Patents Examined by Kenneth P Hunt
  • Patent number: 11303473
    Abstract: Apparatus and system for performing the method of providing a FCoE HBA including a Virtual Fibre Channel Port and an Ethernet Interface, providing a Layer 2 Ethernet Switch, and sending an FCoE Frame via the Layer 2 Ethernet Switch. The FCoE Frame includes a SOF field included in an FCoE Transport Header for providing an SOF character used to start a Fibre Channel Frame, and the SOF field in the FCoE Transport Header is for encoding the SOF field, Fibre Channel Frame. The FCoE Frame includes an EOF field included in an FCoE Transport Header for providing an EOF character used to end the Fibre Channel Frame, and the EOF field in the FCoE Transport Header is for encoding the EOF field, Fibre Channel Frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ALPHA MODUS VENTURES, LLC
    Inventors: Alex Henderson, John William Hayes, Walter Croft, Linda Elaine Eaton Hayes
  • Patent number: 11297559
    Abstract: A communication method and a device are provided, to reduce power consumption of a terminal device and reduce system overheads. A communication method can include, at least, determining, by a terminal device, that a plurality of BPs are activated, where the plurality of BPs are in a same carrier, the plurality of BPs include a first BP and a second BP, a first CSS is configured in the first BP, and common DCI is configured in the first CSS. The communication method can further include detecting, by the terminal device, the common DCI only in a second CSS when the second CSS is configured in the second BP, where the common DCI is configured in the second CSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junchao Li, Hao Tang, Fan Wang, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 11290990
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus according to an aspect of the present embodiment acquires multiple pieces of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set configuration information indicating a configuration of multiple SRS resources, transmits an SRS and an uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the multiple SRS resources, acquires information (SRI) indicating one of the multiple SRS resources included in a piece of SRS resource set configuration information of the multiple pieces of SRS resource set configuration information, from control information (DCI) transmitted via a downlink control information channel (PDCCH), and acquires, from the DCI, information indicating whether only one of the multiple pieces of SRS resource set configuration information is associated with the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Ryota Yamada, Hideo Namba, Atsushi Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 11277824
    Abstract: Provided is a method and device for determining resources and a storage medium. In the method, a user equipment (UE) receives a first message over a first cell. The first message is used for determining M first bandwidth parts (BWPs) in a second cell, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, each of the M first BWPs is smaller than or equal to a bandwidth of the second cell. One or more transmission resources for the UE in the second cell is within at least one of the M first BWPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia Shen, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11272485
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information transmission method, a terminal and a base station. The information transmission method is applied to a terminal and includes: carrying uplink control information on at least one control region of a grant-free resource; and transmitting the uplink control information carried on the grant-free resource to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohang Chen, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11265955
    Abstract: Power retention for 5G non-standalone devices can be accomplished via a process that comprises specific message data being sent to a mobile device. For example, although a mobile device can enable its new radio in response to communicating with a network cell that does not comprise a new radio functionality, a message can be sent to the mobile device to prevent the mobile device from enabling its new radio. Therefore, the mobile device can retain battery power simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Inderpreet Ahluwalia, Shah Mohammad Murshedul Arefin
  • Patent number: 11265875
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to resource block allocation for time domain single-carrier waveform processing in new radio (NR). Specifically, in an aspect, a guard band may be allocated for a single-carrier waveform in a time or frequency domain. In another aspect, a resource block may be allocated for a time domain single-carrier waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Srinivas Yerramalli, Kaushik Chakraborty, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11259308
    Abstract: This application provides a signal processing method and apparatus. A network device obtains capability information of a terminal device, where the capability information includes a processing time period for uplink data of the terminal device and a processing time period for uplink control information of the terminal device; determines a first time-frequency resource based on the capability information, where the first time-frequency resource is used to carry first uplink data and/or first uplink control information; and sends first signaling to the terminal device, where the first signaling indicates the first time-frequency resource. This application can improve efficiency of configuring a time-frequency resource by the network device for the first uplink data and/or the first uplink control information of the terminal device, thereby reducing a signal transmission delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shulan Feng, Xiuyong Shen, Jinnan Liu, Xingwei Zhang, Junren Chang
  • Patent number: 11251912
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, this disclosure discloses a signal transmission method. The method may include receiving first configuration information from a network device. The first configuration information includes at least two sets of control channel parameters, and each set of the at least two sets of control channel parameters corresponds to at least one time unit. The method may include determining, based on an index of a time unit and the first configuration information, a control channel parameter corresponding to the time unit represented by the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shurong Jiao, Peng Zhang, Hao Tang
  • Patent number: 11240798
    Abstract: A transmission control method includes generating, by a first device, transmission control information, and sending the transmission control information to the second device. The transmission control information includes resource indication information, compression indication, and first indication. The resource indication information indicates a transmission resource allocated by the first device to a second device. The transmission resource includes at least two symbols. The compression indication indicates a numerology of a specific symbol in the transmission resource. The specific symbol includes at least an end symbol or a second symbol. The end symbol is the last symbol in the transmission resource. The second symbol is a symbol in the transmission resource and is used for transmitting only a demodulation reference signal or a long training field. The second symbol includes at least one symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhenguo Du
  • Patent number: 11240165
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data in a communication network including a shared communication medium includes (a) transmitting local data between a first client node and a second client node according to a first data protocol, using a first shared communication medium, and (b) transmitting remote data between the first client node and a network hub according to a second data protocol different from the first data protocol, using at least the first shared communication medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, PLLC
    Inventor: Belal Hamzeh
  • Patent number: 11234282
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, or apparatuses that support a 20 MHz station (STA) parked on a secondary channel. Without the described techniques, mechanisms to support secondary channel operation may be unable to receive management frames or broadcast traffic from an access point (AP), which may cause the STA to lose synchronization with the AP, miss a channel change or other critical announcement from the AP, etc. Considerations for providing such information to STAs parked on a secondary channel are discussed. In some examples, an AP may restrict resource unit allocation to the secondary channel on which the STA is parked. In some cases, a trigger-based random access mechanism may utilize aspects of the present disclosure to limit access to certain resource units to STAs on a given secondary channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, Alfred Asterjadhi, Youhan Kim, George Cherian
  • Patent number: 11228967
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may obtain access to a base station by performing an initial access procedure within an initial access bandwidth. In some cases, the UE may monitor for a cell specific configuration in the initial access bandwidth that indicate one or more first common search spaces within the initial access bandwidth that the UE may monitor for control information. Additionally, the UE may receive dedicated signaling after the initial access procedure that indicates a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) and one or more second common search spaces within the downlink BWP to monitor for control information. Accordingly, the UE may monitor the first common search spaces, the second common search spaces, or both based on the dedicated signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Huilin Xu, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Heechoon Lee, Keiichi Kubota
  • Patent number: 11228954
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and to a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.), based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. The present disclosure suggests a method for effectively performing a standby mode operation in a next generation mobile communication, and a device therefor and, more particularly, to a method for efficiently reselecting a cell, and a device therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Donggun Kim, Sangbum Kim, Seungri Jin
  • Patent number: 11223972
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method and apparatus for determining a transport block size. The method includes: obtaining a target overhead value based on a target time-frequency resource and one or more of at least two overhead values, where the target time-frequency resource is used for uplink data transmission or downlink data transmission and includes one or more time-frequency resource units, and each overhead value is corresponding to at least one time-frequency resource unit; and determining a transport block size based on the target overhead value. It can be learned that, according to the method and apparatus for determining a transport block size provided in the embodiments of this application, a corresponding target overhead value may be determined for each of different target time-frequency resources. This is not only applicable to a scenario in which a dynamic time-frequency resource is scheduled, but also improves accuracy of determining the transport block size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ting Wang, Hao Tang, Zhenfei Tang, Javad Abdoli, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11224031
    Abstract: The application discloses a signal transmission method and device. The signal transmission method comprises: a first communication node determining a mode for transmitting data in a time unit to a second communication node; and the first communication node transmitting data to the second communication mode in the time unit according to the determined mode for transmitting data. The data includes N data sets, where N is a positive integer. A data transmission method for M data sets in the data is known by the second communication node. Related information of a data transmission method for (N-M) data sets is notified to the second communication node by the first communication node by means of a control signal in the time unit, where M is less than or equal to N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, Yuhong Gong, Xiaopeng Wang, Meng Mei
  • Patent number: 11212726
    Abstract: Determining to initiate a user equipment handover event based on a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value is disclosed. The disclosed subject matter can employ the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value in lieu of a reference signal receive power value. In an aspect, a handover based on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can generally be determined faster and with greater reliability than basing the handover on the reference signal receive power value. In an aspect, some embodiments can substitute a determined uplink signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value for a downlink signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value. In some embodiments, a predicted signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can be determined based on historical channel characteristics, hysterical wireless network environment features, or other historical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Jianchun Zhou, Sameer Sangal
  • Patent number: 11196663
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and devices for data transmission by a switch. The method can include transmitting, by the switch, over a first path, a first packet that is received from a first host to a second host; receiving a replacement packet from the first host, wherein the replacement packet is transmitted from the first host in response to a determination that the first packet was lost and wherein the replacement packet includes a path indicator; and based on the path indicator of the replacement packet, transmitting, over a second path different from the first path, at least part of the replacement packet to the second host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xiangning Yu, Haiyang Zheng, Guohui Wang, Jiayao Hu, Haiyong Wang
  • Patent number: 11196519
    Abstract: To control transmission of UL signals properly even when a CP-OFDM waveform is supported in the UL, in addition to a DFT-spread OFDM waveform, and/or support is provided for applying frequency hopping to a UL shared channel, one aspect of the present invention provides a user terminal, which has a transmission section that transmits a UL signal by using a UL shared channel, and a control section that controls a direction in which the UL signal is first mapped, between a time direction and a frequency direction, based on a waveform of the UL shared channel and/or whether or not frequency hopping is applied to the UL shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11190323
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: receiving first information and second information transmitted by a network device, where the first information is configured to trigger the terminal device to feed back aperiodic N CSIs, and to indicate a PUSCH resource to be used when the CSIs are fed back, and the second information is configured to indicate channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to the N CSIs; determining M CSIs that need to be fed back from the N CSIs according to the first information, the second information and M CSI processing units currently in an idle state; calculating payloads of the M CSIs that need to be fed back, respectively, and feeding back the M CSIs that need to be fed back on the PUSCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenhong Chen