting information other than control information sent on the downlink control channel. The transmitter then sends, on the set of time-frequency radio resources, a data information message comprising the information other than the control information. The information other than the control information comprises one of user-specific data information and broadcast data information. A receiver then receives on the downlink control channel, control information and the data information message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fredrik Berggren, Anthony C. K. Soong