Patents Examined by Anindita Sen
  • Patent number: 11956182
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring multi-beam full-duplex communication that allows a device (e.g., user equipment (UE) or base station) to contemporaneously perform both uplink and downlink communication over the same frequency band. Because of the full duplex communication capability provided by the present disclosure, the NR system may achieve reduced latency and improved spectrum and resource efficiency, thereby accommodating a growing demands for the wireless communication. The full duplex communication capability may be achieved by implementing downlink control information (DCI) format that specifies to the UE the beam assignments for contemporaneous transmission (Tx) and reception (Rx).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Qian Zhang, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11949504
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit control signaling indicating a capability of the UE for supporting a first duplex mode and indicating a mode switching latency of the UE for switching between the first duplex mode and a second duplex mode. In some cases, the UE may transmit an indication of a set of supported full-duplex channel combinations, where each channel combination of the set of supported full-duplex channel combinations may include an uplink channel and a downlink channel. In some cases, the UE may transmit an indication of a duration for which the capability of the UE for supporting the first duplex mode is applicable. The UE may receive scheduling information based on the capability of the UE for supporting the first duplex mode and the mode switching latency, and communicate with a base station based on the scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11943712
    Abstract: An information handling system wirelessly interfaces with plural peripheral devices, such as a keyboard or mouse, through primary radios that have a communication protocol, such as Bluetooth Low Energy or a wireless local area network. Secondary radios interface with their associated primary radio to provide a low power wake and sleep using wake and sleep signals sent between the secondary radios. An individual wake command is transmitted by a secondary radio to wake one peripheral or information handling system. A group wake command is transmitted by a secondary radio to wake plural peripherals and/or information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Karthikeyan Krishnakumar, Minho Cheong
  • Patent number: 11936453
    Abstract: Multi-User Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) data transmissions are provided with a forward-predictive precoding matrix to mitigate the effects of a change in a state of a communication channel. First and second soundings are performed, at first and second times, to a receive antenna over a channel and, responsive to each of the soundings, first and second Channel State Information (CSI) are received. Based on the first and second CSI, a change in a state of the channel over a time period between the first and second time is determined. Based on the change in the state of the channel, a forward-predictive channel state matrix and/or a forward-predictive precoding matrix are determined that reflect a state of the channel at a future time and that are consistent with the determined change in the state over the time period. The forward-predictive precoding matrix is applied to a data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John Martin Graybeal, Paul Anthony Polakos, Robert Edward Liston, Wai-Tian Tan, Xiaoqing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11930469
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a user equipment (UE) that receives a timing advance command from a network access node, sends a value indicative of a timing advance capability to the network access node, adjusts a timing advance indicated by the timing advance command based on the timing advance capability to yield an adjusted timing advance, and transmits an uplink signal to the network access node using the adjusted timing advance. Further aspects relate to a network access node that transmits a timing advance command to a user equipment (UE), receives a value indicative of a timing advance capability of the UE, and receives an uplink signal adjusted by a timing advance according to the timing advance capability of the UE. The timing advance capability may indicate that the UE has, or does not have, a capability to adjust the timing advance indicated by the timing advance command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11924872
    Abstract: Systems and methods implementing prioritization of network resources in an aeronautical satellite network system, which determines network utilization of a beam of the aeronautical satellite system by a plurality of aircraft using network capacity of the beam, where network demand in the beam indicated by the network utilization is greater than capacity of the beam, share network bandwidth of the beam to the plurality of aircraft based on a service priority factor, where the service priority factor may depend on altitude of the plurality of aircraft in the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Suresh Kumar Korada, Guy Bryan Montgomery, Rithambara Sriraman
  • Patent number: 11916770
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods to process timing information of flows in a network. One or more processors determine a latency associated with each of one or more packets of a flow passing through a device. The one or more processors determine that the latency is greater than a baseline latency, and the one or more processors provide a message indicating at least the flow and that the latency is greater than the baseline latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Padmanab Pathikonda, Rishi Chhibber, Roshan Lal, Lakshmi Priya Sarma, Vinay Narayana Rai, Akash Garg
  • Patent number: 11909552
    Abstract: An unmanned vehicle (UV) is provided for transmitting data to a payload device connected to the UV. The UV comprises a processor configured to control operations of the UV, a first and a second communication interface for connecting to a payload device, a third communication interface for communicating with a remote station, and a non-transitory memory device storing instructions configured to cause the processor to to receive and transmit data. The processor is configured to receive one or more data packets through the third communication interface from the remote station, transmit the one or more data packets to the payload device through the first communication interface when the one or more data packets are designated for the first communication interface, and transmit the one or more data packets to the payload device through the second communication interface when the one or more data packets are designated for the second communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC
    Inventors: Christopher E. Prest, David D. Kroetsch, Michael Peasgood, Jerry Mailloux, Eason J. Choo
  • Patent number: 11910234
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Multiple user equipments (UEs) may communicate as part of a sidelink communications system. The UEs may identify a frame for a sidelink connection. The frame may include a control portion and a data portion. One UE of a pair of UEs may receive a data signal from the other UE of the pair, and the data signal may be received in the data portion of the first instance of the frame and in the control portion of a second instance of the frame. Another pair of UEs may attempt to reserve a subsequent data portion by transmitting a request signal in the control portion in the second instance of the frame, and the second pair of UEs may receive a suppression signal from the first pair of UEs indicating ongoing data transmission by the first pair of UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li, Vasanthan Raghavan
  • Patent number: 11889415
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for wireless communication. In some embodiments, a first mobile device can receive a first indication of a first transmit activity pattern associated with a second mobile device that transmits data to the first mobile device via a radio interface without passing through a base station. The first mobile device can compute a first receive activity pattern that is inclusive of at least the first transmit activity pattern. The first mobile device monitors the radio interface according to the first receive activity pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Tao Chen, Chia-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 11882052
    Abstract: Example methods and systems to perform flow cache information update(s) for packet processing are described. In one example, a network element may configure flow cache information specifying a set of actions based on a sequence of stages that is executable during slow-path packet processing. The network element may configure dependency information specifying execution dependence or independence among the set of actions during fast-path packet processing. In response to detecting a configuration change associated with stage(s) from the sequence of stages, the network element may identify first action(s) affected by the configuration change and second action(s) not affected by the configuration change. This way, a granular update may be performed to the flow cache information by updating the at least one first action, but not the at least one second action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Xi Cheng, Caixia Jiang, Xiaoyan Jin, Qiong Wang
  • Patent number: 11871338
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining capability data of a shared ledger data structure, wherein the capability data specifies one or more capability for respective ones of a plurality of service capability applications; joining a service capability application of the plurality of service capability applications to a service delivery application in dependence on the examining; and running the service delivery application, with the service capability application joined to the service delivery application. .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dharmendra Misra, Abhinav Aggarwal, Tapasi Sengupta
  • Patent number: 11812451
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a first data block including an identifier for a component, receiving a second data block including usage data for the component and a link to the first data block, storing the first and second data blocks in a blockchain, and allocating respective usage tokens to each of a plurality of entities based on the usage data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Clifford Anthony Bailey, Sujitha Krishna Devaraj, Josh Fodale, Robert Hinh, Adrian Kalinowski, Rafi Odisho
  • Patent number: 11811558
    Abstract: A network interface controller (NIC) associated with a virtual machine (VM) in a cloud computing network is configured to be flexibly attached and detached from a parent NIC to thereby enable the virtual machine to simultaneously be attached to multiple different virtual networks (VNets) and/or subnets that are associated with the same or different subscriptions. The inventive NIC, referred to herein as a flexibly extensible NIC (eNIC), enables a service provider to inject compute instances into an existing VNet using a multi-homing configuration in which the data plane uses a dedicated network interface to connect the customer's VNet, while another dedicated network interface provides management plane connectivity to the service provider. Such multi-VNet homing advantageously provides data plane isolation for the customer's VNet to comply with applicable security policies without disrupting management traffic between the injected resources and the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raman Deep Singh, Ashish Bhargava, Sumit Gupta, Vinaya Natarajan, Anavi Arun Nahar, Vikrant Arora
  • Patent number: 11812398
    Abstract: A group of radio network nodes (14) performs automatic synchronization source selection using Radio-interface Based Synchronization, based on the exchange of clock-attribute information between respective nodes (14) via inter-node connections. Access to the clock-attribute information for other nodes (14) in the same domain or subdomain allows a given node (14) to select the best or most preferred synchronization source for use in synchronizing its own clock (44), based on a combined or joint evaluation of parameters or metrics that include the reception quality of OTA signals from respective ones of the candidate nodes (14) and the corresponding clock-attribute information. Further parameters or metrics may be evaluated in the selection, such as neighbor-relation considerations. The combined use of OTA synchronization signaling and clock-attribute information exchanges, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stefano Ruffini, Garry Irvine, Ohan Khodaverdian, Magnus Sandgren, Mårten Wahlström
  • Patent number: 11804983
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system which facilitates scaling of routing in an EVPN. During operation, the system determines, in an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN), a plurality of virtual tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) coupled to a plurality of subnets, wherein a respective subnet includes one or more hosts, wherein a first VTEP is configured with a first number of host routes for a first subnet coupled to a second VTEP, and wherein each of the first number of host routes corresponds to a host residing in the first subnet. Responsive to detecting that a total number of routes configured on the first VTEP exceeds a first predetermined threshold, the system aggregates the first number of host routes by replacing the first number of host routes with a first prefix route which indicates the first subnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Venkatesh Natarajan, Badrish Adiga H R
  • Patent number: 11792306
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a network protocol for view replication over an unreliable network are described herein. A sender and a receiver may apply a branching time model to the history of views to replicate the views consistently. The sender may send a first data packet to receiver. The first data packet may comprise a first sequence number identifying the first data packet, a source version number, and a first set of one or more changes to be applied to a first state identified by the source version number. Based on a determination that an acknowledgment message indicating receipt of the first data packet is not received, the sender may send a second data packet to the client device. The content of the second data packet may be determined based on the first data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Improbable Worlds Limited
    Inventor: Matthew John Reveley Lewis
  • Patent number: 11758367
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: establishing, by a network management device, a wireless multicast tree topology for a wireless mesh network, the wireless multicast tree topology comprising a root network device and wireless multicast hubs providing respective wireless multicast areas, the establishing including selecting each wireless multicast hub based on a corresponding location and a corresponding wireless neighbor count; and causing, by the network management device, the root network device to unicast transmit to a selected one or more of the wireless multicast hubs a multicast packet encapsulated within a unicast header, the unicast header causing the selected one or more of the wireless multicast hubs to multicast transmit the multicast packet within a corresponding one or more of the wireless multicast areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Zhao, Mingyu Xie, Jianfeng Mao, Xiang Fang
  • Patent number: 11751275
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an antenna switch selection associated with a dual connectivity antenna configuration, wherein the antenna switch selection is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the dual connectivity antenna configuration permits communication via the first RAT and a second RAT; determine, based at least in part on the antenna switching selection, a quantity of communication chains, associated with the first RAT, that are affected by an antenna switching process of the second RAT; and selectively permit, based at least in part on the quantity of communication chains, a reconfiguration of the dual connectivity antenna configuration according to the antenna switch selection. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Brian Clarke Banister, Timothy Paul Pals, Reza Shahidi, Supratik Bhattacharjee
  • Patent number: 11729582
    Abstract: In an aspect, a network component (e.g., BS, server, etc.) obtains measurement information associated with uplink signal(s) from UE(s), with the uplink signal(s) having reciprocity with one or more downlink beams of wireless node(s) (e.g., TRP, reference UE, etc.). The network component determines (e.g., generates or refines) a measurement (e.g., RFFP-P) model based on the measurement information. The network component provides the measurement (e.g., RFFP-P) model to a target UE. The target UE receives at least one signal (e.g., PRS) on the one or more downlink beams from the wireless node(s). The target UE processes the at least one signal (e.g., predicts target UE location) based at least in part on the measurement (e.g., RFFP-P) model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Mohammed Hirzallah, Roohollah Amiri, Marwen Zorgui, Rajat Prakash, Xiaoxia Zhang, Taesang Yoo