Patents Examined by Elton Williams
  • Patent number: 11966299
    Abstract: A user terminal, a debugging device, and a data backup method are provided. The user terminal includes a storage component, an I/O controller, a main controller, a first CC controller, a first MUX, a second MUX, a third MUX, and a first interface. The first CC controller is connected to each of the first interface and a first signal selection input end of the first MUX; a first signal input end of the first MUX is connected to the I/O controller, a second signal input end of the first MUX is connected to the main controller, and a first signal output end of the first MUX is connected to the first interface; the main controller is connected to each of a second signal selection input end of the second MUX and a third signal selection input end of the third MUX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongbin Yi, Jinfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11963182
    Abstract: A method in a wireless device is provided. The method includes: receiving a downlink signal, wherein the downlink signal includes a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and a Physical downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), the PDCCH having first downlink Control Information (DCI) indicating at least second downlink control information (DCI) in the PDSCH; and performing one of encoding and decoding user data in the PDSCH based on the first DCI and second DCI. A wireless device implementing this method is provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Xixian Chen, Dongsheng Yu
  • Patent number: 11949465
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for machine learning based channel state information (CSI) estimation and feedback configuration are provided. A method may include learning channel state information feedback from one or more user equipment as time series data. The method may also include building a predictive model for user equipment feedback based on the learned channel state information feedback. The method may further include configuring a channel state information trigger with the one or more user equipment based on the predictive model. In addition, the method may include signaling predicted channel state information to the one or more user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Athul Prasad, Amitabha Ghosh, Gilsoo Lee, Jie Chen, Jun Tan
  • Patent number: 11924767
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a transmit power control (TPC) command that is based at least in part on a scheduled transmission of a sidelink communication. The UE may determine, based at least in part on refraining from transmitting the sidelink communication or transmitting the sidelink communication at a power that is lower than a power configured for the scheduled transmission of the sidelink communication, whether to adjust a transmit power of the UE based at least in part on the TPC command. The UE may selectively adjust the transmit power of the UE based at least in part on determining whether to adjust the transmit power. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Jung Ho Ryu, Kapil Gulati, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 11917567
    Abstract: Method for synchronizing data packets is disclosed, which includes: receiving an initial data packet having a timestamp from a first sensor; storing the timestamp of the initial data packet from the first sensor, herewith defined as reference timestamp; for each received data packet having a timestamp from said sensors, received subsequently to said initial data packet, for the first sensor, storing the timestamp of the most recent data packet from said first sensor, herewith defined as reference timestamp; for the sensors other than the first sensor, calculating the difference between the timestamp of a received data packet and the reference timestamp; calculating an average of said differences for the received data packets for each said sensor; correcting the timestamp of the received data packet with the calculated average of said differences of the respective sensor; using the corrected timestamps to synchronize the data packets from the embedded wireless data sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SWORD HEALTH, S.A.
    Inventors: André Branquinho Gomes, Ana Clara Ferreira Matos, Luis Ungaro Pinto Coelho, Virgílio António Ferro Bento
  • Patent number: 11916615
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a device and method for wirelessly transmitting power on the basis of the reestablishment of out-band communication. The present specification discloses a wireless power receiving device comprising a communication/control circuit configured to carry out the operations of: performing handover from in-band communication using operating frequencies to out-band communication using any frequencies except for the operating frequencies; transmitting power characteristic information to the wireless power transmitting device or receiving power characteristic information from the wireless power transmitting device through the out-band communication before entering a power transmission phase; and saving power state information determined during the power transmission phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinkwon Lim, Jingu Choi, Joonho Park, Yongcheol Park
  • Patent number: 11909704
    Abstract: A device, a network, and a method for wireless communication are provided. In an embodiment, the method, performed by a first communication node, includes generating at least one of a spatial-specific receiving pattern and a first spatial-specific processing pattern, receiving a waveform signal from one or more second nodes in accordance with the at least one of the spatial-specific receiving pattern or the first spatial-specific processing pattern, determining a second spatial-specific processing pattern and a channel status of a channel, wherein the channel status of the channel is according to the at least one of the spatial-specific receiving pattern and the second spatial-specific processing pattern and transmitting a signal along a transmission direction, wherein the transmission direction is in accordance with the at least one of the spatial-specific receiving pattern and the second spatial-specific processing pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jialing Liu, Weimin Xiao
  • Patent number: 11910402
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receive a first group downlink control information transmission associated with a UE group, where the first group downlink control information transmission may reference a second group downlink control information transmission (e.g., according to a pre-notification indication). The UE may determine a feedback condition for the second group downlink control information transmission and monitor for the second group downlink control information transmission. Alternatively, the UE may receive a second group downlink control information transmission referencing the first group downlink control information transmission (e.g., according to a post-confirmation indication), and the UE may determine a feedback condition for the first group downlink control information transmission. Based on the feedback condition, the UE may transmit feedback information, for example, indicating that the UE did not correctly receive the indicated group downlink control information transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Linhai He, Jelena Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11882568
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. In one method, a user equipment (UE) receives a timing synchronization signal (TSS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), with the TSS based at least in part on a timing of the TSS within a broadcast channel transmission time interval (BCH TTI); determines the timing of the TSS within the BCH TTI; and demodulates the PBCH based at least in part on the TSS. In another method, a base station allocates resources for a TSS and a PBCH within a BCH TTI; determines the TSS based at least in part on a timing of the TSS within the BCH TTI; and transmits, on the resources allocated for the TSS and the PBCH, the TSS and the PBCH, with the TSS transmitted as a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for the PBCH on at least one port used to transmit the TSS and the PBCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bilal Sadiq, Sundar Subramanian, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Juergen Cezanne, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11863592
    Abstract: A method includes, at a media bridge configured to distribute a plurality of media streams among a plurality of client devices connected to the media bridge over a network, receiving the plurality of media streams from the plurality of client devices via the media bridge. The media bridge connects the plurality of client devices. The method further includes assigning a pair of names for each of the plurality of media streams. The pair of names include a contribution name and a distribution name. The method further includes presenting a first list to the plurality of client devices. The first list including a plurality of the distribution names for the plurality of media streams received from the plurality of client devices. The method further includes providing an indication of a current active speaker within the plurality of media streams via a signaling process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jacques Samain, Giovanna Carofiglio, Giulio Grassi, Enrico Loparco, Michele Papalini
  • Patent number: 11856646
    Abstract: A wireless device detection system can include processors, memory devices, and sensors to receive temporary identifiers transmitted between a base station and a mobile wireless device. The memory devices include instructions that cause the processors to build a cumulative distribution function for survival probability based on delta times between multiple access events for each of multiple temporary identifiers received from the sensors. In response to a new access event, the processors add a corresponding temporary identifier to a streaming list and assign a survival probability value, based on the cumulative distribution function, to a latest access event for each temporary identifier contained in the streaming list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Ubiety Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 11856468
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure pertain to mobility management processes for cells directly at Layer 1 (L1) or Layer 2 (L2), in a manner that reduces latency of inter-cell mobility methods and enhances user experience under mobility (i.e. handover). To address some of the limitations of existing inter-cell mobility methods, embodiments of the disclosure aid in enabling system information acquisition from neighbor cells for inter-cell mobility, system information update for neighbor cells for inter-cell mobility, radio link monitoring (RLM) for inter-cell mobility and using an uplink transmission mechanism for inter-cell mobility to acknowledge receipt of a handover message for inter-cell mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aman Jassal, Xi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11855758
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for dynamically estimating a propagation time between a first node and a second node of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by the second node, from the first node a packet containing a first timestamp representing the transmit time of the packet, receiving, by the second node, from a local time source, a second timestamp corresponding with a time of reception of the first timestamp received from the first node, calculating a time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, storing the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, calculating a predictive model for predicting the propagation time based the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, and estimating the propagation time between the first node and the second node at a time by querying the predictive model with the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall
  • Patent number: 11848880
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a serving base station, a medium access control control element (MAC-CE) indicating activation or deactivation of a semi-persistent (SP) sounding reference signal (SRS)-for-positioning, wherein a reserved bit in the MAC-CE or a logical channel identifier (LCID) of a MAC subheader of the MAC-CE indicates the activation or deactivation of the SP SRS-for-positioning, and transmits the SP SRS-for-positioning on one or more SRS resources configured for the UE, the SP SRS-for-positioning having transmission parameters adopted from a spatial relation reference signal for the SP SRS-for-positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 11848967
    Abstract: A method for processing telephony sessions of a network including at least one application server and a call router, the method including the steps of assigning a primary Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and at least a secondary URI to an application; mapping a telephony session to the primary URI; communicating with the application server designated by the primary URI using an application layer protocol; receiving telephony instructions from the application server and processing the telephony instructions with the call router; detecting an application event; and upon detecting the application event, communicating with the application server designated by the secondary URI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TWILIO INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11838397
    Abstract: In an example, a synchronization signal can be transmitted to a plurality of synchronizers. The plurality of synchronizers can include a plurality of upstream synchronizers and a downstream synchronizer. Each synchronizer of the plurality of upstream synchronizers can be caused to count from a respective count value until a predetermined end count sequence value in response to receiving the synchronization signal. The respective count value stored at each synchronizer can be representative of a difference in time between a respective upstream synchronizer of the plurality of upstream synchronizers receiving the synchronization signal and the downstream synchronizer receiving the synchronization signal. A respective processing element of a plurality of processing elements can be caused to start a respective function or operation in response to a respective upstream synchronizer reaching the predetermined end count sequence value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian R. Konigsburg
  • Patent number: 11824627
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for utilizing a flexible slot indicator in wireless communication. A base station (BS) may establish communication with a first user equipment device (UE). The BS may determine a transmission direction for each of a plurality of symbols included in one or more slots. The BS may transmit a slot format indicator (SFI) to the UE. The SFI may indicate the transmission direction for each of the plurality of symbols included in one or more slots. The BS and the UE may perform communication during the one or more slots according to the determined transmission direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Wei Zeng, Xiangying Yang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun
  • Patent number: 11825504
    Abstract: A wireless device receives a downlink control information (DCI) indicating uplink resources in scheduled consecutive subframes of an unlicensed cell. The DCI comprises: a first field and a second field. The first field indicates a number of the scheduled consecutive subframes for transmission of transport blocks (TBs) by the wireless device. The second field indicates which subframe, of the scheduled consecutive subframes, is for transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS). The SRS is transmitted in the subframe of the unlicensed cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11817970
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, a device, and a system for determining a GRE tunnel identifier, applied to a scenario in which there are at least two bonded GRE tunnels between a HAG and HCPE. The method is implemented by the HAG and includes: receiving a service packet that is sent by the HCPE through a first GRE tunnel, where the service packet includes a source IP address of the first GRE tunnel carrying the service packet, and the first GRE tunnel is one of the at least two GRE tunnels; and looking up a correspondence table according to the source IP address of the first GRE tunnel, to determine a tunnel identifier of the first GRE tunnel carrying the service packet, where the correspondence table includes a correspondence between the source IP address of the first GRE tunnel and the tunnel identifier of the first GRE tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lianshu Zheng, Mingui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11818241
    Abstract: A physical layer (PHY) processor of a network device receives: a timing packet that includes initial timing information, and one or more indicators of one or more parameters to be used by the PHY processor for embedding timing information into the timing packet, the one or more indicators including at least i) an indicator indicating that the timing packet is a type of packet into which timing information is to be embedded by the PHY device, ii) an indicator of a location of a field in the timing packet at which the timing information is to be embedded into the timing packet by the PHY device, and iii) an indicator of whether timing information in the timing packet needs to be updated by the PHY device. The PHY processor updates, based on the one or more indicators, the initial timing information in the timing packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Nitzan Dror, Lenin Patra, Jeng-Jong Chen