Patents Examined by Brenda H. Pham
  • Patent number: 11330492
    Abstract: A target RAN node (3) receives, from a core network (5), a message requesting a handover of a radio terminal (1) from a bearer-based network to a bearer-less network. This handover request message includes flow information related to at least one session to be established in the bearer-less network in order to transfer at least one packet flow of the radio terminal (1). The target RAN node (3) transmits, to the core network (5), a handover acknowledge response message containing a transparent container that includes a radio resource configuration information derived from the flow information and is to be forwarded to a source RAN node associated (2) through the core network (5). It is thus, for example, possible to appropriately configuring an AS layer of a target RAT in an inter-RAT handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11329909
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving, at a source node, a request to discover a plurality of network paths that each lead from the source node to a destination node and (2) discovering the plurality of network paths by (A) identifying each next hop between the source node and the destination node, (B) sending, from the source node to each next hop, a path-request probe that prompts the next hop to (i) determine each next-closest hop and (ii) return, to the source node, a path-response probe that identifies the next-closest hops, (C) receiving the path-response probes from the next hops, (D) determining, at the source node based on the path-response probes, that one or more of the plurality of network paths include the next hops and the next-closest hops, and then (E) iteratively discovering any subsequent hops by sending a subsequent path-request probe to each next-closest hop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc
    Inventors: Reji Thomas, Ronald Bonica, Ramakrishna Manjunath
  • Patent number: 11330612
    Abstract: Autonomous uplink (AUL) for wideband new radio (NR) unlicensed (NR-U) operations is disclosed. For user equipments (UEs) that have been configured for AUL transmissions and have received an activation signal to activate the AUL capabilities, further indications may be used to enable AUL transmissions on AUL transmission opportunities (TxOPs) that overlap the timing of a current TxOP reserved by a serving base station, but that are allocated outside of the resources reserved for the current TxOP. A UE that identifies a desired, next AUL TxOP that overlaps the current base station-initiated TxOP duration, but is allocated for resources outside of the current TxOP resources determines whether it has obtained an enablement indication either directly from the serving base station or implicitly, based on current conditions at the UE. When the UE determines that it has obtained an enabling indication, it may then perform AUL transmissions via the overlapping AUL TxOP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 11330572
    Abstract: A method for indicating multiplex transmission of multi-service data includes: detecting that first service data is transmitted on a pre-configured first transmission resource which is a transmission resource capable of multiplex transmission of second service data and the first service data; and service-multiplexing indication information is reported to a base station for the base station to receive the first service data according to the service-multiplexing indication information. Accordingly, the service-multiplexing indication information is reported to the base station to enable the base station to know about a data transmission condition of the terminal and receive the first service data, avoiding invalid detection of the base station and increasing a utilization rate of the transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yajun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11330570
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes: sending, by a terminal device, scheduling request information to a network device, the scheduling request information being indicative of a service type of data to be transmitted by the terminal device, a resource quantity of uplink resource required by the terminal device, or a type of numerology supported by the terminal device; receiving, by the terminal device, uplink resource grant information from the network device, the uplink resource grant information indicating a target uplink resource allocated for the terminal device, and being determined according to the scheduling request information; and performing, by the terminal device, data transmission using the target uplink resource according to the uplink resource grant information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11310831
    Abstract: A scheduler resource maintains a grid of multiple blocks for a timeframe in which multiple wireless stations compete for use of available wireless resources to communicate in a wireless network. For a first block of the multiple blocks in the grid, the scheduler resource generates first transmit information. The scheduler resource assigns a first unique code to the transmit information, the first unique code being mapped to a first frequency band and first time slot in which the first block resides in the grid. The scheduler resource repeats this operation of assigning a unique code for each used block or block pair (and corresponding transmit information) scheduled for use by a respective wireless station. Subsequent to generation of the schedule information, the scheduler resource or other suitable entity distributes the schedule information to one or more other wireless stations in the wireless network environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Saran Khalid
  • Patent number: 11308440
    Abstract: A method of securing a container includes inserting, into a seal device at a container, an electronic bolt; reading, by the seal device, a serial number stored in the electronic bolt; communicating, from the seal device, to a user application, insertion of the bolt; scanning, by the user via a handheld device, a barcode on the seal device representative of an identification of the seal device; communicating, from the handheld device to the user application, the identification of the seal device; inputting, by a user at the container via the handheld device, information associated with the container; communicating, from the handheld device to the user application, the information associated with the container; associating, in a database by the user application, the information associated with the container with the bolt serial number and the identification of the seal device; communicating, by the user application, a confirmation to the seal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas R. Berger, Joseph E. Denny, David S. Robins, LaMonte Peter Koop, Edward Allen Payne, Robert W. Twitchell
  • Patent number: 11310821
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting/receiving a signal between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system for supporting an unlicensed band, and a device for supporting the same. More particularly, a terminal according to one embodiment of the present disclosure can receive a downlink signal through an unlicensed band on the basis of downlink scheduling information of a received component carrier level, or can transmit an uplink signal through the unlicensed band on the basis of uplink scheduling information of a broadband channel level including a plurality of received component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Changhwan Park, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11310829
    Abstract: Provided are a method of transmitting information in an unlicensed band and a network device. The method includes: when there is a synchronized signal block to be transmitted, performing listen before talk (LBT) at an LBT position of a time-domain transmission unit where a candidate transmission position of the synchronized signal block is located, to obtain an LBT result of a channel; if the LBT result of the channel indicates that the channel is idle, then sending, at the candidate transmission position of the synchronized signal block, the corresponding synchronized signal block to UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Jiang, Zhi Lu
  • Patent number: 11310867
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of controlling a secondary cell (SCell) are provided. The method of controlling the SCell for new radio carrier aggregation of a user equipment includes receiving at least one of downlink control information (DCI) and a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) from a network node, wherein the at least one of the DCI and the MAC CE indicates control a SCell, the method includes determining whether to apply or ignore the at least one of the DCI and the MAC CE, and controlling the SCell according to the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Cong Shi, Yixue Lei
  • Patent number: 11297580
    Abstract: A method for determining timing of a synchronization signal block (SS block) includes: receiving, by a user equipment, timing information of the SS block sent by a network apparatus; and determining, by the user equipment, timing of the SS block according to the timing information of the SS block. Embodiments of the present disclosure can be employed to achieve accurate timing for an SS block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11277321
    Abstract: An embodiment may involve persistent storage containing a representation of an escalation path including an ordering of groups, wherein the groups each represent agents and include maximum numbers of contact attempts, maximum times to wait after the contact attempts, and channels for each of the contact attempts. The embodiment may also involve processors configured to: (i) receive an indication that an event has occurred; (ii) perform attempts to contact the agents in the groups; (iii) receive a request for live tracking of the attempts; (iv) generate a representation of a graphical user interface that identifies: a current agent for which contact is being attempted, a number of attempts made to contact the current agent, and a time at which either a subsequent attempt or an escalation to a subsequent group is to be made; and (v) provide the representation of the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Apeksha Deval, Soumya Mitra, Shivaprasad Manupadi, Aditya Mallik Manthripragada, Ana Paola Medina Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11272491
    Abstract: This application discloses a resource indication method, a network device, and a terminal device, to improve utilization of a resource mapped to a DMRS port. The method includes: sending, by a network device, configuration information to a terminal device, so that the terminal device determines, based on the configuration information, that a second resource in first resources is used to transmit first information or that a third resource in first resources is not used to transmit first information, where the first resources are resources mapped to a DMRS port. In this way, the terminal device can multiplex the resources mapped to the DMRS port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Wu, Chi Zhang, Yi Qin
  • Patent number: 11258710
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a load balancing method may comprise: assigning a plurality of packets of a flow to a plurality of segments according to a segmentation criterion, each segment including one or more packets of said plurality of packets, and at least one of the plurality of segments including more than one packet of the plurality of packets; tagging each packet of the plurality of packets with a segment sequence identifier to indicate to which segment the packet is assigned; and arranging the plurality of packets for transmission via an interconnect so that all packets belonging to a same segment will be transmitted via a same path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ofer Iny, Eyal Michel Dagan, Aviran Kadosh
  • Patent number: 11229044
    Abstract: Provided in an embodiment of the present invention are an uplink transmission method, and a terminal device capable of realizing uplink transmission at existence of multiple scheduling request (SR) configuration information items. The method includes: a terminal device receiving, from a network device, multiple scheduling request (SR) configuration information items, each SR configuration information item comprising a maximum transmission count of a corresponding SR; and the terminal device performing, according to the multiple SR configuration information items, processing of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources corresponding to the multiple SR configuration information items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11228987
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and a wireless communication device, which includes selecting a total transmitter power target. A target transmitter power is identified for each of the transmitters operating separately at which each individual transmitter would meet a transmitted radio frequency signal exposure limit relative to a user of the wireless communication device. A fixed ratio is determined for each of the transmitters to be used with the total transmitter power target, based on the determined fixed ratio of the target transmitter power identified for each of the transmitters to the total transmitter power target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Eric Krenz, Mohammed Abdul-Gaffoor
  • Patent number: 11223461
    Abstract: A base station may identify an association between a set of physical cell identifiers (PCIs) identifying different transmission reception points (TRPs) and a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for a user equipment (UE). The base station may transmit a TCI state and PCI association indication to the UE. The UE may receive a downlink transmission using a receive beam associated with a TCI state, and may identify a PCI of the set of PCIs to use to decode the received downlink transmission. In cases where the TCI state used to receive the downlink transmission is associated with multiple PCIs, the UE may select a default PCI from the multiple PCIs, and may decode the received transmission accordingly. In some examples, the UE may receive reference signals from one or more of the serving TRPs and may identify a PCI to use to decode the received reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11211997
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for determining a network configuration. For instance, a system may include a controller including one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to receive information from each of a plurality of available nodes within a network, the plurality of available nodes including at least one aerial vehicle; determine a plurality of constraints for a future point in time, each one of the plurality of constraints including one or more minimum service requirements for a geographic area; attempt to determine a first network configuration for each of the plurality of available nodes that satisfies all of the constraints; when unable to determine the first network configuration, determine a second network configuration for the plurality of available nodes and at least one additional ground-based node that satisfies all of the constraints; and send instructions in order to affect the second network configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Brian Barritt, Mauro de Oliveira Filho
  • Patent number: 11212689
    Abstract: Disclosed by an embodiment of the present disclosure is an interference processing method. The method includes that: a transmission apparatus obtains first indication information; and the transmission apparatus performs transmission on a particular resource according to the first indication information. Moreover, also disclosed by embodiments of the present disclosure are an interference processing device, an apparatus and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ling Yang, Yajun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11201912
    Abstract: A communication device (100) being part of a proximity-based sharing network (400), said communication device comprising a controller (210) and a radio frequency interface (230), wherein the controller is configured to: detect that a second communication device (100B) is in an immediate proximity and in response thereto automatically establishing a connection (430) for sharing content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CRUNCHFISH DIGITAL CASH AB
    Inventors: Carl Tönsgård, Konrad Beckmann, Joachim Samuelsson