Patents Examined by Edan Orgad
  • Patent number: 11791973
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to improving an available bandwidth for a transceiver of an electronic device and to reducing a footprint of an associated integrated circuit of the electronic device. To do so, an isolation circuit is disposed between a transmit circuit and a receive circuit. The isolation circuit has first and second signal paths. A first portion of the signal propagates along the first signal path and a second portion of the signal propagates along the second signal path. A non-reciprocal phase shifter is disposed on the first signal path to shift a phase of the first portion to match a phase of the second portion and improve isolation between the transmit circuit and the receive circuit. The phase-shifted first portion may be combined with the second portion to reduce or substantially eliminate an insertion loss caused by the isolation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joonhoi Hur, Harald Pretl, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 11792729
    Abstract: A method, performed by a base station (BS), of supporting access to network slices in a wireless communication system includes: receiving a registration request message including requested network slice identification information of a user equipment (UE) and network slice group identification information corresponding to the requested network slice identification information; selecting an access and mobility management function (AMF) to which the registration request message is to be transmitted based on the registration request message and network slice group information and network slice information supported by at least one AMF stored in the BS; transmitting the registration request message to the AMF; receiving a registration accept message in response to the registration request message; and transmitting the registration accept message to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoyeon Lee, Jungje Son
  • Patent number: 11785492
    Abstract: An anomaly detection and analysis system generates analysis or summary of the anomalies detected from key performance indicators (KPIs). The system receives anomaly data reporting anomalies detected in key performance indicator (KPI) data. The system classifies the reported anomalies into a plurality of anomaly items, wherein anomalies from KPI data that share a set of features are assigned to one anomaly item. The system computes a ranking score for each anomaly item by assigning predefined weights for different anomaly types that are present in the anomaly item. The system sorts a list of anomaly items from the plurality of anomaly items into a sorted list of anomaly items according to the ranking scores computed for the plurality of anomaly items. The system sends the sorted list of anomaly items to a user device for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Prem Kumar Bodiga, Ariz Jacinto, Chuong Phan, Amer Hamdan, Dung Tan Dang, Sangwoo Han, Zunyan Xiong
  • Patent number: 11770161
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for grouping client devices based on sensor data in an assisted wireless communication system are provided. Sensor data may include device mobility, device type, and device application data usage, among other characteristics. An assisted wireless communication system may include client devices sending data to an access point. The clients may send conventional protocol data over a channel and, concurrently, send sensor data over an alternative channel. In some cases, client devices may exchange their protocol data, modify their own protocol data based on the exchanged data, and send the modified protocol data to the access point. This may allow the clients to adjust their grouping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Apple, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghuram C. Kamath, Diego C. Hernandez, Harneet Singh Oberoi, Indranil S. Sen
  • Patent number: 11770453
    Abstract: A controller in a building management system (BMS) includes an integrated wireless network processor. The integrated wireless network processor includes a wireless radio, a processor, and memory. The wireless radio is configured to exchange data communications with one or more BMS devices controlled by the controller. Both the processor and memory are in communication with the wireless radio. The memory includes communication stacks configured to facilitate communications using a building automation and control network communications protocol and a Wi-Fi communications protocol. The integrated wireless network processor is configured to provide a web page for rendering on the user device using the WiFi communications protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Christopher Brophy, Kim K. Weller, Daniel R. Gottschalk, Ryan J. Bykowski, Tom Z. Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11765018
    Abstract: A control plane (CP) device switching method includes that when a user plane (UP) device in a forwarding-control separation system detects that performance of communication between the UP device and an active CP device does not meet a normal communication condition, and performance of communication between the UP device and a standby CP device meets the normal communication condition, the UP device sends a switching request to the standby CP device. When detecting that a quantity of UP devices that each send the switching request is greater than or equal to a first quantity threshold, the standby CP device may indicate each UP device in the forwarding-control separation system to switch to the standby CP device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaokun Zhang, Pingan Yang
  • Patent number: 11765664
    Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a cell that comprise: first parameters indicating: configuration of SRSs of the cell; whether a first accumulated power control adjustment for the SRSs is enabled; and second parameters. The second parameters indicate: configuration of an uplink data channel of the cell; and whether a second accumulated power control adjustment for the uplink data channel is enabled. A first transmission power is determined for the SRSs based on the first accumulated power control adjustment and a first power control command. The SRSs are transmitted, via the cell, with the first transmission power. A second transmission power is determined for the uplink data channel of the cell based on the second accumulated power control adjustment and a second power control command. One or more transport blocks are transmitted, via the uplink data channel of the cell, with the second transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11758587
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Random access procedures may include various types of procedures, such as four-step or two-step random access procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11758376
    Abstract: A method at an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Entity, the method including receiving a message from a second ITS entity, the message containing a safety assurance indication, and performing an action at the ITS entity based on the safety assurance indication. Further, an ITS Entity comprising a processor; and a communications subsystem, wherein the ITS Entity is configured to: receive a message from a second ITS entity, the message containing a safety assurance indication, and perform an action at the ITS entity based on the safety assurance indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John Barrett, Michaela Vanderveen
  • Patent number: 11758595
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless in-vehicle networking. A method that may be performed by a device in a vehicle includes wirelessly transmitting a data packet directly via a first device-to-device (D2D) communication link to another device in the vehicle; monitoring for an acknowledgment (ACK) of the data packet; deciding whether to retransmit the data packet to the other device, based on the monitoring; and wirelessly transmitting the data packet to a transmission relay, wherein an intended destination of the data packet is the other device, wherein the monitoring for the ACK comprises monitoring for a first ACK from the other device and a second ACK from the transmission relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong Cheng, Dan Vassilovski, Shailesh Patil, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11757486
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for operating in either frequency division duplexing (FDD) or time division duplexing (TDD) for wireless communications using the same electrical balance duplexer (EBD) circuitry in a transceiver device are provided. A series of switches may selectively couple components of the EBD, such as a low noise amplifier (LNA), a power amplifier (PA), and balancing impedance, to ground based on selected operation mode (e.g., FDD or TDD) while reducing insertion loss of the receiver (RX) and transmitter (TX) signals. Tuned matching network blocks for the LNA and PA may be used in addition to the series of switches to provide impedance matching for additional reduction of insertion loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joonhoi Hur, Rastislav Vazny, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier
  • Patent number: 11751176
    Abstract: Methods and systems include beamformed wireless communications to and from a user equipment electronic device. During operation of the user equipment electronic device, a change in slot aggregation is made. Using the aggregated slots, the user equipment electronic device and/or a wireless network utilize beam sweeps to determine a best beam pairing by repeating a shared channel in the aggregated slots with a beam sweep of multiple beams between the user equipment electronic device and the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Ehsan Haghani, Rohit U. Nabar
  • Patent number: 11751200
    Abstract: A method of sidelink transmission can include receiving a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) associated with a first two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) at a first user equipment (UE) from a second UE over a sidelink. The first two-stage SCI indicates a physical layer identity (L1-ID) of the second UE. The method can further include determining based on the L1-ID of the second UE a time-frequency resource for transmitting a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) carrying a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback corresponding to reception of the PSSCH, and transmitting the PSFCH with the determined time-frequency resource. In an embodiment, transmission of the PSSCH from the second UE is a groupcast transmission or a unicast transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 11751190
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In one example, a first user equipment (UE) identifies a trigger condition associated with a first communication link with a base station and establishes a second communication link with a second UE. The UE may transmit a relay request to the second UE based on the trigger condition, wherein the relay request instructs the second UE to relay communications for the first UE. The first UE communicates with the base station via the second communication link. In another example, a base station establishes communication links with a first and second UE. The base station receives a data forwarding request that instructs the base station to use the second UE to relay communications between it and the first UE. The base station communicates with the first UE via the second communication link based at least in part on the relay request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tianyang Bai, Jung Ho Ryu, Hua Wang, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11742908
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently transmitting uplink signals to a base station using shared antennas. A first device may be in communications with a base station using local antennas and may identify a second device having auxiliary antennas available for transmitting uplink signals to the base station. Because the local antennas and auxiliary antennas may have different capabilities (e.g., due to different power or other constraints), the first device may generate first uplink signals for transmission using the local antennas differently from second uplink signals for transmission using the auxiliary antennas. The first device may transmit the first uplink signals to the base station using the local antennas and transmit the second uplink signals to the second device for transmission to the base station using the auxiliary antennas based on different configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Prashanth Haridas Hande, Wei Yang, Gokul Sridharan, Wanshi Chen, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11736417
    Abstract: A programmable switch includes a plurality of ports for communicating with devices on a network. Circuitry of the programmable switch is configured to receive a series of related messages from a first device on the network via at least one port, and determine whether one or more messages of the series of related messages have been received out-of-order based at least in part on a sequence number included in the one or more messages. The series of related messages are sent by the programmable switch to a second device via one or more ports in an order indicated by sequence numbers included in the series of related messages by delaying at least one message. According to one aspect, a network controller selects a programmable switch between the first device and the second device to serve as a message sequencer for reordering out-of-order messages using a stored network topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marjan Radi, Dejan Vucinic
  • Patent number: 11723041
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to communication techniques for merging 5th generation (5G) communication systems with internet-of-things (IoT) technology to support a high data transmission rate in post-4th generation (4G) system and systems therefor. The disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method and device for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Euichang Jung, Jinhyun Park, Hoondong Noh, Youngrok Jang, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11722367
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide an elastic architecture for providing a service in a computing system. To perform a service on the data messages, the service architecture uses a service node (SN) group that includes one primary service node (PSN) and zero or more secondary service nodes (SSNs). The service can be performed on a data message by either the PSN or one of the SSN. However, in addition to performing the service, the PSN also performs a load balancing operation that assesses the load on each service node (i.e., on the PSN or each SSN), and based on this assessment, has the data messages distributed to the service node(s) in its SN group. Based on the assessed load, the PSN in some embodiments also has one or more SSNs added to or removed from its SN group. To add or remove an SSN to or from the service node group, the PSN in some embodiments directs a set of controllers to add (e.g., instantiate or allocate) or remove the SSN to or from the SN group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Jayant Jain, Anirban Sengupta, Mohan Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 11722181
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first component carrier, control information that triggers transmission of an aperiodic reference signal in a second component carrier. The UE may identify a quasi co-location (QCL) assumption for reception of the aperiodic reference signal in the second component carrier based at least in part on a control resource set not being configured for the second component carrier. The UE may then monitor for the aperiodic reference signal of the second component carrier based on the QCL assumption. In some cases, the UE may transmit a measurement report to a base station based on a measurement of the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Yan Zhou, Parisa Cheraghi, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11711676
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for activating a vehicular-capable terminal to connect to a base station and/or road side unit. Accordingly a vehicular-capable terminal which would otherwise be in idle mode can then participate in vehicular communications, if appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jussi Tapani Kahtava, Hideji Wakabayashi