Patents Examined by Gregory B Sefcheck
  • Patent number: 12271277
    Abstract: A method of controlling communication over a Local Interconnect Network (LIN) bus is provided. The method comprises a redundancy master node detecting whether or not a first master node responds to data transmitted over the LIN bus; wherein in case the first master node does not respond, the redundancy master node will act as master node on the LIN bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Kostas Chatziioannou
  • Patent number: 12256369
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing transmission of nominal repetitions of data over an unlicensed spectrum. One or more nominal repetitions of data are to be transmitted by a user equipment (UE) over an unlicensed spectrum used for both uplink and downlink transmissions. The one or more nominal repetitions of the data are segmented into multiple actual repetitions of portions of the data. The UE identifies an orphan symbol in an actual repetition of the multiple actual repetitions of portions of the data, and determines a filler symbol to replace the orphan symbol in the actual repetition. In addition, the UE transmits the multiple actual repetitions including the filler symbol in replacement of the orphan symbol to a base station over the unlicensed spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12250739
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to a cellular communications system that operates as a virtual Ethernet bridge(s). Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) for a cellular communications system and corresponding methods of operation of a UE are disclosed. In some embodiments, a UE for a cellular communications system, where the cellular communications system operates as multiple Ethernet network virtual bridges, comprises one or more transmitters, one or more receivers, and processing circuitry associated with the one or more transmitters and one or more receivers. The processing circuitry is configured to cause the UE to establish a first Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session to an Ethernet network via a first User Plane Function (UPF), wherein PDU sessions that connect to the Ethernet network via the first UPF are grouped into a first Ethernet network virtual bridge. In this manner, shared media in the Ethernet network can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: György Miklós, János Farkas, János Harmatos, Balázs Varga
  • Patent number: 12250085
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as Long-Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunjeong Kang, Sangkyu Baek, Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 12245297
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a control method for a slice network, a terminal, a network device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product, and a computer program. The control method includes controlling, by a terminal based on relevant information corresponding to slice information, a processing between the terminal and a network device. The relevant information corresponding to the slice information includes at least one of access control information, a Backoff Indicator (BI), or a timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Haitao Li
  • Patent number: 12245103
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for media processing and streaming, including transmitting, by a 5G media streaming uplink (5GMSu) application provider (AP), a request to create a provisioning session for 5GMSu streaming using a 5GMS system. Methods may include receiving, by the 5GMSu AP, an acknowledgement corresponding to the provisioning session. Methods may include performing, by the 5GMSu AP, a 5GMSu egest operation corresponding to the 5GMSu streaming. The 5GMSu AP is included in an external data network (DN) which is external to the 5GMS system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: Iraj Sodagar
  • Patent number: 12244491
    Abstract: A method for establishing a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) Session(s) is disclosed. In examples disclosed herein, a device (e.g., a wireless device) uses a unique Port Number(s) (e.g., an internal physical or logical Port Number) to search for a matching User Equipment (UE) Route Selection Policies (URSP) rule(s) having a Traffic Descriptor(s) that matches the unique Port Number(s). The device then determines whether there exists a matching PDU Session(s) associated with a Route Selection Descriptor(s) of the matching URSP rule(s). Accordingly, the device can reuse the matching PDU Session(s) in a presence of the matching PDU Session(s) or establish a new PDU Session(s) in an absence of the matching PDU Session(s). By using the unique Port Number(s) as the Traffic Descriptor(s) in the URSP rule(s), it is possible to simplify configuration of the device, especially for redundant traffic handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: György Miklós, Balázs Varga, János Farkas, János Harmatos
  • Patent number: 12238566
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, provided is a method for operating a network node such as an application function (AF) node in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: generating an AF request including information related to one or more data path latencies; and transmitting the information related to the one or more data path latencies to a session management function (SMF) node through a network exposure function (NEF) node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jicheol Lee, Sunghoon Kim, Hyesung Kim
  • Patent number: 12224852
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for determining a master clock in a communication network having a plurality of stations that are communicatively connected to each other and each have a clock, wherein the master clock is used for time synchronization of the clocks of the stations, comprising the steps: determining by means of a model of the communication network, a synchronization path measure for each station to every other station of the stations, which specifies a synchronization accuracy between two stations; determining for each station on the basis of the synchronization path measure in each case a synchronization metric, which specifies a synchronization accuracy for this station; and determining on the basis of the synchronization metrics of all the stations the station whose clock is meant to be used as the master clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Maximilian Schuengel
  • Patent number: 12225385
    Abstract: A low-latency network edge spectrum-as-a-service controller is described herein. A method as described herein can include acquiring, by a system comprising a processor from a spectrum access system, first access rights to a first spectrum band; determining, by the system, availability of a second spectrum band, wholly contained within the first spectrum band, in response to a request, received from network equipment of a radio access network, for second access rights to the second spectrum band; and, in response to the second spectrum band being determined to be available, granting, by the system, the second access rights to the second spectrum band to the network equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Julius Mueller, Ihab Tarazi
  • Patent number: 12207325
    Abstract: The present invention defines signaling required for separating a network entity (NE) responsible for mobility management (MM) and session management (SM), which are main function of a control plane (CP) in a next generation (NextGen) mobile communication system, and presents a basic procedure for providing mobile communication services including the signaling. Therefore, complexity of core equipment responsible for the CP is reduced in order to implement a network slice function and provide various levels of mobility, and an effect of minimizing a signaling load therebetween can be obtain. In addition, it is possible to efficiently manage the resources of a base station (radio access network (RAN)) and a user plane network entity (UP NF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinsung Lee, Kisuk Kweon, Jungshin Park, Daegyun Kim, Sangjun Moon, Beomsik Bae, Joohyung Lee, Jicheol Lee, Hyungho Lee
  • Patent number: 12200789
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes wireless communication circuitry, a processor, and a memory. The processor may be configured to establish a first communication link with a first external electronic device using a first address of the electronic device through the wireless communication circuitry, establish a third communication link with the first external electronic device using the second address or a third address of the electronic device, and transmit control information to the first external electronic device over the third communication link while receive content data packet from the first external electronic device over the first communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonkyoung Jang, Donghyeon Kim, Doosu Na, Bokun Choi, Yongsang Yun, Sunkey Lee
  • Patent number: 12192899
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may identify that data is available to be transmitted to a user equipment (UE) that is operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. The base station may transmit, based at least in part on the data being available, a first wakeup message using a first band supported by the UE. The base station may transmit, based at least in part on the data being available, a second wakeup message using a second band supported by the UE, the second band being different from the first band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Juergen Cezanne, Ashwin Sampath, Vasanthan Raghavan
  • Patent number: 12192014
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication device of a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method using same. More specifically, disclosed are a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method using same, wherein the wireless communication device determines a contention window size on the basis of HARQ-ACK values determined according to HARQ-ACK information bits for each transmission block of HARQ-ACK feedback, performs a backoff on the basis of the selected backoff counter value within the contention window size, and determines one HARQ-ACK value on the basis of N bits of HARQ-ACK information of a CBG-based HARQ-ACK bit sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Minseok Noh, Kyungjun Choi, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12193104
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) apparatus to reduce power consumption in response to an outcome of a signal reception. The outcome can indicate whether or not the UE needs to be active at a next discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle. The signal can also provide configurations of parameters for transmissions or receptions during the next DRX cycle and be used by the UE for measurements and to obtain channel state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao He, Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 12192749
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques may provide for efficiently triggering a handover at a user equipment (UE) from a source cell to a target cell. The UE may receive, at a first time period, a first control message including a configuration of a target cell to use at a second time period for performing a handover procedure from a source cell to a target cell. The UE may then receive, at the second time period, a second control message triggering the UE to perform the handover procedure from the source cell to the target cell. The UE may use the configuration of the target cell received in the first control message to perform a handover procedure from the source cell to the target cell at the second time period in response to receiving the second control message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Umesh Phuyal, Alberto Rico Alvarino
  • Patent number: 12184486
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to systems and methods for improving multicast traffic flows in a computer network. In some aspects, a method of the technology includes steps for receiving multicast traffic statistics from each of a plurality of switches in a computer network, aggregating the multicast traffic statistics into a time-series database, and identifying a low-performing multicast flow based on the time-series database. In some aspects, the method can include steps for automatically reconfiguring the computer network to improve the low-performing multicast flow. Systems and machine readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura Sharpless, Ramanan Vaidyanathan, Keerthi Manjunathan Swarnamanjunathan
  • Patent number: 12176974
    Abstract: A first field of a preamble includes a plurality of indications of respective numbers of spatial or space-time streams for respective receivers to enable each receiver among the multiple receivers to determine a respective set of one or more training sequences, in a plurality of training sequences, that corresponds to the receiver. A second field of the preamble includes respective modulation and coding scheme information for the respective receivers. The preamble is generated such that i) the first field is transmitted prior to the plurality of training sequences, and ii) the second field of the preamble is transmitted after the plurality of training sequences are transmitted. A data portion of the multi-user data unit is generated using respective modulation and coding schemes for the respective receivers. Thee multi-user data unit is transmitted such that data for the respective receivers are transmitted via respective sets of one or more spatial or space-time streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Raja Banerjea, Yong Liu, Mao Yu
  • Patent number: 12166644
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a AI-based self-management network service is provided. The AI-based self-management network service may include AI-based self-routing management, AI-based self-capacity management, and AI-based self-fault and recovery management for a self-managed network and services. The AI-based self-routing management service may calculate predicted utilization values of network resources of a network path, and calculate a predicted path weight based on the predicted utilization values. The AI-based self-fault and recovery management service may refine the identification of probable causes of failures and selection of recovery actions, and generate new probable causes of failures and new recovery actions based on a machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Mehmet Toy
  • Patent number: 12156227
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to receiving, from a base station, an uplink resource grant for transmitting uplink control information, where the uplink resource grant indicates an uplink control information format, bundling a number of instances of feedback in a number of feedback bits, where the number of feedback bits corresponds to the uplink control information format, and where the number of instances of feedback correspond to SPS downlink communications, and transmitting, to the base station and in the uplink control information, the number of feedback bits. Other aspects relate to transmitting the uplink resource grant, and receiving uplink control information based on the indicated uplink control information format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen