Patents Examined by Benjamin H Elliott, IV
  • Patent number: 11770218
    Abstract: A method for mapping a physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (PHICH) is described. The method for mapping a PHICH includes determining an index of a resource element group transmitting a repetitive pattern of the PHICH, according to a ratio of the number of available resource element groups in a symbol in which the PHICH is transmitted and the number of available resource element groups in a first or second OFDM symbol, and mapping the PHICH to the symbol according to the determined index. In transmitting the PHICH, since efficient mapping is performed considering available resource elements varying with OFDM symbols, repetition of the PHICH does not generate interference between neighbor cell IDs and performance is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANTECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Lee, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 11765686
    Abstract: This application provides a packet transmission method that includes: receiving from a first session management network element, a first message including an address of a first terminal device and an identifier of a first user plane network element servicing the first terminal device; receiving from a second session management network element, a second message including an address of a second terminal device and an identifier of a second user plane network element servicing the second terminal device; determining, that the first terminal device and the second terminal device belong to a same local area network group; sending to the first session management network element the identifier of the second user plane network element and the address of the second terminal device; and sending to the second session management network element the identifier of the first user plane network element and the address of the first terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuan Wang, Zhongping Chen
  • Patent number: 11758024
    Abstract: In an automation network comprising a plurality of network segments, fragmenting subscribers that support a fragmentation method as well as standard subscribers that do not support the fragmentation method can be provided for in the network. A distribution node in the automation network has at least one input/output interface that is in communication with a network segment. The switching unit in the distribution node checks whether a subscriber in a network segment to which a telegram is to be sent supports the fragmentation method, and whether the telegram to be sent is fragmented. If the subscriber does not support the fragmentation procedure and the telegram to be sent is fragmented, the switching unit in the distribution node assembles the telegram fragments to form the telegram and then sends the assembled telegram on to the subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Beckhoff Automation GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Beckhoff, Holger Büttner, Dirk Janssen
  • Patent number: 11758354
    Abstract: A system, method and storage medium for providing an emergency vehicle (EV) alert includes generating a geofence by varying a size or shape of the geofence according to a working mode of an EV and transmitting the generated geofence to another vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: WHELEN ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: George Whelen
  • Patent number: 11757802
    Abstract: Technologies for dynamically managing a batch size of packets include a network device. The network device is to receive, into a queue, packets from a remote node to be processed by the network device, determine a throughput provided by the network device while the packets are processed, determine whether the determined throughput satisfies a predefined condition, and adjust a batch size of packets in response to a determination that the determined throughput satisfies a predefined condition. The batch size is indicative of a threshold number of queued packets required to be present in the queue before the queued packets in the queue can be processed by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ren Wang, Mia Primorac, Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Saikrishna Edupuganti, John J. Browne
  • Patent number: 11757570
    Abstract: A first portion of a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a PHY data unit is generated for transmission via a communication channel that comprises a plurality of sub-channels. A first portion of the PHY preamble is generated to include a legacy portion and a plurality of first non-legacy signal fields spanning the respective sub-channels. A second portion of a PHY preamble that immediately follows the first portion of the PHY preamble of the PHY data unit is generated to include: a non-legacy short training field spanning all sub-channels in the plurality of sub-channels, a plurality of non-legacy long training fields immediately following the non-legacy short training field, each non-legacy training field spanning all sub-channels in the plurality of sub-channels, and a second non-legacy signal field immediately following the plurality of non-legacy long training fields, the second-legacy signal field spanning all sub-channels in the plurality of sub-channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou, Rohit U. Nabar, Sudhir Srinivasa, Mao Yu, Raja Banerjea
  • Patent number: 11751097
    Abstract: A communication technique for converging a 5G communication system, which is provided to support a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology by re-establishing a PDCP entity for a header compression protocol and activating uplink semi-persistent scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim, Seungri Jin
  • Patent number: 11736260
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a signaling method of a wireless LAN frame for multi-user transmission, and to a wireless communication terminal, and a wireless communication method using the same. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal, including: a transceiver; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: generate a frame including a first signal field and a second signal field, wherein the first signal field includes a bandwidth field indicating total bandwidth information in which the frame is transmitted, and the second signal field includes a resource allocation field indicating arrangement information of resource unit(s) in a frequency band through which the frame is transmitted, and transmit, by the transceiver, the generated frame and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko
  • Patent number: 11737173
    Abstract: A method performed by an IRU of a base station system, the base station system comprising the IRU, a BBU connected to the IRU, and a first RH connected to the IRU via a packet data network. The first RH is arranged for wireless transmission in RF of a plurality of antenna carriers to UEs. The method comprises receiving, from the BBU, a plurality of first digital representations of the plurality of antenna carriers of the first RH, each first digital representation representing one antenna carrier, the plurality of first digital representations being received in a baseband frequency range, frequency multiplexing the plurality of first digital representations of the plurality of antenna carriers into a second digital representation over a first bandwidth, and transmitting the second digital representation to the first RH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Elmar Trojer, Miguel Berg, Per-Erik Eriksson, Aldebaro Klautau, Chenguang Lu, Leonardo Ramalho, Marcos Takeda
  • Patent number: 11736213
    Abstract: A transmission method of a physical signal, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The transmission method may include receiving first configuration information, determining a measurement time-frequency resource for a residual self-interference measurement based on the first configuration information, performing the residual self-interference measurement on the measurement time-frequency resource to obtain a measurement result, transmitting feedback information determined according to the measurement result, receiving second configuration information determined according to the feedback information and determining a duplex mode of a terminal based on the second configuration information. According to the present disclosure, interference during a signal transmission procedure may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Di Su, Chen Qian, Peng Lin, Chuang Zhang, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 11737165
    Abstract: A network node may be operated to support dual connectivity communication with a wireless terminal as a main network node in cooperation with a secondary network node. Dual connectivity communication with the wireless terminal may be provided in cooperation with the secondary network node. Responsive to deciding to suspend the dual connectivity communication with the wireless terminal, a connection release message may be transmitted to the wireless terminal, a suspension indication message may be transmitted to the secondary network node, and the dual connectivity communication with the wireless terminal may be suspended. While the dual connectivity communication is suspended, a page may be transmitted to the wireless terminal indicating arrival of downlink data for the wireless terminal and then a measurement report may be received from the wireless terminal providing radio link measurement information for radio links with the main network node and/or the secondary network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Oumer Teyeb, Markus Drevö, Paul Schliwa-Bertling, Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 11729096
    Abstract: Embodiments may be generally direct to apparatuses, systems, method, and techniques to provide multi-interconnect protocol communication. In an embodiment, an apparatus for providing multi-interconnect protocol communication may include a component comprising at least one connector operative to connect the component to at least one off-package device via a standard interconnect protocol, and logic, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware, the logic to determine data to be communicated via a multi-interconnect protocol, provide the data to a multi-protocol multiplexer to determine a route for the data, route the data on-package responsive to the multi-protocol multiplexer indicating a multi-interconnect on-package mode, and route the data off-package via the at least one connector responsive to the multi-protocol multiplexer indicating a multi-interconnect off-package mode. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Debendra Das Sharma, Michelle C. Jen, Mark S. Myers, Don Soltis, Ramacharan Sundararaman, Stephen R. Van Doren, Mahesh Wagh
  • Patent number: 11729646
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may transmit a set of reference signals spanning a channel to a user equipment (UE), where each of the reference signals is associated with one of a set of transmit beams. The UE may measure a signal quality of each of the set of reference signals. In some cases, each measured signal quality may correspond to one of a set of subbands of the channel and one of the set of transmit beams. The UE may then transmit an indication of at least one signal quality associated with one of the set of subbands and one of the set of transmit beams. In some cases, the UE may indicate the at least one signal quality according to a configuration that may be indicated by the base station or selected by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohammed Hirzallah, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Srinivas Yerramalli, Xiaoxia Zhang, Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11729673
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method for use in a user equipment of performing cell reselection to a cell providing multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) comprises: receiving a system information message comprising an indication of whether one or more carrier frequencies support MBMS carrier type or further enhanced MBMS (FeMBMS) carrier type; selecting, based on a capability of the user equipment and the carrier type of the one or more carrier frequencies, a carrier frequency for cell reselection; and camping on the selected carrier frequency. In particular embodiments, the system information message further comprises, for each of the one or more carrier frequencies, an indication of a percentage (e.g., 100%, 80%, etc.) of available multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframes in each radio frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Karin Hedén, Jens Bergqvist, Helka-Liina Määttanen
  • Patent number: 11729735
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to communication systems, and more particularly, to interpreting a timing advance (TA) command for members of a timing advance group (TAG), such as different uplink component carriers and/or different bandwidth parts, having different numerologies, such as different subarrier spacing (SCS). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a TA command. The UE interprets the TA command differently for different members of a same TAG, associated with different numerologies. The UE applies a timing adjustment when transmitting an uplink transmission to the BS based, at least in part, on the interpretation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Peter Gaal, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11722349
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus comprises circuitry that generates a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) that contains a legacy signal field and a first signal field wherein both of the legacy signal field and the first signal field comprise an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, and the first signal field is derived from the legacy signal field, and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the PPDU. A format of the PPDU is indicated based on whether a part of bits of the first signal field is inverted or not. The format of the PPDU is a first format or a second format, and data subcarriers of the first signal field in the second format have inverted values of corresponding values in the legacy signal field, and pilots of the first signal field in the second format are not inverted and have same values of corresponding values in the legacy signal field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Michael Hong Cheng Sim, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 11711838
    Abstract: There is provided a method of transmitting downlink control-related information to a terminal in a wireless telecommunications system. The method comprises allocating downlink resources in a first set of resources for sending the downlink control-related information; determining that a further downlink transmission will be transmitted using at least part of the allocated downlink resources thereby identifying a collision between the downlink control-related information transmission and the further downlink transmission; upon identifying a collision, allocating a second set of resources for sending the downlink control-related information; and transmitting the downlink control-related information using at least the second set of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 11711712
    Abstract: Disclosed are a measuring method, a base station, and a terminal. The method comprises: a base station transmits to a terminal a switching message of a narrow bandwidth receiving mode, thus instructing the terminal to switch to a specified narrow bandwidth to receive information; when channel state information (CSI) of a downlink channel needs to be measured, the base station schedules the terminal to switch sequentially to at least two different measuring narrow bandwidths to measure a downlink reference signal, where the width of the narrow bandwidth and that of the at least two different measuring narrow bandwidths are less than the width of a system bandwidth. The employment of embodiments of the present invention allows the terminal to flexibly switch between the narrow bandwidth and the system bandwidth, reduces power consumption of the terminal, and implements the measurement of the CSI of the downlink channel at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION'S CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Hua Xu, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11706113
    Abstract: This application provides an example delay measurement method and an example network device. The method includes receiving, by a first network device, a first service flow. The method also includes determining, by the first network device, a first delay value based on a first measurement code block in the first service flow. The first delay value is a time difference between a first moment at which the first measurement code block is detected in the first network device and a second moment at which the first measurement code block is detected in the first network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Renlei Wang, Zhe Lou, Min Zha, Zhigang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11696281
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform multiple TTI PUSCH transmissions in a wireless communication system as well as code block groups (CBGs) based retransmissions operations. A UE may perform radio resource control (RRC) signaling with a network entity to configure a data structure that may include one or more sets of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission configurations, where each set of PUSCH transmission configurations span multiple TTIs. The wireless device may be configured to receive, from the network entity, a downlink control information (DCI) message that may include a time domain resource assignment field (TDRA) that may indicate a set of PUSCH transmission configurations included in the data structure. The wireless device may perform PUSCH transmissions spanning multiple TTIs according to the indicated set of PUSCH transmission configurations over an unlicensed band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jia Tang, Pengkai Zhao, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yuchul Kim