Patents Examined by Joseph Bednash
  • Patent number: 10299267
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method and user equipment. The method includes: obtaining, by first user equipment, time resource grouping information, where the time resource grouping information includes time resource numbers in N time resource groups, and N is a positive integer; sending, by the first user equipment, an indication signal, where the indication signal indicates one or more time resource numbers; determining, by the first user equipment according to the time resource grouping information and the one or more time resource numbers indicated by the indication signal, time resources occupied by a data signal in the N time resource groups; and sending, by the first user equipment, the data signal by using the time resources occupied by the data signal in the N time resource groups. In the embodiments of the present invention, energy consumption of a receive end can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 10277300
    Abstract: A communication control method according to the present embodiment comprises the steps of: relaying, by a gateway apparatus in a cellular network, user data from an external network to a user terminal connecting to the cellular network; switching an accommodation target of traffic of the user terminal from the cellular network to another network not managed by an operator managing the cellular network; and relaying, by the gateway apparatus, on a basis of a location of the user terminal in the another network, the user data to the user terminal, via the another network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kugo Morita
  • Patent number: 10251141
    Abstract: A communication apparatus communicating with a plurality of another communication apparatuses through a network, includes a processor; and a communication device, in which the communication apparatus and the plurality of the other communication apparatuses are separated for each synchronous system, the processor generates a first time slot including a plurality of slots for communicating a synchronous message used in a first synchronous system, and generates a second time slot including a plurality of slots for communicating a synchronous message used in a second synchronous system, and the communication device transmits the synchronous message in a multicast manner in a first slot of the first time slot in the first synchronous system, and transmits the synchronous message in the multicast manner in a second slot different from the first slot of the second time slot in the second synchronous system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Shibuta, Hiroyuki Ishihara
  • Patent number: 10193681
    Abstract: A method for configuring a Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode of a user equipment (UE) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, including receiving, while being connected with an enhanced NodeB (eNodeB) in said LTE network, a signaling message that includes TDD uplink-downlink configuration information dynamically assigned by said enhanced NodeB (eNodeB) to said UE; determining success or failure in receiving at said UE, said TDD uplink-downlink configuration information based on signaling information configured for said signaling message; generating an acknowledgement (ACK)/Non-acknowledgement (NACK) signal indicating said success or failure; and transmitting said ACK/NACK signal to said eNodeB on resources that are allocated based on said TDD uplink-downlink configuration information and/or said signaling configured for said signaling message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Chunhai Yao
  • Patent number: 10187093
    Abstract: A Multi-Input Multi-Output base station includes a plurality of transmitter blocks. Each block includes a time-domain base band signal source circuit that generates an output, a low pass filter circuit coupled to the base band source circuit that filters the output of the base band source circuit, and a signal level adjuster circuit coupled to the base band signal source circuit and the low pass filter and that adjusts the output of the base band signal source circuit based on an output of the low pass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Shigeo Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 10172097
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage media for scheduling physical resource blocks are provided. Base stations, of a communication radio access network, may be configured with schedulers that assign one or more physical resource blocks to a communication channel of a wireless device based on distance or power. The physical resource blocks allow the wireless device to communicate with the base station. Some resource blocks may be monitored across multiple sites to determine whether an aggregate power for the resource blocks exceeds a threshold. When the aggregate power threshold is surpassed, the schedulers may limit or prevent use of the identified resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Deveshkumar Rai, Sachin Vargantwar, Jasinder Singh, Maulik Shah
  • Patent number: 10165570
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for adaptive beamforming. A method is performed by a first network device. The method comprises acquiring beamforming information indicating spatial directions in which an identification signal is to be transmitted. The method comprises transmitting the identification signal in a transmission pattern using directional beams in the spatial directions towards second network devices. The identification signal is transmitted such that the identification signal occupies a larger portion of communications resources when transmitted in spatial directions with high second network device presence than in spatial directions with low second network device presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Henrik Sahlin, Mona Hashemi, Mirsad Cirkic, Joel Berglund
  • Patent number: 10136355
    Abstract: One or more packets associated with a wakeup event for a mobile user device is/are delayed, thereby extending the duration of the wakeup event. Because the duration of the wakeup event is extended, the start of the next wakeup event for the mobile user device is delayed by a time interval, and therefore the signaling load on the mobile network is reduced during this time interval compared to the signaling load that would have been on the mobile network if the start of the next wakeup event had not been delayed. If the delayed packet(s) is/are data packet(s), then the disclosure presents a solution which involves data to solve a problem relating to signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Vasona Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Nery Strasman, Ariel Peltz, Ofer Weill
  • Patent number: 10128992
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are provided. The solution comprises utilizing a given number of parallel subbands in communication, where the transmission timing in each of the subbands is time-shifted by a predetermined time offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventor: Wolfgang Zirwas
  • Patent number: 10117258
    Abstract: Disclosed are wireless channel redistribution method and apparatus. The wireless channel redistribution method comprises: a wireless router receiving an optimum wireless channel selection command transmitted from a controller; the wireless router scanning channel quality of each wireless channel; the wireless router, according to the channel quality of each wireless channel obtained by scanning, selecting a current working channel of the wireless router; and the wireless router restarting a wireless connection module and implementing information exchange with a mobile device according to the current working channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Beijing Qihoo Technology Comapny Limited
    Inventors: Jian Chen, Junhong Guo, Zhi Liu
  • Patent number: 10097312
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a digital broadcast system and a data processing method. A broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed is transmitted and received. Then, in a broadcasting receiver, the program table information including information about a service or a program of an ensemble is parsed according to an identifier of the ensemble in which the mobile service data are multiplexed, in the received broadcast signal. And a mobile service is outputted by using the mobile service data and the parsed program table information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Ho Taek Hong, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Jong Yeul Suh, Jin Pil Kim, Won Gyu Song, Chul Soo Lee, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Joon Hui Lee
  • Patent number: 10098162
    Abstract: A base station, a processor thereof, and a communication control method thereof receive a notification from a first user terminal before starting direct device to device (D2D) communication, the notification indicating a desire for performing D2D communication, receive a measurement report including results of measurement of a cell reference signal from the first user terminal, and based on the measurement report, determine to cause the first user terminal to perform D2D communication, perform a process for starting the D2D communication between the first and second user terminals, receive a first data amount notification indicating an amount of first data to be transmitted from the first user terminal to the second user terminal, and based on the first data amount notification, allocate first radio resources to the first user terminal, where the allocated first radio resources are used by the first user terminal to transmit the first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyoshi Fukuta
  • Patent number: 10070304
    Abstract: A system and a method that reports capability information regarding a dual mode User Equipment (UE) are provided. The UE supports Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD). The UE capability transmitting method includes receiving a message requesting UE capability information from an evolved Node B (eNB), generating first capability information and second capability information according to the UE capability information requesting message, and transmitting UE capability information including the first and second capability information to the eNB. The first capability information comprises FDD capability information applicable to an FDD mode or TDD capability information applicable to a TDD mode. The second capability information comprises capability information applicable to both the FDD mode and the TDD mode. The system and method can allow a dual mode UE to efficiently report its capability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde
  • Patent number: 10063437
    Abstract: A network monitoring system includes first to third information processing apparatuses. The first information processing apparatus provides a first virtual machine monitoring a monitoring target apparatus with resource for processing predetermined load received from the monitoring target apparatus. The second information processing apparatus provides a second virtual machine monitoring the monitoring target apparatus with resource less than the resource for processing the predetermined load. When an abnormality occurs in the monitoring of the monitoring target apparatus by the first virtual machine, the second information processing apparatus migrates the second virtual machine to a third information processing apparatus capable of providing the second virtual machine with resource for processing the predetermined load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Akinori Matsuno
  • Patent number: 10057002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method for a terminal for removing interference and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprises the steps of: receiving configuration information for channel status information; and reporting, to a base station, the channel status information, and an indicator of whether the channel status information has been calculated on the basis of network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression (NAICS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park
  • Patent number: 10051504
    Abstract: A wireless device obtains an extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) configuration for the wireless device, obtains a minimization of drive tests (MDT) configuration for the wireless device, and adapts at least one of the eDRX configuration and the MDT configuration such that the wireless device completes an MDT measurement according to the MDT configuration within a predetermined number of paging transmission windows (PTWs) associated with the eDRX configuration. The wireless device performs the MDT measurement within the predetermined number of PTWs according to the adapted at least one of the eDRX configuration and the MDT configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Iana Siomina
  • Patent number: 10028332
    Abstract: A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes forming a first set of wireless components into a master cluster that provides upper level service functionality to a subset of user devices. The method includes forming a second set of wireless components into a nested cluster that is associated with the master cluster, where the nested cluster provides data transfer to and from the subset of user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Siddhartha Mallik, Jilei Hou, Amir Farajidana, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10015666
    Abstract: A system and a method that reports capability information regarding a dual mode User Equipment (UE) are provided. The UE supports Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD). The UE capability transmitting method includes receiving a message requesting UE capability information from an evolved Node B (eNB), generating first capability information and second capability information according to the UE capability information requesting message, and transmitting UE capability information including the first and second capability information to the eNB. The first capability information comprises FDD capability information applicable to an FDD mode or TDD capability information applicable to a TDD mode. The second capability information comprises capability information applicable to both the FDD mode and the TDD mode. The system and method can allow a dual mode UE to efficiently report its capability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde
  • Patent number: 9998994
    Abstract: A method and system for using a communication protocol over a low-powered transmission network. The communication system and protocol enables low-powered transmission devices to efficiently and reliably transmit data in challenging environments. The communication system and protocol can reduce power consumption by designating devices as either transmitter devices, repeater devices, and receiving devices, such that not all devices in the network need to be configured to transmit and receive data. Because the communication protocol does not require that all devices need to both transmit and receive data, there is a significant power usage savings relative to traditional mesh networks. Additionally, the present invention implements a combination of time-based diversity and transmission path diversity to more reliably communicate data. Devices in the system can change the manner in which they operate based on the sensor measurements, allowing the devices to intelligently respond to different conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Squadle, Inc.
    Inventors: Le Zhang, William K. Chen
  • Patent number: 9986367
    Abstract: A communication system according to the present invention includes an application server (10) and a relay apparatus (20) that relays a communication between the application server (10) and a communication network (40). The application server (10) comprises a communication unit (11) that transmits to the relay apparatus (20) a first message in which a first identifier has been set as a destination, the first identifier identifying a communication terminal (30) that performs communication via the communication network (40). The relay apparatus (20) includes a converter (21) that converts the first identifier into a second identifier that uniquely identifies the communication terminal (30) in the communication network (40), and a communication unit (22) that transmits a second message in which the second identifier has been set as a destination to the communication terminal (30) via the communication network (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Tetsuo Inoue