Patents Examined by Christine Ng
  • Patent number: 11700601
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus by which user equipment controls transmission power of a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system that supports a sidelink, according to various embodiments. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus by which user equipment controls transmission power of a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system that supports a sidelink, wherein the method comprises the steps of: calculating required power for each antenna unit included in a plurality of antenna units to which the sidelink signal is transmitted; determining reference transmission power on the basis of the required power calculated for the plurality of antenna units; and allocating transmission power for the plurality of antenna units on the basis of the reference transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 11695613
    Abstract: A method for generating a non-uniform constellation is provided. The method comprises the step of performing a first process, the first process comprising the steps of: obtaining a first constellation defined by one or more parameter values; and generating a second constellation based on the first constellation using a second process. The second process comprises the steps of: obtaining a set of candidate constellations, wherein the set of candidate constellations comprises the first constellation and one or more modified constellations, wherein each modified constellation is obtained by modifying the parameter values defining the first constellation; determining the performance of each candidate constellation according to a predetermined performance measure; selecting the candidate constellation having the best performance as the second constellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Belkacem Mouhouche, Daniel Ansorregui Lobete, Hong-sil Jeong
  • Patent number: 11689313
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a cell punctures resource(s) allocated to transmission of UL or DL PRS(s). The cell communicates (e.g., receives or transmits) UL or DL higher-priority signal(s) on the punctured resource(s), and communicates the UL or DL PRS(s) on the non-punctured resource(s). In another embodiment, a second cell neighboring a first cell schedules and transmits the UL or DL higher-priority signal(s) on part of the first cell's PRS resource(s). In another embodiment, the first cell receives an indication of the UL or DL higher-priority signal(s) scheduled for transmission by the second cell, and punctures its PRS resource(s) to reduce interference on the second cell's UL or DL higher-priority signal(s). In a further embodiment, a UE receives an indication of puncturing and selectively modifies its PRS processing on the punctured resource(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11683262
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a data packet from a first host located in the first site, where the data packet may be destined to a second host located in a second site that may be different from the first site, determining that an identifier of a second group to which the second host belongs is not available at the first network apparatus, sending a request for an identifier of the second group to a second network apparatus, where the request may comprise an address of the second host, receiving a response comprising the identifier of the second group from the second network apparatus, determining that the second group is a destination group, applying one or more policies associated with the destination group to the data packet, and causing the data packet to be routed to the second host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Anubhav Gupta, Rex Fernando, Sanjay Kumar Hooda, Syam Sundar Appala, Samir Thoria
  • Patent number: 11665591
    Abstract: During operation, an access point communicates with one or more electronic devices. Based at least on the communication, the access point determines an available capacity metric of the access point. Then, the access point provides the determined available capacity metric to one or more second access points, and receives available capacity metrics of the one or more second access points. Moreover, the access point compares the available capacity metric and a parameter corresponding to the available capacity metrics. Based at least in part on the comparison, the access point dynamically and selectively performs load balancing, where performing the load balancing involves providing a recommendation to at least a first electronic device of the one or more electronic devices, and where the recommendation indicates that the first electronic device, which is associated with the access point, transition to a different communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Wen Chen, Qingfeng Wang, Raghavendra Sadaramachandra
  • Patent number: 11659555
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support non-periodic channel state information (CSI) triggering and reporting in wireless communications. In cases where two or more CSI report requests trigger multiple CSI report transmissions in an same uplink slot, a user equipment (UE) may format at least a subset of the multiple CSI reports according to a formatting configuration for transmission of multiple CSI reports in a same uplink slot. The UE may use allocated resources in the uplink slot for each CSI report that are allocated by the base station in the corresponding CSI report request. In some cases, the UE may combine the multiple CSI reports, or parts thereof, into a combined CSI report that may be transmitted using allocated resources of one of the CSI report requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Yu Zhang, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11658905
    Abstract: A controller, including a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor for managing a first autonomous system (AS), the program including instructions to receive a first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing message, determine a destination node, the destination node belonging to the first AS, determine, according to a node that sends the first BGP routing message, whether to perform incoming-traffic adjustment and control, allocate a source node from a second AS directly connected to the first AS, obtain a preferred path between the source and destination nodes according to a network topology, determine a first BR and a second BR on the preferred path, and send a routing control message to a specified BR belonging to the first AS instructing the specified BR to use the first BR as a next hop for packet forwarding of the second BR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Zhou, Yi Xiong, Shunwan Zhuang, Changjiang Yan
  • Patent number: 11652564
    Abstract: This application discloses a bandwidth allocation method, an optical line terminal (OLT), an optical network unit (ONU), and a system, where the method includes receiving a bandwidth request from each ONU, where the ONU includes an ONU1, generating a bandwidth map (BWMap) message according to bandwidth requested by the ONU and bandwidth configured for the ONU, where the BWMap message includes a first allocation identifier (Alloc-ID1), a first time corresponding to the Alloc-ID1, a second allocation identifier (Alloc-ID2), and a second time corresponding to the Alloc-ID2, and both the Alloc-ID1 and the Alloc-ID2 are allocated to the ONU1 for use, and sending the BWMap message to each ONU. Therefore, a problem that a transmission delay does not satisfy a requirement when a passive optical network (PON) system is applied to mobile backhaul is resolved, a data transmission rate and data transmission efficiency are improved, and user satisfaction is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lun Zhang, Xifeng Wan, Gang Zheng
  • Patent number: 11637785
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method executed by user equipment, including: receiving, by a radio link control “RLC” entity, a service data unit “SDU” from an upper layer. The method further includes: generating, by the RLC entity, a protocol data unit “PDU,” the PDU including at least a part of the received SDU, and a sequence number of the PDU being set according to a send state variable. The method further includes: updating, by the RLC entity, the send state variable. Furthermore, the present disclosure further provides corresponding user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Fangying Xiao, Takako Hori
  • Patent number: 11637606
    Abstract: A method for avoiding false alarms of Channel State Information (CSI) due to the activation of a Closed Loop Power Control (CLPC) function is provided. The method is executed by a transmitting device and includes: determining whether the CLPC function of the transmitting device is enabled; adding at least one CLPC tag to a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) when the CLPC function is enabled; and transmitting the PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.
    Inventor: Chia-Hsin Wu
  • Patent number: 11632204
    Abstract: Methods and systems for sending and receiving an enhanced downlink control channel are disclosed. The method may include receiving control channel information via an enhanced control channel. The method may also include using the control channel information to receive a shared channel. The method may include detecting the presence of the enhanced control channel in a given subframe. The enhanced control channel may be transmitted over multiple antenna ports. For example, code divisional multiplexing and de-multiplexing and the use of common and UE-specific reference signals may be utilized. New control channel elements may be defined, and enhanced control channel state information (CSI) feedback may be utilized. The presence or absence of legacy control channels may affect the demodulation and or decoding methods. The method may be implemented at a WTRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Moon-il Lee, Afshin Haghighat, Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, Guodong Zhang, Marian Rudolf
  • Patent number: 11627574
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to downlink (DL) transmissions using various powers and assigning frequency resources based on the powers. An example base station may transmit, to a first user equipment (UE), an indication of a first transmit (Tx) power for a first DL transmission on a first downlink (DL) resource on a carrier, the first DL resource being at a first frequency. The first DL resource may be at a first frequency. The first Tx power may have a power level configured based on a difference between the first frequency for the first DL resource and an uplink (UL) frequency region of the carrier. Then, the base station may transmit the first DL transmission using the first frequency and the first Tx power. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Shimman Arvind Patel, Wanshi Chen, Huilin Xu, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11621798
    Abstract: Preamble puncturing configuration information is encoded in a pad field, and alternatively or additionally, in a Service Field, depending on a transmission bandwidth of a Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). Some implementations also encode one or more parity bits in the pad field or Service field. The PPDU including the preamble puncturing configuration information encodes, in various embodiments, a request to send frame, a clear to send frame, a power save poll frame, or a contention free end frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Hart, Zhigang Gao
  • Patent number: 11617062
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for group content delivery. A method in a communication network which comprises the content provider node and a broadcast-multicast service node, wherein the content provider node needs to deliver a message to a group of user equipments via the broadcast multicast service node. The method comprises obtaining one or more group identifiers. The method further comprises sending the one or more group identifiers to the broadcast-multicast service node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Wenliang Xu, Jinyang Xie
  • Patent number: 11606790
    Abstract: In a communication system having plural management devices and plural terminal devices, the management device included in a first group and the management device included in a second group each include a respective multi-band communication device performing communication using a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The terminal device included in the first group and the terminal device included in the second group each include a respective specific communication device performing communication using assigned frequency bands assigned to the respective groups to which subject terminal devices belong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11601221
    Abstract: A communication control device for a user station. The communication control device controls a communication of the user station with at least one other user station of the bus system, and generates a transmission signal for transmission onto a bus and/or receives a signal from the bus. The communication control device generates the transmission signal according to a frame in which bits having a predetermined temporal length are provided. The communication control device generates the transmission signal so that its bits may be transmitted bus as a dominant state or a recessive state, so that the recessive state is overwritable by the dominant state. The communication control device shortens in the transmission signal at least one bit, which is to be transmitted as the dominant state, by a predetermined value in comparison to a bit that is to be transmitted onto the bus as the recessive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Simon Weissenmayer
  • Patent number: 11595857
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communications. The UE receives first information, the first information being used to indicate a first time-domain resource and a second time-domain resource in a first sub-band, wherein the first time-domain resource is reserved for a first radio signal; performs a first access detection to determine whether to transmit the first radio signal on the first time-domain resource in the first sub-band; and transmits the first radio signal on the first time-domain resource in the first sub-band, and does not transmit any radio signal on a reserved time-domain resource in the first sub-band; or, the UE drops transmitting the first radio signal on the first time-domain resource in the first sub-band. The reserved time-domain resource is located between the first time-domain resource and the second time-domain resource in time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11588526
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods and devices for implementing a temperature-aware, multi-antenna scheduler that cools mmWave devices by preventing heat buildup via switching or distributing a data stream to other redundant antennas, allowing for dissipation of heat as well as providing reliable connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: University of South Carolina
    Inventors: Sanjib Sur, Moh. S. Saadat, Srihari Nelakuditi
  • Patent number: 11588601
    Abstract: A method for operating an access node includes sending a configuration of one or more first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources and a configuration of one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, generating first control information including an identifier of a SRS resource set that includes the one or more SRS resources precoded by one or more precoders, generating second control information including an identifier of the one or more first CSI-RS resources, wherein the one or more first CSI-RS resources are associated with the identified SRS resource set, wherein the one or more first CSI-RS resources convey a downlink reference signal (RS) used for making measurements, and wherein the one or more precoders are determined in accordance with measurements of the downlink RS, sending the first control information and the second control information, and sending the downlink RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Liu, Xianda Liu, Kunpeng Liu, Young Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11581972
    Abstract: A trigger signal provided via a pulse-per-second input port of a network interface controller is detected. In response to the trigger signal, an internal hardware clock value of the network interface controller is recorded. The recorded internal hardware clock value is reported, wherein the reported internal hardware clock value is reported for use in determining a timing error of the network interface controller based at least in part on a comparison with a time value of another device that also received the trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Ahmad Byagowi