Patents Examined by Justin T Van Roie
  • Patent number: 10554465
    Abstract: A method and system for achieving a link budget improvement in a diverse OFDM radio system by addressing the timing misalignment issue that can occur due to the differences in propagation time in signals between mobile stations and Radio Access Nodes. Timing misalignment is shared or split between the primary path to a primary Radio Access Node and a diverse path to a diverse Radio Access Node. The relative timing offsets between mobile stations are adjusted, the mobile stations are grouped into zones using a variety of different grouping techniques, and the transmission for each mobile station is scheduled, using one or more of a variety of scheduling techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Smith, Xiao-Dong Li, David Steer, Kelvin Kar-Kin Au, Robert Novak, Mark Earnshaw
  • Patent number: 10554336
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Belkacem Mouhouche, Daniel Ansorregui Lobete, Hong-sil Jeong
  • Patent number: 10555200
    Abstract: A radio base station is operable to transmit to a radio terminal a measurement configuration message for causing the radio terminal to perform a logging process of storing a measurement log including a measurement result of a radio environment, and to acquire the measurement log stored by the radio terminal. The radio base station includes a receiver configured to receive, from the radio terminal, log storing information indicating that the measurement log is stored in the radio terminal, and a transmitter configured to transmit, to the radio terminal, a log transmission request to request a transmission of the measurement log on the basis of the log storing information. The receiver is configured to receive, from the radio terminal, a log transmission response for carrying the measurement log and the log transmission response even when the measurement log is not stored in the radio terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Chang, Noriyoshi Fukuta
  • Patent number: 10477016
    Abstract: An incoming communication (e.g., a voice call, a data call) can be routed to a wireless devices or a wireline device, based in part on a routing preference and a presence condition of a mobile device in a confined wireless environment served by a confined-coverage access point (AP). The routing preference can be subscriber-specific and configurable by the subscriber linked to the mobile device, whereas the presence condition reveals whether the mobile device is attached to the confined-coverage AP and is automatically detected. A routing server acquires the routing preference and the presence condition for the mobile device. Based on routing logic applied to the routing preference and the presence information, the routing server directs the incoming communication to a set of wireline devices, a set of wireless devices, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Randolph Wohlert, Steven Frew, Milap Majmundar
  • Patent number: 10477487
    Abstract: In a communication system in which a base station apparatus and a terminal apparatus communicate with each other, a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication system with which the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus can efficiently communicate with each other are provided. The terminal apparatus that communicates with the base station apparatus includes a radio resource control section 6011 that configures a plurality of uplink physical channels and that configures an uplink power control-related parameter for each of the plurality of uplink physical channels in accordance with information included in a radio resource control (RRC) signal and a transmission power control section 6015 that sets transmission power of the uplink physical channels on the basis of the uplink power control-related parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shoichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura
  • Patent number: 10462040
    Abstract: In some examples, a network node receives a packet from an adjacent node in a packet-switched network. The receiving node can forward the packet to a destination node via a minimum cost forwarding node adjacent to the network node or to a non-minimum cost forwarding node adjacent to the network node based on routing criteria for the packet-switched network. The routing criteria can include whether the adjacent node that sent the packet to the receiving node is a non-minimum cost node between a source node and the destination node for the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Donald Fedyk
  • Patent number: 10455602
    Abstract: A communication device checks whether data is available in an uplink data buffer of the communication device for uplink transmission employing uplink radio resources, the uplink radio resources being previously allocated to the communication device in reoccurring time intervals. Depending on said checking, the UE controls the transmission of a channel reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Hanzhi Zhang, Torsten Dudda, Per Synnergren, Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 10448249
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for detecting establishment of a bearer associated with a communication session offloaded from a mobile carrier network to a wireless local area network, such as a Wi-Fi® network, and sending, from the mobile carrier network to the wireless local area network, an indication of a level of quality of service (QoS) to be applied to a segment of the communication session that is conveyed by the wireless local area network. The indication of the level of QoS may be passed via a network controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gangadharan Byju Pularikkal, Mantha Ravi Sankar, Mark Grayson, Swaminathan Anantha
  • Patent number: 10432386
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may identify a configuration for uplink and downlink communications that defines subframe configuration options for each subframe of a frame. For example, the configuration may establish parameters for time division duplexing (TDD) operation between a base station and a user equipment (UE). The wireless device may determine a constraint for a subframe of the frame based on the configuration and determine an adaptive subframe configuration based on the constraint. The adaptive subframe configuration may include one or several downlink symbol periods and one or several uplink symbol periods. The wireless device may communicate during the subframe according to the adaptive subframe configuration rather than the original configuration. The adaptive subframe may be constrained by the identified uplink and downlink configuration, which may avoid disruption to UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Shimman Arvind Patel, Juan Montojo, Hao Xu, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 10412753
    Abstract: A base station (BS) operated in an unlicensed band configures a first energy detection threshold for a discovery signal and a second energy detection threshold for data, and performs energy detection. The BS transmits the discovery signal to a user equipment in the unlicensed band if a detected energy based on the energy detection is less than the first energy detection threshold. Further, the BS transmits the data to the user equipment in the unlicensed band if the detected energy based on the energy detection is less than the second energy detection threshold. The first energy detection threshold for the discovery signal is higher than the second energy detection threshold for the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 10405352
    Abstract: In order to provide a transmission device and transmission method with which a response signal for random access preamble transmitted from a preamble transmission device is efficiently transmitted, setting unit in base station sets a first resource candidate group, which enables terminal capable of receiving a latch response transmitted by demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmission to be selected, and a second resource candidate group, which enables terminal incapable of receiving a latch response transmitted by DMRS transmission but capable of receiving a latch response transmitted by cell-specific reference signal (CRS) transmission to be selected. Control unit selects DMRS transmission as the latch response transmission method when a resource in which latch preamble has been received is included in the first candidate group, but selects CRS transmission as the latch response transmission method when the resource is included in the second resource candidate group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 10389552
    Abstract: Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: VENIAM, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Cardoso de Moura, Ricardo Jorge Magalhães de Matos, João Francisco Cordeiro de Oliveira Barros
  • Patent number: 10382184
    Abstract: A method of handling a communication operation for a communication device comprising performing a reception in a first subframe of a time-division duplexing (TDD) carrier from a network; and performing a transmission for responding the reception via a second subframe of a uplink (UL) carrier to the network; wherein the UL carrier is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) UL carrier, or is another TDD carrier with an UL/downlink (DL) configuration where all subframes are UL subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chia-Wen Hsieh, Chien-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 10375746
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for D2D signal transmission of a first terminal in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a resource pool configuration indicating a D2D resource pool; and transmitting a D2D data channel on the basis of a D2D slot number which is re-indexed within the D2D resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Inkwon Seo, Hyukjin Chae, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 10348600
    Abstract: Among other things, flow rates of traffic among endpoints in a network are controlled. Notifications are received about flowlets originating or received at the endpoints. Each of the flowlets includes one or more packets that are in a queue associated with a corresponding flowlet. In response to the received notifications, updated flow rates are computed for the flowlets. The updated flow rates are sent to devices for use in controlling flow rates for the flowlets in accordance with the computed updated flow rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Flowtune, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Perry
  • Patent number: 10341153
    Abstract: A peak power reduction device includes a unit for dividing digital information to be transmitted into a plurality of streams; a unit for selecting the modulation level of the streams and distribution of transmission power according to a transmission state; a unit for performing singular-value decomposition on the transmission path characteristic of a streams and precoding the resultant data by a right singular value matrix; a unit for performing complex mapping on the subcarrier of a stream according to the modulation level; a unit for converting a complex mapping signal into a time domain signal; a first unit for storing a conversion result as a time domain signal; a second unit for calculating a peak time signal exceeding a predetermined threshold value from a peak value, if any exists, that exceeds a prescribed threshold value for the amplitude of the time domain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Nakada, Hiroki Kato, Kei Ito, Satoru Ejima
  • Patent number: 10327273
    Abstract: A receiving terminal includes: a receiver configured to receive a data unit configured by data and a header, from the transmitting terminal in the D2D communication; and a controller configured to hold the data unit including a compressed header for a predetermined period even if decoding the compressed header is failed when the compressed header is used as the header. In the D2D communication, a timing at which a receiving entity is formed in the receiving terminal differs from a timing at which a transmitting entity is formed in the transmitting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 10321411
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communication with a base station apparatus includes reception circuitry and a transmission circuitry. The reception circuitry receives a higher layer signal and sets first and second parameter sets for an uplink power control. The transmission circuitry transmits an uplink signal. If a cell of a first base station and a cell of a second base station are configured, the transmission circuitry sets a transmit power for the uplink signal based on the first parameter set upon detecting a DCI format from the first base station and sets transmit power based on the second parameter set upon detecting a DCI format from the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura, Yosuke Akimoto, Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shoichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura
  • Patent number: 10313042
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to data transmission method and apparatus for transmitting UL grant or ACK/NACK at flexible subframes in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system. The data transmission method of a base station according to the present invention includes configuring subframes irrelevant to Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process as flexible subframes; scheduling uplink transmission at the flexible subframes with uplink grant; receiving uplink data transmitted by a terminal at the flexible subframes as scheduled; and transmitting, when decoding the uplink data fails, HARQ acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) or uplink grant to request retransmission of the uplink data. The data transmission method of the present invention is capable of utilizing flexible subframes for uplink transmission without influencing the uplink HARQ process associated with the downlink subframes configured as flexible subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Hoon Choi, Young Bum Kim, Joon Young Cho, Hyoung Ju Ji
  • Patent number: 10306559
    Abstract: Techniques provided herein are directed toward using information from various sources to determine when the mobile device enters and exits a traffic tunnel, turning off the GNSS receiver of the mobile device when the mobile device enters the tunnel, and turning the GNSS receiver back on once it exits. For example, the mobile device can turn off the GNSS receiver based, at least in part, on a determination that the mobile device has entered the traffic tunnel, and a determined traffic tunnel length and/or estimated amount of time the mobile device will be in the traffic tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amol Kench, Gautam Nirula