Patents Examined by David Q Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11172495
    Abstract: In an aspect, a UE determines whether there is an overlap between a first uplink transmission channel allocated for transmission of a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission channel allocated for transmission of second uplink transmission. The UE generates a combined uplink transmission payload in response to a determination that there is the overlap, wherein the combined uplink transmission payload includes at least a portion of the first uplink transmission and at least a portion of the second uplink transmission. The UE transmits the combined uplink transmission payload on either the first uplink transmission channel or the second uplink transmission channel. A base station receives the combined uplink transmission payload transmitted by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Yi Huang, Xiao Feng Wang, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11166171
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a method comprises acquiring, by a network coordinator apparatus, measurement data indicating link conditions between the access nodes and terminal devices served by the access nodes of a cellular communication system. A network coordinator apparatus builds a globally optimized operating model on the basis of the measurement data by at least simulating a change in at least one association between the access nodes and the terminal devices. Based on the measurement data, an effect of the simulated change on overall performance of the cellular communication system is determined. Upon completing the building, the network coordinator apparatus transmits one or more handover instructions for handover of an association of one or more of the terminal devices according to the built operating model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventor: Juha-Matti Tilli
  • Patent number: 11166306
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes: receiving scheduling signaling sent by a base station on a target bandwidth part, wherein the scheduling signaling carries frequency-domain resource indication information and parameter indication information, and the target bandwidth part is a bandwidth part capable of transmitting the scheduling signaling in a plurality of bandwidth parts; upon determining, based on the frequency-domain resource indication information and pre-stored configuration information, that the target bandwidth part is not a to-be-scheduled bandwidth part, determining the to-be-scheduled bandwidth part from the plurality of bandwidth parts based on the frequency-domain resource indication information and the configuration information; and transmitting data through the to-be-scheduled bandwidth part according to a configuration parameter associated with the parameter indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yajun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11166305
    Abstract: A method of receiving information, a method of sending information, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The method of receiving information is applied to a terminal, and includes: acquiring monitoring assistance information of a PDCCH used to schedule RMSI; monitoring, according to the monitoring assistance information, the PDCCH used to schedule the RMSI, and receiving a corresponding RMSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Siqi Liu, Zichao Ji, Wei Bao, Qian Zheng, Yu Ding
  • Patent number: 11153746
    Abstract: A method and a terminal device for keeping a subscriber identity module card in a standby state, including receiving an enabling request to enable dual standby of a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a second SIM card in the terminal device, wherein the first SIM card is software-implemented, and wherein the second SIM card is hardware-implemented, accessing a first network for the first SIM card by invoking a third-party interface of an operating system of the terminal and using a data file associated with the first SIM card, and implementing a dual standby of the first SIM card and the second SIM card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhidong Bai, Chunxi Zhu, Chenghui Peng, Yuqing Zhao
  • Patent number: 11134464
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for delivering UE capability indication to a positioning server in a wireless communication network. A user equipment (UE) or access note (AN) may notify a positioning server of UE capability information associated with positioning measurements so that the positioning server may determine corresponding positioning measurement configurations based on acknowledgement of such UE capability information in terms of the positioning measurement. Embodiments describe UE capability indications to a positioning server that may enable flexible deployment and integration of various types of UEs. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11128983
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method that includes presenting a first user interface (UI) and a second UI on a mobile device. The first UI may include a map display and a control to compose a note. The method may include, in response to a user of the mobile device activating the control to compose the note, presenting a second UI including: an input to receive text for the note, one or more controls to select a picture for the note, and a control to save the note. The method may include, in response to the user activating the control to save the note: determining a location for the note using a geo-location sensor within the mobile device, sending the received text, the selected picture, and the location for the note to a server device, and displaying an indication of the note on the map display based on the location determined for the note.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Venkata Mandali
  • Patent number: 11115514
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a housing having a front side, a rear side and lateral sides; a cover window disposed on the front side of the housing and comprising a display area and a bezel area. Further, the bezel area includes printed color under an edge of the cover window; an OLED display unit disposed between the cover window and the front side of the housing; and a sensing unit disposed under the OLED display unit. In addition, the OLED display unit includes a substrate having a hole below the display area of the cover window; a transistor layer including thin film transistors and being disposed on the substrate and having a hole corresponding to the hole of the substrate; an organic light emitting layer disposed on the transistor layer and having a hole corresponding to the hole of the transistor layer; and an encapsulation layer disposed on the organic light emitting layer and having a hole corresponding to the hole of the organic light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kiyong Lee, Cheongsun Yun, Jongwook Mun
  • Patent number: 11115860
    Abstract: In a wireless communication network, a primary access node controls the amount of secondary access nodes that serve User Equipment (UE). The primary access node exchanges data with the UE, corrects errors, and determines an error rate. The primary access node exchanges the data over backhaul links and determines backhaul throughput. The primary access node determines a target number of the secondary access nodes based on the error rate and the backhaul throughput. The primary access node identifies a qualifying set of the secondary access nodes that have adequate received signal strength. The primary access node selects a serving set having the target number of secondary access nodes from the qualifying set. The primary access node indicates the UE to the serving set and indicates the serving set to the UE. The serving set of the secondary access nodes exchange data with the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11115801
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an offloading method and a related device in a roaming scenario, to prevent traffic of a subscribed service of a roaming subscriber from looping back to a home location, thereby reducing inter-network traffic consumption. The method in this embodiment of this application includes: receiving, by a visited core network control plane V-CP, a first message from a home core network control plane H-CP, where the first message includes a local breakout LBO policy based on a subscribed service, and the subscribed service is a service on which local breakout needs to be performed and that is of a user; and sending, by the V-CP, the LBO policy to a visited core network user plane V-UP, so that the LBO policy is installed on the V-UP to implement local breakout processing for the subscribed service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Hu, Yuan Xia, Han Zhou, Quan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11115525
    Abstract: There are provided measures for venue owner-controllable per-venue service configuration. Such measures could comprise configuring a per-venue service model of services of a network operator for terminal devices of subscribers of the network operator on the basis of an input by a venue owner of a venue, the per-venue service model including at least one configurable parameter for defining a venue-based service for terminal devices of subscribers residing in a specified venue area of the venue, and controlling provision of services of the network operator to terminal devices or subscribers of terminal devices in accordance with the per-venue service model depending on applicability thereof for the service provision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Gul Wiqar Khan, Kalle Eino Olavi Nyman
  • Patent number: 11109277
    Abstract: Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are a service configuration method and a related product, the method comprising: a core network device sending first configuration information to an access network device, the first configuration information being used to indicate one quality of service (QoS) resource type to be selected from among multiple QoS resource types, and the QoS resource type indicated by the first configuration information being used on the access network device to transmit a first service; the multiple QoS resource types comprise a guaranteed bit rate (GBR) type, non-GBR type and a delay-critical GBR type. An access network device embodied in the present application can alone determine a QoS resource type, thereby increasing service transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11109225
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first communication module configured to establish a communication channel to an external electronic device based on wired communications or short-range communications, a second communication module that supports a communication service provided via a base station; a control module configured to obtain a communication profile required for operating the second communication module using the external electronic device connected through the first communication module, and a memory configured to store the communication profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventors: Soon Hyun Cha, Sun Min Hwang, Tae Sun Yeoum, Duckey Lee, Sang Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 11102674
    Abstract: A transmission method, apparatus and system for feedback acknowledge information are provided. The method includes: receiving by a terminal device downlink control information sent by an access network device, the downlink control information comprising a first information field and a second information field, wherein the first information field is used for indicating a timing relationship of a feedback acknowledge information corresponding to the downlink control information and the second information field is used to indicate a downlink allocation index; and determining, according to the first information field and the second information field, the number of first bits of the feedback acknowledge information transmitted in a target transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11089574
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to optimize the uplink access procedure even when the band to use is limited to partial narrow bands in a system band. A user terminal, in which the band to use is limited to a partial narrow band in a system band, has a receiving section that receives system information that includes indication information of an uplink carrier frequency, from a radio base station, as system information for narrow bands, which is different from system information for the system band, and a transmission section that transmits a random access preamble to the radio base station in one of a plurality of narrow bands that are specified by the indication information of the uplink carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Shimpei Yasukawa, Hideyuki Moroga, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11076437
    Abstract: A wireless communication system serves User Equipment (UE) over a Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) access point and a non-5GNR access point. The non-5GNR access point exchanges attachment signaling with the UE and exchanges network signaling with a network controller. The network controller exchanges bearer signaling with a data gateway. The data gateway marks Downlink (DL) user data as non-5GNR DL user data and transfers the non-5GNR DL user data to the non-5GNR access point. The data gateway marks additional DL user data as 5GNR DL user data and transfers the 5GNR DL user data to the 5GNR access point. The non-5GNR access point receives and wirelessly transfers the non-5GNR DL user data to the UE. The 5GNR access point receives and wirelessly transfers the 5GNR DL user data to the UE. The data gateway tracks the transferred amount of the non-5GNR DL user data and 5GNR DL user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Saravana Velusamy, Ramesh Kalathur, Manuprathap Manoharan
  • Patent number: 11071008
    Abstract: A transmission method, apparatus and system for feedback acknowledge information are provided. The method includes: receiving by a terminal device downlink control information sent by an access network device, the downlink control information comprising a first information field and a second information field, wherein the first information field is used for indicating a timing relationship of a feedback acknowledge information corresponding to the downlink control information and the second information field is used to indicate a downlink allocation index; and determining, according to the first information field and the second information field, the number of first bits of the feedback acknowledge information transmitted in a target transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11064410
    Abstract: A base-station apparatus includes: a communicator that performs wireless communication; and a controller. During communication with at least a first terminal apparatus, when a communication volume used for communication that is newly stated with a second terminal apparatus becomes smaller than or equal to an un-used communication volume, the controller transmits, to a target terminal apparatus that is one of the first and second terminal apparatuses, a communication instruction for communication with a second base-station apparatus having a coverage range in which the target terminal apparatus is located, and when a communication volume used for communication with the target terminal apparatus exceeds the un-used communication volume, the controller transmits a callback instruction for callback from the second base-station apparatus to the base-station apparatus to the target terminal apparatus or the second base-station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhsuke Takagi, Katsutoshi Ishikura, Atsushi Yamazaki, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Ryoki Hinata
  • Patent number: 11051321
    Abstract: The present 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). According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an operating method of a user plane function (UPF) in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are provided. The operating method includes receiving a first parameter for clock synchronization from a base station, and performing the clock synchronization with a neighboring network system using the received first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter may include information relating to a link delay time between the neighboring network system and a network system comprising the UPF, and a residence time of a terminal, a base station and the UPF of the network system comprising the UPF, and the second parameter may include information relating to a backhaul delay time between the base station and the UPF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangjun Moon, Jungshin Park, Beomsik Bae, Youngkyo Baek, Jicheol Lee
  • Patent number: 11044693
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for transmitting Positioning Reference Signals (PRSs) in cells supporting two different Radio Access Technologies (RATs), where the two RATs (e.g. 4G LTE and 5G NR) employ dynamic spectrum sharing. To avoid interference between the PRSs and between the two RATs, the PRSs may be time aligned to the same set of PRS positioning occasions, and may be assigned orthogonal characteristics such as different muting patterns, orthogonal code sequences, different frequency shifts or different frequency hopping. UEs supporting both RATs may be enabled to measure PRSs for both RATs. UEs supporting only one RAT (e.g. 4G LTE) may be enabled to measure PRSs for just this RAT. A location server such as an LMF, E-SMLC or SLP may provide assistance data to UEs, and request measurements from UEs, for PRSs in one or both RATs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi, Stephen William Edge, Hem Agnihotri