Patents Examined by Hanh N. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11350302
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, apparatus and device for managing a threshold pair change. The method comprises: determining a radio link monitor reference signal In Sync indication/Out Of Sync indication monitoring threshold; and when the radio link monitor reference signal In Sync indication/Out-Of Sync indication monitoring threshold changes, respectively managing, in conjunction with the state of a current radio link failure timer and according to the change of an In Sync indication/Out-Of Sync indication threshold pair, an In Sync indication counter, an Out-Of Sync indication counter, and a timer related to a radio link failure. By means of the present application, the channel quality under a new channel quality requirement can be more accurately reflected, so that a radio link failure state can be determined more accurately according to the current channel quality requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Xu, Jing Liang
  • Patent number: 11343049
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a transmitter that transmits, in an uplink control channel, uplink control information including a 1-bit Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and a positive Scheduling Request (SR) or a negative SR, and a processor that uses a cyclic shift based on a parameter according to higher layer signaling, and based on the uplink control information, in the transmission of the uplink control information, wherein an interval between two cyclic shifts, each based on two values of uplink control information including the positive SR and the 1-bit HARQ-ACK, is ?, and an interval between two cyclic shifts, each based on two values of uplink control information including the negative SR and the 1-bit HARQ-ACK, is ?. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11330598
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a terminal, at least one piece of first transmission resource pool configuration information sent by a network device, where the first transmission resource pool configuration information includes at least a first transmission resource pool identifier and first transmission resource pool resource configuration information; when the terminal determines that a first transmission resource pool corresponding to the first transmission resource pool identifier is in a first state, independently selecting, by the terminal, a direct link transmission resource from time-frequency transmission resources corresponding to the first transmission resource pool resource configuration information; and sending, by the terminal, direct link service data by using the direct link transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingchao Li, Zhenshan Zhao
  • Patent number: 11323903
    Abstract: A wireless communication device receives control information from the wireless communication network. The control information indicates at least a first measurement configuration for channel measurements to be applied in a first connection state of the wireless communication device and a second measurement configuration for channel measurements to be applied in a second connection state of the wireless communication device. If the wireless communication device is in the first connection state, the wireless communication device controls channel measurements by the wireless communication device according to the first measurement configuration. If the wireless communication device is in the second connection state, the wireless communication device controls channel measurements by the wireless communication device according to the second measurement configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anders Berggren, Rickard Ljung
  • Patent number: 11324028
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a list of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state patterns where each entry in the list may correspond to a different TCI state pattern. The base station may transmit an indication of a selected entry from the TCI state pattern list and transmit a grant to the UE indicating that resources have been allocated in for transmitting a transport block (TB). The UE may receive the grant and attempt to receive the TB in accordance with the indicated TCI state pattern. The UE may generate multi-bit feedback to indicate whether the UE was able to successfully decode the TB and transmit the feedback to the base station. The base station may use the multi-bit feedback for determining whether to select a different TCI state pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tianyang Bai, Juan Montojo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11297598
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for transmitting signals, which includes the following. A device determines time-frequency resources for transmitting a first type of system information and a second type of system information according to a synchronizing signal and/or a broadcast channel, determines a reference signal (RS) for demodulating the first type of system information and the second type of system information according to the time-frequency resources, and transmits the first type of system information, the second type of system information and the corresponding reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventors: Yingyang Li, Shichang Zhang, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11290217
    Abstract: Disclosed are an HARQ-ACK transmission method, a terminal device and a network device, specifying how to transmit an HARQ-ACK on a PUSCH configured with repeat transmission or a plurality of PUSCHs scheduled by the same PDCCH. The HARQ-ACK transmission method includes: if the HARQ-ACK is transmitted on at least one of the plurality of PUSCHs corresponding to a PDCCH in addition to a first PUSCH, ignoring a DAI in a DCI format used in the PDCCH when the HARQ-ACK is determined; and transmitting the determined HARQ-ACK on the at least one PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuejuan Gao
  • Patent number: 11290319
    Abstract: A method and system of failure detection in a computer network, including pre-programming a number of processors of a multi-processor networked system coupled with remote systems via a network, each of the processors configured to run a BFD module. One processor may be assigned to be an active BFD server to establish sessions between the multi-processor networked system and the remote systems to detect link faults between the multi-processor networked system and the remote systems. Other processors may be assigned as dormant BFD clients. If a link or a processor running the active BFD server fails, one of the dormant BFD clients is selected to become an active BFD server. The BFD server may be dynamically replaced with a dormant client based on predetermined criteria without failure of the BFD server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: David Corrales Lopez, Andres Francisco Araya Rojas, Johan Martin Oviedo Paniagua, Daniel Canessa Valverde
  • Patent number: 11284479
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes an electrically powered window mounted air conditioning unit including a power cord attachable to an electrically powered wall outlet. A small cell wireless communication device is attached to or located within the electrically powered window mounted air conditioning unit. The small cell wireless communication device is configured to be powered through the power cord of the electrically powered window mounted air conditioning unit. The small cell wireless communication device includes at least one antenna for receiving and transmitting wireless information. The small cell wireless communication device is configured to communicate with a nearby wireless data communication router, wherein the wireless data communication router is configured to provide backhaul communication capabilities for the small cell wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventor: Tyler Michael Kratz
  • Patent number: 11283552
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a feedback information transmission method and apparatus and a communications device. The method includes: receiving, by a first node, a group of target information sent by a second node, where each piece of target information in the group of target information includes a first information field and a second information field, the first information field includes M bits of feedback information for a group of data channels or a group of transmission resources, M is a positive integer, and the second information field is used for determining a correspondence between the first information field and the group of data channels or the group of transmission resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11272484
    Abstract: According to the present invention, UL control information can be reported properly in future radio communication systems. According to one aspect of the present invention, a radio base station includes a transmission section that transmits candidate set information that indicates a plurality of amounts of phase rotation that are associated respectively with a plurality of candidate values of UCI, a control section that controls judgement of the UCI value based on the UL signal, and the plurality of amounts of phase rotations are provided at regular intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11265788
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a wireless transceiver and a processor. The apparatus transmits a data packet via a primary cell and a non-primary cell, the primary cell and the non-primary cell, wherein the data packet is sent via the primary cell and the non-primary cell over an enhanced uplink (EU) channel. On a condition that the transmitted data packet is not successfully decoded by the primary cell and also not successfully decoded by the non-primary cell, the apparatus receives a negative acknowledgement (NACK) signal from the primary cell and not receiving the NACK signal from the non-primary cell and retransmits the data packet in response to receiving the NACK signal from the primary cell even though the NACK signal was not received from the non-primary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Pantech Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen G. Dick, Stephen E. Terry, Guodong Zhang, James M. Miller, Sung-Hyuk Shin
  • Patent number: 11265105
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for wireless communications are described. In an aspect, a method and apparatus may include determining that a second transmission is decoded incorrectly in response to a first received indication on a communication channel. The method and apparatus may further include transmitting, on the communication channel, a third transmission and a fourth transmission based on a determination that the second transmission is decoded incorrectly, wherein the third transmission corresponds to a coded bit set of the third transmission including a first group of information bits of a coded bit set of a first transmission and a second group of information bits of a coded bit set of the second transmission and the fourth transmission corresponds to a coded bit set of the fourth transmission including a combination of the coded bit sets of the first transmission, the second transmission, and the third transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Changlong Xu, Jian Li, Jilei Hou
  • Patent number: 11259224
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for determining a core network type during a handover process, a terminal device, an access network device, and a core network device. In a process of cell handover, a target access network device may determine the core network type of a target cell according to preferred core network type information reported by a terminal device; alternatively, the target access device may determine the core network type of the target cell by information exchange with a core network device. Therefore, smooth cell handover is ensured, and user experience is improved. The method comprises: during a process of handover of a terminal device from a source cell to a target cell, the terminal device sends preferred core network type information for the target cell to a source access network device, wherein the preferred core network type information is reference information for determining the core network type of the target cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11240788
    Abstract: According to the present invention, UL control information can be reported properly in future radio communication systems. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits a UL signal, including UL control information and/or a scheduling request, and a generation section that generates the UL signal, and when reporting the UL control information, the generation section generates the UL signal by using code resources associated with values of the UL control information and the presence/absence of a scheduling request, and, when not reporting the UL control information but reporting the scheduling request, the generation section generates the UL signal by using a specific code resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11234216
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device-to-device (D2D) operation method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a network, a configuration indicating at least one or more resource pool; receiving at least one or more index on each of the at least one or more resource pool; selecting, on the basis of the at least one or more index, one resource among the at least one or more resource pool; and performing direct communication through the selected resource pool, wherein the index is information indicating the usage of the at least one or more resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Jung, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11228465
    Abstract: A method of operation for an Ethernet transceiver is disclosed. The method includes entering a training sequence. The training sequence includes transferring uncoded two-level symbols to a link partner; exchanging updated precoder coefficients with the link partner; and directly following exchanging updated precoder coefficients, transferring multi-level symbols to the link partner. The multi-level symbols being encoded consistent with the exchanged updated precoder coefficients and having greater than two symbol levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hossein Sedarat, Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard, Dragan Labalo, Ramin Farjadrad
  • Patent number: 11219049
    Abstract: A method performed at a network node for scheduling DL transmissions and a corresponding network node is disclosed. The method includes determining, based on a number of TBs (TBs) scheduled in a DL transmission to be transmitted and a maximum number of CBGs dividable in the DL transmission, a maximum number of CBGs dividable in each TB of the DL transmission; determining a CBG configuration of CBGs scheduled in a corresponding TB based on a maximum number of CBGs dividable in each TB of the DL transmission; and transmitting DL control signaling indicating the CBG configuration. In addition, a method performed at a UE for feedback HARQ-ACK, and a corresponding UE, and a communication system including the network node and UE is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Yingyang Li, Shichang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11219086
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques to enable enhanced machine type communication (s) (eMTC) and/or narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) devices to transition to idle mode after releasing a connection, such as a radio resource control (RRC) connection, more quickly than with previously known techniques. An example method includes determining, based on an indication received in a narrowband signal on a narrowband region of a bandwidth comprising a plurality of narrowband regions, whether to wait for a delay period, determined based on a configuration received from a network entity, before releasing a radio resource control (RRC) connection and releasing the RRC connection at a time in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashish Shankar Iyer, Omesh Kumar Handa, Chun-Hao Hsu, Nitin Pant, Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Liangchi Hsu, Feilu Liu, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Zhibin Dang
  • Patent number: 11206108
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for transmitting data, which includes the following. A UE detects a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, on a configured control resource set; the UE analyzes the detected PDCCH, and determines a method for dividing code blocks, CBs, and a method for rate matching of a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, and receives the PDSCH accordingly. By the method of the present application, when a service with a low delay requirement punches the time-frequency resources of other services, a performance of the other services is improved as much as possible, and the resource utilization rate is improved as much as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Shichang Zhang, Yingyang Li