Patents Examined by Dang T Ton
  • Patent number: 11647461
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) and a device using the same are provided. The device receives a trigger frame for requesting a transmission of a high efficiency (HE) trigger-based (TB) PPDU and transmits the HE TB PPDU. A duration of the HE TB PPDU is calculated based on a duration of the trigger frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jong Hoon Park
  • Patent number: 11641647
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a plurality of configurations corresponding to a plurality of physical cell identifiers (PCIs), wherein the plurality of PCIs are associated with a serving cell of a base station, and wherein the plurality of configurations are based at least in part on respective remote radio heads (RRHs) of the base station; receive information indicating an RRH, of the respective RRHs, or a PCI corresponding to the RRH; and perform a communication with the RRH based at least in part on the PCI in accordance with a configuration, of the plurality of configurations, corresponding to the PCI. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11638204
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method is disclosed for use in a network node. The method comprises obtaining network slice availability associated with one or more neighboring network nodes. The network slice availability indicates which of a plurality of network slices is supported by each of the one or more neighboring network nodes. The method further comprises managing slice connectivity of a wireless device based on the network slice availability of the one or more neighboring network nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gunnar Mildh, Angelo Centonza, Paul Schliwa-Bertling, Peter Hedman
  • Patent number: 11632222
    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: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 11632277
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, for generating or receiving a multi-generation physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU). The multi-generation PPDU may concurrently include a first generation-specific preamble based on a first generation of a wireless communication specification (such as that defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards) and a second generation-specific preamble based on a second generation of the wireless communication specification in a same transmission. The generation-specific preambles may be generated based on bandwidth portions of a wireless channel that each generation-specific preamble will occupy in the multi-generation PPDU. One or more of the generation-specific preambles may be modified based on an aggregate bandwidth of the multi-generation PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Sameer Vermani, Jialing Li Chen, Youhan Kim
  • Patent number: 11632686
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for collision handling for channel state information (CSI) reporting on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes receiving scheduling for at least one CSI reporting transmission and at least one uplink transmission in a same slot. The UE determines to multiplex the at least one CSI and the at least one uplink transmission in the slot or to drop the at least one CSI or the at least one uplink transmission in the slot. The UE transmits in the slot at least one of: the at least one CSI transmission or the at least one uplink transmission based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liangming Wu, Yu Zhang, Yi Huang, Chenxi Hao, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11632814
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit that communicates with an external electronic device, and a processor, wherein the processor may pair the electronic device with the external electronic device by using the wireless communication circuit, obtain accessibility setting information of the external electronic device from the external electronic device, and set an accessibility feature of the electronic device based on at least a piece of the obtained accessibility setting information. In addition, it is possible to implement various embodiment understood through the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunghyuk Kwon, Myungkwan Choi, Myungsun Kim, Seokhyun Kim, Seunghwan Lee, Bonghyun Cho
  • Patent number: 11627541
    Abstract: A user equipment may be configured to perform predictive methods for SSB beam measurements. In some aspects, the user equipment may receive, from at least a base station, a first set of one or more synchronization signal block beam identifiers corresponding to a first set of one or more SSB beams belonging to a SSB burst, and receive, from at least the base station, the SSB burst including the first set of one or more SSB beams. Further, the user equipment may transmit, to at least the base station, one or more of: reporting information for a second set of one or more SSB beams or indications corresponding to the second set of one or more SSB beams, the second set of one or more SSB beams determined based on a prediction model and the first set of one or more SSB beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Taesang Yoo, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11622263
    Abstract: A wireless repeater device and a configuration method for the same are provided. The wireless repeater device is configured to: connect to a target network provided by a DHCP server; send a detection packet to the target network to confirm transmission modes supported by the DHCP server; confirm whether a request for dynamically obtaining an IP address from a client device is received; forward a request packet to the DHCP server, which instructs the DHCP server to respond in a first transmission mode; receive a response to the request from the DHCP server and forward it to the client device; confirm whether the request from the client device is still received, if so, modify the request packet and forward it to the DHCP server, and the request packet is modified to instruct the DHCP server to respond in a second transmission mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Chin-Min Huang, Chin-Yu Hsu
  • Patent number: 11622367
    Abstract: Aspects relate to cross-carrier scheduling in wireless communication. A scheduling entity generates scheduling information that schedules a plurality of data transmissions to or from a user equipment (UE) on a first carrier having a first numerology. The scheduling entity then transmits the scheduling information to the UE on a second carrier having a second numerology different than (e.g., less than) the first numerology. The scheduling information is transmitted using control resources allocated based on slot indexes of a plurality of slots configured for communicating the data transmissions on the first carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Huilin Xu, Yi Huang, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11617107
    Abstract: Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network coverage management of a network deployed at a customer site involves at a cloud server connected to the network, receiving network coverage information of the network deployed at the customer site from wireless sensors deployed at the customer site and at the cloud server, automatically determining a service-level agreement (SLA) network coverage metric based on the network coverage information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Nile Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Katukam, Gopal Raman, Promode Nedungadi, Sathish Damodaran, Sudharsan Rangarajan, Shiv Mehra, Ganesh Sundaram
  • Patent number: 11611423
    Abstract: A system for canceling signal interference (SI) includes a transceiver configured to concurrently transmit signals and receive signals within a single frequency band, which causes signal interference between the transmitted and received signals. The SI canceller is configured to use a set of cancellation coefficients to generate a cancellation signal to mitigate the SI. The system is configured to iteratively change the cancellation coefficients by a step factor to produce tuned cancellation coefficients. The step factor is determined by a cancellation error gradient and one or more of: a tunable coefficient step aggressiveness factor; and a time-based forgetting factor; and cause the SI canceller to cancel the SI using the tuned cancellation coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Kenneth E. Kolodziej
  • Patent number: 11601530
    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 (F) 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: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11597277
    Abstract: A vehicle electronic device, an electronic device and information receiving and sending methods thereof, a server and a communication system. The vehicle electronic device includes: a first processing component and a first storage component connected with the first processing component. First password information and vehicle information are stored in the first storage component. The first processing component Is configured to generate a second dynamic password according to the first time for receiving a connection request and the first password information and the vehicle information stored in the first storage component when receiving the connection request including a first dynamic password sent by an external electronic device, and to receive information sent by the external electronic device when determining that the second dynamic password is matched with the first dynamic password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongyan Pei, Huawei Yu, Wei Deng, Shijie Cao, Tao Li
  • Patent number: 11601963
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal that includes a transceiver that transmits and receives signals, and a controller that receives, from a base station, control information including uplink configuration information for a plurality of subframes, to confirm information, for uplink transmission, from the uplink configuration information, and transmit an uplink signal based on the information for the uplink transmission, and a method for controlling the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jinyoung Oh, Jeongho Yeo, Younsun Kim, Seunghoon Choi, Taehan Bae
  • Patent number: 11589299
    Abstract: An electronic device configured to adjust a state of an access network including at least one cell may include: at least one processor, and a memory connected to the at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to control the electronic device to: obtain state history information of the access network at a first time point, determine, based on the obtained state history information, a first time period required to adjust a state of the access network, determine, based on the first time point and the first time period, a second time point, the second time point being a reference time point at which the state of the access network is to be adjusted, estimate a state of the access network at the second time point based on the obtained state history information, determine values of state control parameters for adjusting the state of the access network, based on the estimated state of the access network at the second time point, and transmit the determined values of the state control pa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taeseop Lee, Taejeoung Kim, Haksung Kim, Juhwan Song, Seowoo Jang, Minsuk Choi
  • Patent number: 11581911
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for phase noise mitigation in wireless systems and networks. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide enhanced wireless services which provide enhanced performance to 5G millimeter wave system entities base stations (gNodeBs) and their backhaul in support of low-latency and high-throughput operation of these components and the network as a whole. In one variant, an enhanced phase noise mitigation mechanism is provided which has a robust performance in operating in very high frequencies such as millimeter wave spectrum. In yet other implementations, the methods and apparatus described herein can be utilized with respect to mobile devices such as between 5G NR millimeter-wave capable UEs and corresponding gNBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventor: Yohannes S. Solichien
  • Patent number: 11582754
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pre 5th generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A method for operating a radio unit (RU) of a base station is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a digital unit (DU), a first message comprising a value indicating the maximum number of masks for one resource area, and receiving, from the DU, a second message generated based on the value, wherein the mask may indicate resources to which the same beam is applied within the resource area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunguk Huh, Daejoong Kim, Jaeyoel Kim, Wonwoo Rhim, Namryul Jeon
  • Patent number: 11582162
    Abstract: A communication method in a communication network comprising a plurality of nodes, at least one node comprising a plurality of traffic queues for serving data traffic at different priorities, each traffic queue being associated with a respective queue backoff value computed from respective queue contention parameters having first and second values in, respectively, a first and a second contention modes, obtaining quality of service requirements of data stored in a traffic queue of the node; checking whether the quality of service requirements can be fulfilled when accessing the communication channel using the second contention mode; if the requirements cannot be fulfilled as the result of the checking, disabling access to resource units provided by the other node within one or more transmission opportunities granted to the other node on the communication channel; and transmitting data stored in the traffic queue using the first contention mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Stéphane Baron, Pascal Viger, Patrice Nezou
  • Patent number: 11576207
    Abstract: A wireless device generating a High-Efficiency (HE) PHY Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) for transmission sets a Packet Extension Disambiguity bit of an HE Signal-A (HE-SIG-A) field of the HE PPDU based on respective durations of a packet extension of the HE PPDU and a signal extension of the HE PPDU. The wireless device may determine whether a relationship T P ? E + ( 4 × ? TXTIME - T S ? E - 2 ? 0 4 ? - ( TXTIME - T S ? E - 2 ? 0 ) ) ? T SYM ? is satisfied, where TPE is the duration of the packet extension, TXTIME is a transmission time of the HE PPDU, TSE is the duration of the signal extension, and TSYM is a duration of symbols in a data field of the HE PPDU. The wireless device may set the Packet Extension Disambiguity bit to one when the relationship is satisfied; and to zero when the relationship is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ATLAS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Yong Ho Seok, Yujin Noh