Patents Examined by Jason Harley
  • Patent number: 11025457
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a user equipment (UE). The UE receives configuration information of multiple transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. The UE receives one or more activation commands that associate a first subset of the TCI states with one or more codepoints of a TCI field and a second subset of the TCI states with the one or more codepoints of the TCI field. The UE receives a codepoint associated with a first TCI state in the first subset of the TCI states and a second TCI state in the second subset of the TCI states. The UE determines at least one first quasi co-located (QCL) assumption according to the first TCI state and at least one second QCL assumption according to the second TCI state. The UE receives a downlink transmission based on the at least one first QCL assumption and the at least one second QCL assumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Rung Tsai, Chia-Hao Yu, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 11018823
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems described herein generally relate to a reference signal generation and mapping. For example, a method comprises determining a first set of antenna ports for a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) transmission; determining, based on the first set, a frequency index associated with four adjacent resource elements, wherein the four adjacent resource elements correspond to two adjacent symbols in a time axis and to two adjacent subcarriers in a frequency axis; generating, based on a first orthogonal cover code and a second orthogonal cover code, a DM-RS associated with the first set of antenna ports; and transmitting, via a mapping to the four adjacent resource elements, the DM-RS associated with the first set of antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Jun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11005784
    Abstract: The present application discloses a long-distance transmission method for an Ethernet switch including a network switching module, an MCU module and a dial code module. The MCU module is connected to the network switching module and the dial code module. The dial code module is configured for providing two configuration inputs for a normal mode and a long-distance mode for user equipment. The MCU module is configured for monitoring a configuration input state of the dial code module in real time. When detecting that the dial code module is in the configuration input for the normal mode, the MCU module configures a network port of the network switching module to be in a self-negotiation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xin Zhou
  • Patent number: 10992365
    Abstract: Disclosed are a beam selection method, apparatus and system. The method comprises: a receiving device receives at least one set of beam associating information from a sending device, each set of which including an association relation between a first beam and at least one second beam; and selects, according to the information, a beam to be received among beams from the sending device, i.e., the receiving device may quickly select, according to the association relation between the first beam and the second beam, a beam to be received among beams from the sending device, so that the number of steps or measurements performed for the signal quality of beams during data receiving are reduced, thereby reducing the time spent on beam measurements, accelerating the process of beam measurement and selection of the receiving device, simplifying data receiving, and lowering the latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 10985939
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically addressing devices of pool and spa systems in a communication network. The communication network includes at least a first transceiver and a second transceiver that are communicatively coupled via a communication network bus. The first transceiver is configured to transmit a query signal to the second transceiver on a first address on the communication network bus, where the query signal includes a command requesting identification data (e.g., a serial number) associated with the second transceiver from the second transceiver. After receiving a response from the second transceiver, the first transceiver verifies (e.g., validates) the identification data. The first transceiver then automatically addresses the second transceiver individually by transmitting an addressed signal that includes at least a portion of the verified identification data and a command to the second transceiver on a second address on the communication network bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ZODIAC POOL SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: William J. Clark
  • Patent number: 10979950
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method and a device for improving communication quality in a mobile communication network are provided, and the method further comprises the steps of transmitting downlink packets for IP-based voice traffic to a terminal in a radio link unacknowledged mode (RLC UM) and storing at least one packet among the downlink packets for retransmission. In addition, the present invention provides a communication method and device of a target base station for retransmitting the stored packet to the terminal. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method and a device of a terminal that receives a packet from the target base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taiho Yoon, Indae Ha
  • Patent number: 10979978
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wake up receiver (WUR) frequency division multiple access (FDMA) transmission. A device may cause to send a wake up receiver (WUR) beacon frame on a WUR beacon operating channel to one or more station devices. The device may determine a first wake-up frame to be sent on a first WUR operating channel, wherein the first WUR operating channel is associated with one or more frequency division multiple access (FDMA) channels used for transmitting one or more wake-up frames to the one or more station devices. The device may determine to apply padding to the first wake-up frame based on a field included in a header of the first wake-up frame. The device may cause to send the first wake-up frame to a first station device of the one or more station devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Shahrnaz Azizi, Daniel F. Bravo, Thomas J. Kenney, Vinod Kristem, Noam Ginsburg
  • Patent number: 10972924
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a beam-based multi-connection communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method may include the following: Based on a multi-beam connection established between a terminal and a base station, the terminal further selects a dedicated message beam from a common message range of the base station based on a measurement result of an uplink pilot, or the base station selects a dedicated message beam from a common message range of the base station based on a measurement result of a downlink pilot; and the terminal or the base station chooses to delete at least one established beam connection. By selecting and deleting a multi-beam connection between the terminal and the base station, a high-quality beam connection is maintained, and interruption of data transmission between the base station and terminal is avoided, thereby ensuring normal communication between the base station and the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Tang, Li Chai, Jinhua Miao
  • Patent number: 10959104
    Abstract: A measurement control method in a mobile communication system is provided. The mobile communication system includes a first base station and a second base station which perform communications with a user apparatus by using inter-base-station carrier aggregation. The measurement control method includes a measurement instruction step of determining, by the second base station, a parameter used for measurement configuration information for the user apparatus and transmitting measurement instruction information including the parameters to the first base station; and a measurement configuration information providing step of generating, by the first base station which has received the measurement instruction information, the measurement configuration information in which the parameter included in the measurement instruction information is set, and transmitting the measurement configuration information to the user apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10958634
    Abstract: A cache server disposed in a motor vehicle receives and caches content from a content distribution network when a load of a cellular link to the content distribution network is low. The cache server determines that the motor vehicle is turned off, broadcasts a wireless signal as part of a wireless network when the motor vehicle is turned off, and provides a device access to the content cached in the cache server via the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Farooq Bari, Qingmin Hu
  • Patent number: 10939355
    Abstract: A communication system for a working machine includes a communication device disposed on the working machine, and a mobile terminal to be connected to the communication device, the mobile terminal having a first application and a second application. The communication device has a first communication circuit to transmit, to the mobile terminal, a beacon including a first application identifier corresponding to the first application, and a second application identifier corresponding to the second application. And, the mobile terminal has a calculation circuit to execute the second application after the first application is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Kinugawa, Keisuke Egashira, Keisuke Miura
  • Patent number: 10932137
    Abstract: A network management apparatus, a method and an apparatus in a wireless communication system. The network management apparatus includes: a network area dividing unit, configured to divide the coverage area of network signals into multiple sub-areas according to the transmission characteristics of a network node; a network node locating unit, configured to determine the sub-area in which the network node locates in the coverage area of network signals according to the geographical location information of the network node; and a wireless network resource management unit, configured to construct wireless network resource management information according to the sub-area in which the network node locates. According to embodiments, rapid dynamic network programming and reasonable wireless network resource allocation can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 10931481
    Abstract: A network system that includes a first set of network hosts in a first domain and a second set of network hosts in a second domain. Within each of the domains, the system includes several edge switching elements (SEs) that each couple to the network hosts and forward network data to and from the set of network hosts. Within the first domain, the system includes (i) an interior SE that couples to a particular edge SE in order to receive network data for forwarding from the edge SE when the edge SE does not recognize a destination location of the network data and (ii) an interconnection SE that couples to the interior SE, the edge SE, and the second domain through an external network. When the edge SE receives network data with a destination address in the second domain, it forwards the network data directly to the interconnection SE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Casado, Teemu Koponen, Pankaj Thakkar
  • Patent number: 10925045
    Abstract: A communication device for handling a transmission comprises a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage unit. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The instructions comprise performing a first channel access procedure according to a first channel access priority class for a first transmission on a channel of an unlicensed band with a network, wherein the first transmission comprises at least one of a random access (RA) preamble, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, a scheduling request (SR), a channel quality indicator (CQI) and a sounding reference signal (SRS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 10924324
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing a modular network element as a single entity and the modular network element includes a plurality of line modules and zero or more switch modules in a chassis. The plurality of line modules are located separate from the chassis and connected to the chassis and/or to one another via cabling. The method includes operating a management plane between the plurality of line modules and the zero or more switch modules via one or more dedicated links in the cabling; managing the plurality of line modules and the zero or more switch modules as a single network element utilizing a chassis management protocol over the management plane; and designating one of a controller in the chassis and a processor in one of the plurality of line modules operating as a virtual controller as primary for the chassis management protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Rivaud, Ian Duncan, Anthony J. Mayenburg, James Tierney, Simon J. E. Shearman
  • Patent number: 10917167
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are provided for spreading and transmitting data in a wireless communications system such that the resulting waveforms that are transmitted have low Peak to Average Power Ratio and mitigate signal collisions between different devices. The method for spreading and transmitting data includes spreading data with a sparse spreading sequence having equally spaced non-zero subcarrier elements to generate multi-carrier spread data on subcarriers corresponding to the equally spaced non-zero subcarrier elements of the spreading sequence; and transmitting the multi-carrier spread data. Different spreading sequences may be assigned to different user devices. The different spreading sequences may differ in terms of sparsity level in the frequency domain, sparsity pattern in the frequency domain and/or pulse offset in the time domain. Multiple multi-carrier spread data streams may be received by a network node and decoded using Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 10869251
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling measuring the frequency of a new cell within a forbidden registration area when a User Equipment (UE) enters into the new cell in a mobile communication system are provided. If the UE recognizes the new registration area as forbidden, the UE does not measure the frequency of the current cell for a predetermined reference time, and searches for a suitable cell for a normal service by measuring other frequencies. If no suitable cell in the other frequencies is found, the UE removes a measuring limitation and searches for an acceptable cell for a limited service by measuring frequencies including frequency of the current cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyeong-In Jeong, Gert Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde, Soeng-Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 10856285
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and an apparatus for allocating control channel candidates, which relate to the communications field, and can allocate control channel candidates at different aggregation levels to K ePDCCH sets and reduce complexity of blind detection performed by a UE. The method includes: determining K sets for transmitting a control channel, where each set in the K sets includes at least one physical resource block pair; and allocating control channel candidates at each aggregation level to at least one set in the K sets according to at least one of aggregation levels supported by the control channel to be transmitted, the number of control channel candidates corresponding to each aggregation level, the K sets for transmitting the control channel, and types of the sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianqin Liu, Jianghua Liu, Qiang Wu, Chi Gao
  • Patent number: 10855246
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) duplexer may comprise quadrature hybrid couplers and RF filters. The isolation and insertion loss of such RF duplexer, often limited by practical imperfections such as component mismatches and layout asymmetries, may be improved by including capacitors in the RF duplexer. A tunable or reconfigurable RF duplexer with high isolation and low insertion loss, under all desired settings, may be realized by adding tunable capacitors to the tunable RF duplexer which includes the quadrature hybrid couplers and tunable RF filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventor: Sam Mandegaran
  • Patent number: 10849016
    Abstract: In aspects of packet segmentation and reassembly for mesh networks, a source node in a mesh network segments an access protocol data unit (PDU) into a set of segments that are concatenated with a segment transport header and transmitted over the mesh network in segmented access messages to a destination node. The destination node allocates memory to store the content of the access PDU based on a segment total field in the segment transport header, and stores each received segment at the appropriate offset in the allocated memory, based on a value of a segment offset filed in each segmented access message. The destination node transmits a segment acknowledgement message including a segment acknowledgement field indicating which of the multiple segments have been received by the destination node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Martin A. Turon