Patents Examined by Frank Duong
  • Patent number: 11178586
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reporting of a beam correspondence state. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a first wireless device. The method includes, based on detecting the occurrence of a triggering event, determining one or more beam correspondence states for one or more beams or portions of beams used by the first wireless device for communication. The method further includes transmitting one or more indications of the one or more beam correspondence states to a second wireless device, wherein the one or more indications of the one or more beam correspondence states indicate whether the first wireless device has the capability of beam correspondence between the one or more beams and corresponding one or more transmit or receive beams used by the first wireless device for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Karl Georg Hampel, Juergen Cezanne, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11177856
    Abstract: Crosstalk amelioration systems and methods in a radio frequency front end (RFFE) communication system provide a host or master of an RFFE bus to monitor a weakly-driven data line in the RFFE bus while a clock line is actively providing a clock signal for trigger events at one or more slaves on the RFFE bus. If the host detects noise on the data line that looks like a sequence start condition (SSC) signal, the host further signals on the data line to negate the impact of the false SSC signal and thus avoid misinterpretation by the slaves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lalan Jee Mishra, Richard Dominic Wietfeldt, Soon-Seng Lau
  • Patent number: 11172533
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating multi-tasking and smart location selection during connected-mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) mode are disclosed herein. Example techniques disclosed herein enable a UE to perform multiple tasks during a same SSBS to reduce the number of wake-up SSBSs. For example, disclosed techniques enable a UE to perform RLM tasks and loop tracking tasks during a first SSBS and thereby reduce the number of wake-up SSBSs. In some examples, the UE may also perform the search task or the measurement task during the same first SSBS and, thereby, further reduce the number of wake-up SSBSs. Example techniques disclosed herein may also enable the UE to select which SSBS occurrences to wake-up for during the OFF duration of the CDRX cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ting Kong, Jafar Mohseni, Zae Yong Choi, Yongle Wu, Raghu Narayan Challa, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 11171871
    Abstract: A relay apparatus executes either (i) transmitting a received frame, which is received from a communication line, to a different communication line or (ii) discarding the received frame as a discarded frame, according to a preset filtering rule. The relay apparatus stores discard information indicating information on the discarded frame in a preset discard recording storage when discarding the received frame as the discarded frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Kaku, Taichi Itagawa
  • Patent number: 11165718
    Abstract: A physical layer device for transmitting and receiving Ethernet data includes a transmit path including a first transmitter configured to operate at a first speed, communicate with a first medium access controller (MAC), and transmit first Ethernet data from the MAC on a cable. A receive path includes a first receiver configured to operate at a second speed that is different than the first speed, communicate with the first MAC, and receive second Ethernet data from the cable and output the second Ethernet data to the first MAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Axonne, Inc.
    Inventor: William Lo
  • Patent number: 11165715
    Abstract: In a smartphone or a personal computer, when there is an application which performs communication which a user is unconscious of, a communication volume increases unintentionally, and there arise problems in that a maximum communication volume is exceed, a network bandwidth of a base station is compressed, or communication being intentionally performed is disturbed. In order to solve the above problems, provided is a communication control method used in a communication control device capable of performing communication using an application via a communication line, and includes an application control step of switching a plurality of applications between a foreground state and a background state and a communication control step of changing an allocation amount of a network bandwidth of an application in accordance with whether the switched application is in the foreground state or the background state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11160084
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and techniques to indicate operations by extremely high throughput (EHT) devices on an operating bandwidth, including devices in a basic service set (BSS) supporting the use of a 320 MHz channel. In some aspects, the supported functionality may include extensions to flexibility and support rules, structures, and signaling using legacy fields, frames, and features. In addition, the supported functionality may include channel sensing and reporting, such as per-channel network allocation vectors (NAVs) for the sub-channels of the operating bandwidth. A device may identify an operating mode for an operating bandwidth and determine a value for a bandwidth query report (BQR) or a target wake time (TWT) element. The device may check multiple NAVs for sub-channels of the operating bandwidth. The operating bandwidth may span concurrent operations on traditional Wi-Fi frequency bands including the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands as well as the 6 GHz band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 11153030
    Abstract: A base station broadcasts information to machine type communication (MTC) devices in the coverage area of the base station using multiple transmissions with layered modulation. Each transmission includes a different sequence of bits representing the information. A MTC device receiving the signals for the transmissions at a sufficiently high quality can recover the information by using a high modulation order on one of the transmissions. A MTC device receiving the signals of the transmissions at less than the sufficient quality can receive the information by applying a lower modulation order to multiple transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Kalhan, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 11140097
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a network device that may receive alignment information at each physical connection of a network interface of the network device. Each alignment information includes a unique value for identifying a unique logical lane associated with the corresponding physical connection. The network device may determine the order of the unique logical lanes associated with the several physical connections based on the received alignment information. The network device may configure a cross point switch of the network device to reorder the physical connections so that the unique logical lanes associated with the physical connections are ordered according to a defined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Bruce Bridger, Marc Durrenberger
  • Patent number: 11139900
    Abstract: A vehicle-to-X communication system having a vehicle-to-X communication module. The vehicle-to-X communication module continuously carries out self-tests which are based on receiving test messages and evaluating test messages in order to recognize errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Sven Kretschmar, Marc Menzel, Michael Bruechle, Nils Bauch, Torsten Martin
  • Patent number: 11134438
    Abstract: Some aspects of the disclosure provide various methods, apparatuses and computer-readable medium configured for wireless communication. A method operable at a user equipment (UE) may include transmitting a connection request message configured to request initial connection with a radio access network (RAN) node. The connection request message may include information configured to indicate a service profile of the UE. A method operable at the RAN node may include receiving the connection request message from the UE. The connection request message may include information configured to indicate the service profile of the UE. A method operable at a serving node may include receiving a connection request message from the RAN node. The connection request message may be configured to establish communication with the UE and may include a service profile corresponding to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin Bernard Horn, Stefano Faccin
  • Patent number: 11129204
    Abstract: A random access method, user equipment, and a network device are provided to reduce interference to a neighboring cell. The method includes: receiving at least two groups of random-access configuration parameters from a network device, where each group of random-access configuration parameters includes a power adjustment step for retransmission of a random access preamble; selecting one group of random-access configuration parameters from the at least two groups of random-access configuration parameters based on a threshold; determining transmit power of the random access preamble based on a power adjustment step for retransmission of the random access preamble in the selected random-access configuration parameters; and sending the random access preamble to the network device at the transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianqin Liu
  • Patent number: 11122572
    Abstract: In a signal transmission method, a user equipment receives a first signal from a wireless network device; and the user equipment determines spatial information of a to-be-transmitted second signal based on the first signal, and transmits the to-be-transmitted second signal by using the spatial information. An uplink transmit beam is determined by using related information of a downlink receive beam, so that the UE can efficiently determine spatial information of an uplink signal to be transmitted by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liuliu Ji, Yi Huang, Yuanjie Li
  • Patent number: 11122583
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer program product, and an apparatus are provided. The method may be performed by a scheduling entity. The scheduling entity transmits control information in a control portion of the subframe, the control information corresponding to data information within the subframe, transmits the data information in a data portion of the subframe, receives a pilot signal from the set of subordinate entities in a pilot portion of the subframe, and receives an ACK/NACK signal from the set of subordinate entities in an ACK portion of the subframe. The ACK portion is subsequent to the pilot portion of the subframe. The ACK/NACK signal includes acknowledgment information corresponding to the data information. The control portion, the data portion, the pilot portion, and the ACK portion are contained in the same subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Jiang, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tingfang Ji, John Edward Smee, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11122581
    Abstract: An approach for selecting sets of communications channels involves determining the performance of communications channels. A set of channels is selected based on the results of performance testing and specified criteria. The participant generates data that identifies the selected set of channels and provides that data to other participants of the communications network. The participants communicate over the set of channels, such as by using a frequency hopping protocol. When a specified time expires or monitoring of the performance of the channel set identifies poor performance of the set of channels, the participant selects another set of channels for use in communications based on additional performance testing. By selecting channels based on the initial performance testing and performance monitoring, the communications network adaptively avoids channels with poor performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Bandspeed LLC
    Inventors: Hongbing Gan, Bijan Treister, Efstratios Skafidas
  • Patent number: 11121816
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing a perturbation quantity received in a wireless network. The perturbation quantity including a non-linear effect from at least one transmitted signal of the wireless network. The apparatus including a Base Station (BS) configured to establish a link between the BS and a user equipment (UE). A processing circuit is configured to implement receiver-side decoders. Wherein a receiver-side decoder is configurable to provide a recovery of unknown symbols perturbed by the perturbation quantity, the recovery is at a receiver-side and the perturbation is at the transmitter-side. Provide receiver-side decoding for symbol detection of symbol-dependent transmit-side perturbations by imposing a hierarchical signal model on the transmitted symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Pu Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Milutin Pajovic, Philip Orlik
  • Patent number: 11115290
    Abstract: A device and method monitor integrity of a communication network. A local clock maintains a local time. A network interface receives time synchronization packets and associates with each the local time of receipt at the network interface. A processing system implements a neural network for classifying whether integrity of the communication network is compromised from originate, receive, and transmit values determined from the time synchronization packets. The originate value is a difference between the local time of the receipt of the request packet and a transmission timestamp of the request packet. The receive value is a difference between a reception timestamp of the request packet or the reply packet and the local time of the receipt of the request packet or the reply packet. The transmit value is a difference between the local time of the receipt of the reply packet and a transmission timestamp of the reply packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy.
    Inventors: Rohan Yash Ramlall, Matthew Ralph Capella
  • Patent number: 11116022
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for relaying messages in LPWAN. An operation method of a terminal may comprise transmitting a first join request message to a base station without IQ inversion; when a number of failed transmissions of the first join request message is greater than or equal to a preconfigured threshold, transmitting an IQ-inverted second join request message to a relay; and receiving a join response message from the relay that is a response to the second join request message. Accordingly, the performance of the communication system can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Wun Cheol Jeong, Eun Hee Kim, Tae Joon Park, Geon Min Yeo, Kye Seon Lee
  • Patent number: 11109306
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for performing neighbor awareness network (NAN) discovery operations to discover a NAN cluster comprising one or more devices synchronized to a discovery window. In some embodiments, the NAN discovery operation may include communicating a cluster discovery message to join the NAN cluster, waiting a first time period for a response to the cluster discovery message, and joining the NAN cluster based on information in the response to synchronize to the discovery window when the response is received within the first time period. Various embodiments may also include disabling, by the processing circuitry, one or more operations to perform the NAN discovery operations if the response is not received within the first time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minyoung Park, Emily H. Qi, Venkatakrishna Yellepeddy
  • Patent number: 11109325
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method for operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes determining power of at least one phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS), and transmitting the at least one PT-RS according to non-codebook based transmission. Herein, the power is determined based on a number of at least one port for the at least one PT-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yinan Qi