Patents Examined by Henry Baron
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Patent number: 11108534Abstract: A method and device for transmitting a service are disclosed. A terminal device receives position information of specific radio frames in a time unit, and position information of a specific subframe in each of the specific radio frames in the time unit from a base station. Every 2m radio frames in the time unit include one specific radio frame, the position information of the specific radio frames in the time unit comprises a value of a period of the specific radio frames in the time unit, and a length of the period is 2m radio frames, where m is a nonnegative integer. The terminal device receives the service carried in the specific subframe in one or more of the specific radio frames from the base station in accordance with the position information of the specific radio frames and the position information of the specific subframe.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Junwei Wang, Xiaoan Fan, Jianghua Liu
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Patent number: 11109397Abstract: Wireless communications using multiple active resources (e.g., bandwidth parts (BWP)) are described. At least one of multiple active resources (e.g., BWPs) of a first cell may be selected to send scheduling information (e.g., cross-carrier scheduling information) for other cells. A base station may send downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling (e.g., cross-carrier scheduling) a second cell using the selected BWP. A wireless device may monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the selected BWP to detect the DCI for scheduling (e.g., cross-carrier scheduling) the second cell.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Ali Cirik, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park
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Patent number: 11102114Abstract: Apparatus and methods include receiving a first packet, the first packet including a first source Internet protocol (IP) address and a first destination IP address; adding a first outer header to the first packet to generate an encapsulated packet, the first outer header including a second source IP address and a second destination IP address; forwarding the encapsulated packet to a Server Load Balancer (SLB) associated with the second destination IP address; receiving a response packet from a front end server having a front end server private IP address; and saving the front end server private IP address to bypass the SLB.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Gang Cheng
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Patent number: 11096043Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for determining a capability of a UE to support a first downlink control information (DCI) format for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) reception in a downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a second DCI format for scheduling uplink (UL) grants for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a UL bandwidth part (BWP), where the first DCI format is different from DCI formats 1_0 or 1_1, and the second DCI format is different from DCI formats 0_0 or 0_1. Furthermore, a base station may determine search spaces for monitoring physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates to obtain DCI formats indicated by the base station. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Sergey Panteleev, Toufiqul Islam
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Patent number: 11096178Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a capability of the UE to support concurrent transmissions on a maximum number of channels, and may report the capability to a base station. The UE may identify that the UE 115 is scheduled to concurrently transmit on a scheduled number of channels. In some cases, the scheduled number of channels may exceed the maximum number of channels supported for concurrent transmissions by the UE. In some cases, the UE may then transmit one or more concurrent transmissions to the base station, the one or more concurrent transmissions being less than or equal to the maximum number of channels supported for concurrent transmission by the UE.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Gokul Sridharan
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Patent number: 11096203Abstract: A mobile station which communicates with a base station includes a transceiver configured to receive a downlink control channel, and a controller configured to determine whether C-RNTI is included in the downlink control channel. The controller is further configured to determine that resource allocation in the downlink control channel overrides persistent downlink resource allocation for a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) if the C-RNTI is included in the downlink control channel. The transceiver is further configured to receive a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) transmission by using persistent downlink resources.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia, Yassin Aden Awad
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Patent number: 11082178Abstract: Provided are a message sending method and device, and an electronic device. The method includes: sending, by a first node, a message to a second node, wherein the message includes at least one of: a first reference signal carried on a first resource, or a data packet carried on a second resource; wherein the first reference signal belongs to a first reference signal set, and the first resource belongs to a first resource set; the second resource belongs to a second resource set; and the first resource set and the second resource set have a gap in a time domain, and the value of the gap is greater than or equal to 0.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Kun Liu, Bo Dai, Zhaohua Lu, Xianming Chen, Zhifeng Yuan, Wei Cao, Chunlin Yan
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Patent number: 11076446Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for use in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a method comprising: receiving a plurality of first battery status information from a plurality of Relay UEs, wherein each first battery status information includes an estimated time length of residual battery life of a respective Relay UE; if a congestion is recognized, transmitting a first request signal for requesting additional information about battery status to the plurality of Relay UEs; as a response to the first request signal, receiving a plurality of second battery status information from the plurality of Relay UEs, wherein each second battery status information includes a charging status of a respective Relay UE; and selecting one of the plurality of Relay UEs based on the first and second battery status information, and an apparatus therefore.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Ki-Dong Lee, Sang Gook Kim
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Patent number: 11071047Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure provides a method of network access discovery by a core network function. The method includes receiving information from a plurality of user equipment via at least one access node. The information is associated with the locations of UE, wherefrom, the plurality UE send the information. The information includes uplink transmission parameters for connecting the plurality of UE to a network. Examples of these parameters include power level and time advance. The method further includes generating at least one map based on the received information. Another aspect of the disclosure provides for sending at least one generated map to a plurality of user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhongming Zheng, Hang Zhang, Ming Jia, Xu Li
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Patent number: 11064520Abstract: The use of PUCCH resources can be more efficient such as by sharing PUCCH resources between URLLC UEs and non-URLLC UEs in a controllable way enhanced with a smart deterministic downlink polling when needed. A method comprises receiving, by a user equipment from a network node of a communication network, information comprising a given physical uplink control channel resource instance allocated to the user equipment, wherein the physical uplink control channel resource instance is allocated to more than one user equipment including the user equipment; signaling the network node using an allocated physical uplink control channel resource instance in a given sub-frame; and, receiving polling form the network node, wherein the polling comprises an uplink grant.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Vinh Van Phan, Ling Yu, Zexian Li, Peter Rost
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Patent number: 11063688Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitting transport blocks in subframes of a predefined length within a wireless communication system. A downlink control information including a resource grant comprising a predetermined modulation and a predetermined transport block size is received (user equipment is the transmitter) or generated (base station is the transmitter). Then transport block including channel coded data to be transmitted in a subframe with the predetermined modulation and the predetermined transport block size is generated. Sensing is performed in the subframes and based thereon, it is determined whether a partial subframe or a complete subframe is available for transmission of the generated transport block. Finally, the transport block is transmitted with a modified modulation different from the predetermined modulation if the partial rather than complete subframe is available.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Michael Einhaus, Jan Ohlhorst, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr
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Patent number: 11063699Abstract: A transmission device in a wireless communication system attaches a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code having a predetermined length to a code block (CB) acquired from a transport block (TB). The predetermined length according to the present invention depends on a code rate associated with the TB.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kwangseok Noh, Bonghoe Kim
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Patent number: 11057955Abstract: A second RAN node (2) associated with a secondary RAT configures a radio bearer of the secondary RAT in accordance with a bearer-level QoS parameter conforming to a QoS framework of a primary RAT. In addition, the second RAN node (2) translates the bearer-level QoS parameter to a flow-level QoS parameter conforming to a QoS framework of the secondary RAT and associates the obtained flow-level QoS parameter with the radio bearer of the secondary RAT.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi
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Patent number: 11050680Abstract: A crossbar switch is disclosed having a first port, a second port, a third port, and a fourth port, the crossbar switch comprising: a first switching element coupled between the first port and the third port; a second switching element coupled between the first port and the fourth port; a third switching element coupled between the second port and the third port; and a fourth switching element coupled between the second port and the fourth port, wherein the first switching element, the second switching element, the third switching element, and the fourth switching element are configured to couple only one of the first port and the second port to the third port, at any given time.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventor: Ravash Eliassi
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Patent number: 11050631Abstract: A network device is onboarded to a Wi-Fi local area network (WLAN) including a WLAN router and a mobile device. An optical symbol displayed on the network device is scanned by the mobile device and used to obtain an onboarding network credential mapped to data encoded in the optical symbol. The onboarding network credential is provided to the WLAN router, which creates an onboarding Wi-Fi network based upon the onboarding network credential. A provisioning parameter is wirelessly conveyed to the network device via the onboarding Wi-Fi network, where the network device was pre-configured to communicate via the onboarding Wi-Fi network.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Minim, Inc.Inventors: Alec Rooney, Denis Bakin, Zachary Mattor
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Patent number: 11044698Abstract: A method for use in a mobile telecommunications network that includes a core network, a base station providing wireless connectivity within a base station cell, a mobile node in the base station cell providing wireless connectivity within a local cell and configured to communicate wirelessly with the base station, and a terminal configured to communicate wirelessly with the base station and configured to communicate wirelessly with the mobile node; comprises defining a virtual cell tracking area that encompasses the local cell and has a unique virtual cell tracking area identifier; notifying the core network of an association of the terminal with the mobile node and the base station; sending a paging message for the terminal from the core network to the base station using the association to direct the paging message to the base station, the paging message including the virtual cell tracking area identifier; and forwarding the paging message from the base station to the terminal using the virtual cell trackingType: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 11044111Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provided techniques that for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). An exemplary method, performed by a UE, generally includes obtaining a first system information message from a wireless network configured to utilize Multimedia Broadcast multicast service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframes and non-MBSFN subframes, determining, based on the first system information message, a first set of valid subframes and a first set of non-MBSFN subframes, obtaining a second system information message from the wireless network based on the first set of valid subframes and the first set of non-MBSFN subframes, and accessing the wireless network based on the first system information message and the second system information message.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Masato Kitazoe
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Patent number: 11038642Abstract: A method and a device for determining dynamically a pilot pattern are provided. The method includes acquiring a TTI duration occupied by transmission of data, and determining a pilot pattern according to the TTI duration occupied by the transmission of the data.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Xuejuan Gao, Fangchen Cheng, Xueming Pan
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Patent number: 11039310Abstract: A method for performing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in a wireless communication system and a device for same are disclosed. Particularly, a method for a user equipment (UE) performing V2X communication by means of a PC5 interface in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving from an upper layer a request for transmitting a V2X message; requesting radio resources, for V2X communication by means of a PC5 interface, to a base station or selecting radio resources for V2X communication by means of the PC5 interface; and performing transmission of V2X communication by means of the PC5 interface, wherein, if a UE has emergency packet data network (PDN) connection, an indication, indicating that transmission by means of the emergency PDN connection is a higher priority than the V2X communication by means of the PC5 interface, can be transmitted from the upper layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Taehun Kim, Laeyoung Kim, Jaewook Lee, Youngdae Lee
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Patent number: 11039490Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating creating a mesh connectivity between network nodes in a hierarchical network. According an embodiment, a method comprising receiving a first condition, wherein the first condition indicates whether to setup a mesh connection with a first distributed unit node of a first node device. The method further comprising, in response to determining that the first condition indicates establishment of the mesh connection, facilitating establishing a peer-to-peer connection directly with the first distributed unit node of the first node device and a second distributed unit node of a second node device, wherein the first distributed unit node comprises wireless communication technologies and the second distributed unit node comprises wireless communication technologies.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan, Xiaoyi Wang, Salam Akoum