Patents Examined by Guang W Li
  • Patent number: 10945253
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment to receive a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) for RMSI (Remaining Minimum System Information). The method comprises: receiving an SS/PBCH block containing an SS (Synchronization Signal) and a PBCH (Physical Broadcasting Channel); obtaining information related to a CORESET (Control resource set) for the PDCCH; and receiving the PDCCH within the CORESET based on the information. The information includes an offset between a frequency position of the SS/PBCH block related to the CORESET and a frequency position of the CORESET. Values of the offset are defined based on subcarrier spacing of the SS/PBCH block and a minimum channel bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Youngsub Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Kijun Kim, Eunsun Kim
  • Patent number: 10924427
    Abstract: A network switch comprises a plurality of optical physical transport layer resources and a control plane management engine capable of receiving, via a request over a network interface, at least one control plane provisioning policy that maps at least one upper layer resource to at least some of the optical physical transport layer resources. The control plane management engine provisions at least some of the optical physical transport layer resources for use by at least one virtual control plane, which operates according to rules of the control plane provisioning policy. The control plane management engine is configured to manage network traffic among the at least some optical physical transport layer resources and external networking nodes according to the at least one virtual control plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Wittenschlaeger
  • Patent number: 10924961
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method for supporting, by a serving base station, cancellation of interference signals from signals received at a target terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of: receiving scheduling information of at least one neighboring base station from the at least one neighboring base station; configuring a set of auxiliary information for canceling the interference signals of a target terminal on the basis of the scheduling information of the at least one neighboring base station; and transmitting the set of auxiliary information for canceling the interference signals of the target terminal to the target terminal, wherein the auxiliary information comprises at least one of demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) related information and cell-specific reference signal (CRS) related information in association with interference signals from respective neighboring base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eunsun Kim, Jonghyun Park, Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim, Hyungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 10904877
    Abstract: A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises adaptively designating, by a network element following a frame-based communication protocol, for use as a secondary component carrier in a carrier aggregation scheme, at least a portion of radio resources on an unlicensed band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Chandra Sekhar Bontu, Shalini Suresh Periyalwar
  • Patent number: 10893430
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for transmitting channel state information. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal device, downlink control information DCI transmitted by a network device; determining, by the first terminal device, according to the DCI, whether it is necessary to report CSI; and when the first terminal device determines that it is necessary to report the CSI, transmitting, by the first terminal device, the CSI of the first terminal device to the network device. The first terminal device may be triggered to report the CSI according to the DCI transmitted by the network device, and thus the terminal device may report its own CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 10880823
    Abstract: The present application is to provide a method and device for obtaining access information of a shared wireless access point. The method includes obtaining a target wireless access point use request submitted by a user by means of a user equipment, sharing mode information corresponding to the target wireless access point being applicable to a wireless connection between the user equipment and the target wireless access point, and according to the use request, sending, to the user equipment, the access information of the target wireless access point used for establishing the wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI ZHANGXIAN NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhengxiang Gu
  • Patent number: 10880021
    Abstract: A wireless communication device that includes an antenna module, a first communication circuit and a second communication circuit is provided. The first communication circuit performs communication by using a first communication protocol and transmits a test signal via the antenna module. The second communication circuit performs communication by using a second communication protocol and receives the test signal to calculate an isolation index based on an actual received power thereof. The second communication circuit determines that the antenna module includes two antennas when the isolation index is smaller than a threshold value to operate the first and the second communication circuits under a dual-antenna operation mode. The second communication circuit determines that the antenna module includes one antenna when the isolation index is not smaller than the threshold value to operate the first and the second communication circuits under a shared-antenna operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih-Pao Lin, Chih-Hung Tsai, Chih-Yuan Chou
  • Patent number: 10869324
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communication system. A central unit (CU) obtains a quality of service (QoS) parameter of a QoS data flow and performs mapping the QoS data flow to a bearer based on the QoS parameter of the QoS data flow. The CU determines a QoS parameter of the bearer based on the QoS parameter of the QoS data flow and sends a context setup request message to a distributed unit (DU), wherein the context setup request message comprises the QoS parameter of the bearer, the QoS parameter of the QoS data flow and the mapping relationship between the QoS data flow and the bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingzeng Dai, Henrik Olofsson, Hongzhuo Zhang, Xudong Yang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 10868612
    Abstract: A method for sending environmental data to a vehicle in transit is disclosed. The method is performed by a ground system. The method includes receiving new environmental data from a plurality of environmental data providers. The method also includes synthesizing an update template that identifies recommended portions of relevant data that are available to be uploaded for at least one of a plurality of environmental data services. The method also includes sending the update template to the vehicle using a low-bandwidth connection, wherein the update template is sent by the ground system without first receiving a request for the update template. The method also includes receiving, from the vehicle, a request for the recommended portions of relevant data. The method also includes sending the recommended portions of relevant data to the vehicle in an update package using a high-bandwidth connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammed Ibrahim Mohideen, Jan Bilek
  • Patent number: 10869342
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a radio bearer establishment method and a base station and relate to the communications field. The method provided in the embodiments of the present invention includes: sending, by a first base station, first request information to a second base station, so that the second base station establishes a radio bearer between the second base station and user equipment UE according to the first request information, where the radio bearer includes a signaling radio bearer SRB, or a data radio bearer DRB, or an SRB and a DRB; and receiving, by the first base station, first response information sent by the second base station, where the first response information includes radio bearer establishment information that is used to indicate, to the first base station, a success or a failure to establish the radio bearer between the second base station and the user equipment UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Mingzeng Dai, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 10863386
    Abstract: Techniques are described to provide for state machine handling at a proxy node in an Ethernet-based fronthaul network. In one example, a method includes performing, by a proxy node of a fronthaul network, negotiation operations associated with establishing a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) communication link between radio devices of the fronthaul network, wherein the negotiation operations comprise Layer 1 synchronization operations and Radio over Ethernet (RoE) validation operations for one or more link bit rates; and facilitating communications between the radio devices at a matching link bit rate upon completion of the negotiation operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Prashant Anand, Manoj Kumar, Sudhir Kayamkulangara, Dinuraj K, Manigandan Boopalan
  • Patent number: 10863459
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) provides machine type communications (MTC) through a narrowband (NB)-long term evolution (LTE) system having a downlink transmission bandwidth in a range from about 180 kilohertz (kHz) to about 200 kHz. Receive circuitry is configured to receive, through a downlink transmission of an evolved node B (eNB) in the NB-LTE system, an NB-physical synchronization channel (NB-PSCH), the NB-PSCH including a synchronization signal and having a channel structure, the synchronization signal including a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and the channel structure defined by multiple subcarriers mutually spaced apart by about 15 kHz and located entirely within the downlink transmission bandwidth. Control circuitry configured to decode the synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tao Wu, Debdeep Chatterjee, Gang Xiong, Mohammad Mamunur Rashid
  • Patent number: 10863504
    Abstract: A method for receiving system information, a method for transmitting system information by a Node B in a mobile communication system, a user equipment (UE) for receiving system information, and a Node B for transmitting system information by a Node B in a mobile communication system are provided. The method for receiving system information includes receiving system information comprising first partial bits of a system frame number (SFN) on a broadcast channel in a first subframe of a radio frame within a broadcast channel transmission period, the first partial bits having the same value during one broadcast channel transmission period comprising a plurality of radio frames; acquiring second partial bits of the SFN based on decoding the broadcast channel, the second partial bits having different values for different radio frames within the broadcast channel transmission period; and determining the SFN from the first partial bits and the second partial bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kyeong-In Jeong, Himke Van Der Velde, Soeng-Hun Kim, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 10849005
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing radio link monitoring and failure procedure of multi beams operation in wireless communication system, the method comprising: measuring each of downlink radio link quality of multiple serving beams of a cell; sending a first indication to an upper layer of the UE when all the serving beams meet an out-of-sync condition; and sending a second indication to the upper layer of the UE when at least one serving beam meet an in-sync condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaewook Lee, Sangwon Kim, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 10849077
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to interference management among communications of network operating entities of different power classes over a spectrum are provided. A first wireless communication device identifies a transmission opportunity (TXOP) in a spectrum shared by a plurality of network operating entities. The first wireless communication device is associated with a first network operating entity of the plurality of network operating entities. The first wireless communication device determines a first transmission power level. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device associated with the first network operating entity based on the first transmission power level, data during the TXOP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Taesang Yoo
  • Patent number: 10848420
    Abstract: A network element dynamically adjusts the forwarding plane based on a received packet. The network element receives a packet that is formatted according to a packet type. The network element determines whether the network element is configured to process the packet type. Responsive to a determination that that network element is not configured to process the packet type, the network element sends packet information to a network controller. The network element receives at least one packet handling module that includes instructions for processing the packet type of the received packet. Installing the at least one packet handling module on the network element configures the network element to process the packet type. The network element processes the packet according to the instructions in the at least one packet handling module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew Phillips Thurber
  • Patent number: 10841839
    Abstract: Secure architectures and methods for improving the security of mobile devices are disclosed. Also disclosed are apparatuses and methods to detect and mitigate fraud in device-assisted services implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Headwater Research LLC
    Inventors: Gregory G. Raleigh, James Lavine, Jeffrey Green
  • Patent number: 10841240
    Abstract: In a system environment comprising a plurality of computing resources, wherein at least a portion of the computing resources are mobile, a method manages a transfer of one or more portions of a data set between at least a subset of the plurality of computing resources in accordance with a data distribution process. The data distribution process comprises computing one or more probability values to estimate whether or not a given mobile computing resource that is seeking at least a portion of the data set will be in a vicinity of at least one other computing resource that currently has or can obtain the portion of the data set, and based on the computation step, causing a transfer of the portion of the data set to the given mobile computing resource over a communication link locally established between the two computing resources when in the vicinity of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Stephen J. Todd, Dragan Savic, Assaf Natanzon, Said Tabet
  • Patent number: 10827381
    Abstract: An invention relates to methods for transmitting a buffer status report (BSR) in a mobile communication system, more particularly to the definition of rules for triggering, generating and transmitting BSRs. The invention also relates to a data transmission method utilizing new rules to decide data of which radio bearers is transmitted within a given transmission time interval. Moreover, the invention relates to scheduling method for radio resources that is taking into account additional scheduling-relevant information from the buffer status reporting and/or data transmission method. To avoid unnecessary grants from the network and to suggest an advanced handling of data transmissions the invention suggests a buffer status reporting and data transmission schemes that take into account the scheduling mode of data of radio bearers pending for transmission to decide whether to report on it in a buffer status report, respectively, whether to multiplex the data to a transport block for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Martin Feuersaenger, Joachim Loehr, Christian Wengerter
  • Patent number: 10812621
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the communications field, and discloses a radio signal processing apparatus and method, and a terminal. This not only can avoid wasting resources, but also can fully use a received radio signal, thereby improving usage of using a received radio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mingjie Dong