Patents Examined by Elisabeth Benoit Magloire
  • Patent number: 11968741
    Abstract: A method and device for a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention receive a radio resource control (RRC) connection release message and release an RRC connection on the basis of the RRC connection release message, wherein the RRC connection release message includes information about a target Internet of Things (IoT) mode, and the communication device can be switched from a source IoT mode to the target IoT mode on the basis of the information about the target IoT mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joonkui Ahn, Hyunjung Choe, Changhwan Park
  • Patent number: 11962517
    Abstract: This application discloses a communications method and related communications apparatus and system. The method includes recovering, by a first node, when detecting that a first packet is lost, the first packet according to a local recovery mechanism. The first packet is a packet obtained based on a packet sent by at least one first terminal to at least one second terminal, and the first node is a node on a network path between each first terminal and a second terminal communicating with the first terminal. The method further includes adding a first identification information related to local recovery, and sending the first packet. This application can reduce a transmission delay and improve transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingwang Zhou, Feng Li, Yizhou Li, Jianfei He
  • Patent number: 11950292
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for data transmission are provided. The method is applied to a user equipment that detects a current timing advance (TA) in a target time unit to obtain a detection result. The user equipment sends, if the detection result indicates that the current TA has expired, at least one of a random access signal and a target notification message to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qin Mu
  • Patent number: 11937300
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for a common preamble for wireless local-area networks (WLANs). An apparatus of an access point (AP) or station (STA) comprising processing circuitry configured to encode an AP trigger frame that includes a resource allocation for other APs to transmit trigger frames to perform an uplink or downlink multi-user transmission with stations (STAs). The resource allocation includes information so that the transmissions are coordinated at the physical level to lessen interference among the APs and the stations. The processing is configured to encode a trigger frame for multi-AP request-to-send (RTS), the multi-AP trigger frame comprising for each of a plurality of APs, the trigger frame indicating that each of a plurality of APs are to transmit a physical (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising a request-to-send (RTS) or multi-user (MU) RTS (MU-RTS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Robert J. Stacey, Laurent Cariou, Feng Jiang, Yaron Alpert
  • Patent number: 11930485
    Abstract: A user equipment, including: receiving circuitry and transmitting circuitry. The receiving circuitry configured to receive a first radio resource control (RRC) message including first information used for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission corresponding to a configured grant, and a second RRC message comprising second information used for a PUSCH transmission scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI). The first information including first parameters and a second parameter, and the second information including a third parameter. The transmitting circuitry configured to perform a PUSCH initial transmission corresponding to the configured grant by using the first parameters and the second parameter, and perform, based on detection of a second PDCCH, the PUSCH retransmission corresponding to the configured grant by using the first parameters and the third parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kai Ying, Tatsushi Aiba, John Michael Kowalski
  • Patent number: 11924910
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, control signaling for communications in a wireless communications system. The control signaling may indicate a first duration for an inactivity timer. The UE may initiate the inactivity timer and a second timer based on identifying a period of inactivity. The second timer may have a second duration that is shorter than the first duration for the inactivity timer. In some examples, the second duration may be based on one or more parameters, such as a display status, a battery status, a scaling factor, the first duration, an application state, or any combination thereof. The UE may release a connection for the communications in the wireless communications system based on an expiration of the second timer, an expiration of the inactivity timer, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Satashu Goel, Ertugrul Necdet Ciftcioglu, Shanshan Wang, Daniel Amerga, Karthik Venkatram, Juan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11917666
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for sidelink control information forwarding for sensing procedure are disclosed herein. An example method of wireless communication at a forwarding user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a forwarded UE, control information, and transmitting, to a sensing UE, a forward message including the control information and information associated with the forwarded UE. An example method of wireless communication at the sensing UE includes receiving, from the forwarding UE, a forward message including the control information containing a first measurement of the control information. The example method also includes obtaining a second measurement of the forward message and determining a ratio of the second measurement to the first measurement. The example method also includes selecting a specific resource based on the ratio and whether the forwarding UE is an intended receiver for the sensing UE or the forwarding UE intends to receive from the forwarded UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Sourjya Dutta, Gabi Sarkis, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11916822
    Abstract: Provided is a method and device for transceiving a frame in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) system. Particularly, an Access Point (AP) transmits a first frame to a first station (STA) via a first band. The AP receives a second frame from a second STA via a second band while the first frame is being transmitted. The first band and the second band are combined with each other as a multi-band. The multi-band simultaneously supports a Downlink (DL) transmission and a Uplink (UL) transmission. The relationship between the first STA and the second STA is a hidden node. A Physical (PHY) header of the first frame includes channel status information of the second band. A Network Allocation Vector (NAV) of the first STA is set up on the basis of the channel status information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Insun Jang, Suhwook Kim, Jeongki Kim, Kiseon Ryu, Taewon Song, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11917583
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether a resource is available for use by one or more other UEs. The UE may transmit a device-to-device coordination message to indicate whether the resource is available for use by the one or more other UEs. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11917655
    Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to determine a Resource Unit (RU) allocation of a plurality of RUs to a plurality of wireless communication stations (STAs), respectively, the RU allocation to allocate to a STA of the plurality of STAs an RU of the plurality of RUs, wherein an RU size of the RU allocated to the STA is based at least on a traffic rate parameter, which is dependent on a traffic rate of Downlink (DL) traffic for the STA; and to transmit a Multi-User (MU) DL Orthogonal-Frequency-Division-Multiple-Access (OFDMA) Physical-layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) to the plurality of STAs according to the RU allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arjun Anand, Vinod Kristem, Rath Vannithamby
  • Patent number: 11910442
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a random access control method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method includes that a user equipment (UE) determines whether the random access process is successfully completed in response to receiving a bandwidth part switch command for a cell associated with a random access process during the random access process. Additionally, the UE stops the random access process in response to determining that the random access process is unsuccessfully completed. Furthermore, the UE switches a bandwidth part according to the bandwidth part switch command without continuing the random access process in the switched bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11910445
    Abstract: A method and device of random access are provided. The method may be applied to a base station. The base station may transmit a broadcast message to a user equipment (UE). The broadcast message may include physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration information and supplementary resource indication information. The PRACH configuration information may include first indication information for characterizing first physical resource and second indication information for characterizing a random access preamble sequence. The base station may obtain a location of a first reference synchronization broadcast block (SSB) synchronization signal according to the first physical resource corresponding to the PRACH configuration information. The base station may monitor, when the sending of the first reference SSB synchronization signal fails, the random access preamble sequence on the second physical resource corresponding to the supplementary resource indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11902050
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel network architecture for providing edge services of a virtual private cloud (VPC) at host computers hosting machines of the VPC. The host computers in the novel network architecture are reachable from external networks through a gateway router of an availability zone (AZ). The gateway router receives a data message from the external network addressed to one or more data compute nodes (DCNs) in the VPC and forwards the data message to a particular host computer identified as providing a distributed edge service for the VPC. The particular host computer, upon receiving the forwarded data message, performs the distributed edge service and provides the serviced data message to a destination DCN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Sami Boutros, Anirban Sengupta, Mani Kancherla, Jerome Catrouillet, Sri Mohana Singamsetty
  • Patent number: 11902236
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to automatically, based on contextual information and without needing explicit input from a user, modifying one or more settings associated with presenting a notification. In examples, settings may include automatically suspending notification presentation or automatically overriding a notification setting that suspends notification presentation. In addition, contextual information may include, among other things, information related to a computing device (e.g., device location or network signal strength), a rate of user interaction or engagement with an application (e.g., rate of information sharing, user reactions, etc.), and/or a calendar or schedule of a user. In examples, the contextual information may be analyzed (e.g., based on comparison to a threshold) to determine whether a condition is met, and based on the analysis, the one or more settings may be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Bakshi, Scott Buchanan, Mina Chandler, Gavin Ham, Justin Rushing, Leena Mansour, Faisal Yaqub
  • Patent number: 11903054
    Abstract: A method for establishing a communication connection and related apparatuses are provided. The method is applicable to a first earphone of wireless earphones. The wireless earphones further include a second earphone. The first earphone is in communication connection with the terminal. The first earphone is in communication connection with the second earphone. The method includes the following. A first distance between the first earphone and the terminal is determined. A second distance between the second earphone and the terminal is determined. A first message is sent to the second earphone for instructing the second earphone to establish a communication connection with the terminal, when the first distance is greater than or equal to a first threshold value and the second distance is less than a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhua Gong, Baoti Li
  • Patent number: 11882478
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a user equipment (UE). The UE comprises at least one of a transmission unit and a reception unit, wherein the at least one of the transmission unit and the reception unit receives, from a core network, a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment reject message including first identification information, the first identification information indicating behaviors of the UE after a first public land mobile network (PLMN) is changed; and a controller, wherein the controller: does not stop, when the first PLMN is changed, a back-off timer for congestion management based on single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI), the back-off timer being activated in the first PLMN; and determines, based on the first identification information, whether initiation of a procedure for the S-NSSAI in a second PLMN is allowed after the first PLMN is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takakura, Masafumi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 11882037
    Abstract: This application provides a route event record entry processing method, a network device, and a control device. The method includes: obtaining, by a network device, first information and second information that correspond to a route prefix, where the first information is used to indicate information about a first route policy for the route prefix, and the second information is used to indicate attribute information obtained after processing the route prefix by using the first route policy; and generating, by the network device, a route event record entry for the route prefix based on the first information and the second information, where the route event record entry includes the route prefix, the first information, and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunan Gu, Shunwan Zhuang, Zhenbin Li
  • Patent number: 11864210
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback skipping for user equipment (UE)-initiated transmissions. A UE configured for extended reality (XR) operations and an SPS configuration including a plurality of SPS occasions, each SPS occasion configured with at least one downlink resource and at least one uplink resource, collects pose information related to at least one SPS occasion. The UE determines, based on the pose information, to skip at least one SPS occasion. The UE sends an indication of the determination to skip the at least one SPS occasion to a base station. The indication is transmitted in a preconfigured uplink resource or may be piggybacked in an uplink transmission. The base station may reallocate the resources configured for the at least one SPS occasion based on receiving the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Jelena Damnjanovic, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11864028
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure relate to a data transmission method, a terminal device and a Core Network (CN) device. The method includes that: a terminal device determines a target access type for uplink data in multiple different access types; the terminal device determines a target-type CN corresponding to the target access type according to a correspondence between an access type and a CN type; and the terminal device sends the uplink data by use of at least one data flow corresponding to the target-type CN. According to the data transmission method, terminal device and CN device of the embodiments of the disclosure, transmission efficiency may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Xu
  • Patent number: 11856520
    Abstract: Methods are provided for enabling network operators to play a key role in allowing Cellular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to recharge batteries based on RF parameters and/or a class of service the UAVs provide to users/customers. For example, a particular mobile network operator (MNO) has a UAV charging station deployed in it leased towers where it has base stations (eNB/gNB) deployed. The MNO can provide charging as a service to the UAVs. When more than one drone is requesting a charge, the MNO can prioritize which UAV has the highest priority. In some aspects, the MNO can prioritize the UAVs for charging based on a Quality of Service identifier. Additionally or alternatively, the MNO can prioritize the UAVs for charging based on a Network Slice Selection Assistance Information indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Anurag Thantharate, Sreekar Marupaduga, Sougata Saha, Atul Kulkarni