Patents Examined by Kevin D Mew
  • Combined tunneling and network management system
    Patent number: 11202335
    Abstract: A system for managing control of signal penetration into a building includes an exterior RF transmission unit located on an outside of the building, for transceiving signals at a first frequency that experiences losses when penetrating a structure of the building on a first RF communications link from an exterior base station and converting between the received signals at the first frequency and second signals in a first format that overcome losses caused by penetrating the structure of the building over a wireless communications link. An interior RF transmission unit located on the interior of the building and communicatively linked with the exterior RF transmission unit via the wireless communications link, receives and transmits the converted second signals in the first format that counteracts the losses caused by penetrating the structure of the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NXGEN PARTNERS IP, LLC
    Inventor: Solyman Ashrafi
  • Management device and method for controlling end-to-end network in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 11202231
    Abstract: A device and a method for managing and controlling an end-to-end network in a wireless communication system are provided. The management device for controlling an end-to-end network in a wireless communication system includes a network slice manager configured to configure network slices for a terminal, a policy manager configured to set a policy applied to the network slices and a software defined network (SDN) device configured to control one or more network entities related to transmission of traffic for the network slices, based on the policy, wherein each of the network slices are configured for a different frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kibeom Park, Eunjin Choi, Ilhwan Jeong
  • Uplink transmit beam sweep
    Patent number: 11201662
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to partial beam correspondence may be used to address potential limitations of beamforming wireless networks. A user equipment electronic device and/or wireless network identifies a subset of available transmitter beams for the user equipment electronic device that are indicated as similar to a downlink reference signal received at the user equipment electronic device from a wireless network node. The user equipment electronic device sweeps the subset of available transmitter beams for communication with the wireless network node and uses a best beam from the sweep to communicate with the wireless network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Ehsan Haghani, Rohit U. Nabar
  • System and method for mitigating platform motion in a communications system
    Patent number: 11196497
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting packets from a transceiver to a repeater in the presence of relative motion between the transceiver and the repeater. In some embodiments, the method includes: adjusting a plurality of transmission times; transmitting each of a plurality of packets, at a respective adjusted transmission time, from the transceiver to the repeater; and retransmitting, by the repeater, each of the packets, at a respective retransmission time, each of the retransmission times being, as a result of the adjusting, more nearly the same as it would have been, in the absence of: the relative motion, and the adjusting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Gregary B. Prince, Thomas E. Gardiner, Steven J. Howard, Christopher S. Joines
  • Data transmission device, method and recording medium
    Patent number: 11184803
    Abstract: In order to enable to control a transmission data amount within an appropriate range by an easier method, and achieve throughput improvement, shortening of delay, and suppression of packet retransmission in all communication resources, a data transmission method includes: estimating a congestion degree of at least a part of communication sessions in which a communication resource to be used in an own session to be used in transmission of transmission data is shared, based on communication quality being measurable a data transmission device and relating to the transmission of the transmission data, determining a transmission data amount, based on the congestion degree of the communication session, and performing the transmission of the transmission data, based on the transmission data amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru Osuga
  • Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, transmission method, and reception method
    Patent number: 11184031
    Abstract: The interleaver 104 interleaves first to Nth code words. The OFDM modulation circuit 105 converts the interleaved first to Nth code words into OFDM signals. The transmission RF circuit 106 transmits the OFDM signals. The number of data symbols included in the first code word is less than the number of data symbols included in the second code word. The interleaver 104 writes the first code word to the Nth code word in ascending order and starts reading from the second code word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Motozuka, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Communication apparatus and communication method
    Patent number: 11178674
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus including a communication unit that receives frames including first information from a plurality of other communication apparatuses and transmits first frames including information indicating a first transmission time period to the plurality of other communication apparatuses, a control unit that determines the first transmission time period on the basis of the plurality of pieces of first information, and a processing unit that generates the first frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Itagaki, Tomoya Yamaura, Yuichi Morioka
  • Distributed precision time protocol transparent clock
    Patent number: 11177897
    Abstract: A distributed Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Transparent Clock (TC) provides a TC function based on overall residence time in a network at a server layer. That is, the server layer operates as a distributed TC for a corresponding client layer. A transport network includes a first node connected to a first client device; and a second node connected to a second client device over a server layer, wherein the first client device communicates to the second client device via a client layer, wherein the first node and the second node are synchronized to one another, and wherein the first node and the second node are configured to implement a distributed transparent clock on a PTP packet at the client layer, the distributed transparent clock includes a correction field in the PTP packet based on a residence time in the transport network at the server layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: David James Evans, Daniel Claude Perras
  • Flexible Clos topology switch
    Patent number: 11171882
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer network system, includes at least one lower tier of lower switches, at least one upper tier of upper switches, and a middle tier of middle switches connected down-tier to ones of the lower switches and up-tier to ones of the upper switches, one of the middle switches including a clos topology arrangement of leaf and spine switches, the leaf switches being connected via K internal network connections to the spine switches, each leaf switch being connected to each spine switch, the leaf switches being connected via N down-tier network connections to ones of the lower switches and via M up-tier network connections to ones of the upper switches, there being more of the N down-tier network connections than there are of the M up-tier network connections, and there being less of the K internal network connections than there are of the N and M connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES TLV LTD.
    Inventors: Gil Levy, Barak Gafni
  • System and method for random access backoffs
    Patent number: 11153917
    Abstract: A method of performing a random access procedure includes randomly selecting a backoff time from within a backoff window ranging from 0 to a specified multiple of a random access preamble unit, waiting until a time initialized with the backoff time expires, and retransmitting a random access preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Liu, Yongbo Zeng, Jian Wang, Guorong Li, Yu Cai
  • Multiple modem communication system and method for a mobile platform
    Patent number: 11153005
    Abstract: A system, method, and device to enable communication between a first and second satellite station and a controller of a mobile platform. The controller includes a processor, a first modem facilitating communication with the first satellite station via a first frequency over a first communication link, and a map of the one or more networks of satellite stations including the second satellite station. The controller utilizes the map of the one or more networks of satellite stations to determine the second satellite station for communicating with the controller. A second modem is coupled to the controller and facilitates communication with the second satellite station via a second frequency over a second communication link, wherein the controller is configured to calculate a time to handoff communication with the mobile communicator from the first communication link to the second communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
    Inventor: Bryan Adrian Lauer
  • Communication techniques using quasi-static properties of wireless channels
    Patent number: 11147087
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for communication techniques that use the quasi-static properties of wireless channels are described. One example method to improve communication performance includes receiving a set of pilots over a transmission channel between the wireless communication apparatus and a far-end communication apparatus, the transmission channel comprising a first portion that is time-invariant and a second portion that is time-variant, processing the received set of pilots to generate an estimate of the first portion, processing the received set of pilots to generate an estimate of the second portion, and performing a communication based on a channel state information that is a weighted combination of a first term based on the estimate of the first portion and a second term based on the estimate of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Molisch, Ronny Hadani, Robert Fanfelle
  • Communication system and transmission apparatus
    Patent number: 11146991
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication system and a transmission apparatus that enable highly reliable streaming using a plurality of wireless communication lines. In a transmission apparatus, a QoS module generates information regarding QoS of a plurality of communication lines, a load balancer designates assignment of data to the communication lines on the basis at least of the information regarding QoS, and a caster allocates and transmits the data to the assigned communication lines on the basis of an instruction from the QoS module. The present technology can be applied to a communication system that performs streaming by UDP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Sato, Kensaku Wakuda, Tomoaki Matsumura
  • Computer remote indirect memory access system
    Patent number: 11134031
    Abstract: A remote indirect memory access system and method for networked computer servers. The system comprises a network interface card having a network interface memory and a system memory operatively connected to the network interface card. The system memory has a plurality of electronic memory queues, wherein each of the memory queues corresponds to one of a plurality of receive processes in the computer server, with each of the memory queues having a corresponding head pointer and tail pointer. Each of the memory queues is assigned to receive electronic messages from a plurality of sender computers. The NIC comprises a tail pointer table, with the tail pointer table comprising initial memory location data of the tail pointers for the memory queues. The memory location data referenced by corresponding queue identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mithuna Shamabhat Thottethodi, Terani N Vijaykumar, Jiachen Xue
  • Control plane traffic load balancing, protection, and network selection
    Patent number: 11134416
    Abstract: A network device receives control plane (CP) traffic transiting a first mobile network. The network device determines CP traffic loads handled by network functions of the first mobile network and determines availability of CP resources within the first mobile network. The network device performs at least one of load balancing, network selection or overload protection, when switching the CP traffic from a source to a destination, based on the determined CP traffic loads and/or the determined availability of CP resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lalit R. Kotecha, Donna L. Polehn, Jin Yang
  • Quality of service (QoS) control in mobile edge computing (MEC)
    Patent number: 11134410
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for controlling Quality of Service (QoS) selection in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) services. In one embodiment, a MEC server is at a Radio Access Network (RAN), and implements edge applications that provide the MEC services. The MEC server queries a core network for a QoS policy for a mobile device that indicates QoS profile options for the mobile device, and receives the QoS policy from the core network. The MEC server monitors for a triggering event that triggers selection of a QoS profile, selects the QoS profile from the QoS profile options for a user plane connection established for a MEC service between the mobile device and an edge application in response to the triggering event, and provides a QoS profile identifier for the QoS profile to a base station in the RAN to enforce the QoS profile on the user plane connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Zhi Wang, Yigang Cai
  • Measurement reporting method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11134406
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a measurement reporting method, and a communications apparatus. In the method, measurement reporting parameters reported to a base station satisfies reporting rules including: (a) a reporting setting with a smaller identifier has priority over a reporting setting with a larger identifier; (b) a serving cell with a smaller identifier has priority over a serving cell with a larger identifier; (c) a reporting type involving a beam index indication has priority over a reporting type involving an RI; and (d) aperiodic measurement reporting has priority over semi-persistent measurement reporting, or semi-persistent measurement reporting has priority over periodic measurement reporting. According to the method, performance of a wireless communications system is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaona Wang, Xiaoyong Tang, Peng Guan
  • Method and device in user equipment and base station for wireless communication
    Patent number: 11109388
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method and device in a user equipment and a base station for wireless communication. The UE performs K channel listening in K sub-bands, respectively; determines that a first radio signal can only be transmitted in K1 sub-band(s) out the K sub-bands; and transmits the first radio signal in the K1 sub-band(s), wherein the K channel listening is used to determine the K1 sub-band(s) from the K sub-bands; the first radio signal comprises K1 first sub-signal(s) transmitted in the K1 sub-band(s), respectively; each of the K1 first sub-signal(s) carries a first bit block, the first bit block comprises a positive integer number of bits, and a number of REs occupied by any one of the K1 first sub-signal(s) in a time-frequency domain is correlated with the K1. The method not only ensures the reliability of uplink transmission but also avoids waste of resources in an NR-U system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: KeYing Wu, XiaoBo Zhang, Lin Yang
  • Multiplexer including filter with two types of acoustic wave resonators
    Patent number: 11101787
    Abstract: Multiplexers are disclosed. A multiplexer can include a first filter and a second filter that are coupled to a common node. The second filter can include a first type of acoustic wave resonators (e.g., bulk acoustic wave resonators) and a series acoustic wave resonator of a second type (e.g., a surface acoustic wave resonator) that is coupled between the acoustic wave resonators of the first type and the common node. The first filter can provide a single-ended radio frequency signal. In certain embodiments, the first filter can be a receive filter and the second filter can be a transmit filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ando, Yasuyuki Saito, Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for improvements in case management and docketing
    Patent number: 11100185
    Abstract: Methods, systems and software include programmatically downloading over the Internet, at routine intervals of time as well as on demand, from an online computer system of the USPTO, data relating to patent properties that are associated with a customer number; and creating a docket based on the downloaded data, generating and displaying a report generated from the downloaded data, sending an alert (email or text message) that is based on the downloaded data, or any combination thereof. Data specific to a particular client also is provided to the client programmatically, with reports, alerts, docketing, or any combination thereof, further being provided for use by the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Inventors: Chad Dustin Tillman, Jeremy Cooper Doerre