Patents Examined by Donald L Mills
  • Patent number: 10880063
    Abstract: A method and system for operating a user equipment (UE) wherein a first set of radio access procedures are supported when the UE is in a first operating state, and a second set of radio access procedures are supported when the UE is in a second operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Liqing Zhang, Mohammadhadi Baligh, Jianglei Ma, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 10880116
    Abstract: A communication interface circuit includes a plurality of terminals, two receiver circuits, and a detection circuit. The detection circuit is coupled to at least one of the terminals and detects a communication format, and the detection circuit enables one of the two receiver circuits based on the detected communication format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Bo Zhou, Guillaume Alexandre Blin
  • Patent number: 10869323
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Bluetooth (BT) device including a WLAN circuit and a BT circuit. The WLAN circuit starts a WLAN slot according to a beacon of a beacon signal from an access point and executes WLAN communication. The WLAN slot ends after a measured reception time point of the beacon so as to prevent missing the beacon. The BT circuit starts a BT slot after the end of the WLAN slot and executes BT communication. If the BT slot is shorter than the period of the beacon signal minus the WLAN slot, the WLAN circuit earns additional time to start an extended WLAN slot after the end of the BT slot for carrying on the WLAN communication. The extended WLAN slot is not longer than the period of the beacon signal minus the sum of the WLAN and BT slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih-Hung Tsai, Chien-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10868658
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting information in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station (BS) determines downlink (DL) subframes according to a number of supported time division duplex (TDD) configurations, and transmits at least one of synchronization signals or a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) to an internet-of-things (IoT) user equipment (UE) via the DL subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Bonghoe Kim, Kijun Kim, Byounghoon Kim, Hyunsoo Ko
  • Patent number: 10855586
    Abstract: The application disclose a packet processing method that includes: receiving, by a service distribution node, service routing information sent by a controller, where the service routing information includes a flow identifier, a service identifier, and a next-hop address, the flow identifier is used to identify a packet flow, the service identifier is used to identify a sequence of a service node instance that processes the packet flow, and the next-hop address is used to identify the service node instance that processes the packet flow; receiving a first packet; acquiring a first flow identifier according to the first packet, and searching the service routing information according to the first flow identifier to acquire a matched service identifier and a matched next-hop address; and sending a second packet to a first service node instance that has the matched next-hop address, which implements service processing on a packet flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Changjiang Yan
  • Patent number: 10856182
    Abstract: Given first and second base stations that have at least partially geographically-overlapping coverage on at least partially frequency-overlapping carriers, a determination could be made that the first base station supports voice-interworking service in which served UEs could separately receive voice-over-circuit service but that the second base station does not support voice-interworking service. And in response to at least that determination, the second base station could be given priority over the first base station for providing voice-over-packet service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Hemanth B. Pawar, Krishna Sitaram, Shilpa K. Srinivas
  • Patent number: 10834526
    Abstract: A radio access network system is described that determines a signal metric associated with a user equipment or device. The user equipment device can implement an altered transmission policy. The altered transmission policy can alter a strength of transmissions by increasing power consumption per transmission, increasing a length of timer per transmission, and altering other parameters of transmissions. The altered transmission policy can also alter an error correction policy. The error correction policy can indicate that error correction transmissions are to be decreased. The altered transmission policy can be implemented until the signal metric changes to a more desirable level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Krinsky, Bahman Khosravi-Sichani
  • Patent number: 10834785
    Abstract: A radio terminal according to an embodiment is configured to perform direct communication with another radio terminal. The radio terminal comprises a controller configured to receive first data addressed to said another radio terminal from a base station. When the controller receives the first data from the base station, the controller is configured to also receive information indicating a first radio resource used for transferring the first data to said another radio terminal by the direct communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Adachi, Masato Fujishiro, Takahiro Saiwai
  • Patent number: 10826834
    Abstract: A system includes a scheduling device of a data distribution service (DDS) that determines bandwidth for communication of time sensitive communications between devices using the DDS in a time sensitive network (TSN). The scheduling device determines available bandwidth for communication of non-time sensitive communications of the control system using the DDS in the TSN, and controls communication of both the time sensitive and non-time sensitive communications in the TSN. The system also includes a traffic shaper of the TSN that receives a communication change from the control system at the TSN. The scheduling device changes one or more of the bandwidth for the communication of the time sensitive communications or the available bandwidth for the communication of the non-time sensitive communications in the TSN without restarting at least one network device of the TSN and while ensuring communications of both the time sensitive communications and the non-time sensitive communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Stephen Francis Bush, Joel Frederick Markham, Andrew William Berner
  • Patent number: 10813064
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a first plurality of symbols comprising complex portions. The method further includes applying conjugate symmetry to the first plurality of symbols, producing a second plurality of symbols comprising no complex portions. The method further includes transforming the second plurality of symbols using an inverse fast Fourier transform, producing a third plurality of symbols. The method further includes interpolating the third plurality of symbols, generating a short training field comprising at least one real portion of the third plurality of symbols, generating a long training field comprising at least one real portion of the third plurality of symbols, and transmitting the short training field and long training field in a WPAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy M. Schmidl, Anuj Batra, Srinath Hosur
  • Patent number: 10812174
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a client node device having a radio configured to wirelessly receive downstream channel signals from a communication network. An access point repeater (APR) launches the downstream channel signals on a guided wave communication system as guided electromagnetic waves that propagate along a transmission medium and to wirelessly transmit the downstream channel signals to at least one client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Bennett, Paul Shala Henry, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10813144
    Abstract: A communication device may, in response to a wireless link via a first wireless interface being established with a terminal device while the communication device is a first parent station state, receive predetermined information from the terminal device via a second wireless interface, if the predetermined information is received, shift the communication device from the first parent station state to a second parent station state, wherein the communication device is maintained in the first parent station state if the predetermined information is not received even if the wireless link via the first wireless interface has been established with the terminal device and after the communication device has been shifted to the second parent station state, establish a first wireless connection via the second wireless interface with the terminal device so as to cause the terminal device to participate in the second wireless network as a child station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Hirotaka Asakura, Yusuke Shimada, Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 10797842
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for multiplexing new radio (NR) physical broadcast channels (NR-PBCHs) with NR synchronization signals. An exemplary method that may be performed by a wireless node includes determining a frequency offset to use in transmitting one or more synchronization signals and one or more physical broadcast channels (PBCHs) and transmitting the one or more synchronization signals, using a synchronization signal (SS) transmission band having an SS center frequency, and the one or more PBCHs, using a PBCH transmission band having a PBCH center frequency that differs from the SS center frequency by the determined frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Hung Ly, Tao Luo, Tingfang Ji, Heechoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10797781
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a client node device having a radio configured to wirelessly receive downstream channel signals from a communication network. An access point repeater (APR) launches the downstream channel signals on a guided wave communication system as guided electromagnetic waves that propagate along a transmission medium and to wirelessly transmit the downstream channel signals to at least one client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Bennett, Paul Shala Henry, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10791543
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for providing a service to a vehicle via a macro-vehicular cloud. A method, according to some embodiments, is implemented by the vehicle which communicatively coupled to the macro-vehicular cloud via a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) network. The macro-vehicular cloud includes a plurality of micro-vehicular clouds which each include a set of onboard vehicle computers that are operable to provide a set of computing resources to the macro-vehicular cloud via the V2X network. The method includes transmitting, via the V2X network, a wireless message requesting a service from the macro-vehicular cloud. The method includes receiving, via the V2X network, the service from the set of computing resources of the macro-vehicular cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Inventors: Lewis Tseng, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas
  • Patent number: 10789193
    Abstract: Provided are a device connected to another device by a single wire and a method of operating a system including the devices. The method of operating the device connected to the other device by the single wire includes transmitting a first packet to the other device, waiting to receive a second packet from the other device, and receiving the second packet from the other device. When the waiting to receive the second packet is started, electrically connecting a first end of a resistor to the first wire, and when the waiting to receive the second packet is terminated, electrically disconnecting a resistor from the first wire. A second end of the resistor is connected to either a logic high level voltage source or a logic low level voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-shin Lee, Yo-han Lee
  • Patent number: 10779335
    Abstract: A communication device may, in response to a wireless link via a first wireless interface being established with a terminal device while the communication device is a first parent station state, receive predetermined information from the terminal device via a second wireless interface, if the predetermined information is received, shift the communication device from the first parent station state to a second parent station state, wherein the communication device is maintained in the first parent station state if the predetermined information is not received even if the wireless link via the first wireless interface has been established with the terminal device and after the communication device has been shifted to the second parent station state, establish a first wireless connection via the second wireless interface with the terminal device so as to cause the terminal device to participate in the second wireless network as a child station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Hirotaka Asakura, Yusuke Shimada, Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 10772118
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving scheduling information for one cell (a particular cell) from among a plurality of cells under a carrier aggregation condition in which a plurality of cells are aggregated. One embodiment according to the present invention transmits/receives a downlink grant for the particular cell from a first cell from among the plurality of cells, and transmits/receives an uplink grant for the particular cell from a second cell, from among the plurality of cells, which is different from the first cell. The particular cell may be a different cell from the first and second cells, or may be the same cell as the first cell or the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 10771310
    Abstract: In an aspect, a wireless device with a plurality of transmitter chains that can be selectively used to transmit a beam-formed signal determines a targeted receive power for the beam-formed signal, with respect to a target receiving device. The wireless device selects a number of the plurality of transmitter chains for forming the beam-formed signal, based on the targeted receive power and based on an estimated power consumption for each of the plurality of transmitter chains. The selection is performed so as to minimize a total power consumption, given the estimated power consumptions. The wireless device transmits a beam-formed signal, using the selected number of the plurality of transmitter chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericcson (publ)
    Inventors: Torgny Palenius, Robert Baldemair, Martin Hessler, Eleftherios Karipidis, Bo Lincoln, Eliane Semaan
  • Patent number: 10756805
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a repeater device having a first coupler to extract downstream channel signals from first guided electromagnetic waves bound to a transmission medium of a guided wave communication system. An amplifier amplifies the downstream channel signals to generate amplified downstream channel signals. A channel selection filter selects one or more of the amplified downstream channel signals to wirelessly transmit to the at least one client device via an antenna. A second coupler guides the amplified downstream channel signals to the transmission medium of the guided wave communication system to propagate as second guided electromagnetic waves. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Bennett, Paul Shala Henry, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III