Patents Examined by Fahmida S Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 11153804
    Abstract: A first access network device sends first configuration information to a terminal device, where the first configuration information includes multipath configuration information and a first trigger condition, the multipath configuration information includes configuration information of a plurality of second transmission paths, and each second transmission path includes a transmission link between the terminal device and one second access network device and an interface link between the first access network device and the second access network device. When a radio link between the terminal device and the first access network device meets the first trigger condition, the terminal device activates the multipath configuration information, and transmits a same RRC message to the first access network device by using a first transmission path and at least one second target transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haifeng Yu, Xin Xiong, Feng Yu
  • Patent number: 11134017
    Abstract: A gateway device includes a first communication system, a second communication system and a network processor. The first communication system and the network processor communicate first network signals therebetween. The first network signals comprising first higher priority network signals and first lower priority network signals. The second communicate system and the network processor communicating second network signals therebetween. The second network signals comprising second higher priority network signals and second lower priority network signals. The network processor communicates a first congestion notification request signal to the first communication system. The first communication system modifies the first lower priority network signals at the first communication system in response to the first congestion notification signal to form first modified network signals and communicates the first modified network signals from the gateway device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC
    Inventors: Robin M. Mathews, Henry Derovanessian
  • Patent number: 11129012
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for a sensor network, machine to machine communication (M2M), machine type communication (MTC), and the Internet of things (IoT). The disclosure may be used for an intelligent service (a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of the technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sangwon Kim
  • Patent number: 11122643
    Abstract: Embodiments of LWTP (long term evolution (LTE)/wireless local area network (WLAN) radio level integration Protocol) enhancements for reliable data radio bearer (DRB) switching are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) decodes a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message, received from an evolved NodeB (eNB), the RRC connection reconfiguration message indicting switching DRBs from a first wireless transmission mode to second wireless transmission mode, and the RRC connection reconfiguration message including an uplink (UL) status report indicating a first missing UL sequence number, the UL status report being a UL LWIP status report. The UE causes reconfiguration of the UE according to the RRC connection reconfiguration message. The UE encodes, for transmission to the eNB, a RRC connection reconfiguration complete message. The UE encodes, for retransmission over the second wireless transmission mode, lost service data unit(s) (SDU) based on the UL status report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Zhu, Nana Zhang
  • Patent number: 11121984
    Abstract: Systems and methods for building routing tables for use in a data center network are provided. A switch is arranged in a network environment having a plurality of switches. The switch includes a plurality of inward-directed ports configured for direct connection with a plurality of servers and a plurality of outward-directed ports configured for direct connection with a subset of the plurality of switches. The switch also includes a processor configured to generate a Routing Table (RT) in an RT build process and to create a Forwarding Table (FT) for forwarding packets when the RT build process is complete. The outward-directed ports are configured to forward packets to one or more switches of the subset of switches according to the RT. The FT includes at least a Shortest Path (SP) route and one or more Off-Shortest Path (OSP) routes for forwarding the packets to the one or more switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Vladimir Pelekhaty, Michael Y. Frankel
  • Patent number: 11108894
    Abstract: A masked packet checksum is utilized to provide error detection and/or error correction for only discrete portions of a packet, to the exclusion of other portions, thereby avoiding retransmission if transmission errors appear only in portions excluded by the masked packet checksum. A bitmask identifies packet portions whose data is to be protected with error detection and/or error correction schemes, packet portions whose data is to be excluded from such error detection and/or error correction schemes, or combinations thereof. A bitmask can be a per-packet specification, incorporated into one or more fields of individual packets, or a single bitmask can apply equally to multiple packets, which can be delineated in numerous ways, and can be separately transmitted or derived. Bitmasks can be generated at higher layers with lower layer mechanisms deactivated, or can be generated lower layers based upon data passed down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adrian Michael Caulfield, Michael Konstantinos Papamichael
  • Patent number: 11101947
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining a scheduling user and a system. The method includes: determining a first pre-scheduling user at a second moment from a user in the first cell at a first moment; determining a first transmit weight of the first cell at the second moment; receiving a second transmit weight at the second moment that is sent by a second base station to which a second cell belongs in a data transmission system; calculating a signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR of each user in the first cell at the second moment based on the first transmit weight and the second transmit weight; and selecting a target scheduling user at the second moment from the user in the first cell based on the SINR of each user at the second moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Qian, Li Wan, Qunfang Lou
  • Patent number: 11102676
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for managing downlink control information (DCI) in wireless communications (e.g., 5G NR). In an aspect, the method includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message, identifying a transport block size (TBS) based on the received RRC message, receiving DCI on a downlink channel with the DCI including a resource assignment, identifying a modulation order using a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) in an MCS field of the DCI, where the size of the MCS field is one bit or two bits, and calculating a coding rate based on at least the identified TBS, the identified modulation order and the resource assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Mehmet Yavuz, Rajat Prakash, Piyush Gupta
  • Patent number: 11089598
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which multiple access (MA) signatures may be used in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmissions to provide differentiation between multiple concurrent NOMA transmission that use common time, frequency, and spatial resources. Systematic extension of the pool size of MA signatures can be obtained by the grouping of UE-specific spreading codes and the application of group-specific scrambling code, where the generation of scrambling code can depend at least on a cell ID and UE group ID. The MA signature may be based at least in part on a UE specific spreading code and a group level scrambling code. The UE-specific spreading code may be one of a set of codes associated with a particular scrambling code. The scrambling code may be one of a number of orthogonal or non-orthogonal scrambling codes that are associated with one or more UE parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Gabi Sarkis, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Wanshi Chen, Seyong Park, Ying Wang, Naga Bhushan
  • Patent number: 11089513
    Abstract: Radio network equipment (1700) is configured to implement a radio access network, RAN, central unit (12-C). The radio network equipment (1700) is configured to decide, by the RAN central unit (12-C), which of multiple RAN distributed units (12-D1, 12-D2) is to be responsible for activating duplication of traffic of a radio bearer (16) over multiple paths (16-1, 16-2). Different ones of the RAN distributed units (12-D1, 12-D2) serve different respective ones of the multiple paths (16-1, 16-2). The radio network equipment (1700) is also configured to transmit, from the RAN central unit (12-C), control signalling (20) to each of one or more of the RAN distributed units (12-D1, 12-D2) indicating whether or not the RAN distributed unit is responsible for activating duplication of the traffic of the radio bearer (16) over the multiple paths (16-1, 16-2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Angelo Centonza, Torsten Dudda, Matteo Fiorani, Oumer Teyeb
  • Patent number: 11082106
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing method, comprising: generating signaling comprising configuration information of channel state information process (CSI process); and sending the signaling comprising the configuration information of the CSI process. The present invention resolves the problem in the related art of being unable to use one CSI-RS resource overhead to meet the transmission requirements of multiple CSI-RSs having different port numbers, thereby achieving the technical effect of reducing resource overheads. The present invention also provides an information processing device and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong Li, Yijian Chen, YuNgok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Huahua Xiao, Yuxin Wang, Hao Wu, Jianxing Cai
  • Patent number: 11076310
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to adequately perform communication in accordance with measurement operation even when beam forming is applied. A user terminal according to the present invention has a receiving section that receives a DL measurement transmitted from one or a plurality of antenna ports, a measurement section that performs cell level measurement and/or beam level measurement using the DL measurement signal, and a control section that controls reporting of the measurement result of cell level measurement and/or beam level measurement, wherein the control section controls random access using resources configured in accordance with a reporting target of the measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11057798
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that enable predictive device mobility session management in a wireless network. A wireless communications network is able to maintain IP session continuity as a wireless device roams among wireless access points of the communications network by ensuring that the wireless device maintains communications with its home wireless access gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Teddy El-Rashidy, Colleen Szymanik
  • Patent number: 11057826
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide that an access point (AP) or a station (STA) may identify, from a set of channels in a radio frequency spectrum band, a subset of discovery channels. The discovery channels may be designated for discovery signaling for device association. An AP may transmit discovery information for associating with a STA over a discovery channel from the subset of discovery channels. In some examples, the AP may receive a probe request from a STA operating in an active scanning mode, and may transmit the discovery information in a probe response. In some examples, the AP may transmit the discovery information in a periodic signal, such as a beacon, to a STA operating in a passive scanning mode. The AP may receive an association request and associate with the STA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil
  • Patent number: 11050530
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include generating a first signal in an initial domain and transforming the first signal into a first portion of a time-frequency grid of a time-frequency domain, resulting in a transformed first signal. The operations further include combining the transformed first signal with a second signal of a second portion of the time-frequency grid, resulting in a combined signal, and transmitting the combined signal to a user equipment device for a further transformation. The operations further include receiving a response signal from the user equipment device that was configured, based on the further transformed first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Salam Akoum, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 11044663
    Abstract: A transmitter and a method therein for transmitting discovery signals to a receiver. The transmitter and the receiver are comprised in a radio communications system. The transmitter transmits two or more discovery signals over two or more directions. Each discovery signal is configured to span over a fraction of a carrier bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Kumar Balachandran, Dennis Hui
  • Patent number: 11038746
    Abstract: Described in detail herein are systems and methods for routing data in a distributed environment. A controller can maintain an inactive state. A terminal can receive a request associated with a physical object. The terminal can be communicatively coupled to a cloud computing system. The terminal can attempt to transmit the request to the cloud computing system. A router communicatively coupled to the controller and cloud computing system can attempt to initiate communication between the terminal and the cloud computing system in response to the terminal attempt to transmit the request to the cloud computing system. The router can route the request to the controller in response to failing to initiate communication between the terminal and the cloud computing system after specified amount of time. The controller can switch from an inactive state to an active state in response to receiving the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Scott Lipkin, Biju Nair, Saul Solis
  • Patent number: 11032729
    Abstract: A wireless network serves User Equipment (UEs) over Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) and Long Term Evolution (LTE). 5GNR circuitry allocates downlink data into a 5GNR portion and an LTE portion. The 5GNR circuitry transfers the 5GNR data portion to the UEs and transfers the LTE data portion to LTE circuitry. The LTE circuitry wirelessly transfers the LTE data portion to the UEs. The 5GNR and/or LTE circuitry measure UL noise and modify the 5GNR portion and the LTE portion based on the UL noise. The 5GNR circuitry allocates additional downlink data into a modified 5GNR portion and a modified LTE portion. The 5GNR circuitry wirelessly transfers the modified 5GNR data portion to the UEs. The 5GNR circuitry transfers the modified LTE data portion to the LTE circuitry. The LTE circuitry wirelessly transfers the modified LTE data portion to the UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Ravi Varma Kallepalli, Rajveen Narendran
  • Patent number: 11032048
    Abstract: In an aspect, a method of wireless communication includes transmitting a configuration message, by a base station to a user equipment (UE), that configures the UE, according to one or more antenna switching constraints, with multiple sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets for antenna switching by the UE. The method also includes receiving one or more SRS, by the base station, transmitted by the UE according to the configuration of the multiple SRS resource sets. In another aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving a configuration message, by a user equipment (UE) from a base station, that configures the UE, according to one or more antenna switching constraints, with multiple sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets for antenna switching by the UE. The method also includes transmitting one or more SRS, by the UE to the base station, according to the configuration of the multiple SRS resource sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11025470
    Abstract: A method of encoding data includes identifying multiple complex number pairs of a data vector and generating a transformed data vector by applying a non-linear transformation to each complex number pair from the multiple complex number pairs. The non-linear transformation includes modifying a phase of a first complex number from each complex number pair. The phase modification is based on a value associated with a second complex number from each complex number pair. A signal representing the transformed data vector is sent to multiple transmitters for transmission to multiple receivers. A signal representing the non-linear transformation is sent to a compute device for transmission of the non-linear transformation to the multiple receivers prior to transmission of the signal representing the transformed data vector from the multiple transmitters to the multiple receivers, for recovery of the data vector at the multiple receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Rampart Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Brandon Robinson