Patents Examined by Joshua Smith
  • Patent number: 10993208
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a channel measurement and measurement result reporting method and device. According to the method, terminal equipment measures a channel of an unlicensed frequency band according to configuration information, wherein the terminal equipment is in an idle state. The terminal equipment transmits a measurement result of the unlicensed frequency band to network equipment. When the network equipment is required to configure the channel of the unlicensed frequency band to be a secondary carrier of the terminal equipment, the number of interaction signalings between the terminal equipment and the network equipment may be reduced, thereby reducing signaling overhead, and increasing an access rate and access efficiency of an unlicensed frequency band channel carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Feng, Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 10985863
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a transport block, and a method and apparatus for receiving a transport block are provided. The method includes: acquiring, by a transmitting node, a data signal obtained by performing a process of a physical layer procedure on the transport block, where the physical layer procedure at least includes channel coding and modulating, one transport block has multiple modulating and coding schemes, the multiple modulating and coding schemes include multiple modulating schemes, or multiple coding schemes, or multiple modulating schemes and multiple coding schemes; and transmitting, by the transmitting node, the data signal and a control signal corresponding to the data signal to a receiving node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jian Li, Yu Ngok Li, Jun Xu, Peng Hao, Nan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10965621
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to application-based multiple radio access technologies (“RAT”) and platform control using software-defined networking (“SDN”). According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, an SDN controller can configure a radio access network (“RAN”) for connectionless services and for connection-oriented services. The RAN can support multiple RATs each capable of providing radio access to a device, such as a UE or an IoT device. The SDN controller can determine a user plane path configuration for an application flow through at least part of the RAN. The SDN controller can provide the user plane configuration to an SDN agent that is stored on and is executable by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Jiansong Wang, Thomas A. Anschutz
  • Patent number: 10939299
    Abstract: A method (300) for enabling self-coexistence of devices in a flexible wireless system (200) that includes first and second wireless networks sharing a frequency band. The method includes discovering a second device operable in the second wireless network that overlaps with the first wireless network (S310); reporting the discovered second device to a first device operable in the first wireless network (S320); determining if an adjustment is needed between a first beacon period of the first device and a second beacon period of the second device (S330); and adjusting a first beacon period start time (BPST) of the first device with a second BPST of the second device (S370) if the adjustment is needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Dave Alberto Tavares Cavalcanti, Jianfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10924409
    Abstract: A method for implementing load balancing, an apparatus, and a network system, where a controller obtains a port attribute of each port of a first switch in a mesh network, determines, according to the port attribute of each port of the first switch, a virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, where all user-side ports of the first switch correspond to a first virtual routing and forwarding instance, generates a forwarding table of the first switch according to a topology of the mesh network and the virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, where a first forwarding entry of the forwarding table includes the first virtual routing and forwarding instance, a destination network segment and at least two forwarding paths corresponding to the destination network segment, and sends the forwarding table to the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO, , LTD.
    Inventors: Heyang Liu, Qinghua Yan, Li Shen, Meiling Sun, Zhiyu Xie
  • Patent number: 10917353
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing network traffic flow logging in a distributed computing system are provided. At a high level, the network traffic flow logger is implemented using a network traffic flow logger framework that includes a plurality of modular network traffic flow logging objects for adjustable processing of network flow events. In operation, a plurality of tokens is counted at a first throttling rate. The first throttling rate is associated with a maximum number of tokens threshold. The maximum number of tokens threshold is an adjustable threshold. A flow event is accessed, where flow events are quantified based on tokens. The flow event is queued, based on a count of the plurality of tokens or the maximum number of tokens threshold. Based on queueing the flow event, the first throttling rate is adjusted to a second throttling rate based on a queue length of the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Hossam Fattah
  • Patent number: 10879997
    Abstract: A system for transferring data between an on-board server and an off-board server of a vehicle is provided. The system comprises: a light mounted to an exterior of a vehicle; an external network comprising an external wireless access point comprising a first antenna positioned on the exterior of the vehicle at the location of the light, the external network configured to automatically connect to an off-board server, the off-board server located outside the vehicle; an internal network comprising internal wireless access point comprising a second antenna, the second antenna positioned on the interior of the vehicle at the location of the light, the internal network configured to automatically connect to an on-board server, the on-board server internal to the vehicle; and a circuit coupled to the external access point and to the internal access point, the circuit configured to transfer data bi-directionally between the off-board server and the on-board server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Sunit Kumar Saxena, George Rajan Koilpillai
  • Patent number: 10873415
    Abstract: A wireless device receives message(s) comprising: configuration parameters for a periodic resource allocation indicating a first plurality of uplink resources of an uplink data channel of a cell; and offset parameter(s) for determining a number of UCI resources. A downlink control information is received comprising: an uplink grant indicating uplink radio resources of the uplink data channel of the cell; and an offset indicator value. A first transport block and first UCI(s) are transmitted via the uplink radio resources. The uplink radio resources comprise first resources of the first UCI(s). A first number of the first resources are determined based on the offset indicator value. A second transport block and second UCI(s) are transmitting via one of the first uplink resources. The one of the uplink resources comprise second resources of the second UCI(s). A second number of the second resources are determined based on the offset parameter(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10834540
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for providing, by a relay UE, a broadcast service in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: detecting a TMGI; and broadcasting TMGI announcement comprising the detected TMGI and a ProSe layer-2 group ID corresponding to the TMGI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Laeyoung Kim, Youngdae Lee, Jinsook Ryu, Hyunsook Kim, Jaehyun Kim, Taehun Kim
  • Patent number: 10827486
    Abstract: A resource allocation method is provided in which a resource allocation apparatus using a time-division duplex communication scheme allocates resources for a subframe. The resource allocation method includes: allocating a first time region of the time domain of the subframe as a downlink control information region; and allocating the rest of the time domain of the subframe, apart from the first time region, as at least one region variably selected from among a downlink data region, an uplink data region, an uplink control information region, and a guard period (GP) region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: KT Corporation
    Inventors: Ki-Ho Lee, Byungsuk Kim
  • Patent number: 10820208
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a sounding reference signal scheduling method, a sounding reference signal sending method, and apparatuses thereof. The sounding reference signal scheduling method comprises: determining an available carrier in an unlicensed spectrum; and in response to the existing available carrier, sending, at least on the available carrier, a physical indication signal, wherein the physical indication signal comprises information related to scheduling of a sounding reference signal of at least one user equipment, and the physical indication signal is used at least to trigger the at least one user equipment to send a sounding reference signal. According to the methods and apparatuses in the embodiments of this application, scheduling information is placed in a physical indication signal that occupies an available carrier; therefore, a sounding reference signal can be scheduled more flexibly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Li
  • Patent number: 10791552
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for adapting HARQ buffers in a wireless device (90), said device is adapted for HARQ communication, the method comprising determining (10) a size of a HARQ buffer, the HARQ buffer size being based on a TTI. There is also disclosed a wireless device (90) adapted for HARQ communication, the wireless device comprising a processing circuitry and a memory, said memory containing instructions executable by said processing circuitry, whereby said wireless device is operative to determine a size of a HARQ buffer, the HARQ buffer size being based on a TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mattias Andersson, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 10778284
    Abstract: A method includes generating preference information according to each of a plurality of base stations including at least one adjacent base station and transmitting the generated preference information to a serving base station, receiving, from the serving base station, information related to beams of the serving base station and the at least one adjacent base station determined based on the preference information, and receiving a signal by using the information related to the beams, wherein the information related to the beams includes beam information on a partial area in which interference signals transmitted by the at least one adjacent base station are aligned among a whole reception area of the terminal. A serving base station includes a controller configured to configure beams for a partial area in which interference signals transmitted by the at least one adjacent base station are aligned among a whole reception area of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
    Inventors: Kwang-Taik Kim, Wan Choi, Myung-Gil Kang, Hyo-Woon Seo, Kyung-Rak Son
  • Patent number: 10772079
    Abstract: A method and system signal resource allocation information in an asymmetric multicarrier communication network. A MS communicates with a BS using asymmetric carriers consisting of at least one low frequency carrier (e.g., primary carriers) in a cellular band and at least one high frequency carrier secondary carriers) in a millimeter Wave band. In one embodiment, the BS allocates resources for one or more transmit time intervals in at least one of DL allocation interval of a secondary DL carrier and UL allocation interval of a secondary UL carrier for the MS, where the DL allocation interval spans one or more subframes of the secondary DL carrier and the UL allocation interval spans one or more subframes of the secondary UL carrier. The BS then transmits information regarding the allocated resources to the MS in a Packet Data Control Channel region of a subframe of the primary DL carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anshuman Nigam, Anil Agiwal, Young-Bin Chang
  • Patent number: 10764212
    Abstract: A modular switching network node for a communications network, i.e., an industrial communications network, where the modular switching network node comprises a switching network node base unit and at least one port module, the at least one port module comprises at least one connection interface for coupling to the communications network, and where the modular switching network node is configured to forward communication data over one of the connection interfaces of the modular switching network node to at least one additional connection interface of the modular switching network node. The switching network node base unit is configured such that at least one of the port modules is swappable for a functional module to expand the functionality of the switching network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heiko Hack, Timo Kistner, Urs Schweizer, Andreas Schäffler, Michael Wagner
  • Patent number: 10721145
    Abstract: The detection of network communication problems in networks that have multiple end nodes, and multiple transit nodes in between. One or more of the end nodes monitors one or more flows, creates associated flow information including performance information for each flow, and then reports the flow information. A system then estimates, for each of multiple flows within the network, a likely path that network traffic takes through that network. The system might then use performance information for each of the reported flows to identify at least one candidate problem network entity that is common amongst the estimated paths of the at least the subset of the plurality of flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Adrian Power, Peter John Hill
  • Patent number: 10687381
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring a prohibit timer for a sidelink transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) configures a prohibit timer for the sidelink transmission for a specific channel, starts the prohibit timer when a number of data units transmitted via the specific channel reaches to a specific number, and prohibits the sidelink transmission while the prohibit timer is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Seungjune Yi, Sunghoon Jung, Sunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 10673568
    Abstract: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to transfer data directly to another endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: DAMAKA, INC.
    Inventors: Sivakumar Chaturvedi, Satish Gundabathula
  • Patent number: 10659135
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives reference timing information, determines one or more timeslots for transmitting a beacon based on the reference timing information, and transmits the beacon during a timeslot of the one or more timeslots. The beacon is transmitted in one or more directions respectively corresponding to a number of subslots of the timeslot. In another aspect, the apparatus determines a timeslot for receiving at least one beacon respectively from at least one connection point based on the reference timing information, wakes during the timeslot, monitors for the at least one beacon in one or more directions respectively corresponding to a number of subslots of the timeslot, and receives the at least one beacon in the at least one timeslot in at least one direction of the one or more directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li, Ashwin Sampath
  • Patent number: 10652769
    Abstract: A method for wireless network operation includes, in a cluster of transmitters and receivers in a wireless network, configuring a transmitter of a first node and a transmitter of an interfering node to transmit only in their own dedicated time-frequency partition a signal at a non-zero transmission power, and to transmit a zero power signal in a second time-frequency partition. A receiver of a second node is configured to measure a first received power in a third time-frequency partition dedicated to an interfering transmitter and a second received power in the second time-frequency partition dedicated to receive interference from outside the cluster. A net signal power is determined by subtracting the second received power from the first received power. A coupling loss between the interfering transmitter and the receiver is computed based on the net signal power and the non-zero transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: Mariana Goldhamer