Patents Examined by Chuong T. Ho
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Patent number: 10694421Abstract: A method, performed by a User Equipment (UE) including a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity associated with two Radio Link Control (RLC) entities and configured with a duplication function that is not activated, includes: determining, by the PDCP entity, whether the two RLC entities belong to a same cell group, and submitting, by the PDCP entity, a PDCP Data Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to a primary RLC entity of the two RLC entities when the two RLC entities belong to the same cell group.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen
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Patent number: 10681638Abstract: A communication system and an IoT system are provided. The IoT system is applicable to a wireless network system including an access point. The IoT system includes a WiFi module and a GPIO device. The WiFi module is configured to connect to the access point. The GPIO device is configured to provide a plurality of wake-up signals to the WiFi module through a GPIO pin. A predetermined time period between any two of wake-up signals is greater than an interval between two delivery traffic indication messages from the access point. The WiFi module includes a timer and a power management unit, the power management unit drains power to transfer the WiFi module from a sleep mode to a normal mode after the timer receives the wake-up signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor Korea Inc.Inventors: Beomjin Kim, David Cohen
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Patent number: 10681765Abstract: A method for controlling vehicle-to-vehicle communication is described. The vehicle-to-vehicle communication is performable using a first radio technology for performing the vehicle-to-vehicle communication and a second radio technology for accessing a cellular network. The method comprises determining a distribution scheme for distributing a transmission of vehicle-to-vehicle communication messages among the first radio technology and the second radio technology, and, in accordance with the determined distribution scheme, a vehicle-to-vehicle communication device controlling the transmission of the vehicle-to-vehicle communication messages. Therefore the vehicle-to-vehicle communication can be easily and efficiently controlled and the accordingly controlled vehicle-to-vehicle communication can be performed in an easy, efficient, cost-effective and reliable way.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Nadia Brahmi, Joachim Sachs
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Patent number: 10673603Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a first radio frequency interconnect (RFI) transceiver, a second RFI transceiver, a third RFI transceiver, a fourth RFI transceiver and a guided transmission medium. The first RFI transceiver is configured to transmit or receive a first data signal. The second RFI transceiver is configured to transmit or receive a second data signal. The third RFI transceiver is configured to transmit or receive the first data signal. The fourth RFI transceiver is configured to transmit or receive the second data signal. The guided transmission medium is configured to carry the first data signal and the second data signal. The first RFI transceiver and the second RFI transceiver are connected to the third RFI transceiver and the fourth RFI transceiver by the guided transmission medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Huan-Neng Chen, William Wu Shen, Chewn-Pu Jou, Feng Wei Kuo, Lan-Chou Cho, Tze-Chiang Huang, Jack Liu, Yun-Han Lee
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Patent number: 10674482Abstract: The present invention provides a resource allocation method, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: receiving, by a second base station, resource configuration information of a first base station; and sending, by the second base station, the resource configuration information of the first base station to user equipment (UE), where the resource configuration information of the first base station is used to configure a resource for device-to-device (D2D) communication between the UE and the second base station. According to the method provided in embodiments of the present invention, the UE can perform D2D communication with the second base station or a core network by using the resource configured by using the resource configuration information of the first base station. Therefore, an uplink resource or a downlink resource of the first base station can be reused by the UE, thereby improving resource utilization of a communications system.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jie Ma, Bo Lin
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Patent number: 10666566Abstract: The present invention discloses a network traffic control system capable of properly using bandwidth of a local area network (LAN). An embodiment of the system includes a master device and at least one slave device(s). The master device and the slave device(s) belong to the same LAN. The master device is configured to receive at least one flow notification packet(s) from each slave device, and determine flow allocation of the master device and each slave device according to the flow notification packet(s) and a total flow threshold. The master device is further configured to generate at least one flow control packet(s) according to the flow allocation of all the slave device(s) and transmit one or more packet(s) in accordance with the flow control packet(s) to each of the slave device(s), so that each slave device determines flow allocation of its executing network-dependent program(s) according to the one or more packet(s).Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Meng-Ju Lin, Yu-Kuen Wu, Tzu-Yun Yeh
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Patent number: 10652151Abstract: A method for controlling traffic transmission in a control server of a communication system includes receiving information of an application corresponding to a network session; receiving, from a network node, information related to a network congestion condition with respect to the network session; and controlling a traffic flow of the network session on the basis of a traffic quality policy which is determined on the basis of the received application information and/or the information related to the network congestion condition. The control server can receive, from an electronic device, the application information of an application corresponding to the network session. The control server can determine the quality policy on the basis of the application information. The control sever can control the traffic flow of the network session according to the quality policy.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chulki Lee, Jungshin Park, Franklin Antony
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Patent number: 10644818Abstract: A method and apparatus for multiplexing different numerologies in a wireless communication system is provided. A network node divides a scheduling unit into a plurality of basic time resource units in time domain, and multiplexes multiple numerologies by unit of a basic time resource unit. The basic time resource unit for the multiple numerologies may be aligned with each other at a basic time resource unit level or a subframe level.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Byounghoon Kim
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Patent number: 10638463Abstract: Provided are a method of transmitting an uplink control information in a next-generation/5G radio access network. The method may include receiving uplink control channel resource set configuration information to transmit the uplink control information from a base station, determining one of uplink control channel resource sets contained in the uplink control channel resource set configuration information, determining one of uplink control channel resources configuring the determined uplink control channel resource set, and transmitting the uplink control information through the determined uplink control channel resource.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: KT CORPORATIONInventor: Kyujin Park
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Patent number: 10637628Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may receive configuration parameters for a primary cell and a secondary cell. The secondary cell may have configured scheduling request resources and the primary cell may not have configured scheduling request resources. The wireless device may initiate a random access procedure based on certain conditions in a time interval.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
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Patent number: 10631285Abstract: A method of receiving, by a user equipment, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a higher layer signal including first information for an uplink (UL)-downlink (DL) configuration; repeatedly receiving, from the BS, a first transport block (TB) via the PDSCH based on the first information for the UL-DL configuration; receiving, from the BS, a first control channel including second information for the UL-DL configuration; and discarding a second control channel based on: (i) the second control channel scheduling a PDSCH repetition of a second TB in a transmission time unit, (ii) the first information for the UL-DL configuration indicating the transmission time unit as an uplink, and (iii) the second information for the UL-DL configuration indicating the transmission time unit as a downlink.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Hyunho Lee
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Patent number: 10623149Abstract: Blockage detection in a wireless transmit receive unit includes performing a radio link measurement on one or more reference signals. The radio link measurement is compared to a comparing threshold and a blockage condition is indicated in response to the comparing of the radio link measurement meeting a threshold criterion on the comparing threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Yu-Syuan Jheng, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yuan-Wen Ting, Pei-Shan Kao
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Patent number: 10608938Abstract: A method for controlling traffic transmission in a control server of a communication system includes receiving information of an application corresponding to a network session; receiving, from a network node, information related to a network congestion condition with respect to the network session; and controlling a traffic flow of the network session on the basis of a traffic quality policy which is determined on the basis of the received application information and/or the information related to the network congestion condition. The control server can receive, from an electronic device, the application information of an application corresponding to the network session. The control server can determine the quality policy on the basis of the application information. The control sever can control the traffic flow of the network session according to the quality policy.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chulki Lee, Jungshin Park, Franklin Antony
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Patent number: 10609611Abstract: A wireless device may receive from a first base station, measurement configuration parameters of a measurement of the wireless device. The measurement configuration parameters comprise first beam identifiers of a first plurality of beams, second beam identifiers of a second plurality of beams and a measurement event indicating that a second combined reference signal measurement value of the second plurality of beams exceeds a first combined reference signal measurement value of the first plurality of beams by more than a first offset value. The first plurality of beams and the second plurality of beams are monitored to determine an occurrence of the measurement event. The first base station transmits a measurement report in response to the occurrence of the first measurement event. The measurement report comprises: the first combined reference signal measurement value and the second combined reference signal measurement value.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Ofinno, LLPInventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon
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Patent number: 10609718Abstract: A communications device includes a transmitter configured to transmit signals to one or more other communications devices via a wireless access interface, the one or more communications devices configured to perform device-to-device communications. A receiver is configured to receive signals from the one of the other communications devices via the wireless access interface, and a controller controls the transmitter and receiver to transmit or to receive the signals via the wireless access interface to transmit or to receive data represented by the signals. The wireless access interface provides a scheduling region including plural predetermined sections of communications resources, and plural sections of shared communications resources. Transmission of a scheduling assignment message in a section of the scheduling region informs other devices of a group that a communications device will transmit signals representing data in a corresponding section of the shared communications channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Brian Alexander Martin
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Patent number: 10609610Abstract: A base station receives a first message comprising mobility parameter(s) from a second base station. The mobility parameter(s) may comprise a power value of a handover trigger change for a wireless device handover between: first beam(s) of a first cell of the base station; and second beam(s) of a second cell of the second base station. A measurement report may be received from the wireless device. The measurement report may comprise: first received power value(s) associated with the first beam(s); and second received power value(s) associated with the second beam(s). A handover decision may be made for the wireless device based on the first message and the measurement report. A second message may be transmitted to the second base station. The second message may indicate a handover request for the wireless device in response to the handover decision.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon
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Patent number: 10608772Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting broadcasting signal using transmitter identification and method using the same are disclosed. An apparatus for transmitting broadcasting signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a waveform generator configured to generate a host broadcasting signal; a transmitter identification signal generator configured to generate a transmitter identification signal for identifying a transmitter; and a combiner configured to inject the transmitter identification signal into the host broadcasting signal in a time domain so that the transmitter identification signal is transmitted synchronously with the host broadcasting signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Jae-Young Lee, Heung-Mook Kim, Nam-Ho Hur
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Patent number: 10595357Abstract: A communication device receiving a first radio resource control (RRC) Reconfiguration message from a base station (BS) on a signaling radio bearer (SRB), wherein the first RRC Reconfiguration message configures a first data radio bearer (DRB) and configures a local cache routing configuration; receiving a second RRC Reconfiguration message from the BS on the SRB, wherein the second RRC Reconfiguration message configures a second DRB; transmitting a first protocol data unit (PDU) to the BS on the first DRB, wherein the communication device indicates a local cache routing in a PDU header of the first PDU when the local cache routing configuration is configured by the BS; transmitting a second PDU to the BS on the second DRB, wherein the communication device does not indicate the local cache routing in the second PDU.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: HTC CorporationInventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
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Patent number: 10587428Abstract: In a case where a signal received while a communication apparatus is in a power saving state is a multicast listener query signal, whether a multicast address of the signal matches a predetermined address of a multicast group joined by the communication apparatus is determined. In a case where the signal matches, a multicast receiver report is transmitted to a source of the multicast listener query signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kunihiro Kawada
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Patent number: 10575325Abstract: A communication device for receiving a service in an unlicensed cell comprises a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing means coupled to the storage unit. The processing means is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The instructions comprise receiving information of a resource pool in the unlicensed cell from a network; detecting a first starting point of a first service in the resource pool; and receiving the first service according to the first starting point, after the first starting point is detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: ACER INCORPORATEDInventor: Chien-Min Lee