Patents Examined by Kevin C. Harper
  • Patent number: 11381980
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for establishing a cell using system information of neighboring cells on the basis of interference environments of the neighboring cells in a wireless communication system. The method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: detecting, by a base station, cell IDs of neighboring cells by using synchronization signals transmitted from the neighboring cells; checking whether resources, to which common reference signals (CRS) transmitted from the neighboring cells are transmitted, overlap with each other, on the basis of the cell IDs; estimating channels of the neighboring cells by using the CRSs; and determining an interference environment for establishing a cell by using the result of the checking and the estimated channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chanho Choi, Seijoon Shim, Chongdon Kim, Hayoung Yang
  • Patent number: 11374722
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling in a first time-frequency resource, and receives a first radio signal in a second time-frequency resource; the first signaling is used for indicating K1 target subband(s), the K1 target subband(s) comprise(s) K1 target time-frequency resource(s) respectively, and the second time-frequency resource is one of the K1 target time-frequency resource(s); the first signaling and the first radio signal are both specific to the UE; time domain resources occupied by the first time-frequency resource belong to a first time window. Through the design of the K1 target subband(s), the disclosure guarantees the transmission of important information such as system information and subband indicator signaling on unlicensed spectrum, thereby improving overall performances of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qi Jiang, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11368995
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method may include determining, by a user equipment, a beam management group comprising one or more serving cells. The method may further include detecting, by the user equipment, a beam failure on at least one serving cell of the beam management group. The method may further include transmitting, by the user equipment, a beam failure recovery request to the at least one serving cell of the beam management group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Chunli Wu, Benoist Sebire, Samuli Turtinen, Timo Koskela
  • Patent number: 11368923
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communicator configured to perform wireless communication with another wireless communication apparatus, and a processor. The processor controls the wireless communicator to transmit to the other wireless communication apparatus prescribed information while incrementally changing transmission power by a prescribed degree until a change occurs in a signal reception state of a connection request from the other wireless communication apparatus, and starts transmission of the prescribed information to the other wireless communication apparatus during a next communication onwards at a transmission power based on a transmission power occurring when the change occurs in the signal reception state of the connection request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuho Kyou, Sadao Nagashima, Hiroshi Iwamiya, Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki, Ryo Okumura
  • Patent number: 11369004
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method, an access network device, and a terminal. The communication method includes: monitoring, by a terminal after completing initial transmission of first uplink data in a first-type transmission mode, a first downlink control channel sent by an access network device, where the first downlink control channel carries first downlink control information, the first-type transmission mode includes performing grant-free uplink data transmission based on radio resource control configuration signaling or based on radio resource control reconfiguration signaling and not based on layer 1 signaling, and the first downlink control information includes HARQ feedback information for the first uplink data, retransmission scheduling information for the first uplink data, or scheduling information for second uplink data; and detecting, by the terminal, the first downlink control information on the first downlink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yubo Yang, Yi Wang, Jinlin Peng, Peng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11368859
    Abstract: A wireless communication system may support two types of networks, such as a 4th-Generation (4G) network and a 5th-Generation (5G) network. An LTE base station can be configured to broadcast information regarding whether it supports Non-Standalone Architecture (NSA) dual-network connectivity in conjunction with an associated NR base station. A communication device may use one of multiple strategies to determine whether 5G services are actually available at any particular time, and may display a corresponding network technology symbol when 5G services are accessible. The multiple strategies may be stored in non-volatile memory of the communication device. Policy information received from the communication system may specify which of the multiple policies is to be the active strategy, so that the network provider can change strategies without needing to perform a firmware or software upgrade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Lucht, Ming Shan Kwok, Wafik Abdel Shahid, Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, Gunjan Nimbavikar
  • Patent number: 11356948
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may provide feedback regarding beam pairs used for wake-up signal (WUS) transmissions via uplink resources configured for WUS-based beam management feedback. A correspondence between WUSs and uplink resources for feedback may be semi-statically configured via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, may be dynamically indicated by each WUS, etc. In some examples, uplink resources for different UEs may be distinctive (e.g., UE-specific). In some cases, each beam used to transmit the wake-up message (e.g., each WUS) may have separate uplink resources, or all beams may share the same uplink resource (e.g., or some combination of uplink resources). As such, the UE and base station may identify one or more beams of sufficient quality (e.g., for control channel transmissions during a discontinuous reception (DRX) on-duration) based on the feedback (e.g., beam report) conveyed by the UE via the configured uplink resources for WUS-based fast beam management techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Linhai He, Gabi Sarkis, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri
  • Patent number: 11356996
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a mobile communication device during a first cycle, a periodic grant via a first carrier of a plurality of carriers, monitoring, by the mobile communication device during a next cycle after the first cycle, for configured grants (CGs) for multiple carriers of the plurality of carriers based on the periodic grant, and receiving, by the mobile communication device during the next cycle after the first cycle, a first transmission in a first CG of the CGs via a second carrier of the plurality of carriers and a second transmission in a second CG of the CGs via a third carrier of the plurality of carriers. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Konstantinos Dimou, Hamed Pezeshki, Kazuki Takeda, Sony Akkarakaran, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11357037
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques for handling out-of-order grants. For example, upon detection of an out-of-order grant, the best scheduling policy for handling the out-of-order grants may be selected based on at least one traffic condition. In some aspects, a scheduling policy may involve canceling and regenerating out-of-order grants. In some aspects, a scheduling policy may involve reordering data units. In some aspects, a scheduling policy may involve designating a reorder time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Saket Bathwal, Arvind Santhanam, Gang Xiao, Rudhir Upretee, Scott Hoover, Haiqin Liu, Xing Chen, Xiaojian Long, Peng Wu, Ashwin Raman, Thomas Christol
  • Patent number: 11350397
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method by a terminal for determining frequency resources in a cellular network is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Xue, Yeohun Yun, Hyunseok Ryu, Hyunkyu Yu
  • Patent number: 11350443
    Abstract: A method, performed by a user equipment (UE), of performing communication in a handover process includes receiving uplink (UL) grant configuration information via an RRC reconfiguration message, selecting a SSB among a plurality of SSBs included in the UL grant information, determining a UL grant corresponding to the selected SSB and a HARQ process corresponding to the UL grant based on the UL grant information and transmitting a reconfiguration complete message in the determined UL grant corresponding to the selected SSB using a HARQ process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11343190
    Abstract: In an example, a network switch is configured to operate natively as a load balancer. The switch receives incoming traffic on a first interface communicatively coupled to a first network, and assigns the traffic to one of a plurality of traffic buckets. This may include looking up a destination IP of an incoming packet in a fast memory such as a ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) to determine whether the packet is directed to a virtual IP (VIP) address that is to be load balanced. If so, part of the source destination IP address may be used as a search tag in the TCAM to assign the incoming packet to a traffic bucket or IP address of a service node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Samar Sharma, Mouli Vytla, Rajendra Kumar Thirumurthi
  • Patent number: 11343128
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a measurement reference signal. The method includes: acquiring port information corresponding to a measurement reference signal according to at least one of received signaling information or an agreed rule; and transmitting the measurement reference signal according to the port information. Also disclosed are a method and device for sending signaling information, a method and device for receiving signaling information, a method for transmitting an uplink reference signal, a device for transmitting a measurement reference signal, an electronic device, and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, Chuangxin Jiang, Yuxin Wang, Ke Yao
  • Patent number: 11343702
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for controlling a network with one or more access points (APs). A controller may be configured to schedule at least some resources of the one or more APs to improve network efficiency. The APs may measure and report a variety of information and statistics to the controller. The controller may determine one or more transmission parameters and one or more operations a given AP is permitted to perform during a respective time interval. The controller may communicate the one or more transmission parameters using an indication, such as a message. At least one AP associated with the controller may communicate with stations (STAs) using the one or more transmission parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Simone Merlin, Yanjun Sun, Hemanth Sampath, Bibhu Mohanty, Brian Michael Buesker, Yuan Zhou, Eric Vanbuhler, Danyang Cong, Raamkumar Balamurthi, Harshit Joshi, Vamsi Vegunta, Danny Jen, Nitin Ravinder
  • Patent number: 11336482
    Abstract: Techniques are described for policy driven on-demand tunnel creation and deletion between end points in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) having a hub-and-spoke topology. A software-defined networking (SDN) controller that facilitates cloud-based services of a service provider network that sets up the SD-WAN is configured to determine whether a tunnel between end-points is to be created or deleted based on information indicative of the traffic, such as amount, time, application generating the traffic, and the like, between end-points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sankar Ramamoorthi, Ravi Shekhar, Venkata Rajasekharu Athreyapurapu, Rajeev Gupta, Kaushik Dutta Majumdar, Mohan Kumar A P, Pranav Koushik
  • Patent number: 11337102
    Abstract: Disclosed is technology for applying a more differential QoS, that is, service quality to each communication service by implementing a differential QoS control in a radio section more precisely without any increase in complexity and load compared to a conventional bearer based QoS control method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Soo Na, Chang Soon Choi
  • Patent number: 11336494
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) which operates in a new radio access technology (RAT) generates a signal for a numerology based on a center frequency of a carrier, and transmits the generated signal. The center frequency of the carrier is based on a largest subcarrier spacing that a network supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Byounghoon Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11330398
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a suspected data source among one or more data sources reporting geo coordinate data in a location based services network is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes, receiving geo coordinates of a user device reported by the one or more data sources over a period of time, calculating a notional speed between geo coordinates reported at two consecutive times, flagging simultaneously, one or more data sources that reported the geo coordinates at the two consecutive times resulting in a notional speed that exceeds a predefined notional speed, and analysing a data on at least one of, the number of instances of geo coordinates reported by a data source, the number of instances a data source was flagged, the data sources that were also flagged simultaneously with each flagging, for determining the suspect source of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: INMOBI, PTE LTD.
    Inventors: Ameya Shrinivas Sakhalkar, Raghunath Thondanur Mandayam
  • Patent number: 11323916
    Abstract: This application provides a flow control method, including: sending, by a first device, a first data packet to a second device in a first sending mode; determining, by the first device, a network congestion status; and sending, by the first device, a second data packet to the second device in the second sending mode, where the second sending mode is a sending mode determined by the first device based on the network congestion status, and the second data packet is a data packet to be sent after the first data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheng Cao, Xiaoli Liu, Nongda Hu
  • Patent number: 11321272
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer program comprising a sequence of instructions for execution on a processing unit having instruction storage for holding the computer program, an execution unit for executing the computer program and data storage for holding data, the computer program comprising one or more computer executable instruction which, when executed, implements: a send function which causes a data packet destined for a recipient processing unit to be transmitted on a set of connection wires connected to the processing unit, the data packet having no destination identifier but being transmitted at a predetermined transmit time; and a switch control function which causes the processing unit to control switching circuitry to connect a set of connection wires of the processing unit to a switching fabric to receive a data packet at a predetermined receive time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Graphcore Limited
    Inventors: Simon Christian Knowles, Daniel John Pelham Wilkinson, Richard Luke Southwell Osborne, Alan Graham Alexander, Stephen Felix, Jonathan Mangnall, David Lacey