Patents Assigned to Innovative Sonic Limited
  • Patent number: 8873583
    Abstract: In order to enhance system efficiency, a method of improving reset of an evolved media access control (MAC-ehs) protocol entity for a user equipment in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The MAC-ehs entity includes a first reset function and a second reset function. The first reset function is activated according to an upper layer request, while the second rest function is activated when any reset timer of the MAC-ehs protocol entity expires. The method includes the steps of activating the first reset function, and stopping all active reset timers of the MAC-ehs protocol entity and setting all reset timers of the MAC-ehs protocol entity to their initial values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 8818364
    Abstract: A method for determining a dedicate searching space (DSS) in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes steps of indicating the UE to monitor a semi-persistent scheduling cell radio network temporary identifier (SPS C-RNTI) in the PDCCH for receiving a semi-persistent scheduling grant, and determining the DSS utilized for monitoring the SPS C-RNTI according to a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Ko-Chiang Lin
  • Patent number: 8804756
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for improving interaction between a Scheduling Request procedure and a Random Access procedure in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The method includes steps of triggering a Scheduling Request procedure; repeatedly sending a Dedicated Scheduling Request (D-SR) message on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) until an uplink transmission resource for a new transmission is received or the number of D-SR transmissions reaches to a specific value when the PUCCH is configured for the UE; and deactivating all pre-configured transmission resources before performing a Random Access procedure corresponding to the Scheduling Request procedure when the number of D-SR transmissions reaches to the specific value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 8804628
    Abstract: In order to avoid system malfunction, the present invention provides a method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity, known as CPC, for a user equipment, known as UE, in a wireless communications system. The method includes the following steps. A discontinuous packet operation is activated according to a CPC_DTX_DRX_STATUS variable. The CPC_DTX_DRX_STATUS variable is re-determined when a radio link failure occurs, when a radio link control unrecoverable error occurs or when transmission of UE CAPABILITY INFORMATION fails, so as to deactivate the discontinuous packet operation. The discontinuous packet operation includes uplink discontinuous transmission, uplink discontinuous reception and downlink discontinuous reception operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 8767703
    Abstract: A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol data units (PDUs) scheduled for transmission or re-transmission and that the poll function was triggered by a “Every Poll_PDU PDU” trigger, and selects a PDU to schedule for re-transmission to fulfill the poll function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Sam Shiaw-Shiang Jiang
  • Patent number: 8750124
    Abstract: A method of radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes allocating radio resource to a plurality of logical channels according to a grant, and allowing the plurality of logical channels to use the remaining grant when the grant remains and the plurality of logical channels having data available for transmission cannot perform resource allocation anymore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Yu-Hsuan Guo
  • Patent number: 8687603
    Abstract: A method for improving discontinuous reception for a user equipment of a wireless communication system includes separately managing retransmission reception time limits of a plurality of downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (DL HARQ) processes when the discontinuous reception is used in the plurality of DL HARQ processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 8665852
    Abstract: A method of receiving system information for a user equipment, hereinafter called UE, of a wireless communications system is provided to prevent a connection loss between the UE and a network terminal. The UE uses a dedicated HS-DSCH radio network transaction identifier, abbreviated to H-RNTI, for a high speed downlink operation in a CELL_PCH state. The method includes receiving a radio resource control message used for providing modification indication of the system information via a broadcast control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 8625499
    Abstract: A method of improving configurations of serving grants for a user equipment in a wireless communications system includes providing a scheduling grant table for configuring a serving grant value according to a reference value when a relative grant message is received. The reference value is determined according to a previously received absolute grant message. The method then includes setting a maximum scheduled grant value of the scheduling grant table to be equal to or greater than a maximum absolute grant value capable of being indicated by the absolute grant message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 8619745
    Abstract: In order to prevent from being incapable of receiving Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service, called MBMS hereinafter, service when a user equipment (UE) has a connection for signaling only, the present invention provides a method of selecting an MBMS operating frequency for the UE in a wireless communications system. The method includes determining a radio bearer state of the UE, and switching a current operating frequency of the UE to a preferred frequency corresponding to an MBMS service prioritized by upper layers when the radio bearer state of the UE is in signaling transmission state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 8582562
    Abstract: A method of improving Continuous Packet Connectivity for a user equipment in a wireless communications system includes receiving a reconfiguration message and starting a discontinuous transmission and discontinuous reception, abbreviated to DTX-DRX, operation when the user equipment meets a plurality of conditions and confirms that a specific information element, abbreviated to IE, is included in the reconfiguration message, wherein the specific IE is used for storing timing information of the DTX-DRX operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 8570953
    Abstract: A method of improving a high-speed downlink operation in CELL_FACH state for a network terminal of a wireless communications system includes using a first function but not using a second function when a user equipment, hereinafter called UE, initiates a radio resource control establishment procedure. The network terminal wirelessly communicates with the UE, and the network terminal and the UE both support the high-speed downlink operation in CELL_FACH state. The first function is used for allocating a dedicated HS-DSCH radio network transaction identifier (H-RNTI) to the UE, so as to manage the UE to perform the high-speed downlink operation in CELL_FACH based on the dedicated H-RNTI. The second function is used for not allocating the dedicated H-RNTI to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventors: Richard Lee-Chee Kuo, Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 8565128
    Abstract: A method of handling a timer for triggering buffer status report in a user equipment of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes starting a timer used for triggering a buffer status report (BSR), and restarting the timer in a transmission time interval (TTI) for which a semi-persistent scheduling uplink grant has been configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Yu-Hsuan Guo
  • Patent number: 8559962
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for improving a reconfiguration procedure for Scheduling Request (SR) in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The method includes steps of receiving an upper layer request for reconfiguring an SR parameter of the UE, and applying new configuration provided by the upper layer request to the SR parameter when an SR is triggered and there is no other SR pending in the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventors: Li-Chih Tseng, Meng-Hui Ou, Yu-Hsuan Guo
  • Patent number: 8553569
    Abstract: A method of connection re-establishment for a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes starting a radio link monitoring timer or a radio link monitoring counter, and stopping the radio link monitoring timer or the radio link monitoring counter if it is still running when a radio resource control (RRC) connection re-establishment procedure is triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Meng-Hui Ou
  • Patent number: 8554201
    Abstract: A method of managing a queuing operation of a user equipment, known as UE, in a paging state for a network terminal of a wireless communications system includes, through a cell update procedure, queuing the UE at a frequency carrier where the UE currently camps and keeping the UE in the paging state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 8537786
    Abstract: A method of improving CPC for a UE in a wireless communications system includes receiving a reconfiguration message, determining the content of a second information element, abbreviated to IE, included in a first IE when the first IE is included in the reconfiguration message, wherein the first IE is used for indicating timing information of a discontinuous transmission and discontinuous reception, abbreviated to DTX-DRX, operation and the second IE is used for selecting a timing of the DTX-DRX operation, and using the content of the first IE without storing the content of the first IE when the content of the second IE is a new timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 8520521
    Abstract: A method for initiating a storage window of a receiving end in a wireless communications system, which periodically retransmits previously transmitted data packets in an unacknowledged mode, includes receiving a first PDU after a receiving entity of the receiving end is established, re-established, or after a timer expires, and initiating a state variable, which is defined to be a sequence number of the highest numbered packet that has been received, according to a sequence number of the first received packet. An example of the wireless communications system is the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) with a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Sam Shiaw-Shiang Jiang
  • Patent number: 8503345
    Abstract: A method of handling a point-to-multipoint (p-t-m) Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) service in a wireless communications system includes the following step of receiving a message used for carrying information of the p-t-m MBMS service via a first channel when a radio resource control (RRC) state of the receiving terminal is a dedicated state. The message includes an instruction utilized to indicate the receiving terminal to release resources used for receiving the p-t-m MBMS service. Otherwise, the method includes the step of adding an instruction into a message used for carrying information of the p-t-m MBMS service when the message is transmitted to a receiving terminal via a dedicated channel. The instruction is utilized to indicate the receiving terminal to release resources used for receiving the p-t-m MBMS service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 8483144
    Abstract: A method for enhancing efficiency of RRC (Radio Resource Control) procedure re-initiation for a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The UE includes a plurality of RRC procedures, which are started with a random access preamble procedure. The method includes initiating an RRC procedure of the plurality of RRC procedures, initiating the random access preamble procedure corresponding to the initiated RRC procedure, transmitting an RRC request message corresponding to the initiated RRC procedure after completion of the random access preamble procedure e, and re-initiating the random access preamble procedure when receiving a contention resolution message which corresponds to the random access preamble procedure, but does not belong to the initiated RRC procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Richard Lee-Chee Kuo