Patents Examined by Jae Y Lee
  • Patent number: 11871379
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for requesting inter-UE coordination messages for sidelink communications. An example method for wireless communications by a first user equipment (UE) generally includes sending a sidelink communication on a first set of one or more subchannels in a first slot of sidelink resource pool, performing channel sensing on a second set of one or more subchannels in the first slot, and selecting one or more resources for a subsequent sidelink communication in at least a second slot of the sidelink resource pool on the channel sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11864165
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a frame by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system supporting an HE PPDU (high efficiency physical layer protocol data unit) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: setting a first duration field included in an HE-SIG A field; and transmitting a frame including the HE-SIG A field and a MAC header, wherein the first duration field is set to indicate a TXOP (transmission opportunity) value using a smaller number of bits than a second duration field included in the MAC header, and a granularity of a time unit used for indicating the TXOP value in the first duration field is set to be different from a granularity of a time unit used in the second duration field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeongki Kim, Kiseon Ryu, Jinsoo Choi, Hangyu Cho
  • Patent number: 11856429
    Abstract: Dynamic spectrum access mode based on station capabilities is provided by categorizing functionalities of Access Points (APs) and mobile stations (STA) in a wireless network; identifying interference induced by external signaling devices on channels in the wireless network; calculating an impact factor of the interference based on proximity of the external signaling devices to the wireless network, a pattern of the external signaling devices, and an extent of overlap with frequencies used by the external signaling devices and the wireless network; and in response to identifying a given STA that is paired with a given AP in the wireless network, wherein the given STA and the given AP are both categorized as being capable of both multilink communications and preamble puncturing, assigning network resources for the given STA to communicate with the given AP via one of multilink communications or preamble puncturing based on the impact factor of the interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishal S. Desai, Pooya Monajemi, Young Il Choi, Santosh B. Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11849400
    Abstract: A device including a host logic and a wireless controller. The wireless controller includes a transceiver and a scheduler. The scheduler is configured to determine a first device and a second device to cluster together. Further, upon occurrence of a communication event, the scheduler is configured to wakeup the transceiver for a period of time for the transceiver to exchange packets with the first and second devices, exchange a packet with the first device, exchange a packet with the second device, and power down the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yaniv Weizman, Lior Gersi, Alex Boiangiu
  • Patent number: 11848742
    Abstract: An apparatus including a circuit, a temperature sensor, a sensor and a control system. The circuit may be configured to receive an input signal and a configuration signal and generate an output signal in response to performing an upconversion of the input signal to a selected frequency band and an amplification of the input signal in response to the configuration signal. The temperature sensor may be configured to measure a temperature. The sensor may be configured to measure a sensor value. The control system may be configured to generate the configuration signal in response to the temperature and the sensor value. The configuration signal may be generated to maintain a gain of the amplification at a target level over a range of an operating condition during the upconversion. The target level of the gain for the operating condition may be determined in response to a pre-determined calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: MISSION MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael P. DeLisio, Jr., Blythe C. Deckman, Solomon Viveros
  • Patent number: 11849427
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for maintaining, between a user equipment (UE) and a component of a base station (BS), a mutual understanding of multiple sets of linked physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates if some PDCCH candidates of the multiple sets of linked PDCCH candidates occupy a same set of resources. In one aspect, the UE may select to monitor one of the PDCCH candidates that occupy the same set of resources in accordance with a prioritization rule. Upon selecting one of the PDCCH candidates that occupy the same set of resources for monitoring by the UE, the UE and the component of the BS may select a reference PDCCH candidate for one or more of the multiple sets of PDCCH candidates in accordance with a reference selection rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yitao Chen, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11848885
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system information reception method applied to user equipment. The method includes: determining a cell corresponding to system information to be obtained; transmitting a request message to a base station for requesting the system information of the cell, where the request message includes indication information of the cell; and receiving the system information of the cell transmitted by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11844132
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for an evolved node B (eNB) operable for early data transmission (EDT) in a user plane (UP) in a cellular internet of things (CIoT) evolved 5 packet system (EPS) network. The eNB can be configured to encode, at the eNB for transmission to a user equipment (UE), a message 4 (Msg4) including a resume identifier (ID) and a next-hop chaining count (NCC). The eNB can be configured to determine, at the eNB, a delivery status of the Msg4 to the UE. The eNB can be configured to encode, at the eNB for transmission to a previous eNB of the UE, one or more of an EDT failure 10 indicator or the resume ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jaemin Han, Bharat Shrestha
  • Patent number: 11844147
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique for fusing a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system with IoT technology to support higher data rates after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE) and a system thereof. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a method and apparatus for allocating time and frequency resources for smoothly providing a service are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoondong Noh, Jinhyun Park, Heecheol Yang, Younsun Kim, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11838222
    Abstract: A programmable network switch includes at least one pipeline including a packet parser configured to parse packets, and a plurality of ports for communication with network devices including a plurality of Data Storage Devices (DSDs). A packet comprising a write command is received to store data in a DSD of the plurality of DSDs, and an identifier generated for the data is compared to a plurality of identifiers generated for data stored in the plurality of DSDs. It is determined whether to send the write command to store the data to the DSD based on whether the generated identifier matches an identifier of the plurality of identifiers. In one aspect, the data to be stored for the write command is extracted from the packet using a pipeline of the programmable network switch, and at least a portion of the extracted data is used to generate the identifier for the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chao Sun, Pietro Bressana, Dejan Vucinic
  • Patent number: 11832305
    Abstract: A parallel transmission method and apparatus to improve channel resource utilization are described. A first configuration parameter for a first access point is configured by a WLAN control device. A second configuration parameter for a second access point is configured by the WLAN control device. The first configuration parameter is used to indicate that the first access point can send a first WLAN frame to at least one station in a first station set at a starting time by using a channel resource. The first station set includes one or more stations associated with the first access point. The second configuration parameter is used to indicate that the second access point can send a second WLAN frame to at least one station in a second station set at the starting time by using the channel resource. The second station set includes one or more stations associated with the second access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuchen Guo, Peng Liu, Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11825450
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel reservation for sidelink. In some embodiments, the disclosure describes determining a resource allocation for communicating over a plurality of subchannels within a slot, wherein the resource allocation provides: (i) a first set of subchannels of the plurality of subchannels allocated for communicating data to multiple UEs, and (ii) a first subchannel of the plurality of subchannels allocated for communicating a group reservation signal comprising communication parameters indicative of at least the resource allocation for the first set of subchannels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaojie Wang, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11824624
    Abstract: An operation method of a first communication node in a communication system may comprise receiving one or more transport blocks (TBs) from a second communication node based on transmission parameters in an aggregated transmission period #n; generating decoding results for the one or more TBs; generating information required for changing the transmission parameters based on the decoding results; and transmitting the required information to the second communication node, wherein n is a natural number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Duk Hyun You
  • Patent number: 11825527
    Abstract: A mesh network system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit selects determines a current motion state of a vehicle of a mesh network. The electronic control unit may calculates radio metric scores for network interfaces. The radio metric scores are weighted based on the current motion. The electronic control unit selects a desired network interface for communications between the vehicles based on the radio metric scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shingo Sugimoto, Walter Accessor
  • Patent number: 11818801
    Abstract: A plurality of risk relationship sensors, including at least one image capturing sensor (e.g., a camera), may each include an environment characteristic detection element, a power source, and a communication device to transmit data associated with risk relationship sensor data at a site. A risk relationship data store may contain electronic records associated with prior risk relationship events at other sites along with risk relationship sensor location data for those sites. An enterprise analytics platform may automatically analyze the electronic records in the risk relationship data store to create a predictive analytics algorithm. The data associated with potential risk relationship sensor data at the site may then be automatically analyzed, in substantially real-time, using the predictive analytics algorithm, and a result of the analysis may then be transmitted (e.g., to a party associated with the site).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company
    Inventors: Bret M. Bush, Daniel L. Campany, Elvis C. Chidozie, Tobias Cushing, Alexander Scott Eshoo, Marie C. Norcia
  • Patent number: 11818062
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE). The apparatus receives configuration information for a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission with one or more transmission reception points (TRPs), the configuration information assigning a comb value of greater than 4. The apparatus transmits, to the one or more TRPs, the SRS transmission using one of every N resource elements over a span of one or more resource blocks during a slot, where N is greater than 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Vinay Joseph, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Farhad Meshkati, Piyush Gupta, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11818734
    Abstract: Aspects directed towards receiving at a sidelink node from and communicating to peer sidelink nodes an indication on whether the CDD antenna diversity scheme is used in a data transmission are disclosed. Also disclosed is the receiving sidelink node optimizing its operation based on the knowledge of whether the CDD antenna diversity scheme is used in the data transmission and thus the performance at the receiving sidelink node is improved. Also disclosed are aspects directed to a peer sidelink node determining whether to use the CDD antenna diversity scheme based on a variety of factor and conveying the determination to the receiving sidelink node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peer Berger, Shay Landis
  • Patent number: 11811610
    Abstract: The present is directed to systems, methods, and devices for holistic rendering of cloud network configuration. The method can include receiving data characterizing a plurality of devices in a computing network. The method can include generating with the inventory processor a data file characterizing each of the plurality of devices in the computing network. This data file can be generated based on the received data and on a set of static overrides. The method can include generating a configuration file for each of the plurality of devices in the computing network via iterative selection and application of templates to portions of the data file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Rishi Kaundinya Mutnuru, Iain Roger Cadd
  • Patent number: 11805191
    Abstract: A novel algorithm for packet classification that is based on a novel search structure for packet classification rules is provided. Addresses from all the containers are merged and maintained in a single Trie. Each entry in the Trie has additional information that can be traced back to the container from where the address originated. This information is used to keep the Trie in sync with the containers when the container definition dynamically changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Mohan Parthasarathy, Jayant Jain, Xinhua Hong, Anirban Sengupta
  • Patent number: 11804921
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of determining time in a digital processing system, comprising, in a present cycle of a first digital clock: accessing a reference time counter for a reference digital clock, wherein the reference time counter increments in value by a fixed amount at every cycle of the reference digital clock, the reference digital clock being of a higher accuracy than the first digital clock; accessing a first time counter for the first digital clock, wherein the first time counter increments in value by an updatable increment amount at each cycle of the first digital clock; and comparing at least one part of the reference time counter with at least one corresponding part of the first time counter. Based on the comparing, an adjustment is made to one or more attributes of the first time counter, so that first time counter at least approximates the reference time counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Chapman, Ka-Shu Wong