Patents Examined by Bailor C. Hsu
  • Patent number: 11956071
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving a message from a sending service and addressed to a destination service. The message is sent to the destination service using a synchronous message modality responsive to a communication history parameter for the destination service indicating a synchronous message type. The message is sent to the destination service using an asynchronous message modality responsive to the communication history parameter indicating an asynchronous message type. A reply is received from the destination service and the reply is sent to the sending service. The synchronous message modality comprises waiting for a reply to be received from the destination service for a predetermined time interval. The asynchronous message modality comprises storing identification data associated with the message in a correlation data store, receiving the reply from the destination service, and determining whether the reply is associated with the message based on the identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Randolph Torres, Ralph Stagg, Michael T. Bayne, Sutap Chatterjee, Tri Bui
  • Patent number: 11949495
    Abstract: A system and method for operating a hybrid 4G satellite network. The method includes providing a NGSG including a satellite AS/NAS stack, a terrestrial 4G stack and a relay to connect the satellite AS/NAS stack and the terrestrial 4G stack; transporting a 4G traffic between a 4G UE and the NGSG using a satellite air interface; utilizing a terrestrial network between the NGSG and a 4G CN to transport the 4G traffic; and mapping, with the relay, the 4G traffic between the satellite AS/NAS stack and the terrestrial 4G stack and vice versa, where the satellite air interface is better suited for satellite communications than the terrestrial network. A system and method for multiplexing a first-generation UE and a second-generation UE on a satellite channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Channasandra Ravishankar, James Jehong Jong, Gaguk Zakaria, Nassir Benammar
  • Patent number: 11916798
    Abstract: A method of estimating available bandwidth for a network comprising a transmitting device and a receiving device, the method comprising: transmitting a media packet stream over the network to the receiving device, the media packets comprising media data for streaming media at the receiving device; transmitting one or more probe packets over the network so as to test the available bandwidth of the network, wherein the probe packets comprise duplicate data of the media packet stream; and determining, during transmission of the probe packets, a measure of network bandwidth availability in dependence on one or more metrics associated with receiving the media packet stream at the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Senthil Kumar Mani, Bala Manikya Prasad Puram
  • Patent number: 11916848
    Abstract: Full-duplex communication techniques are described. Some aspects may utilize full-duplex-slot formats, such as may be provided in addition to or in the alternative to uplink, downlink, and flexible slot formats. A full-duplex slot implemented in accordance with a full-duplex-slot format provides a slot in which the frequency band may be used for both uplink and downlink transmissions. Downlink and/or uplink transmissions of a full-duplex slot may occur in overlapping frequency bands or in adjacent frequency bands. A first wireless device may transmit slot signaling comprising one or more full-duplex-slot-indicator parameters. A second wireless device may base one or more full-duplex slot configuration determinations on a full-duplex-slot configuration. The second wireless device may apply one or more full-duplex-slot-indicator-parameter rules with respect to full-duplex-slot-indicator parameters for determining a full-duplex-slot format. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Huilin Xu, Wanshi Chen, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Shimman Arvind Patel
  • Patent number: 11910388
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described. In some wireless systems (e.g., new radio (NR) systems), a system may employ fixed or variable length uplink burst regions (e.g., in an uplink-centric slot). The base station may semi-statically or dynamically configure a user equipment (UE) or group of UEs for uplink control channel transmissions within an uplink burst region. In semi-static configuration, the UE may determine the uplink control channel transmission based on values transmitted or indicated via higher-layer signaling or based on default values. In dynamic configuration, the UE may receive an indication of actual resources used by the base station in a physical layer message. The UE may transmit using an uplink control channel transmission based on the indication. In some cases, the base station may allocate code division multiplexing (CDM) groups based on which UEs are semi-statically configured and which are dynamically configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Renqiu Wang, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jing Jiang, Yi Huang, Shimman Arvind Patel
  • Patent number: 11909505
    Abstract: UE parameter determination method and apparatus, storage medium and base station are provided. The method includes: determining a minimum round trip time between each UE in a cell and a satellite; determining frame information of a network-side uplink radio frame based on the minimum round trip time and frame information of a network-side downlink radio frame, where the minimum round trip time is a timing difference by which the network-side uplink radio frame lags behind the network-side downlink radio frame; and determining a UE parameter of each UE based on the network-side uplink radio frame and the network-side downlink radio frame, where UE parameter includes at least one of TA or K2. By the method, an NTN network can be supported on the premise that modification of software and hardware of a terrestrial network UE is minimized, thereby effectively avoiding extra maintenance cost of software and hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangxin Gu
  • Patent number: 11902923
    Abstract: A network includes an intermediate node to communicate with a child node via a wireless network protocol. An intermediate node synchronizer in the intermediate node facilitates time synchronization with its parent node and with the child node. A child node synchronizer in the child node to facilitates time synchronization with the intermediate node. The intermediate node synchronizer exchanges synchronization data with the child node synchronizer to enable the child node to be time synchronized to the intermediate node before the intermediate node is synchronized to its parent node if the intermediate node has not synchronized to its parent node within a predetermined guard time period established for the child node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ariton E. Xhafa, Jianwei Zhou, Xiaolin Lu
  • Patent number: 11888787
    Abstract: Current frame structures in Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and New Radio (NR) are not designed to accommodate full duplex (FD) communication. Embodiments are disclosed in which frame structures are provided that support FD communication and frequency division duplex (FDD) communication and time division duplex (TDD) communication. In some embodiments, there is defined two separate and independent frame structures: a frame structure for reception (e.g. a downlink frame structure) and a frame structure for transmission (e.g. an uplink frame structure).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongxia Lyu, Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Liqing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11877231
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms or apparatus configured to provide ad hoc, peer to peer communications among a plurality of wireless devices, wherein at least one wireless device is selected to further communicate with a wireless network to provide thereby backhaul services to other wireless devices, wherein the at least one wireless device providing backhaul services is dynamically selected in accordance with respective wireless network signal strength indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Diwelawatte Jayawardene, Manish Jindal
  • Patent number: 11864142
    Abstract: A method and a user equipment (UE) for timing alignment is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a first configuration indicating at least one of a scheduling offset, a common Timing Advance (TA), and satellite ephemeris information; receiving, from the BS, a second configuration indicating a TA offset for a TA variable; determining a UE-specific TA based on the satellite ephemeris information; determining a total TA based on at least one of the TA variable, the TA offset for the TA variable, the common TA, and the UE-specific TA; and starting, from a transmission by the UE, a time window after an additional time based on the total TA and the scheduling offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Cheng, Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Wan-Chen Lin, Hai-Han Wang, Chia-Hung Wei
  • Patent number: 11864219
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for handling multi-UE scheduling conflicts. A first UE may receive group common DCI that schedules each of a plurality of UEs including the first UE for an uplink transmission or a downlink reception. The group common DCI may include per UE priority indications for each of the plurality of UEs. The first UE may resolve a conflict between first resources scheduled for the first UE that overlap in time with second resources scheduled for a second UE of the plurality of UEs. Resolving the conflict may include reducing self-interference associated with a full-duplex communication based on the per UE priority indications included in the group common DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11863500
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: a communication unit that periodically transmits, with an interval assigned by TDD (Time Division Duplex) being one TDD time slot and a plurality of TDD time slots being one period, a plurality of application packets corresponding to a plurality of serial signals generated by a plurality of applications to a communication partner device; and a transmission control unit that changes, for every one period, a priority of part of application packets corresponding to part of two or more applications of the plurality of applications, the part of application packets being transmitted in at least one specific TDD time slot for transmitting the part of application packets, the plurality of TDD time slots including the at least one specific TDD time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Hyakudai, Satoshi Ota, Junya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11856629
    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 embodiments of the present invention provide methods and devices for network access. The method includes receiving a first request message forwarded by a distributed unit in a base station and indication information of the distributed unit with respect to the first request message, the first request message requesting to connect a user equipment to a network; determining a processing to be performed on the first request message based on the indication Information; and transmitting an indication of the determined processing to the distributed unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiwei Wang, Lixiang Xu, Xiaowan Ke, Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 11849453
    Abstract: A first communication device generates a first physical layer (PHY) data unit that includes information indicating a capability to use a channel bandwidth greater than a maximum channel bandwidth of the first communication device, and transmits the first PHY data unit to a second communication device during an association process with the second communication device. The first communication device generates a second PHY data unit that includes information indicating a capability to use at most the maximum channel bandwidth of the first communication device, and transmits the second PHY data unit to the second communication device when the first communication device is associated with the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, Lei Wang, Hongyuan Zhang, Yakun Sun, Jinjing Jiang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 11838788
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method for a non simultaneous transmit and receive (NSTR) soft access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) negotiating a traffic identifier (TID)-to-link mapping with a non-AP MLD, including: transmitting, by the NSTR soft AP MLD, a first frame that includes information on a first group of links that the NSTR soft AP MLD proposes to map to a first TID for the non-AP MLD; receiving, by the NSTR soft AP MLD, a second frame that includes an indication that the non-AP MLD agrees with the NSTR soft AP MLD's proposal on mapping of the first TID to the first group of links; and transmitting, by the NSTR soft AP MLD, traffic to the non-AP MLD on the first group of links based on the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Hoon Kwon, Liwen Chu, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11838799
    Abstract: Method and apparatus may be used for determining whether or not redundant transmission is enabled. One method for determining whether or not redundant transmission is enable includes: receiving trigger information, wherein the trigger information includes at least one of prediction information, load information, QoS information and reliability indication information; and determining whether or not redundant transmission is enabled according to the received trigger information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Zhuoyun Zhang, Lianhai Wu, Jing Han, Haiming Wang
  • Patent number: 11831390
    Abstract: A system for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle may control to receive a departure point and a destination from a vehicle, and transmit information related to a shadow area between the departure point and the destination to the unmanned aerial vehicle to control the unmanned aerial vehicle to measure a communication sensitivity for each altitude in the shadow area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Hyun Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 11832202
    Abstract: This application provides a clock state detection method and apparatus, applied to the field of communications technologies, to detect clock states of M base stations. The method includes: receiving detection results of M base stations, where the detection result of each of the M base stations is used to indicate whether the base station receives a detection sequence sent by each of N neighboring stations of the base station, the N neighboring stations belong to the M base stations, both M and N are integers greater than or equal to 1, and N is less than M; and determining clock states of the M base stations based on the detection results of the M base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhaogen Yin, Jinli Yang, Ziqiang Wang, Jihong Li
  • Patent number: 11831402
    Abstract: A slave node (300) is slave equipment that operates in accordance with a control frame transmitted from a master node (200). The slave node calculates a control frame statistic that is a statistic of one or more control frames transmitted from the master equipment and estimates a master environment value based on the calculated control frame statistic. The slave node measures a slave environment value. The slave node estimates a frequency deviation of a master clock based on the estimated master environment value and estimates a frequency deviation of a slave clock based on the measured slave environment value. The slave node modifies a clock value of the slave clock based on a difference between the frequency deviation of the master clock and the frequency deviation of the slave clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Idehara, Hirotaka Motai, Yurika Terada, Bampei Kaji, Toshiyuki Otani
  • Patent number: 11831570
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device may identify a transport block (TB) size for a TB that is scheduled across a set of component carriers (CCs) including a first CC and a second CC. The TB may include a first code block (CB) and a second CB. The device may rate match the TB with the set of CCs. Based on the rate matching, the device may identify redundancy portions of the first CB and redundancy portions of the second CB. The device may allocate a first redundancy portion of the first CB and a first redundancy portion of the second CB to the first CC, and may allocate a second redundancy portion of the first CB and a second redundancy portion of the second CB to the second CC. The device may transmit the TB over the set of CCs based on the allocating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Kazuki Takeda, Wanshi Chen, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Ayan Sengupta, Jing Sun, Juan Montojo