Patents Examined by Afshawn M Towfighi
  • Patent number: 11240690
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for predicting streaming media Quality of Experience (QoE) for network slice selection in 5G networks. In one embodiment, a method includes developing a mathematical model of QoE parameters at base station transmitters; providing feedback from the models to a Quality of Service (QoS) manager; and selecting, by the QoS manager based on the feedback from the models, a 5G network slice that meets QoS requirements for allocation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Biswajeet Kumar
  • Patent number: 11240830
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer program products concerning accommodating ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) traffic by making a determination of which mobile broadband (MBB) user equipment (UE) to puncture, where in response to an indication that URLLC traffic needs to be scheduled in the midst of ongoing MBB transmissions in a wireless communications network, the determination is made from a plurality of MBB UEs with the ongoing MBB transmissions, of a set of the plurality scheduled for transmission in a slot required by the URLLC traffic. From that set of MBB UEs, a subset of MBB UEs for puncturing is chosen, where that choice is made at least in relation to accommodating a reliability constraint of the URLLC traffic, maximizing a sum proportional fairness metric of the plurality of MBB UEs, and minimizing a block error rate in a computation of a proportional fairness metric for each UE of the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Klaus Pedersen, Hans Kroener, Rajeev Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11234118
    Abstract: A wireless access node controls Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers for a User Equipment (UE). A radio wirelessly exchanges user data with other UEs and exchanges the user data with baseband circuitry. The baseband circuitry exchanges the user data with network elements over backhaul links. The baseband circuitry determines a status of the backhaul links. The baseband circuitry identifies the radio band status for the UE. The baseband circuitry receives user data for the UE from the network elements over the backhaul links. The baseband circuitry selects a number of MIMO layers for the UE based on the radio band status and the backhaul status. The baseband circuitry precodes the user data into precoded data for the selected number of MIMO layers and transfers the precoded data to the radio. The radio wirelessly transmits the precoded data to the UE over the selected number of MIMO layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11234285
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method, system, and apparatus may include managing the operation mode of a user equipment in vehicle-to-everything communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit an inactive request message (or a request message) to a base station to indicate the user equipment is switching from a base station scheduling mode (or a radio access network node scheduling mode) to a peer user equipment scheduling mode (or a roadside unit scheduling mode). The user equipment may receive an acknowledgment message from the base station indicating a state change to allow the peer user equipment scheduling mode. In some cases, the user equipment may receive an area identifier from the base station, and the area identifier may indicate an area where the peer user equipment scheduling mode is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong Cheng, Arjun Bharadwaj, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Zhibin Wu, Junyi Li, Shailesh Patil
  • Patent number: 11228977
    Abstract: A base station can enable a terminal in a communication system to monitor a radio link between the terminal and the base station. The base station can transmit a first message to the terminal. The terminal configured to not communicate data with the base station via the radio link during an inactive phase. The first message setting a threshold value for comparison of the threshold value with a duration of the inactive phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Inventors: Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz, Andreas Höglund, Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 11228900
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for counting a number of uplink and/or downlink channels per slot for a UE capability in order to determine a maximum number of channels a UE is capable of processing per slot. A UE counts all PDSCHs or PUSCHs that the UE is scheduled or configured to receive or transmit, respectively, except for exception 1, exception 2, or exception 3, and generates UE capability information based on the counted number of the PDSCH or PUSCH per slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Inventors: Hamid Saber, Jungmin Park, Jung Hyun Bae
  • Patent number: 11224045
    Abstract: A method for vehicle to everything (V2X) communication in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first network, first downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling of a sidelink associated with a second network, wherein the first network is associated with a new radio (NR) network and the second network is associated a long term evolution (LTE) network; and performing, based on the first DCI, a sidelink communication; wherein the first DCI is scrambled by a first radio network temporary identity (RNTI) different from a second RNTI scrambling a second DCI, wherein the second DCI is for scheduling of a sidelink associated with the first network, and wherein the first DCI is used to activate or deactivate a semi-persistently scheduled sidelink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Min Wu, Miao Zhou, Feifei Sun
  • Patent number: 11224023
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to determine a first Timing Advance (TA) for Scheduled Uplink (SUL) transmission. The circuitry may also be operable to determine a second TA for Grantless Uplink (GUL) transmission. The second circuitry may be operable to generate an SUL transmission for transmission at a timing based upon the first TA. The second circuitry may also be operable to generate a GUL transmission for transmission at a timing based upon the second TA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Jeongho Jeon, Wenting Chang, Jinyu Zhang, Salvatore Talarico
  • Patent number: 11223452
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink (UL) data in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jinyoung Oh, Sungjin Park, Taehan Bae, Jeongho Yeo
  • Patent number: 11218904
    Abstract: In an aspect of the present invention, a method for a user equipment (UE) to perform reflective quality of service (QoS) in a wireless communication system may include the steps of receiving a downlink packet from a network, wherein the downlink packet is a packet to which the application of the reflective QoS is indicated; deriving a QoS rule based on the downlink packet; applying a QoS marking of the downlink packet to an uplink packet using the QoS rule and transmitting the uplink packet to the network; and restarting a timer associated with the QoS rule when the downlink packet is received before the timer expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Myungjune Youn, Hyunsook Kim
  • Patent number: 11219029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing a SPS activation in multiple SPS resources in wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving an activation command for a first set of Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) resources from a network, wherein a second set of SPS resources which is already activated on the UE; activating the first set of SPS resources and deactivating the second set of SPS resources based on the activation command for the first set of SPS resources; and transmitting a SPS confirmation Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) which indicates that the UE successfully deactivates the second set of SPS resources and activates the first set of SPS resources, in a response to the activation command for the first set of SPS resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Hanul Lee
  • Patent number: 11218991
    Abstract: A broadcast signalling method performed by a network device having a protocol stack of with first and second protocol layers where the second protocol layer is below the first protocol layer, the method including generating, by the network device, first information at the first protocol layer, generating, by the network device, second information at the second protocol layer, where the second information is used to determine a time-frequency resource corresponding to one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), processing, by the network device, the first information and the second information at the second protocol layer, and sending, by the network device to a terminal device by using a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in the one or more SSBs, data obtained after second protocol layer processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Liu, Yiqun Ge, Pu Yuan, Jun Luo
  • Patent number: 11219091
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a data receiving status reporting method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, by first user equipment, a status of receiving at least one packet data convergence protocol layer protocol data unit PDCP PDU by second user equipment, where the at least one PDCP PDU is forwarded by the first user equipment to the second user equipment after being received by the first user equipment through a communications link between the first user equipment and a network device; and sending, by the first user equipment, a first status report to the network device, where the first status report is used to indicate the status of receiving the at least one PDCP PDU by the second user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haibo Xu, Nathan Edward Tenny, Jian Wang, Yiru Kuang
  • Patent number: 11206514
    Abstract: There is disclosed a process for communication between a wireless base station with L transmit antennas and a set of receiving nodes equipped with caches so that content from a set of files can be stored in these caches. By formulating a novel way of setting users in groups and storing content partially as function of this grouping, it is achieved to increase gains in terms of number of users served simultaneously compared to the state-of-art. The approach taken here makes use of the multiple transmit antennas to boost the number of multicasting users by up to L times compared to the state-of-art, thus reducing significantly the transmission time. The invention is also presented for i) wired communications, ii) multi-transmitter cooperative communications in both wireless or wired networks and iii) in a device-to-device setting where users desire to exchange files between one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: EURECOM G.I.E
    Inventors: Petros Elia, Eleftherios Lampiris
  • Patent number: 11202337
    Abstract: A command indication method and apparatus and information interaction method and apparatus. The command indication method includes: transmitting to a user equipment (UE), a command for activating or deactivating duplication transmission by using a bitmap field, to activate or deactivate duplication transmission of one or more packet data convergence protocol entities or radio bearers in the UE. Hence, activation or deactivation may be performed on the duplication transmission mode of one or more PDCP entities in the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yulong Shi, Meiyi Jia, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 11190952
    Abstract: The present disclosure has an object to provide a specific communication technology for realizing effective communication with a flying object in a communication apparatus including the flying object. The communication apparatus includes a first base station, a flying object including a second base station, and a mobile terminal to communicate with the second base station. The first base station notifies flying object specification information that is information indicating that the second base station is included in the flying object. When the flying object specification information is received, the mobile terminal sets a direction of a beam for detecting the second base station to a second direction that is a direction vertically upward compared to a first direction that is the direction of the beam in a case where the flying object specification information is not received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kuniyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11190987
    Abstract: This application is directed to a method and an apparatus for associating an application with a network slice, and a communications system. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, display instruction information, an identifier of a first network slice that the terminal is allowed to access, and service feature information corresponding to the first network slice. The method further includes: displaying the service feature information corresponding to the first network slice on a first display interface of the terminal based on the display instruction information, and generating a first network slice selection policy when detecting an operation of associating a first application with the first display interface. The first network slice selection policy can include a mapping relationship between the first application and the identifier of the first network slice corresponding to the first display interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fangyuan Zhu, Yan Li, Shiyong Tan
  • Patent number: 11184944
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information identifying a set of wakeup configurations for discontinuous reception; detect one of: wakeup information, or a first part of the wakeup information and a second part of the wakeup information, wherein the wakeup information identifies a wakeup configuration of the set of wakeup configurations; and perform a transmission or reception based at least in part on the wakeup configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorproated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11178003
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to resetting observable channel knockouts. A device may transmit a poll request frame to a cable modem to solicit information associated with the cable modem. The device may receive a response frame from the cable modem, wherein the response frame includes information indicating the cable modem is in a partial operation state. The device may store at least a portion of the information in the memory. The device may determine a command configured to cause the cable modem to transition from the partial operation state. The device may transmit the command to the cable modem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Milley, David Norman, Brad Pfaff, James Thompson
  • Patent number: 11178043
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing data routing over message brokering system network. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a request to transfer data from a source to a destination over a network, a computing system might map, and analyze the map of, messaging connections among two or more nodes among a plurality of nodes within a message brokering system to identify connection paths between the source associated with a first participant in the message brokering system and the destination associated with a second participant. The computing system might encapsulate information associated with each of the source (and/or the first participant), the destination (and/or the second participant), and data protocol in a header portion of at least one message batch, and might encapsulate and send the requested data distributed amongst payload portions of each of the at least one message batch transported via an identified connection path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Ronald A. Lewis