Patents Examined by Chandrahas B Patel
  • Patent number: 11818237
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a network interface comprising physical medium dependent (PMD) circuitry, the PMD circuitry to during link training of at least one lane consistent with IEEE 802.3, exit to TIME_OUT state during TRAIN_LOCAL state based on consideration of expiration of a wait timer, loss of local_tf_lock state, and loss of remote_tf_lock state. In some examples, during link training for at least one lane consistent with IEEE 802.3, the PMD circuitry is to exit to TIME_OUT state during TRAIN_REMOTE state based on consideration of expiration of a wait timer, loss of local_tf_lock state, and loss of remote_tf_lock state. In some examples, link training consistent with IEEE 802.3 comprises performance of the PMD control function in Section 162.8.11 of IEEE 802.3ck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Kent C. Lusted
  • Patent number: 11799767
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for discovering silent hosts in a software-defined network and directing traffic to the silent hosts in a scalable and targeted manner include determining interfaces of a fabric device that are connected to respective one or more endpoints, where the fabric device is configured to connect the endpoints to a network fabric of the software-defined network. At least a first interface is identified, where an address of a first endpoint connected to the first interface is not available at the fabric device. A first notification is transmitted to a control plane of the software-defined network based on identifying the first interface, where the control plane may create a flood list which includes the fabric device. Traffic intended for the first endpoint from the network fabric is received by the fabric device can be based on the flood list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Satish Kondalam, Sanjay Kumar Hooda, Prakash C. Jain, Vikram Vikas Pendharkar
  • Patent number: 11799676
    Abstract: In an aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure is directed to network control topology that implements a centralized network controller to deterministically assign, and reassign, underlay multicast groups according to one or more policies and/or parameterized intent of the network administrator. The centralized network controller, in some embodiments, comprises a map server-neap resolver controller configured to provide deterministic and centralized allocation of underlay multi cast groups, e.g., to provide security, traffic engineering, network and resource management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vengada Prasad Govindan, Aswin Kuppusami, Stig Ingvar Venaas
  • Patent number: 11792846
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described. A station includes a transceiver and a processor, which detect a trigger frame for an uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission. The trigger frame includes a user information field with an allocation of one or more random access resource units (RUs) and a common information field with information to set high efficiency (HE) SIGNAL-A (HE-SIG-A) fields in the UL MU transmission. The transceiver and the processor generate an HE trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) and set an HE-SIG-A field in the HE TB PPDU using the information in the trigger frame. The transceiver and the processor select one of the one or more random access RUs and transmit the HE TB PPDU, using the selected one of the one or more random access RUs, a short inter-frame space after the trigger frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Hanqing Lou, Guodong Zhang, Li-Hsiang Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Robert L. Olesen, Fengjun Xi, Rui Yang, Xiaofei Wang
  • Patent number: 11777865
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for discovering dynamic path maximum transmission unit (PMTU) between a sending computing device and a receiving computing device (e.g., a client device and a host device) are described herein. A sending computing device may iteratively transmit bursts of probe packets, each burst being defined by a search range between a maximum packet size and a minimum packet size. The sending computing device may iteratively update the search range based on the previous iteration until the search converges on the PMTU. When the PMTU is discovered, each of the computing devices may update their transport and presentation layer buffers based on the discovered PMTU without any other protocol level disruption. In a multi-path scenario, the computing device may discover PMTU for each of the paths and select a performance optimal path based on the individual PMTUs and other network characteristics such as loss, latency, and throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventors: Georgy Momchilov, Rakesh Ranjan Jha, Jeffrey Holsapple, Sridharan Rajagopalan
  • Patent number: 11770235
    Abstract: A controller includes circuitry configured to: synchronize a master clock with an external global clock and set a master time based on the master clock; synchronize a controller clock with the master clock and perform time synchronization to synchronize a controller time based on the controller clock with the master time; transmit controller time data indicating the synchronized controller time to at least one local device; set a plurality of time windows corresponding to a plurality of clock cycles of a clock signal for the time synchronization; determine whether one clock cycle of the plurality of clock cycles has started within one time window of the plurality of time windows, the one time window corresponding to the one clock cycle; and suspend the time synchronization corresponding to the one clock cycle, in response to determining that the one clock cycle has not started within the one time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ryota Moriwaka, Kunihiko Ogawa, Takayuki Nakamura, Norihito Mizuguchi
  • Patent number: 11770236
    Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a communication system for obtaining and transmitting synchronization information is provided. The method includes obtaining synchronization information from a first communication network, and transmitting the synchronization information to a second communication network. The synchronization information is updated based on an obtainment time from the first communication network and a transmission time to the second communication network. The UE operates as a device-side time sensitive networking (TSN) translator (DS-TT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sangjun Moon
  • Patent number: 11751148
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for performing rate matching and configuring a soft buffer in a wireless cellular communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Jeongho Yeo, Hyojin Lee, Younsun Kim, Sungjin Park, Jinyoung Oh
  • Patent number: 11743818
    Abstract: In a user equipment, base station and method for a mobile communication system, the user equipment receives, from a first base station, transmission power control information used for a dual simultaneous transmission in which radio signals are simultaneously transmitted to both the first base station and a second base station, and determines a first transmission power and a second transmission power for the dual simultaneous transmission based on the transmission power control information. The first transmission power is used for transmitting a radio signal to the first base station, and the second transmission power is used for transmitting a radio signal to the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Chiharu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11743166
    Abstract: Techniques are described for provisioning non-colored segment routing label switched paths (LSPs) via segment routing policies in border gateway protocol (BGP). For example, an ingress router receives a segment routing policy advertisement specifying an endpoint of one or more paths, and a policy color field of the one or more paths, wherein the policy color field is specified with a designated value that causes the network device to store the one or more paths in a data structure that stores non-colored paths. The ingress router determines that the policy color is specified with the designated value. The ingress router, in response to determining that the policy color is specified with the designated value, stores the one or more paths in the data structure that stores non-colored paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Amit Kumar Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 11743181
    Abstract: In general, the disclosure describes techniques for configuring a forwarding path of a network device. For example, a network device system includes a compiler. The compiler is configured to receive text comprising syntax elements in an arrangement that indicates a topology for a plurality of nodes. Additionally, the compiler is configured to generate, based on the text, code for instantiating the plurality of and compile the code to generate a software image. The network device system includes a network device comprising a forwarding manager configured to execute the software image to configure a forwarding path to include the corresponding forwarding path elements for each of the plurality of nodes. Additionally, the network device system includes at least one packet processor operably coupled to a memory, wherein the at least one packet processor is configured to process packets received by the forwarding unit by executing the forwarding path elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Alex Varghese
  • Patent number: 11743170
    Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing power or energy consumption parameters measured at each of a plurality of nodes or Network Elements (NEs) of a network are provided. A system, according to one implementation, includes a processing device and a memory device configured to store computer logic. The computer logic, for example, may be configured to enable the processing device to receive a power consumption value corresponding to an amount of energy expended at each of a plurality of NEs in a network. Also, the computer logic may be configured to enable the processing device to calculate a cumulative power consumption total from the power consumption values associated with the NEs arranged along a path in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Estabrooks, Gregory Vanderydt
  • Patent number: 11731522
    Abstract: An ECU in a failure determination apparatus receives a wireless LAN signal from a power-transmission-side wireless communication unit with a vehicle-side wireless communication unit and determines whether a relative position acquisition system fails based on whether predetermined expressions are established for the respective reception intensities of a low frequency signal at first to fourth power-transmission-side antennas, which are included in the wireless LAN signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoya Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11737167
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intelligence enabled things (“IET”). In various embodiments, a first IET tag affixed to a first object among a plurality of objects might receive information regarding the first object and/or nearby objects. The first IET tag might determine a status of the first object and/or the nearby objects based at least partly on the received information and based at least partly on first data assigned to the first IET tag. The first IET tag might analyze the determined status to determine whether the determined status exceeds predetermined thresholds for normal parameters for the first object and/or the nearby objects. Based on a determination that the determined status exceeds predetermined thresholds for normal parameters for the first object and/or the nearby objects, the first IET tag might autonomously self-report to a computing system a state of the first object and/or the nearby objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Ronald A. Lewis
  • Patent number: 11736607
    Abstract: Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing data communications services such as voice-over-IP (VoIP). According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more VoIP servers configured and arranged to route VoIP calls to and from users of a plurality of customer accounts. Each customer account has a respective plurality of users and a respective settings file. For each of the customer accounts, a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the VoIP servers, records an audio portion of a VoIP call to or from a user of the customer account in response to the VoIP call satisfying a set of recording criteria specified in the settings file for the customer account. The recording criteria for at least one of the customer accounts includes account-level settings for selecting VoIP calls to be recorded and sets of user-level settings indicating criteria for preventing recording of VoIP calls of the individual users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhishen Liu
  • Patent number: 11729756
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a control node may determine at least one of a transmission power or a reception power for at least one of a first signal or a second signal to be communicated between a target wireless node and at least one other wireless node based at least in part on a priority level of the first signal relative to the second signal, wherein the transmission power or the reception power is based at least in part on at least one of an identity or state of the target wireless node or the at least one other wireless node, or a type of the first signal or the second signal; and configure the transmission power or the reception power to be used for the first signal or the second signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11729095
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide policy-driven methods for deploying edge forwarding elements in a public or private SDDC for tenants or applications. For instance, the method of some embodiments allows administrators to create different traffic groups for different applications and/or tenants, deploys edge forwarding elements for the different traffic groups, and configures forwarding elements in the SDDC to direct data message flows of the applications and/or tenants through the edge forwarding elements deployed for them. The policy-driven method of some embodiments also dynamically deploys edge forwarding elements in the SDDC for applications and/or tenants after detecting the need for the edge forwarding elements based on monitored traffic flow conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Ganesh Sadasivan, Chidambareswaran Raman, Dileep K. Devireddy, Hongwei Zhu, Sreenivas Duvvuri
  • Patent number: 11729677
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for updating a sequence hopping (SH) pattern of an uplink channel during handover from a current cell having a current SH pattern. A method may include receiving, from a base station associated with current cell, a transmission including information indicating a handover command that instructs the WTRU to handover to a target cell. The handover command may include information indicating a SH enablement indication and a SH parameter. The SH enablement indication may indicate that SH is enabled for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission. A PUCCH transmission may be sent to a base station associated with the target cell, and the PUCCH transmission may include symbols derived from a sequence that is based on the SH parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Wang, Joseph S. Levy, Stephen E. Terry, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez
  • Patent number: 11722361
    Abstract: Systems, methods and instrumentalities are disclosed for WTRU-initiated beam recovery including beam switching and/or beam sweeping. A WTRU may be configured to detect a beam failure condition, identify a candidate beam for resolving the beam failure condition, and send a beam failure recovery request to a network entity. The WTRU may include the candidate beam in the beam failure recovery request and may receive a response from the network entity regarding the request and/or a solution for the beam failure condition. WTRU-initiated beam recovery may be used to resolve radio link failures and improve system performance by avoiding the necessity to perform an acquisition procedure. Additionally, beam sweeping may be performed at a sub-time unit level to provide a fast sweeping mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Fengjun Xi, Afshin Haghighat, Moon-il Lee
  • Patent number: 11722279
    Abstract: A method and system for minimizing the control overhead in a multi-carrier wireless communication network that utilizes a time-frequency resource is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more zones in the time-frequency resource are designated for particular applications, such as a zone dedicated for voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications. By grouping applications of a similar type together within a zone, a reduction in the number of bits necessary for mapping a packet stream to a portion of the time-frequency resource can be achieved. In some embodiments, modular coding schemes associated with the packet streams may be selected that further reduce the amount of necessary control information. In some embodiments, packets may be classified for transmission in accordance with application type, QoS parameters, and other properties. In some embodiments, improved control messages may be constructed to facilitate the control process and minimize associated overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NEO WIRELESS LLC
    Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Haiming Huang, Titus Lo, Ruifeng Wang