Patents Examined by Afshawn M Towfighi
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Patent number: 10652807Abstract: An example technique is performed by a client on a device, and includes: obtaining attributes relating to the device, to one or more wireless networks, or to both the device and the one or more wireless networks; evaluating the attributes in voting modules of the client to generate votes, with a voting module evaluating one or more of the attributes and generating a vote; making a determination, based on the votes, to connect the device to a wireless network of the one or more wireless networks, or to maintain a connection between the device and the wireless network; and controlling the device based on the determination.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCInventor: William Kenneth Logan
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Patent number: 10652934Abstract: A communication apparatus connectable to a network using a first wireless LAN module includes an interface configured to connect a second wireless LAN module and at least one controller configured to function as a unit that uses the second wireless LAN module for network connection without using the first wireless LAN module for network connection based on a fact that the second wireless LAN module is connected to the interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kozo Toda, Fumio Mikami
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Patent number: 10652870Abstract: A wireless communications system is described which comprises a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to receive from the base station an allocation of uplink resources for transmitting uplink data to the relay device, and to transmit uplink data to the relay device using the uplink resources allocated to the terminal device. The relay device is operable to receive the transmitted uplink data from the terminal device on the allocated resources, to receive an allocation of uplink resources for relaying the received uplink data to the base station, and to transmit the received uplink data to the base station using the uplink resources allocated to the relay device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: CONVIDA WIRELESS, LLCInventors: Timothy James Speight, Paul William Piggin
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Patent number: 10645625Abstract: Coordinated P-GW change for SIPTO may be provided. A WTRU may send and/or receive one or more flows via a first PDN connection and via a first P-GW. The WTRU may send an indication to the network that at least one flow of the first PDN connection is available for SIPTO. The indication may include one or more SIPTO preferences. The WTRU may receive a message from a MME. The message may trigger establishment of a second PDN connection via a second P-GW. The WTRU may move, while maintaining the first PDN connection, the at least one flow from the first PDN connection to the second PDN connection. The WTRU may deactivate the first PDN connection when the one or more flows have been moved to the second PDN connection and/or when no information has been received via the first PDN connection after a predetermined duration.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Saad Ahmad, Li-Hsiang Sun
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Patent number: 10645726Abstract: In a wireless communication terminal, a controller wirelessly receives communication channel information from a first terminal by using a communicator. The communication channel information transmitted from the first terminal to the wireless communication terminal includes first information and second information. The communication channel information transmitted from the second terminal to the first terminal includes the second information. The first information represents a communication channel used for wireless communication by the first terminal. The second information represents a communication channel used for wireless communication by the second terminal. The controller determines a communication channel used for wireless communication by the wireless communication terminal on the basis of the communication channel information.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahisa Endo, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Toyoda
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Patent number: 10645723Abstract: A signal transmission method, a signal transmission control method, a user equipment (UE), and a base station, where the signal transmission method includes performing, by UE, channel detection, and sending, by the UE, uplink data when a result of the channel detection is that a channel is available, where the uplink data includes one or more subframes, at least one subframe includes a sounding reference signal (SRS), and the SRS is located at a start location of the subframe. The signal transmission control method includes sending, by a base station, SRS configuration information to the UE using radio resource control (RRC) signaling or physical downlink control signaling (DCI) such that the UE sends an SRS based on the SRS configuration information. Hence, utilization of a channel can be significantly improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li
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Patent number: 10645003Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a data packet transmission method, including: receiving, by a network device, a first request message sent by user equipment, where the first request message is used to request the network device to allocate data cache space; caching, by the network device in the data cache space, at least a part of a data packet sent by a server device to the user equipment; receiving, by the network device, a second request message sent by the user equipment, where the second request message is used to request the network device to send the cached data packet; and sending, by the network device, a part or all of the cached data packet to the user equipment. Therefore, a data packet can be cached on a network side, so as to resolve a problem that data packet transmission in a data transmission process is not timely.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Lingli Pang, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Min Huang
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Patent number: 10638300Abstract: A method and apparatus for realizing a plurality of mobile phones to share one card are provided. The method applied to a first terminal equipment side includes: through a Bluetooth module of a first terminal equipment, searching for one or more second terminal equipments nearby, or receiving information for searching for the first terminal equipment by one or more second terminal equipments, establishing a connection between Bluetooth modules of both terminal equipments; sending subscriber identification module information of the first terminal equipment to the Bluetooth module of the second terminal equipment through the Bluetooth module of the first terminal equipment, and storing subscriber identification module information in a fixed storage area of the second terminal equipment by the second terminal equipment.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Weina Yu
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Patent number: 10638542Abstract: A gateway device includes: a first communication unit that communicates with an electronic device; a second communication unit that communicates with a computer communication network; a third communication unit that communicates with a gateway device different from the gateway device and has a different communication scheme from the second communication unit; and a processing unit that controls communication. The processing unit performs control such that the electronic device and the computer communication network are able to communicate with each other via the second communication unit when the second communication unit is able to communicate with the computer communication network, and performs control such that the third communication unit enables the electronic device and the computer communication network to communicate with each other via the gateway device when the second communication unit is not able to communicate with the computer communication network.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Katsutoyo Inoue, Yasumasa Nakajima
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Patent number: 10637631Abstract: A base station transmits, to a wireless device, at least one first message that comprises one or more parameters of cells. The cells comprise a secondary cell with no configured physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The base station determines to reconfigure the secondary cell to a PUCCH secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH. In response to determining to reconfigure the secondary cell to a PUCCH secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH, the base station transmits at least one second message to: release the secondary cell for the wireless device; and add the PUCCH secondary cell for the wireless device. The base station receives from the wireless device channel state information via the PUCCH secondary cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventor: Esmael Dinan
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Patent number: 10637543Abstract: There is provided a base station that supports multi-user MIMO and performs communication with a plurality of mobile stations of a radio communication system including the base station and the plurality of mobile stations, the base station including a determination unit that determines a number of a plurality of streams to be transmitted to each of the plurality of mobile stations and parameters to be applied to each of the plurality of streams to be transmitted to each of the plurality of mobile stations based on a channel estimation value for each of the plurality of mobile stations, and a transmitter that generates a determined number of streams according to the parameters determined by the determination unit to be transmitted to the respective plurality of mobile stations.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tatsunori Obara, Satoshi Suyama, Tatsuki Okuyama, Yukihiko Okumura
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Patent number: 10637721Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for detection of a path break in a communication network by one network appliance of a plurality of network appliance. A communication path that is transitioning from active to idle state can be quickly determined by evaluating network data traffic within a predetermined time interval after the end of a data transmission. By strategically utilizing health probes at only a set predetermined time interval after a data transmission, a path break condition can be quickly determined without significant use of network bandwidth. Further, the path break condition can be determined unilaterally by one network appliance.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SILVER PEAK SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: David Anthony Hughes, Lokesh Lingarajan
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Patent number: 10631340Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and discloses a random access method and apparatus, a base station, and UE, to resolve a problem of long time required by random access. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a base station receives a random access preamble sent by user equipment UE, where the random access preamble is used to indicate that the UE has a first transmission capability; the base station sends DCI to the UE by using a PDCCH; the base station sends an RAR for the random access preamble to the UE by using a DL-SCH transport block indicated by the DCI; and the base station receives a UL-SCH transport block sent by the UE according to uplink scheduling information carried by the RAR. Solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to a process in which UE accesses a network.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Chaojun Li, Yongxia Lyu, Sha Ma
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Patent number: 10624040Abstract: A terminal apparatus communicates with a base station apparatus by using a plurality of cells including at least a primary cell and a secondary cell. The terminal apparatus decodes a PDCCH with downlink control information format in which at least a transmission power control command field is included, transmits a PUCCH on the primary cell, and determines transmission power of the PUCCH on the primary cell based on at least a PUCCH power control adjustment parameter. The PUCCH power control adjustment parameter is calculated by accumulating at least a value indicated by the transmission power control command field, and in a case where the terminal apparatus receives a random access response message for the primary cell, the transmission power control circuitry is configured to and/or programmed to reset the PUCCH power control adjustment parameter.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba
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Patent number: 10624003Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for handover between secondary base stations, a network device, and user equipment. A network device instructs each of at least one candidate secondary base station to make a prior path handover preparation, so that each of the at least one candidate secondary base station waits to be selected by user equipment as a target secondary base station. The path handover preparation includes at least one of the following: preconfiguring an access resource for the user equipment or establishing a data transmission channel with the network device. The user equipment is handed over to the target secondary base station in the at least one candidate secondary base station according to configuration information of each of the at least one candidate secondary base station when the user equipment needs path handover.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mingzeng Dai, Qufang Huang, Jian Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
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Patent number: 10623163Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to communication systems, and more particularly, to control resource sets (coresets) for transmitting physical downlink control channels using either a single-carrier waveform or a multicarrier waveform in communications systems operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. In an exemplary method, a base station may determine whether a control resource set (coreset), of time and frequency resources within a control region of system bandwidth and configured for a user equipment (UE), conveys a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) via a single-carrier waveform or a multicarrier waveform, and transmit the PDCCH to the UE using the determined waveform.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Rahul Malik, Sony Akkarakaran, Tamer Kadous, Akula Reddy
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Patent number: 10616093Abstract: In one implementation, the present invention provides a mechanism for balanced ad-hoc network formation. To achieve the for balanced ad-hoc network formation, the present invention sends the metric information with DIO control message. A new metric container type is introduced in RPL to hold the metric information, and select the parent with minimum path cost, and switch the parent with minimum path cost, as per the defined logic. A stateless metric considers that the average traffic flow from each node is approximately same. The stateless metric directly uses the number of routing table entries (RTsize) to decide which path to use. A stateful metric, wherein the node keeps a track of packets processed per second by itself. For stateful metric, the node maintains packets processed rate (PPR) variable, which is then used as the metric.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rahul Arvind Jadhav, Vijayachandran Mariappan, Rabi Narayan Sahoo
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Patent number: 10616926Abstract: The present application is at leasted directed to an apparatus including a non-transitory memory including instructions to perform random access in a beam sweeping network having a cell. The network includes a downlink sweeping subframe, an uplink sweeping subframe and a regular sweeping subframe. The apparatus also includes a processor operably coupled to the non-transitory memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions of selecting an optimal downlink transmission beam transmitted by the cell during the downlink sweeping subframe. The processor is also configured to execute the instructions of determining an optimal downlink reception beam from the optimal downlink transmission beam. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions of determining a random access preamble and a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource via resource selection from the optimal downlink transmission beam.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLCInventors: Joseph M. Murray, Pascal M. Adjakple, Wei Chen, Lakshmi R. Iyer, Qian (Emily) Zhang, Allan Y. Tsai, Guodong Zhang, Qing Li
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Patent number: 10608863Abstract: A transmission control device includes a delaying section and a transmitting section. When an application program calls a connect function, the delaying section delays transmission of a synchronize packet in response to the calling of the connect function. Upon calling of a transmit function by the application program while the transmission of the synchronise packet is being delayed, the transmitting section transmits the synchronise packet including transmission target data in response to the calling of the transmit function.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Koji Shima, Makoto Ikushima
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Patent number: 10609661Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for conveying timing information that changes across a transmission time interval (TTI) in which multiple redundancy versions of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) are transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Navid Abedini, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Sundar Subramanian, Bilal Sadiq, Tao Luo