Patents Examined by Brian P Cox
  • Patent number: 11122415
    Abstract: According to the disclosure, a communication method using a network slice by an access and mobility management function (AMF) comprises receiving one of subscribed single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) or network slice selection policy (NSSP) information, requesting and receiving the other, non-received information of the subscribed S-NSSAI or the NSSP information, and transmitting a first message including the received subscribed S-NSSAI and the received NSSP information to a user equipment (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoyeon Lee, Youngkyo Baek, Jungje Son
  • Patent number: 11115253
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for transmitting uplink data by using a non-orthogonal code multiple access scheme in a wireless communication system. Particularly, a terminal receives control information from a base station. The terminal selects a terminal-specific codeword or receives allocation information of the terminal-specific codeword on the basis of the control information. The terminal transmits uplink data by using the terminal-specific codeword. The terminal-specific codeword is determined as a codeword having a value with a low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), when the terminal is located on the outside of a cell. The terminal-specific codeword is determined as a codeword having a value with a high PAPR, when the terminal is located in the center of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hojae Lee, Sangrim Lee
  • Patent number: 11109290
    Abstract: A technique performed by a client on a device includes detecting one or more wireless networks in range of the device, where the one or more wireless networks support connection over at least two frequency bands; controlling the device to connect to the one or more wireless networks over at least one of the two frequency bands; and controlling the device to switch connections among different ones of the at least two frequency bands based on levels of service provided by the different ones of the at least two frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: William Kenneth Logan, Oliver James Jauncey
  • Patent number: 11102666
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor WI-FI media streaming using alternate access points. An example apparatus disclosed herein monitor wireless traffic includes an example traffic monitor to identify a connection of a WI-FI client to a primary access point and capture a management frame transmitted from the primary access point to the WI-FI client. The example apparatus further includes an example frame generator to insert a change channel announcement into the captured management frame and a router to cause a wireless interface to transmit the beacon frame to the WI-FI client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Marko Usaj, Andrej Barbis, Marko Panger, Joze Arh
  • Patent number: 11102758
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, user equipment (UE) can reselect a sidelink resource used for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. Reselection of a sidelink resource may be triggered by various conditions, and especially can be triggered when one or more resource pools are configured by an upper layer. In particular, the user equipment determines that data for V2X is present in a sidelink traffic channel (STCH), determines that the one or more resource pools are configured by the upper layer, and reselects the sidelink resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Sunyoung Lee, Jaewook Lee
  • Patent number: 11096242
    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: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Roozbeh Atarius, Genadi Velev, Dimitrios Karampatsis, Andreas Kunz
  • Patent number: 11082175
    Abstract: A device and method in which a plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences is allocated to a frame, a value of a parameter in the Zadoff-Chu sequence is different among the plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences, and the Zadoff-Chu sequence allocated to the frame is different among a plurality of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Oketani, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 11071003
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for wirelessly communicating between a host device and a client device in a radio frequency (RF) environment. In one embodiment, a wireless communication method for a host device in a RF environment may comprise: communicating wirelessly between the host device and a client device by way of a first RF channel; continuously scanning available RF channels of the RF environment; and in response to a first RF channel signal quality decreasing below a threshold signal quality, selecting one of the available RF channels having a signal quality greater than the threshold signal quality, and switching wireless communication between the client device and the host device from the first RF channel to the selected available RF channel. In this way, reducing interference with the RF environment while lowering a risk of disrupting the wireless communication between the host device and the client device can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jie Liu, Joshua Imobersteg, Gireesha Rao, Scott Wiese, Michael Slavkin
  • Patent number: 11063733
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may identify a set of power configurations for a plurality of communications with at least one target device. The set of power configurations may be based at least in part on a type of signal, a type of channel, a parameter of the wireless device, a parameter of the target device, or a combination thereof. The wireless device may then determine a duplexing mode for the plurality of communications based at least in part on the set of power configurations. The duplexing mode may be, for example, a full duplex mode or a half-duplex mode. The wireless device may then transmit the plurality of communications to and/or receive the plurality of communications from the at least one target device according to the set of power configurations and the selected duplexing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li, Durga Prasad Malladi, Karl Georg Hampel, Muhammad Nazmul Islam
  • Patent number: 11063735
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that may include: an antenna; a duplexer configured to separate a Tx signal that the antenna transmits and an Rx signal that the antenna receives; an amplifier configured to amplify an input signal and to transmit the amplified input signal to the duplexer; a memory storing a digital pre-distortion (DPD) table; a transceiver; and a processor configured to: control the transceiver to transmit, to the amplifier, a first signal in a first frequency band corresponding to the Tx signal; determine whether to perform pre-distortion of the first signal, based on a reception performance of the Rx signal in a second frequency band; perform the pre-distortion of the first signal by making reference to the DPD table configured to decrease a strength of the first signal in the second frequency band; and control the transceiver to transmit the pre-distorted first signal to the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanyeop Lee, Dongil Yang, Hyoseok Na
  • Patent number: 11064394
    Abstract: A method for processing signals by a relay node in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) configuration from a network; when a field included in the received SDAP configuration is a special value, establishing an SDAP entity for control data based on the SDAP configuration; and transmitting and receiving the control data via the SDAP entity, wherein the special value is excluded from identities for a PDU session for user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heejeong Cho, Sunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 11063731
    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: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Kyu Yu, Jae-Won Kim, Jeong-Ho Park, Su-Ryong Jeong, Cheol Jeong
  • Patent number: 11057921
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided to improve spectral efficiency, coverage, and data rates for communication between a base station and user equipments (UEs). In a first case, mechanisms to reduce a size of a random access response message are provided. In a second case, mechanisms to support UE-group scheduling are provided. In a third case, control signaling designs according to a coverage requirement for a UE are provided. In a fourth case, designs for allocation of downlink (DL) subframes and uplink (UL) subframes in order to adjust a data rate and minimize switching between DL and UL for a half-duplex FDD UE are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 11032798
    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: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 11025401
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for secondary cell (SCell) configuration signaling and activation procedures. For example, certain aspects provide a method for configuring a plurality of secondary cells of a base station for a user equipment. The method includes receiving, at the user equipment from the base station, a message including at least one configuration parameter applicable to the plurality of secondary cells. The method further includes configuring the user equipment for the plurality of secondary cells based on the at least one configuration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Prasad Kadiri, Masato Kitazoe, Umesh Phuyal
  • Patent number: 11012125
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a signal sending method, a signal receiving method, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: determining, by a base station based on receiver capabilities of user equipments, that first user equipment is to be paired with N second user equipments on a first resource block, where N is a positive integer; and multiplexing, by the base station, a signal of the first user equipment and signals of the N second user equipments onto the first resource block, and sending the signals. It can be learned from the foregoing that according to the embodiments of the present invention, not only channel quality of weak-receiver-capability user equipment is ensured, but also channel quality of strong-receiver-capability user equipment is maintained by using an excellent interference suppression capability of the strong-receiver-capability user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qunfang Lou, Feng Qian
  • Patent number: 11012922
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station and user equipment (UE) may utilize an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) within a common search space to establish a MulteFire connection. The common search space may include a common PDCCH (C-PDCCH) and a MulteFire system information block (SIB-MF1) grant. The base station may define one or more common search spaces for the SIB-MF1 grants and C-PDCCH and signal the resource allocation for the common search spaces to the UE within a master information block (MIB). Each common search space may include a fixed set of control elements that the UE monitors for decoding the SIB-MF1 grants and C-PDCCH. In some cases, the base station may hardcode resources for the SIB-MF1 grants and C-PDCCH. Alternatively, the base station may signal the resources for each of the SIB-MF1 grants and C-PDCCH via reserved bits in the MIB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Srinivas Yerramalli, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11013056
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to mechanisms for dynamic prioritization of uplink (UL) traffic at a user equipment (UE). In some examples, the UE may determine to delay transmission of UL traffic by skipping one or more UL transmission opportunities based on one or more factors, such as a power saving indication, a priority level of the UL traffic, a type of the UL traffic, a volume of the UL traffic, and/or current channel conditions. In some examples, the UE may be configured with a parameter controlling the ability of the UE to delay a transmission of UL traffic. In some examples, when the UE is operating in a semi-persistent scheduling mode and a power saving mode, such as a connected mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode, the UE may dynamically interrupt an OFF duration of the C-DRX cycle to transmit UL traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Mutaz Shukair, Linhai He
  • Patent number: 11006282
    Abstract: In a connected vehicle environment, network connection parameters such as a network congestion window and bit rate are automatically adjusted dependent on a location of a vehicle in order to optimize network performance. A geospatial database stores learned relationships between network performance of a connected vehicle at different physical locations when configured in accordance with different network parameters. The vehicle can then adjust its network parameters dynamically dependent on its location. A vehicle may maintain multiple connections to different networks concurrently for transmitting duplicate data of a data stream, with the vehicle independently adjusting parameters associated with different networks to optimize performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Phantom Auto Inc.
    Inventors: Shay Magzimof, David Parunakian
  • Patent number: 11005751
    Abstract: Techniques for exposing maximum node and/or link segment identifier depth using IS-IS are described. A network element in a Segment Routing (SR) network transmits a Type Length Value (TLV) element including a Maximum Segment Identifier Depth (MSD) value. The MSD value identifies a maximum number of segment identifier (SID) labels that the network element is able to push into packet headers of received packets to enable forwarding of the received packets through the SR network. The network element receives, from a controller, data for a path to be utilized by the network element for forwarding the received packets through the SR network. The data includes one or more SID labels to be pushed into the received packets, and the SID labels include fewer than or equal to the MSD value. The controller and the network element do not utilize the Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) over a southbound interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Evgeny Tantsura, Uma S. Chunduri