Patents Examined by Andrew Lai
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Patent number: 10924407Abstract: It is disclosed a method and a detector capable of resolving unicast flooding in a layer 2 broadcast domain. The method is performed in a detector having a medium access control (MAC) address. The detector receives a first flooded packet having a destination MAC address differing from the detector's MAC address. The detector sends a message to a node in the layer 2 broadcast domain, wherein the type of the node is determined based on the destination MAC address of the first flooded packet and/or based on whether a destination Internet protocol (IP) address of the first flooded packet is an address within the layer 2 broadcast domain. It is advantageous that the message is adapted to trigger the node to announce its MAC address within the layer 2 broadcast domain, causing the unicast flooding to be resolved, by which consumption of available bandwidth is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Per Helén, Clarence Ammervik
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Patent number: 10924162Abstract: Channel state information (CSI) can be transmitted to a network node incrementally to increase network efficiency. The CSI feedback framework can be enhanced by allowing a user equipment (UE) to report multiple sets of CSI feedback, where each set can comprise a rank indicator (RI), a pre-coder matrix indicator (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI). Since a different set may have a different sub-band, the CSI feedback framework can support the sub-band rank, wherein rank data from a wideband and the sub-band can be used by the network.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh, Salam Akoum
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Patent number: 10925037Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless communication method and an eNode B and user equipment therefor. The method comprises a step of transmitting multiple PDCCH or EPDCCH repetitions respectively in multiple successive downlink subframes with a transmission repetition number and a transmission starting subframe. The transmission starting subframe is selected from a first starting subframe set corresponding to the first repetition number or a second starting subframe set corresponding to the second repetition number. The subframe indexes of any two adjacent starting subframes in the first starting subframe set are offset by a same first index interval, the subframe indexes of any two adjacent starting subframes in the second starting subframe set are offset by a same second index interval, and the second index interval is an integral multiple of the first index interval.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Chi Gao, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Li Wang, Masayuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 10924990Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, apparatuses, and devices related to optimizing connectivity between devices. A device is disclosed that may determine first information received from a client device, wherein the first information comprises at least one of an authentication request, an association request, or pre-association discovery request, and wherein the first information includes an indication of a first device type. The device may further determine a first virtual access point from a group of virtual access points associated with the wireless device based at least in part on the first device type, wherein the first virtual access point has first wireless resources. The device may further associate the client device with the first virtual access point. The device may further cause to send to the client device data based at least in part on the first wireless resources.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Izoslav Tchigevsky, Venkata R. Vallabhu, Bahareh Sadeghi
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Patent number: 10917906Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receives downlink data using resource blocks in a wireless mobile communication system. The UE receives downlink control information including resource allocation information and downlink data mapped to physical resource blocks (PRBs) based on the downlink control information. The resource allocation information indicates virtual resource block (VRB) allocations for the UE. Indexes of the PRBs to which the downlink data are mapped are determined based on a mapping relationship between virtual resource blocks (VRBs) and the PRBs. The mapping relationship is defined based on indexes of the VRBs which are mapped to the indexes of the PRBs for a first slot of a subframe and a second slot of the subframe. The indexes of the PRBs for the second slot are shifted with respect to the indexes of the PRBs for the first slot based on a predetermined gap. The mapping relationship includes a transformation of VRB indexes based on a matrix.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Optis Cellular Technology, LLCInventors: Dong Youn Seo, Eun Sun Kim, Bong Hoe Kim, Joon Kui Ahn
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Patent number: 10917913Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communication based on Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) in one or more directions. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless station to determine a plurality of directions to transmit a plurality of respective data streams of a Multi-Input-Multi-Output (MIMO) transmission; to detect a plurality of CCA states corresponding to the plurality of directions, respectively; and based on the plurality of CCA states, to transmit one or more selected data streams of the plurality of data streams in one or more respective selected directions of the plurality of directions.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATIONInventors: Laurent Cariou, Carlos Cordeiro
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Patent number: 10911210Abstract: A system to support Time Division Duplex (TDD) Full Duplex (FDX) with a remote Duty Cycle (DS) framer may be provided. The system may comprise a core and a Remote PHY Device (RPD). The core may comprise a Downstream (DS) Quality-of-Service (QoS) scheduler and a DS duty cycle rate regulator. The DS duty cycle rate regulator may comprise a plurality of token buckets and a plurality of data framing queues. The RPD may comprise a plurality of TG queue blocks and switching logic.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Tong Liu, John T. Chapman, Hang Jin
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Patent number: 10911298Abstract: A communication network, communication installation within an aircraft and aircraft including such a communication installation are disclosed. In one aspect, the network is adapted for interconnecting pieces of electronic equipment and includes a set of at least three network switches, each being connected to all of the other network switches of the set. Each network switch includes several communication ports. The network further includes a plurality of datalinks, each being configured to connect one network switch bidirectionally to another network switch of the set, via the corresponding communication ports. At least two separate network switches are configured to be connected directly to a same piece of electronic equipment.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: ThalesInventor: Christian Cantaloube
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Patent number: 10911988Abstract: A communication node determines a codec and a codec mode to be used by two terminals that perform communication in a first network, when one of the two terminals performs handover to a second network that is different from the first network. The communication node includes: a determiner that sets common part for a codec and a codec mode to be used by the two terminals, the common part being common among information indicating codecs and codec modes used for communication in the first network, information indicating codecs and codec modes supported by the one terminal, and information indicating codecs and codec modes supported by the second network; and a generator that generates signaling for requesting the two terminals to perform changing to the set codec and codec mode to be used by the two terminals.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Takako Hori, Hiroyuki Ehara
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Patent number: 10904938Abstract: A telematics controller is programmed identify a location of the vehicle responsive to failure of a vehicle-originated data call to initiate packet-switched communications, and send, to a service delivery network configured to provide data services to the vehicle, a message specifying that circuit-switched communication but not packet-switched communication is available to the vehicle. A message is received, over a wide-area network from a vehicle, in response to a failed initiation of a packed-switched data connection over the wide-area network, indicating that packet-switched communications are unavailable at a current location of the vehicle. Failure zones are updated to indicate that the current location of the vehicle is a network location supporting circuit-switched communication but not packet-switched communication over the wide-area network.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeffrey William Wirtanen, Shu-Lin Chen, Jason Zhang
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Patent number: 10901076Abstract: A method for estimating the speed of a user equipment connected to a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: measuring the power of a signal transmitted between the user equipment and the base station; computing the derivative of the measured signal power with respect to time; computing the standard deviation of the computed derivative; estimating, from previously established reference data, the speed of the user equipment that corresponds to the computed standard deviation, the reference data associating a given user equipment speed with a certain computed standard deviation.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Alcatel Lucent; INRIAInventors: Nidham Ben Rached, Veronique Capdevielle, Majed Haddad, Frédéric Ratovelomanana, Afef Feki, Eitan Altman
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Patent number: 10904791Abstract: A system for dynamically offloading data and video traffic to a broadcast offload core network from a cellular network or to the cellular network from the broadcast offload core network is provided. The system includes an analytics engine, a load manager, and a radio access network (RAN). The analytics engine captures geographical radio frequency (RF) information from a geographical RF information database. The geographical RF information includes an operator infrastructure information, a physical terrain information, a subscriber information, a coverage information, a signal quality information, and telecom traffic patterns. The analytics engine determines whether to offload the data and the video traffic to at least one of a unidirectional downlink network from a unicast network or the unicast network from the unidirectional downlink network by analyzing a hybrid cellular user equipment from a particular geographical location trying to access the data or video content.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Saankhya Labs Pvt. Ltd.Inventors: Parag Naik, Arindam Chakraborty, Anindya Saha, Vishwakumara Kayargadde
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Patent number: 10904815Abstract: A process of transmitting a configuration message is efficiently completed. The solution includes receiving a first message from a first node, where the first message includes a configuration of a second node and/or a dual connectivity configuration, and sending a first reply message to the first node if the configuration in the first message is accepted, so that the first node learns that a user terminal accepts the configuration, or sending a second reply message to the first node if the configuration in the first message is not accepted, so that the first node learns that the user terminal does not accept the configuration; or skipping sending any message to the first node if the configuration in the first message is not accepted.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Liangliang Zhang, Bo Lin, Hao Bi
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Patent number: 10897400Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining dynamic subnetworks in a communication network. In use, a plurality of network entities of a communication network is determined. Additionally, measurements of an amount of interaction between pairs of network entities of the plurality of network entities are collected. Further, at least one division characteristic is determined, and an intersection between the measurements and the at least one division characteristic is determined. Moreover, at least one border of a subnetwork of the communication network is determined, where the at least one border is based on the intersection.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITEDInventors: Ofer Hermoni, Nimrod Sandlerman, Eyal Felstaine
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Patent number: 10897786Abstract: A method of operating a first terminal device to transmit data to a second terminal device by performing device-to-device communication includes selecting radio resources, on which to transmit the data based on a priority status associated with the data, whereby certain radio resource are reserved for use in association with data classified as high priority. A method of operating the second terminal device to receive data from the first terminal device includes: receiving data from the first terminal device using the selected radio resources; determining if another terminal device is transmitting data on a radio resource which is not selected for transmitting data by the first terminal device and which is reserved for transmitting data classified as having a high priority; and, if so, stopping reception of data from the first terminal device on the selected radio resources and instead seeking to receive further transmissions from the other terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Brian Alexander Martin
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Patent number: 10897401Abstract: Determining the importance of network devices based on a discovered topology, managed endpoints, and activity may be provided. First, topology data may be received corresponding to a network comprising a plurality of devices. Then, a topology matrix may be created representing the topology data. Next, a stationary matrix may be determined from the topology matrix. The stationary matrix may indicate a relative importance of each of the plurality of devices within the network. A health score may then be determined for at least one of the plurality of devices based on the relative importance of the at least one of the plurality of devices. The health score may be determined using the stationary matrix.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Sajjit Thampy, Zachariah Cherian
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Patent number: 10892819Abstract: A communications system includes a ground hub, mobile airborne platforms, and a user terminal. The ground hub includes an antenna system, a beam-forming system and a baseband processor. The antenna system receives return-link signals radiated respectively by the mobile airborne platforms. The return-link signals correspond to signal streams transmitted by the user terminal and received by the mobile airborne platforms. The signal streams correspond to data streams including a known pilot code stream. The beam-forming system forms beams to receive the return-link signals and transforms the received return-link signals into baseband signals. The baseband processor includes adaptive equalizers to equalize the baseband signals and a wavefront demultiplexing processor to perform a wavefront demultiplexing transform on the equalized baseband signals to produce recovered versions of the data streams.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SPATIAL DIGITAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Donald C. D. Chang
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Patent number: 10893521Abstract: A method in a wireless communication device including receiving (410) a composite control channel including at least two control channel elements, each control channel element only contains radio resource assignment information, for example, a codeword, exclusively addressed to a single wireless communication entity. The device combines (420) at least two of the control channel elements, and decodes (430) the combined control channel elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Ravi Kuchibhotla, Raja S. Bachu, Brian K. Classon, Robert T. Love, Ravikiran Nory, Kenneth A. Stewart, Yakun Sun
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Patent number: 10893438Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of wireless communication, and in particular, to a wireless local area network data transmission method and apparatus, which are used for improving data transmission efficiency. The method of the embodiments of the present invention includes: carrying, by a control domain of a PLCP header domain in a PPDU constructed by an AP, identifier information of the AP, duration information, and an identifier of at least one STA, so that a STA may obtain the identifier information of the AP, the duration information, and the identifier of at least one STA by parsing only the control domain of the PLCP header domain.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiayin Zhang, Jun Luo, Phillip Barber
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Patent number: 10892861Abstract: An apparatus and a method for transmitting HARQ feedback information in a wireless communication system are provided. In so doing, the method for transmitting the HARQ feedback information in a receiving end includes confirming the number of packets received from a transmitting end, and when receiving a reference number of packets from the transmitting end, transmitting to the transmitting end a feedback signal comprising HARQ feedback information for the reference number of the packets.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun-Sung Lim, Hun-Kee Kim, Sung-Man Han