Patents Examined by Kenneth P Hunt
  • Patent number: 10536388
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for scheduling contention-based data transmission in a network system including an access point (AP) and a plurality of terminals. The method includes determining a contention window (CW) size based on the number of terminals connected to the access point, and transmitting information about the contention window size to any one of the plurality of terminals. The apparatus includes a processor and an RF unit. Here, the processor is configured to determine a contention window (CW) size based on the number of terminals connected to the access point, and transmit information on the contention window size to any one of the plurality of terminals through the RF unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Tae-Jin Lee, Youngil Cho, Ji Hyoung Ahn
  • Patent number: 10530555
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for canceling and/or suppressing inter-cell interference in a wireless communication. The method includes: establishing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a base station through a first serving cell; receiving, at a User Equipment (UE), an RRC message through the first serving cell, the RRC message comprising cell-specific reference signal (CRS) information of a neighbor cell and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) information of the neighbor cell, and the PDSCH information of the neighbor cell comprising a parameter relating to a power ratio of a CRS of the neighbor cell and a PDSCH of the neighbor cell; receiving the PDSCH through the first serving cell; performing a channel estimation for retrieving data from a PDSCH of the first serving cell; and retrieving the data from the PDSCH of the first serving cell based on the second channel estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianjun Li
  • Patent number: 10531445
    Abstract: The described aspects include methods and apparatus providing MTC in a wireless network. In an aspect, a narrow bandwidth within a wide system bandwidth is allocated for communicating data related to MTC. MTC control data generated for communicating over one or more MTC control channels for an MTC UE within the narrow bandwidth is transmitted over the one or more MTC control channels. The one or more MTC channels are multiplexed with one or more legacy channels over the wide system bandwidth. Other aspects are provided for transmission mode and content of the MTC control data or other MTC data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Yongbin Wei, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10523789
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal including a robust header compression (RoHC) packet stream are disclosed. The broadcast signal transmitting method includes compressing a header of an IP packet included in an IP packet stream to generate an RoHC packet stream, extracting a first part of an RoHC packet included in the generated RoHC packet stream, converting a second part of the RoHC packet into another type of an RoHC packet, reconfiguring a new packet stream including the converted another type of the RoHC packet, transporting the reconfigured packet stream through a first channel, and transporting the extracted first part through a second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woosuk Kwon, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong, Sejin Oh, Kyoungsoo Moon
  • Patent number: 10517089
    Abstract: Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device, and user equipment using the method are provided. The method includes: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, wherein the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 10499402
    Abstract: There is provided an app management software 16 for cooperating with a bandwidth control system 2 for dynamically changing a communication bandwidth of the mobile information terminal 3 for each type of application 3a which is installed on the mobile information terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Freebit Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ikeda, Atsuki Ishida, Hiroshi Oizumi, Noriaki Misawa
  • Patent number: 10499318
    Abstract: A method in a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving one or more resource pool configurations for a particular discovery carrier, the one or more resource pool configurations comprising information indicating one or more of resource elements and subframes that the wireless device should use to monitor for incoming discovery messages and transmit outgoing discovery messages, the received one or more resource pool configurations comprising at least a first resource pool configuration received from a serving network node of the wireless device operating in Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode. The method comprises determining which of the received one or more resource pool configurations that the wireless device should use to monitor for incoming discovery messages and transmit outgoing discovery messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Marco Belleschi, Mats Folke
  • Patent number: 10492119
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to establish a link with a wireless station of a wireless access network that is one of a next generation partial mesh network or a next generation full mesh network; receive current control information pertaining to one or multiple second links of a data plane for end user traffic that are between the wireless station and one or multiple wireless stations, the current control information including link information, service performance information, or traffic flow information; analyze the current control information; determine whether the one or multiple second links should be changed; change one or more of the one or more multiple second links when determining that the one or multiple second links should be changed; and transmit, to the wireless station, routing and forwarding information that indicates the one or more of the one or more multiple second links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas H. Tan
  • Patent number: 10470199
    Abstract: A communication device for handling mobility between a new radio (NR)/fifth generation (5G) network and a long-term evolution (LTE) network comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage device. The instructions comprise connecting to the NR/5G network; communicating a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) Session identity/identifier (ID) identifying a PDU Session with the NR/5G network; communicating data of the PDU Session with the NR/5G network; disconnecting the NR/5G network, connect to the LTE network and performing a tracking area update (TAU) procedure with the LTE network; disconnecting the LTE network and connect to the NR/5G network, after performing the TAU procedure; and communicating the PDU Session ID identifying the PDU Session with the NR/5G network, when disconnecting the LTE network and connecting to the NR/5G network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 10470186
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for determining transmission using a network allocation vector (NAV) in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, after a receiving device receives a trigger frame, which triggers an uplink multiple user transmission, from a transmitting device, whether to transmit an uplink physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) corresponding to the trigger frame is determined using the NAV of the receiving device. In this case, if the NAV is established by an intra-basic service set (BSS) frame, whether to transmit the uplink PPDU is determined without taking the NAV into consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kiseon Ryu, Jeongki Kim, Hangyu Cho, Suhwook Kim
  • Patent number: 10455638
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may configure a cycle length of an extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) cycle, and may determine whether the UE is in a condition, associated with triggering a tracking area update, during an on duration of the eDRX cycle. The UE may selectively increase or decrease the cycle length of the eDRX cycle based at least in part on determining whether the UE is in the condition. The cycle length may be decreased when the UE is in the condition or may be increased when the UE is not in the condition. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vishnu Namboodiri Karakkad Kesavan Namboodiri, Chinmaya Padhy, Mukesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 10447588
    Abstract: A decentralized Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) architecture configured for onboard avionics processing eliminates centralized computing cabinets and distributes avionics processing capabilities to a network of smart switching devices positioned throughout the aircraft, each smart switch including a multicore processing environment (MCPE) for generalized application hosting in addition to the switching elements. The smart switching network can be scaled up or down for smaller or larger aircraft, or organically grown by adding more processing components. Additional real-time multicore processors may be located in smart remote data concentrators (RDC) for handling I/O and routing of network data between external remote units and aircraft systems and the hosted applications on the smart switches. The real-time environments executing on the smart RDCs may be reserved for low-latency closed-loop functions, or may host additional general-purpose avionics processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy R. Fannin, Nicholas H. Bloom, Matthew P. Corbett, Eric N. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10433297
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication processing method, a communication processing apparatus, and a base station. The communication processing method is used for an SeNB which constitutes a dual-connection radio communication network with an MeNB, including: a first determination step of determining information about currently available service resources for distribution, in accordance with a resource condition, an admission control step of performing service admission processing on at least one first service in accordance with the information about the service resources, and a transmission step of transmitting service admission information indicating a service admission processing result to the MeNB so as to enable the MeNB to perform service processing in accordance with the service admission information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: China Mobile Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Zhuo Chen, Xiaodong Xu
  • Patent number: 10420029
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transmitting downlink data in a wireless communication system. More specifically, a method for transmitting downlink data to a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, by a Mobile Management Entity (MME), a Downlink Data Notification message from a Serving Gateway (S-GW); and in case the MME detects that a UE is in a sleep mode, transmitting, by the MME, a response message for indicating buffering of downlink data to the S-GW, wherein the response message includes buffering time of the downlink data, and the buffering time is a time period until the UE is expected to switch from the sleep mode to a reachable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsook Ryu, Hyunsook Kim, Laeyoung Kim, Jaehyun Kim, Taehun Kim
  • Patent number: 10397119
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for handling voice and data under uplink limited conditions in a wireless communication system. A wireless device and a base station may establish a wireless communication link. Transmission time interval bundling (TTI-B) may be enabled for uplink communications between the wireless device and the base station. It may be determined that the wireless device is experiencing uplink limited conditions. One or more rules prioritizing a first type of data over a second type of data for uplink communications may be enabled based on TTI-B being enabled and the wireless device experiencing uplink limited conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sree Ram Kodali, Shivesh Makharia, Longda Xing, Li Su
  • Patent number: 10383115
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for generating and communicating transport blocks. Certain aspects provide a method for allocating an ordered set of packets to a plurality of layers across a plurality of time resources. The method includes allocating one or more packets of the ordered set of packets in order across each of the plurality of layers prior to allocating packets of the ordered set of packets to each of the time resources of any one of the plurality of layers. The method further includes transmitting the plurality of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yue Yang, Aziz Gholmieh, Srinivasan Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 10375609
    Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for repairing corrupt security information. At a serving node in a telecommunications network, security capabilities of a terminal are received when the terminal registers with the serving node. The received security capabilities are stored. A path switch request message is received from a target base station following an X2 handover request sent from a source base station to the target base station for handover of the terminal, the path switch request including the security capabilities of the terminal. The serving node determines whether the security capabilities of the terminal stored in the storage medium should be sent to the target base station. If so, the serving node sends the stored security capabilities of the terminal to the target base station for use in reselecting security algorithms to be used in communications between the target base station and terminal following the handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Karl Norrman
  • Patent number: 10368286
    Abstract: A wireless remote communication unit for communicating with a cellular network node and other wireless remote communication units is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Veea Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Timothy James Speight
  • Patent number: 10361836
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for the method are disclosed. More specifically, The present invention provides a method for transmitting downlink data in a wireless communication system can comprise mapping, by a eNB, first downlink data into a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region according to a radio frame structure based on a first transmission time interval (TTI), mapping, by the eNB, second downlink data to a short PDSCH (sPDSCH) region according to a radio frame structure based on a second TTI, and transmitting, by the eNB, the first and the second downlink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunjong Lee, Jaehoon Chung, Genebeck Hahn, Jinmin Kim, Kukheon Choi, Kwangseok Noh, Sangrim Lee
  • Patent number: 10356008
    Abstract: A plurality of fabric controllers distributed throughout a fabric attached architecture and each associated with at least one resource node. The plurality of fabric controllers configured to control each associated resource node. Resources of the resource nodes are utilized in virtual environments responsive to respective fabric controllers issuing instructions received from the fabric attached architecture to respective resource nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Clarke, Jeffrey Bloom, John Considine