Patents Examined by Dang T Ton
  • Patent number: 11575485
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, and computer readable medium for uplink signal transmitting and receiving. A method comprises: receiving a first downlink signal from a first transmission/reception point (TRP); receiving a second downlink signal from a second TRP; and transmitting an uplink control signal to at least one of the first and second TRPs, the uplink control signal comprising first control information associated with the first downlink signal and second control information associated with the second downlink signal, and the first control information and the second control information being included in the uplink control signal in an order determined by an identification related to reference signals associated with the first downlink signal and the second downlink signal. Embodiments of the present disclosure may avoid ambiguity in uplink control information bit ordering in uplink control signal transmission and reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fang Yuan, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11576156
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may receive, on a sidelink and from a second wireless communication device, resource reservation information associated with the second wireless communication device. The resource reservation information may identify sidelink resources that are reserved for the second wireless communication device for transmission on the sidelink. The first wireless communication device may transmit, on the sidelink, the resource reservation information to a third wireless communication device. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gabi Sarkis, Kapil Gulati, Tien Viet Nguyen, Shuanshuan Wu, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
  • Patent number: 11569693
    Abstract: A method for operating a wireless control device includes the starting up of a control circuit following the actuation, by a user, of a control unit coupled to an energy harvesting device to recharge an energy reserve which electrically powers the control device; the sending of a control message including a control command; the comparison of the elapsed time since the starting up of the control circuit with a first threshold value; when the elapsed time is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, the sending of a pairing request message to the electronic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Gilles Pettinotto, Alexis Pillet
  • Patent number: 11564257
    Abstract: A wireless local area network (WLAN) protocol allowing a Transmit Opportunity (TXOP) holder to share the TXOP with other stations. An intent to share the TXOP is communicated to the Access Point (AP). Upon gaining channel access, the TXOP holder directly or indirectly communicates that the TXOP can be shared with other STAs, after which scheduling information (time and duration) are shared with the STAs. When the TXOP occurs, the STAs can access the channel at the time and for the duration specified, thus providing increased use of the TXOP to improve efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qing Xia, Mohamed Abouelseoud, Liangxiao Xin
  • Patent number: 11558927
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a supervisory service for a wireless network obtains frequency-time Doppler profile information for an endpoint node attached to a first access point in the wireless network. The supervisory service uses the frequency-time Doppler profile information for the endpoint node as input to a machine learning model. The machine learning model is trained to output an action for the endpoint node with respect to the wireless network. The supervisory service causes the action for the endpoint node with respect to the wireless network to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shankar Ramanathan, M. David Hanes, Muhilan Natarajan, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Robert Edgar Barton, Jerome Henry, Akram Ismail Sheriff
  • Patent number: 11543442
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting node outages in a mesh network. A tracking node in the mesh network detects a set of signals originating from a tracked node in the mesh network. The set of signals includes beacons and communication messages transmitted by the tracked node. The tracking node determines that a threshold number of the alive beacon intervals have passed since receiving a most recent signal from the tracked node. The tracking node then outputs a ping to the tracked node requesting a response to the ping. When the response to the ping is not received from the tracked node, the tracking node transmits an outage alarm message to a next topologically higher layer of the mesh network, the outage alarm message comprising an identification of the tracked node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: LANDIS+GYR INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Ruben E. Salazar Cardozo, James Randall Turner
  • Patent number: 11546002
    Abstract: A transmitter, a receiver and a transceiver are provided. The transceiver includes a hybrid transceiving circuit and a common-mode voltage control circuit. The hybrid transceiving circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit, a line driver coupled to the DAC circuit, a filtering and/or amplifying circuit coupled to the line driver, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit coupled to the filtering and/or amplifying circuit. The common-mode voltage control circuit is electrically connected to a node of the hybrid transceiving circuit and is configured to detect a common-mode voltage of the node and to adjust the common-mode voltage of the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jian-Ru Lin, Wei-Chou Wang, Tung-Hung Sung, Shih-Hsiung Huang
  • Patent number: 11528690
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data communication methods, apparatus, and systems. One example method includes sending, by a sending apparatus, a first group of one or more control resource sets to a receiving apparatus, and sending, by the sending apparatus, first signaling to the receiving apparatus, where the first signaling is used to instruct the receiving apparatus to receive data on a time-frequency resource for data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongping Zhang, Shulan Feng, Jinhuan Xia
  • Patent number: 11523374
    Abstract: Proposed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving data to and from a wireless LAN system. Specifically, an AP transmits control information to an STA. The AP transmits data to or receives data from the STA on the basis of the control information. The control information includes RU information for transmitting and receiving data over a broadband network. If the broadband, on the basis of the RU information, is defined as only one full bandwidth, the RU information includes allocation information that the broadband consists of 12 guard tones, 3044-tone RU, 5 DC tones, and 11 guard tones. If the broadband, on the basis of the RU information, includes three 996-tone RUs, the RU information includes allocation information that the broadband consists of 12 guard tones, a first 996-tone RU, 1 null tone, 26-tone RU, 1 null tone, a second 996-tone RU, 1 null tone, 26-tone RU, 1 null tone, a third 996-tone RU, and 11 guard tones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunsung Park, Sunwoong Yun, Dongguk Lim, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11523338
    Abstract: A method can include negotiating a target wake time (TWT) with a TWT session period (TWT SP) duration and generating mask data that inhibits communications according to a second standard during at least a portion of TWT SP. A method can further include, by operation of second communication circuits, generating a communications mask from mask data received from WLAN circuits, in response to the timing signal, synchronizing the communications mask with the TWT SP, and in response to the communications mask, inhibiting communications according to the second standard during at least a portion of the TWT SP. Corresponding devices and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Wenyu Liu, Raghunatha Kondareddy, Xianmin Wang
  • Patent number: 11520206
    Abstract: An active metamaterial array of the present disclosure includes: a substrate; a plurality of metamaterial structures disposed on the substrate and spaced apart from each other; a conductivity variable material layer formed between each of the plurality of the metamaterial structures so as to selectively connect the metamaterial structures; an electrolyte material layer formed on the metamaterial structures and the conductivity variable material layer; and a gate electrode disposed at one end of the substrate so as to be in contact with one region of the electrolyte material layer, and when an external voltage is applied to the gate electrode, the gate electrode changes the conductivity of the conductivity variable material layer by controlling the migration of ions contained in the electrolyte material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventors: Ho Jin Lee, Moon Sung Kang, Hyun Seung Jung, Eun Ah Heo, Bo Eun Cho, Jae Mok Koo
  • Patent number: 11516777
    Abstract: A data transmission method, an apparatus, and a communications device include sending, by a first device, first information using a first carrier, where the first information indicates that the first device uses N carriers in M carriers to send data, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and N is less than or equal to M, sending, by the first device, the data using the N carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongbo Zeng, Yu Cai, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 11516782
    Abstract: An aspect of a user terminal of the present invention includes a transmitting section that transmits a plurality of pieces of uplink control information (UCI) corresponding to a plurality of communications by using an uplink control channel or an uplink shared channel, and a control section that controls a transmission of at least a part of the plurality of pieces of UCI, based on a format of the uplink control channel or a maximum coding rate configured for the uplink shared channel when transmission timings of the plurality of pieces of UCI overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11509569
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to beam information for independent links. For example, beam information for one link may be sent on at least one other link. In some aspects, the independent links may involve a first device (e.g., a user equipment) communicating via different independent links with different devices (e.g., transmit receive points (TRPs) or sets of TRPs). For example, the first device may communicate with a second device (e.g., a TRP) via a first link and communicate with a third device (e.g., a TRP) via a second link. In some scenarios, one link can indicate beam switching for at least one other link. In some scenarios, one link can indicate link recovery for at least one other link. In some scenarios, one link can indicate link failure for at least one other link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Tamer Kadous, Junyi Li, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Taesang Yoo, Siddhartha Mallik
  • Patent number: 11503380
    Abstract: RF signal amplifiers are provided that include an RF input port and a power divider network having a plurality of active output ports. An active communications path connects the RF input port to the power divider network. The active communications path includes at least one power amplifier. The RF signal amplifier also includes a passive output port and a passive communications path connecting the RF input port to the passive output port. An electrical connection with at least one circuit unit connects the active communications path and the passive communications path so that MoCA signals may flow between the active communications path and the passive communications path, but the at least one circuit unit preventing upstream and downstream frequency bands of a service provider from passing along the electrical connection. In various embodiments, the at least one circuit unit may be selected from one or more diplexers and one or more filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventor: Shi Man Li
  • Patent number: 11502811
    Abstract: Subcarrier spacing (SCS) for data may be adapted or dynamically configured based on the occurrence or presence of a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission. For example, during a SSB transmission, the SCS of data may be automatically switched from some default data SCS to a second SCS (e.g., the SCS of the SSB) to allow for frequency division multiplexing (FDM) of data and SSB where the data and SSB use the same numerology. As such, communicating devices (e.g., a base station and a user equipment (UE)) may identify some location or configuration for a SSB, and may determine a second subcarrier spacing (e.g., a subcarrier spacing associated with the SSB) such that the SCS of data may be adapted to the second subcarrier spacing during the FDM of the SSB and the data. The SSB and data may thus be contemporaneously transmitted or received using the second SCS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sungwoo Park, Jing Sun, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Zhifei Fan, Akula Reddy, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Srinivas Yerramalli
  • Patent number: 11490438
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, for a first centralized unit (CU) in a radio access network (RAN), to configure a user equipment (UE) to communicate via first and second distributed units (DUs). Such methods include initiating a first radio resource control (RRC) entity to communicate with the UE via a first RRC connection through the first DU, and selecting the second DU to communicate with the UE in a dual-connectivity (DC) configuration with the first DU. Such methods include performing one or more of the following based on determining the second DU is associated with the first CU: initiating a second RRC entity within the first CU to communicate with the UE via a second RRC connection through the second DU; and establishing one or more further radio bearers with the UE via the second DU. Other embodiments include methods for a UE, and CUs and UEs configured to perform such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oumer Teyeb, Matteo Fiorani, Gunnar Mildh
  • Patent number: 11490439
    Abstract: One embodiment can provide a method and a system for performing multiple radio frequency allocation. During operation, the system including a controller can receive, a Wi-Fi channel allocation and a filter bank configuration associated with a Wi-Fi radio transceiver. The system can determine one or more Internet of things (IoT) radio transceivers operating with the Wi-Fi radio transceiver. For a respective IoT radio transceiver, the system can perform the following operations: determining a set of scores based on a set of constraints associated with an application type for the IoT radio transceiver; and computing a weighted average score based on the set of scores; and determining a channel allocation for the IoT radio transceiver based on the weighted average score and the Wi-Fi channel allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Farhan Hasnain, Kannan Konath, James Jay Friedmann, Deven Patel
  • Patent number: 11483803
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to autonomous sidelink communication are provided. A first user equipment (UE) communicates, in a first subband of a plurality of subbands within a shared radio frequency band during a first time period, first sidelink control information (SCI) associated with a second subband of the plurality of subbands. The first UE communicates, with the second UE, first sidelink data in the second subband during the first time period based on the first SCI. The first UE communicates, with the second UE in the first subband during a second time period, second SCI associated with a third subband of the plurality of subbands, the third subband being different from the second subband based on a frequency hopping pattern. The first UE communicates, with the second UE, second sidelink data in the third subband during the second time period based on the second SCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Chih-Hao Liu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 11470521
    Abstract: To predict a first metric for a station in a wireless network, at least one hardware processor in a prediction device or at least one hardware processor in a first access point associated with the station, determines that a recent measurement of a second metric correlated with the first metric has changed compared to a previous measurement of the second metric, the second metric for the station and measure by the first access point; and in case the second metric has changed, prediction of the first metric for the station is triggered. The first metric can be a signal strength of a signal received by the station from a second point not associated with the station and the second metric a signal strength of a signal received by the first access point from the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: AIRTIES BELGIUM SPRL
    Inventor: Assi Abramovitz