Patents Examined by Bo Hui A Zhu
  • Patent number: 10750427
    Abstract: A repeater system for relaying wireless communications between a base station and one or more devices having: a repeater to relay network information from a base station to one or more devices; a donor antenna configured to receive and/or transmit network information between the repeater and the base station; a power supply external to the repeater; and, a server antenna integrated with the power supply, the server antenna configured to receive and/or transmit network information between the repeater and the one or more devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: NEXTIVITY, INC.
    Inventors: Michiel Petrus Lotter, Jason Foster Cook, Richard Jacques Fortier, In Kwang Kim, Ian Riphagen, James Xiaohui Qiu
  • Patent number: 10735288
    Abstract: A component is disclosed having a network communication device that controls transmission of data in a data network between the component and another component, without a repeat transmission of time-critical data of the plurality of data packets being possible in a transmission cycle. The network communication device is configured to (i) tolerate a possible packet error in a data packet received in a preceding transmission cycle, (ii) signal to the other component in a following transmission cycle a presence or absence of a packet error, (iii) determine whether the other component has signaled a presence of a packet error in a data packet sent by the component in the preceding transmission cycle, and (iv) depending on whether the other component signaled the presence of a packet error, adjust a number of redundancy data items in a data packet to be sent in the following transmission cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gunther May, Johannes Von Hoyningen-Huene
  • Patent number: 10727912
    Abstract: A communication device of a client uplink group transmits an enhanced request to send (E-RTS) message to an access point of a wireless local area network, wherein the E-RTS message includes i) a length of a TXOP of the communication device and ii) an indication of a data unit size for an uplink MU-MIMO data unit to be transmitted by the communication device simultaneously with transmissions of other members of the client uplink group. The communication device receives a communication frame from the access point, the communication frame including a prompt to transmit an uplink MU-MIMO data unit having the indicated data unit size. The communication device generates the uplink MU-MIMO data unit having the indicated data unit size, and transmits, in response to the communication frame, the uplink MU-MIMO data unit to the access point during the TXOP simultaneously with transmissions of other members of the client uplink group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 10715202
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method for cancelling self-interference caused by full-duplex communication. In a full-duplex communication device, the receiver will generally experience significant self-interference from the full-duplex communication device's own transmitter transmitting a strong outbound signal over the same channel that the receiver is to receive a weak inbound signal. The apparatus and method are configured to adjust a phase and gain of the outbound signal provided at the output of a power amplifier (PA) and inject the phase and gain adjusted outbound signal at the input of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) to cancel the interference from the outbound signal in the inbound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED
    Inventors: Alex Mirzaei, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 10701001
    Abstract: A wireless communication circuit includes: a physical-layer circuit, arranged to operably communicate with other wireless communication devices through an antenna; a micro-controller, arranged to operably generate data frames to be transmitted to other wireless communication devices; and a MAC-layer circuit comprising: a MAC-layer storage circuit for storing a data queue; a MAC-layer control circuit, coupled with the physical-layer circuit, the micro-controller, and the MAC-layer storage circuit, arranged to temporarily store the data frames generated by the micro-controller in the data queue; and a scheduling circuit, coupled with the MAC-layer storage circuit and the MAC-layer control circuit, arranged to operably schedule a timing that the MAC-layer control circuit transmits data stored in the data queue to the physical-layer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: REALTEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Chao-Hai Sun, Shun-Fa Chen
  • Patent number: 10700972
    Abstract: The present disclosure envisages a computer implemented method, a corresponding computer implemented system and a computer program product that envisage inserting the mapping information—including source IP address and source port number—that maps the IP datagram back to its origin endpoint (i.e. the source computing node at which the IP datagram was originally created), into an IP-options field of the corresponding IP datagram. Additionally, the present disclosure envisages anticipating the default behaviour of the Network Address Translation (NAT) device (for instance, a gateway) characterized by replacement of the source IP address and the source port number (mapping information) stored in the IP header of the IP datagram with a translated IP address and translated port number, and facilitating trustful and non-repudiable verification of the source computing node as the creator of the IP datagram, on the destination computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: COLORTOKENS, INC.
    Inventor: Natarajan Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 10681524
    Abstract: An electronic device that transmits, via a first communication interface to another electronic device, an IP (Internet Protocol) address; and communicates with the another electronic device via a second communication interface in accordance with the IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawakami, Kimiya Kato
  • Patent number: 10666577
    Abstract: This communication network (18) extends between a plurality of input blocks (E1, . . . , EN1) including a predetermined number P1 of input ports, multiple of the number N1 of input blocks, and a plurality of output blocks (S1, . . . , SN2), each output block including a number P2 of output ports (Z1, . . . , ZP2) greater than or equal to the predetermined number of input ports. In this network, when the number P1 of input ports is even, the number N3 of switches is equal to: N ? ? 3 = N ? ? 1 × P ? ? 1 2 , and when the number P1 is odd, the number N3 of switches is equal to: N ? ? 3 = N ? ? 1 P ? ? 1 × P ? ? 1 2 - 1 2 , and, for each switch, the first (30) and second (32) input terminals are each connected to different input blocks and the first (34) and second (36) output terminals are each connected to different output blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Eric Segura, Jean-Jacques Julié
  • Patent number: 10659257
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receive, during a first transmission time interval (TTI), one or more broadcasts from a base station over a first frequency range. The UE may receive, during the first TTI, a reference signal over a second frequency range that is disjoint from the first frequency range. The UE may receive, during a subsequent TTI, a downlink grant from the base station scheduling a downlink data transmission over at least portions of both the first frequency range and the second frequency range, wherein the downlink grant comprises a reference signal sharing indication. The UE may obtain a channel estimate for the second frequency range of the subsequent TTI based at least in part on the reference signal and may refrain from applying the channel estimate to the first frequency range in the subsequent TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Amir Farajidana, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 10652920
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can obtain a maximum frequency diversity effect of a downstream line control channel. The device includes: an RB allocation unit (101) which allocates upstream line resource blocks continuous on the frequency axis for respective radio communication mobile stations by the frequency scheduling and generates allocation information indicating which upstream line resource block has been allocated to which radio communication mobile station device; and an arrangement unit (109) which arranges a response signal to the radio communication mobile station device in the downstream line control channels distributed/arranged on the frequency axis while being correlated to the continuous upstream line resource blocks according to the allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 10652090
    Abstract: Provided is a method for self-constructing a multi-hop cluster-tree structured wireless communication network performed by a terminal device attempts to join a network includes determining at least one parent candidate device, requesting the determined parent candidate devices a network joining, joining the network as a child device based on a decision whether the requested parent candidate device has an address space available for a main transmission link of the terminal device, determining at least one cluster head as reserved parent candidate devices, requesting the determined reserved parent candidate devices a network joining, joining the network as a reserved child device based on a decision whether the requested reserved parent candidate device has an address space available for a reserved transmission link of the terminal device, and constructing a new main transmission link when the terminal device determines that the main transmission link is in an abnormal condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Yong Hwan Lee, Jin Seok Han, Jae Seok Bang
  • Patent number: 10623936
    Abstract: A system, method, and network node for priority handling in a communications system are presented. The system comprises one or more data bearers and a priority handling module. Each of the one or more bearers is configured to transport one or more of the data flows. The priority handling module is configured to prioritize between data flows, and is further configured to: receive a request for priority configuration or re-configuration of a first data flow; obtain a priority sharing identifier of the first data flow; identify other data flows in the communication system having the priority sharing identifier of the first transport data flow; and update priority rules associated with the first data flow and also with any other identified data flows in the communication system having the priority sharing identifier of the first transport data flow to agree with a shared priority rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Magnus Tränk, Mikael Persson
  • Patent number: 10623153
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments related to implementing a dynamic resource allocation and transmission scheme for a fifth generation (5G) physical uplink control channel (xPUCCH) in a 5G system. In particular, embodiments include mechanisms to dynamically allocate resources for the transmission of xPUCCH, and resource mapping schemes for 5G systems supporting more than one symbol allocated for an xPUCCH transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Hong He, Ralf Bendlin, Ajit Nimbalker, Jong-Kae Fwu
  • Patent number: 10616805
    Abstract: Disclosed are operation methods of a terminal and a base station in mobile communications. The operation method of the terminal in a mobile communication network, comprises receiving a terminal identifier from a base station; generating a plurality of interleaving parameters based on the terminal identifier; dividing a channel-coded data block into a plurality of sub-blocks, and performing a block interleaving on each of the plurality of sub-blocks using the plurality of interleaving parameters; and transmitting the plurality of sub-blocks on which the block interleaving has been performed, wherein an interleaving pattern of the block interleaving for each of the plurality of sub-blocks is determined by the plurality of interleaving parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chan Ho Yoon, Young Jo Ko
  • Patent number: 10601558
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include methods of providing flexible sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a method is implemented in a network device for configuring sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission from a terminal device to the network device, the method comprises: transmitting, by a network device to a terminal device, an indication of a plurality of alternative SRS transmission selections; and detecting, by the network device from a signal of the terminal device, a SRS transmission based on the plurality of alternative SRS transmission selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gen Li, Shaohua Li, Jianfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10595262
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system includes a base station and a plurality of terminal devices. A first one of the terminal device is configured to communicate with the base station via a second one of the terminal devices, wherein the second one of the terminal device is selected from among a plurality of potential second terminal devices based on a measured characteristic of beacon signaling exchanged between the first terminal device and respective ones of the potential second terminal devices, wherein the beacon signaling is exchanged between the first terminal device and respective ones of the potential second terminal devices for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10581545
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided, where the apparatus may include a first terminal and a second terminal to be coupled to a host via a first wire and a second wire, respectively; a rechargeable storage; and a data circuitry. The apparatus may, during a first time-period, receive power via the first wire and the second wire from the host, and store the power in the rechargeable storage, and during a second time-period, transmit data from the data circuitry to the host via the first wire and the second wire. The first and second time-periods may be non-overlapping time periods. The apparatus is to refrain from transmitting any data to, or receiving any data from, the host during the first time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Huimin Chen, David Harriman, Yong Yang
  • Patent number: 10567110
    Abstract: A wireless device receives a first downlink control information (DCI) indicating first uplink resources of a licensed cell. The first DCI comprising a first field indicating one of: a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for an initial transmission or a re-transmission redundancy version (RV). The wireless device receives a second DCI indicating second uplink resources of a licensed-assisted-access cell. The second DCI comprises an MCS field and an RV field. The wireless device transmits a first transport block (TB) employing the first field and transmits a second TB employing the MCS field and the RV field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 10555203
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first device may receive a channel reservation request from a second device, over a shared or unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, the channel reservation request including a first expected response time duration to receive a channel reservation response in response to the channel reservation request. The first wireless device may transmit a channel reservation response in response, and receive a directional transmission according to the channel reservation request. The second device may transmit a directional channel reservation request on a transmit beam, the directional channel reservation request including a first expected response time duration to receive a channel reservation response the first device in response to the directional channel reservation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rahul Malik, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 10547402
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless communication network may support mission critical (MiCr) communications and mobile broadband (MBB) communications with hybrid multiplexing (e.g., time division multiplexing (TDM) and frequency division multiplexing (FDM)). A base station may identify a first set of resources allocated for MiCr communications and a second set of resources allocated for MBB communications. The first and second set of resources may be multiplexed in the frequency domain, and the base station may transmit MiCr information over the first set of resources under normal data traffic conditions. As data traffic or other conditions associated with MiCr communications change, the base station may schedule MiCr transmissions on the second set of resources allocated for MBB communications, by puncturing the second set of resources for the MiCr communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chong Li, Hao Xu, Jamie Menjay Lin, Chih Ping Li, Jing Jiang, Tingfang Ji