Patents Examined by Eunsook Choi
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Patent number: 11115154Abstract: In general, to provide acknowledgment information by a first wireless device, the first wireless device sends repeated instances of acknowledgment information in respective first and second frame structures, in response to receipt of first information from a second wireless device. In addition, the first wireless device also sends further acknowledgment information in the second frame structure that is responsive to second information received from the second wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jun Li, Lai King Tee
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Patent number: 11115168Abstract: A virtual gateway software application may be configured to receive immediate command instructions for local connected devices from each of: a user and a remote server on the Internet; via a wireless LAN or a short-range communication protocol. The application may relay the immediate command instructions to one or more of the connected devices via the wireless LAN or the short-range communication protocol while the device on which the application resides is within the particular building environment. It may store delayed command instructions for the local connected devices from each of: the user, and the remote server on the Internet; and relay one or more of the delayed command instructions from the mobile communication device to one or more of the connected devices via the wireless LAN or the short-range protocol.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Yonomi, Inc.Inventors: Joss Scholten, Kent Dickson, Garett Madole
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Patent number: 11102115Abstract: According to an example of a method for forwarding a packet, a ESGW device decapsulates a received downstream data packet to obtain a downstream IP data packet when a destination MAC address of the downstream data packet is an MAC address of the ESGW device; determines a matching ARP entry of an IP address of a target user terminal based on the destination IP address of the downstream IP data packet to obtain a session ID of the target user terminal; determines a length field of a PPPoE header by a microcode, and obtains a pre-stored fixed-value field of the PPPoE header from a data storage area; encapsulates the downstream IP data packet into a downstream PPPoE data packet based on the session ID, the length field, and the fixed-value field, and forwards the downstream PPPoE data packet through an egress port of the matching ARP entry.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yang Zhang, Ling Kuang
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Patent number: 11088934Abstract: This disclosure describes various methods, systems, and devices related to dynamic service node discovery in a network. In an example method, an intermediary node receives a Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) message from a first node. The LLDP message includes a discovery Type-Length-Value (TLV) that indicates a location of a service node in the network. The method further includes forwarding the LLDP message to a second node.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Sourabh Suresh Patwardhan, Naga Venkata Kiran Kumar Chunduri
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Patent number: 11088802Abstract: Provided is a base station used as a first base station in a radio communication system including the first base station, a second base station communicating with the first base station, and a user equipment communicating with the first base station. The base station includes: an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of parameters used for an initial cell setting; and a setting unit that performs a cell setting using the acquired plurality of parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Naoto Ookubo, Tooru Uchino, Anil Umesh
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Patent number: 11082348Abstract: A method for selecting a transmission of a network device is disclosed. In particular, a method for selecting a transmission of a network device comprising a plurality of queues for storing data frames is disclosed. Here, each of the plurality of queues corresponds to a different traffic class, the method comprising: a step of obtaining information about a transmission selection algorithm for the plurality of queues; and a step of selecting data frames for transmission from a corresponding queue on the basis of transmission selection algorithm information. Here, the transmission selection algorithm may correspond to a strict priority algorithm, a credit-based shaper algorithm, or a burst transmission algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seoyoung Back, Woosuk Ko
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Patent number: 11076357Abstract: Systems and methods relating to transmit power control are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a radio access node for providing transmit power control commands to a wireless device for uplink (UL) transmission on a cell that operates in an unlicensed frequency spectrum is provided. The method comprises indicating, for the cell that operates in the unlicensed frequency spectrum, a dynamic Transmit Power Control (TPC) command using a downlink (DL) control channel which indicates a DL-UL allocation of upcoming subframes in the cell that operates in the unlicensed frequency spectrum. In some embodiments, the DL control channel is a common DL control channel. In some other embodiments, the DL channel is a common Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Amitav Mukherjee, Havish Koorapaty
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Patent number: 11076394Abstract: The MAC frame in a wireless communication system includes a terminal ID allocated to each of multiple terminals. At least one connection ID is allocated to each terminal having the terminal ID, and sub-carrier allocation information is allocated to each connection having the connection ID. The sub-carrier allocation information includes a sub-carrier allocation status for each sub-carrier, and the number of allocated information bits for each sub-carrier. The sub-carrier allocation status and the number of allocated information bits for each sub-carrier can be allocated, by sub-carriers, to the sub-carrier allocation information using a same number of bits; or the information on the sub-carrier allocation status is first allocated to the sub-carrier allocation information and the number of allocated information bits for each sub-carrier is allocated.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Hyoung-Soo Lim, Woo-Yong Choi, Yong-Sun Kim, Jae-Young Ahn
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Patent number: 11071105Abstract: A sensing gap is configured among cells for inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) mechanism. A network node listens on a reservation signal in the sensing gap from a neighbor cell, and upon listening on the reservation signal, performs downlink (DL) transmission to a user equipment (UE) or uplink (UL) reception from the UE in a cell.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Kijun Kim, Ilmu Byun, Seungmin Lee, Byounghoon Kim
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Patent number: 11064515Abstract: Systems and methods for determining an uplink control channel resource to use for transmitting uplink control information to a network node are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises receiving a first downlink control channel message that schedules a first downlink shared channel transmission, receiving a second downlink control channel message that schedules a second downlink shared channel transmission, and determining an uplink control channel resource to use for transmitting uplink control information to a network node.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Havish Koorapaty, Sorour Falahati, Robert Baldemair, Daniel Larsson
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Patent number: 11063867Abstract: According to an example of a method for forwarding a packet, a ESGW device decapsulates a received downstream data packet to obtain a downstream IP data packet when a destination MAC address of the downstream data packet is an MAC address of the ESGW device; determines a matching ARP entry of an IP address of a target user terminal based on the destination IP address of the downstream IP data packet to obtain a session ID of the target user terminal; determines a length field of a PPPoE header by a microcode, and obtains a pre-stored fixed-value field of the PPPoE header from a data storage area; encapsulates the downstream IP data packet into a downstream PPPoE data packet based on the session ID, the length field, and the fixed-value field, and forwards the downstream PPPoE data packet through an egress port of the matching ARP entry.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yang Zhang, Ling Kuang
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Patent number: 11064450Abstract: Various examples and schemes pertaining to synchronization of quality of service (QoS) flows and rules in mobile communications are described. An apparatus establishes one or more protocol data unit (PDU) sessions with a wireless network. The apparatus then transmits a message to the wireless network to result in synchronization of status of at least one or more aspects related to QoS rules or QoS flows with respect to the one or more PDU sessions.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Inventors: Chien-Chun Huang-Fu, Shang-Ru Mo, Chi-Hsien Chen
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Patent number: 11063788Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving an uplink in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefore. Specifically, a method for uplink transmission by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may include: receiving, from a base station, Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) configuration information, wherein the SRS configuration information includes a parameter set for power control of SRS for each SRS resource set and the SRS resource set includes one or more SRS resources; determining a transmission power of the SRS, based on the parameter set for power control of the SRS; and transmitting the SRS to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Joonkui Ahn
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Patent number: 11044596Abstract: There is provided a method in a network element of a radio communication network, the method comprising: grouping, by the network element, a plurality of discovery patterns into at least two groups, wherein each discovery pattern comprises one or more discovery slots on radio resources for detecting discovery signals by a network node; associating at least one of the groups with a first spatial parameter and at least one other group with a second spatial parameter; and transmitting configuration information enabling a network node to utilize a discovery pattern belonging to a group associated with a spatial parameter that corresponds to spatial information of the network node.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Olav Tirkkonen, Zexian Li
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Patent number: 11044157Abstract: An intermediate node determining method and apparatus are provided, where the method includes: collecting an original data flow used to acquire a target service; based on the original data flow, determining request nodes and response nodes that are in nodes, and determining a connection relationship between the nodes; combining the determined request nodes into a first composite node and the determined response nodes into a second composite node, and determining, based on the determined connection relationship between the nodes, a connection path between the first composite node and the second composite node; and determining, based on a selected optimization objective and from the connection paths, at least one preferred connection path, to acquire an intermediate node on the at least one preferred connection path.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yingtao Li, Hao Wu
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Patent number: 11026221Abstract: A mobile station (MS) communicates with a base station (BS) by a carrier aggregation using a plurality of downlink component carriers (DCCs). The MS receives on one or more activated DCCs. The MS receives using a PDCCH on one of activated DCCs, from the BS, first information including an information field for requesting a transmission of channel state information (CSI), the first information being used for scheduling of a PUSCH. The MS transmits using the PUSCH in a first subframe on an uplink component carrier, to the BS, first CSI for more than one activated DCCs. The MS transmits using the PUSCH in a second subframe on the uplink component carrier, to the BS, second CSI for only one activated downlink component carrier. The transmission of the second CSI is scheduled by the first information received using the PDCCH on the only one activated downlink component carrier.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki, Toshizo Nogami
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Patent number: 11026287Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed that comprises a processor configured to selectively enable and disable reception of downlink signaling and configured to monitor a buffer of the WTRU for data to transmit. The WTRU comprises a transmitter configured to transmit, while reception of the downlink signaling is disabled, a channel allocation request in response to data in the monitored buffer. The processor is configured, in response to the data in the monitored buffer, to enable reception of the downlink signaling to allow the WTRU to receive an uplink channel allocation. The transmitter is configured, in response to the WTRU receiving an uplink channel allocation, to transmit uplink data on an uplink channel. The processor is configured to track a time when HARQ feedback is expected to be received in response to the transmitted uplink data, and configured to receive the HARQ feedback at the expected time.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Stephen E. Terry, Guodong Zhang, Stephen G. Dick
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Patent number: 11013058Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present application are a wireless communication method and device. The method includes: determining, by a network device, a type of a discontinuous transmission (DRX) indication signal according to DRX configuration information, wherein the DRX indication signal is configured to indicate that a terminal device wakes up during an on duration of a DRX cycle; and according to the determined type of the DRX indication signal, sending by the network device the DRX indication signal to the terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Hai Tang
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Patent number: 11012896Abstract: A secondary base station (2) is configured to receive an SeNB addition request message from a second master base station (3) while providing a radio terminal (1) with a secondary cell group (SCG) for DC in cooperation with a first master base station. The SeNB addition request message indicates whether each of at least one bearer that has already been configured in the secondary base station (2) for DC with the first master base station (1) is to be kept at the secondary base station (2). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to performing a procedure for changing a master base station in Dual Connectivity (DC) by using existing inter-base station interface procedures and inter-base station signaling messages.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi
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Patent number: 11006435Abstract: A communication terminal is described comprising a first transceiver configured for communication according to a first radio access technology and a second transceiver configured for communication according to a second radio access technology. The second transceiver is configured to determine whether a frequency range is occupied by a transmission according to the second radio access technology and to notify the first transceiver whether the frequency range is occupied by a transmission according to the second radio access technology. The first transceiver is configured to receive signals transmitted in the frequency range based on the notification from the second transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tianyan Pu, Chunhui Liu, Sabine Roessel, Christian Drewes