Patents Examined by Bob Phunkulh
  • Patent number: 11336861
    Abstract: A video signal transmission and reception system includes a first video signal receiver and a second video signal receiver in a video signal reception module and a video signal transmitter in a camera module. The video signal reception module includes the first video signal receiver, the second video signal receiver, and a central operation processor. A frame signal generated in the first video signal receiver is sent to a video signal transmitter of a first group and is output to the second video signal receiver. In addition, the frame signal generated in the first video signal receiver is input into the second video signal receiver and is sent to a video signal transmitter of a second group from the second video signal receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS. INC.
    Inventors: Rei Fujiki, Daisuke Iwama
  • Patent number: 11330503
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting and receiving wireless communications over an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band are disclosed, including techniques for transmitting and receiving system information blocks over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, techniques for gaining access to the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band by performing extended clear channel assessments (ECCAs), techniques for transmitting and receiving synchronization signals and reference signals over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, techniques for identifying starting times of downlink transmissions over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, techniques for transmitting and receiving clear channel assessment (CCA)-exempt transmissions over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, techniques for performing random access over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, and techniques for dynamically modifying a transmission mode over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei, Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11330559
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio communication system in which transmission parameters, such as MCS of MBSFN, the number of subframes, and a transmission power of a reserved cell, are adaptively output, based on a unicast traffic volume in a MBSFN area, a number of terminals, and a number of cells of the MBSFN area, so that a system throughput in the MBSFN area is maximized while satisfying an MBSFN quality requirement condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Kojiro Hamabe, Jinsock Lee
  • Patent number: 11323383
    Abstract: Device, system, and method of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, and particularly of Real Time Protocol (RTP) communication. In order to improve quality-of-service or quality-of-experience for a group of VoIP calls that are served by a VoIP router, each VoIP transmitter implements and adds a pseudo-random waiting-period prior to transmitting each outgoing RTP packet, or otherwise re-orders or mixes or shuffles the order of channels of RTP packets that are buffered or queued for transmission. Accordingly, no particular VoIP channel suffers from repeated drops of its RTP packets at the VoIP router. Additionally, VoIP network analyzers operate to measure the overall VoIP network overuse, or the average RTP packet loss rate of multiple VoIP channels, based on measuring RTP packet loss rate of a single VoIP channel which enforces a random pre-transmission waiting-period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AUDIOCODES LTD.
    Inventors: Felix Flomen, Oren Klimker
  • Patent number: 11317427
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for providing network-enabled connectivity for disadvantaged communication links in wireless networks are described. One example method for enabling connectivity over a disadvantaged link includes receiving, by a first node of a plurality of nodes from a source node in the first frequency band in a first timeslot, a first signal comprising a message, receiving, by the first node from at least a second node in a second frequency band in a second timeslot, a second signal that is used to generate a first reliability metric corresponding to the message, and performing, based on a plurality of reliability metrics corresponding to the message and the first reliability metric, a processing operation on the message, the first frequency band being non-overlapping with the second frequency band, and a duration of the first timeslot being greater than a duration of the second timeslot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TrellisWare Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Cenk Köse
  • Patent number: 11317441
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method for clear channel assessment, and more particularly, to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for performing an efficient clear channel assessment for spatial reuse of a communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko
  • Patent number: 11317367
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. With respect to a D2D synchronization source to transmit a synchronization signal for D2D communication, the method includes: generating a D2D Synchronization Signal (D2DSS); and transmitting, by a synchronization source, the D2DSS to a D2D reception (Rx) UE, wherein the D2DSS includes a Primary D2D Synchronization Signal (PD2DSS) generated based on information associated with the synchronization source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Jun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11310842
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for network self-organization. The method comprises: a first node determining a second node of one or more transmission nodes according to a preset condition, the second node being a transmission node having the highest transmission level of the one or more transmission nodes, wherein a higher transmission level of a transmission node indicates fewer hops between the transmission node and an anchor node; and the first node establishing a connection to the second node. Thereby, each transmission node selects an appropriate node from a plurality of nodes on the basis of levels of different nodes and requests to establish a connection, thus realizing establishment of connections between different transmission nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 11291081
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a host-neutral gateway device are presented herein. A host-neutral gateway device can include a plurality of local wireless communication interfaces that communicate with a plurality of sets of wireless devices. The host-neutral gateway device can include a plurality of long-range wireless communication interfaces that communicate with one or more remote server systems. The host-neutral gateway device can be programmed to execute a plurality operator-specific applications. Each operator-specific application may be mapped to a corresponding set of wireless devices of the plurality of sets of wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Richard Reisbick, Ryan Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11283932
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from improved voice call support. For example, it may be helpful for a user equipment in a first radio access technology that may not support voice calls to initiate a voice call with a second radio access technology. A method includes initiating a voice call between a user equipment to an entity in a second radio access technology cell. The user equipment is located in a first radio access technology cell. The method also includes registering the user equipment with the second radio access technology cell. In addition, the method includes conducting the voice call with the entity via the second radio access technology cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Devaki Chandramouli, Curt Wong
  • Patent number: 11277521
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for providing telephony communication services for VoIP or analog telephony devices using an on-premises gateway and remotely located VoIP system are described. Some implementations of the methods may include generating a configuration file mapping a plurality of tag extensions to a plurality of analog telephone ports of a high-density analog telephony adapter (HDATA), which may be communicatively coupled to the VoIP system. The VoIP system may transmit the configuration file to the HDATA, receive a telephony service request, and determine a tag extension based on the telephony service request. The VoIP system may transmit an identification of the tag extension to the HDATA and route a telephony service to the HDATA via the communication channel using the tag extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: DIALPAD, INC.
    Inventors: Armen Babikyan, Joshua Chiet, John Rector
  • Patent number: 11277308
    Abstract: Technologies for autonegotiation of communications operational modes over copper cable include a network port logic having a communication link coupled to a remote link partner. The network port logic may start an autonegotiation protocol upon reset, when the link is broken, or upon manual renegotiation. The network port logic transmits an autonegotiation page to the remote link partner that indicates single-lane communications ability over copper cable. The network port logic receives an autonegotiation page from the link partner indicating single-lane communications ability over copper cable. If the network port logic and link partner have a common single-lane communication ability, the link may be activated. The autonegotiation pages may be base pages or next pages. The single-lane communication ability may be indicated by one or more bits of the autonegotiation pages. The link may be established at 1 gigabit or 10 gigabits per second. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kent C. Lusted, Adee O. Ran
  • Patent number: 11265795
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for providing small cell backhaul are disclosed. A network node that acts as a gateway for a local communication network to a main communication network through a bonded link with the main communication network also provides a wireless communication module with a backhaul communication link to the main communication network through its bonded link. A switch module in the network node switches communication traffic between the local communication network, the wireless communication module and the bonded link to the main communication network. The network node may power the wireless communication module utilizing remote power provided by the main communication network, the local communication network, and/or a local source of power. Apparatus and methods for providing a transparent bonded link through a network access multiplexer are also disclosed, including management of the bonded link and of nodes subtending from the bonded link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GENESIS TECHNICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Stephen Cooke, Keith Brown
  • Patent number: 11265953
    Abstract: An intellectual host switching system is disclosed, which is installed in multi host devices, and comprises a host switching setting unit and a host switching executing unit. The host switching setting unit provides a plurality of color regions on a display screen of the host device, and the color regions are corresponding to multi host devices by a setting operation of host switching. In case of a pointer being moved to be in a color region as well as a motion distance of the pointer being smaller than a reference motion distance, the host switching executing unit executes a host switching operation after receiving a host switching command that is transmitted from a wireless inputting device, thereby making the wireless inputting device wirelessly connected with one host device be switched to be wirelessly connected with another one host device, without completing any Bluetooth pairing procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Che-Yen Huang, Ying-Che Tseng, Shi-Jie Zhang
  • Patent number: 11240724
    Abstract: A method for a handover of a mobile station performed by a source base station and a target base station. The target base station receives a handover request message, from the source base station, in which includes QoS information of the mobile device, radio bearer identifier information of the source base station, and a first mapping relationship between a flow and a radio bearer of the source base station, the target base station acknowledges with a handover acknowledgement message. Therefore resource preparation at the target base station during a handover procedure is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lifeng Han, Hongping Zhang, Qufang Huang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11240731
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems that use a control channel to coordinate quality of data communications in software-defined heterogenous multi-hop ad hoc networks are described. In some embodiments, an example apparatus for wireless communication in a network includes performing, using a control plane, network management functions over a control channel that has a first bandwidth, implements a frequency-hopping operation, and operates at in a first frequency band, and performing, using a data plane that is physically and logically decoupled from the control plane, data forwarding functions, based on a routing decision, over at least one data channel that has a second bandwidth and operates in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TRELLISWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hua Zhu, Cenk Köse, Mark Johnson, Keith M. Chugg
  • Patent number: 11228476
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus, the terminal apparatus including: a receiver configured to receive downlink control information and a downlink shared channel; and a signal detection unit configured to demodulate the downlink shared channel (PDSCH) by using the downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information includes information for indicating an antenna port number and the number of code division multiplexing (CDM) groups for a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), each of the CDM groups indicates a DMRS port to be multiplexed by CDM, the PDSCH is demodulated in consideration of a power ratio of the DMRS and the PDSCH, and whether or not to consider powers of the DMRS and the PDSCH, based on the number of the CDM groups, is determined based on the downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ryota Yamada, Hiromichi Tomeba, Hideo Namba, Atsushi Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 11224094
    Abstract: A system for an airborne platform includes a network controller, a first subsystem having a number of devices configured to communicate a first data type, and a second subsystem having a number of devices configured to communicate a second data type. The network controller includes a processing circuit and is communicably coupled to the first subsystem and to the second subsystem. The processing circuit is configured to receive data relating to the first data type over a first plurality of communication channels and data relating to the second data type over a second plurality of communication channels. The processing circuit is further configured to multiplex the data relating to the first data type and the second data type to a multiplexed data stream configured for communication over a single communication channel. The processing circuit is further configured to transmit the multiplexed data stream over a data transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew P. Corbett, Brent James Nelson, Jason R. Owen, James Matthew Zaehring
  • Patent number: 11212364
    Abstract: The present application describes a communication system including a first apparatus including a single application processor operably coupled to a non-transitory memory including instructions and a local group of discrete radio resources each including a modem. The single application processor of the first apparatus is configured to at least execute the instructions of sending a request for capacity information to a second, remote apparatus. The second apparatus includes a single application processor, a non-transitory memory operably coupled to the single application processor, and a local group of discrete radio resources each including a modem operably coupled to the single application processor. The first apparatus is also configured to execute the instructions of determining, from the local group of discrete radio resources of the first and second apparatuses, a dedicated resource to handle a communication request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Christopher Markham, Brett Michael Brotherton, Kevin Michael Dyer
  • Patent number: 11202208
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication control device capable of smoothly exchanging information between a plurality of wireless systems. [Solution] Provided is a communication control device including: a communication unit configured to transmit geographical location information of the own device or a communication node served by the own device to a communication control determination device that controls coexistence of a plurality of wireless systems; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the communication control determination device, information including information necessary for communication control for coexistence as information regarding another communication control determination device that manages a peripheral region of a geographical region managed by the communication control determination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi