Patents Examined by Frank Duong
  • Patent number: 11271700
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for transmitting a reference signal and a device therefor in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method maps and transmits a DMRS signal to at least one OFDM symbol in a resource region for uplink data, and in the at least one OFDM symbol, a resource element to which the DMRS signal has not been mapped cannot be used for the uplink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 11259200
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim, Seungri Jin, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11252212
    Abstract: This invention concerns the transmitting and receiving of digital media packets, such as audio and video channels and lighting instructions. In particular, the invention concerns the transmitting and receiving of redundant media packet streams. Samples are extracted from a first and second media packet stream. The extracted samples are written to a buffer based on the output time of each sample. Extracted samples having the same output time are written to the same location in the buffer. Both media packet streams are simply processed all the way to the buffer without any particular knowledge that one of the packet streams is actually redundant. This simplifies the management of the redundant packet streams, such as eliminating the need for a “fail-over” switch and the concept of an “active stream”, The location is the storage space allocated to store one sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: AUDINATE HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Aidan Williams, Andrew White
  • Patent number: 11252091
    Abstract: A network device may obtain policer configuration information. The network device may determine, based on the policer configuration information, a traffic rate limit associated with a traffic protocol type. The network device may obtain, based on the traffic protocol type, networking data associated with the traffic protocol type. The network device may determine, based on the networking data, an expected traffic rate associated with the traffic protocol type. The network device may update, based on the expected traffic rate, the traffic rate limit. The network device may cause traffic associated with the traffic protocol type to be policed based on the updated traffic rate limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Prashant Singh, Sreekanth Rupavatharam
  • Patent number: 11246121
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method whereby a terminal transmits hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (HACK) information corresponding to downlink data received from a corresponding base station is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngbum Kim, Seunghoon Choi, Yongjun Kwak, Donghan Kim, Younsun Kim
  • Patent number: 11246073
    Abstract: A method performed by a connectivity-related network entity is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a Packet Data Network (PDN) gateway and a Serving Gateway (SGW), a Short Message Service (SMS) message to be sent in a downlink; determining to use a control plane only, out of the control plane and a user plane, for transferring the SMS message; transmitting a trigger message to a user equipment to initiate establishment of connectivity with the user equipment via the control plane only and not via the user plane, wherein the user equipment starts a timer when the establishment of the control plane connectivity is initiated; receiving a response message from the user equipment; encapsulating the SMS message in a security protected Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message; and transmitting the security protected NAS message to the user equipment, in receipt of which the user equipment stops the timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Genadi Velev, Jens Bachmann, Shinkichi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11246045
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for intelligent node type selection in a telecommunications network. In one implementation, a customer set is obtained for a communications node in the telecommunications network. The customer set includes an existing customer set and a new customer set. A set of customer events is generated for a node type of the communications node using a simulator. The set of customer events is generated by simulating the customer set over time through a discrete event simulation. An impact of the customer events is modeled for the node type of the communications node. The node type is identified from a plurality of node types for a telecommunications build based on the impact of the customer events for the node type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Gray, James Sayre, Stephen Limburg
  • Patent number: 11246044
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for intelligent node type selection in a telecommunications network. In one implementation, a customer set is obtained for a communications node in the telecommunications network. The customer set includes an existing customer set and a new customer set. A set of customer events is generated for a node type of the communications node using a simulator. The set of customer events is generated by simulating the customer set over time through a discrete event simulation. An impact of the customer events is modeled for the node type of the communications node. The node type is identified from a plurality of node types for a telecommunications build based on the impact of the customer events for the node type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Gray, James Sayre, Stephen Limburg
  • Patent number: 11240860
    Abstract: During a setup phase, a computing device determines a map of an area including one or more regions. Signals are received from a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) nodes and a plurality of Bluetooth Low energy (BLE) nodes in the area, relayed through one or more agents at one or more positions of the area. A precision map is created based on a correlation between the received signals from the UWB nodes and the received signals from the BLE nodes. Locations to place the plurality of BLE nodes are identified based on the precision map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Casey David Mackin, Divyesh Jadav, German H. Flores, Thomas Griffin
  • Patent number: 11240100
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using an out-of-band network to coordinate a first node reconfiguring a bus interface port used by a second node to communicate on a bus. The first node configures the bus to enable the second node to link to the bus. The second node sends a join request to the first node over an out-of-band network separate from the bus in response to determining that the second node cannot join the bus. The first node reconfigures the bus to enable the second node to communicate on the bus in response to receiving the join request from the second node over the out-of-band network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Louis A Rasor, Sean P. Riley, Juan J. Ruiz
  • Patent number: 11240813
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus configured to receive one or more pieces of first downlink control information from a base station, where each of the one or more pieces of first downlink control information carries a downlink assignment index, and at least one of the one or more pieces of first downlink control information carries a total downlink assignment index, generate a hybrid automatic repeat request response message according to the total downlink assignment index and downlink assignment indexes of the one or more pieces of first downlink control information, and send the hybrid automatic repeat request response message to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongxia Lyu
  • Patent number: 11240859
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for multiple radio access technology (multi-RAT) access mode operation for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. A WTRU and a network may enable a multi-RAT access mode of operation based on at least one of WTRU subscription, a service agreement of the WTRU, a roaming status of the WTRU, a selected access point name (APN), an Internet protocol (IP) flow class, a subscriber profile identity for the WTRU, requested quality of service, or a proximity indication indicating proximity to a cell supporting multi-RAT access mode. The WTRU may send a capability indication of support of multi-RAT access to a network, wherein the multi-RAT access mode is enabled based on the capability indication. A partial handover of bearers may be performed. In performing the handover, the target cell is determined based on a priority rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Pascal M. Adjakple, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Peter S. Wang, Kai Liu, Saad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11228973
    Abstract: A wireless sensing network communication method is disclosed in which, describes a gateway device and backup gateway devices in a wireless sensing network communicate in a subscribe-publish-based scheme. The gateway device subscribes to a device capability event. The gateway device subscribes to a network disconnection event. When network disconnection occurs, the gateway device publishes a network disconnection event. The backup gateway devices receive notification of the network disconnection event and publish device capability events in response. The gateway device selects a backup gateway device as a primary gateway in the wireless sensing network fulfill failover purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: NANNING FUGUI PRECISION INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-An Chiang, Chia-Ming Chang, Chung-Yu Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11228955
    Abstract: In an example, a wireless client station detects a first signal emitted by a first wireless access point and a second signal emitted by a second wireless access point. The wireless client station extracts a first set of data indicative of the signal strength and network congestion of the first wireless access point and a second set of data indicative of the signal strength and network congestion of the second wireless access point. The wireless client station then computes a first performance metric of first wireless access point, based on the first set of data, and a second performance metric of the second wireless access point, based on the second set of data. The wireless client station determines that the first performance metric is greater than the second performance metric and initiates a connection to the first wireless access point in response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: I-Chen Lin, Robin Lin, Han-Kuang Chang, Danny Farnyih Meng, Isaac Lagnado, Chao-An Chen
  • Patent number: 11218409
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, devices, computer program products, and methods implementing aspects of a decentralized content fabric. In some implementations, one or more processors are configured to execute a software stack to define a fabric node of a plurality of fabric nodes of an overlay network situated in an application layer differentiated from an internet protocol layer. The defined fabric node is configured to: obtain a request for digital content from a client device; obtain, from one or more of the plurality of fabric nodes, a plurality of content object parts of a content object representing, in the overlay network, at least a portion of the digital content; generate consumable media using: raw data stored in the content object parts, metadata stored in the content object parts, and build instructions stored in the content object parts; and provide the consumable media to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Eluvio, Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle Munson, Serban Simu
  • Patent number: 11212295
    Abstract: A data communication method of a vehicle network may include: receiving, by a reception controller, a message from a transmission controller; determining, by the reception controller, whether a message sequence normally increases; determining, by the reception controller, the number of normally received messages in the message sequence, when it is determined that the message sequence normally increases; performing, by the reception controller, error verification on the received message, when it is determined that the number of normally received messages is equal to or more than a preset number; and processing, by the reception controller, the received message as a normal message when the error verification result for the received message indicates that no error is present in the received message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Tak Kim
  • Patent number: 11206574
    Abstract: Provided is a radio access network system in which a master unit compresses control management data to be allocated to a sub-channel of a public air interface (CPRI), and transmits the compressed control management data to a radio unit through a sub-channel of a public air interface, and the radio unit receives the compressed control management data through a sub-channel of a public air interface, and restores the compressed control management data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: INNOWIRELESS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Su Kwak, Min Ho Yu, Oh Keol Kwon, Ik Hyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 11206243
    Abstract: Network access is provided to a networking device. In one approach, a method includes: obtaining, by a gateway, access rules for a networking device; providing, by the gateway, one or more dedicated networking tunnels between the gateway and respective remote gateways to one or more respective network segments, wherein the networking device is authorized to access the one or more network segments by the access rules; and routing, by the gateway, networking packets from the networking device based on source address information in the networking packets to the one or more dedicated networking tunnels, and based on destination address information in the networking packets, routing the networking packets to a selection of the one or more dedicated networking tunnels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Cyxtera Cybersecurity, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt Glazemakers, Gokhan Berberoglu, Kosmas Valianos, Per Johan Allansson, Hoang Long Nguyen, Thomas Bruno Emmanuel Cellerier, Aitor Perez Iturri, Harish Dinne, Salvatore Tomaselli
  • Patent number: 11201771
    Abstract: A user terminal that includes a transmitter that transmits uplink control information on an uplink control channel and a controller that bases the transmission of the uplink control information on a number of symbols of the uplink control channel. The transmission of the uplink control information uses one of a first uplink control channel format and a second uplink control channel format, and the first uplink control channel format uses a cyclic shift that depends on the uplink control information, and the second uplink control channel format does not use a cyclic shift that depends on the uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11191087
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing data are disclosed. An optimal set of subcarriers can be determined for a data transmission when a plurality of devices have requested the data transmission. The optimal set of subcarriers can be determined based on similarities or differences between parameters assigned to subcarriers in capability profiles. Capacity loss and other information can be determined based on the similarities or the differences among corresponding parameters of the capability profiles. The data transmission can be transmitted to the plurality of devices via the optimal set of subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Gilson, Mark Francisco, David Urban