Patents Examined by Jenee Holland
  • Patent number: 11323990
    Abstract: An embodiment of this application provides a method for transmission in a time interval. The time interval includes one or more first time units and one or more second time units. The one or more first time units are used to transmit a first-type signal, and a quantity of first time units is associated with a quantity of first-type signals. The one or more second time units are used to transmit a second-type signal. In the method, a receiving node may obtain time unit information, where the time unit information is used to obtain a location of the one or more second time units, that is, determine a time domain location of the second-type time-frequency resource in the time interval. Then, the receiving node may receive or send the second-type signal on the second-type time-frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fan Wang, Zhenfei Tang, Yi Qin
  • Patent number: 11323149
    Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication comprising repetitions that provide a solution to the problem of identifying and refining a repetition configuration at a transmitter. A transmitter receives repetition configuration information from a receiver and transmits repetitions of a signal to the receiver based on the received repetition configuration information. The repetition configuration information comprises an indication of at least one of a repetition frequency hopping indicator, at least one beam index, a repetition type or whether repetition is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11323224
    Abstract: A method, network node and wireless device for receiving and/or mapping a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, to resource elements of a time-frequency grid are provided in which the PDCCH is mapped to resource elements of the time-frequency grid by configuring resource element groups, REGs, each REG spanning one orthogonal frequency division multiplex, OFDM, symbol, and the PDCCH being at least two OFDM symbols. In accordance with one embodiment, the method includes receiving the PDCCH from the network node on one of a plurality of sets of physical resource blocks, PRBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: John Camilo Solano Arenas, Niklas Andgart, Laetitia Falconetti
  • Patent number: 11317384
    Abstract: To effectively and efficiently provide control information, a broadcast pointer channel (BPCH) may be used to identify the type and perhaps relative location of control information that is being provided in a given frame structure, such as a sub-frame, frame, or superframe. A sub-frame (or like framing entity, such a frame or superframe) may have a BPCH and a corresponding system control information segment in which control information may reside. The system control information segment may have any number of control information blocks, wherein each control information block that is present may correspond to a particular type of control information. The BPCH is used to identify the type of control information that is present in a corresponding system control information segment, and if needed or desired, the relative locations of the various control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mo-Han Fong, Hang Zhang, Sophie Vrzic, Robert Novak, Jun Yuan, Dong-Sheng Yu
  • Patent number: 11310638
    Abstract: A GeoNetworking transmission method of a V2X communication device is disclosed. The GeoNetworking transmission method includes receiving a beacon packet or a single hop broadcast (SHB) packet; configuring location information, the location information including information about at least one neighboring V2X communication device executing a GeoNetworking protocol; determining a forwarder from the neighboring V2X communication devices included in a location table and setting an address of the determined forwarder to a link layer address; and transmitting a GeoNetworking packet to a first service channel (SCH) based on the link layer address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seoyoung Back, Woosuk Ko, Seungryul Yang
  • Patent number: 11303403
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a signaling arrangement for a wireless system are provided. One method includes transmitting a short control signaling (SCS) message to one or more user equipment (UE). The SCS message may comprise at least a reference signal part and an optional control signal part. The reference signal part may comprise reference signals that allow the UE to perform at least one of: cell search, synchronization, fine time/frequency tracking, radio resource management (RRM) measurements, radio link monitoring, or channel state information (CSI) reporting. In an embodiment, the control signal part may indicate at least one of: whether the cell is ON or OFF, whether each subframe in a current or upcoming set of subframes are ON or OFF, TDD uplink-downlink configuration for a current or upcoming radio frame, PLMN ID to identify to which operator's network the cell belongs to, and/or system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Timo Lunttila, Klaus Hugl, Esa Tiirola, Kari Hooli
  • Patent number: 11296804
    Abstract: An example device may include at least three phased array antennas controllable to provide respective receive beams steerable in azimuth and elevation, where faces of the phased array antennas are arranged to provide a receive beam coverage 360 degrees in azimuth, and at least three radio frequency front ends to receive channel sounding waveforms from a fifth generation base station of a cellular network via the respective receive beams and to generate baseband signals from the channel sounding waveforms. The device may include a processing system including at least one processor in communication with the radio frequency front ends to steer the respective receive beams via instructions to the radio frequency front ends, receive the baseband signals from the radio frequency front ends, determine a plurality of measurements of at least one wireless channel parameter based upon the baseband signals, and record locations and spatial orientation information for the measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Aditya Chopra, Arunabha Ghosh, Saeed Ghassemzadeh, Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11290944
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a data connection method, a control-plane node, and user equipment, to provide a mechanism in which user equipment can access an external packet data network by using a local network. The method includes: sending, by a control-plane node, access information to user equipment, where the access information includes at least one access point name and Internet agent capability indication information for each access point name; receiving, by the control-plane node, a connection setup message sent by the user equipment, where the connection setup message includes a first access point name, and the first access point name is determined by the user equipment based on the Internet agent capability indication information; and determining, by the control-plane node, a corresponding local user-plane node based on the first access point name, and setting up a data connection from the user equipment to the local user-plane node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Yin, Caixia Qi
  • Patent number: 11272393
    Abstract: A method for sending buffer state includes: determining a logical channel of a user equipment (UE) for transmitting service data; acquiring a buffer state report trigger mode corresponding to the logical channel based on a trigger mode relationship table, the trigger mode relationship table comprising logical channels in the UE and buffer state report trigger modes corresponding to the logical channels; and sending the buffer state corresponding to the logical channel to an access network device based on the buffer state report trigger mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11272250
    Abstract: Methods and Systems for executing and monitoring content in a decentralized runtime environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Tilman Buchner, Martin Egbert Kleinhans, Johannes Boyne
  • Patent number: 11265107
    Abstract: Channel encoding is provided that includes applying turbo coding with a coding rate of 1/5 to an input bit sequence, applying a subblock interleaver to each of first to fifth code bit sequences to which the turbo coding is applied, applying bit collection to the first to fifth code bit sequences output from the subblock interleaver, the bit collection outputting the first code bit sequence in order, outputting the second code bit sequence and the fourth code bit sequence alternately on a bit-by-bit basis after the first code bit sequence, and outputting the second code bit sequence and the fifth code bit sequence alternately on a bit-by-bit basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Hiroki Takahashi, Tatsushi Aiba
  • Patent number: 11259156
    Abstract: Asset tracking systems and methods include one or more tracking devices that select one or more hub devices with which to pair or connect based on a state quality value of the hub devices. The tracking device transmits sensor data to a paired or connected hub device, and the paired or connected hub device transmits the senor data to a network server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Rooster, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan R. Konen, Stephen D. Ore, Timothy J. Carney, Steve R. Hardwick, Dustin M. Gary, Doran N. Schwartz, Jarrod B. Piper, Matthew J. H. Kenny, Daniel A. Holmgren
  • Patent number: 11245550
    Abstract: A system for authenticating messages transmitted on a bus based on physical location of transmitting units, comprising a reflector adapted to inject a plurality of reflection signals at a first point of a line topology bus, each in response to each of a plurality of messages transmitted by a plurality of bus connected units and a probe adapted to intercept the messages and the reflection signals at a second point of the bus. The probe calculates propagation timing between a reception time of the message and a reception time of an associated reflection signal transmitted in response to the message and determines validity of the message according to a match between the calculated propagation timing and a predefined propagation timings associated with the bus connected units. Wherein the bus connected units are statically connected to the bus between the first point and the second point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Eli Biham, Eli Gavril, Sara Bitan-Erlich
  • Patent number: 11240137
    Abstract: A wireless network operating system for communication between a plurality of nodes of a network is provided. The operating system can enable an operator to define a centralized network control problem at a high level, decompose automatically the network control problem into a set of distributed subproblems, each subproblem characterizing a local behavior of a single session or a subset of sessions or a single node or a subset of nodes or a single protocol layer or a subset of protocol layers, to generate in an automated manner a set of solution algorithms, and send the set of solution algorithms to each node for execution at an associated node controller to optimize the parameters of a programmable protocol stack based on local state information at each node. A network device for use at a node in a wireless network, a method of wirelessly communicating between a plurality of nodes in a network, and a method of providing a wireless network operating system are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Tommaso Melodia, Zhangyu Guan
  • Patent number: 11223666
    Abstract: A system to provide second generation (2G) voice services over internet protocol, the system including: a voice gateway (VGW) including a 2G stack to communicate control plane information and user plane information with a 2G user terminal (UT) via a circuit-switched network without modifications to the 2G-UT, an Iu-CS IP stack, and a relay to map the control plane information between the 2G stack and the Iu-CS IP stack, and vice-versa; a mobile switching center (MSC), connected to the VGW via the Iu-CS IP stack, to manage and establish the voice services between the 2G-UT and a public switched telephone network (PSTN) based on the mapped control plane information; and a media gateway (MGW) connected to the VGW via the Iu-CS IP stack, where the MGW communicates the user plane information between the 2G-UT and the PSTN after the MSC 2-G UT vocoder, e.g. AMBE, has established voice services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Channasandra Ravishankar, Gaguk Zakaria
  • Patent number: 11218335
    Abstract: A transmission/reception device for a bus system, and a method for reducing conducted emissions, are provided. The transmission/reception device has a transmission stage that has a first and a second transmission block, the first transmission block being configured to transmit a transmitted signal onto a first bus wire of a bus of the bus system, in which bus system exclusive, collision-free access by a subscriber station to the bus of the bus system is at least temporarily guaranteed, and the second transmission block is configured to transmit the transmitted signal onto a second bus wire of the bus; a reception stage for receiving the bus signal transferred on the bus wires; and an emissions reduction unit for controlled switching in of a capacitance unit in parallel with the second transmission stage in order to reduce conducted emissions of the transmission/reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Pannwitz, Steffen Walker, Sebastian Stegemann
  • Patent number: 11218929
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an information transmission method and apparatus and communication system. The method includes: receiving, by a user equipment, indication information transmitted by a base station indicating that the user equipment is capable of using the sidelink in a case where the air-interface link is incapable of normally transmitting data; and using the sidelink by the user equipment to perform data transmission with another user equipment in the case where the air-interface link is incapable of normally transmitting data. Hence, even if in a case where an air-interface link is unable to transmit data normally, data information may be transmitted successfully in other links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11212323
    Abstract: A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based network includes at least two SIP user agents, wherein each SIP user agent is configured to act as a user agent client (UAC) for requesting a service function and as a user agent server (UAS) for responding to a request service function. The UAC is configured to initiate a registration with the UAS, wherein the registration comprises a field for indicating infinity registration capability and a field for indicating management communication capability. The UAS is configured to send to the UAC, a registration expiry timer with a value equal to infinity and a management header including a onetime unique token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventor: Walid Jerbi
  • Patent number: 11201760
    Abstract: A data forwarding method is provided for a data forwarding apparatus. The method includes, when a first port receives a to-be-forwarded data packet, executing a network adapter driver corresponding to the first port to read the to-be-forwarded data packet from a network adapter cache corresponding to the first port. The network adapter cache stores address forwarding information obtained from an operating system kernel bridge. The method also includes searching the address forwarding information in the network adapter cache for address forwarding information corresponding to the data packet and, when the address forwarding information corresponding to the data packet is found, determining a target network adapter driver for forwarding the data packet based on the found address forwarding information, and directly sending the data packet to the target network adapter driver, such that the target network adapter driver forwards the data packet through a second port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jian Han
  • Patent number: 11191096
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for configuring SPS resources in wireless communication system, the method comprising: configuring a plurality of cells; receiving information for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) resource configuration with an indication indicating at least one cell among the plurality of cells on which the SPS resource configuration is to be configured; and configuring a set of SPS resources based on the SPS resource configuration on the at least one cell indicated by the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi