Patents Assigned to SOLID, INC.
  • Publication number: 20230331367
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of allocating shared radio resources in a spectrum shared system (SSS), the method including: obtaining, by a system controller of the SSS, identification information from at least one radio service device of the SSS and a node unit of a distributed antenna system (DAS); determining, by the system controller of the SSS, whether the at least one radio service device interoperates with the DAS based on the identification information; and allocating, by the system controller of the SSS, the shared radio resources to the at least one radio service device and the DAS, respectively, based on a result of the determining of interoperating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Ok Jin KIM, Dae Young Kim
  • Patent number: 11791921
    Abstract: A synchronization method of a communication network, the synchronization method comprises monitoring a connection state of second communication nodes that are synchronized using a synchronization signal provided through a first communication node to which a synchronization source is connected, determining whether the number of the connected second communication nodes exceeds a reference value according to a result of the monitoring and switching a synchronization mode of at least one second communication node when the number of the second communication nodes exceeds a reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Donghee Kwon, Hoopyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11785564
    Abstract: A communication system comprises a clock generator configured to generate a plurality of system clock signals used to synchronize components included in each of communication nodes in the communication system based on an external clock signal provided by an external clock source located outside the communication system and a physical layer configured to transmit any one of the generated system clock signals to a small cell communicatively connected to an end communication node of the communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Donghee Kwon, Hoopyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11778485
    Abstract: A method of operating a repeater comprises detecting a synchronization signal from a received communication signal, identifying a time division duplex (TDD) switching pattern based on a power change of the communication signal over time and switching an uplink operation and a downlink operation of the repeater based on the detected synchronization signal and the TDD switching pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Sangwook Kang, Hoony Hong, Hyunchae Kim, Kwon Kim, Woosik Moon
  • Patent number: 11764892
    Abstract: Provided is an optical transceiver including: a receiver configured to receive an optical transmission signal including wavelength information from another optical transceiver through a multiplexer/demultiplexer connected to the receiver; and a controller configured to identify a reception wavelength for communication with the other optical transceiver and to determine a wavelength corresponding to the reception wavelength as a transmission wavelength for communication with the other optical transceiver, based on the wavelength information included in the optical transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Bum Soo Park, Tae Hyeong Kim, Chi Young Park, Seung Hee Lee, Eun Sung Lee
  • Publication number: 20230275740
    Abstract: Provided are a method of synchronizing a communication network, the method comprising obtaining a quality parameter of at least two or more synchronization sources connected to communication nodes in a communication network and a capacity parameter of the communication nodes connected to the synchronization sources, selecting a synchronization source to be used for synchronization of the communication network from among the at least two or more synchronization sources, according to a priority based on the obtained quality parameter and capacity parameter and performing synchronization of the communication network using a synchronization signal provided from the selected synchronization source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Donghee KWON, Hoopyo HONG
  • Patent number: 11729626
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of allocating shared radio resources in a spectrum shared system (SSS), the method including: obtaining, by a system controller of the SSS, identification information from at least one radio service device of the SSS and a node unit of a distributed antenna system (DAS); determining, by the system controller of the SSS, whether the at least one radio service device interoperates with the DAS based on the identification information; and allocating, by the system controller of the SSS, the shared radio resources to the at least one radio service device and the DAS, respectively, based on a result of the determining of interoperating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Ok Jin Kim, Dae Young Kim
  • Patent number: 11728920
    Abstract: Provided is an optical communication system configured as an optical ring network including: a first optical communication device configured to transmit a first optical signal having a first wavelength in a first direction, and to transmit a second optical signal having a second wavelength in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a second optical communication device configured to generate a first reflected signal by reflecting the first optical signal when the first optical signal is received, to generate a second reflected signal by reflecting the second optical signal when the second optical signal is received, and to transmit the first and second reflected signals to the first optical communication device, wherein the first optical communication device analyzes a connection state of the second optical communication device based on the first and second reflected signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Chi Young Park, Gil Koog Kim, Bum Soo Park
  • Patent number: 11722906
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of allocating shared radio resources in a spectrum shared system (SSS), the method including: obtaining, by a system controller of the SSS, identification information from at least one radio service device of the SSS and a node unit of a distributed antenna system (DAS); determining, by the system controller of the SSS, whether the at least one radio service device interoperates with the DAS based on the identification information; and allocating, by the system controller of the SSS, the shared radio resources to the at least one radio service device and the DAS, respectively, based on a result of the determining of interoperating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Ok Jin Kim, Dae Young Kim
  • Patent number: 11716147
    Abstract: Provided is an optical communication device including: a first channel card configured to convert an input first signal into a first optical signal and output the first optical signal to any one of a first MUX/DEMUX connected to a first optical line and a second MUX/DEMUX connected to a second optical line; a second channel card configured to convert an input second signal into a second optical signal and output the second optical signal to any one of the first MUX/DEMUX and the second MUX/DEMUX; and a controller configured to monitor states of the first optical line and the second optical line to determine a MUX/DEMUX from which the first optical signal and the second optical signal are respectively output, from among the first MUX/DEMUX and the second MUX/DEMUX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventor: Eun Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 11716119
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of operating a distributed antenna system (DAS) interworking with a spectrum sharing system (SSS) including: transmitting, by a node unit of the DAS, DAS information to a management system entity (MSE); generating, by the MSE, linkage information based on the DAS information and radio service device (RSD) information received from at least one RSD of the SSS; transmitting, by the MSE, the interworking information to a system controller of the SSS; receiving, by the MSE, allocation information including a result of allocating shared radio resources to the DAS and the at least one RSD, respectively, according to the interworking information from the system controller; transmitting, by the MSE, the allocation information to the node unit; and operating, by the node unit, according to the allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventor: Ok Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20230199682
    Abstract: Provided is a communication repeater including a receiver configured to receive a plurality of test signals from a plurality of external communication devices and then receive a plurality of downlink signals from the plurality of external communication devices, and a digital signal processor configured to measure a delay time of each of the plurality of test signals and perform a delay synchronization process for the plurality of downlink signals, wherein the digital signal processor is configured to determine whether the plurality of downlink signals for which the delay synchronization process has been performed are synchronized, and perform synchronization restoration for a downlink signal having a synchronization error among the plurality of downlink signals, based on a result of the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Hyekjae CHOI, Inho Jang
  • Publication number: 20230179272
    Abstract: A communication node included in a multi-antenna multi-carrier system, when precoding matrices corresponding to some subcarriers from among subcarriers allocated to another communication node connected to the communication node are input, obtains precoding matrices for at least some subcarriers from among the allocated subcarriers by performing spherical interpolation on the input precoding matrices, maps the obtained precoding matrices for the at least some subcarriers to the subcarriers allocated to the other communication node, and performs precoding on the plurality of vector signals using the mapped precoding matrices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: SOLiD, INC., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nagwon KWON, Hyunchae Kim, Jihoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11579863
    Abstract: Provided is an optical transceiver including: a controller configured to output firmware update data for updating firmware of another optical transceiver connected to the optical transceiver through an optical cable; and a transmitter configured to generate an optical signal by superposing input payload data and the firmware update data, and to transmit the optical signal to the other optical transceiver. According to embodiments, the firmware of a remote optical transceiver at a remote location is automatically updated without affecting payload data, which is information to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Bum Soo Park, Chi Young Park, Gil Koog Kim
  • Patent number: 11570032
    Abstract: A TSN-based distributed antenna system including a headend unit, one or more TSN switches, and one or more remote units and a fronthaul transport network constituted by the headend unit, the TSN switch, and the remote unit is provided. The packet-based fronthaul network constituted by the headend unit, the TSN switch, and the remote unit transmits traffic in a time-deterministic manner while minimizing packet loss through Ethernet to which TSN standards are applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SOLID, INC.
    Inventors: Dong Hee Kwon, Hoo Pyo Hong, Young Man Cho, Dae Young Kim, Hyun Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 11567158
    Abstract: Disclosed is a beacon-based positioning system. A beacon position in which a beacon is installable is defined in a target space, and a path loss model of radio frequency (RF) signals between all beacon positions and all observation positions of a scanner is determined. Among all possible installation plans for the beacon positions, an installation plan in which different beacon signals, whose RSSIs calculated using the path loss model have significant values, are received in a number greater than or equal to a minimum reference number and a total number of the beacons installed is minimum is determined as an optimal installation plan. The optimization problem of determining the optimal installation plan may be expressed by binary linear programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Man Cho, Yvonne Hee Jun Cho
  • Publication number: 20230023553
    Abstract: A method of combining compressed uplink signals according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a method of combining IQ data of uplink signals compressed without decompression by a block floating point compression method, a block scaling compression method, or a -law compression method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: SOLiD, Inc.
    Inventors: Ho Sik JANG, Hoo Pyo HONG, Woo Jae KIM, Dong Hee KWON, Jeong Won KANG
  • Publication number: 20230017897
    Abstract: A fronthaul multiplexer according to one aspect of the present invention combines uplink packets in a compressed state that is received from two or more radio units so that the uplink packets are accumulated and combined immediately when received or the uplink packets are recompressed using a compressing method with high compression efficiency when stored in a memory in order to reduce a use amount of memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: SOLiD, Inc.
    Inventors: Ho Sik JANG, Hoo Pyo HONG, Woo Jae KIM, Dong Hee KWON, Jeong Won KANG
  • Publication number: 20230007794
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the disclosure, there is provided a mount bracket for installation of communication device in a structure, the mount bracket including: a bracket body coupled to the structure; a bracket base, to which the communication device is fixed, coupled to the bracket body and rotates to cover the bracket body; and a connection member provided at one end of the bracket body to rotatably connect the bracket base to the bracket body, wherein the bracket base includes an anti-detachment structure for preventing separation from the bracket body during rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventor: Woon Yong JO
  • Publication number: 20220417071
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of reducing a Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in a communication device, and more particularly, to a method of Crest Factor Reduction (CFR) processing of a signal in order to reduce a PAPR in a communication device such as a repeater. The communication device includes: a first CFR module configured generate a first processed signal by CFR processing an original signal; and a second CFR module configured generate a second processed signal by CFR processing the first processed signal, wherein the first processed signal is generated using a first sampling rate, and the second processed signal is generated using a second sampling rate. According to the disclosure, even a communication device with a low sampling rate may effectively remove a peak component of an input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: SOLID, INC.
    Inventors: Nag Won KWON, Hee Cheol YUN, Hyun Soo SHIN