Patents Examined by Dang T Ton
  • Patent number: 10945310
    Abstract: A method and device for wireless communication in a UE and a base station is disclosed. The UE receives M first-type reference signals respectively in M first-type air interface resources, receives a first wireless signal, and transmits first report information. A first spatial reception parameter is used for reception of the first wireless signal. The measurement of only M1 first-type reference signal(s) of the M first-type reference signals is used to generate the first report information. The selection of the M1 first-type reference signal(s) is associated with the first spatial reception parameter. The disclosure reduces signaling and feedback overhead associated with beam management and channel measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Keying Wu, XiaoBo Zhang
  • Patent number: 10938541
    Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of transmitters and a receiving unit. The transmitters are configured to divide signals to be emitted into K part signals and to emit the K part signals using K sub-carriers. K is an integer. The K sub-carriers are frequency bands having a sub-carrier bandwidth and are spaced in frequency. The receiving unit is configured to receive signals emitted by the transmitters. The invention further refers to a transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Frank Mayer, Rainer Wansch
  • Patent number: 10931396
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an aggregate MPDU and a response frame thereto and a wireless communication terminal using the same, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for setting various formats of the aggregate MPDU and the response frame thereto and performing an efficient data communication by using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Juhyung Son, Geonjung Ko, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 10931581
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for media access control (MAC) address learning are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include: receiving, by a processing device, a packet; determining, by the processing device, a packet type of the packet; and responsive to determining that the packet is a MAC learning packet type, updating, by the processing device, a MAC address table based on MAC address information associated with the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bruce H. Ratcliff
  • Patent number: 10931499
    Abstract: A user equipment may, based on a tuneaway, start suspend a first timer and/or deactivate a first counter and may, based on a tuneback, resume the first timer and/or activate the first counter. The first timer and first counter may be configured to be used to determine that a sufficiently large number of sufficiently closely timed beam failure indications have been received and, in response to that determination, initiate an access procedure. A user equipment may also identify an overlap of a timing of at least one radio access technology event and a timing of a tuneaway gap and may, based on the identified overlap of the timing of at least one radio access technology event and the timing of the tuneaway gap, modify the timing of the at least one radio access technology event or the timing of the tuneaway gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Hu, Qingxin Chen, Reza Shahidi
  • Patent number: 10932289
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus for transmitting a signal transmission method and a device are disclosed. One method includes transmitting a signal based on a predefined transmission pattern by a communications device. The transmission pattern defines that a non-first downlink timing boundary in a downlink time domain unit is later than or earlier than a first downlink timing boundary is defined, or that an uplink timing boundary in an uplink time domain unit is earlier than or later than the first downlink timing boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junchao Li, Chi Zhang, Zhengwei Gong
  • Patent number: 10917890
    Abstract: A communication device according to one embodiment includes a controller and a transmitter. The controller is configured to identify a zone that is a geographical section where the communication device is located, and select a predetermined transmission resource region from a plurality of transmission resource regions included in one transmission resource pool associated with the identified zone. The transmitter is configured to transmit a direct radio signal to another communication device by using a resource in the predetermined transmission resource region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Adachi, Masato Fujishiro, Mayumi Komura, Kugo Morita, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 10911209
    Abstract: A method of conveying an allocation of radio resources on a radio channel for communicating data between a base station and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system, wherein the radio channel spans a channel frequency bandwidth divided into frequency resource units which may be selectively allocated for communicating data between the base station and the terminal device, and wherein the method comprises, at the base station, selecting a combination of resource units for communicating the data between the base station and the terminal device from among a predefined set of allowable combinations of resource units, wherein the allowable combinations of resource units include non-contiguous combinations of resource units and wherein the number of allowable combinations of resource units is smaller than the total number of combinations of resource units, and conveying, to the terminal device, an indication of the selected combination of resource units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 10912124
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a terminal, time-frequency configuration information from a network side, where the time-frequency configuration information is used to indicate a random access channel (RACH) time-frequency resource; receiving, by the terminal, spatial configuration information from the network side, where the spatial configuration information is used to indicate an RACH spatial resource; forming, by the terminal, at least one beam based on the spatial configuration information, and sending, by using the at least one beam, a random access preamble to the network side on all or part of the RACH time-frequency resource indicated by the time-frequency configuration information; and receiving, by the terminal, a random access response (RAR) for the random access preamble from the network side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 10912026
    Abstract: Various solutions for power-efficient mechanism for multi-link operation with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may establish a first link and a second link with at least one of a plurality of network nodes. The apparatus may monitor the first link. The apparatus may stop monitoring the second link. The apparatus may determine whether a condition is triggered on the first link. The apparatus may activate the second link in response to the condition being triggered on the first link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Pradeep Jose, Pavan Santhana Krishna Nuggehalli
  • Patent number: 10911577
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for generating a protocol data unit (PDU) packet. The method includes: acquiring a service data unit (SDU) packet, processing the SDU packet according to a size of a preset data packet, and generating a packet header and a data section of a PDU packet according to the processing result, the packet header and the data section constituting the PDU packet. The packet header omits a framing indication (FI) field and a resegmentation flag (RF) field and includes a preset field, and the preset field includes other fields than the FI field and the RF field that are redefined in a common packet header, or a target field that is newly added, a field length of the target field that is newly added being smaller than a total length of the FI field and the RF field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 10904812
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to techniques to increase reliability of communications within a network during a low reliability period. The network may include a user equipment (UE) communicatively coupled with one or more transmit/receive points (TRPs), with the communications between the UE and the one more TRPs requiring a reliability above a first reliability threshold. A processor of a network entity may identify a low reliability period which occurs when the reliability of the communications is determined to be below a second reliability threshold. The processor may cause the network to perform one or more remedial actions to increase the reliability during the low reliability period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vinay Joseph, Mehmet Yavuz, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Christophe Chevallier, Rajat Prakash, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap
  • Patent number: 10904810
    Abstract: A handover method, an access network device, and a terminal device are provided. A handover method comprising: receiving by an access network device, a change instruction message, wherein the change instruction message is used to instruct the access network device to instruct a terminal device to perform an update, generating, by the access network device, an update message, wherein the update message is used to instruct the terminal device to perform an update; and sending by the access network device, the update message to the terminal device. Based on a handover procedure initiated by the second core network device, the connection between the terminal device and the second core network device may be switched to the connection between the terminal device and the first core network device without switching of the access network device, so that a network communication requirement is efficiently met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingzhao Li, Wei Quan, Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 10904837
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling access devices including WI-FI and dual radio communications between an access control database and one or more access devices in a facility. The systems and methods allow real time communications between the database and the access devices utilizing existing communications WI-FI infrastructure in the facility while minimizing loss of battery life of the access devices by employing the radio network to target all or a portion of the access devices for communications when needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Ryan C. Kincaid, Lakshmi Santhanakrishnan, Brian A. Telljohann, Kevin P. Oehler, Nabeel Bitar
  • Patent number: 10892878
    Abstract: A reference signal sending method and apparatus, and a reference signal receiving method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining, by a network device, a first configuration of a first reference signal and a second configuration of a second reference signal, where the first configuration includes a first subcarrier spacing, and the second configuration includes a second subcarrier spacing; and sending, by the network device on a first subband, the first reference signal meeting the first configuration, and sending, on a second subband, the second reference signal meeting the second configuration, where a parameter configuration of the first subband is different from a parameter configuration of the second subband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinxian Li, Ning Wu, Hao Tang, Yi Qin
  • Patent number: 10887835
    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods for reducing power consumption among multiple user devices that are communicatively coupled to a management server. The management server can receive an indication that a first user device (a laptop computer, for example) is in an active state and that a first application (an email application or a web browser, for example), is executing at the laptop computer. The management server determines that a second user device (a smartphone, for example) is associated with the same user and further determines that a second application is installed on the smartphone. The management server can determine that the smartphone is in an inactive state or that the second application is currently not executing on the smartphone. The management server sends an instruction to the smartphone to turn off at least one functionality so as to reduce power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Ramanandan Nambannor Kunnath, Ashish Maan, Shanti Kamichetty, Bala Subrahmanyam Gangu
  • Patent number: 10887931
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication methods and communications apparatus. One example method includes receiving a first message that is sent by a terminal through an access network device and that includes a first identifier, where the first identifier is used to indicate a message type of the first message, and the message type corresponds to a control plane entity type, and determining the control plane entity type to receive the first message based on the first identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chong Lou, Mingzeng Dai, Tingting Geng
  • Patent number: 10887909
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for a user equipment to receive system information in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method is characterized in detecting a first synchronization signal block configured with a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) and a Physical Broadcasting Channel (PBCH) at a specific frequency position, determining a presence or non-presence of system information corresponding to the first synchronization signal block within a first synchronization raster corresponding to a specific frequency position based on a system information indicator included in the PBCH, and if the system information corresponding to the first synchronization signal block is determined as not existing, determining a second synchronization raster having system information exist therein based on the system information indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngsub Kim, Hyunsoo Ko, Sukhyon Yoon, Kijun Kim, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 10880751
    Abstract: A resource allocation method, a computer program product and a communication device are disclosed. The method includes: determining, based on a configuration parameter of a first sub-frame, whether preferential transmission of the first sub-frame needs to be ensured, wherein the first sub-frame refers to a sub-frame in a first wireless communication system; defining a transmission direction of a second sub-frame which exerts cross-interference to the first sub-frame to be the same as that of the first sub-frame if preferential transmission of the first sub-frame needs to be ensured, wherein the second sub-frame refers to a sub-frame in a second wireless communication system; and defining OFDM symbols in the first sub-frame which exert cross-interference to the second sub-frame to be transmission prohibited if preferential transmission of the first sub-frame does not need to be ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CLOUDMINDS (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: William Xiao-qing Huang, Haitao Jiang, Zhenkai Wang
  • Patent number: 10873900
    Abstract: A method for Wi-Fi connection and related products are provided. The method includes obtaining X parameters of a target access point (AP), where the X parameters at least include a target service set identifier (SSID) of the target AP, and X is a positive integer. A Wi-Fi scan is performed according to the X parameters. In response to unsuccessful finding of the target AP, according to current network environment information, M Wi-Fi connection records are determined from historical Wi-Fi connection data, where each of the M Wi-Fi connection records contains an AP previously connected by a terminal, and M is a positive integer. A Wi-Fi scan is performed according to the target SSID and SSIDs in the M Wi-Fi connection records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Yu, Shimin Jiang, Yadong Hu, Botao Cu