Patents Examined by Kevin D Mew
  • Patent number: 11456962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a transmission buffer in a transmission node of a transmission network transmitting data packets of a data packet flow, wherein each data packet includes a delay value indicating a transmission delay requirement of the data packet and a packet value indicating a level of importance of the data packet. The buffer includes different buffer regions and an arriving data packet is put into its respective buffer region based on the delay requirement indicated by a delay value contained in the data packet. The number of bytes waiting before the freshly arrived data packet cannot increase so that the delay requirement is met and possibly other packets in the buffer might be dropped for the newly arriving packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Szilveszter NĂ¡das, Csaba Keszei, Sandor Laki, Gergo Gombos
  • Patent number: 11457491
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one communication processor configured to support a first network communication and a second network communication, and a memory configured to store information about at least one first band supporting dual connectivity for the first network communication and the second network communication among a plurality of bands which correspond to the first network communication supported by the electronic device, and the at least one communication processor may be configured to camp on a first cell supporting the first network communication, after camping on the first cell, perform a measurement on at least some of the at least one first band among the plurality of bands in an idle state, and perform a cell reselection based on a measurement result for the at least some of the at least one first band. Herein, a measurement on a remaining band except for the at least one first band among the plurality of bands may not be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keonyoung Lee, Daejun Kang, Yongjae Jung
  • Patent number: 11452024
    Abstract: A packet transmission system according to an example embodiment includes endpoint devices, a first transmission path connected to the endpoint devices and including a first radio section, a second transmission path connected to the endpoint devices and including a second radio section, bandwidth monitoring units that respectively monitor bandwidth information of the first radio section and the second radio section for each flow, a path switching unit that determines a packet transmission path for transmitting a packet on the basis of the bandwidth information of the first radio section and the second radio section, a bandwidth ratio calculation unit that calculates a bandwidth ratio of flows on the basis of the bandwidth information of the first radio section and the second radio section and determines a bandwidth control value, and a bandwidth control unit that controls a bandwidth of each flow on the basis of the bandwidth control value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11444844
    Abstract: The technology relates to simulating a dynamic hybrid network. A method for simulating a dynamic hybrid network includes modeling a transmission supply of a mesh network of moving stations on aerial vehicles in flight at each time step in a time series, modeling capacity demand as a function of user distribution data and user behavior data, and computing an aggregate network metric for the dynamic hybrid network including throughput. A method for optimizing throughput of a dynamic hybrid network includes modeling a dynamic hybrid network, including a transmission supply of a mesh network of moving stations, modeling capacity demand as a function of user distribution data and user behavior data, and computing an aggregate network metric; then providing feedback to a controller and causing a change to a station in the network to increase throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventor: Jin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11438391
    Abstract: In one or more examples, a method uses a system including data server, a processing circuit, and a data-communications server, with the server being used to route calls in the form of data communications to and from a plurality of telecommunication devices associated with respective user accounts. The server may store data generated by the plurality of telecommunication devices on the data server. The user accounts each have a settings file associated with the user account. In response to a set of criteria indicated in the settings file of one of the user accounts being satisfied, the processing circuit logs into a data server remote to the server may use login credentials included in the settings file. In further response to the set of criteria being satisfied, the processing circuit may copy one or more data files associated with the user account from the data server to the remote data server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhishen Liu
  • Patent number: 11425601
    Abstract: Based on a load prediction analysis performed by a machine learning enabled processor and a load balancer, the load of multiple distributed unit (DU) resources in a baseband unit (BBU) pool hub can be optimized. The BBU pool hub can comprise multiple DU functionality and redundant centralized unit (CU) functionality connected via a high-speed/low latency redundant switch to enable pooling of resources. DU resource pooling can facilitate efficiencies in the network by allocating resources based on active and/or inactive status, load, of radio units RUs as well Radio Bearers activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Dimas Noriega
  • Patent number: 11411759
    Abstract: An integrated circuit chip has a set of communication units, each unit being configured to operate according to a protocol in which a data packet sent by one unit is receivable by one unit only, each unit being configured to send at least one packet having one of a plurality of tiers to at least one other unit and being configured to specify, for each tier, a subset of destination units to which packets of that tier are to be sent, wherein each unit is configured to: receive a packet having one of the plurality of tiers; determine the tier of the received packet; and sequentially send packets having a different tier to the tier of the received packet to each of the respective subset of destination units for the different tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventor: Iain Robertson
  • Patent number: 11411674
    Abstract: A transmission device and method for repeatedly transmitting punctured data messages is disclosed. The transmission device is configured to puncture an encoded data message over a plurality of consecutive time slots to provide punctured data messages. The punctured data messages include a first punctured data message and a second punctured data message that are alternately transmitted during the consecutive time slots, the first punctured data message arising from puncturing the encoded data message with a first puncture indices series and the second punctured data message arising from the puncturing of the encoded data message with a second puncture indices series that is complementary to the first puncture indices series. A reception device and method for reassembling the encoded data message based on the punctured data messages is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Elbit Systems C4I and Cyber Ltd.
    Inventors: Idan Mishor, Oren Idan, Oren Nissim Rehovi
  • Patent number: 11405153
    Abstract: Present disclosure discloses method and device in a node used for wireless communication. A first node receives a first information block and a first signaling; and operates a first signal. The first information block is used for determining M first-type indexes out of N first-type indexes; the M first-type indexes are used for determining M1 information elements out of N1 information elements, and for determining M2 information elements out of N2 information elements; the first signaling comprises scheduling information of the first signal, and a first information element is used for determining Rx/Tx parameters of the first signal; when the operating is receiving, the first signaling indicates the first information element out of the M1 information elements; when the operating is transmitting, the first signaling indicates the first information element out of the M2 information elements. The above method streamlines beam management and improves the performance of uplink data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Keying Wu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11405314
    Abstract: This application provides a packet processing method, which helps resolve a problem that a network node between a user terminal and a DHCP server is relatively complex. In the method, a network node of an access network receives a first packet sent by a user terminal, where the first packet is used to request an Internet Protocol IP address from a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP server and the network node obtains a second packet, where the second packet includes the first packet, information about a port, and a Media Access Control MAC address of the user terminal, the port is a port through which the network node receives the first packet, and the second packet is a packet except a DHCP packet. Additionally the network node sends the second packet to a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenle Yang, Ruobin Zheng
  • Patent number: 11399305
    Abstract: Adjusting a network path between a user equipment and a network edge cloud instance is disclosed. The adjustment of the network path can be based on performance of the network path. The performance of the network path can be ranked, based on performance, against other network paths. In an embodiment, the other network paths can be between the user equipment and the network edge cloud instance. Additionally, the other network paths can be between the user equipment and another network edge cloud instance that can be located remotely from the network edge cloud instance. In an embodiment, a recommendation can be provided to a cloud service provider to enable the cloud service provider to adjust a characteristic of an application or service performed by a network edge cloud instance. The disclosed subject matter can provide advantages over conventional cloud instances that are typically supported on a device located distant from a network device operated by a network provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Samuel Barchi, Erie Lai Har Lau, Yehoshuva Arasavelli
  • Patent number: 11399366
    Abstract: Future LTE systems will support massive carrier aggregation that necessitates transmission of a large number of acknowledgement signals (HARQ-ACKs) in response to downlink data transmitted over multiple component carriers. Described herein are methods and apparatus for efficiently transmitting HARQ-ACK and periodic channel state information (P-CSI) bits over the PUCCH (physical uplink control channel).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Seunghee Han, Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Gang Xiong
  • Patent number: 11394655
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission unit, a transmission method, a reception unit, a reception method, and a program that make it possible to easily switch delay time. The transmission unit transmits, by wireless communication, data control information for controlling a usage of data in the reception unit receiving data transmitted by wireless communication, delay control information indicating a delay mode regarding delay time when the data is processed in the reception unit, and data. The reception unit receives the data transmitted by the wireless communication, the data control information, and the delay control information, controls the usage of the data in accordance with the data control information and the delay control information, and outputs data with the usage being controlled. The technology is applicable to, for example, a wireless communication system, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Chisato Kemmochi
  • Patent number: 11394636
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to provide mechanisms for establishing a private anonymity network that allows network packets to be forwarded via an obfuscated network signal path that is highly configurable. The techniques described herein may allow users to establish a private obfuscated network signal path that utilizes a number of access points, load balancers, and packet forwarders that can collectively provide path randomization and node ephemerality in a manner that may not be feasible or available in public anonymity networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: David Walker, Andrew Langhorn
  • Patent number: 11368909
    Abstract: A data transmission method provided in embodiments of the present application includes: determining, by a mobility management entity MME, that user equipment UE changes from an unreachable state to a reachable state; sending, by the MME, a request message to a serving gateway SGW; receiving, by the MME, downlink data sent by the SGW; and sending, by the MME, the downlink data to the UE. In this way, when the UE changes to a reachable state for downlink data, the MME requests the SGW to send the downlink data, and the MME then sends the downlink data to the UE, thereby avoiding loss of the downlink data caused by delivery of the downlink data to the UE that is in an unreachable state, and improving real-time accuracy of transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiang Deng, Wanqiang Zhang, Zhenglei Huang
  • Patent number: 11363571
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example, a first device receives first information and second information from a base station. The first device is configured with a configured grant for sidelink communication via the first information. The configured grant is indicative of first resources for sidelink communication. The second information is indicative of one or more timing offsets and an identity for second resources. The first device transmits sidelink data to a second device via a first resource of the first resources. The first device receives and/or detects a first signal, from the second device, indicative of a reception result associated with the sidelink data. The first device determines a second time and a frequency location based on the second information. The first device transmits a second signal to the base station via a second resource associated with the second time and the frequency location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Hsuan Kung, Chun-Wei Huang, Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 11362861
    Abstract: Provided is a modular type operating device capable of controlling the operation after assembly regardless of the assembly order of multiple modules. A base of a robot transmits an ID change request signal to an active module on a downstream side of a ring network. When each module receives the ID change request signal, it rewrites HOP of the ID change request signal to a value incremented by 1 and transmits it to the module on the downstream side or the base, creates a new ID to indicate the connection order and type of each module based on the HOP before rewriting and the physical ID, and transmits a module information signal including the new ID and the like to the module on the downstream side or the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Ishizaki, Hotaka Shimomura, Azumi Saito, Shun Ogiwara, Yoshiki Maezawa, Tomohiro Chaki
  • Patent number: 11363464
    Abstract: A domain manager (320) of a Radio Access Network, RAN, determines a configuration of a RAN resource partition of a network slice. The configuration defines which network elements of the RAN are assigned to the RAN resource partition of the network slice. The domain manager (320) receives at least one report (407, 408, 409) indicating, for at least one of the network elements assigned to the RAN resource partition, an amount of traffic of the network slice handled by the network element in an observation time window. Based on the at least one report (407, 408, 409), the domain manager (320) adapts the configuration of the RAN resource partition by removing one or more of the network elements from the RAN resource partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Patrick Maguire
  • Patent number: 11362850
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device and a communication method which are capable of achieving both an improvement in reliability of communication in which a frame is transmitted to a plurality of destinations and effective use of wireless communication resources. [Solution] The communication device includes: a communication unit configured to perform communication of a frame. The communication unit transmits a transmission acknowledgment request frame for a transmission acknowledgment response frame including frequency allocation information specifying a transmission frequency of the transmission acknowledgment response frame, and receives the transmission acknowledgment response frame which has undergone frequency division multiplexing, on the basis of the frequency allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Morioka, Eisuke Sakai
  • Patent number: 11363518
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for high efficiency (HE) beacons. HE supported access points (APs) and stations (STAs) may operate on resource deployments used for Wi-Fi technology and without support for legacy devices, also referred to as a greenfield deployment. An AP may identify updated capability information and transmit a HE physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) including a beacon frame. A STA may receive, from the AP, the HE or EHT PPDU and identify an indication of change to a content or format of the beacon frame relative to a reference beacon frame. Based on the identified indication, the STA may then determine an updated content or format for the beacon frame and process the beacon frame or skip processing for one or more portions of the beacon frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Sandip Homchaudhuri, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Alireza Raissinia, Lochan Verma, Padmanabhan Venkataraman Karthic