Patents Examined by Eric Nowlin
  • Patent number: 11395299
    Abstract: A wireless device transmits a capability message indicating that the wireless device supports a first number of channel state information (CSI) processes per bandwidth part of a cell. The wireless device receives, based on the wireless device supporting the first number of CSI processes per bandwidth part, CSI configuration parameters indicating a second number of CSI processes for a first bandwidth part. CSI reports for the second number of CSI processes are transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11394521
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application disclose resource allocation indication and receiving methods and devices. The resource allocation indication method includes that: a Base Station (BS) sends first indication information, wherein the first indication information is configured to indicate an activated Bandwidth Part (BWP) message and the activated BWP message at least includes BWP Bandwidth (BW) information; and the BS sends second indication information, wherein the second indication information is configured to indicate one or more groups of first-level Resource Block Group (RBG) sizes, each group of first-level RBG sizes includes multiple first-level RBG sizes, and each first-level RBG size corresponds to different BWP BWs, wherein there is a corresponding relationship between the first-level RBG size and different BWP BWs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jian Li, Peng Hao, Zhisong Zuo
  • Patent number: 11395284
    Abstract: A communication technique and a system for fusing a 5th generation (5G) communication system with Internet of things (IoT) technology for supporting a higher data rate after a 4th generation (4G) system is provided. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, and the like), based on 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for indicating an alternative resource in the event of a collision of configured grants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangkyu Baek, Anil Agiwal, Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11388670
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for optimizing power consumption in voice communication in mobile devices. The system comprises pre-processing modules, a speech codec encoder module, a speech codec decoder module and post-processing modules. The pre-processing and post-processing modules are implemented on a DSP/VLIW processor, while the speech encoder and decoder modules are implemented on a CPU with SIMD extensions. This pipelined implementation of modules in multi-core reduces current consumption in the SoC by up to 50 percent compared to an implementation of the modules in a single DSP/VLIW core. The significant reduction in current consumption of the modules enables reduction of power consumption in the talk time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TriSpace Technologies (OPC) Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventor: Narasimhan Vijay Anand
  • Patent number: 11388266
    Abstract: In one implementation, a universal translator device for translating protocols, the device includes one or more peripheral device interfaces through which communication from one or more peripheral devices is received using any of a plurality of protocols; a protocol translator that is (i) preconfigured with translation mappings to translate between each possible permutation of the plurality of protocols and (ii) programmed to translate, using the translation mappings, signals received from the peripheral devices into at least one target protocol; and a wireless interface that is configured to transmit wireless signals in the target protocol, the wireless signals having been translated into the target protocol by the protocol translator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Resolution Products, LLC
    Inventors: Brian K. Seemann, David J. Mayne, Paul G. Saldin, Daniel Mondor, Joshua Hauser
  • Patent number: 11387933
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control message from a base station indicating a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) associated with an uplink transmission, a number of layers associated with the uplink transmission, or both. The UE may determine to adjust (for example, reduce) a first number of bits based on the MCS, the number of layers, or both. The first number of bits may include an effective number of bits (ENOB) supported at a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) of the UE, a number of bits (NOB) supported at a transmission front end (TxFE) component of the UE, or both. The UE may transmit the uplink transmission to the base station according to the adjusted first number of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Shahin Mehdizad Taleie, Oren Matsrafi, Ronen Greenberger, Gal Keret, Yossi Waldman, Gideon Shlomo Kutz
  • Patent number: 11388072
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using network monitoring computers (NMCs). Two or more network segments coupled by a traffic forwarding device (TFD) may be monitored. External network addresses and internal network addresses may be determined based on encrypted network traffic exchanged between external endpoints and the TFD and internal network traffic exchanged between internal endpoints and the TFD. Metrics associated with the external network addresses or the internal network addresses may be determined based on the monitoring. Correlation scores may be provided for the external network addresses and the internal network addresses based on of a correlation model, the metrics, or the other metrics. If a correlation score associated with an external network address and an internal network address exceeds a threshold value, the external network address and the internal network address may be associated with each other based on the correlation score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: ExtraHop Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Xue Jun Wu, Arindum Mukerji, Jeff James Costlow, Michael Kerber Krause Montague, Jesse Abraham Rothstein, Matthew Alexander Schurr
  • Patent number: 11382007
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to systems, devices, apparatuses, products, and methods for wireless communication. A communication system may include a user equipment (UE) that receives a configuration for contention-free random access (CFRA) and a configuration for contention-based random access (CBRA). The UE determines a first random access resource. The first random access resource maps to one or more beams from a target base station. The UE determines a beam quality associated with the first random access resource. The UE initiates a random access request using the CFRA when the first random access resource is a contention-free resource, and the beam quality of the first random access resource is above a threshold beam quality. The UE initiates the random access request using the CBRA when the first random access resource is the contention-free resource, and the beam quality of the first random access resource is below the threshold beam quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Sony Akkarakaran, Juan Montojo, Shengbo Chen, Wooseok Nam, Xiao Feng Wang, Kaushik Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11382120
    Abstract: This application provides an information transmission method and device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device when an uplink-downlink configuration between the terminal device and a network device is a first uplink-downlink configuration, a first resource used to transmit first information; receiving, by the terminal device, indication information from the network device, where the indication information is used to indicate that the uplink-downlink configuration is a second uplink-downlink configuration; determining, by the terminal device based on the indication information, a second resource used to transmit the first information; and transmitting, by the terminal device, the first information with the network device on the second resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinfang Zhang, Lei Lu, Lu Rong
  • Patent number: 11381346
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for the prioritization of services for control and data transmission for new radio (NR) systems. In particular, some embodiments may be directed to the prioritization of hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Debdeep Chatterjee, Sergey Panteleev, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Gang Xiong, Yujian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11374866
    Abstract: A software-defined network controller (SDN controller) defines a first network flow to be selectively implemented by a networking device according to a first network operation profile. The SDN controller defines a second network flow to be selectively implemented by the networking device according to a second network operation profile. A memory device of the networking device may store at least first and second network operation profiles for selective implementation during defined event windows. The event window(s) may be defined by start event inputs and stop event inputs. The event inputs may include, without limitation, a combination of parameter-based inputs and/or temporal inputs. In one specific embodiment, the networking device detects a network event and modifies a network operation profile for a preset time period and/or until an interrupt or stop event is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Gammel, Rhett Smith
  • Patent number: 11368339
    Abstract: Provided are an SRS transmission method and device capable of realizing SRS transmission in a 5G system. The method comprises: receiving downlink control information (DCI) sent by a network device, wherein the DCI comprises SRS trigger information; and according to a transmission latency K, at or after a Kth time-domain resource unit after receiving the DCI, transmitting an SRS on an SRS resource in an SRS resource set indicated by the SRS trigger information, wherein K is an integer greater than or equal to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhong Chen, Zhihua Shi
  • Patent number: 11368998
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from a network node, a UE specific tracking sequence and assigned transmission opportunities and transmitting, by the UE to the network node, the UE specific tracking sequence in accordance with the assigned transmission opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mohammadhadi Baligh, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 11368256
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method performed by a terminal device, comprising: sending a first data packet to a network device in a first time unit in a GUL transmission manner, where the first data packet corresponds to a first HARQ process number, and the first data packet corresponds to first new data indication information; receiving first instruction information, where the first instruction information is used to instruct the terminal device to send a second data packet in a second time unit, the second data packet corresponds to the first HARQ process number, and the second data packet corresponds to second new data indication information sent by the network device; and performing buffering processing on the first data packet or sending the second data packet, based on a value of the first new data indication information and a value of the second new data indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuan Li, Lei Guan
  • Patent number: 11357012
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communication method, a network device, and a terminal device, to improve communication performance in terms of frequency band deployment and configuration. The method includes: determining, by a network device, a first uplink carrier, where the first uplink carrier is one of a plurality of uplink carriers that can be used for a terminal device; and sending, by the network device, configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information includes configuration information associated with the first uplink carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhong Chen, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11350379
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving narrowband (NB) synchronization signals. A base station transmits an NB secondary synchronization signal (SSS) indicating N NB cell identities assigned for NB Internet of Things (IoT) operation, a specific sequence generated by multiplying a base sequence with a cover sequence in element units is used for the NB SSS, wherein the base sequence is generated through a second Zadoff-Chu sequence having a length corresponding to a largest prime number less than a length L in a frequency domain, and the specific sequence is divisionally mapped to and transmitted in a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in elements each having a length M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Seokmin Shin, Bonghoe Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11350293
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating locations of signal shadowing obstructions in a wireless communication network are disclosed. The method involves at a network equipment, receiving from User Equipments (UEs), an identification of neighboring UEs from which the UEs have received a reference signal via a non-line-of-sight (NLoS) sidelink transmission. The method also involves estimating locations of signal shadowing obstructions based on location information of UEs associated with the NLoS sidelink transmissions, and configuring communications between the network equipment and at least one UE based on an estimated location of at least one signal shadowing obstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Navid Tadayon, Alireza Bayesteh
  • Patent number: 11336421
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method of receiving a downlink (DL) control channel in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including resource block (RB) allocation information; receiving a subframe having a plurality of physical RBs; and monitoring a plurality of downlink control channel candidates in a physical RB set corresponding to the RB allocation information from the plurality of physical RBs to detect a downlink control channel allocated to a communication device, wherein the plurality of downlink control channel candidates do not continuously exist in a virtual RB set corresponding to the physical RB set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Hakseong Kim
  • Patent number: 11323215
    Abstract: In order to enable control related to radio communication to be performed more appropriately when radio transmission schemes coexist, a radio communication apparatus according to an example aspect of the present invention includes a radio communication processing unit configured to perform communication using a first radio transmission scheme within a frequency band, wherein the radio communication processing unit is configured to perform communication using a second radio transmission scheme within a bandwidth part of the frequency band, radio resources within the bandwidth part being allocable for communication using the second radio transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 11323887
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for a terminal for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band, and an apparatus supporting the method. The present invention includes specific examples, such as an embodiment in which, if a terminal is transmitting a signal in the direction of a particular beam, then, on the basis of the direction of a beam of a base station sharing the unlicensed band, the terminal adaptively transmits an uplink signal in the unlicensed band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Jonghyun Park, Changhwan Park, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Sukhyon Yoon