Patents Examined by Jason Harley
  • Patent number: 10674503
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a PUSCH transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, in a first subframe, downlink control signaling that instructs user equipment UE to transmit a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, where the downlink control signaling carries downlink control information, and the downlink control information is used to indicate a subframe for transmitting the PUSCH, where the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is any one of or any combination of N subframes, the N subframes include a special subframe, and N is an integer not less than 1; and receiving the PUSCH in the subframe indicated by the downlink control information. It can be seen that, in the embodiments of the present invention, a subframe in which a PUSCH is transmitted and that is indicated by downlink control information includes a special subframe; therefore, the special subframe can be scheduled to transmit the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongfeng Li, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 10667273
    Abstract: A method of selecting a frequency block includes determining a first value representing a lowest noise level of a radio channel at a first or second node, calculating a first metric representing a ratio between a first desired signal strength and the first value, determining a second value representing a lowest noise level of a radio channel at the first or second nodes, calculating a second metric representing a ratio between a second desired signal strength and the second value, selecting, on the basis of at least the first and second metrics and amongst a set of frequency blocks including at least the first and second frequency blocks, a frequency block for transmission of a message between the first and second nodes, indicating a sub-band of the selected frequency block, and causing transmission of the message on the indicated sub-band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: KYYNEL OY
    Inventors: Teemu Antero Vanninen, Matti Petteri Raustia
  • Patent number: 10644776
    Abstract: Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a base station of a wireless communication system using a two-dimensional X-Pol antenna requests feedback information, can comprise the steps of: generating control information for commanding the generation of the feedback information and channel state information (CSI) process information on vertical axes and horizontal axes of a specific planar antenna and respective planar antennas of the two-dimensional X-Pol antenna; transmitting the generated control information to a terminal in the base station; generating and transmitting a reference signal corresponding to the CSI process; and receiving, from at least one terminal, feedback information in correspondence to the number of CSI processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Keonkook Lee, Taeyoung Kim, Jiyun Seol, Jaeseung Son, Suryong Jeong
  • Patent number: 10644849
    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, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Jun Yoon
  • Patent number: 10616017
    Abstract: Modulation schemes that use dual sub-carrier to reliably transmit physical layer related signaling information and/or data in high efficiency wireless local area network (HE WLAN) are proposed. The proposed schemes can be implemented with low complexity and provide better performance than existing modulation schemes used in WLAN that are based on IEEE 802.11/a/b/g/n/ac standards. The proposed schemes enhance the reliability of transmissions, especially under narrow band interferences. In accordance with a novel aspect, dual subcarrier modulation (DCM) is introduced in HE WLAN. DCM can introduce frequency diversity into OFDM systems by transmitting the same information on two subcarriers separated in frequency. A DCM indication scheme is used such that both encoding and decoding of DCM is really simple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Jianhan Liu, Tianyu Wu, Thomas Edward Pare, Jr., YungPing Hsu
  • Patent number: 10588036
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for controlling uplink (UL) transmission power. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a configuration of UL subframe sets and maintain a plurality of transmit power control (TPC) command accumulator values that correspond to respective ones of the UL subframe sets. The WTRU may receive a TPC command in a subframe n of a downlink (DL) transmission, determine a subframe n+k of a UL transmission that the received TPC command corresponds to, determine which of the UL subframe sets the UL transmission subframe n+k belongs to, and adjust a TPC command accumulator value that corresponds to the determined UL subframe set to determine power of the UL transmission when transmitting in the UL transmission subframe, where n is an integer, and k is an integer greater than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Pouriya Sadeghi, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, J. Patrick Tooher, Moon-il Lee, Nobuyuki Tamaki, Ananth Kini
  • Patent number: 10575267
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving a signal from a transceiver, demapping a bit pattern encoded within the signal, detecting a preamble based on the demapped bit pattern, and synchronizing the transceiver to a receiver using the preamble, wherein demapping the bit pattern is based on weighting coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hyukjoon Kwon, Linbo Li
  • Patent number: 10575319
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for associating users to transmission points over an uplink (UL) of a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is presented. The computer-implemented method includes communicating, via the processor, with a cluster of transmission points, associating each user to one transmission point within the cluster of transmission points by a two-stage procedure, and performing sub-frame scheduling independently by each transmission point within the cluster of transmission points over a set of users associated with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Narayan Prasad, Sampath Rangarajan, Caroline Liang
  • Patent number: 10555286
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus that may be applied for sending uplink control information (UCI) as bundled transmissions. According to aspects, a UE may determine a first bundling size for transmitting a PUSCH, determine a second bundling size for transmitting the UCI, and transmit the UCI and the PUSCH as bundled transmissions according to the first and second bundling sizes. The BS may receive the UCI and the PUSCH as bundled transmissions from the UE according to the determined first and second bundling sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10524270
    Abstract: Examples implementations relate to contention-based resource allocation. In some examples, a method can include determining a station of stations associated with an access point having a contention window value or a resource value less than a total amount of resource units (RU) of a particular protocol data unit (PCU) of the access point, and allocating a RU of the RUs to the determined station based on a user parameter equal to a lesser of the resource value or a value of a RU limit of the determined station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Karthik Rangaraj Manavalan, Sachin Ganu
  • Patent number: 10523554
    Abstract: A system and method for diagnosing a problem on a packet network. Network performance information associated with data packet communications over a packet network may be collected. A network performance information parameter may be monitored and a determination that the network performance information parameter crosses a threshold value may be made. In response to determining that the network performance information parameter crossed the threshold value, diagnostics may be initiated to determine a cause of the network performance information parameter crossing the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Michael K. Bugenhagen, Stephen K. Edwards, William L Wiley, James L. McNaughton, John M. Heinz, Steven E. Kozisek
  • Patent number: 10516604
    Abstract: A control apparatus sets, in a relay device: first control information that forwards, when a packet for flooding is received by a representative port of a trunk, the packet to a prescribed forwarding destination port and to a representative port of another trunk; second control information that executes, when the packet for flooding is received by a nonrepresentative port of the truck, forwarding of the packet to a stack link port associated with the same trunk group as the trunk of the port that received the packet for flooding, and forwarding to a nonrepresentative port of another trunk in the trunk group; and third control information that forwards, when the packet for flooding is received by the stack link port, the packet to a prescribed forwarding destination port and to a representative port of a trunk not belonging to the same trunk group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Tanabe, Masanori Takashima
  • Patent number: 10511427
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes determining, based at least in part on a number of downlink component carriers (CCs) scheduled for a user equipment (UE) during a reporting interval, a number of bits to be included in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) payload for the reporting interval; and selecting, based at least in part on the determined number of bits, a format of the PUCCH ACK/NAK payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Jelena Damnjanovic, Hao Xu, Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam
  • Patent number: 10505838
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for diverting established communication sessions, which includes: receiving at least one packet from a communication session; determining the state of the communication session; if the state of the communication session is diverted, bridging the at least one packet to a service chain; if the state of the communication session has been prohibited from being diverted, forwarding the at least one packet to an endpoint; and otherwise, if the state of the communication session is a state prior to the divert decision, saving the at least one packet and determining whether the communication session is a candidate to be diverted to the service chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SANDVINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adrian Tam, David Cameron Dolson, Jeffery James Weeks
  • Patent number: 10506501
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a service discovery method in which a first device supporting Wi-Fi direct service (WFDS) discovers a service, the method comprising the steps in which: a first device receives a discoverable notification from a second device; and the first device determines whether or not the service which becomes known via the discoverable notification is the service which the first device seeks, wherein the discoverable notification includes information on services supported by the second device which sends the discoverable notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byungjoo Lee, Wookbong Lee
  • Patent number: 10491317
    Abstract: A method for operating a network arrangement having a plurality of network systems is disclosed. Data belonging to a first class is synchronously transmitted in a specified time slot identical for all network systems. A network system, which owing to a synchronization error during the specified time slot, receives data belonging to other classes from a plurality of senders, then only sends data belonging to the first class, but now in standard messages belonging to class 2. Non-vital data belonging to the other classes is no longer transmitted in this operating state. Improved failure safety and in particular a fail-operational mode is provided by the behavior of the network systems in the event of synchronization errors. A network system which implements the method and a network arrangement having a plurality of corresponding network systems is also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Michael Armbruster, Ludger Fiege, Johannes Riedl, Thomas Schmid, Andreas Zirkler
  • Patent number: 10484984
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for resource allocation, a terminal and a base station are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes receiving, by a terminal, resource allocation information from a base station, wherein the terminal supports a new system carrier, wherein the new system carrier comprises a component carrier and an extension carrier, and wherein the resource allocation information comprises a resource allocation type and indication information of a first resource block unit and determining, by the terminal, according to the resource allocation information and a mapping relationship between a resource block unit and a physical resource, a first physical resource corresponding to the first resource block unit, wherein the mapping relationship between the resource block unit and the physical resource comprises a first mapping relationship and a second mapping relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Tang, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10469545
    Abstract: A multimedia session call control method and an Application Server (AS). The multimedia session call control method includes these steps: a multi-UE party performs a multimedia session with a peer under control of an AS; a master UE of the multi-UE party establishes a session with a third party under control of the AS; and the AS binds a call leg between a slave UE of the multi-UE party and the AS to the session established with the third party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Shuiping Long, Hui Jin
  • Patent number: 10462191
    Abstract: The present invention maintains calls during transfers between different types of subsystems, even when there is a bearer path interruption at the user element due to the original connection from the transferring-out subsystem being dropped before the new connection in the transferring-in subsystem is established. The call signaling leg toward the remote endpoint of the remote party is held, while the call signaling leg toward the user element is moved from the transferring-out subsystem to the transferring-in subsystem and a new bearer path is established via the transferring-in subsystem. During transfers with a bearer path interruption, a portion of the bearer path leading to the remote endpoint may be connected to a media resource function, which will provide an announcement to the remote party. Once the user element is accessible in the transferring-in subsystem, the bearer path is further transferred to the user element via the transferring-in subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Kaniz Mahdi
  • Patent number: 10447367
    Abstract: A wireless device receives at least one message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells are grouped into a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) groups comprising a primary PUCCH group and a secondary PUCCH group comprising a PUCCH secondary cell. The wireless device receives, in subframe n, a media access control (MAC) command indicating deactivation of the PUCCH secondary cell. The wireless device stops transmission of channel state information for a first secondary cell in the secondary PUCCH group in subframe n+8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan