Patents Examined by Jenkey Van
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Patent number: 11452014Abstract: Disclosed herein a system, a method and a device for selecting between a primary link and a secondary link for AR/VR applications. A console can provide a VR/AR session to a user through a head wearable display. The console can determine that a first measurement of a primary link between the console and a head wearable display is less than a first threshold. The first measurement can include a quality metric of the primary link. The console can activate a secondary link between the console and the head wearable display. The console can determine whether a second measurement of the primary link between the console and the head wearable display is less than a second threshold. The console can transition when the second measurement is less than the second threshold, traffic on the primary link to the activated secondary link.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Dong Zheng, Qi Qu, Gang Lu, Yuting Fan, William Louis Abbott
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Patent number: 11436931Abstract: A method for coordinating multiplexed communications among multiple piloted assets enlisted to a common mission and multiple requestors includes defining a mission based on a mission request received from at least one requestor via a software application, receiving enrollment requests for multiple asset pilots, receiving indications of geolocations associated with the asset pilots, matching the geolocations to the mission, and sending invitations to mobile devices of the multiple asset pilots based on the matching. Upon receipt of indications of acceptance from the asset pilots, operating multiplexed communications among the asset pilots and the requestor. The multiplexing can include relaying a first mission-related data from mobile devices of the asset pilots to a mobile device of the requestor via a common communication channel, and relaying a second mission-related data from the mobile device of the requestor to the mobile devices of the asset pilot via the common communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: DRONEUP, LLCInventors: Thomas Walker, John Vernon
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Patent number: 11432171Abstract: Described embodiments provide systems, methods and computer implemented instructions for resuming virtual computing sessions. A first device detects a disconnection via a primary communication channel from a server hosting a virtual computing session. The first device identifies a second device paired with the first client device. The first device transmits a request to enable a hotspot function of the second client device. The first device receives an indication that the hotspot function of the second client device is enabled. The first device resumes, in communication with the second device, access to the virtual computing session hosted by the server via a secondary communication channel through the hotspot function of the second device.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Nandikotkur Achyuth, Divyansh Deora, Arnav Akhoury
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Patent number: 11431621Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the separation of functions associated with a User Plane Function (“UPF”) in a wireless network (e.g., a Fifth Generation (“5G”) network), such that routing devices associated with the wireless network may perform functionality that would otherwise be performed by virtualized hosts or other configurable resources. For example, routing components which form a backhaul or other portion of the network may process traffic according to a suitable set of policies (e.g., Quality of Service (“QoS”) policies, content filtering policies, queueing policies, and/or other policies) instead of transmitting such traffic to a UPF associated with the network core for processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Myron Eugene Bagwell, Niranjan B. Avula, Kalyani Bogineni
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Patent number: 11412524Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device that uses a first radio access technology (RAT) may identify a transmission timing scheme for a shared radio frequency spectrum band, the transmission timing scheme comprising a first set of time intervals allocated for transmissions using a first RAT and a second set of time intervals allocated for transmissions using a second RAT. The wireless device may transmit, during a time interval of the first set of time intervals, a channel reservation signal indicating an end time of the time interval and indicating that the wireless device uses the first RAT. The wireless device may transmit, based at least in part on the transmitted channel reservation signal, over the shared radio frequency spectrum band during at least a portion of the time interval before the end time of the time interval.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Marco Papaleo, Xiao Feng Wang, Shailesh Patil, Maarten Menzo Wentink, James Lansford, Jamshid Khun-Jush
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Patent number: 11405947Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and a terminal for performing a scheduling request (SR). The method includes: determining, by a terminal, that a band width part (BWP) changes during a process of reporting the SR; and performing, by the terminal, the SR according to an SR configuration on the changed BWP.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Yali Zhao
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Patent number: 11399322Abstract: Methods, User Equipment, UE, (120) and source network node (111) for resuming a Radio Resource Control, RRC, connection to a target cell in a wireless communications network (100). The UE generates a security token using a set of input parameters, and sends a resuming request with the security token to a target network node (112) serving the target cell. When receiving the resuming request, the source network node generates a security token using a set of input parameters in the same manner as the UE. If the received security token is successfully verified when compared with the generated security token, the source network node provides to the target network node a UE context of the UE, to enable the target network node to resume the RRC connection.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Oscar Ohlsson, Icaro L. J. da Silva, Gunnar Mildh, Magnus Stattin
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Patent number: 11395315Abstract: A method for a terminal transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration for SPS-based uplink signal repetition; and, on the basis of the SPS configuration, repeatedly transmitting a first SPS uplink signal to the base station, wherein, in a state where the repetition of the first SPS uplink signal is in progress, and a time resource of the first SPS uplink signal and a time resource of a second SPS uplink signal overlap, a terminal may continue with the repetition of the first SPS uplink signal in progress, without the transmission of the second SPS uplink signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Kyuhwan Kwak, Seungmin Lee, Yunjung Yi
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Patent number: 11394632Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a first router, data from a network component. The method also includes determining, by the first router, a first link bandwidth capacity between the first router and a host device and determining, by the first router, a first score for the first router based on the first link bandwidth capacity. The method also includes determining, by the first router, a second link bandwidth capacity between a second router and the host device and determining, by the first router, a second score for the second router based on the second link bandwidth capacity. The method further includes comparing, by the first router, at least the first score and the second score to determine a highest score and assigning, by the first router, an edge router associated with the highest score to communicate the data to the host device.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Satya Ranjan Mohanty, Mankamana Prasad Mishra, Ali Sajassi, Mrinmoy Ghosh
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Patent number: 11382132Abstract: A communication device associated with a physical access point (AP) receives a physical layer (PHY) data unit having a PHY preamble. The communication device determines a value of a basic service set (BSS) color identifier in the PHY preamble, and performs a clear channel assessment (CCA) procedure to determine whether the communication device can perform a spatial reuse transmission during reception of the PHY data unit, including: determining whether the BSS color identifier is a color value corresponding to all of multiple virtual APs implemented by the physical AP, and selectively determining whether the communication device can perform the spatial reuse transmission during reception of the PHY data unit as a function of the determination of whether the BSS color identifier is the color value corresponding to all of the multiple virtual APs implemented by the physical AP.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte LtdInventors: Liwen Chu, Lei Wang, Hongyuan Zhang, Jinjing Jiang, Hui-Ling Lou
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Patent number: 11375448Abstract: A method for beacon information provisioning, transmissions and protocol enhancements includes defining multiple level beacons based on the attributes of beacon information fields/elements. A short beacon may be used in addition to a primary beacon in space-time block code (STBC) modes, non-STBC modes and in multiple bandwidth modes. The short beacons may also be used for Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS) and to extend system coverage range. Beacon transmissions may use adaptive modulation and coding set/scheme (MCS).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Sudheer A. Grandhi, Lei Wang, Guodong Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Monisha Ghosh, Hanqing Lou
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Patent number: 11363601Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated beamforming in a wireless mesh network, are disclosed. One system includes a network that includes a plurality of nodes connected through wireless links, and a controller. The wireless links including aggressor links and victim links wherein the aggressor links interfere with the victim links. The controller is operative to identify aggressor links and victim links of a group of nodes of the plurality of nodes, coordinate beam scans of the one or more victim receive nodes associated with the victim links of the group, coordinate transmission of one or more aggressor transmit nodes associated with the aggressor links of the group, characterize or receive characterizations of measured interference at the one or more victim receive nodes during the coordinated beam scans, and select beamforming coefficients for the victim receive nodes based at least on the characterizations of the measured interference.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Brian Dunn, Krishna Gomadam, Djordje Tujkovic
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Patent number: 11356990Abstract: The present invention provides a resource allocation method and device. The method includes: sending, by a base station, a resource allocation parameter to a terminal, where the resource allocation parameter includes a starting narrowband index and a resource position, where the starting narrowband index is used for indicating a narrowband resource and/or a wideband resource for the terminal to establish a physical shared channel. The embodiments of the present invention solve the problem in existing art that resource allocation for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH)/physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) only considers a bandwidth limitation of a 1.4 MHz narrowband so that a user equipment (UE) cannot support machine type communications (MTC) applications with a higher data rate, achieving an effect of being capable of supporting MTC traffic with a higher data rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Huiying Fang, Weiwei Yang, Bo Dai
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Patent number: 11343203Abstract: This invention discloses a hierarchical switching fabric and deadlock avoidance method for ultra high radix network routers. The hierarchical switching fabric comprises a network-on-chip and K multi-port components. The multi-port component comprises a port module configured to receive packets by a high speed serializer/deserializer, code and format the packets, send the packets to a corresponding hyper packet module after coding and format conversion, and send the packets sent by the hyper packet module to the network; and the hyper packet module configured to perform protocol processing for the received data link level packets, discard illegal packets, forward legitimate packets to the network-on-chip, perform data error correcting, format conversion and channel mapping for the packets received from the network-on-chip, and send the packets to the corresponding port module.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kai Lu, Qiang Wang, Mingche Lai, Junsheng Chang, Pingjing Lu, Xingyun Qi, Yi Dai, Fangxu Lv, Jiaqing Xu, Jijun Cao, Canwen Xiao, Lu Liu
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Patent number: 11336390Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting downlink control information (DCI) in a wireless communication system and a device using same. The method enables determining the size of a first DCI format and adjusting the size of a second DCI format so as to be the same as the size of the first DCI format, wherein the first DCI format and the second DCI format are DCI formats sharing the same search space regardless of whether the formats are for the same serving cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
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Patent number: 11324057Abstract: A network device may receive a message from a device. The network device may process the message to determine identification information associated with the device. The network device may process the message to determine identification information associated with a packet data unit (PDU) session, of one or more PDU sessions, of the device. The network device may transmit based on the identification information associated with the device and the identification information associated with the PDU session of the device, the message to another network device.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventor: Venkatesh Padebettu
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Patent number: 11303400Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving system information from a base station, wherein the system information comprises first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is used to indicate a fixed-downlink time-frequency resource and a fixed-uplink time-frequency resource, or that a type of each unit time-frequency resource is not limited, and the type of the unit time-frequency resource comprises the unit time-frequency resource used to send uplink information, the unit time-frequency resource used to receive downlink information, or the unit time-frequency resource used to send uplink information and receive downlink information.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xu Zhang, Yan Cheng, Lixia Xue, Yongxing Zhou
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Patent number: 11297618Abstract: The present application discloses a method for D2D communication and a terminal device, the method including: receiving, sidelink control information (SCI) transmitted by a second terminal device; determining, by the first terminal device, that the SCI is in a first format or in a second format, where the SCI includes a resource reservation bit, and the resource reservation bit in the SCI of the first format is not used to indicate whether the second terminal device reserves a time-frequency resource for next data transmission, and the resource reservation bit in the SCI of the second format is used to indicate whether the second terminal device reserves the time-frequency resource for the next data transmission; and prohibiting data transmission on a plurality of the time-frequency resources distributed in accordance with a first time period if the first terminal device determines that the SCI is in the first format.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Hai Tang
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Patent number: 11290302Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises causing, by an apparatus, establishment of first and second multicast trees within one or more underlay switching fabrics of one or more fat tree topologies, the first and second multicast trees comprising first and second multicast roots for multicast transmission to leaf network devices in the respective first and second multicast trees; causing, by the apparatus, establishment of an overlay tunnel between the first and second multicast roots, the overlay tunnel independent and distinct from the first and second multicast trees; causing the first multicast root to multicast transmit, via the first multicast tree, a data packet having been transmitted to the first multicast root; and causing the first multicast root to unicast transmit the data packet to the second multicast root via the overlay tunnel, for multicast transmission of the data packet by the second multicast root via the second multicast tree.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Eric Michel Levy-Abegnoli
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Patent number: 11283648Abstract: A system for controlling data services, comprising a plurality of host computers configured to communicate over the network and to request a data tunnel. A plurality of server computers configured to provide data tunnel services to the plurality of host computers. An address allocator operating on one or more processors and configured to implement one or more algorithms that cause a range of addresses to be assigned to each of the server computers, wherein each of the host computers receives one of the addresses for use as part of a data tunnel service request from the host computer to the server computer.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FORCEPOINT LLCInventor: Lawrence B. Huston, III