Patents Examined by Hong S. Cho
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Patent number: 11452029Abstract: A method performed by a wireless device (130). The method is for handling access to a cell (120) served by a network node (110). The wireless device (130) and the network node (110) operate in a wireless communications network (100). The wireless device (130) obtains (201) a set of indications broadcasted by the network node (110) in the cell (120). The set of indications indicate that access to the cell (120) is allowed only to wireless devices simultaneously supporting at least two features of a plurality of features comprising a first feature and a second feature. The wireless device (130) then determines (202) whether or not access to the cell (120) is barred to the wireless device (130) based on the obtained set of indications.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Oscar Ohlsson, Mattias Bergström, Malik Wahaj Arshad
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Patent number: 11452030Abstract: An information recording method is provided. In the method, the user equipment transmits a request to a base station, where the request is used for acquiring one or more system messages. The user equipment records information related to a request failure if one or more system messages are not acquired on the basis of the request.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
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Patent number: 11445521Abstract: Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for providing latency sensitive links. A wireless device can receive, from a wireless node, an advertisement message indicating a set of wireless local area network (WLAN) links that support one or more defined latency requirements, a capability of the wireless node to support the set of WLAN links, a plurality of parameters, an operating mode, and a status for the set of WLAN links. The wireless device can send, to the wireless node responsive to the advertisement message, a request to access a first link of the set of WLAN links. The request can indicate a capability of the wireless device to interoperate with the wireless node to use the first link. The wireless device can access the first link of the set of WLAN links if the wireless node accepts the request to access the first link.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventor: Chunyu Hu
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Patent number: 11445520Abstract: For example, a first Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) station (STA) may be configured to exchange first and second Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) setup frames with a second EDMG STA to initiate a BRP Transmit Sector Sweep (TXSS) over an aggregated channel bandwidth including an aggregation of a primary channel and a secondary channel in a frequency band above 45 GHz; during the BRP TXSS, transmit a plurality of BRP frames to the second EDMG STA over the primary channel and the secondary channel according to an EDMG control mode; determine a transmit beamforming configuration over the aggregated channel bandwidth based on BRP feedback from the second EDMG STA; and transmit an EDMG Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) to the second EDMG STA over the aggregated channel bandwidth based on the transmit beamforming configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Claudio Da Silva, Cheng Chen, Artyom Lomayev, Carlos Cordeiro
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Patent number: 11438810Abstract: A first base station receives, from a second base station, cell configuration parameters of one or more cells of the second base station. The cell configuration parameters indicate: at least one first information element (IE) indicating a first identifier of a first cell of the one or more cells; at least one second IE indicating that the first cell is an unlicensed cell; and at least one third IE indicating one or more configuration parameters of radio resources of the unlicensed cell. The first base station sends, to the second base station, a handover request message for a wireless device based on the cell configuration parameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan
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Patent number: 11438907Abstract: For example, a first Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) station (STA) may be configured to exchange first and second Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) setup frames with a second EDMG STA to initiate a BRP Transmit Sector Sweep (TXSS) over an aggregated channel bandwidth including an aggregation of a primary channel and a secondary channel in a frequency band above 45 GHz; during the BRP TXSS, transmit a plurality of BRP frames to the second EDMG STA over the primary channel and the secondary channel according to an EDMG control mode; determine a transmit beamforming configuration over the aggregated channel bandwidth based on BRP feedback from the second EDMG STA; and transmit an EDMG Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) to the second EDMG STA over the aggregated channel bandwidth based on the transmit beamforming configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Claudio Da Silva, Cheng Chen, Artyom Lomayev, Carlos Cordeiro
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Patent number: 11432292Abstract: Disclosed are a resource allocation method, a network device, a terminal device, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: receiving reporting information sent by at least one terminal device of a group of terminal devices, wherein the reporting information comprises at least one piece of the following information: characteristics of a service, the number of the group of terminal devices, and the number of resources; and configuring, according to the reporting information, a corresponding bypass resource for at least one terminal device of the group of terminal devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Ning Yang
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Patent number: 11425564Abstract: A system for integrating wireless service providers' core networks with Wi-Fi radios using a Wireless Services Gateway (WSG). The WSG can allow wireless device users to seamlessly connect to a network such as the internet using both cellular phone antennae as well as Wi-Fi radio antennae while still utilizing their preferred wireless service provider's core network system of billing, authenticating and policy decision making. This system can allow for data transmission of wireless devices through Wi-Fi instead of through cellular antennae, thus increasing bandwidth and data transmission rates.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Hemant Bhatnagar, Wayne Chuu, Chetan Hebbalae, Wei-Lun Huang, Rajesh Kaliaperumal, William Kish, Yi-Nan Li, Ronald Mok, Vijikumar Nagaraja, Venkatarao Palli, Yogesh Ranade, Ming-Jye Sheu, Henry Tzeng, You-Lin Yan, Thomas Yu
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Patent number: 11425632Abstract: Systems and methods for over-the-air (OTA) updating of data stored on Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) devices are provided. Such techniques enable updates to be provided on a timely basis for NB-IoT devices that lack short message service (SMS) capabilities, through polling an OTA update server in response to the occurrence of triggering events at the NB-IoT devices. Triggering events may be identified based upon conditions such as time since a previous update attempt or number of times the NB-IoT device has awoken since the previous update attempt. The updates may include updates to network lists used by the NB-IoT devices to determine preferred or forbidden networks, thereby reducing battery drain from repeated attempts to connect to inaccessible networks.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.Inventors: Romil Sood, Kyeong Hun An
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Patent number: 11425630Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communication circuit, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive first system information broadcast from a base station using the communication circuit, connect to a cell associated with the base station based on the first system information using the communication circuit, and trigger, based on a frequency band of the cell and radio resource information about the cell, a first event indicating that device-to-device communication is possible or a second event indicating that the device-to-device communication is impossible.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusung Joo, Jaejun Lee, Jaesung Park, Wonshik Yoon
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Patent number: 11422823Abstract: A starting method for a multi-mode IoT device includes: receiving a starting operation aimed at a multi-mode IoT device; detecting partition starting flag bits in a memory in response to the starting operation, wherein the memory includes a plurality of first partitions that respectively store a communication mode starting code and include the partition starting flag bits, the partition starting flag bit indicates that a corresponding partition is a bootable partition when set to be effective, and the partition starting flag bit indicates that the corresponding partition is a non-bootable partition when set to be ineffective; and running the communication mode starting code in the first partition corresponding to the effective partition starting flag bit when the effective partition start flag bit is detected, so that the multi-mode IoT device works in a communication mode corresponding to the corresponding first partition.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TELINK SEMICONDUCTOR (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventor: Haipeng Jin
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Patent number: 11418641Abstract: Broadband communications devices and methods operate with at least two separate communication paths between the devices and the network, such as the Internet. The broadband devices and methods receive data concurrently over the communication paths or separately. The bandwidth is increased when the separate communication paths are combined. The broadband devices employ packetized data with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies combined with RF communications technologies.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Competitive Access Systems, Inc.Inventor: Eric M. Delangis
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Patent number: 11419038Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to deterministic backoffs and collision avoidance. A device may identify a first transmission received from a first device, wherein the first transmission is over a shared access medium. The device may identify a second transmission received from the first device, wherein the second transmission is over the shared access medium. The device may determine an available transmission slot between the first transmission and the second transmission. The device may transmit, during the available transmission slot, a third transmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Dave Cavalcanti, Laurent Cariou, Mohammad Mamunur Rashid
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Patent number: 11411775Abstract: A server, includes a virtual machine identifier assigning section to assign an identifier of a virtual machine operating on the server; and a network interface to transmit a packet including a Layer 2 header information which includes the identifier of the virtual machine and a first packet field for a VLAN-Tag, wherein the network, interface transmits the packet to a packet encapsulate section which encapsulates a second packet field including the Layer 2 header information with a virtual network identifier representing a virtual network to which the virtual machine belongs.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Iwata, Akio Iijima
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Patent number: 11405901Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of reporting resource block allocation information with no waste when an allocated resource block is reported, because in the current LTE downlink, the waste of the amount of resource allocation information increases in some cases since a restriction is imposed such that 37-bit fixed scheduling information is transmitted. A resource block group consisting of at least one or more resource blocks continuous on the frequency axis is allocated to a terminal, and the number of controlling signals for reporting allocation information indicating the allocated resource blocks is determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Koyanagi, Takamichi Inoue, Le Liu, Yoshikazu Kakura
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Patent number: 11399394Abstract: A base station (110) enables a wireless device (120) (e.g., user equipment) to transmit user data on an uplink (130) during random access. The base station (110) transmits a resource grant indicating a plurality of options from which the wireless device (120) is permitted to select for use in transmitting the user data on the uplink (130) during random access. Each respective option comprises a transport block size; and a number of resource units and/or physical resource blocks. The wireless device (120) receives the resource grant, and transmits the user data on the uplink (130) during random access to the base station (110) according to at least one of the options.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Andreas Höglund, Johan Bergman, Olof Liberg, Dung Pham Van, Yutao Sui, Tuomas Tirronen, Emre Yavuz
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Patent number: 11399331Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a network access method.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Youyang Yu
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Patent number: 11395210Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure present a method. The method comprises a step of receiving at a user device dynamic control information, said dynamic control information modifying one or more restrictions associated with uplink grant for one or more channels; and a step of using said modified restriction to control grant for one or more channels. An apparatus and a computer program thereof are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Benoist Sebire, Chunli Wu, Samuli Turtinen
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Patent number: 11395347Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and base station and respective operation methods. The mobile terminal comprises circuitry, which in operation, determines a condition for requesting on-demand a transmission of other system information; performs a random access procedure; and receives via broadcast a system information message including the on-demand requested other system information. The system information request message of the random access procedure includes an information element with a bit-pattern conforming to a specific format with at least a part of the bit-pattern for requesting the other system information. And the contention resolution message of the random access procedure includes the same, or the same part of the bit-pattern for detecting collisions during the random access procedure.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Ming-Hung Tao, Rikin Shah, Hidetoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11388663Abstract: A method for sidelink data retransmission can include receiving a first negative acknowledgement (NACK) at a base station (BS) from a receiver user equipment (Rx UE). The NACK corresponds to an original transmission of sidelink data over a sidelink from a transmitter user equipment (Tx UE). The method can further include selecting one or both of the BS and the Tx UE to perform a first retransmission of the sidelink data to the Rx UE. A method of sidelink synchronization can include selecting at a UE a timing reference with a highest priority among available sidelink synchronization timing references according to a rule indicating timing references listed from high priority to low priority: gNB or eNB; UE directly synchronized to gNB or eNB; UE in directly synchronized to gNB or eNB; GNSS; UE directly synchronized to GNSS; UE indirectly synchronized to GNSS; and remaining UEs.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.Inventors: Tao Chen, Feifei Zhang