Patents Examined by Charles C Jiang
  • Patent number: 12284670
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to a user equipment (UE) delivering an indication of one or more uplink listen-before-talk (LBT) failures to a network. The UE may identify a predetermined condition corresponding to one or more uplink listen-before-talk (LBT) failures associated with a special cell (SpCell). The UE is triggered to provide an indication of uplink LBT failure associated with the SpCell to the network based on the predetermined condition. Next, the UE may determine a type of message that is to be used to deliver the indication of uplink LBT failure associated with the SpCell to the network. The UE may transmit the type of message including the indication of uplink LBT failure associated with the SpCell to the network. Subsequently, the UE may determine that the network received the indication of uplink LBT failure associated with the SpCell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12284652
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving a first buffer status report at a communication device; and triggering a pre-emptive buffer status report based on the first buffer status report if a trigger condition is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang, Jing Han, Zhi Yan, Jie Shi, Jie Hu
  • Patent number: 12284141
    Abstract: A method performed in a system comprising a joint traffic direction scheduler configured to coordinate time-division-duplexing (TDD) transmissions for multiple cells comprises obtaining TDD operation information from each of the cells, determining, based on the obtained TDD operation information, a transmission direction to be used by each of the cells during one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs), and indicating to the cells the determined transmission direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Du Ho Kang, Jung-Fu Cheng, Havish Koorapaty, Sorour Falahati
  • Patent number: 12278758
    Abstract: Techniques are described for communications in an L2 virtual network. In an example, the L2 virtual network includes a plurality of L2 compute instances hosted on a set of host machines and a plurality of L2 virtual network interfaces and L2 virtual switches hosted on a set of network virtualization devices. An L2 virtual network interface emulates an L2 port of the L2 virtual network. IGMP configuration is distributed to the L2 virtual switches. A control plane of the L2 virtual network coordinates IGMP configuration across the L2 virtual switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jagwinder Singh Brar, Lucas Michael Kreger-Stickles, Bryce Eugene Bockman, Peter Croft Jones, Shane Baker
  • Patent number: 12278781
    Abstract: Logic may receive an initial communication from a user device, the initial communication comprising capabilities. Logic may determine, based on an indication of a capability to support new radio frequency layers from the capabilities for the user device, a measurement gap configuration for the new radio frequency layers and a measurement gap configuration for a channel state information reference signal. Logic may send a frame with a preamble to a physical layer comprising the measurement gap configuration. Logic may send an initial communication to a physical layer, wherein the initial communication comprises capabilities for a user device. Logic may decode downlink data with a measurement gap configuration. And logic may parse the measurement gap configuration to determine at least one measurement gap identification and at least one offset for the new radio frequency layers and a channel state information reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Candy Yiu, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 12273303
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the communications field, and in particular, to an information sending/receiving method and apparatus in the communications field. The information receiving method includes: determining an information receiving time based on any two of a time division duplex sector sweep acknowledgement frame count index, a count index, and a time division duplex sector sweep frame count index, duration of a time division duplex sector sweep frame, and duration of a time division duplex sector sweep acknowledgement frame; and receiving information at the determined information receiving time. According to the information receiving/sending method provided in the embodiments of this application, the information sending apparatus can send information at an accurate information sending time, the information receiving apparatus can receive the information at an accurate information receiving time, and system communication can be normally performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao Han, Chenlong Jia, Yan Xin
  • Patent number: 12267193
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device and a division number determination method that improves the frequency diversity effect while maintaining channel estimation accuracy regardless of the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. A determination unit determines the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. Here, the determination unit increases the number of divisions in the frequency domain of the transmission signal from the wireless communication terminal device as the number of pilot blocks included in the transmission signal increases. In addition, a scheduling unit schedules allocation to the frequency resources of the divided transmission signal according to the number of divisions determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Kenichi Miyoshi, Yasuaki Yuda, Sadaki Futagi, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 12267899
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing data in accordance with at least one algorithm to select one of carrier aggregation or dual connectivity for providing a communication service in respect of a communication device, resulting in a selection, and providing the communication service to the communication device in accordance with the selection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ye Chen, Wen Yang, Hongyan Lei, Yupeng Jia
  • Patent number: 12256267
    Abstract: In a wireless local area network system, a station (STA) can transmit a first physical protocol data unit (PPDU) including a link adaptation control field. The link adaptation control field can include a bit indicating whether the link adaptation control field includes information related to low-latency traffic. The low-latency traffic can require a latency of less than or equal to a threshold value. The STA can be allocated resources for the low-latency traffic. The STA can transmit a second PPDU including the low-latency traffic through the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suhwook Kim, Jeongki Kim, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 12255798
    Abstract: An example network device includes a memory configured to store a plurality of counts of packets of a data flow. The network device also includes one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine the plurality of counts of packets of the data flow, wherein each count of the plurality of counts includes a number of packets occurring in a predetermined time period. The one or more processors are configured to assign a corresponding range to each count of the plurality of counts, so as to assign a plurality of corresponding ranges. The one or more processors are also configured to determine a pattern in the plurality of corresponding ranges and send a number of active probe packets based on the determined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajeev Gupta, Samta Rangare, Prasad V
  • Patent number: 12256234
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for predicting tower downtimes in a cellular or wireless network and taking preemptive measures relative to the predicted downtime. One or more towers in a cellular network are selected to predict whether they are or are about to experience downtime. A prediction model trained to predict downtimes of towers sharing a characteristic with the one or more selected towers. Current information associated with the one or more selected towers is obtained and used in the prediction model to generate a downtime prediction for the one or more selected towers. The downtime prediction for the one or more selected towers is then provided to an administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Jon William Freeman Crofford
  • Patent number: 12256319
    Abstract: Location services for a user equipment (UE) are supported with a Network Exposure Function (NEF) serving as a focal point for any location request. An entity that needs the location of the UE sends a location request to the NEF in the home PLMN or Visited PLMN for the UE. The location request includes, e.g., a type of location request, a required location accuracy, a required response time or some combination of these. The NEF determines whether to use a Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) or a serving Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) for the UE to obtain the UE location based on the content of the location request and sends the location request to the GMLC or serving AMF accordingly. Additionally, if the serving AMF is used, a serving base station may obtain the UE location and send the UE location to the serving AMF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen William Edge, Haris Zisimopoulos, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 12250340
    Abstract: An example communications system includes: a source device and a destination device; a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, the VoIP service configured to support a voice call between the source device and the destination device over at least one of a wide-area IP network and a public-switched telephone network; wherein, for at least one leg in the voice call: an encoding device is configured to encode an analog audio stream to a digital audio stream according to one or more input parameters, the input parameters including variable input parameters; a receiving device is configured to send a quality indicator to the encoding device, the quality indicator representing the quality of the digital audio stream received at the receiving device; and the encoding device is configured to, at a feedback controller, determine updated variable input parameters for encoding a subsequent analog audio stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: TEXTNOW, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Kovacevic, Alexandru Gabriel Roman
  • Patent number: 12250290
    Abstract: A method of transition encoding including: receiving a data packet having a packet size; identifying one or more forbidden patterns in the data packet; segmenting the data packet into a plurality of segments based on a location of the one or more forbidden patterns in the data packet; and encoding the plurality of segments by removing the one or more forbidden patterns, and appending position indicator bits according to positions of the segments in the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aliazam Abbasfar
  • Patent number: 12238599
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for offloading traffic by means of wireless LAN in a mobile communications system and apparatus therefor, and more particularly to a method for a terminal to offload traffic at a bearer level, and to a base station communicating with the terminal. The method for a terminal to offload traffic according to the present invention includes the steps of: while performing a data communication with a base station through a bearer of a first communications network, receiving from the base station an offloading command for offloading a part of traffic to a second communications network; transmitting a report of the offloading to the base station in response to the offloading command; and performing a data communication of the partial traffic with an accessible AP through a bearer of the second communications network without releasing the bearer of the first communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Kyeongin Jeong
  • Patent number: 12238045
    Abstract: A frequency-band state processing method and device are provided. The frequency-band state processing method at a UE side includes: receiving, by a UE, control signaling sent by a network device; wherein the control signaling includes at least one BWP identifier and a state configuration indication, and the state configuration indication includes an activation indication or a deactivation indication; configuring, by the UE according to the state configuration indication, a BWP state of a BWP corresponding to the BWP identifier included in the control signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yumin Wu
  • Patent number: 12232178
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for a wireless node to receive a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) transmitted inside a downlink random access channel (RACH) message. The wireless node may receive a downlink RACH message that includes a PTRS based on an indication received in a downlink RACH message or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) associated with a downlink RACH message. In some aspects, the wireless node may utilize the PTRS for phase error correction or frequency error correction (such as frequency error caused by Doppler effects). This disclosure also provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for a component of a base station to provide an indication that a PTRS is included in a downlink RACH message. The indication may be provided in a downlink RACH message or a PDCCH associated with a downlink RACH message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12224817
    Abstract: A method for a first device to communicate with at least one second device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system includes providing a first trigger frame to at least one second device, the first trigger frame requesting at least one sounding null data packet (NDP), providing a feedback frame to the at least one second device, the feedback frame including feedback information generated based on the at least one sounding NDP, and providing a second trigger frame to the at least one second device, the second trigger frame requesting at least one beamformed physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU), each of the first trigger frame and the feedback frame including a sounding dialog token number field having a sounding sequence number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eunsung Jeon, Chulho Chung, Myeongjin Kim, Jonghun Han
  • Patent number: 12219395
    Abstract: A method for utilizing computing resources in a vRAN is described. A predicted resource load is determined for data traffic processing of wireless communication channels served by the vRAN using a trained neural network model. The data traffic processing comprises at least one of PHY data processing or MAC processing for a 5G RAN. Computing resources are allocated for the data traffic processing based on the predicted resource load. Wireless parameter limits are determined for the wireless communication channels that constrain utilization of the allocated computing resources using the trained neural network model, including setting one or more of a maximum number of radio resource units per timeslot or a maximum MCS index for the wireless parameter limits. The data traffic processing is performed using the wireless parameter limits to reduce load spikes that cause a violation of real-time deadlines for the data traffic processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yu Yan, Anuj Kalia, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Paramvir Bahl
  • Patent number: 12213036
    Abstract: There is provided a method comprising: determining at least one V2X message (M) comprising at least one data container (DSC) comprising at least one environment image (I #1) representing a part (E #1) of an environment in at least one spatial dimension at one point in time; and wireless transmitting the at least one V2X message (M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Alexander Schiegg, Tobias Frye, Frank Hofmann