Patents Examined by A. S. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11272416
    Abstract: A method and a base station are disclosed. The base station includes a receiver and a transmitter. The base station transmits, to a primary downlink cell, a first scheduling assignment for a first uplink transmission and receives first data in the first uplink transmission to at least a primary uplink cell using a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The base station transmits, to the primary downlink cell, a second scheduling assignment indicating, the second scheduling assignment indicating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identification of the first HARQ process, a modulation and coding set (MCS), and a transmission time opportunity; and receives the first data in a second uplink transmission using the first HARQ process, the MCS, and the transmission time opportunity, wherein the first data is received in a transmission based on the HARQ process identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Pantech Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Sung-Hyuk Shin, Stephen E. Terry, James M. Miller, Stephen G. Dick
  • Patent number: 11272419
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for implementing conditional packet forwarding control rules, performed by User Plane Function (UPF). The method comprises: receiving, from a Control Plane Function (CPF) a packet forwarding control rule comprising one or more rule enforcement conditions; and applying the packet forwarding control rule according to the rule enforcement condition(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yong Yang, Stefan Rommer, Jan Backman
  • Patent number: 11265797
    Abstract: A depth and distance-based single-path routing method, in which location information of nodes in network is gathered after initialization is completed, and a location table of whole-network nodes maintained by the sink node is generated. The update mechanism of the uplink Location frame is switched to a unicast triggering update mechanism to execute a depth and energy-based uplink routing algorithm. For a downlink control packet arriving at a specified ID, location information of a node is obtained through the location table to execute a distance and energy-based downlink routing policy. The distance and energy-based downlink routing policy for a downlink control packet arriving at a specified location and a downlink control packet arriving at the specified ID is executed, and a routing recovery algorithm is executed when an “open area” occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Qinghai Normal University
    Inventors: Xiujuan Du, Chong Li, Lijuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11265756
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from differentiated quality of service management. For example, specific applications run on a user equipment in a 5G radio access network may benefit from the flexible differentiated quality of service management. A method includes determining a service flow setup, and mapping traffic through the service flow by a common convergence sublayer entity to at least one radio convergence sublayer entity. The method also includes controlling the traffic through the service flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Samuli Heikki Turtinen, Andreas Maeder, Vinh Van Phan, Matti Einari Laitila
  • Patent number: 11259228
    Abstract: A method and base station supporting uplink transmissions. The method being used in a base station and comprising receiving a data block from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) using a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) process, transmitting uplink scheduling information to the WTRU to indicate whether the data block should be retransmitted by the WTRU, wherein the uplink scheduling information includes a H-ARQ process identification for the H-ARQ process, and receiving a retransmission of the data block from the WTRU. The uplink scheduling information includes physical channel resources. The uplink scheduling information is received from a primary cell and the WTRU transmits to the primary cell and at least one secondary cell. The scheduling information indicates a modulation and coding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Pantech Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Sung-Hyuk Shin, Stephen E. Terry, James M. Miller, Stephen G. Dick
  • Patent number: 11252699
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and device for allocating resource in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: determining a set of user equipment (UEs) requesting for resource allocation based on resource available in the wireless communication system and a resource use requirement; allocating the resource to the set of UEs according to the resource use requirement; and sending information about the allocated resource to each UE in the set of UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hongmei Liu, Lei Jiang, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11252045
    Abstract: A wireless network system includes a base station (BS) having a number of array antennas and a controller. The network system also includes a number of mobile stations (MS) each having its own antenna array. The base station modulates a transmit signal directed to a MS with a transmit beamformer as specified by the controller. The MS equalizes a received signal with a receive beamformer. The controller is configured to calculate an outage probability of the MS based on statistical channel state information at the BS, for a given set of a transmit beamformer wk, a receive beamformer vk, and a predetermined threshold of a signal-to-noise-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the MS. The controller is also configured to obtain a solution set comprising a transmit beamformer wk and a receive beamformer vk. The controller is further configured to specify, based on the obtained solution set, the beamformers to be adopted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Muhammad Moinuddin, Ubaid M. Al-Saggaf, Ahmad Kamal Hassan
  • Patent number: 11252635
    Abstract: Provided are a data processing method and device based on integrated access and backhaul (IAB) using 5G NR wireless communication technology. A method of a relay node may be provided for processing uplink user data. The method may include: receiving uplink user data from a user equipment; deriving a user equipment bearer identifier (UE-bearer-ID) by using logical channel identification information linked to an RLC PDU of uplink user data; selecting a backhaul RLC channel for transmission of uplink user data on the basis of at least one among a user equipment bearer identifier and donor base station address information; and transmitting uplink user data, via the selected backhaul RLC channel, to a donor base station or another relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sung-pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11218943
    Abstract: An electronic device (12) in a cluster (10) that has the potential to serve as a new cluster head (36) receives cluster head assistance data from a current cluster head (36) device. The cluster head assistance data includes at least one data item related to establishment of operative communication with the wireless communications network (28) over a network communications interface (26) of the electronic device. If the electronic device is assigned to be the new cluster head, it injects the at least one data item into a process related to operation of the network communications interface and establishment of the operative communication with the wireless communications network; establishes the operative communication with the wireless communications network; and carries out cluster head functions on behalf of the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS EUROPE B.V.
    Inventors: Henrik Sundstrom, Magnus Tillgren, Magnus Johansson, Anders Sandwang, Magnus Svensson
  • Patent number: 11212729
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for establishing a route in a connectionless mesh network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Espressif Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiangjian Jiang, Yuexia Qi
  • Patent number: 11212732
    Abstract: A second access network node sends endpoint information of a second transmission path on the second access network node side to the first access network node. The second transmission path is a transmission path that is between the second access network node and a third access network node. The third access network node sends endpoint information of the second transmission path on the third access network node side to the first access network node. The first access network node sends the endpoint information of the second transmission path on the third access network node side to the second access network node, and sends the endpoint information of the second transmission path on the second access network node side to the third access network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiyan Luo, Man Wang, Wenjie Peng
  • Patent number: 11206150
    Abstract: A controller for equipment includes a communications interface, a communications protocol manager, a protocol detection manager, and an equipment controller. The communications interface connects to at least one of a serial bus and a wireless communications device. The communications protocol manager communicates via at least one of the serial bus and the wireless communications device according to a communications protocol and a predetermined parameter. The protocol detection manager causes the communications protocol manager to test for multiple communications protocols and predetermined parameters to identify a communications protocol and parameter used by at least one of the serial bus and the wireless communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Sergey A. Galchenko, Eric W. Hamber
  • Patent number: 11201688
    Abstract: A user equipment, method and apparatus receive a PDSCH from a base station and determine a modulation order used in the PDSCH based on whether the PDSCH is transmitted in a second slot out of a first slot and the second slot which configure a subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Chiharu Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Noriyoshi Fukuta, Naohisa Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11184825
    Abstract: A method and base station supporting uplink transmissions. The method being used in a base station and comprising receiving a data block from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) using a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) process, transmitting uplink scheduling information to the WTRU to indicate whether the data block should be retransmitted by the WTRU, wherein the uplink scheduling information includes a H-ARQ process identification for the H-ARQ process, and receiving a retransmission of the data block from the WTRU. The uplink scheduling information includes physical channel resources. The uplink scheduling information is received from a primary cell and the WTRU transmits to the primary cell and at least one secondary cell. The scheduling information indicates a modulation and coding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Pantech Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Sung-Hyuk Shin, Stephen E. Terry, James M. Miller, Stephen G. Dick
  • Patent number: 11184256
    Abstract: In the field of data filtering the invention discloses a method of filtering data and a data filter (1), both with optional features, which assess network data using a number of criteria to refine it to a format appropriate for a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
    Inventors: Robert John Dale, John Alan Thorp
  • Patent number: 11177993
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) receiver. The RF receiver includes a timing correlator and frequency offset estimator. The timing correlator and frequency offset estimator: (a) extracts timing from a set of samples derived from an RF signal, and (b) determines a frequency offset estimate from the set of samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Hendricus de Ruijter, Wentao Li
  • Patent number: 11160126
    Abstract: Wireless communications for asymmetric services are described. Asymmetric services (e.g., for downlink or uplink) may be associated with each other. Resources may be configured based on an association of asymmetric services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Weihua Qiao, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Jinsook Ryu, Peyman Talebi Fard
  • Patent number: 11160125
    Abstract: Wireless communications for asymmetric services are described. Asymmetric services (e.g., for downlink or uplink) may be associated with each other. Resources may be configured based on an association of asymmetric services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Weihua Qiao, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Jinsook Ryu, Peyman Talebi Fard
  • Patent number: 11153195
    Abstract: Respective destination groups are provided to routing intermediaries associated with a packet processing application. The destination group comprises a set of fast-path packet processing nodes of a packet processing service to which the routing intermediaries are to transmit packets to be processed. After a determination is made that the set of fast-path nodes to be included in the destination groups has changed, the destination groups are modified gradually during an update propagation interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Techologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Elmar Magerramov, Ethan Joseph Torretta, Stewart Allen
  • Patent number: 11140569
    Abstract: A radio node and a UE are described, and methods and computer programs therein to handle separate aperiodic CSI reports for one or more static subframes, in which the direction of signal transmission is fixed, and one or more flexible subframes, in which the direction of signal transmission is variable. The method performed by a UE comprises receiving a trigger for an aperiodic CSI report as part of an uplink grant from a radio node in a static downlink subframe, said trigger indicating a CSI subframe set related to the one or more static subframes. The method further comprises reporting to the radio node, in a CSI reporting subframe, a result of an aperiodic CSI measurement for a CSI reference in the CSI subframe set. The method further comprises receiving a second trigger that relates to the one or more flexible subframes and reporting the results to the radio node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Xinghua Song, Shaohua Li, Zhiheng Guo, Rui Fan, Jinhua Liu