Patents Examined by Brian S Roberts
  • Patent number: 11564146
    Abstract: A method for organizing a data transmission network relates to information technologies and is intended to create an information transmission network between two or more points at a distance. The technical result of the claimed solution is a simplification in structure and a reduction in build time and the cost of network usage. The method is built on a node indexing algorithm based on a minimum number of packet retransmissions from modem to node. The method allows the use of a plurality of optionally moveable modems in a network and the use of wired and wireless networks, does not require the presence of a powerful base station, does not require additional time for rebuilding a network when signal transmission conditions are changed or when the number of nodes in a network is changed, allows a network structure to be built and the built structure to be further optimized, and does not require the nodes to store information about the network environment, which substantially lowers the cost of the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventors: Mikhail Viktorovich Strelnikov, Sergey Vasilievich Malashikhin, Yuri Borisovich Sokolov
  • Patent number: 11558802
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can operate to configure an application service to a network slice instance while preserving an application identity (ID) privacy. The UE receives network slice customer (NSC) Service ID from an NSC. A UE route selection policy (URSP) from a network slice provider (NSP), or network operator, includes the NSC Service ID in a traffic descriptor that associates a single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) with the NSC Service ID. The UE associates the application service to the network slice instance based on the NSC Service ID and the S-NSSAI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed M. Soliman, Christian W. Mucke, Robert Zaus, Sree Ram Kodali, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan
  • Patent number: 11553400
    Abstract: Disclosed are fast cell allocation scheduling device and method for a mobile node in a 6TiSCH network, in which when link quality of the mobile node is changed, a fixed path directed to a route node is allocated to establish a movement-route node fixed path minimizing a delay time between the mobile node and the route node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Sanghwa Chung, Minjae Kim
  • Patent number: 11546825
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a base station may identify one or more communication paths to a user equipment (UE), and may determine an end-to-end signal quality for each communication path (e.g., a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)), one or more hop SNR values for each hop of each communication path, a ratio of the hop SNR values and the end-to-end SNR of each communication path, or a combination thereof. Based on the determined SNR values, ratios, or both, the base station may select a first communication path for a first type of communications (e.g., uplink, downlink, signal type, or the like) and a second communication path for a second type of communications (e.g., uplink, downlink, signal type, or the like), and may communicate with the UE using the selected communication paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Ashwin Sampath
  • Patent number: 11546831
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for closing open loops of a wireless mesh network are disclosed. One method includes determining a representation of a wireless mesh network including nodes, and wireless links between the nodes, identifying end-site nodes of the wireless mesh network, determining open loops of the wireless mesh network that include the identified end-site nodes, generating a list of potential nodes for closing each of the open loops with the identified end-site node, testing one or more of the potential nodes, comprising testing performance of a wireless connection between each end-site node and the one or more potential nodes, wherein the performance includes a number of wireless hops around each closed loop formed including the end-site node and each potential node, selecting a closing node based on the testing, and providing a wireless link connection between one or more of the end-site nodes and the closing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Po Han Huang, Pratheep Bondalapati, Krishna Srikanth Gomadam
  • Patent number: 11539469
    Abstract: Provided are a method for a terminal resending data in a wireless communication system, and a communication device using same. The method comprises: receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a network; and resending data on the basis of the DCI, wherein the DCI includes an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 11533673
    Abstract: A method and device are disclosed from the perspective of a relay UE. In one embodiment, the relay UE establishes a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a network node. The relay UE also transmits a Layer 2. Identity (L2ID) of the relay UE to the network node. Furthermore, the relay UE receives a local UE Identity (ID) for a remote UE and a L2ID of the remote UE from the network node. In addition, the relay UE establishes a PC5 connection with the remote UE. The relay UE further receives a first RRC Reconfiguration Complete message from the remote UE. The relay UE also transmits the first RRC Reconfiguration Complete message to the network node, wherein the first RRC Reconfiguration Complete message is included in an adaptation layer Protocol Data Unit (PDU) for transmission and the local UE ID for the remote UE is included in a header of the adaptation layer PDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Li-Te Pan, Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 11533671
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured for contention-based forwarding (CBF) to relay a message toward a destination. The UE may receive signaling indicating a configuration for CBF. The CBF configuration may be associated with a maximum communication range for CBF signaling. The UE may receive a message to relay toward the destination using CBF. The message may include a first indication of a dynamic communication range for the CBF which may be less than or equal to the maximum communication range. The UE may determine a timer value to retransmit the message based on the dynamic communication range. When a timer set to the timer value expires, the UE may retransmit the message to nearby stations and include an indication of the dynamic communication range with the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seung Ryul Yang, Vincent Douglas Park
  • Patent number: 11528654
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a parent node may configure first and second backhaul radio link control (RLC) channels based on requests received from a first integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor central unit (CU) and a second IAB donor CU, respectively. The parent node may select first and second logical channel identifiers for the first and second backhaul RLC channels, the second logical channel identifier being different from the first logical channel identifier, and may provide the first and second logical channel identifiers to the first IAB donor CU and the second IAB donor CU, respectively. The parent node may receive a packet including either the first logical channel identifier or the second logical channel identifier, and process the packet based on which of the first and second logical channel identifiers is included in the packet. Other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Ozcan Ozturk, Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11515969
    Abstract: Methods described herein are for wireless communication systems. One aspect of the invention is directed to a method for a HARQ process, in which the HARQ process includes a first transmission of an encoder packet and at least one retransmission. The method involves allocating a transmission resource for each respective transmission. The method involves transmitting control information from a base station to a mobile station for each respective transmission. The control information includes information to uniquely identify the HARQ process and an identification of one of a time resource, a frequency resource and a time and frequency resource that is allocated for the transmission. In some embodiments of the invention, specific control information is signalled from a base station to a mobile station to enable RAS-HARQ operation. In some embodiments of the invention, retransmission signaling in included as part of regular unicast signaling used for both first transmission and retransmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mo-han Fong, Sophie Vrzic, Robert Novak, Jun Yuan, Dong-Sheng Yu
  • Patent number: 11516721
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating simplified switching at an RU are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at an RU includes transmitting, to a DU, capability information indicating support of endpoint groups, each endpoint group associated with a respective set of RU endpoints. The example method also includes receiving an eAxC message from the DU based on the capability information, the eAxC message including a DU port identifier, a band sector identifier, a component carrier identifier, and an RU port identifier. The example method also includes using a first portion of the RU port identifier to identify an endpoint group, the respective set of RU endpoints of the endpoint group associated with a set of characteristics. Additionally, the example method includes using a second portion of the RU port identifier to index the eAxC message to an RU endpoint of the endpoint group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kalyan Kuppuswamy, Abhishek Saurabh Sachidanand Sinha, Orod Raeesi
  • Patent number: 11516180
    Abstract: A method is provided for installing a new node in a wireless home network having a client network and includes a node able to form a mesh network. A connection of a new node to the client network supplied by the home network node is detected, and an identifier of a client device that is connected to the client network is received. If the client device is known to the home network: the new node is notified that the client device that is connected to the client network must be disconnected from the client network; a connection of the client device to the client network supplied by the node of the home network is detected; and identifiers of the mesh network are transferred to the new node if the connection of the disconnected client device to the client network supplied by the node of the domestic network is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS
    Inventors: Antonie Rocquelay, Loig Atzel
  • Patent number: 11515951
    Abstract: A system includes a base station, an antenna coupled to the base station, and an antenna line device coupled to the antenna. The antenna line device is Internet Protocol (IP) addressable and is configured to receive a control signal from a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Sammit Patel
  • Patent number: 11503530
    Abstract: A method, a system and a controller for controlling the Quality of Service, QoS, of a wireless link, providing a service from a transmitting entity to a receiving entity is suggested. Once data, decisive of the QoS of the hops of the wireless link has been received, it is determined, based on the received data, that at least one QoS target-value of one of said hops is, or is predicted, not to be met. For each of the mentioned hops, one or more actions for achieving that said at least one QoS target-value is met, is initiated and based on the determining of one or more actions, instructions, instructing at least one of the mobile relay stations how to execute one or more of said determined actions are initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Tommy Arngren, Jan Christoffersson, Mårten Ericson, Min Wang
  • Patent number: 11496946
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a transmission path switching method and apparatus. When a transmission path is switched, a currently used data transmission path is not directly switched from a first transmission path to a second transmission path after the second transmission path is configured, but after it is further determined that a first condition is met, the currently used data transmission path is switched from the first transmission path to the second transmission path, to avoid data interruption in a process of switching a data transmission path of an application from the first transmission path to the second transmission path. This improves use smoothness of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fenghui Dou, Chaofeng Lian, Kai Yuan, Yue He, Hui Jin, Yongbo Zeng
  • Patent number: 11496961
    Abstract: A method for selecting at least one gateway in a set of gateways for relaying data received from a server and intended for each endpoint in a group of endpoints, each endpoint in group communicating with the server via at least one gateway in the set of gateways, the group of endpoints and the set of gateways forming a LoRa network, each gateway receiving data intended for at least one endpoint retransmitting data to each endpoint for which data are intended in a frame in accordance with the LoRaWAN protocol. The method includes: selecting a subset of gateways of the set of gateways enabling the server to communicate with each endpoint group of minimum size, the selected subset minimising a risk of the data sent by the server and relayed by each gateway of subset being lost because of collisions between frames relaying data sent by the gateways of subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS
    Inventor: Henri Teboulle
  • Patent number: 11496396
    Abstract: This application relates to a distributed software-defined network (“DSDN”) for dynamically configuring and managing a wireless communication network. A plurality of DSDN nodes are connected to each other via a plurality of communication paths. Each communication path directly connects two DSDN nodes. Each DSDN node can provide DSDN configurations across diverse and disparate networks by normalizing its data plane network traffic through translation and packet encapsulation. Furthermore, the DSDN node can provide an architecture tolerant of network interruptions and network system fluctuations. For example, in the case of any one of the DSDN node's network interruptions from other DSDN nodes, the DSDN can provide network reconfiguration using network configuration rules stored in a control plane of each DSDN node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mimyr, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Kunc, Andrew Hung, David Wang, Michael Mavraganis
  • Patent number: 11496945
    Abstract: A method of propagating data packets in a network of nodes is disclosed. This may be a blockchain network such as, for example, the Bitcoin network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: nChain Licensing AG
    Inventors: Silvia Bartolucci, Simone Madeo
  • Patent number: 11490317
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed toward shedding processing loads associated with route updates. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can enable operations facilitating performance of operations including facilitating receiving, from a second routing device, a route update for a routing table of the first routing device, wherein the route update is associated with a route. The operations can further comprise evaluating a value of the route update, resulting in an evaluated value of the route update. The operations can further comprise updating an entry of the routing table based on the route update and the evaluated value of the route update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: John Barry Bartell
  • Patent number: 11483757
    Abstract: A control signal used for selecting a parent node in a tree route is transmitted from a first wireless node among a plurality of wireless nodes which constitute a backhaul network. Second wireless nodes each select, as a parent node, one of transmission source nodes of a plurality of control signals on the basis of an index indicating the radio wave propagation quality of a route through which each of the control signals received from different route has been propagated. Fixed wireless nodes among the second wireless nodes each transmit the received control signal to the other second wireless nodes, and a movable wireless node among the second wireless nodes terminates the received control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: PICOCELA INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Furukawa