Patents Examined by A. S. Roberts
  • Patent number: 10367736
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for enabling tag networking. In one example, a network device (e.g., switch, router, etc.) is configured to receive a packet of a traffic flow and to analyze the traffic flow to determine the packet belongs to a particular type of traffic. The network device can then add and/or change a tag in a data field of the packet. The tag, among other things, serves as an identifier for the particular type of traffic flow. The tag is identifiable by a downstream node that is preconfigured to recognize the tag and to carry out logic in response to recognizing the tag. Advantageously, the tag functionality of the present approach provides a generalized way of adding information to packets; the information and the associated functionalities are customizable during a runtime of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Pruss, John E. McDowall, Jan Medved
  • Patent number: 10362545
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides several methods, user equipment (UEs) and base stations for transmitting uplink signals. After receiving uplink synchronization command information, the UE may transmit an uplink signal on at least one idle unlicensed cell. Besides, the UE may try to transmit the uplink signal on multiple uplink signal resources within an uplink signal transmission window. By using the present disclosure, transmission probability of uplink signals may be improved, and time delay of uplink synchronization may be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Shichang Zhang, Yingyang Li, Chengjun Sun, Jingxing Fu
  • Patent number: 10356695
    Abstract: A system information update notification may be transmitted/received in system information modification period n, updated system information may be transmitted/received in system information modification period (n+1), and the updated system information may be applied from a particular time point after the system information modification period (n+1). The updated system information may include EPDCCH configuration information or start OFDM symbol information which enables a UE to start control/data reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyangsun You, Hanbyul Seo, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 10348468
    Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system including machine type communication (MTC), and a base station and a terminal therefor. The method for transmitting and receiving signals comprises the steps of: receiving repeatedly reference signals from a plurality of resource units; determining whether to perform bundling for the reference signals transmitted from at least one resource unit among the plurality of resource units; and, when it has been decided to perform bundling, estimating a channel by assuming the same precoding for the reference signals transmitted from the at least one resource unit. Whether to perform bundling is determined on the basis of the number of repetition of the reference signals and/or the number of antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 10349410
    Abstract: One or more embodiments provide a method implemented in a user equipment (UE) used in a wireless communications system. The method includes transmitting an indication to a base station that the UE is capable of transmitting on a single uplink carrier frequency and downlink carrier aggregation. The method also includes receiving an uplink carrier frequency switching pattern from the base station. The method also includes switching uplink carrier frequencies based on the uplink carrier frequency switching pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Boon Loong Ng, Thomas David Novlan, Aris Papasakellariou, Young-Han Nam
  • Patent number: 10349417
    Abstract: A system and methods are described which compensate for the adverse effect of Doppler on the performance of DIDO systems. One embodiment of such a system employs different selection algorithms to adaptively adjust the active BTSs to different UEs based by tracking the changing channel conditions. Another embodiment utilizes channel prediction to estimate the future CSI or DIDO precoding weights, thereby eliminating errors due to outdated CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: REARDEN, LLC
    Inventors: Antonio Forenza, Stephen G. Perlman
  • Patent number: 10349456
    Abstract: A video communication system includes a video transmission terminal and a video reception terminal. In the video transmission terminal, a first control unit causes the video transmission terminal to be disconnected from a first network by controlling a first communication session control unit. After the video transmission terminal is disconnected from the first network, the first control unit causes the video transmission terminal to start an operation as an access point by controlling the first communication session control unit and causes the first communication session control unit to create a second network. The first control unit causes the first video session control unit to establish a video session with the video reception terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Shibuya
  • Patent number: 10326548
    Abstract: A base station according to an embodiment is a base station configured to perform transmission to a user terminal by use of an unlicensed band. The base station comprises: a controller configured to start the transmission from a boundary of a subframe, but also to start the data transmission from a second-half slot out of a first-half slot and the second-half slot which configure a subframe. The controller is configured to transmit downlink control information in the second-half slot to start the transmission from the second-half slot. The controller is configured to change a modulation scheme to be applied to the transmission, depending on a start timing of the transmission, while fixing a transport block size applied to the subframe. The downlink control information is a PDCCH or an EPDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Chiharu Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Noriyoshi Fukuta, Naohisa Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10321465
    Abstract: A radio terminal includes a receiver, a controller, and a transmitter. The receiver receives first information on radio resources for direct communication from a base station by broadcast and second information on a threshold value from the base station. The controller performs the direct communication by use of a radio resource autonomously selected among the radio resources. The receiver directly receives a radio signal from another radio terminal during performing the direct communication by use of the radio resources, and the controller compares received power of the radio signal with the threshold value of the second information. The transmitter notifies the base station of first information on the received power in response to the received power being larger than the threshold value, and does not notify the base station of the information on the received power in response to the received power being smaller than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Kugo Morita
  • Patent number: 10313904
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4G communication system such as LTE. In a wireless communication system of the present disclosure, a method for receiving, by a base station, a measurement result of a terminal includes: a process for allocating at least one of a plurality of measurement gaps, set for measuring a licensed band, for the measurement of an unlicensed band; a process for transmitting activation instruction information that instructs the activation of a measurement gap for the allocated unlicensed band measurement; and a process for receiving, from the terminal, a measurement result for the unlicensed band measured in the activated measurement gap by the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Min Moon, Sun-Heui Ryoo, Sung-Jin Lee, Jung-Soo Jung, Ra-Yeon Ahn
  • Patent number: 10314042
    Abstract: [Object] To be able to utilize radio resources more efficiently in the environment where a small cell is operated. [Solution] Provided is a communication control apparatus including: a communication unit configured to communicate with a radio communication apparatus being connected to a base station via a radio backhaul link and being connected to one or more terminals via an access link; and a control unit configured to, when a reception on the radio backhaul link and a transmission on the access link, or a reception on the access link and a transmission on the radio backhaul link are executed on an identical channel simultaneously in the radio communication apparatus, adjust a power ratio between a reception signal and a transmission signal in order to support the radio communication apparatus in removing self-interference due to a sneak of the transmission signal from the reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura
  • Patent number: 10306476
    Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device may receive, from an access point associated with the electronic device, a frame with management information that enables the electronic device to use a spatial-reuse technique, where the electronic device, through the spatial-reuse technique, adjusts a transmit power and a channel-availability sensing threshold. Moreover, the management information may specify parameters for the spatial-reuse technique. Then, the electronic device may transmit, using the spatial-reuse technique, one or more frames to the access point based on the parameters. Furthermore, the electronic device may transmit, to the access point, feedback information that indicates communication performance during the communication between the electronic device and the access point. For example, the feedback information may include a retry rate and, more generally, communication-performance information. This feedback information may be used by the access point to modify the parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Christiaan A. Hartman, Jarkko Kneckt, Yong Liu, Su Khiong Yong, Joonsuk Kim, Oren Shani
  • Patent number: 10306631
    Abstract: Communication operations are optimally conducted by applying space-division multiple access in which wireless resources on a spatial axis are shared among a plurality of users. By applying an RD protocol to a communication system that conducts space-division multiple access, spatially multiplexed frames in a TXOP are made more efficient. By specifying a frame length for reverse direction frames with reverse direction permission information and having respective transmitters of reverse direction frames make their frame lengths uniform while respecting the specification, AGC operation stabilizes. Also, a transmit start time for reverse direction frames can be specified by reverse direction permission information, and respective transmitters of reverse direction frames can transmit frames at the same time while respecting the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Morioka, Ryota Kimura
  • Patent number: 10306665
    Abstract: To facilitate increasing power and resource efficiency of a mobile device, in the mobile device, with regard to periodic or one-time data transfers, a communication management component can analyze information comprising data transfer parameter information, including jitter information, associated with each application of a subset of applications used by the device and can desirably schedule and/or bundle data transfers associated with the applications to reduce the number of separate data bursts to transfer that data to thereby reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device. A push notification system can receive respective jitter information associated with each application from the mobile device, and the push notification system can desirably schedule and/or bundle push notifications to reduce the number of separate data bursts sent to the device to reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Alexandre Gerber, Zhuoqing Mao, Feng Qian, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Zhaoguang Wang
  • Patent number: 10299068
    Abstract: A wireless communication network locates User Equipment (UE) that is served by a wireless repeater chain. The wireless repeater chain wirelessly exchanges user data with the UE and wirelessly exchanges the user data with a wireless base station. The wireless base station determines an amount of communication time delay between the UE and the wireless base station over the wireless repeater chain. The wireless base station identifies the wireless repeater in the wireless repeater chain that is wirelessly attached to the UE based on the communication time delay. The wireless base station identifies the geographic location of the UE based on the geographic location of the identified wireless repeater. The wireless base station transfers the geographic location of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Michael P. McMullen, Roger Danforth Bartlett, Mark Douglas Peden, Raymond Emilio Reeves
  • Patent number: 10299291
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes identifying, by a first device, a first resource set, a second resource set, and a third resource set in a radio frequency spectrum band. The first resource set, the second resource set, and the third resource set are respectively associated with a first restriction level for resource usage, a second restriction level for resource usage, and a third restriction level for resource usage. The method also includes communicating with a second device using at least one resource set of the first resource set, the second resource set, or the third resource set. The at least one resource set is based at least in part on the first restriction level for resource usage, the second restriction level for resource usage, or the third restriction level for resource usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 10292170
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for adaptive interference discovery of a licensed shared access (LSA) system. The method includes: an LSA controller selects a measurement node according to interference protection information of an LSA licensed system; the LSA controller sends a measurement configuration message to the measurement node; and the LSA controller receives a measurement response message returned by the measurement node and determines whether to perform LSA spectrum resource reconfiguration according to the measurement response message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xing Liu, Feng Xie, Ting Miao, Yin Gao, Feng Bi
  • Patent number: 10291380
    Abstract: Multiple wireless devices in a network perform full duplex communication in which the transmission path and receiving path are spatially separated to allow simultaneous transmission and receiving. The wireless devices can either be controlled using a centralized, or point, coordination function or a distributed coordination function. A full-duplex wireless device senses the medium during transmission by itself and selectively continues the transmission when a signal is sensed on the medium. A full-duplex wireless device measures signal being transmitted by its transmitter and estimates parameters that can be used to cancel the contribution of the locally transmitted signal to the locally received signal concurrently being received during the transmission. The transmit antenna and the receive antenna of a full-duplex wireless device can be configured to be spatially isolated from each other to minimize interference between the antenna functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignees: ZTE Corporation, ZTE (USA) Inc.
    Inventors: Yonggang Fang, Li Zhang, Bo Sun, Kaiying Lv, Nan Li
  • Patent number: 10285094
    Abstract: Mobile base station information is exchanged with an other base station. One or more parameters are exchanged with the other base station based on the base station information. A mobile base station is configured based at least in part on the negotiated one or more parameters. The configured mobile base station is used to provide cellular coverage to one or more user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Inventor: Mark Cummings
  • Patent number: 10284929
    Abstract: A computed tomography (CT) apparatus wireless controller has a CT main control circuit and a wireless main control circuit. The wireless main control circuit receives a control signal from a wireless secondary controller, and subjects the control signal to a validity check according to an identifier of the wireless secondary controller carried in the control signal when the control signal passes the check, it is supplied to the CT main control circuit from the wireless main control circuit. The CT main control circuit performs corresponding operation control according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Hong De Mu, Yin Jie Xiang