Patents Examined by Brian P Cox
  • Patent number: 11683858
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for establishing an IP multimedia subsystem session. One method includes receiving, at a first network entity from a user device, a first session initiation protocol message comprising a session description protocol, wherein the first session initiation protocol message is used to establish an internet protocol multimedia subsystem session for an application. The method includes transmitting, from the first network entity to a second network entity, a first message comprising an internet protocol address and an identifier for the application. The method includes receiving, at the first network entity from the second network entity, a status of a radio access technology of the user device, wherein the status of the radio access technology of the user device is received by the second network entity from a third network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Roozbeh Atarius, Genadi Velev, Dimitrios Karampatsis, Andreas Kunz
  • Patent number: 11659431
    Abstract: A receiver mounted on a vehicle moving on a route manages an operation profile that stores data in which a section that is a part of the route and a communication quality in the section are associated, and can receive a first traffic and a second traffic having a lower priority than the first traffic. The receiver determines a section having a good communication quality to a transmission section where the second traffic can be transmitted with reference to the operation profile, and generates control information for controlling transmission of the second traffic not to hinder transmission of the first traffic when the vehicle is located in the transmission section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rintaro Katayama, Daisuke Ishii, Ryosuke Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11622416
    Abstract: A radio device configures a group of further radio devices as candidate relay nodes for communication with the wireless communication network. Further, the radio device selects one or more of the further radio devices from the group as relay node for communication with the wireless communication network. Further, the radio device communicates with the wireless communication network via said one or more selected further radio devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Congchi Zhang, Maciej Muehleisen, Zhang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11617106
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an information processing unit that performs plural types of information processing for exchanging information with a device; a wireless communication unit that is capable of transmitting and receiving a radio-wave or spatial-light wireless signal to and from the device; and a communication control unit that controls the wireless communication unit so as to transmit, as a wireless signal, advertisement packets correlated with one or more types of information processing and including communication information that is necessary to exchange information or information to be provided, the communication control unit performing control so as to continue time-division transmission of the advertisement packets while adding or deleting a type of the advertisement packets to be transmitted in accordance with a state of execution of the processing by the information processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yasushi Amano
  • Patent number: 11611857
    Abstract: An on-vehicle transmission system includes: an antenna-side circuit unit including a plurality of wireless circuits connected in series and configured to receive radio signals in frequency bands different from each other, the antenna-side circuit unit configured to combine the radio signals received by the respective wireless circuits and output a resultant radio signal; and a path part configured to transmit the radio signal resulting from the combination and received from the antenna-side circuit unit, to an on-vehicle device side mounted on the vehicle, wherein, in the antenna-side circuit unit, each wireless circuit is connected according to an order determined for each wireless circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 11606183
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of capabilities of the UE for self-interference cancellation at one or more center frequencies. The UE may receive an indication of a configuration, based at least in part on the indication of capabilities, associated with one or more subsequent communications. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Idan Michael Horn
  • Patent number: 11601942
    Abstract: A device implementing unified coordination of wireless communications over multiple physical layers may include a MAC module communicatively coupled to first and second physical layer modules that are each configured to communicate with another device over first and second physical wireless channels, respectively. The MAC module may be configured to provide data to the first physical layer module for transmission to the another device over the first physical wireless channel, where the first physical wireless channel is associated with a first link parameter. The MAC module may be further configured to facilitate initializing the second physical wireless channel based at least in part on the first link parameter of the first physical wireless channel, and after initialization of the second physical wireless channel, provide second data to the second physical layer module for transmission to the another device over the second physical wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Vinko Erceg, Mark Gonikberg, Rohit Gaikwad, Hongyu Xie, Anand Iyer, Venkat Kodavati, Tirdad Sowlati, Payam Torab Jahromi, Matthew J. Fischer
  • Patent number: 11595945
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for receiving system information in a wireless communication system including a receiver that receives system information configuration information and receives system information in predetermined subframes of a radio interface, and a controller that determines the predetermined subframes according to the received system information configuration information and controls the receiver to receive the system information in the predetermined subframes, wherein the system information configuration information includes a subframe scheduling field with a plurality of bits, each bit being associated with a subframe and representing whether or not system information is to be received in that subframe. The present disclosure further relates to a corresponding apparatus for transmitting system information and to the respective receiving and transmitting methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 11588545
    Abstract: A satellite system may have a constellation of communications satellites in orbits such as highly inclined eccentric geosynchronous orbits and low earth orbits. Satellite terminals may be used to communicate with the satellite constellation. The satellite terminals may have control circuitry that dynamically adjusts phased antenna array circuitry to steer antenna beams towards one or more satellites. Multiple antenna beams may be steered in different directions simultaneously. A satellite terminal may be used in simultaneously transmitting and receiving data from different respective satellites and may be used in transmitting and receiving satellite signals in multiple satellite bands. The satellite terminal may have an outdoor unit that is coupled to an indoor unit over a digital communications path. The outdoor unit may include the phased antenna array circuitry and transceiver and modem circuitry, whereas the indoor unit may cache media and serve as a firewall, router, and wireless access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventor: David Lofquist
  • Patent number: 11589333
    Abstract: A method of operating a mesh network is disclosed. The method includes joining a network as a child of a parent node and receiving a downlink broadcast channel from the parent node. The method further includes setting the downlink broadcast channel as an uplink broadcast channel in response to the step of receiving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kumaran Vijayasankar, Ramanuja Vedantham
  • Patent number: 11588537
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless device configured to perform both multi-user spatial multiplex communication and single user communication with a communication device. The wireless device is configured to set a first waiting time for the single user communication, and count the first waiting time in a period in which a second waiting time for the multi-user spatial multiplex communication is counted. The wireless device then transmits data through the single user communication after the first waiting time expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Yusuke Tanaka, Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 11582639
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an information transmission method, a related device, and a system. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device at a moment n, that a communication failure occurs on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first control resource set; and if the terminal device detects, within a first time period after the moment n, that channel quality of the PDCCH on the first control resource set meets a first preset condition, canceling, by the terminal device, sending of communication failure recovery request information, and/or stopping, by the terminal device, timing of a communication failure recovery clock. In the embodiments of the present invention, a communication link can be rapidly recovered after a communication failure occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Di Zhang, Kunpeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11581915
    Abstract: The application relates to a device control method and apparatus, a storage medium, a processor, and a terminal. A device has a WIFI module for WIFI connection and a Bluetooth module for Bluetooth connection. The device control method includes: acquiring a network module status of the device, wherein the network module status indicates whether the WIFI module or Bluetooth module of the device is enabled; if the WIFI module and the Bluetooth module are enabled, detecting wireless data packet features in a wireless network environment where the device is located; and controlling the device according to the detected wireless data packet features so that one of the WIFI module and the Bluetooth module is enabled and the other one of the WIFI module and the Bluetooth module is disabled. The technical solution of the application causes a WIFI and Bluetooth dual-mode device to intelligently select an operating mode, and avoids interference caused by the coexistence of radio frequency signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Xin Luo, Zhiyong Wang, Can Feng, Yiming Wang
  • Patent number: 11582614
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a spectrum management device and method, a geographic location database, a coexistence discovery device, and subsystems for use in a radio communication system comprising a main system and subsystems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Guo, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 11576059
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device, a communication method, and a communication system for enabling collection of a communication quality measurement value regarding a sidelink. A communication device is provided, which includes a control unit configured to control measurement of communication quality of a sidelink between the communication device and another communication device on the basis of information with which communication quality of wireless communication between the communication device and the another communication device is measurable, thereby enabling collection of the communication quality measurement value regarding a sidelink. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a communication device built in or externally mounted to a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryota Kimura
  • Patent number: 11564116
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for asynchronous observation matching for object localization in connected vehicles. A method includes receiving a wireless message from the remote connected vehicle. The wireless message includes first observation data recorded by the remote connected vehicle and describing sensor measurements of the remote connected vehicle at a first time but not a second time. The method includes analyzing a set of vectors describing how a known object moves within a two-dimensional space to determine a two-dimensional flow of the known object in the two-dimensional space during a timespan. The method includes analyzing the two-dimensional flow of the object to infer a three-dimensional flow of the object in a three-dimensional space during the timespan. The method includes estimating second observation data recoded by the remote connected vehicle at the second time so that the impact of the latency is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventors: Rui Guo, Hongsheng Lu, Peng Gao
  • Patent number: 11553333
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are drawn to a client device for use with an access point device. The client device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the client device to: obtain a value associated with a capability of the client device, create a response including a header and a payload, the header including a reserved field including a bit reporting that the payload of the response includes the value associated with the capability, and transmit the response to the APD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Alan Lumbatis, Mark Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11552767
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a communication system using beamforming are provided. The transmission method includes transmitting a control channel signal in a control channel region of a subframe using a first transmission beam of a base station. The transmission method also includes transmitting a data signal during a predetermined time period of a data region after the control channel region in the subframe using a second transmission beam determined based on the first transmission beam. The transmission method further includes transmitting a data signal in a remaining data region following the predetermined time period using a scheduled transmission beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Kyu Yu, Jae-Won Kim, Jeong-Ho Park, Su-Ryong Jeong, Cheol Jeong
  • Patent number: 11546789
    Abstract: A knowledge base of cell information can be built and made available to one or more mobile devices. A mobile device with access to this cell information may proactively perform a radio signal scan at a frequency of an expected cell(s) that is/are indicated in the cell information (e.g., if the expected cell is associated with a serving cell and/or with a geolocation that corresponds to the current Global Positioning System (GPS) location of the mobile device). After performing the radio signal scan, the mobile device may store measurement information (e.g., signal strength) about the expected cell(s) in local memory of the mobile device, and, upon receiving an instruction from the serving cell, the mobile device may access the stored measurement information from its local memory, and may send the measurement information to the requesting serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, Ming Shan Kwok
  • Patent number: 11546894
    Abstract: Provided are an uplink control information transmitting method and receiving method, a terminal, a base station and an apparatus. The transmitting method includes: determining a first transmission resource for first uplink control information and second transmission resources for second uplink control information; and when the first transmission resource overlaps with at least two of the second transmission resources in the time domain, transmitting the first uplink control information and at least one of the second uplink control information simultaneously on the first transmission resource; wherein the at least one of the second uplink control information is the uplink control information carried on the at least two second transmission resources that overlap with the first transmission resource in the time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuejuan Gao