Patents Examined by John D Blanton
  • Patent number: 11019679
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a broadcast signal includes generating, by a broadcast transmitter, a service and service signaling information for acquiring the service and components of the service; generating, by the broadcast transmitter, signaling data for rapid service scan, the signaling data including protection information for indicating whether a component of the service is protected and information for identifying where the service signaling information is transmitted and hidden information for indicating whether the service is intended for testing or proprietary use; generating, by the broadcast transmitter, physical layer pipes (PLPs) including the service, the service signaling information and the signaling data; and transmitting, by the broadcast transmitter, a broadcast signal carrying a signal frame including the PLPs, wherein the service signaling information includes a service identifier for referencing a service related to the signaling data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsung Kwak, Woosuk Kwon, Sejin Oh, Kyoungsoo Moon, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 11012192
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a control information sending method and apparatus. A network device generates first control information for a first TB, where the first TB includes n code block (CB) groups, where N is a maximum quantity of CB groups included in the first TB; each CB group includes at least one CB; the first control information includes N control information fields, and the N control information fields are in correspondence with the maximum N CB groups included in the first TB; and a control information field i in the N control information fields is used to indicate whether a CB group corresponding to the control information field i is to be sent or received, and i?[1, N]. In this way, a quantity of bits included in downlink control information can remain fixed, thereby reducing blind detection complexity of a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruixiang Ma, Yongxia Lyu
  • Patent number: 10993189
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided, wherein configuration information for a transmission is determined based on a configured uplink grant. Information of an assigned one of a plurality of different received by a network entity power levels for each user equipment for a given transmission instance is received. A transmit power offset is determined, based on the received information of the assigned one of the plurality of different received by the network entity power levels. A transmit power for transmission is determined, based on the configuration information of the configured uplink grant and by applying the determined transmit power offset. An uplink transmission is performed using the determined transmit power for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Hossein Bagheri, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 10986564
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described. A method includes determining whether the apparatus is in a coverage enhancement (CE) mode or a non-CE mode. The method further includes receiving a CE-system information block (CE-SIB) on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on at least one of a known location or at least one known parameter for the CE-SIB, on a condition that the WTRU is determined to be in the CE mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Samian Kaur, Diana Pani
  • Patent number: 10972957
    Abstract: A method of selecting a parent node for routing from among a plurality of nodes in a 6TiSCH network. The method comprises; each of a two or more nodes of the plurality of nodes transmitting a routing message at each power level of a plurality of power levels, wherein the routing message comprises an indication of the reliability for a transmission path to a root node. The method further comprises, at a deciding node, receiving said routing messages from said two or more nodes, determining respective likelihoods of reliability of transmission to a root node via each of said two or more nodes based on the received messages and the indications, and selecting, as the parent node from the two or more nodes the node which has the greatest likelihood of reliability of transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yichao Jin
  • Patent number: 10965499
    Abstract: Disclosed are a signal transmission method and a base station, the signal transmission method comprising: generating a PTRS used for estimating phase noise in a downlink signal; transmitting, to a terminal, at least one form among information indicating whether the PTRS is transmitted by means of downlink signaling, and information indicating an antenna port of the PTRS; and transmitting the PTRS to the terminal in accordance with the information transmitted thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kilbom Lee, Jaehoon Chung, Kyuseok Kim, Minki Ahn
  • Patent number: 10966197
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus that, when two terminals having mutually different subframe structure patterns are coexistent, can suppress DCI scheduling constraints of those terminals in a base station. In a terminal, a signal separation unit separates, from a received signal, both a response signal assigned to a first resource determined on the basis of a number of resources associated with the first subframes in which the signal was received and downstream control information assigned to a second resource. It should be noted that at a timing when both a first structure pattern that has been set in the terminal and a second structure pattern that has been set in another terminal that cannot change the setting of the structure pattern are the first subframes, the signal separation unit uses a number of resources associated with the first subframes of the second structure pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Toru Oizumi, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 10959091
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a session management device, a path switching request used to request to hand over user equipment UE from a source network to a target network; obtaining a target security policy based on the path switching request, and obtaining a second shared key generated based on a first shared key and the target security policy, and sending the second shared key to a target gateway; and sending, by the session management device, the second shared key to the UE; or sending the target security policy to the UE, so that the UE generates the second shared key based on the first shared key and the target security policy, where the second shared key is used to perform end-to-end protection on secure data transmission between the UE and the target gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rong Wu, Bo Zhang, Lu Gan
  • Patent number: 10958723
    Abstract: A cloud-end data multicast method includes: obtaining a multicast packet, the multicast packet carrying a tenant identifier, a destination address, and a source address; and searching for a multicast group according to the tenant identifier and the destination address. The multicast group includes multicast members. The method also includes obtaining routes corresponding to the multicast members; generating a routing tree according to the routes corresponding to multicast members; and obtaining member addresses corresponding to the multicast members. The method also includes obtaining an address list containing addresses of target members that are identified to receive the multicast packet by performing address filtering according to the source address and the member addresses; encapsulating the multicast packet; and delivering the encapsulated multicast packet to the target members according to the address list and the routing tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yiwen Zhang, Kang Chen, Yaofu Liu
  • Patent number: 10939251
    Abstract: A user equipment according to a first aspect is a user equipment for a mobile communication system. The user equipment transmits and receives radio signals within a reduced bandwidth narrower than a system transmission and reception band. The user equipment performs radio communication with a base station by using the transceiver. The base station provides MBMS services via SC-PTM. The user equipment receives first information from the base station. The first information indicates at least one of: a maximum number of repetitions of a physical downlink control channel having a bandwidth equal to or less than the reduced bandwidth and a maximum number of repetitions of a physical downlink shared channel having a bandwidth equal to or less than the reduced bandwidth. The first information is transmitted from the base station by a system information block for the SC-PTM or a multicast control channel for the SC-PTM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 10938629
    Abstract: A method is provided in wireless access point in a wireless communications network. The method includes assigning a first resource unit for a first transmission between the wireless access point and a wireless terminal. The method further includes determining that the first transmission using the first resource unit failed. The method further includes selecting a candidate resource unit for a retry transmission. The candidate resource unit is selected based on at least an average previous success rate of available resource units at a width of the first resource unit and a correlation between the candidate resource unit and the first resource unit. The method further includes assigning the candidate resource unit for the retry transmission if a success rate of the candidate resource unit is above a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gautam Bhanage, Matthew Aaron Silverman, Pooya Monajemi, Brian Hart
  • Patent number: 10925102
    Abstract: A reader device may generate a first identifier. The reader device may transmit the first identifier to a mobile device. The reader device may receive encrypted data and unencrypted data from the mobile device in which the encrypted data includes a second identifier. The reader device may evaluate whether the first identifier and the second identifier correspond to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Neafsey, Michael W. Malone, Hamid Abouhashem
  • Patent number: 10912093
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus/system/method utilizing directional data transmission over a communication (e.g., mmW) band, which announces statistics about channel use in specific directions and across all directions to other stations. These announcements can be broadcast with network discovery signals, such as DMG beacons or announce frames. The announcements can be broadcasted as channel statistics for each scheduled allocation, and/or as spatial direction statistics in the direction where the carrying frame is sent. These announcements can be added to the extended schedule element allocation field or any other element. The spatial loading element contains the statistics of the spatial loading in all directions and the channel loading statistics across all directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mohamed Abouelseoud
  • Patent number: 10911499
    Abstract: A media system includes a computer network, a media device supporting a network-based media sharing protocol, a plurality of output devices located at a plurality of physical locations within a hospitality establishment, and a system controller. In response to a first event, the system controller assigns the media device to a particular guest device by reconfiguring one or more components of the computer network to enable the particular guest device to utilize the network-based media sharing protocol to share media over the computer network with the media device, and commands an output device located at a physical location associated with the particular guest device to play media corresponding to the media signal outputted by the media device on the output port. In response to a second event, the system controller un-assigns the media device from the particular guest device and commands the output device to stop playing the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter S. Warrick, Brendan G. Cassidy, Lindsey M. Carriere, Michael D. McCarthy
  • Patent number: 10904887
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communications, and in particular, to a resource scheduling technology for vehicle to vehicle communication in a wireless communications system. In a resource scheduling method, a first terminal device receives a second-vehicle message sent by at least one second terminal device, where the second-vehicle message carries vehicle status information of the second terminal device. The first terminal device determines a historical resource occupation status of the at least one second terminal device, and selects, based on the vehicle status information indicating a vehicle location and a traveling status of the second terminal device, a first resource used for sending a first-vehicle message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangri Chen, Mingchao Li, Guanglin Han, Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10904873
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus for performing discontinuous reception (DRX) at least monitors both a PDCCH for C-RNTI and a PDCCH for CC-RNTI for a DRX-related active time and monitors a PDCCH for CC-RNTI in a period of a CC-RNTI monitoring window. The CC-RNTI monitoring window is started in a subframe n?X+1, and in a case that a second PDCCH is detected in a subframe n?X+v or a subframe up to the subframe n?X+v, the CC-RNTI monitoring window is ended in the subframe n in which the second PDCCH is detected, or in a case that the second PDCCH is not detected in the subframe n?X+v or the subframe up to the subframe n?X+v, the CC-RNTI monitoring window is ended in the subframe n?X+v.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10897730
    Abstract: A method can include, by operation of first communication circuits, determining a quality of a plurality of communication frequencies according to wireless communications of a first protocol type; recording a quality of the communication frequencies; selecting communication frequencies for use by second communication circuits based on the quality of the communication frequencies; and wirelessly transmitting and receiving data with the second communication circuits according to a second protocol different than the first protocol; wherein the first and second communication circuits are collocated on the same device. Related devices and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Raghunatha Kondareddy
  • Patent number: 10880771
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium are described for doing fine timing measurements for one or more stations. A trigger frame is encoded for stations. Uplink null data packets are received. A time of arrival for the UP NDP and a time of departure for a downlink null data packet are determined. The time of arrival and time of departure are encoded into a data packet, such as a downlink null data packet announcement. A wireless device is configured to transmit the data packet to a station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Jiang, Qinghua Li, Chittabrata Ghosh, Yuval Amizur, Robert J. Stacey, Jonathan Segev
  • Patent number: 10879972
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for linear precoding in full-dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO) systems. According to aspects, an eNB may compress a larger number of antenna elements to a smaller number of antenna ports. The eNB may use a port precoding matrix to transmit reference signals to a UE, receive feedback regarding CSI based on the reference signals, and transmit data to the UE, based on a mapping of multiple data layers and mapping of antenna ports to the physical antenna elements. Further, aspects include performing elevation beamforming by dynamically forming one or more vertical sectors based on UE feedback in the elevation domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Chao Wei, Peng Cheng, Neng Wang, Jilei Hou
  • Patent number: 10880695
    Abstract: A device includes a tuner configured to tune a broadcast signal; a pilot detector configured to detect pilots in the tuned broadcast signal; a de-framer configured to parse a signal frame of the broadcast signal, the signal frame carrying Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) data, the signal frame including a preamble and at least one subframe; and a decoder configured to decode the PLP data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Kim, Woosuk Ko, Chulkyu Mun, Sungryong Hong