Patents Examined by Atique Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11374880
    Abstract: Top-of-rack (TOR) switches are connected to a network fabric of a data center. Each TOR switch corresponds to a respective rack of the data center, and is configured to provide access to the network fabric for computing devices mounted in the respective rack. A request is received, from a client device via a portal of the data center, to provide IP connectivity to one or more computing devices mounted in a rack. IP addresses are assigned that correspond to the IP connectivity. A virtual network is created in a network fabric of the data center. The created virtual network is associated with the assigned IP addresses. One or more of the TOR switches are configured to connect one or more ports of each respective TOR switch to the created virtual network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Cyxtera Data Centers, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Anthony Lochhead, Manikandan Subramanian, David Hess, Michael Andra Ballard, Adam Scott Wayne
  • Patent number: 11375452
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems (e.g., millimeter wave (mmW) systems) may support user equipment (UEs) operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. A UE, in these wireless communications systems, may receive signaling configuring the UE with a set of wakeup grouping sets. Each of the set of wakeup grouping sets may identify a set of groups of one or more UEs. The UE may subsequently receive a wakeup signal during a monitoring occasion for wakeup signals, and determine that the received wakeup signal indicates a group in a wakeup grouping set of the set of wakeup grouping sets that includes the UE. In response, the UE may initiate a wakeup procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11374779
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for displaying data in an immersive environment wherein sensor (e.g., IoT sensor) data is aggregated via a gateway and various different types of air interfaces depending on application and location (e.g., LoRa, Wi-Fi, 5G NR, C-band, 60 GHz, CBRS, etc.), aggregated at a cloud service, processed through an analytics platform, and transmitted to a UI platform for display on a user interface. One implementation of displaying the sensor data comprises overlaying the sensor data in virtual reality in an immersive video wherein the video is a live stream from a 360-degree 8K camera. A user may interact with the overlaid sensor data within the user interface in a virtual environment to change settings to a desired degree. Artificial intelligence and machine learning may automatically suggest actions to the user or change settings based on sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Sanders, Elliott Hoole, Diwelawatte Jayawardene
  • Patent number: 11349531
    Abstract: The present invention employs a pilot scheme for frequency division multiple access (FDM) communication systems, such as single carrier FDM communication systems. A given transmit time interval will include numerous traffic symbols and two or more short pilot symbols, which are spaced apart from one another by at least one traffic symbol and will have a Fourier transform length that is less than the Fourier transform length of any given traffic symbol. Multiple transmitters will generate pilot information and modulate the pilot information onto sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols in an orthogonal manner. Each transmitter may use different sub-carriers within the time and frequency domain, which is encompassed by the short pilot symbols within the transmit time interval. Alternatively, each transmitter may uniquely encode the pilot information using a unique code division multiplexed code and modulate the encoded pilot information onto common sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia, Hua Xu, Wen Tong, Peiying Zhu, Moussa Abdi
  • Patent number: 11343782
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a synchronized signal block (SS block), network equipment, and user equipment are disclosed. The SS block includes a New Radio (NR)-primary synchronized signal (PSS), an NR-secondary synchronized signal (SSS), and an NR-physical broadcast channel (PBCH) signal. The method includes: network equipment transmits the NR-PSS by using a first frequency domain resource, transmits the NR-SSS by using a second frequency domain resource, and transmits the NR-PBCH signal by using a third frequency domain resource; and user equipment receives the NR-PSS by using the first frequency domain resource, receives the NR-SSS by using the second frequency domain resource, and receives the NR-PBCH signal by using the third frequency domain resource. A position relationship among the first frequency domain resource, the second frequency domain resource, and the third frequency domain resource satisfies a preset condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na Li, Kai Wu, Xiaodong Shen, Yu Ding
  • Patent number: 11323227
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to an apparatus and method for wireless communication. The apparatus receives downlink control information (DCI) or a radio resource control (RRC) message indicating a configuration of an uplink burst region of a downlink-centric slot, the configuration allocating resources within the uplink burst region between a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or uplink control information (UCI). The PUSCH is multiplexed with at least one of the PUCCH or the UCI in the uplink burst region. The apparatus further generates a feedback signal (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acknowledgement (ACK)) corresponding to a downlink (e.g., TCP) data packet received from a scheduling entity and transmits the feedback signal to the scheduling entity via the PUSCH configured in the uplink burst region of the downlink-centric slot. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Ping Li, Jing Jiang, Yi Huang, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11296826
    Abstract: Method enabling an application server to acknowledge, with a single acknowledgement frame, a set of frames sent by endpoints in a group of endpoints to said application server. Each endpoint in said group communicates with the application server via a gateway and a centralising server. The application server is connected to the centralising server via a first communication network. The centralising server is connected to each gateway by a second communication network. The group of endpoints and each gateway form a LoRa network, each communication between an endpoint in said group and a gateway using the LoRaWAN protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS
    Inventor: Henri Teboulle
  • Patent number: 11290146
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting a flexible carrier aggregation in a new radio access technology (RAT) system is provided. A user equipment (UE) reports UE capability for supporting a flexible carrier aggregation in a single cell to a network, receives a configuration of the flexible carrier aggregation from the network, and communicates with the network via multiple physical carriers configured by the flexible carrier aggregation. The multiple physical carriers may be mapped to the single cell by the flexible carrier aggregation. Or, one physical carrier may be mapped to multiple cells by the flexible carrier aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11284339
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes one or more aspects for selecting a Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) profile for communicating with an associated CBRS network. Such aspects may include providing a plurality of CBRS profiles associated with respective CBRS network cells, receiving contextual information surrounding current and past network connections of a user device and/or other user devices, selecting one of the CBRS profiles based on the contextual information, and configuring a modem of the user device to communicate with an associated CBRS network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sooraj Sasindran, Shivank Nayak
  • Patent number: 11283555
    Abstract: A packet transmission method includes: receiving packets on a plurality of subflow connections of a multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) connection, and determining, based on the received packets, that packets at an MPTCP layer are out of order; determining that a blocking packet causing out-of-order is not received within a tolerance time, where the tolerance time is less than a largest RTO in RTOs of the plurality of subflow connections; and sending, by the network component, a retransmission instruction packet of the blocking packet on a target subflow connection in the plurality of subflow connections, where the retransmission instruction packet is used to instruct a sending device of the blocking packet to retransmit the blocking packet. Thus, there is no need to trigger retransmission after a subflow RTO expires, thereby shortening a delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Guan, Mingli Zhang, Naiqiang Qiao, Boyuan Yu
  • Patent number: 11277248
    Abstract: A method for transmitting an SRS resource by a terminal when all cyclic shifts (CSs) of a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource are not used for SRS comprises the steps of: receiving information on the usage of a CS that is not used for a SRS; receiving information on an SRS resource index, a CS index that is not used for the SRS, and a usage specifying index; and transmitting the SRS resource by using the CS index, wherein the usage of the SRS resource is determined on the basis of information on the usage of the CS and the usage specifying index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kukheon Choi, Suckchel Yang, Jiwon Kang, Kyuseok Kim, Kilbom Lee
  • Patent number: 11240087
    Abstract: A synchronization detection method of a repeater comprises receiving a communication signal comprising a plurality of synchronization signal blocks respectively belonging to different frequency ranges, determining a priority of a frequency range in which the plurality of synchronization signal blocks are to be detected based on signal level for each frequency range and detecting a synchronization signal block included in each frequency range according to the determined priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventor: Nagwon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11223455
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting data using a multi-carrier in a mobile communication system. The method of transmitting data in user equipment of a wireless communication system using a carrier aggregation technique according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of setting secondary cells included in an S-TAG (Secondary-Timing Advance Group) configured of only secondary cells (SCells), deactivating a downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG; determining whether other activated secondary cells exist besides the deactivated downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG, and when the other activated secondary cells exist in the S-TAG, setting one of the other activated secondary cells as a new downlink timing reference cell. According to the present invention, uplink transmission speed can be increased in the user equipment and user QoS can be improved by transmitting data using one or more uplink carriers in the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Sang Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 11223397
    Abstract: The present invention employs a pilot scheme for frequency division multiple access (FDM) communication systems, such as single carrier FDM communication systems. A given transmit time interval will include numerous traffic symbols and two or more short pilot symbols, which are spaced apart from one another by at least one traffic symbol and will have a Fourier transform length that is less than the Fourier transform length of any given traffic symbol. Multiple transmitters will generate pilot information and modulate the pilot information onto sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols in an orthogonal manner. Each transmitter may use different sub-carriers within the time and frequency domain, which is encompassed by the short pilot symbols within the transmit time interval. Alternatively, each transmitter may uniquely encode the pilot information using a unique code division multiplexed code and modulate the encoded pilot information onto common sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia, Hua Xu, Wen Tong, Peiying Zhu, Moussa Abdi
  • Patent number: 11212050
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a method and device for determining a resource of a logical channel, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: a terminal receives configuration information sent by a network side, the configuration information being provided with a first mapping relationship between association information of a data packet and at least one of the following resource attributes: a TTI and a carrier, the terminal determines a second mapping relationship between the logical channel and the association information of the data packet and determines, on the basis of the first mapping relationship and the second mapping relationship, at least one of the following resource attributes corresponding to the logical channel: the TTI and the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN HEYTAP TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11201811
    Abstract: An instruction directed towards a network adapter is detected. Based on the detected instruction it is determined that the network adapter should operate in a loopback mode. One or more network signals are transmitted through a dedicated loopback pathway. The transmission is based on the determination. The transmission occurs on a first network interface of the network adapter. The dedicated loopback pathway connects to a second network interface of the network adapter. Listening on the dedicated loopback pathway for the one or more network signals. Performing a network loopback test of the network adapter based on the listening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy J. Schimke, John Wesley Walthour, II, Prathima Kommineni, Syed Ataur Rehman
  • Patent number: 11178073
    Abstract: A message transmission method, an access node, an access controller, and an access system, where in the method, a message is processed by an access controller instead of an access node such that the access node does not need to support a relay function, reducing operation and maintenance difficulties and costs. In the method, the access controller receives a first message from the access node, and the first message includes a first identifier. The access controller obtains a line identifier according to the first identifier. The access controller obtains a second message according to the line identifier, and the second message includes the line identifier. The access controller sends the second message to a relay server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ruobin Zheng
  • Patent number: 11178643
    Abstract: A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: transmitting a resource allocation signal to a communication node, the resource allocation signal indicating an updated resource hopping rule for the communication node to transmit a signal, wherein the updated resource hopping rule is derived based on an initial resource hopping rule by adjusting a time period defined by the initial resource hopping rule or rearranging at least two resource columns defined by the initial resource hopping rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhifeng Yuan, Xun Yang, Weimin Li
  • Patent number: 11166296
    Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising estimating a future instantaneously required processing effort required by a terminal to process symbols received in at least one first transmission time interval and at least one second transmission time interval; checking if the estimated future instantaneously required processing effort exceeds a capability of the terminal to process the symbols; modifying a future scheduling of the symbols for the terminal if the future instantaneously required processing effort exceeds the capability; wherein the first transmission time intervals and the second transmission time intervals are of different types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Karol Schober, Timo Erkki Lunttila, Klaus Hugl
  • Patent number: 11166321
    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). The present disclosure provides a method for operating a base station in a wireless communication system. The method comprises, configuring a time-frequency resource and a preamble, transmitting time-frequency resource configuration information and preamble configuration information, detecting the preamble transmitted from a terminal at the time-frequency resource, and transmitting, to the terminal, a random access response (RAR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen Qian, Bin Yu, Qi Xiong