Patents Examined by Joshua Smith
  • Patent number: 11916725
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may detect an uplink beam failure event for a first beam, report the uplink beam failure event, and determine a duration of a resetting time period before communicating via a second beam. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11871346
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to using a wake up signal in conjunction with cellular communication in unlicensed spectrum. A cellular base station may provide a wake up signal on an unlicensed frequency channel after successful completion of a listen-before-talk procedure. The wake up signal may include a preamble configured for coherent detection, and information indicating channel occupancy time for a cellular communication by the cellular base station and a cell identifier for the cellular base station. A wireless device may monitor the unlicensed frequency channel for a wake up signal, and may determine whether to monitor the unlicensed frequency channel for control channel signaling based on whether a wake up signal is received, and potentially also based on the contents of the wake up signal if a wake up signal is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zhang, Tianyan Pu, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Farouk Belghoul, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Sami M. Almalfouh
  • Patent number: 11805435
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration that indicates a set of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) to be measured by the UE for deriving channel state information (CSI), one or more time domain resources for which the UE is to derive the CSI, and a time domain resource for transmission of a CSI report that includes the CSI, wherein the one or more time domain resources for which the UE is to derive the CSI occur after the time domain resource for transmission of the CSI report; determine that the UE cannot measure a first subset of CSI-RSs included in the set of CSI-RSs; derive one or more parameters for the CSI report based at least in part on measuring a second subset of CSI-RSs included in the set of CSI-RSs; and transmit the CSI report in the time domain resource for transmission of the CSI report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11799922
    Abstract: An anchoring network device of a telecommunications network can receive a first initiation request of a communication session and determine a second request indicating a different media capability than the first request. A network gateway can modify packets of the session, e.g., by transcoding between the capabilities. In some examples, the anchoring device can determine that a codec list of the initiation request corresponds to a rewrite rule. The device can apply the rewrite rule to the request to provide a second request listing a second, different codec. In some examples, the anchoring device can determine if there is a common media capability between the first initiation request and a predetermined exclusion list. If not, the second request can include at least one capability not in the first request, e.g., an Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) Channel-Aware-mode (ChAw) codec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Homer Nicolas B. Filart
  • Patent number: 11743178
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided. A method includes managing, by a software defined network (SDN) controller, OpenFlow rules stored on an OpenFlow network device having a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM). The OpenFlow rules include unreachable OpenFlow rules and reachable OpenFlow rules. The managing step includes querying at least one OpenFlow rule from among the unreachable OpenFlow rules and the reachable OpenFlow rules on the at least one OpenFlow network device. The managing step further includes determining whether any of the OpenFlow rules are reachable or unreachable from indicia used to mark the OpenFlow rules as reachable or unreachable. The managing step also includes causing a removal of the unreachable OpenFlow rules from the OpenFlow network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohammad Banikazemi, David P. Olshefski, John M. Tracey
  • Patent number: 11716709
    Abstract: In one aspect, a user terminal is disclosed including a processor that controls a mapping of a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS), having a fixed location regardless of a symbol duration of an uplink shared channel (PUSCH), controls a mapping of a second DMRS, which is allocated depending on the symbol duration of the PUSCH, and determines a location of the second DMRS if the second DMRS is allocated. The user terminal also includes a transmitter that transmits at least one of the first DMRS and the second DMRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11706656
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods for Internet Protocol (IP) packet handling. Various embodiments may enable downlink (DL) data prioritization of IP packets for time-sensitive applications, for example by using differentiated services code point (DSCP) indications or type-of-service (TOS) indications in headers of the IP packets to distinguish prioritized IP packets from non-prioritized IP packets. In various embodiments, IP packets that are prioritized IP packets may be sent to another processor of a wireless device using a prioritized traffic handling configuration that has a lower latency than a default traffic handling configuration used for sending non-prioritized IP packets. Various embodiments may further enable uplink (UL) data prioritization of IP packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajashekar Chilla, Lakshmi Bhavani Garimella Srivenkata, Krishna Billuri, Sri Sai Kandakatla
  • Patent number: 11678332
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support control and data multiplexing in uplink wireless transmissions. Described techniques provide for efficient communication of uplink control information (UCI) through rate-matching uplink data around uplink control information in uplink transmissions, including information on amounts or types of UCI to be transmitted by a UE, indications in downlink transmissions of allocated UCI resources and whether associated UCI is to be included in allocated UCI resources, formatting and multiplexing of multiple wireless services at the UE, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11671367
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a virtual switch hosted at a first network device. The virtual switch is configured to receive a data packet from a first virtual resource hosted at the first network device to be sent to a second virtual resource hosted at a second network device. The virtual switch is configured to encapsulate the data packet to define an encapsulated data packet using a tunnel header, which has a first portion associated with the first and second network devices, and a second portion associated with a data flow between the first and second virtual resources when the data packet is sent from the first network device to the second network device. An Internet Protocol network can use the second portion of the tunnel header to load balance the data packet with respect to other data packets sent from the first network device to the second network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Amit Shukla
  • Patent number: 11637757
    Abstract: An optical network including a plurality of gateway nodes interconnected with a plurality of intermediate nodes with segments of fiber. The network includes a plurality of devices, such as reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexers, optimally placed at various nodes throughout the network. The device placement is optimized with an integer linear programming analysis considering span definition such that any given span involves some number of segments not exceeding a number of segments that would require wavelength regeneration, cost of placement of a device at a given node, cost of wavelength regeneration, and various parameters and constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin K. Peterson, Laurel Clark
  • Patent number: 11627067
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing topology information in a service function chain (SFC) network, where the SFC network includes at least one classifier (CF) and at least one service function forwarder (SFF). The method includes that a first network element in the at least two routing network elements establishes a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) connection to at least one second network element other than the first network element in the at least two routing network elements, where the first network element is any one of the at least two routing network elements, and the first network element sends a first BGP update message to the at least one second network element, where the first BGP update message includes topology information of the first network element such that the at least one second network element obtains the topology information of the first network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ling Xu, Jie Dong, Guoyi Chen
  • Patent number: 11595287
    Abstract: A method for use of a wireless terminal device includes transmitting a Probe request frame by using a quasi-omni antenna pattern in a first channel if beam-forming training with a wireless base station device is not completed, selecting the wireless base station device as a connection destination if a Probe response frame corresponding to the Probe request frame is received from the wireless base station device, and performing the beam-forming training with the wireless base station device in a second channel if a time period for receiving the Probe response frame from the wireless base station device has passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yao Huang Gaius Wee, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Masataka Irie
  • Patent number: 11595228
    Abstract: A data system of a towing vehicle and/or trailer vehicle includes a control device, a sensor system configured to record and process sensor data, and a BUS system configured to transfer the sensor data between the control device and the sensor system. The BUS system has a first BUS device in the form of a CAN BUS and a second BUS device in the form of an ETHERNET BUS, and the BUS system further has a first interface configured to transfer the sensor data to a second interface of a second BUS system of a second data system of a second towing vehicle and/or trailer vehicle. The data system additionally includes an intelligent switch, coupled to the control device and/or to the first interface, the intelligent switch being configured to couple the first towing vehicle and/or trailer vehicle to the second towing vehicle and/or trailer vehicle in a coordinated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
    Inventors: Thomas Dieckmann, Andreas Goers, Sebastian Kuehne, Ralph-Carsten Luelfing, Marco Michel, Thomas Wolf, Oliver Wulf
  • Patent number: 11575484
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a method and an apparatus for generating a reference signal (RS) sequence and a data scrambling sequence. A method for a base station transmitting a reference signal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: generating a reference signal sequence; and transmitting a reference signal corresponding to the generated reference signal sequence. The reference signal sequence can be generated using an initial sequence that is determined using a slot number in a transmission frame, a symbol number in a slot, and a scrambling identifier (ID).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon-Dong Noh, Young-Woo Kwak, Youn-Sun Kim, Cheol-Kyu Shin
  • Patent number: 11553370
    Abstract: A method for congestion mitigation via admission control in a shared-backhaul telecommunications network is disclosed, comprising: assessing a congestion state in a multi-node radio access network having a shared backhaul connection, the congestion state based on congestion of the shared backhaul connection; retrieving an admission control policy based on the congestion state of the shared backhaul connection; performing a policy action of the admission control policy at a first base station acting as a gateway for the multi-node radio access network with respect to the shared backhaul connection; and sending the admission control policy to other nodes in the multi-node radio access network, thereby causing the other nodes to perform the policy action, wherein the policy action is denying a request from a user equipment to attach to the radio access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Jitender Arora, Yang Cao, Rajesh Kumar Mishra
  • Patent number: 11533675
    Abstract: Described is an Evolved Node-B (eNB) comprising one or more processors to generate a first transmission for a first Cellular Internet-of-Things (CIoT) device and a second transmission for a second CIoT device. The first transmission may be generated for a first Narrowband (NB) channel, and the second transmission may be generated for a second NB channel. The first and second transmissions may include the same set of system information. Also described is a CIoT device comprising one or more processors to process a System Information (SI) transmission on one of a plurality of NB channels, and to process and extract information from a PSS and/or SSS transmission on a set of subcarriers corresponding to a set of frequency bands. The plurality of NB channels are within a wireless communication system bandwidth, and at least two of the plurality of NB channels correspond to portions of the wireless communication system bandwidth outside the set of frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Gang Xiong, Mohammad Mamunur Rashid, Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 11533606
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for managing a mobility pattern of a terminal are disclosed, to flexibly configure and manage a mobility pattern of a terminal based on an actual application scenario of the terminal, and optimize network performance. The method is: obtaining, by a control plane function (CPF) entity, mobility pattern related information of a terminal; determining, by the CPF entity, a first mobility pattern of the terminal based on the mobility pattern related information of the terminal; and sending, by the CPF entity, the determined first mobility pattern to a radio access network (RAN) node, where the first mobility pattern is used by the RAN node to determine a second mobility pattern of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenglei Huang, Yanmei Yang
  • Patent number: 11533755
    Abstract: The communication apparatus comprises a receiver which, in operation, receives a PHY layer Data Unit that includes a duration field; Physical (PHY) layer circuitry which, in operation, issues a PHY-CCA (clear channel assessment) primitive parameter indicating bandwidth information on a busy or idle state for each subchannel within an operating bandwidth; and Media Access Control (MAC) circuitry which, in operation, updates a Network Allocation Vector (NAV) value based on the duration information and, in operation, determines busy/idle state of at least one subchannel, wherein the MAC circuitry, in operation, controls transmission of the HE TB PHY layer Data Unit based on the updated NAV value and the busy/idle state of the at least one subchannel, and controls the PHY circuitry to have the HE TB PHY layer Data Unit transmitted when the at least one subchannel is considered idle, regardless of whether the primary subchannel is busy or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 11528722
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments may include apparatus, system and method of scheduling Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) wireless communications. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless communication Access Point (AP) to allocate at least one Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) enabled (TSN-enabled) Target Wakeup Time (TWT) Service Period (SP) based on one or more timing requirements of a TSN schedule of at least one TSN stream for at least one wireless communication station (STA); to transmit a TWT scheduling message to schedule the TSN-enabled TWT SP, the TWT scheduling message including an indication that the TSN-enabled TWT SP is restricted to only TSN communications; and, during the TSN-enabled TWT SP, to communicate one or more frames of the at least one TSN stream with the at least one STA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dave Cavalcanti, Laurent Cariou, Mohammad Mamunur Rashid
  • Patent number: 11496869
    Abstract: A sever transmits an acknowledgement in response to data transmission from first and second terminals, respectively, among a plurality of terminals. The server controls the first and second terminals so that the first and second terminals open a reception slot at substantially the same timing. The server transmits a collective acknowledgement shared by the first and second terminals during both of the first and second terminals open the reception slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei Hasegawa