Patents Examined by Benjamin Lamont
  • Patent number: 11974139
    Abstract: Techniques for modelling a radio network in a geographic region utilizing shared spectra are disclosed. Population data is obtained for the geographic region. A number of radios per channel in the geographic region, N?, is determined. Candidate geographic location for radios in the geographic region are determined. For every channel in the shared spectra, at least one of a static dataset and a dynamic dataset is determined. At least one set of output data, that is a statistical characterization of the radio network, is generated using at least one of the static dataset and the dynamic dataset, to aid in design of the radio network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ariful Hannan, Mayowa Aregbesola, Suryanarayana A. Kalenahalli, Olivani Subbukutty, Raina Rahman, Navin Srinivasan, Khalid W. Al-Mufti
  • Patent number: 11956732
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for autonomous physical uplink shared channel repetition cancellation for energy-limited devices are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a plurality of uplink channel repetitions. The UE may determine that a device power level associated with the UE does not exceed a predetermined threshold that corresponds to a power requirement to transmit a number of uplink channel repetition instances in the plurality of uplink channel repetitions. The UE may determine to not transmit the number of uplink channel repetition instances based on the device power level falling below the predetermined threshold. The UE may modify the device power level through an energy harvesting operation. Thus, the power efficiency and reliability of uplink channel repetitions can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Ahmed Elshafie
  • Patent number: 11956083
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus that allow retransmitted MPDUs with different retransmission versions (RVs) to be transmitted in a same transmission process. The communication method and apparatus may be applied to a data retransmission process between any two nodes in a Wi-Fi system. In the method, when a PPDU sent by a first node includes one or more retransmitted MPDUs, the first node may include RV indication information in the PPDU to indicate an RV of each retransmitted MPDU, so that a second node can properly receive each retransmitted MPDU based on the RV indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mao Yang, Jian Yu, Bo Li, Ming Gan
  • Patent number: 11949587
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an unmanaged switch, a link-aggregation control protocol (“LACP”) protocol data unit (“PDU”) on each port of two or more connections to be in a link-aggregation group (“LAG”). The ports are in the unmanaged switch, which is unconfigured for LACP and is connected over the connections to a managed switch configured for LACP. The method includes, in response to the ports that received an LACP PDU being unconfigured for LACP, configuring each port receiving an LACP PDU for LACP, creating a LAG that includes the connections of the ports that received the LACP PDUs, and starting an LACP timer. The method includes, in response to determining that the LACP timer has expired, clearing the LACP configuration of the ports configured for LACP. The LACP timer expires in response to the ports in the LAG not receiving additional LACP PDUs prior to expiration of a timer period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc.
    Inventors: Corneliu-ilie Calciu, Radu Mihai Iorga, George-Andrei Stanescu, Bogdan-Cosmin Chifor
  • Patent number: 11937110
    Abstract: A signal reporting method, a terminal device and a network device for performing signal selection according to the report amount other than layer 1 reference signal receiving power (L1-RSRP), which can improve the quality of the selected signal, so as to improve system performance. The method comprises: the terminal device determines a target report amount in at least one report amount, wherein the at least one report amount is configured by means of measurement configuration information, and the at least one report amount comprises report amounts other than L1-RSRP; the terminal device determines the reported signal according to the measurement result of the target report amount for N signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Shi, Wenhong Chen, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11930541
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an access point of an overhead mesh of access points in an area selects a range of client identifiers. The access point sends, via a beam cone transmitted in a substantially downward direction towards a floor of the area, a trigger signal that includes the range of client identifiers and prompts client devices having identifiers in that range to send best effort transmissions towards the overhead mesh. The access point detects a collision between the best effort transmissions of the client devices. The access point adjusts the range of client identifiers so as to avoid future collisions between the best effort transmissions of the client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Domenico Ficara, Alessandro Erta, Amine Choukir, Patrick Wetterwald
  • Patent number: 11924734
    Abstract: A cloud-based network management system (NMS) stores path data from network devices operating as network gateways for an enterprise network, the path data collected by each network device of the plurality of network devices. The NMS determines, for a logical path within a specified time window, a wireless signal quality and a link quality based at least in part on the path data. The NMS, in response to determining that the logical path is of a poor link quality, determine a correlation between a poor wireless quality and the poor link quality. The NMS may output a notification that indicates the correlation between the poor wireless quality and the poor link quality of the logical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruchit Rajkumar Mehta, Kaushik Adesh Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11923983
    Abstract: Aspects relate to providing a status bit to a base station, where the status bit indicates whether all of multiple downlink transmissions have been successfully decoded. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a plurality of downlink transmissions from a base station, and generates a plurality of acknowledgement data respectively for the plurality of downlink transmissions, each of the plurality of acknowledgement data indicating whether a respective downlink transmission of the plurality of downlink transmissions has been successfully decoded. The UE further transmits, to the base station, at least one status bit based on the plurality of acknowledgement data, the at least one status bit indicating whether all of the plurality of downlink transmissions have been successfully decoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Yi Huang, Hwan Joon Kwon, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Juan Montojo, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11916796
    Abstract: End-to-end data packet flow control is described for an overlay environment of a wide area network. A method includes detecting an active session of a specific application with a source node and a destination node within an overlay environment, detecting a traffic flow from the source node to the destination node associated with the active session, mapping the traffic flow to a dedicated service processing thread of a network services appliance, mapping an identifier to the dedicated service processing thread, and forwarding the traffic flow to the destination node through the dedicated service processing thread by applying the identifier to the traffic flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Versa Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jayakrishnan Iyer, Chetan Bali, Vignesh Chinnakkannu, Ananda Sathyanarayana, Apurva Mehta
  • Patent number: 11909660
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a communication apparatus, including a network interface configured to receive over a network a sequence of data packets of a network flow having a defined packet order, wherein the network interface is configured to receive an out-of-order data packet instead of multiple missing data packets according to the defined packet order, a timer, and packet processing circuitry configured to activate the timer responsively to receiving the out-of-order data packet, and set the time period over which the tinier is activated responsively to a quantity of the multiple missing data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yamin Friedman, Daniel Marcovitch, Gil Levy
  • Patent number: 11902035
    Abstract: In an information processing device, a communication control unit performs communication using a first communication method and using a second communication method that is faster than the first communication method. An equalizing unit performs an equalization operation using the first communication method with respect to a first information processing device in a redundancy system in which redundancy is achieved between the first information processing device and a second information processing device using the first communication method. After the equalization operation is completed by the equalizing unit, another equalizing unit performs the equalization operation using the second communication method with respect to a third information processing device, and builds a redundancy system in which the concerned information processing device and the third information processing device are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Makabe, Masanobu Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11888644
    Abstract: A network configuration method includes receiving, by a home appliance through Bluetooth communication, mobile terminal information and network access information of a wireless network access point sent by a mobile terminal, accessing the wireless network access point according to the network access information, and sending the mobile terminal information to a server for the server to send a message of successful network configuration of the home appliance to the mobile terminal upon confirming a success of network configuration of the home appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junji Chen
  • Patent number: 11888677
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to migrate a set of network functions between control planes of network slices and include a network slice A that includes a first set of a plurality of network functions in a control plane associated with a legacy vendor; a network slice B that includes a second set of the plurality of network functions in the control plane associated with a new vendor wherein the second set of the plurality of network functions includes a subset of the first set of the plurality of network functions in the control plane of network slice A; and a migration management unit to manage a gradual staged transfer of a subset of the plurality of network functions originally contained in the control plane of the network slice A to the control plane of network slice B wherein the gradual transfer is a migration of the plurality of network functions in a set of multiple stages to create the subset of the plurality of network functions in the control plane of slice B wherein each gradual staged transfer
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventors: Kazi Bashir, Mehdi Alasti, Siddhartha Chenumolu
  • Patent number: 11888596
    Abstract: A method performed by a network controller for providing network reliability. The method includes employing an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) proxy configured to communicate controller information about the network controller to the one or more network elements using IGP (Link-State Advertisement (LSA) or Link State Protocol Data Unit (LSP)) with a Controllers TLV. The method uses the controller information for proper election of a primary controller in the event of a network failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huaimo Chen, Donald Eggleston Eastlake, III
  • Patent number: 11877319
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a first communication device may receive, from a second communication device, control signaling triggering a channel access procedure at the first communication device. In some case, the channel access procedure may be for accessing the shared radio frequency spectrum. The first communication device may then perform the channel access procedure based on the control signaling. In some examples, the first communication device may, based on the channel access procedure, transmit an indication of a channel occupancy initiated by the first communication device to the second communication device. The first communication device may relay communications between the second communication device and a third communication device during a channel occupancy time (COT) based on the transmitted indication of the channel occupancy initiated by the first communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Navid Abedini, Naeem Akl, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11877307
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms signaling non-linearities to a victim user equipment (UE) for interference cancellation in a wireless communication system. A victim UE may experience interference from an uplink transmission by an aggressor UE to a base station. The victim UE may obtain a power amplifier model associated with the aggressor UE. The power amplifier may include a non-linearity model of a power amplifier of the aggressor UE causing the interference on the victim UE. The power amplifier model obtained by the victim UE may be dependent on various parameters, such as a transmit power used by the aggressor UE to transmit the uplink transmission causing the interference. Based on the aggressor UE transmit power, the victim UE may select parameters for power amplifier model and may estimate the interference caused by the uplink transmission for interference cancellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Joseph Patrick Burke, Tingfang Ji, Renqiu Wang
  • Patent number: 11855889
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: receiving a request for search with respect to a memory circuit that searches for information stored in a memory, issued from a requester; storing order information in which the request is issued; determining whether or not to make the memory circuit perform search on the basis of a predetermined requirement not to make the memory circuit perform search and the request; creating a predetermined response in a case where the memory circuit is not made to perform search; and returning a response of the memory circuit and the predetermined response to the requester in the issued order on the basis of the order information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takashi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11844104
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to collision resolution for overlapping uplink transmissions, and includes a method and apparatus for identifying a plurality of scheduled uplink transmissions that overlap in at least a first slot and a second slot, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions comprises a high priority uplink transmission scheduled for repetitive transmission across at least a first slot and a second slot and further comprises one or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the first slot and two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot, wherein the two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot comprise at least a first low priority uplink transmission and a second high priority uplink transmission; and performing a first collision resolution procedure in the first slot and performing a second collision resolution procedure in the second slot, the second collision resolution procedure being independent of the first collision resolution procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11838948
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system wherein wireless terminal stations, each belonging to one of a plurality of wireless base stations, transmit on a shared frequency band, each of the wireless terminal stations includes means for notifying a control device of environmental information that indicates a communication status of the wireless terminal station itself via a wireless base station to which the wireless terminal station belongs, and for setting a transmission power value and a CCA threshold notified by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating the transmission power value and the carrier sense threshold according to a predetermined control procedure based on the environmental information collected from the wireless terminal station via the wireless base station, and for notifying the wireless terminal station of the transmission power value and the carrier sense threshold via the wireless base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha Abeysekera, Toshiro Nakahira, Takafumi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11831560
    Abstract: To perform flexible communication control according to variation in traffic so as to satisfy a plurality of QoS (Quality of Service) indexes. A communication apparatus (1) according to the present invention includes: a distribution unit (12) configured to distribute, based on a distribution rule for satisfying a plurality of different QoS indexes set in a plurality of queues (111 to 11n), respectively, a received packet to any one of the plurality of queues; and an update unit (13) configured to update the distribution rule based on performance information of each of the plurality of queues, the performance information being calculated for the QoS index set in each of the queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anan Sawabe, Takanori Iwai