Patents Examined by Jamaal Henson
  • Patent number: 11109419
    Abstract: Disclosed is a network access method, including that a station receives a first radio frame from a first access point, where the first radio frame indicates a resource unit for a random-access operation; and when the sending address of the first radio frame is a public identity or a private identity, the station performs the random-access operation. Also disclosed are a network access apparatus and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Han, Kaiying Lv, Bo Sun, Chen Lu
  • Patent number: 11102837
    Abstract: A radio terminal (3) can perform carrier aggregation using a first cell (10) of a first radio station (1) and a second cell (20) of a second radio station (2). The first radio station (1) performs, with the radio terminal (3), radio resource control for the first cell (10) and the second cell (20) in order to perform the carrier aggregation. At least one of the second radio station (2) and the radio terminal (3) is configured to transmit, to the first radio station (10), information about a problem occurring in a radio link in the second cell (20) between the second radio station (20) and the radio terminal (30) while the carrier aggregation of the first cell (10) and the second cell (20) is being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Hiroaki Aminaka
  • Patent number: 11102790
    Abstract: A wireless device includes multiple RF chains, one or more processing modules, a switching circuit and a processor. The RF chains operate in multiple RF bands, and at least one RF chain is configurable to operate at a RF band selected from the RF bands. The processing modules are configurable to process signals communicated with the RF chains. The switching circuit routes signals between RF chains and processing modules in accordance with a routing plan. In response to an event that warrants reconfiguration, the processor re-allocates resources, including (i) allocating one or more RF chains to respective RF bands, (ii) allocating one or more processing modules to process signals associated with the RF bands, and (iii) setting the routing plan to route signals between pairs of RF chains and processing modules allocated to a common RF band. The processor communicates wirelessly with remote devices in accordance with the operational reconfiguration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: CELENO COMMUNICATIONS (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Yuval Har-Zion, Tsahi Tal, Albert Rapaport
  • Patent number: 11095413
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for obtaining supplementary system information, and a corresponding user equipment and a base station. A method in the user equipment according to the present invention comprises: sending a leader sequence to a base station to request supplementary system information; and receiving a reply message from the base station in response to sending of the leader sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: FG Innovation Company Limited, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fangying Xiao, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11096101
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method by a terminal in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes determining reference signal received power (RSRP) of a signal; identifying whether the RSRP is less than a predetermined threshold; identifying whether the terminal satisfies at least one of predetermined conditions, in case that the RSRP is less than the predetermined threshold; and determining to bar a first carrier of a serving cell and trigger cell reselection to a second carrier, based on a result of the identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale
  • Patent number: 11083045
    Abstract: A communication device is provided that transmits or receives a radio frame including a preamble and a data field of a physical layer (PHY). The preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), an EHT-SIG (Extremely High Throughput Signal Field), an EHT-STF (EHT Short Training Field), and an EHT-LTF (EHT Long Training Field), and the EHT-SIG includes a subfield in which information is set on whether NOMA (Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access) is used in transmission of data included in the data field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Takada
  • Patent number: 11082324
    Abstract: A MANET protocol, comprising: receiving a data packet (DP) from a current sender (CS) by a recipient, defining: an identity of the CS, a prior sender (PS) from which CS received DP, and a target recipient (ID), a count (HC) of hops previously traversed by DP, and a sequence identifier (SI); updating a forwarding table (FT) to mark CS as being reachable in one hop, and PS as being reachable in two hops via CS as next hop; determining if ID is the recipient; determining whether to rebroadcast by recipient, if and only if the SI is not present in a list of prior SIs; and selectively rebroadcasting DP by recipient in dependence on said determining, modified by: replacement of CS with an identity of the recipient, PS with CS, and ID with a next hop from the FT if present, and incrementing HC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: goTenna Inc.
    Inventors: Subramanian Ramanathan, Christophe Servaes, Seth Foster
  • Patent number: 11080074
    Abstract: Examples provide an apparatus for instantiating a virtualised part of a next generation Node B, gNB, comprising a Network Functions Virtualisation Orchestrator, operable to carry out any one or more tasks including on-boarding an VNF package, on-boarding a PNF Descriptor on-boarding a Network Service Descriptor, enabling the VNF package, enabling the Network Service Descriptor, and sending appropriate responses to a Network Manager. Examples also provide corresponding methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joey Chou, Yizhi Yao
  • Patent number: 11071056
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, and systems for cell selection. One example method includes measuring a received signal communication parameter value of a first cell, determining whether the communication parameter value is greater than a first threshold, if the communication parameter value is less than or equal to the first threshold, obtaining a second threshold, determining whether the communication parameter value is greater than the second threshold, and if the communication parameter value is greater than the second threshold, setting the first cell as a serving cell of a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenxing Hu, Wei Quan, Yongqiang Gao, Xiaodong Yang, Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11063734
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for configuring periodic signals in time division duplex (TDD). In one embodiment, a method for a network node includes configuring at least one periodic signal of the WD based at least on at least one parameter, the at least one parameter corresponding to a TDD pattern. In another embodiment, a method for a WD includes communicating at least one periodic signal to the network node based at least on at least one parameter, the at least one parameter corresponding to a TDD pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik Ovesjö, Robert Baldemair, Sorour Falahati
  • Patent number: 11064536
    Abstract: Disclosed is a network access method, including that a station receives a first radio frame from a first access point, where the first radio frame indicates a resource unit for a random-access operation; and when the sending address of the first radio frame is a public identity or a private identity, the station performs the random-access operation. Also disclosed are a network access apparatus and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Han, Kaiying Lv, Bo Sun, Chen Lu
  • Patent number: 11044135
    Abstract: New radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) listen before talk (LBT) gap optimizations are disclosed in which an indication, such as the preemption indicator, may provide an indication of a communications gap, in which preemptive communications may occur, to a user equipment (UE) currently engaged in communications, whether the preemptive communications are to another UE or network node or through different signal channels. The gap and preemptive communication may be measured in full symbol lengths, sub-symbol lengths, or interlaces. The communication gap may provide sufficient resources for the preempting node to adequately obtain the shared channel via listen before talk (LBT) procedures, and for the original UE to resume communications after the gap. The communication gap may also be optimally configured in order to provide both the UE and preempting node as much communication resources as possible within the scheduled communication opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11044673
    Abstract: Various aspects related to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to protect downlink (DL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform DL communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to communicate regarding uplink (UL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to an allocation vector. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to random access. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform UL communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Ali Atefi
  • Patent number: 11038652
    Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable for transmission of a shortened physical uplink control channel (sPUCCH) is disclosed. The UE can map symbols to physical resource blocks (PRBs) for a first subslot and a last subslot of a subframe for the sPUCCH. The UE can encode control information for transmission to a next generation node B (gNB) in selected PRBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Hong He, Debdeep Chatterjee, Gang Xiong, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Joonyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 11038800
    Abstract: An endpoint in a network may make posted or non-posted write requests to another endpoint in the network. For a non-posted write request, the target endpoint provides a response to the requesting endpoint indicating that the write request has been serviced. For a posted write request, the target endpoint does not provide such an acknowledgment. Hence, posted write requests have lower overhead, but they suffer from potential synchronization and resiliency issues. While non-posted write requests do not have those issues, they cause increased load on the network because such requests require the target endpoint to acknowledge each write request. Introduced herein is a network operation technique that uses non-posted transactions while maintaining a load overhead of the network as a manageable level. The introduced technique reduces the load overhead of the non-posted write requests by collapsing and reducing a number of the responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn Dearth, Mark Hummel, Jonathan Owen, Mike Osborn, John Wortman, Rich Reeves
  • Patent number: 11032799
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a transmission terminal transmits a signal by using device-to-device communication in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: dividing each of a plurality of resource units into clean units and dirty units; selecting at least one of the clean units as a transmission resource when the number of clean units is greater than or equal to a first threshold value; selecting at least one of the dirty units as the transmission resource when the number of clean units is less than the first threshold value; and transmitting a device-to-device communication signal by using the selected transmission resource, wherein the transmission resource selected among the dirty units is determined on the basis of the transmission power of the device-to-device communication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Byounghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11032838
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a scheduling request between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system, and a device for supporting same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hanjun Park, Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11026204
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless device may be provided. A wireless device may receive a release message from a network node of a radio access network. The release message may include an identification of a redirected carrier. In response to the release message omitting synchronization block related parameters for the redirected carrier, the wireless device may check in measurement information configured for the wireless device for the synchronization block related parameters for the redirected carrier; and may perform synchronization signal measurements for the redirected carrier using the synchronization block related parameters in the measurement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pradeepa Ramachandra, Icaro L. J. da Silva, Helka-Liina Määttanen, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 11025398
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for remote interference determination at a first base station based on assistance from one or more neighboring base stations of the first base station. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a first base station (BS). The method includes receiving from a second BS neighboring the first BS an uplink interference report request. The method further includes transmitting to the second BS an uplink interference report in response to the uplink interference report request, the uplink interference report comprising information indicative of uplink interference caused by one or more user equipments communicating on an uplink with the first BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventors: Xipeng Zhu, Huilin Xu, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11018910
    Abstract: A UE determines a first DCCH resource candidate in a first CORESET on a carrier, the first DCCH resource candidate including a first set of RBs. The UE also determines a first sequence of DMRSs that are mapped, starting at a reference point, to RBs in a predetermined range within the carrier in a frequency domain, the predetermined range containing the first DCCH resource candidate in the frequency domain. The UE further determines a first reference location of the first set of RBs. The UE determines, based on the first reference location, a first set of DMRSs from the first sequence of DMRSs, the first set of DMRSs being mapped to the first set of RBs. The UE obtains a channel estimation based on the first set of DMRSs; and The UE performs blind decoding of the first DCCH resource candidate based on the channel estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Yiju Liao, Chien Hwa Hwang, Chien-Chang Li