Patents Examined by Brian T O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11637671
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for controlling transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless access system supporting machine type communication (MTC) and devices for supporting same. A method for controlling transmission of an SRS by an MTC terminal in a wireless access system supporting MTC, according to an embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving an upper layer signal comprising information about an SRS which is to be repeatedly transmitted; configuring the SRS on the basis of the information about the SRS; and transmitting the SRS by means of a subband to which a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is allocated and which is being frequency hopped. The subband comprises six physical resource blocks (PRB), and the SRS can be sequentially transmitted to the subband being frequency hopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Bonghoe Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11632471
    Abstract: An embodiment of the system for publishing events of a telephony application to a client includes a call router that generates events from the telephony application and an event router that manages the publication of events generated by the call router and that manages the subscription to events by clients. The system can be used with a telephony application that interfaces with a telephony device and an application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11627619
    Abstract: A first communications device may use one or a plurality of communications connections in parallel for a communications session between the first communications device and the second communications device. The first device makes decisions as to the number of connections to use, the level of error correcting code to use, and/or the level of packet redundancy to use based on test scores corresponding to one or more communications session connections. The first communications device generates a first test score corresponding to a first communications session connection based on a test performed over a first test path between the first communications device and a test server, said first communications session connection and the first test path sharing a common link, e.g., a common wireless link between the first device and an access point. The first device may generate and use an overall connection score corresponding to a plurality of session connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Jody Beck
  • Patent number: 11611375
    Abstract: A base station of a 5G/6G network can include its location coordinates in the SSB system information message which is broadcast on a standard frequency periodically. A mobile user device can receive the SSB and thereby determine the base station location. Thereafter, the user device can measure its own location, speed, and direction of travel, and thereby calculate a Doppler frequency correction before transmitting a message to the base station, thus causing the base station to receive the message at the expected standard frequency. In addition, the user device can calculate, based on the location of the base station relative to the direction of travel of the mobile user device, a particular frequency at which downlink messages from the base station will be received. In addition, the user device can pre-emptively adjust its transmission frequency when changing speed or direction, thereby avoiding wasteful frequency-correction messages from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 11606781
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for configuring a triggering condition of a beam failure event and a communication system. The method includes: a network device configures a UE with one or more control channel monitoring groups, so that when the UE detects that all beams to which a monitoring group corresponds fail in transmission, the UE reports beam failure event of the monitoring group fails in transmission; wherein, each monitoring group corresponds to one or more pieces of downlink control information (DCI). By configuring regarding the triggering conditions of the beam failure events, detection and report of beam failure in more complex scenarios may be supported, such as a scenario where one piece of DCI is transmitted in multiple control resource sets, and a scenario where multiple pieces of DCI are transmitted in one control resource set, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Lei Song, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 11606835
    Abstract: Provided is a method and an apparatus for for changing or controlling a state of a secondary cell in carrier aggregation. The method includes receiving secondary cell (SCell) state indication information indicating a state for a SCell from a base station through an RRC message or an MAC control element, causing a state of the SCell to transition into a dormant state when the SCell state indication information indicates the dormant state, and transmitting channel state information reporting for the SCell in the dormant state according to an dormant state CQI report period parameter set separately from an activation state CQI report period parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sung-pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11601243
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for controlling transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless access system supporting machine type communication (MTC) and devices for supporting same. A method for controlling transmission of an SRS by an MTC terminal in a wireless access system supporting MTC, according to an embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving an upper layer signal comprising information about an SRS which is to be repeatedly transmitted; configuring the SRS on the basis of the information about the SRS; and transmitting the SRS by means of a subband to which a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is allocated and which is being frequency hopped. The subband comprises six physical resource blocks (PRB), and the sRS can be sequentially transmitted to the subband being frequency hopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Bonghoe Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11601874
    Abstract: One or more devices, systems, and/or methods for facilitating access to an uplink carrier are provided. For example, information corresponding to a plurality of uplink carriers may be received from a wireless node. An uplink carrier may be selected from the plurality of uplink carriers based upon the information. A request to access the uplink carrier may be transmitted to the wireless node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li Niu, Yajun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11595925
    Abstract: Embodiments of efeMTC synchronization signals for enhanced cell search and enhanced system information acquisition are described. In some embodiments, an apparatus of a base station (BS) is configured to generate a length-x sequence for an efeMTC synchronization signal, the length-x sequence configured for repetition in frequency domain within 6 physical resource blocks (PRB). In some embodiments, to generate the length-x sequence, the BS may be configured to select any one index of the set of root indices {1, 2, 63}, excluding the root indices 25, 29 and 34, to correspond to a different physical-layer cell identity (PCID). In some embodiments, the BS may be configured to encode RRC signaling to include a System Information Block (SIB) comprising configuration information for transmission of the efeMTC synchronization signal, and transmit the length-x sequence as the efeMTC synchronization signal in frequency resources according to the SIB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Salvatore Talarico, Qiaoyang Ye, Debdeep Chatterjee, Seunghee Han, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11595967
    Abstract: A wireless device receives a downlink control information (DCI) comprising a first field indicating a transition of a cell to a dormant state and a second field indicating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback timing. The wireless device transmits, in response to the DCI indicating the transition and via a physical uplink control channel resource, a positive acknowledgement of a reception of the DCI at a time interval based on the HARQ feedback timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 11589385
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a request message to a base station while operating in an idle mode. The base station may generate, in response to the request message, a response message including a random access preamble index corresponding to the received request message. In some cases, the base station may determine a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) based on the random access preamble index and scramble a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the response message with the RNTI. In some examples, the random access preamble index may be included in a payload of the response message. The UE may monitor a physical downlink control channel for the response message to the request message and receive the response message on the physical downlink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Keiichi Kubota
  • Patent number: 11582330
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station and wireless device may communicate capability information associated with a wireless device. The capability information may include information indicating support for an Ethernet type packet data unit session or header parameter compression. An Ethernet type packet data unit session may be instantiated based on the capability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Weihua Qiao, Peyman Talebi Fard, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11570698
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe receiving, from at least one cell of a zone of multiple cells, a zone-specific signal related to the zone of multiple cells, wherein the zone of multiple cells operate using synchronized timing, acquiring, based on the zone-specific signal, a timing synchronization with a cell of the zone of multiple cells, and communicating with the cell based on the timing synchronization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Ly, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji, Jing Jiang, Yang Yang, June Namgoong
  • Patent number: 11569958
    Abstract: Provided are a configuration method and a transmission method of a new reference signal for frequency offset estimation in a novel wireless communication system. The method may include configuring a synchronization signal to be transmitted through a first bandwidth part of one or more bandwidth parts configured by dividing an entire bandwidth into one or more parts, allocating the one or more reference signals for estimating the frequency offset on one or more resources other than a resource for configuring the synchronization signal, and transmitting the one or more reference signals for estimating the frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki-tae Kim, Woo-jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11570656
    Abstract: A method of and an application server and user equipment for providing at least one of chat and Voice over Internet Protocol, chat/VoIP, services to the mobile user equipment in a mobile telecommunications network. The mobile user equipment comprises a chat/VoIP client for accessing a chat/VoIP service application interfacing the mobile telecommunications network. The chat/VoIP service application interfaces a plurality of proprietary chat/VoIP clients for accessing a plurality of proprietary chat/VoIP communication environments operated by a plurality of chat/VoIP service providers, for providing chat/VoIP services to the chat/VoIP client of the mobile user equipment. The chat/VoIP client and the chat/VoIP service application may be arranged such that privileged use of the mobile telecommunications network is enabled, providing a session between the user equipment and a communication environment with a predetermined or agreed Quality of Service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (pub!)
    Inventor: Jos den Hartog
  • Patent number: 11570819
    Abstract: A method of operating a base station in a wireless telecommunications system to support a first random access procedure for a first terminal device of a first type and a second random access procedure for a second terminal device of a second type, wherein a message size for an uplink message of the second random access procedure is greater than a message size for a corresponding uplink message of the first random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 11570710
    Abstract: An alarm system having a portable body carried controller that wireless communicates with multiple remote base units each having a wireless communications system configured for ultralow power mode operation where the communications system is put in sleep mode greater than one half packet transmission time but no greater than preamble transmission time to conserve battery life. Controller has multiple LED-equipped buttons assigned to corresponding base units during pairing which are respectively activated when the corresponding base unit assigned thereto alarms upon occurrence of a sensor detection event. Pressing the button can turn off the LED alarm, can poll the assigned base unit, and can task the assigned base unit including to operate in flashlight mode where base unit is lit up. A preferred base unit has an enclosure with legs that form reversible pedestals upon which base unit can be placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Vulture Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Gregg J. Haensgen, Richard W. Lucas, James F. Milota, Barry J. Howe
  • Patent number: 11564213
    Abstract: This application discloses communication methods and apparatuses. One method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a reference signal from a beam of a network device; determining, by the terminal device, availability of the beam based on a threshold and the reference signal; and sending, by the terminal device, feedback information to the network device, wherein the feedback information indicates the availability of the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Guan, Jianqin Liu, Hongzhe Shi
  • Patent number: 11564250
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for including signaling regarding enhanced features of new wireless communication protocols. The signaling may be included in various portions of a physical layer preamble of a wireless transmission. In some implementations, the physical layer preamble may be used to indicate puncturing of subbands or content channels that may carry further signaling in accordance with preamble signaling designs of this disclosure. The physical layer preamble signaling be parallelized for different subchannels of a wireless channel that consists of multiple subchannels. Some implementations of the physical layer preambles may be used to multiplex different types of wireless local area network communications into different subsets of the plurality of subchannels of the wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jialing Li Chen, Sameer Vermani, Lin Yang, Bin Tian, Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Youhan Kim
  • Patent number: 11558852
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: a first terminal selects a target channel from N channels based on a first reference signal received on the N channels; the first terminal transmits data or signaling to a second terminal on the target channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Huei-Ming Lin