Patents Examined by Cassandra L Decker
  • Patent number: 10779342
    Abstract: A method includes receiving at a wireless access point a first probe request from a first client device requesting connection with the wireless access point via a first frequency band, queueing the first client device in response to an indication that the first client device supports connection via the second frequency band, and in response to receiving at the wireless access point a second probe request from the first client device requesting connection with the wireless access point via the second frequency band, establishing a connection between the wireless access point and the first client device using the second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Swarooparani Sahu, Vinoth Sampath
  • Patent number: 10742539
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a first control unit that configures a first virtual network by setting control information in a relay apparatus(es); a multicast group management unit that holds a configuration(s) of a multicast group(s) configured by an apparatus(es) connected to the relay apparatus(es); a multicast path calculation unit that calculates a path(s) for transmitting a multicast packet(s) to the apparatus(es) that belongs to the multicast group(s) on the basis of information about a topology representing a connection relationship about the relay apparatus(es); and a second control unit that sets control information instructing forwarding of the multicast packet(s) along the path(s) in the relay apparatus(es).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomi Shimada, Masanori Takashima, Yoji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10735931
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are hub devices for a machine-to-machine (M2M) communications network that enables multiple communication modes for data source nodes, the hub comprising a processor, a local connectivity system configured to communicate data with the data source nodes via an interface, a data processing and caching system comprising a local memory and configured to receive and store user-defined data routing and processing functions, prioritize the data based on the user-defined functions; and route the prioritized data to the local memory for storage or to the data transmission system for immediate transmission based on the priority, and a data transmission system configured to dynamically assign an M2M upload mechanism to the routed data selected from: a real-time transmission mechanism, a fixed interval mechanism, a data backhaul mechanism, and a user pull mechanism; and transmit the data to a network backhaul link for delivery to a host point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SKYLO TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Parthsarathi Trivedi, Andrew Kalman
  • Patent number: 10728893
    Abstract: A structure where there are self-contained subframes/slots with smaller TTIs within the subframes/slots is provided to address the issues in MMW scheduling. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may transmit downlink information to at least one UE using a plurality of downlink TTIs within a subframe/slot. The apparatus may receive uplink information from the at least one UE using at least one uplink region within the subframe/slot. In another aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may receive downlink information from a base station using at least one downlink TTI within a subframe/slot. The subframe/slot may include a plurality of downlink TTIs and at least one uplink region. The apparatus may transmit uplink information to the base station using the at least one uplink region within the subframe/slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sundar Subramanian, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Ashwin Sampath, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Tingfang Ji, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Muhammad Nazmul Islam
  • Patent number: 10715217
    Abstract: A method and a device for pre-correction of a downlink signal are provided. The method comprises: on the basis of an obtained uplink frequency offset value of a first RRU and a second RRU corresponding to each client, determining a set of uplink frequency offset values corresponding to each RRU; when a downlink pre-correction period is reached, calculating an average uplink frequency offset value of the RRU; and on the basis of the average uplink frequency offset value of the RRU and a downlink pre-correction value in a previous pre-correction period, determining a downlink pre-correction value of the RRU in the current downlink pre-correction period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yujing Fan, Yuetan Chen
  • Patent number: 10701725
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a scheduling resource configuration method and apparatus, user equipment, and a base station, so as to obtain, from a location such as a core network or a user terminal, related data, of a service that is currently executed by the user terminal, and further generate and configure scheduling configuration information such as SPS scheduling configuration information based on the data. The base station and the user terminal both run, based on the generated scheduling configuration information, the service that is currently executed by the user equipment. This disclose dynamic configuration of a scheduling resource such as an SPS resource, effectively saves resources, such as PDCCH resources, used for a scheduling indication in a system, and can also ensure, to fullest extent, data transmission quality of some services whose data packet sizes, periods, or the like change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhua Miao, Jian Zhang, Wei Quan
  • Patent number: 10700896
    Abstract: A receiver circuit for separating a plurality of layers multiplexed in an orthogonal frequency domain multiplexed (OFDM) signal includes: a descrambling sub-circuit configured to descramble a plurality of signals received on non-adjacent subcarriers of the OFDM signal to generate a plurality of descrambled signals; an inverse fast Fourier transform sub-circuit configured to transform the descrambled signals from a frequency domain to a received signal including a plurality of samples in a time domain; and a layer separation sub-circuit configured to separate the layers multiplexed in the received signal by: defining a first time domain sampling window and a second time domain sampling window in accordance with a size of the inverse fast Fourier transform; extracting one or more first layers from the samples in the first time domain sampling window; and extracting one or more second layers from the samples in the second time domain sampling window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 10673584
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive, during a transmission time interval (TTI), a media-access-control control element (MAC CE) comprising at least one parameter indicating, to the wireless device, to activate at least one licensed cell and at least one unlicensed cell. The wireless device may perform channel monitoring on the at least one unlicensed cell before a first maximum duration after the TTI. The wireless device may perform channel monitoring on the at least one licensed cell after initiating the channel monitoring on the unlicensed cell and before a second maximum duration after the TTI. The first maximum duration and the second maximum duration may be different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 10671441
    Abstract: A communication system according to the present disclosure includes: a management apparatus (30) configured to manage positional information regarding a communication terminal (10); a server (50) configured to provide a communication service for the communication terminal (10), and a control apparatus (60) configured to control start or stop of a communication function included in a communication apparatus (40). The server (50) is arranged in the vicinity of a base station (20), the management apparatus (30) transmits the positional information regarding the communication terminal (10) to the control apparatus (60), the control apparatus (60) controls start or stop of the communication function that the communication apparatus (40) includes based on the positional information, and the control apparatus (60) notifies the communication terminal (10) of start or stop of the communication function that the communication apparatus (40) includes via the management apparatus (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Ohta, Kazuhiro Egashira
  • Patent number: 10660068
    Abstract: A method for managing communication in a wireless mesh network comprising a plurality of wireless nodes and a wireless node for use in such network are described, wherein said method may comprise: providing a time slot schedule (frame), preferably a TDMA time slot schedule (frame), comprising one or more time slots, including a transmission time slot enabling a node to transmit a broadcast message, a reception time slot enabling a node to receive a broadcast message from one or more other nodes; and/or a sleep time slot for configuring said node in an idle state; and, assigning said time slots to nodes in said network on the basis of the position of said nodes in said network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: STICHTING VU-VUMC, FOM-NIKHEF
    Inventors: Henk Jan Bulten, Johannes Franciscus Josephina Van Den Brand
  • Patent number: 10645016
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling packets in a data packet network, the method comprising the steps of: a source node sending a first set of packets to a receiver node over the data packet network via an intermediate node, wherein the first set of packets are marked as being of a class of service preventing them from being forwarded to the receiver node if a packet queue exists at an intermediate node; the source node receiving an acknowledgement of a received packet of the first set of packets from the receiver node; and the source node sending a second set of packets to the receiver node over the data packet network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventors: Robert Briscoe, Philip Eardley
  • Patent number: 10623975
    Abstract: An embedded modem for an unattended host device that provides improved cellular communications capabilities to the unattended host device. The embedded modem detects the occurrence of a signal effectiveness event reflective of the reliability of a cellular communication session, and upon detecting the occurrence of a signal effectiveness event, issues commands to improve the reliability of the cellular communications. The signal effectiveness event data can be communicated by the embedded modem on channel that is different from a channel provided for the host device to communicate its own data with an associated remote computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: OptConnect Management, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Garrett, Todd Christiansen, Mark Wilson, Aaron Allred, Matt Voigt, Kurt Larson, John Young, Kyle Rodgers, Greg Nash
  • Patent number: 10623219
    Abstract: An Access Point (AP) performs a Multi-User (MU) transmission by allocating a plurality of resources of an Up-Link (UL) MU transmission to a first plurality of stations, and by transmitting, using one or more 20 MHz channels, a Down-Link (DL) PHY Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). The DL PPDU includes trigger information. The trigger information solicits the first plurality of stations to participate in the UL MU transmission using the allocated resources. All of the allocated resources may be in the one or more 20 MHz channels of the DL PPDU. The allocated resources may include at least one resource in each of the one or more 20 MHz channels of the DL PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, INC.
    Inventor: Young Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 10616091
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an exploratory linktrace is initiated from an initiating network device with an exploratory linktrace message (ELM) having a target address. Each network device receiving the ELM may then propagate the ELM on a plurality of its ports to a plurality of downstream network devices based on the target address. In addition, each receiving network device returns an exploratory linktrace reply (ELR) for each of the plurality of ports, where each ELR is returned according to one or more mechanisms to mitigate stormed replies to the initiating network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Norman W. Finn, Samer Salam, John Monaghan, Iain McDade, David Alexander Ball, Simon Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 10555333
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a scheduling method, a coordinated-transmission node and a CCN for downlink coordinated-transmission. The scheduling method at a coordinated-transmission node side includes: receiving, by a coordinated-transmission node, scheduling privilege information corresponding to a downlink time-frequency resource from a CCN, the scheduling privilege information corresponding to the downlink time-frequency resource indicating a scheduling privilege of the coordinated-transmission node over the downlink time-frequency resource; and performing, by the coordinated-transmission node, the scheduling in accordance with the received scheduling privilege information and the latest CSI reported by the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hao Ni, Qiubin Gao
  • Patent number: 10554340
    Abstract: A user equipment device (UE) may create efficient Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) status reports. The UE may receive PDCP packets from multiple radio access technologies (RATs) using the same bearer or same RAT using split bearers. The UE may identify packets that the UE should have received but did not, and may create a status report based on the sequence numbers (SNs) of the packets that the UE failed to receive or based on the SNs of the successful packets. The report may include the SNs of the packets, in addition to a bit-length of the SNs and/or a starting point of the SNs in the status report. Alternatively, the report may include the SN of a first packet that the UE failed to receive and offset values (relative to the SN of the first packet) for the other packets that the UE failed/succeed to receive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Umesh Phuyal, Martin Kugler, Nageen Himayat, Alexander Sirotkin
  • Patent number: 10531348
    Abstract: Provided are a method for performing cell reselection by a terminal in a wireless communication system and a device for supporting same. The terminal detects a single-cell point-to-multipoint (SCPTM) cell of interest, calculates the ranking of the SCPTM cell of interest, and performs cell reselection on the basis of the calculated ranking. The ranking of the SCPTM cell of interest can be calculated by means of applying a cell-specific priority (CSP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 10516770
    Abstract: A transmitting entity and a method performed thereby for transmitting one or more data packets to a receiving entity is provided. The transmitting entity and the receiving entity are operable in a communication network. The method performed by the transmitting entity comprises receiving, from an application, a user layer packet, ULP, to be transmitted by means of a transport layer packet, TLP, to the receiving entity. The method further comprises bundling the received ULP together with one or more additional received ULPs in a TLP when a rate of incoming data, bytes or ULPs from the application meets a threshold; and transmitting the TLP to the receiving entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Claudio Porfiri, Carlo Vitucci
  • Patent number: 10506664
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing uplink (UL) transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. A second user equipment (UE) wakes up for transmission of UL data, searches a first UE which is capable of downlink (DL) transmission to the second UE, acquires information for transmission of the UL data, and transmits the UL data to a network by using the acquired information. The second UE may only be capable of UL transmission to the network and may not be capable of DL reception from the network. Alternatively, the second UE may be capable of UL transmission to the network and may be capable of synchronization from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn, Bonghoe Kim
  • Patent number: 10505666
    Abstract: A method for configuring communication parameters for a first gateway of a LoRa network, designated by a server of said network to relay a response to a request, containing data, received by the server, the data originating from a terminal of said network, the response being transmitted by the server and intended for the terminal. The method comprises, when it is implemented by the first gateway: acquiring communication parameters; and, configuring the first gateway so as to transmit the response to the terminal using said parameters; said parameters being acquired by a determination procedure determining (52, 53, 54), when a distance between the first gateway and a second gateway is shorter than a threshold, communication parameters that make it possible to ensure reliable transmission from the first gateway to the terminal and to minimize disturbance, by said transmission, of communications from the second gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS
    Inventors: Henri Teboulle, Paolo Moro