Patents Examined by Jean F Voltaire
  • Patent number: 11076395
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving at least one Downlink Control Information (DCI) in a communication system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA) are provided. The method for receiving includes receiving information representative of presence of carrier indicator by higher layer signaling from a Node B; receiving information representative of at least one cell indicator by higher layer signaling from the Node B; defining an UE specific search space based on aggregation level, an UE ID, and at least one carrier indicator value, where the UE specific search space includes a set of Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) candidates based on the aggregation level; decoding at least one PDCCH including at least one DCI respectively by the UE ID; and acquiring the at least one DCI, wherein the at least one carrier indicator value is based on the at least one cell indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 11070329
    Abstract: An Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation (OTFS) modulation scheme achieving multiple access by multiplexing multiple signals at the transmitter-side performs allocation of transmission resources to a first signal and a second signal, combining and converting to a transmission format via OTFS modulation and transmitting the signal over a communication channel. At the receiver, multiplexed signals are recovered using orthogonality property of the basis functions used for the multiplexing at the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Anton Monk, Shlomo Selim Rakib, Michail Tsatsanis
  • Patent number: 11064329
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to techniques for control-less operation for machine-type communications (MTC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11044169
    Abstract: In a L×M×N 3D torus network of computer nodes, a 2-dimensional plane comprising M×N torus network of nodes mapped into M/2 meshes×2*N torus network of nodes. N can be k*M, k is an integer greater than zero, and M and N are even numbers. Each of M/2 mesh of the 2*N torus is contiguous in the 2D plane. Mapping is performed for each of the L planes of the L×M×N 3D torus network. The M/2 meshes are combined with a remaining torus network dimension comprising L planes, the combining creating another 2*N pattern, wherein an L*M/2×2*N communication pattern is created. Application entities are executed according to the mapped L*M/2×2*N communication pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Chen, Sameer Kumar
  • Patent number: 11039485
    Abstract: Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. A method for communicating with user equipment (UE) by a base station is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: identifying a type of one or more services required by the UE; notifying the UE of information on a configuration of a medium access control (MAC) layer and a physical (PHY) layer configured according to the identified type of one or more services; and communicating with the UE on the basis of the information on the configuration of the MAC layer and the PHY layer configured according to the identified type of one or more services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Bin Chang, Anil Agiwal, Sang-Wook Kwon, Hyun-Jeong Kang, Kyung-Kyu Kim, Young-Joong Mok, Sang-Kyu Baek, June Hwang
  • Patent number: 11032195
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a broadcast signal, includes processing one or more input packets to generate link layer packet(s), each link layer packet including a header and a payload, the header including packet type information representing a type of an input packet in the payload and payload configuration information representing a configuration of the payload, wherein the type of the input packet is an Internet Protocol (IP) packet or a Movie Picture Exports Group (MPEG) Transport Stream (TS) packet, the payload configuration information is set to a first value for a link layer packet including a single input packet and no additional header or the single input packet with an additional header, or the payload configuration information is set to a second value for a link layer packet including more than one input packet or a part of one input packet, and processing the link layer packet(s) to generate the broadcast signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woosuk Kwon, Minsung Kwak, Sejin Oh, Kyoungsoo Moon
  • Patent number: 11019483
    Abstract: An access point (300, 400) and a method (100) performed thereby for communicating with a wireless device are provided. The access point supports two or more virtual networks. The method (100) comprising receiving (110) a probe request from the wireless device, the probe request comprising an indication whether the wireless device supports Multiple Basic Service Set Identifier, M-BSSID, capability or not; and sending (130) a probe response to the wireless device in accordance with the indication comprised in the probe request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Filip Mestanov, Stephen Rayment, Chris Williams
  • Patent number: 11019614
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving at least one Downlink Control Information (DCI) in a communication system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA) are provided. The method for receiving includes receiving information representative of presence of carrier indicator by higher layer signaling from a Node B; receiving information representative of at least one cell indicator by higher layer signaling from the Node B; defining an UE specific search space based on aggregation level, an UE ID, and at least one carrier indicator value, where the UE specific search space includes a set of Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) candidates based on the aggregation level; decoding at least one PDCCH including at least one DCI respectively by the UE ID; and acquiring the at least one DCI, wherein the at least one carrier indicator value is based on the at least one cell indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 11012934
    Abstract: A network system comprises a first logic block providing a link to a first network via an access point of a WLAN and a second logic block communicating with a node of a second network (such as a WPAN) and configured to provide a link between the node and the first network via the access point. The network system is configured to maintain continuous connections to both the access point and the node while receiving power. The second logic block can communicate with the node using a modified communication protocol that is only partially compliant with an 802.11x communications protocol. A wireless hub can integrate a WPAN with a WLAN including, in part, a wireless circuit compliant with the WLAN standard (such as an 802.11x standard), a processor, and a memory. The wireless circuit can connect to the WPAN without losing connectivity (such as association and synchronization) to the WLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ozmo Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Katelijn Vleugels, Roel Peeters
  • Patent number: 10973017
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving at least one Downlink Control Information (DCI) in a communication system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA) are provided. The method for receiving includes receiving information representative of presence of carrier indicator by higher layer signaling from a Node B; receiving information representative of at least one cell indicator by higher layer signaling from the Node B; defining an UE specific search space based on aggregation level, an UE ID, and at least one carrier indicator value, where the UE specific search space includes a set of Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) candidates based on the aggregation level; decoding at least one PDCCH including at least one DCI respectively by the UE ID; and acquiring the at least one DCI, wherein the at least one carrier indicator value is based on the at least one cell indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 10959143
    Abstract: A communication connection control method and a device, with the device configured to, when the device finds that communication service quality provided by an optimal wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) access point is better than communication service quality provided by a currently connected Wi-Fi access point, the device automatically disconnects from the currently connected Wi-Fi access point, and initiates a connection request to the optimal Wi-Fi access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Chen, Xiaotong Wang
  • Patent number: 10958364
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a data transmission method, a device, and a system, relates to the communications field, and can resolve a prior-art problem that a receive end cannot correctly receive data because a starting moment of sending information on a license-exempt spectrum cannot be determined. A specific solution is as follows: A first device detects first information of a first serving cell in a preset time period of a first subframe on a first time resource or a first time set of a subframe on a first time resource, determines a starting position of a second time resource according to the first information, and detects second information of the first serving cell in a second time set of a subframe on the second time resource. The present disclosure is used for data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juan Zheng, Zhiyu Yan, Qiang Li, Sha Ma
  • Patent number: 10951551
    Abstract: A queue management method and apparatus are disclosed. The queue management method includes: storing a first packet to a first buffer cell included in a first macrocell, where the first macrocell is enqueued to a first entity queue, the first macrocell includes N consecutive buffer cells, and the first buffer cell belongs to the N buffer cells; correcting, based on a packet length of the first packet, an average packet length in the first macrocell that is obtained before the first packet is stored, to obtain a current average packet length in the first macrocell; and generating, based on the first macrocell and the first entity queue, queue information corresponding to the first macrocell of the first macrocell in the first entity queue, a head pointer in the first macrocell, a tail pointer in the first macrocell, and the current average packet length in the first macrocell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengwei Zheng, Dehong Ding, Xiong Yang
  • Patent number: 10952205
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method performed by a node B for providing downlink control information (DCI) to one user equipment (UE) in order to enable communication over a plurality of cells in a communication system, including configuring, by the Node B, a DCI format to be used for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), transmitting, by the Node B, at least one PDCCH in a common search space (CSS), and transmitting, by the Node B, at least one PDCCH in each of a plurality of UE dedicated search spaces (UE-DSSs), wherein a CSS for receiving system information is common to the plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of UE-DSSs are configured for communication with respect to the plurality of cells, respectively, and wherein each of the plurality of cells corresponds to a cell identity which is UE-specific and configured based on higher layer signaling from the Node B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 10938505
    Abstract: A user terminal includes a receiver that receives a downlink shared channel and a processor that obtains a transport block size (TBS) used for the downlink shared channel based on: a TBS index value that is associated with a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index value used for the downlink shared channel; and a number of resource blocks (RBs) that are allocated to the downlink shared channel. When the downlink shared channel is transmitted by a predetermined transmission scheme and the MCS index value is a predetermined value, the processor modifies the TBS index value associated with the predetermined value and obtains the TBS based on the modified TBS index value and the number of RBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Kohei Kiyoshima, Hideaki Takahashi, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 10924994
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio communication system wherein radio terminals can communicate using a plurality of component carriers having different frequencies. The communication system has a reception start timing control means for commonly controlling the cycle of reception start timing for predetermined channels in at least some of the component carriers assigned to the radio terminals; and a reception control means for controlling the reception interval of said predetermined channels, said reception intervals being started at the reception start times in at least some of the component carriers assigned to the radio terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Futaki
  • Patent number: 10917812
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a QoS guarantee method. In one example method, a control plane gateway obtains a QoS parameter. The QoS parameter comprises an allocation/retention priority (ARP) and a QoS class identifier (QCI). The control plane gateway maps the QoS parameter to QoS guarantee information. The QoS guarantee information comprises a differentiated services code point (DSCP) parameter. The control plane gateway sends the QoS guarantee information to a user plane gateway. The QoS guarantee information is to be used by the user plane gateway for QoS marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongping Chen, Han Zhou
  • Patent number: 10917819
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of obtaining at least one Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for a communication session (11) of a radio device (2). The communication session is moved from a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) (3a) to a second RAT (3b). The method comprises extracting first information about the communication session from at least a first log associated with the first RAT by filtering information relating to communication sessions which have moved between RATs from other communication sessions in the first log. The first information comprises a session identifier (ID) and a first time stamp associated with the communication session. The method also comprises extracting second information about the communication session from a second log associated with the second RAT by filtering information relating to communication sessions which have moved between RATs from other communication sessions in the second log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Manoj Shetty, Surajit Mondal, Vijayant Thakur
  • Patent number: 10912029
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio communication system wherein radio terminals can communicate using a plurality of component carriers having different frequencies. The communication system has a reception start timing control means for commonly controlling the cycle of reception start timing for predetermined channels in at least some of the component carriers assigned to the radio terminals; and a reception control means for controlling the reception interval of said predetermined channels, said reception intervals being started at the reception start times in at least some of the component carriers assigned to the radio terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Futaki
  • Patent number: 10873906
    Abstract: A network system comprises a first logic block providing a link to a first network via an access point of a WLAN and a second logic block communicating with a node of a second network (such as a WPAN) and configured to provide a link between the node and the first network via the access point. The network system is configured to maintain continuous connections to both the access point and the node while receiving power. The second logic block can communicate with the node using a modified communication protocol that is only partially compliant with an 802.11x communications protocol. A wireless hub can integrate a WPAN with a WLAN including, in part, a wireless circuit compliant with the WLAN standard (such as an 802.11x standard), a processor, and a memory. The wireless circuit can connect to the WPAN without losing connectivity (such as association and synchronization) to the WLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Ozmo Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Katelijn Vleugels, Roel Peeters