Patents Examined by Kevin C. Harper
  • Patent number: 10686580
    Abstract: This invention relates to a proposal of an uplink resource assignment format and a downlink resource assignment format. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the new uplink/downlink resource assignments in methods for (de)activation of downlink component carrier(s) configured for a mobile terminal, a base station and a mobile terminal. To enable efficient and robust (de)activation of component carriers, while minimizing the signaling overhead, the invention proposes a new uplink/downlink resource assignment format that allow the activation/deactivation of individual downlink component carriers configured for a mobile. The new uplink or downlink resource assignment comprises an indication of the activation state of the configured downlink component carriers, i.e., indicate which downlink component carrier(s) is/are to be activated or deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Martin Feuersaenger
  • Patent number: 10686915
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a device includes a transmitter and receiver that transmits and receives communication packets to and from other device, a memory that stores one or more reference information which present a function for data request and a function for data communication which a service comprises, one or more predetermined data relating to the functions, and one or more distinguishing information for distinguishing the predetermined data, and a processor. The processor generates a packet which includes the reference information associated with the function for data communication, the predetermined data, and the distinguishing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuho Kyou
  • Patent number: 10680850
    Abstract: The invention relates inter alia to a method of operating a communication system (10). Each communication node (11, 12, 13, 14) of the communication system (10) preferably tracks a successful reception of data signals (D) and requests a switch and/or switches from a currently used communication channel (C1) to another communication channel (C2-C6) in case that no successful receptions were made within a given maximum time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: R3—RELIABLE REALTIME RADIO COMMUNICATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Mathias Bohge, Florian Bonanati
  • Patent number: 10680879
    Abstract: A Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN)-enabled remote switch management system includes a management device having a management device WWAN communication subsystem that is configured to transmit management commands from the management device through a WWAN. The WWAN-enabled remote switch management system also includes a switch device having a chassis. A switch device wired communication subsystem is located in the chassis, coupled to a Local Area Network (LAN), and is not coupled to the Internet. A switch device WWAN communication subsystem is located in the chassis and is configured to receive management commands from the management device through the WWAN. A switch management engine is located in the chassis, coupled to the switch device WWAN communication subsystem, and is configured to receive the management commands from the switch device WWAN communication subsystem, and execute the management commands to perform a management action on the switch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Rabah S. Hamdi, Andrew Blake Berry, Joseph Burton Farrell
  • Patent number: 10681528
    Abstract: A method for device-to-device direct communication in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by a first terminal, and the method comprises the steps of: setting, as a transmission gap period, a candidate time period in which a first message including location information of a second terminal will be periodically received from the second terminal; and periodically receiving the first message from the second terminal within the transmission gap period. A message is not transmitted from the first terminal through a candidate carrier on which the first message is to be received within the transmission gap period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 10660074
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to communicating in a wireless network. A resource grant comprising an indicator of whether to transmit a demodulation reference signal (RS) for an uplink control channel or an uplink data channel can be received from a network entity. It can be determined whether to transmit the RS in at least one transmission time interval (TTI) based at least in part on the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Shimman Arvind Patel, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 10652771
    Abstract: A method for determining the health of a network includes determining, for a set of clients within the network, a total air percentage for each of the plurality of clients, and determining a total air percentage for a first access point within the network. The method further includes determining a transmit opportunity corresponding to a percentage of time a channel medium is free; determining a total air percentage used by a set of second access points; determining an air margin for the network, and determining an overall health classification for the network based on the air margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SLING MEDIA PVT LTD
    Inventors: Rakesh Eluvan Periyaeluvan, Narayana Rao, Vivek Maran
  • Patent number: 10652905
    Abstract: Network devices are steered to preferred access points using a probability function. A probe request for connection is received from a network device. The probe request can be from a network device attempting to use a wireless network (e.g., a IEEE 802.11-type network or other suitable type of network). A probability function that defines a likelihood of granting the network device a connection is used to determine whether to accept or deny the response. The probe response is then sent to the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Sung-Wook Han, Mohan Ram
  • Patent number: 10645643
    Abstract: A method of transmitting includes categorizing a transmission between the first device and a second device as one of a plurality of transmission types, and selecting an air interface from a plurality of air interface candidates in accordance with the transmission as categorized. The method also includes sending the transmission to the second device using the selected air interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Ming Jia, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 10645715
    Abstract: A splitting scheduling system and method thereof for integrating heterogeneous network is provided. The system includes one or multiple wireless router, a mobile network core system, and a heterogeneous network router. When an external terminal device is located in a service covering range of the heterogeneous network router and the wireless router and the terminal device has a heterogeneous network integrating access condition, then the heterogeneous network router enables the terminal device to communicate with heterogeneous network router and the wireless router in the same time. The system further assigns a downlink traffic splitting ration to the terminal device according to individual communication status of the wireless router and the heterogeneous network router so as to provide a better communication quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Po-Hsueh Wang, Yao-Chun Tsou, Sz-Hsien Wu, Chung-Ho Wang, Chia-Horng Liu
  • Patent number: 10637617
    Abstract: There is provided a user apparatus of a radio communication system provided with a base station and the user apparatus, the user apparatus including a determination unit configured to determine a size of a soft buffer to be secured within the user apparatus based on a total soft buffer size corresponding to a UE category of the user apparatus, a modulation scheme configured for a downlink by the base station, and a MIMO-layer number configured for the downlink by the base station; and a receiving unit configured to store data received from the base station in the soft buffer with the size determined by the determination unit, wherein the UE category includes 2 layers, 4 layers, and 8 layers as maximum MIMO-layer numbers to be supported, and the UE category includes 64 QAM and 256 QAM as the modulation schemes to be supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Naoto Ookubo, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 10631238
    Abstract: A method of transmitting includes categorizing a transmission between the first device and a second device as one of a plurality of transmission types, and selecting an air interface from a plurality of air interface candidates in accordance with the transmission as categorized. The method also includes sending the transmission to the second device using the selected air interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Ming Jia, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 10624017
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a communication apparatus in a network comprising a plurality of communication nodes, upon reception of a message at the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus starting a retransmission delay being selected at random from a retransmission delay interval, said retransmission delay interval being dependent on at least one of a status of the communication apparatus and a property of the received message, the communication apparatus monitors retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes during said retransmission delay and the communication apparatus transmitting a retransmission of said message at the expiry of said retransmission delay if a statistic based on the retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes is below a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Xiangyu Wang, Armand Michel Marie Lelkens, Rick Van Haasen, Zhizhong Zhang, Peiliang Dong, Rong Fan, Peter Fitski, Emmanuel David Lucas Michael Frimout, Robert Cornelis Houtepen
  • Patent number: 10624005
    Abstract: A method for proxy algorithm identity selection may comprise: selecting, at a first network node, a security algorithm identity for a user equipment which is determined to handover to a second network node, based at least in part on security information of the user equipment and a list of security algorithm identities for the second network node; generating security keys for a communication between the user equipment and the second network node, based at least in part on the selected security algorithm identity; providing the security keys and the selected security algorithm identity to the second network node from the first network node; and sending the selected security algorithm identity to the user equipment from the first network node, in response to a handover acknowledgement from the second network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Dajiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10616827
    Abstract: A method of transmitting includes categorizing a transmission between the first device and a second device as one of a plurality of transmission types, and selecting an air interface from a plurality of air interface candidates in accordance with the transmission as categorized. The method also includes sending the transmission to the second device using the selected air interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Ming Jia, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 10616941
    Abstract: A method, an electronic apparatus, and a recording medium for establishing a wireless connection through vibration are provided. In the method, at least one nearby electronic apparatus is scanned by the first electronic apparatus. A pairing request is transmitted to the second electronic apparatus among the at least one nearby electronic apparatus by the first electronic apparatus. A pairing code is generated in response to receiving the pairing request and a vibration with a pattern in accordance with the pairing code is triggered by the second electronic apparatus. The vibration is detected and the pattern of the vibration is identified to obtain the pairing code by the first electronic apparatus. The obtained pairing code is transmitted to the second electronic apparatus by the first electronic apparatus. Finally, the pairing code is confirmed by the second electronic apparatus to establish the wireless connection with the first electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Chi-Chen Cheng, Darren Sng
  • Patent number: 10616058
    Abstract: [Problem] To smoothly update configuration data comprising: fixed data set to a server by an administrator; and data rewritable by a user at a terminal. [Solution] A terminal device having a storage unit that stores configuration data, and a first and a second provisioning server are connected over a network. The terminal device includes an operation unit for rewriting variable data, which is a part of the plurality of configuration data. The first provisioning server stores all the configuration data. The second provisioning server stores fixed data, which is the plurality of configuration data excluding the variable data. The terminal device accesses the first provisioning server in an initial state in order to obtain all the configuration data and store the same in the storage unit. The configured terminal device accesses the second provisioning server in order to obtain the fixed configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Akira Nakano, Yuma Oda
  • Patent number: 10615943
    Abstract: A scheduling device for scheduling an allocation of a set of link resources includes: a prediction circuit configured to generate a predicted link quality for a first link resource of the set of link resources; a classification circuit configured to classify the first link resource to a classification pattern based on the predicted link quality of the first link resource; and an allocation circuit configured to allocate the first link resource to a first transmission or retransmission subframe set based on the classification pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Holger Neuhaus, Xiaofeng Wu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Axel Huebner
  • Patent number: 10608839
    Abstract: A resource scheduling method and apparatus in a DSL system, and a system are provided, to reduce energy consumption of the DSL system. The method includes: determining, according to service traffic information of each subscriber line and transmission capability information of each subscriber line, a transmission opportunity initial value allocated to each subscriber line in a TDD frame; and according to the transmission opportunity initial value of each subscriber line, dividing the TDD frame into a normal operation interval and a discontinuous operation interval, determining a transmission opportunity occupied by each subscriber line in the normal operation interval, and determining a subscriber line group in the discontinuous operation interval and a transmission opportunity occupied by each subscriber line group in the discontinuous operation interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nan Zhang, Yixian Liu, Zhiqiang Yao, Zhiquan Luo
  • Patent number: 10602380
    Abstract: A method for indicating a data transmission mode in a connection procedure in a wireless communication system, may comprise the steps of: receiving a connection request message from a terminal; transmitting an update location request message to an HSS; receiving an update location response message including the subscription information of the terminal as a response to the update location request message; the MME determining an application of a CP mode as the data transmission mode for a PDN connection on the basis of a local policy, wherein the data transmission mode includes a UP mode and the CP mode; and transmitting, to a terminal, a connection grant message including information that indicates an application of the CP mode as a response to the connection request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsook Ryu, Hyunsook Kim, Laeyoung Kim, Sangmin Park