Patents Examined by Afsar M Qureshi
  • Patent number: 10674990
    Abstract: Apparatuses and a method are provided for transmitting signals in a medical imaging system. The method includes transmitting signals wirelessly between at least one receive facility and a facility of the imaging system via a radio network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Nikolaus Demharter
  • Patent number: 10681661
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a synchronization signal. The method for transmitting a synchronization signal according to the present application may comprise the step of transmitting a synchronization signal according to a first action or a second action previously configured on the basis of a command from a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 10673677
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a single carrier-based data transmission method and apparatus. The method may include generating a frame and sending the frame. A data part of the frame includes 2N data blocks, the 2N data blocks are arranged in a sequence from the first data block to the 2Nth data block. Furthermore, the data block includes a payload part and a guard interval (GI), payload parts of different data blocks are separated by GIs, and a payload part of the 2Nth data block is obtained by multiplying a payload part of the (2n?1)th data block by a phase-shift sequence, where n=1, 2, . . . , N, and N is an integer greater than 0. By using the foregoing manner, data transmission robustness can be improved and data transmission for a longer distance can be supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 10674504
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for scheduling subframes at protocol layer L1. The method is performed by a network device. A method comprises obtaining, at the protocol layer L1, an indication of an occurrence of Listen Before Talk (LBT) failure for transmission of a subframe in an unlicensed frequency spectrum. The method comprises storing, in an L1 buffer, data of the subframe to be transmitted in the unlicensed frequency spectrum as a result thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Carola Faronius, Franz Heiser, Ying Sun, Yu Yang, Henrik Olson, Hyuckchan Kwon, Shashi Kant
  • Patent number: 10674370
    Abstract: A dual band LTE small cell base station communicates on both licensed bands and unlicensed bands. The small cell base station modifies the communication protocol utilized by the licensed band to enable communication over an unlicensed band. This modification involves replacing the physical (PHY) layer of the licensed band communication protocol with the PHY layer of a to-be-used protocol in an unlicensed band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: NETGEAR, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Clegg
  • Patent number: 10660140
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) to use a contention-based uplink communications channel, applies a rule-based restriction of access to the contention-based uplink channel that attempts to use at least one contention-free uplink channel allocation for uplink transmissions on a condition that at least one contention-free uplink channel allocation has been granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Afshin Haghighat, Erdem Bala, David S. Bass, Paul Marinier, Marian Rudolf, Stephen E. Terry
  • Patent number: 10659306
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a processor. The communication unit is connected to a network. The storage unit stores environment setting information indicating the environment of the device. The information is set according to the type of the network and the presence or absence of a virtual network created through the network. The processor sets the environment of the device based on the environment setting information in at least one of the following cases: when the network is switched to another network and when the presence or absence of the virtual network is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Okamoto, Masaki Mukai
  • Patent number: 10659196
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a Downlink Multi-User (DL MU) PPDU including information for an Uplink Multi-User (UL MU) transmission from a base wireless communication terminal by using the transceiver, and transmit the UL MU PPDU to the base wireless communication terminal based on the information for UL MU transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko, Woojin Ahn
  • Patent number: 10652864
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a sequence signal sending method, to receive control information from a network-side device, to clarify a channel resource used by a terminal to send a sequence signal to the network-side device. The method in the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: receiving, by a terminal, control information sent by a network-side device, where the control information includes a sequence identifier and a channel resource indication, and the channel resource indication is used to indicate a channel resource available for the terminal; determining, by the terminal, a corresponding sequence signal based on the sequence identifier; and sending, by the terminal, the sequence signal by using the channel resource. Therefore, it is ensured that the terminal obtains stable and reliable communication quality and provides satisfactory user experience, and a performance requirement of a future network is fully met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yalin Liu, Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 10638400
    Abstract: The specialized networking and application system includes an enforcer configured to intercept the signaling messages and select an optimal SGW, PGW, SMF/UPF and application servers in real time. More specifically, the enforcer intercepts and generates GSM MAP, Diameter, GTP-C and HTTP2/JSON signaling messages. The enforcer executes a policy to force the user devices to re-establish the data connection, thus anchoring at different SGW, PGW, SMF/UPF and application server to keep end-to-end routing path optimal, when the impacting factor changes. The enforcer can further feed its performance data and decision matrix into the analyzer and database to further optimize the decision process. Analyzer and KPI metrics databases are installed at central data centers to collect the KPI data from different probes and enforcer, calculate in real-time the optimal routing path with different decision factors considered, and interact with enforcer to update the latest optimal path status based on the data collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Syniverse Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Huiyue Xu, Prashant Datar, Ravi Tandon
  • Patent number: 10623996
    Abstract: A method in a mobile network including a first node configured to receive packets through a point-to-point tunnel from a second node. The method comprises a third node performing steps of: accessing tunnel information identifying the point-to-point tunnel; encapsulating a packet using a tunnel header containing the accessed tunnel information; and sending the encapsulated packet to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Peter Ashwood-Smith, Mehdi Arashmid Akhavain Mohammadi
  • Patent number: 10616790
    Abstract: A method for configuring a data transmission via a transmission channel of a wireless communication system with local overload control, wherein the local overload control has a relaxed state, an activated state, and a restricted state. There are five activated states are provided, each of which are based on a channel load in the transmission channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Teodor Buburuzan
  • Patent number: 10616101
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a data-plane forwarding circuit that can be configured to learn about a new message flow and to maintain metadata about the new message flow without first having a control plane first configure the data plane to maintain metadata about the flow. To perform its forwarding operations, the data plane includes several data message processing stages that are configured to process the data tuples associated with the data messages received by the data plane. In some embodiments, parts of the data plane message-processing stages are also configured to operate as a flow-tracking circuit that includes (1) a flow-identifying circuit to identify message flows received by the data plane, and (2) a first set of storages to store metadata about the identified flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Barefoot Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Evan Scott Peterson, Steven Licking, Jeongkeun Lee, Patrick Bosshart, Anurag Agrawal, Michael Gregory Ferrara
  • Patent number: 10609737
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) to use a contention-based uplink communications channel, applies a rule-based restriction of access to the contention-based uplink channel that attempts to use at least one contention-free uplink channel allocation for uplink transmissions on a condition that at least one contention-free uplink channel allocation has been granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Afshin Haghighat, Erdem Bala, David S. Bass, Paul Marinier, Marian Rudolf, Stephen E. Terry
  • Patent number: 10602445
    Abstract: Various examples and schemes pertaining machine-to-machine (M2M) semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) in wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) receives a control signal from a network node of a wireless network. The UE applies, based on the control signal, an SPS configuration such that the UE enters one of one or more low-power modes between two adjacent SPS occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Per Johan Mikael Johansson, Shiang-Jiun Lin, Li-Chuan Tseng, Gilles Charbit
  • Patent number: 10594517
    Abstract: A channel estimation system and method thereof is provided. By utilizing the nature of the millimeter-wave channel with sparse path, the channel estimation problem is transformed from estimating the entire channel matrix to estimating independent parameters of the millimeter-wave channel. These parameters are angle of arrival (AoA) and angle of departure (AoD), and complex gain of the channel paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsin-Yuan Lo, Shang-Ho Tsai, Shoou-Hann Huang, Chun-Hsiung Chuang
  • Patent number: 10594844
    Abstract: A method and system for wireless network bilateral accelerated transmission are provided. The method comprises constructing, by a client and a server, a bilateral accelerated transmission protocol based on a user datagram protocol; and performing, by the client and the server, data transmission based on the bilateral accelerated transmission protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Wangsu Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weilong Chen, Wensheng Chen, Xiaobin Chen
  • Patent number: 10587441
    Abstract: First information indicating a length of a cyclic prefix for an inter-terminal apparatus signal transmitted to the other terminal apparatus and second information indicating a length of a cyclic prefix for an uplink signal in the EUTRAN, from a base station apparatus of the EUTRAN are received from a base station apparatus of the EUTRAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kazunari Yokomakura, Hiroki Takahashi, Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10587435
    Abstract: A technique for determining channel coefficients for a first array of antennas coupled through respective first phase shifters to a first radio chain and a second array of antennas coupled through respective second phase shifters to a second radio chain is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, pairs of first and second phase vectors are applied to the first and second phase shifters, respectively. Each of the pairs defines complementary directional gains at the first and second arrays for receiving reference signals. A channel estimation is performed in each of the first and second radio chains for each of the pairs based on the received reference signals. Based on the channel estimations for each of the pairs, at least one channel coefficient for the antennas in each of the first and second arrays is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Wanlu Sun, Stefano Sorrentino
  • Patent number: 10581718
    Abstract: A system for testing multiple wireless devices independently and simultaneously using different types of device probes is disclosed. The system includes real-time, bi-directional/asynchronous communication and interaction between system components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Contec, LLC
    Inventors: Samant Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, Shivashankar Diddimani, Gunjan Samaiya, Ina Huh, Jin Ryu