Patents Examined by Eric Myers
  • Patent number: 11683769
    Abstract: A method of operating a communications device to transmit data to or to receive data from a wireless communications network comprises detecting a first synchronisation signal at the communications device received via a wireless access interface of a cell of the wireless communications network, the first synchronisation signal being transmitted with a first periodicity with respect to a time divided structure of the wireless access interface, the first synchronisation signal being configured to carry an indication of an identifier of the cell, generating a first estimate of the cell identifier carried by the first synchronisation signal, and configuring a transmitter of the communications device to transmit data to the wireless communications network and configuring a receiver of the communications device to receive data from the wireless communications network based on the first estimated cell identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 11683251
    Abstract: Technologies for low-latency data streaming include a computing device having a processor that includes a producer and a consumer. The producer generates a data item, and in a local buffer producer mode adds the data item to a local buffer, and in a remote buffer producer mode adds the data item to a remote buffer. When the local buffer is full, the producer switches to the remote buffer producer mode, and when the remote buffer is below a predetermined low threshold, the producer switches to the local buffer producer mode. The consumer reads the data item from the local buffer while operating in a local buffer consumer mode and reads the data item from the remote buffer while operating in a remote buffer consumer mode. When the local buffer is above a predetermined high threshold, the consumer may switch to a catch-up operating mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene Yasman, Nir Gerber, Sumit Mohan, Jean-Pierre Giacalone
  • Patent number: 11677453
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) participating in a sidelink communications group increments a transmit counter for each packet transmitted by the first UE as part of group communications among the sidelink communications group, increments a receive counter for each packet received by the first UE from a second UE participating in the sidelink communications group as part of group communications among the sidelink communications group; and transmits the transmit counter and the receive counter to a network node based on a configuration received from the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Gulati, Hong Cheng, Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11647443
    Abstract: A method and system for Air-To-Ground communications allowing integration of the aircraft communication with a terrestrial cellular communications network. The solution is carried out in the aircraft so any existing standard terrestrial cellular communication network may be used without requiring any modification. The constraints due to the special aircraft conditions (speed and height) are efficiently solved, allowing broad interoperability with the cellular communications network, satisfying the increasing high speed data demand. Specifically, in order to solve the handover constraints the aircraft antenna will create at least two radiation patterns: one for maintaining the current connection with the serving base station and another one or more to search the next suitable best station for handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space, S.A.U.
    Inventors: Jorge Casamayón Antón, Carlos Gomez Calero
  • Patent number: 11637673
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically to sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions in enhanced machine type communication (MTC). An example method generally includes determining one or more narrowband regions partitioned from wider system bandwidth for communicating with a base station, determining resources, within the one or more narrowband regions of a first subframe, for transmission of sounding reference signals (SRS) by the UE, deciding whether or not to transmit SRS on the determined resources of the first subframe, and transmitting or not transmitting the SRS on the determined resources of the first subframe based on the decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11627563
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Data may be received during transmission time intervals (TTIs) that have a short duration relative to other TTIs. The short-duration TTIs may occur within or overlap a longer duration TTI, such as a subframe. Feedback responsive to the data may be generated and assigned for transmission during an uplink TTI according to a feedback timing or delay, which may be selected to reduce latency or balance the payload size of uplink messages sent during the assigned uplink TTI. Data and feedback assignments in short-duration TTIs may be configured based on a time division duplexing (TDD) configuration for some TTIs (e.g., subframes). TTIs that are a Long Term Evolution (LTE) subframe, an LTE slot, and a duration of two LTE symbol periods may be supported. Portions of special TTIs may be used for transmissions according to shorter-duration TTIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shimman Arvind Patel, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo, Jing Sun, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11617142
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization broadcast transmission. At least one candidate transmission location corresponding to at least one synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) to be transmitted, is determined, where a number of the at least one candidate transmission location is greater than a number of SSBs in one time interval. Further, synchronization broadcast transmission including the at least one SSB is generated, and the generated synchronization broadcast transmission is transmitted at the at least one candidate transmission location in a beam sweeping manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11611865
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for handling mobility between areas with heterogeneous network slices in wireless communications systems operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. An exemplary method that may be performed by a UE includes receiving an indication that a network slice is not available, entering a connection management idle (CM-IDLE) state, and initiating a registration procedure with an access and mobility management function (AMF) subsequent to entering the CM-IDLE state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Stefano Faccin, Haris Zisimopoulos, Miguel Griot
  • Patent number: 11606226
    Abstract: An example method for a programmable infrastructure gateway for enabling hybrid cloud services in a network environment is provided and includes receiving an instruction from a hybrid cloud application executing in a private cloud, interpreting the instruction according to a hybrid cloud application programming interface, and executing the interpreted instruction in a public cloud using a cloud adapter. The method is generally executed in the infrastructure gateway including a programmable integration framework allowing generation of various cloud adapters using a cloud adapter software development kit, the cloud adapter being generated and programmed to be compatible with a specific public cloud platform of the public cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagaraj A. Bagepalli, David Wei-Shen Chang, Abhijit Patra, Murali Anantha, Prashanth Thumbargudi
  • Patent number: 11606740
    Abstract: Aspects directed towards reserving resources for sidelink communications are disclosed. In one example, an initial sidelink communication is transmitted which includes an indication of resources reserved for a subsequent sidelink communication. A transmission restriction is applied for the subsequent sidelink communication based on a transmission characteristic associated with transmitting the initial sidelink communication. The subsequent sidelink communication is then transmitted according to the transmission restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gabi Sarkis, Alexandros Manolakos, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11595884
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatus and methods for announcing a BSS parameter updates for a wireless link that can be received by a MLD even when the MLD is not listening for parameter updates on that specific link by employing a different wireless link to broadcast, receive, and/or signal the BSS parameter update. An MLD can update the BSS parameters of the wireless link and use the wireless link according to the updated BSS parameters (e.g., after performing a channel switch). According to some embodiments, an STA within an AP MLD transmits an information elements (IE) including BSS parameter updates associated with a different STA (operating on a different wireless link) within the AP MLD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Yongho Seok, Kai Ying Lu, James Chih-Shi Yee
  • Patent number: 11589214
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein support efficient SDM operation in IAB networks. A first node transmits a report to a CU, where the report includes at least one multiplexing capability or condition of the first node. The first node receives a semi-static resource allocation from the CU based on the at least one multiplexing capability, and the first node communicates with a second node based on the semi-static resource allocation. The at least one multiplexing capability includes at least one of SDM or FDM, including full duplex or half duplex. The at least one multiplexing capability is also with respect to one or more transmission direction combinations of the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Andrzej Partyka, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11581935
    Abstract: A wireless communication device can expedite beam scans for beam management. The wireless communication device can perform a beam scan using a first beam reference signal of a synchronization signal block (SSB) and a second beam reference signal associated with a physical broadcast control channel (PBCH) of the SSB. For each synchronization signal block (SSB) index (e.g., transmit beam) monitored by the wireless communication device, the wireless communication device can obtain a respective beam quality metric on each of two or more respective receive beams using at least the first and second beam reference signals. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ruhua He, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Jun Zhu, Yong Li, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11558760
    Abstract: Technology disclosed herein includes a method to trigger protection switching on a wireless link of a network device comprised in a protection switching capable network. The method comprises monitoring one or more performance metrics on said link and sending a signal failed message when at least one metric of said one or more performance metrics fails to satisfy performance criteria related to the at least one metric of said one or more performance metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Accedian Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Greg Spear
  • Patent number: 11546253
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing fast reroute for traffic in EVPN-VXLAN. For example, a backup PE device of an Ethernet segment is configured with an additional tunnel endpoint address (“reroute tunnel endpoint address”) for a backup path associated with a second split-horizon group that is different than a tunnel endpoint address and first split-horizon group for another path used for normal traffic forwarding. The backup PE device sends the reroute tunnel endpoint address to a primary PE device of the Ethernet segment, which uses the reroute tunnel endpoint address to configure a backup path to the backup PE device over the core network. For example, the primary PE device may install the reroute tunnel endpoint address within its forwarding plane and one or more operations to cause the primary PE device to encapsulate a VXLAN header including the reroute tunnel endpoint address when rerouting the packet along the backup path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc
    Inventors: Wen Lin, Yi Zheng, Mukesh Kumar, Xichun Hong, SelvaKumar Sivaraj, Vamshi Krishna Voruganti, John E. Drake
  • Patent number: 11546386
    Abstract: An automated registration service supported on an application server that interoperates with an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) core network is configured to dynamically register and deregister devices that are all associated with one or more commonly-utilized phone numbers. The service may assign the phone number to registered devices and, in contrast, un-assign the phone number from deregistered devices. The registration and deregistration of the devices may occur based on the amount of interaction with the device and other real-time contextual information. Furthermore, the automated registration service intelligently determines which registered devices to forward incoming video and/or audio calls to based on various contextual information, including the capabilities of device, identified location of a user, user preferences, etc. By intelligently selecting which devices should receive an incoming call, unnecessary use of bandwidth, data, and resources (e.g., battery power) can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Calvin Choe, Shai Guday, Michael Kostersitz
  • Patent number: 11540178
    Abstract: A transmitting device maps complex valued symbols in sequence to physical resource blocks for a sidelink transmission. The transmitting device reserves a first symbol of a subframe, where resource elements in the first symbol of the subframe are not considered in mapping the complex valued symbols to the physical resource blocks for the sidelink transmission. The transmitting device transmits the sidelink transmission after mapping the complex valued symbols to the physical resource blocks. A receiving device receives the sidelink transmission and decodes the sidelink transmission to determine complex valued symbols that are mapped in sequence to physical resource blocks of the sidelink transmission, where the complex valued symbols are not mapped to resource elements in a first symbol of a subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peer Berger, Shay Landis, Moshe Ben-Ari
  • Patent number: 11533212
    Abstract: A data modulation and device and demodulation device for the multicarrier system are provided. The data modulation method includes: performing different cyclic shifting on data sequences of L continuous symbols respectively, L?2; and modulating the cyclically shifted data sequences by use of a waveform function, an independent variable range of the waveform function being greater than or equal to a symbol interval of the L modulated symbols. The technical solution solves the technical problems in which the related art is not compatible with a LTE system or effectively suppressing out-of-band leakage or flexibly adjusting a symbol interval to adapt to different channel environments and exhibits poor demodulation performance, thus achieving effective suppression of the out-of-band leakage, having higher compatibility with the LTE system and improving demodulation performance and flexibility of adjusting a symbol interval by simple cyclic shifting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu Xin
  • Patent number: 11528653
    Abstract: A network includes at least one node to communicate with at least one other node via a wireless network protocol. The node includes a network configuration module to periodically switch a current node function of the node between an intermediate node function and a leaf node function. The switch of the current node function enables automatic reconfiguration of the wireless network based on detected communications between the at least one node and at least one intermediate node or at least one leaf node via the wireless network protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ariton E. Xhafa, Jianwei Zhou, Xiaolin Lu
  • Patent number: 11523368
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for improved tracking area planning and handling, comprising: assigning a single tracking area code to a plurality of eNodeBs at a messaging concentrator gateway, the messaging concentrator gateway situated in a network between the plurality of eNodeBs and the core network; storing, at the messaging concentrator gateway, at least one indicator of a last known location of a user equipment (UE) other than the single tracking area code; receiving a paging message from the core network at the messaging concentrator gateway for a UE; and performing a paging sequence using the at least one indicator to identify a set of eNodeBs to page the UE, thereby allowing larger tracking area list sizes to be used without increasing signaling traffic between the radio access network and the core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Nashua, New Hampshire
    Inventors: Kaitki Agarwal, Kartik Shashikant Raval