Patents Examined by Abdullahi Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11096077
    Abstract: The present application discloses a communication method, including: determining, by a network device, a first sub-band and a second sub-band; sending configuration information of the second sub-band to user equipment on the first sub-band, where the configuration information of the second sub-band includes identification information of the second sub-band, the identification information of the second sub-band is used by the user equipment to determine a physical layer basic parameter of the second sub-band, and a physical layer basic parameter of the first sub-band is different from the physical layer basic parameter of the second sub-band; and communicating, by the network device, with the user equipment by using the second sub-band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Xie, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 11089640
    Abstract: A method of user information management includes that, a first network element transmits a setup request message of a user equipment (UE) radio bearer context to a second network element, the setup request message includes at least one of the following information: a first UE association flag, configuration information about signaling radio bearers (SRBs) or information about SRB transmission channel uplink address; and upon reception of a setup response message of the UE radio bearer context fed back by the second network element, the first network element determines that information of the UE radio bearer context is established by the second network element; the setup response message includes at least one of the following information: configuration information about SRBs set up by the second network element, configuration information about modified SRBs, a second UE association flag, information about SRB transmission channel downlink address, or a cause value for configuration modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yin Gao, He Huang
  • Patent number: 11089560
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a constrained wireless network device comprising a local clock, a plurality of messages from respective neighboring wireless network devices advertising as available parent devices in a directed acyclic graph of a time-synchronized network that is synchronized to a master clock device; determining, by the constrained wireless network device, a corresponding timing error of the local clock relative to each message output by the corresponding available parent device; and executing, by the constrained wireless network device, a distributed time synchronization of the local clock with the master clock device based on correlating the respective timing errors relative to the local clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Eric Michel Levy-Abegnoli
  • Patent number: 11088448
    Abstract: Various methods and systems for combining the capabilities of beam-forming networks together with the benefit of using spatially multiplexed wireless signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: GO NET SYSTEMS LTD
    Inventors: Roy Kinamon, Moshe Salhov, Gal Zuckerman, Oz Liv
  • Patent number: 11082161
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a PDCCH including a DCI format, and performs PUSCH transmission based on detection of the PDCCH. In an HARQ process corresponding to the PUSCH transmission, a value of an UL HARQ Round Trip Timer (RTT) timer for the HARQ process is provided based at least on a first condition and/or a second condition. The first condition is that a search space for the PDCCH detected is either a common search space or a UE-specific search space. The second condition is that a type of the HARQ process is either a synchronous HARQ or an asynchronous HARQ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11076441
    Abstract: A mesh network system is provided that enables a parent node to regain communication with a child node that is unresponsive due to bad link conditions on the currently used communication channel. The parent and the unresponsive child node are configured to respond to unreachability conditions by having synchronized transmit and reception scans for signals on each available channel. Once a determination has been made that an alternate channel is available that allows communication, embodiments further provide a mechanism for determining whether to trigger a network-wide channel switch, if, for example, the node is critical to an application supported by the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Silviu Petrut Petria, Elvis Gabriel Nica
  • Patent number: 11070413
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource mapping method. The method includes: obtaining a modulation symbol generated based on M code words, where M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; mapping the modulation symbol generated based on the M code words to a time-frequency resource in one or more mapping patterns, where the mapping pattern is a pattern of mapping every Q modulation symbols to one mapping unit, the mapping unit includes F resource units, F is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, Q is a positive integer meeting 1?Q?F, the mapping pattern includes a sparse mapping pattern, and the sparse mapping pattern is a mapping pattern meeting F?2 and 1?Q<F; and sending the mapped modulation symbol generated based on the M code words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng Cheng, Yiqun Wu, Lei Wang, Xiuqiang Xu, Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11063374
    Abstract: An antenna pattern control system includes a wireless access point, a memory and a processor. The wireless access point includes a plurality of adjustable antennas. Different operative arrangements of the adjustable antennas correspond to a plurality of antenna pattern combinations. The memory stores a plurality of real-time indicators recorded when the adjustable antennas are operating according to these antenna pattern permutations. The processor selects candidate pattern permutations from the antenna pattern permutations according to a cluster distribution of one of the real-time indicators located in a coordinate system. The processor also selects a target pattern permutation from the candidate pattern permutations according to a cluster distribution of at least two of the other real-time indicators. The processor outputs the target pattern permutation to the wireless access point in order to control the adjustable antennas of the wireless access point according to the selected target pattern permutation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: I-Ru Liu
  • Patent number: 11057928
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a scheduling node (12) for scheduling an uplink transmission from a wireless device (10) to the scheduling node (12), which wireless device (10) is connected to a Primary Cell, Pcell, of the scheduling node in a licensed or unlicensed frequency band, and wherein the wireless device (10) is also connected to at least one Secondary Cell, SCell, in an unlicensed frequency band. The scheduling node determines at least one Listen Before Talk, LBT, parameter associated with an LBT procedure and informs the wireless device (10) about the determined at least one LBT parameter in a scheduling grant of the uplink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Amitav Mukherjee, Jung-Fu Cheng, Sorour Falahati, Laetitia Falconetti, Havish Koorapaty, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 11051267
    Abstract: A channel latency determining method, a positioning method, and device, the method including obtaining, by a communications device, device location information of a calibration user equipment (UE), calculating a propagation delay according to the device location information and prestored location information of an antenna, where the propagation delay is a time between transmitting a radio signal by the calibration UE and receiving the radio signal by the antenna, calculating a time of arrival according to the radio signal transmitted by the calibration UE to the antenna, where the time of arrival is a time obtained through calculation according to a time of arrival (TOA) estimation algorithm, and determining a channel latency according to the propagation delay and the time of arrival, where the channel latency is positively correlated with the time of arrival and is negatively correlated with the propagation delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Feng Zhou, Yaxin Wu, Jiao He
  • Patent number: 11038715
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system and method for determining a best path in a mesh network is disclosed. The method comprises collecting path information from a plurality of nodes in a mesh network during normal network operation of the mesh network. A first of the plurality of nodes is associated with an application that transmits high-density data packets and a second of the plurality of nodes in the mesh network is to function as a target station for receiving the high-density data packets. A best path to transmit the high-density data packets to the target station based on the collected path information is determined and the best path is transmitted to the plurality of nodes in the mesh network for initiating transmission of the high-density data packets to the target station via the best path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Gooee Limited
    Inventors: Simon Coombes, Shmuel Silverman
  • Patent number: 11039449
    Abstract: A method to mitigate interference in a wireless system is provided. The method includes processing a set of radio network identifiers and limiting a number of hypotheses associated with the radio network identifiers in order to mitigate interference in a wireless network. In another aspect, the method includes processing a set of hypotheses and limiting the set of hypotheses by limiting a number of downlink grants to a common space, limiting the number of downlink grants to a number of instances, or limiting the number of grants to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) type. In yet another aspect, the method includes processing a downlink set and generating a target termination level for the downlink data set, the termination level associated with a Hybrid automatic repeat-request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Avneesh Agrawal, Peter Gaal, Ravi Palanki, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11032211
    Abstract: A method for bandwidth sharing is provided. The method may include getting a list of neighboring communications hubs, the neighboring communications hubs being disposed in respective neighboring residences. The neighboring communications hubs may be communicatively coupled to the first communications hub using a first broadband data network provisioned by an Internet Service Provider (ISP), and the neighboring residences may be within a same predetermined geographic region as the first residence or within a predetermined temporal distance on a data network from the first residence. The method determines if a data requirement exceeds bandwidth available to the first communications hub and provides a request for data to a neighboring communications hub. The request corresponds to the data requirement. The method then receives data responsive to the request from the neighboring communications hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: OOMA, INC.
    Inventors: William M. Gillon, Hai Lei, Tobin E. Farrand, David A. Bryan
  • Patent number: 11032817
    Abstract: A method for transmitting, by a terminal, a message destined for a receiver station of a wireless communication system. The message being transmitted on a shared channel on which the transmission of messages is performed at the start of predetermined time intervals, termed slots. Data to be included in the message to be transmitted is encoded. The encoded data is distributed between Nb sub-messages of the message to be transmitted, Nb being an integer number greater than or equal to two. A slot is selected for transmitting the message. Nb transmission frequencies are selected, each respectively associated with the Nb sub-messages of the message. The message is transmitted at the start of the selected slot, by successively transmitting the sub-messages on their respective associated transmission frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Benjamin Gadat, Vincent Deslandes
  • Patent number: 11025455
    Abstract: A method for estimating a self-interference channel by a communication device which operates in a full-duplex mode can comprise the steps of: transmitting a reference signal in a first transmission unit by means of resource elements (REs) of which the number is smaller than the number of antennas of a communication device; estimating a self-interference channel by using a first reference signal matrix, which is returned by means of a self-interference channel in the first transmission unit, and reference signal matrices which are returned by means of a self-interference channel in a predetermined number of transmission units prior to the first transmission unit; and storing information about the estimated self-interference channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dongkyu Kim, Sooyong Choi, Sangjoon Park, Kwangseok Noh, Kyungsik Min
  • Patent number: 11026110
    Abstract: A method performed by a wireless communications device for measurement reporting. The measurement reporting comprises reporting measurements associated with a first wireless communications network to a network node operating in a second wireless communications network. The first wireless communications network operates according to a first RAT, and the second wireless communications network operates according to a second RAT. The wireless communications device obtains (401), from the network node, an identifier of one or more radio access network nodes operating in the first wireless communications network. The obtained identifier restricts a mobility of the wireless communications device in the first wireless communications network to the one or more radio access network nodes identified by the identifier. The wireless communications device excludes (402) from measurement reporting to the network node at least one of the identified radio access network nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mattias Bergström, Helka-Liina Määttanen
  • Patent number: 11016449
    Abstract: An address and a control data accessed when the CPU performs the program calculation in the control data memory of the control system controller are transmitted to the standby system controller, in the standby system controller, the control data transmitted from the control system controller to the address transmitted from the control system controller before the program calculation of the CPU of the standby system controller is expanded, the control data equalization of the control system controller and the standby system controller is performed, the control data is efficiently transmitted from the control system controller to the standby system controller, thus, the processing performance of the duplexing process control device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiko Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11019534
    Abstract: A method for managing radio resources in a multiple radio access technology (multi-RAT) wireless communication network, which includes one or more orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA)-based base stations that implement different radio access technologies (RATs), includes the step of creating, for each of a plurality of mobile terminals, an incoming queue where data destined to the respective mobile terminal is buffered. Queue information of each mobile terminal is collected and provided to the multi-RAT wireless communication network. System constraints of the multi-RAT wireless communication network are defined and network constraint information is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Luis Diez Fernandez, Ramon Agueero, Xi Li, Xavier Costa Perez
  • Patent number: 11012944
    Abstract: A method by which a terminal transmits an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining whether transmission power of a plurality of uplink channels, which are simultaneously transmitted in a plurality of serving cells and has transmission time intervals (TTIs) of different lengths, exceeds maximum power of a terminal; and transmitting an uplink channel excluding an uplink channel, which is determined according to a preset priority rule, among the plurality of uplink channels when the transmission power of the plurality of uplink channels exceeds the maximum power of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11005543
    Abstract: This invention is a transmission device capable of enhancing the reception characteristics of a terminal when employing transmit diversity using two antenna ports in an ePDCCH. In a base station (100) that transmits a reference signal to a terminal (200) using two antenna ports, a setting unit (102), on the basis of the reception quality of the terminal, sets as the aforementioned two antenna ports either a first antenna port pair for which DMRS (reference signals) do not undergo mutual code multiplexing, or a second antenna port pair for which the DMRS do undergo code multiplexing. A transmitter (109) transmits the DMRS from the two antenna ports set in the setting unit (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tadashi Yoshida, Ayako Horiuchi, Takashi Iwai, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio