Patents Examined by Jeffrey M Rutkowski
  • Patent number: 11490386
    Abstract: A communication apparatus performs communication while suppressing an increase in power consumption. The communication apparatus includes a periodic signal generating unit, a clocking unit, a multiplication unit, and a communication processing unit. The periodic signal generating unit generates a predetermined periodic signal. The clocking unit clocks time in synchronization with the predetermined periodic signal generated by a frequency signal generating unit. The multiplication unit multiplies the predetermined periodic signal generated by the frequency signal generating unit to supply the signal as a multiplied signal. The communication processing unit performs predetermined communication processing in synchronization with the multiplied signal generated by the multiplication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Tanaka, Yusuke Shinohe, Fumitaka Kondo, Tatsuki Amimoto, Shingo Harada
  • Patent number: 11490277
    Abstract: A communication apparatus that transmits and receives packet data by radio communication with another communication apparatus, the communication apparatus including a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: receive first packet data in a first packet transmission period; calculate data collection efficiency indicating a ratio of a reception data amount of the first packet data, to a transmission data amount of the first packet data, based on received the first packet data, and measure a first radio quality in a radio section between the communication apparatus and the other communication apparatus, based on received the first packet data; calculate a packet length and transmission count of the first packet data, based on the data collection efficiency and first radio quality; and transmit a second packet data including the packet length and transmission count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuki Nishiguchi, Ai Yano, Shigeki Fukuta, Jun Kakuta, Nami Nagata, Ryuichi Matsukura
  • Patent number: 11490434
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive multiple uplink grants that schedule uplink transmissions for two different radio access technologies (RATs) during overlapping time resources. The UE may adjust the power for one of the uplink transmissions based on the temporal proximity of the second received uplink grant relative to the first uplink transmission. The UE may adjust the power of the uplink transmission by partially or completely reducing its power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Xiao Feng Wang, Heechoon Lee, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11483121
    Abstract: This application provides a full-duplex self-interference weakening method and a full-duplex self-interference weakening system. The full-duplex self-interference weakening method includes: separately receiving, by a first port of a dual-polarized receive antenna and a second port of the dual-polarized receive antenna, a signal sent by a transmit antenna and adjusting and combining the signal received by the first port of the dual-polarized receive antenna and/or the signal received by the second port of the dual-polarized receive antenna, to weaken interference caused by the transmit antenna to the dual-polarized receive antenna. The full-duplex self-interference weakening method and the full-duplex self-interference weakening system provided in this application resolve a problem that a quantity of antennas and an antenna location are limited in an existing antenna interference cancelation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingjing Huang, Ming Gan, Xin Zuo
  • Patent number: 11476904
    Abstract: A method involving a MIMO communications system including a phased array antenna for establishing communication with a terminal located within a domain, the method including: defining a plurality of sub-domains within the domain; for each sub-domain, defining a corresponding set of analog phase weights to be applied to the phased array antenna for directing beams towards that sub-domain; in succession, selecting each sub-domain among the plurality of sub-domains and for each selected sub-domain: (a) applying the set of analog phase weights for that selected sub-domain to the phased array antenna; (b) performing channel sounding with the terminal while that sub-domain is selected; and (c) receiving feedback from the terminal for that selected sub-domain; and after selecting all sub-domains and from the received feedback, identifying a best sub-domain and identifying a best precoding matrix that in combination with the best sub-domain provides a best communication channel for the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Blue Danube Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Sayed Reza Monir Vaghefi
  • Patent number: 11477699
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for one or more wireless devices to gain access to a wireless channel of a radio frequency spectrum band. In some aspects, a recurring coordinated medium interval is defined in the time domain and associated with the wireless channel. The coordinated medium interval includes a first time period, which may be referred to as a common reservation window, and a second time period, which may be referred to as a scheduled medium access window. During the first time period, access points (APs) attempting to gain access to the wireless channel may transmit reservation signals to reserve one or more scheduled service periods within the second time period of the same coordinated medium interval. The scheduled service periods reserved by an individual AP may be used for UL/DL communications between that AP and its associated stations (STAs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Venkata Ramanan Venkatachalam Jayaraman, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11477697
    Abstract: Techniques are described to adjust transmission rates. For example, in a dual-connectivity system, a first communication node can be in communication with a first network node and a second network node. The first communication node may receive from a first network node a first message that includes a recommended bit rate for an ongoing communication between the first communication node and a second communication node. In some embodiments, the first communication node can, in response to receiving the first message, send an acknowledgment or a non-acknowledgment indicator to the first network node indicating that the first communication node accepts or rejects the recommended bit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Fei Dong, He Huang, Qian Dai
  • Patent number: 11456890
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for operating an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) includes a number of modules. These modules include at least a perception module to perceive a driving environment surrounding the ADV and a planning module to plan a path to drive the ADV to navigate the driving environment. The system further includes a bus coupled to the modules and a sensor processing module communicatively coupled to the modules over the bus. The sensor processing module includes a bus interface coupled to the bus, a sensor interface to be coupled to a first set of one or more sensors mounted on the ADV, a message queue to store messages published by the sensors, and a message handler to manage the messages stored in the message queue. The messages may be subscribed by at least one of the modules to allow the modules to monitor operations of the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Shengjin Zhou, Davy Huang, Tiffany Zhang, Dan N. Retter
  • Patent number: 11452173
    Abstract: Provided a Remote Radio Head (RRH) with multiple antennas generating a plurality of analog beams in a wireless communication system serving at least one user terminal, including a metric calculator that calculates at least one metric representing a traffic demand as a function of spatial direction by using at least a signal of each Radio Frequency chain and a beam former that generates analog beams directed towards a spatial direction determined based on the calculated at least one metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dileep Kumar, Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii
  • Patent number: 11452018
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating the mitigation of interference in the uplink of a small cell caused by macrocell user equipment in the case where the macrocell cannot identify the interfering macrocell user equipment because the user equipment cannot detect and report the small cell's downlink due to the small cell's uplink/downlink coverage imbalance. In an embodiment, the small cell provides the macrocell with a notification of the interference, the configuration information about its Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), and a plurality of unique preambles and transmission times for non-contention-based transmissions on the small cell's PRACH. The macrocell orders each of one or a plurality of macrocell user equipment to transmit one of the unique preambles on the small cell's PRACH. The small cell reports to the macrocell the detected preamble transmissions, which allows the macrocell to identify interfering user equipment and perform corrective actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: David Comstock
  • Patent number: 11452146
    Abstract: A method for handling timing conflicts associated with a random channel access procedure is implemented in a user device, and includes determining (314) that a first time span for the user device to transmit at least a data portion of a random-access procedure message to a base station overlaps a second time span for the user device to transmit another signal to the base station. The method also includes determining (320), based at least on a type of the other signal, a transmission precedence indicative of whether to modify transmission timing for the random-access procedure message or to instead modify transmission timing for the other signal, and, based on the determined transmission precedence, either transmitting (340) at least the data portion of the random-access procedure message to the base station during the first time span or transmitting (340) the other signal to the base station during the second time span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Shiangrung Ye
  • Patent number: 11444886
    Abstract: A method for storing a packet in an application buffer of a processor node is described. A first out of order (OOO) packet within a stream of packets transmitted from a second network interface controller is received in a sequence represented by respective sequence numbers that are assigned to corresponding packets in the stream. The first OOO packet is received out of order relative to at least a first missing packet of the stream of packets. One of an OOO buffer associated with the first network interface controller or the application buffer associated with the first network interface controller is selected. The OOO buffer is configured to store OOO packets. The first network interface controller is configured to store the stream of packets in sequential order in the application buffer. The first OOO packet is stored in the selected buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Noa Stawitzky, Yoav Galon, Amit Radzi, Shaham Kenat, Michael Shteinbok
  • Patent number: 11444808
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a computerized method conducted by logic deployed within a network device implemented within a virtual private cloud network for supporting network address translations within a public cloud network is described. Herein, after receipt of a message, based on content within the message, a network address translation (NAT) control logic unit from a plurality of NAT control logic units is selected. The selected NAT control logic unit is configured to perform address translations on information within the message to produce a translated message. Thereafter, the translated message is routed to a destination network device located on the public network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Aviatrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Xiaobo Sherry Wei
  • Patent number: 11445424
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for switching resource pools by a device arranged to transmit according to a first resource pool is provided. The method includes sensing a second resource pool, determining whether the second resource pool has been sensed sufficiently long to apply sensing based resource selection, and selecting resources from an exceptional pool by using random resource selection, if the second resource pool has not been sensed sufficiently long to apply sensing based resource selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Himke Van Der Velde, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 11438127
    Abstract: A measurement gap determination method, a UE and a network side device are provided. The measurement gap determination method includes: receiving, by a UE, measurement configuration information of a SS block of at least one BWP transmitted from a network side device, wherein the UE operates at the BWP on which no SS block is transmitted when the UE receives the measurement configuration information; determining, by the UE, a measurement gap for the measurement of the SS block on the at least one BWP in accordance with the measurement configuration information; and measuring, by the UE, the SS block on the at least one BWP in the measurement gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Zheng Zhao, Bin Ren, Tie Li, Fangchen Cheng, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11431466
    Abstract: A communication method and an apparatus, the method including generating a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence of a broadcast signal according to a pseudo-random sequence c(m), where the DMRS sequence is related to a quantity NRB of resource blocks (RBs) of the broadcast signal and a quantity nRE of resource elements (REs) occupied by the DMRS sequence in one RB, and mapping the DMRS sequence to one or more symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huang Huang, Kuandong Gao, Mao Yan
  • Patent number: 11432187
    Abstract: A wireless communication link between a wireless access point and a mobile communication device supports multiple data flows. Each of the data flows can be configured to convey a different type of data. Based on monitoring events/conditions such as conveyance of communications over each of the multiple data flows, a communication management resource selectively assigns data flow compression settings to each of the multiple data flows. Based on the assigned compression settings, the mobile communication device and/or wireless access point communicate packet delivery data (such as network address information) over the data flows. For example, in accordance with the generated compression settings, packet delivery data for data packets conveyed over a first data flow are compressed, while packet delivery data for data packets conveyed over a second data flow are not compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmed Bencheikh, Venkata R. Divvi
  • Patent number: 11424895
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for providing a V2X service in a next generation radio access technology (new RAT). The present embodiments provide a method for performing sidelink communication by a terminal and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving sidelink synchronization block (SSB) configuration information including synchronization information for sidelink communication; monitoring a SSB monitoring slot configured on the basis of the SSB configuration information; and receiving a SSB in the SSB monitoring slot, wherein the SSB comprises a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS), a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS), and a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH), and the S-PSS, the S-SSS, and the PSBCH are allocated to N consecutive symbols in the SSB monitoring slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Sun Woo Kim, Seong Jin Kim, Min Soo Jeong, Hyeon Jin Chung
  • Patent number: 11425202
    Abstract: Embodiments of a session processing method and a device relating to a data network are provided. The method includes a data-network network element in the data network receiving a data network access request sent by a session management function (SMF) network element of the data network, where the data network access request includes an identifier of user equipment UE and a session address to be used by the UE. The data-network network element sends a response message to the SMF, where the response message instructs the SMF to allow the UE to access the data network, so that the SMF establishes a data packet unit session of the UE. The data-network network element detects, based on the session address or the identifier of the UE, that the data packet unit session of the UE needs to be processed, generates a session processing request, and instructs, by using the session processing request, the SMF to process the data packet unit session of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei International Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lichun Li, Zhongding Lei, Bo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11425607
    Abstract: In one aspect, one or more network nodes are configured to manage bitrates for dedicated radio bearers (DRBs) for a UE served by two or more distributed transmission units, where the DRBs include at least one DRB terminating at a first control unit and at least one DRB terminating at a second control unit. The network nodes determine at least a first UL AMBR value for the UE for the first control unit and at least a second UL AMBR value for the UE for the second control unit. The network nodes then signal the first UL AMBR to the first control unit and the second UL AMBR to the second control unit, for enforcement by the first and second control units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Angelo Centonza, Martin Skarve, Alexander Vesely