Patents Examined by Brandon M Renner
  • Patent number: 10547420
    Abstract: Wireless environment information is obtained by aggregating data corresponding to wireless signals detected by wireless devices in the wireless environment. A wireless device is configured to obtain additional information for a wireless environment based on determining that wireless environment information is insufficient. One or more devices are configured based at least on the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: KodaCloud Inc.
    Inventor: Subbu Ponnuswamy
  • Patent number: 10548148
    Abstract: A base station assigns a first set of device-to-device (D2D) communication resources to a first D2D group and assigns a second set of D2D communication resources to a second D2D group. The D2D communication resources of the first set are different from the D2D communication resources of the second set. The first set of D2D communication resources and the second set of D2D communication resources are subsets of reserved D2D communication resources which are a subset of defined uplink communication resources defined by a communication specification for uplink communication between the D2D UE devices and a base station where the reserved D2D communication resources not used for uplink transmission to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Kalhan, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 10547400
    Abstract: Frequency independent isolation of duplexed ports in distributed antenna systems (DASs) is disclosed. Instead of providing a duplexer in a DAS that provides frequency dependent separation between downlink and uplink communications signals, an isolation circuit is provided. The isolation circuit is coupled to a duplexed port that provides downlink communications signals to the DAS and receives uplink communications signals from the DAS. To isolate uplink communications signals from the downlink communications path, the isolation circuit includes a directional coupler. The directional coupler provides frequency independent isolation between uplink communications signals and a downlink communications path in the DAS. Further, to isolate downlink communications signals from the uplink communications path, the isolation circuit includes at least one circulator isolator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Yury Abramov, Motti Vahedy
  • Patent number: 10542491
    Abstract: Techniques described herein use a wakeup signal to indicate to a user equipment (UE) whether an upcoming control channel signal resource includes information relevant to the UE. In this way, the UE can wake up to perform complex control channel signal processing only when the control channel includes signals relevant to the UE, thereby conserving battery power and resources of the UE. Such techniques are particularly suited to MTC UEs, NB-IoT UEs, and/or the like, which may communicate with a network only occasionally, and which may be located in remote locations where changing or recharging a battery is difficult.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Mungal Singh Dhanda, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Xiao feng Wang
  • Patent number: 10542508
    Abstract: A synchronization technique for cloud radio access network (cloud RAN) to synchronize the cloud and remote radio units. The connection between cloud and remote radios is Ethernet and IEEE1588 is used to provide synchronization between baseband residing in the cloud and remote radios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Inventor: Kiomars Anvari
  • Patent number: 10542535
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to providing system information for cell access to link budget limited devices. According to some embodiments, a base station may transmit an announcement information block (AIB) in a downlink shared data channel (e.g., PDSCH), wherein the AIB contains information useable by a UE in determining the location of system information in the downlink shared data channel. The UE can thus determine the location of and decode system information without having to decode a downlink control channel (e.g., PDCCH). This may be important for certain classes of devices, such as link budget limited devices, which have issues in decoding the downlink control channel. Improved paging scheduling techniques are also disclosed which more efficiently use PDCCH paging resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Awais M. Hussain, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Moustafa M. Elsayed
  • Patent number: 10536972
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting a UL signal from a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band and apparatuses for supporting the same. More specifically, the present invention provides an embodiment in which the UE performs autonomous uplink transmission and scheduled uplink transmission through the unlicensed band, a method of adjusting contention window size when the UE perform the autonomous uplink transmission through the unlicensed band, and an embodiment of performing the autonomous uplink transmission based on the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Changhwan Park, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 10530457
    Abstract: In a communication network, a first communication device obtains respective channel estimate matrices of respective communication channels between i) the first communication device and ii) respective second communication devices. The first communication device generates respective steering matrices for use in communicating with the respective second communication devices, including generating each steering matrix to project to a null-space of a space spanned by channel estimate matrices corresponding to others of the second communication devices. The first communication device utilizes the respective steering matrices to simultaneously transmit respective signals to the respective second communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Sudhir Srinivasa, Rohit U. Nabar
  • Patent number: 10524207
    Abstract: One communication apparatus may include a first wireless interface and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: changing the operating state of the first wireless interface from a first state to a second state when the controller is to start a predetermined process during a first period in which the controller is not performing a predetermined process; performing the predetermined process during a second period in which the operating state of the first wireless interface is the second state, the second period being a period after the operating state of the first wireless interface has been changed to the second state; and changing the operating state of the first wireless interface from the second state to the first state in response to the predetermined process being completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryosuke Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 10517003
    Abstract: A wireless communication device having a first SIM and a second SIM and a radio frequency (RF) resource including multiple receive chains and at least one transmit chain may detect, during a connection to a first network associated with the first SIM, a start of a communication activity associated with the second SIM that uses one or more transmit chains and one or more of the receive chains. The wireless communication device may determine whether a carrier frequency of a cell serving the network associated with the first SIM is within a downlink frequency range supported by an unused receive chain of the RF resource. If not, the wireless communication device may identify a neighbor cell of the first network with a carrier frequency within a downlink frequency range supported by an unused receive chain of the RF resource, and attempt to camp the first SIM on that neighbor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashish Bhardwaj, Manjunatha Subbamma Ananda, Venkateswarlu Bandaru, Shakti Singh Chauhan
  • Patent number: 10517113
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to method performed by a radio-network node for handling a data transmission, from a wireless device to the radio-network node, in a wireless communication network. The radio-network node schedules one or more resources for carrying an uplink data transmission from the wireless device over a channel, and for carrying a feedback transmission, of a downlink data transmission from the radio-network node, over the same channel. The radio-network node transmits a control message to the wireless device, which control message indicates the one or more resources scheduled for carrying the uplink data transmission and the feedback transmission over the same channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Håkan Andersson, Andreas Bergström, Mattias Frenne, Johan Furuskog, Martin Hessler, Niclas Wiberg, Qiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10512069
    Abstract: In a base station device for transmitting data signals to a plurality of terminal devices, the base station device includes a signal multiplexing unit that multiplexes data signals for at least a first terminal device and a second terminal device, a control information generation unit that generates, for the first terminal device, control information containing information related to the data signal destined for the second terminal device, and a radio receiving unit that receives information of a reception processing capability of each terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10511639
    Abstract: A structure for integrating mobile services, includes a top structure and a bottom structure, the top structure including: a device suitable for selecting, according to selection criteria, a service domain so as to determine whether a requested application, such as voice applications, SDS applications, or IP data applications, belongs to the domain of legacy services or IP service; a device capable of managing the various requests; and a device capable of providing APIs for the voice, SDS, and IP applications, the bottom structure including: a unit for IP routing towards the wireless network, ensuring the IP routing of data to the suitable IP networks, configured so as to take into account the configuration of the network, the user profile, and the provision of QoS and security; and a unit for managing users, in particular in terms of user registration, deregistration, mobility and security, such as the use of the SSO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Pison, Olivier Paterour
  • Patent number: 10512081
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can prevent lowering of use efficiency of a channel communication resource for performing a frequency diversity transmission when simultaneously performing a frequency scheduling transmission and the frequency diversity transmission in a multicarrier communication. In the device, a modulation unit (12) executes a modulation process on Dch data after encoded so as to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit (22) executes a modulation process on the encoded Lch data so as to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit (103) allocates the Dch data symbol and the Lch data symbol to respective subcarriers constituting an OFDM symbol and outputs them to a multiplexing unit (104). Here, when a plurality of Dch are used for a Dch data symbol of one mobile station, the allocation unit (103) uses Dch of continuous channel numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 10506456
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for communicating in a multi-band cluster. A multi-band member access point (MMAP) may be capable of communicating with a multi-band control access point (MCAP) using a first frequency band, and capable of communicating with associated stations (STAs) using a second frequency band. The MMAP may transmit data in the second frequency band to the associated STA, may transmit a request for interference information in the second frequency band to at least one associated STA, may receive an interference report in the second frequency band from the at least one associated STA, may transmit information in the first frequency band to the MCAP, wherein the information is based on the interference report received from the at least one associated STA in the second frequency band, and may receive, from the MCAP in the first frequency band, information regarding radio resource management of the second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hanqing Lou, Oghenekome Oteri, Monisha Ghosh, Pengfei Xia, Robert L. Olesen
  • Patent number: 10498646
    Abstract: Systems and methods for supporting inter subnet control plane protocol for consistent multicast membership and connectivity across multiple subnets in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, by associating a multicast group with an inter-subnet partition, and enforcing a dedicated router port for the multicast group, multicast loop avoidance can be provided for between connected subnets. Because only a single router port is selected as being capable of handling the MC packet, no other router port in the subnet can then pass a multicast packet back to the originating subnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bjørn Dag Johnsen, Bartosz Bogdański, Ankita Bhandary, Line Holen
  • Patent number: 10498387
    Abstract: A high-frequency front-end circuit (10) includes a band switch (20), duplexers (31, 32, and 33), and a main switch (40). The band switch (20) includes a common terminal (PC20) and selection terminals (PS21, PS22, and PS23). The main switch (40) includes a common terminal (PC40) and selection terminals (PS41, PS42, PS43). The duplexers (31, 32, and 33) are connected between the selection terminals (PS21 and PS41), between the selection terminals (PS22 and PS42), and between the selection terminals (PS23 and PS43), respectively. The selection terminal (PS23) is connected between the selection terminals (PS21 and PS22) and the selection terminal (PS43) is connected between the selection terminals (PS41 and PS42). First and second communication bands the frequency bands of which are close to or overlapped with each other are transmitted and received through the duplexers (31 and 32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 10491502
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a system for lossless packet monitoring in a virtualized. The system, using a virtual tap, intercepts packets from a data compute node operating on a host machine, between the data compute node (DCN) and a managed forwarding element on the host. As part of the lossless packet mirroring, the virtual tap forwards data files related to the mirrored packets to a traffic monitoring. The traffic monitoring application stores the data received from the virtual tap and is capable of performing analytics on the stored data. In some embodiments, the system also includes a central controller that communicates with the other elements of the system to manage the traffic monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Gao, Jingchun Jiang
  • Patent number: 10491546
    Abstract: A provider edge (“PE”) router system and a PE router system controller for hybrid virtualization of PE router functions is disclosed herein. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a PE router system operating at a PE of a network includes an elastic computing system and a plurality of switches. The elastic computing system can include a plurality of hardware resources and a plurality of virtual machines. Each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines can utilize at least a portion of the plurality of hardware resources to perform operations. The plurality of virtual machines can include a port virtual machine that provides an interface to a customer edge (“CE”) router operating at a CE of the network. The port virtual machine can provide a first set of operations. The plurality of switches can provide a second set of operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Angela L. Chiu, Oliver Spatscheck, Chengwei Wang, Yang Xu
  • Patent number: 10484263
    Abstract: An aspect includes receiving a data packet and a destination address at a network endpoint that includes a plurality of network interfaces each configured for connection to a different router, one of the routers a default gateway router for the network endpoint. One of the network interfaces is selected for sending the data packet to the destination address based on a cost associated with sending the data packet to the destination address using a router connected to the selected network interface. The data packet is sent to the destination address using the router connected to the selected network interface, and the cost associated with sending the data packet to the destination address using any of the plurality of network interfaces is updated when the router connected to the selected network interface is the default gateway router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nishant Ranjan