Patents Examined by Andrew C Oh
  • Patent number: 11394498
    Abstract: If repetition transmission is applied to a response signal for a downlink data signal and an uplink signal, the uplink signal is repeatedly transmitted using a certain number of consecutive subframes starting with a first subframe, at which the repetition transmission of the uplink signal starts, and the response signal is repeatedly transmitted using at least the certain number of consecutive subframes starting with a second subframe, at which the repetition transmission of the response signal starts. The first subframe is set to be the same as the second subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Seigo Nakao, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11395321
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method of managing a schedule request process in a telecommunication network, comprising the steps of: a user equipment, UE, being provided, by a base station, BS, with a Scheduling Request, SR, configuration, whereby the UE adopts the configuration and at a later time the SR configuration is changed as a result of a message from the BS to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Milos Tesanovic, Pravjyot Singh Deogun
  • Patent number: 11375525
    Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting information, a method for receiving information, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes that: a terminal device determines multiple uplink channels/signals to be transmitted, the multiple uplink channels/signals at least partially overlapping in time domain; and the terminal device determines to transmit one of the multiple uplink channels/signals according to first information related to at least one of the multiple uplink channels/signals. In the embodiments of the disclosure, according to the first information related to at least one of the multiple uplink channels/signals, the terminal device can clearly determine to transmit one of the multiple uplink channels/signals, thereby improving the success rate of transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11297669
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to the present application, a method for transmitting control signaling in a relay network comprises: a second relay node acquires a first control signaling and a second control signaling, wherein the first control signaling contains an F1AP message; the second relay node processes the first control signaling and the second control signaling in the same manner or different manners; and the second relay node transmits the first control signaling and the second control signaling to a first relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiwei Wang, Lixiang Xu, Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 11284425
    Abstract: An uplink signal transmission method includes receiving, by an active antenna unit of a base station, a first uplink signal sent by a terminal in a first band. The method also includes sending, by the base station, the first uplink signal to a first baseband processing unit of the base station corresponding to a second band for demodulation. The active antenna unit of the base station includes a first array antenna corresponding to the first band and a second array antenna corresponding to the second band. The first band is lower than the second band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Quanzhong Gao, Yong Wang, Heng Xu, Liwen Zhang, Guochen Liu
  • Patent number: 11272528
    Abstract: Example scheduling assignment information transmission methods, systems, and devices are described. One example method includes obtaining, by a user equipment (UE), a multiplexing manner used to indicate a relationship between a time-frequency resource for transmitting scheduling assignment information and a time-frequency resource for transmitting data information. The UE receives downlink control information comprising scheduling assignment resource indication information sent by a network device, and obtains, based on the scheduling assignment resource indication information and the multiplexing manner, resource location information occupied to transmit the scheduling assignment information. The UE can then transmit the scheduling assignment information based on the resource location information occupied by the scheduling assignment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenwei Lu, Deping Liu, Yi Shi, Zhenshan Zhao
  • Patent number: 11259293
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more messages from a base station. The one or more messages indicate one or more monitoring occasions for a DCI. A first downlink reference signal is selected from one or more downlink reference signals based on a received signal strength of the first downlink reference signal being above a value. A radio network identifier is determined, based on at least one index indicating a time resource in which the first downlink reference signal is received. The DCI addressed to the radio network identifier is received. The DCI indicates one or more random access occasions (ROs). A preamble is transmitted, via one of the one or more ROs, in response to receiving the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Nazanin Rastegardoost, Esmael Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 11252595
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for receiving streaming service data in a mobile communication system supporting a plurality of radio access interfaces, comprising the steps of: operating in a first mode for receiving, from a server, streaming service data through a first interface among the plurality of radio access interfaces; and determining a transition to a second mode for receiving the streaming service data by using at least two radio access interfaces according to a radio network currently being used in the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Hyoung Kim, Chul-Ho Lee, Jiangwei Xu, Krishna Manohar Singh, Jin-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11245495
    Abstract: A method for hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK/NACK) feedback in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, is performed by a terminal and may comprise the steps of: determining an uplink resource for transmitting a NACK if the NACK must be transmitted as HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback for a downlink signal; determining whether to transmit, along with the NACK, a channel quality indicator (CQI) associated with the downlink signal corresponding to the NACK; and if it is determined to transmit the CQI along with the NACK, transmitting the NACK and the CQI on the determined uplink resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Daesung Hwang, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11234138
    Abstract: A data transmission method, a transmitting device, and a receiving device are disclosed. The method is applicable to a wireless communications system including a plurality of beams, and includes: determining, by a transmitting device, beam indication information and at least one transmit beam used for sending data to a receiving device; sending, by the transmitting device, the beam indication information to the receiving device; and transmitting, by the transmitting device, the data by using the at least one transmit beam. The transmitting device sends the beam indication information to indicate, to the receiving device, a corresponding receive beam used for receiving the data transmitted by the transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Leiming Zhang, Yifan Liu, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 11223550
    Abstract: Described is a method for estimating throughput between first and second communication devices, the method comprising: determining maximum bottleneck throughput of a communication link between the first communication device and a third communication device, wherein the communication link between the first and third communication devices applies a common access network as between a communication link between the first and second communication devices; determining Round Trip Time (RTT) between the first and second communication devices; transmitting packet by applying User Datagram Protocol (UDP) from the third communication device to the first communication device; measuring packet loss rate associated with the transmitted packet by monitoring sequence number of the packet; and translating measured packet loss rate to Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) throughput according to maximum bottleneck throughput and RTT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ASSIA SPE, LLC
    Inventors: Chan-Soo Hwang, Jeonghun Noh, Parimal Parag
  • Patent number: 11218892
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing communication in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes identifying a transmission mode configured for a serving cell by a Base Station (BS), by a User Equipment (UE), identifying an antenna configuration of the BS by the UE, determining the number of bits for a Rank Indication (RI) representing the number of layers based on the transmission mode and the antenna configuration, and generating an RI using the determined number of bits and transmitting the RI in transmission resources of the serving cell to the BS by the.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng-Hun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout, Kyeong-In Jeong
  • Patent number: 11212165
    Abstract: A consensus building method suitable when f Byzantine failure nodes (f is an integer equal to or larger than 1 and smaller than N/3) are assumed in a network having N nodes (N is an integer equal to or larger than 1) participating in consensus building, comprising the steps of: receiving a first message from other node which communicates that the other node determined a message including data subject to consensus building valid as a proposal, when the number of received first messages reach a predetermined value Q, transmitting a second message to each node which communicates that it is accepting the proposal, and when the number of received first messages do not reach the predetermined value Q, transmitting a third message to each node which communicates that it is dismissing the proposal, when the number of received second messages reach a predetermined value Q, transmitting a fourth message to each note which communicates that it is treating the proposal as agreed in the network, and when the number of rec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: BITFLYER BLOCKCHAIN, INC.
    Inventors: Yuzo Kano, Takafumi Komiyama
  • Patent number: 11206667
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to extreme high throughput (EHT) data scrambler. A device may determine an extreme high throughput (EHT) data field of a frame to be scrambled using an EHT data scrambler. The device may determine to initialize the EHT data scrambler using an initialization seed, wherein the initialization seed has a size greater than seven bits. The device may generate scrambled data using the initialization seed. The device may cause to send the frame comprising the scrambled data to a first station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Assaf Gurevitz, Thomas J. Kenney, Shlomi Vituri, Feng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11197256
    Abstract: Communication apparatus is disclosed which is suitable for communicating with a mobile communication device in a communication system which uses a plurality of radio frames wherein each radio frame is subdivided in the time domain into a plurality of subframes, each subframe is subdivided in the time domain into a plurality of slots, and each slot is subdivided in the time domain into a plurality of symbols. The communication apparatus operates a communication cell, generates discovery signals, for use in a cell search procedure, each discovery signal comprising a pair of synchronisation signals and a further signal, and transmits each synchronisation signal and the further signal in a respective symbol of a radio frame. The symbol in which the further signal is transmitted separated, in the time domain, by no more than half a radio frame from at least one of said pair of synchronisation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Kay Seo
  • Patent number: 11190961
    Abstract: In one aspect, a wireless device (50) is configured to perform relative measurements involving radio measurements of transmissions from first and second cells. The wireless device determines that LBT operations performed by a network node (30) for one or both of the first and second cells may affect a measurement component of a relative measurement. The wireless device (50) performs the relative measurement based on the determination. The network node may also determine whether downlink LBT operations performed on the cells impact at least one measurement component of the relative measurement performed by the wireless device. The network node (30) determines configuration parameters related to the relative measurement, based on said determining, and signals the configuration parameters to the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Iana Siomina, Muhammad Kazmi
  • Patent number: 11184844
    Abstract: In user terminal 10 of the present invention, connection-cell-selection controlling section 110 measures reception quality of signals respectively transmitted from cells and received by antenna section 108, corrects the reception quality of each of the cells based on a positional relationship between each of the cells and user terminal 10 and based on a moving direction of user terminal 10, and determines a connection cell for user terminal 10 (base station in communication with user terminal 10) based on the corrected reception quality. This configuration lowers a cell switching frequency, while preventing degradation of throughput and the like in a future radio communication system (multilayer cellular radio network).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Akira Kishida, Yoshifumi Morihiro, Takahiro Asai, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 11184787
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method in a wireless device is provided that includes receiving, from a network node, dynamic allocation signaling to commence measurement on a semi-persistent CSI-RS resource. A first measurement is performed on the CSI-RS resource. A first CSI report based only on the first measurement is transmitted to the network node. A trigger message is received from the network node that is different from the dynamic allocation signaling. The trigger message triggers semi-persistent CSI reporting, and the wireless device initiates semi-persistent reporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericcson (publ)
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao, Stephen Grant, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 11184232
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) communication system may include mobile vehicles, with each mobile vehicle including RF equipment and a controller. The controller may be configured to determine a reward matrix based upon possible RF equipment configurations and associated operational parameters, and operate the RF equipment to implement an RF equipment configuration based upon the reward matrix. The system may also include an oversight controller configured to update respective reward matrices of the mobile vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Mark D. Rahmes, David Bruce Chester
  • Patent number: 11178717
    Abstract: A traffic distribution method through a multi-access network in a network and a network entity performing the same are disclosed. An access and mobility management function (AMF) may receive a PDU session modification request message including an ATSSS (access traffic steering, switching, and splitting) preference, which is a preference for an ATSSS rule, from an user equipment (UE) when a multi-access PDU session (MA PDU session) is established and the UE desires to change the ATSSS rule corresponding to the established MA PDU session. The AMF may transmit a first message including the ATSSS preference to a session management function (SMF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeoung Lak Ha, Yoo Hwa Kang, Changki Kim