Patents Examined by Brandon M Renner
  • Patent number: 11122625
    Abstract: Embodiments herein may relate to a method performed by a network node (115). The network node defines one or more parameters of a Coverage Enhanced Physical random access channel Configuration Index, CE PCI, for one or more Physical Random Access Channel, PRACH, resource sets, each of the one or more PRACH resource sets is associated with a coverage level whereby a different CE PCI is defined for each coverage level. The network node configures the one or more PRACH resource sets in a broadcast message. Furthermore, the network node assigns a starting subframe number to a PRACH resource set used by a UE, (110), and calculates a Random Access Radio Network Temporary Identifier, RA-RNTI, using the assigned starting subframe number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Tuomas Tirronen, Johan Bergman, Yufei Blankenship, Emre Yavuz
  • Patent number: 11121975
    Abstract: A method for establishing a temporal label switched path (T-LSP) implemented in a node in a network. The method includes receiving a path request including a time interval and a set of constraints; obtaining traffic engineering information from a first database; computing, by the node, a path satisfying the time interval and the set of constraints based on the traffic engineering information obtained; storing the time interval and the set of constraints in a second database; and instructing an ingress node of the temporal LSP to signal the temporal LSP in the network along the path computed at a start of the time interval identified in the path request and to tear down the temporal LSP at an end of the time interval identified in the path request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Huaimo Chen
  • Patent number: 11116007
    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 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Changhwan Park, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11108895
    Abstract: A method for extracting path overhead (POH) data blocks from a data stream in a 64B/66B-block communication link, the method includes receiving at a sink node a data stream in a 64B/66B-block communication link, detecting within the data stream at a PCS sublayer a micro-packet starting with an /S/ control block, including K POH data blocks, and ending with a /T/ control block, extracting the micro-packet from the data stream, and extracting the POH data blocks from the micro-packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Winston Mok, Steven Scott Gorshe
  • Patent number: 11108486
    Abstract: A cognitive loudspeaker system includes a control station (CS) that broadcasts clock control messages and separate playback messages to a plurality of sound production stations (SPSs). The clock control messages are generated in response to a CS clock signal. Each SPS generates a corresponding local conductor clock signal in response to the received control clock messages and a local SPS clock signal, such that all of the local conductor clock signals are synchronized. Each SPS also generates local digital playback samples in response to the received playback messages. The local digital playback samples are written to an output buffer in response to the local SPS clock signal, and are read from the output buffer in response to the local conductor clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventor: Kit S. Tam
  • Patent number: 11108704
    Abstract: A switch architecture enables ports to stash packets in unused buffers on other ports, exploiting excess internal bandwidth that may exist, for example, in a tiled switch. This architecture leverages unused port buffer memory to improve features such as congestion handling and error recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corp.
    Inventors: Matthias Augustin Blumrich, Nan Jiang, Larry Robert Dennison
  • Patent number: 11109409
    Abstract: An assisted random-access procedure allows band sharing between New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) and Wi-Fi to improve coexistence of NR-U and Wi-Fi in shared unlicensed bands (e.g., below 7 GHz). To connect to an NR-U network, NR-U User Equipment (UE) receives and decodes an NR-U preamble of an NR-U wireless transmission to determine NR-U channel occupancy time (COT). The NR-U UE detects Wi-Fi wireless transmissions and decodes a Wi-Fi preamble to determine Wi-Fi COT. A random access (RA) opportunity is acquired based upon the NR-U wireless transmission and the NR-U COT. When the RA opportunity is not during the Wi-Fi COT, a PRACh message is transmitted from the NR-U UE to a NR-U base station (gNB) to allow the NR-U UE to join the NR-U network. NR-U transmissions may include an NR-U common preamble that may be decoded by existing Wi-Fi devices to avoid collisions with NR-U wireless transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Dorin Gheorghe Viorel, Balkan Kecicioglu
  • Patent number: 11102812
    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: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Changhwan Park, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11102701
    Abstract: A method, a device and a system of controlling Bluetooth networking among physical devices are provided. The method includes: establishing a Bluetooth networking strategy list in advance, wherein the Bluetooth networking strategy list includes one or more Bluetooth networking strategies inputted or selected by a user in accordance with a pre-established correspondence relation between master and slave physical devices; receiving a Bluetooth-networking-strategy selection instruction; and transmitting a selected Bluetooth networking strategy in accordance with the Bluetooth-networking-strategy selection instruction to a network server, such that the Bluetooth networking strategy is forwarded by the network server to the master physical device, wherein the Bluetooth networking strategy is used to trigger the master physical device to adjust a Bluetooth networking relation between the master and the slave physical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: China Mobile (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd., China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huan Wang, Dong Li
  • Patent number: 11095401
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication technique, which is a convergence of IoT technology and 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond 4G system, and a system for same. The present invention can be applied to smart services (e.g. smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security- and safety-related services and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention provides a method for detecting a downlink control signal when a delay time reduction mode terminal is set to a delay reduction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventors: Jeongho Yeo, Jinyoung Oh, Sungjin Park
  • Patent number: 11089539
    Abstract: A method includes: a terminal obtains a downlink reference for uplink transmission in a first cell of a first base station, the downlink reference is used to determine frequency information of an uplink carrier of the first cell; the terminal obtains uplink grant information in the first cell of the first base station, where the uplink grant information includes information about an uplink time-frequency resource on the uplink carrier of the first cell; and the terminal sends uplink data to the first base station on the uplink time-frequency resource by using the downlink reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinghai Zeng, Hongping Zhang
  • Patent number: 11076389
    Abstract: A method for transmitting uplink (UL) data requiring low latency in a wireless communication system according to the present invention, the method performed by a user equipment comprises transmitting contention PUSCH resource block (CPRB) indication information used for identifying a particular UE and/or particular data to an eNB; transmitting UL data to the eNB through CPRB resources of a contention based PUSCH (CP) zone; and receiving a hybrid automatic retransmit request (HARQ) response with respect to the UL data from the eNB through a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunjong Lee, Jaehoon Chung, Genebeck Hahn, Jinmin Kim, Kukheon Choi, Kwangseok Noh, Sangrim Lee
  • Patent number: 11075993
    Abstract: Data is transmitted between an application server and at least one internet-of-things (IoT) communication device using a mobile communication network. A method for the data transmission includes: the at least one IoT communication device attaching to the mobile communication network via transmitting at least a first portion of first communication data between the at least one IoT communication device and the IoT gateway entity; and the at least one IoT communication device transmitting payload data to the application server via transmitting at least a second portion of the first communication data between the at least one IoT communication device and the IoT gateway entity, and at least part of the second communication data between the IoT gateway entity and the application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventor: Mario Schulz
  • Patent number: 11064527
    Abstract: A random access method and apparatus and a communication system are provided. The method includes: at a first time-frequency resource, a network device receives a first preamble transmitted by a first UE; according to the first preamble, the network device determines a first downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) transmitting a second message (msg.2A); and the network device transmits msg.2A on the first DL BWP. With this method, according to a time-frequency resource and/or a preamble used by a random access request transmitted by the UE and/or indication information carried by the random access request, the base station may determine a DL BWP feeding back an RAR, thereby ensuring normal access of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Qinyan Jiang, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11063873
    Abstract: A data collection server that collects and converts data has a data processor that executes shaping processes to shape collected data, sets a data processing flow based on the shaping processes, sets information of an execution environment of the shaping processes and converts the processing flow based on the information of the execution environment. The processor accepts setting inputs of first and second flags before and after the plurality of shaping processes and performs an integrated shaping process for collectively executing the plurality of shaping processes between the first and second flags when set. The processor also updates information of the execution environment based on execution contents of the integrated shaping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takamasa Arai, Tsutomu Konno, Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 11057316
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include a network switch having a first group of switch elements and a second group of switch elements. The second group of switch elements is cross-connected to the first group of switch elements to passively route network traffic through the network switch in accordance with a predefined configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Che Kin Leung, Xu Wang, Zhiping Yao, Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Lingjun Wu
  • Patent number: 11057919
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for data transmission in D2D communication. The method includes: transmitting, by transmitting user equipment UE, scheduling signaling to receiving UE, where the scheduling signaling includes frequency domain resource information, a quantity of cycles that can be occupied, or transmission pattern information; and transmitting, by the transmitting UE, user data to the receiving UE according to the scheduling signaling, so that the receiving UE receives the user data according to the scheduling signaling. In the technical solution of the present invention, if there is no feedback from the receiving UE in a D2D communication process, the transmitting UE may repeatedly transmit the user data, and the receiving UE may repeatedly receive the user data, thereby improving reliability of data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jie Ma, Deping Liu
  • Patent number: 11057898
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a grant-free data transmission method. The method includes: receiving resource allocation information for grant-free transmission from a base station; when there is data to be transmitted in a grant-free transmission mode, transmitting uplink data using the grant-free transmission resources according to the resource allocation information; if the transmission of the uplink data cannot be completed within a predefined number of uplink data transmissions, transmitting a dedicated resource request indicator to the base station; receiving dedicated resource allocation information from the base station; and transmitting subsequent uplink data on dedicated resources corresponding to the dedicated resource allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen Qian, Bin Yu, Di Su, Qi Xiong, Yingjie Zhang, Jingxing Fu
  • Patent number: 11057822
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes communication circuitry and processing circuitry. The communication circuitry is configured to transmit a first packet to a first next hop and transmit a second packet to a second next hop in accordance with communication control information. The processing circuitry is configured to measure first information on the first packet transmitted to the first next hop, measure second information on the second packet transmitted to the second next hop, determine whether to change the communication control information based on both the first information and the second information, and change the communication control information if it is determined to change the communication control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Takaomi Murakami
  • Patent number: 11044585
    Abstract: Multicast expert system information dissemination systems and methods making use of artificial intelligence are provided. The systems and methods include a wireless device for receiving RF multicast information messages from a content provider wherein said information is descriptive of objects potentially of interest to users of the device. Received multicast messages may include information parameters about objects of potentially interest to the user. The wireless device also includes a knowledge base prestored in the wireless device descriptive of the user's level of interest in various objects. Artificial intelligence expert system control is used to evaluate a combination of the user's level of interest in the object information and distance from the user to the location where the object may be obtained. The artificial intelligence expert system derives a user advisory action index. In one embodiment the artificial intelligence may be implemented using fuzzy logic inference engine apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Robert D. Pedersen