Patents Examined by Kevin M Cunningham
  • Patent number: 11363653
    Abstract: An apparatus may implement an ad hoc service switch to establish an ad hoc link between ad hoc devices, such that the apparatus is a transparent node in an ad hoc link between the ad hoc devices. The apparatus may implement rule-based control of at least one ad hoc device, based on processing a data packet received from an ad hoc device via the ad hoc link. Rule-based control may include performing at least one operation of selectively forwarding the data packet, selectively inhibiting the data packet from being forwarded, modifying the data packet, and generating and transmitting a new data packet. The apparatus may establish the ad hoc link via an initial ad hoc link between the apparatus and the first device, a network communication link between the apparatus and an external apparatus, and an ad hoc link between the external apparatus and the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia of America Corporation
    Inventors: Mostafa Uddin, Sarit Mukherjee, T. V. Lakshman, Hyunseok Chang
  • Patent number: 11349557
    Abstract: Facilitating operation and support of mobile relays based on an integrated access and backhaul concept for advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided. An embodiment relates to a communication network architecture that can comprise a control plane architecture of a relay node device. The control plane architecture can comprise a star-type architecture. Further, the communication network architecture can comprise a user plane architecture of the relay node device. The user plane architecture can be separated from (or independent of) the control plane architecture. Further, the user plane architecture can comprise a multi-hop architecture. The relay node device can be configured to operate according to a fifth generation wireless network communication protocol, or other advanced communication protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Arunabha Ghosh, Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan
  • Patent number: 11349766
    Abstract: A bandwidth allocation apparatus includes: a traffic starting position detection unit that detects a start timing of burst traffic on the basis of the traffic information; a traffic information extraction unit that extracts information on a traffic amount of each of a plurality of traffic allocation periods from the traffic information extracted for each lower-level apparatus; a traffic amount estimation unit that calculates an average value of the traffic amount in the traffic allocation periods on the basis of the information on the traffic amount that the traffic information extraction unit has extracted for each lower-level apparatus; and a bandwidth allocation unit that allocates a first bandwidth which is an allocation bandwidth based on the average value calculated by the traffic amount estimation unit to the terminating apparatus from the start timing detected by the traffic starting position detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Hisano, Hiroyuki Uzawa, Tatsuya Shimada
  • Patent number: 11343830
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting a signal, a network device and a terminal device. The method includes: a first network device determining, in a first frequency band corresponding to the first network device, a time-frequency resource for transmitting a signal; and the first network device carrying out the transmission of the signal with a first terminal device on the time-frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Yang, Zhi Zhang, Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11343188
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes performing, by a router, a destination address lookup of an IP packet in a Forwarding Information Base (FIB) and identifying, by the router, an equal cost multi-path (ECMP) object from the destination address lookup. The ECMP object includes a plurality of paths for forwarding the IP packet to a destination associated with a destination address. The method further includes determining, by the router, a source interface associated with the IP packet, determining, by the router, that the source interface matches an egress interface associated with a path among the plurality of paths, and communicating, by the router, the IP packet based on the path to the destination using the egress interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Enke Chen, Jun Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11317344
    Abstract: A communication scheme and system converges a 5G communication system supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4G system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. Applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars, connected cars, health care, digital education, retails, and security and safety-related services), the communication scheme and system is based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. Methods of operation a terminal and a network for facilitating a 5G terminal registration procedure in a wireless communication system are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoyeon Lee, Sunghoon Kim, Youngkyo Baek, Jungje Son, Seungri Jin
  • Patent number: 11317435
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit, in one uplink BWP of one serving cell, a first PUSCH corresponding to a configured uplink grant, and a receiver configured to receive, in one downlink BWP of the one serving cell, downlink control information to be used to schedule a second PUSCH on a PDCCH, in which, in a case that a duration of the first PUSCH overlaps a duration of the second PUSCH in the one uplink BWP, a first uplink symbol of the first PUSCH is expected to not be earlier than a first (next) uplink symbol at which a CP begins after a predetermined period of time after a last symbol of the PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Toshizo Nogami, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: 11291010
    Abstract: A traffic load can be determined in a telecommunications system using narrowband signal monitoring. Narrowband signals can be generated from a wideband uplink signal. A resource utilization profile can be estimated for a remote unit based on measured power profiles associated with the narrowband signals. Traffic load can be determined based on the resource utilization profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Luigi Tarlazzi, Keld Knut Lange
  • Patent number: 11283732
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for using a forwarding microchip to implement a network functions virtualization (NFV) backplane within a network device. In one example, processing circuitry of a forwarding microchip establishes a respective logical connection between each of a plurality of virtual ports of the forwarding microchip and each of a plurality of virtual ports configured for respective software-implemented virtual network functions (VNFs) executing on the network device. The processing circuitry receives packets via one or more physical ports of the forwarding microchip and forwards, using the logical connections between each of the plurality of virtual ports of the forwarding microchip and each of the plurality of virtual ports configured for the respective software-implemented VNFs, the packets to a Network Interface Controller (NIC) for forwarding to the plurality of virtual ports configured for the respective software-implemented VNFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudheendra Gopinath, Mallikarjun Tallapragada, Arun Patial
  • Patent number: 11284408
    Abstract: To take into account a passive intermodulation, resource blocks are associated with information indicating passive intermodulation impact of a corresponding resource block. The resource blocks are scheduled using the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Marko Fleischer, Rene Röschke, Jan Hellmann
  • Patent number: 11277789
    Abstract: A communication scheme and system converges a 5G communication system supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4G system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. Applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars, connected cars, health care, digital education, retails, and security and safety-related services), the communication scheme and system is based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. Methods of operation a terminal and a network for facilitating a 5G terminal registration procedure in a wireless communication system are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoyeon Lee, Sunghoon Kim, Youngkyo Baek, Jungje Son, Seungri Jin
  • Patent number: 11265940
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for supporting narrowband device-to-device wireless communication, including possible techniques for performing discovery in an off grid radio system. According to some embodiments, a wireless device may determine a number of synchronization signal repetitions to use for a narrowband device-to-device transmission. The wireless device may perform the transmission, including transmitting the determined number of synchronization signal repetitions. The transmission may include an indication of the number of synchronization signal repetitions used in the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Li Su
  • Patent number: 11265247
    Abstract: A method includes, with a hypervisor, receiving, with a Physical Function (PF) of a network device, a data packet destined for a virtual machine (VM), forwarding the data packet to the VM, detecting an event that indicates that a driver for a virtual network device associated with the VM is up, in response to detecting the event, programming a device address filter of the PF, and with the network device, after the device address filter is programmed, forwarding incoming data packets destined for the VM directly to a Virtual Function (VF) associated with the virtual network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Tsirkin
  • Patent number: 11265905
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to transmit and/or receive data adequately even when data scheduling methods that are different from those of existing LTE systems are applied. a receiving section that receives downlink control information, and a control section that controls receipt and/or transmission of data scheduled by the downlink control information, where data that is transmitted in the same slot as and/or a different slot from that of the downlink control information is scheduled by the downlink control information, and the control section identifies the position in the time direction where the data is allocated, based on the downlink control information and/or common control information that is common to predetermined user terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11258489
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide additional MAC functionality to support the PHY features of a wireless communication system framework. The additional MAC functionality aids in enabling feedback from wireless terminals to base stations. In some aspects of the invention the feedback is provided on an allocated feedback channel. In other aspects of the invention the feedback is provided by MAC protocol data units (PDU) in a header, mini-header, or subheader. The feedback may be transmitted from the wireless terminal to the base station autonomously by the wireless terminal or in response to an indication from the base station that feedback is requested. Aspects of the invention also provide for allocating feedback resources to form a dedicated feedback channel. One or more of these enhancements is included in a given implementation. Base stations and wireless terminals are also described upon which methods described herein can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hang Zhang, Mo-Han Fong, Peiying Zhu, Jianglei Ma, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 11246080
    Abstract: Reduced signaling overhead is provided in an apparatus and method for communications within a mesh network. The communications involve using two different beacon signals. A peer beacon contains time synchronization and resource management information to maintain existing links among one or more neighboring peer stations, while a separate network discovery beacon contains mesh network profile information that identifies the mesh network to aid network discovery for wireless communication stations wanting to join the mesh network. Embodiments describe coordination between peer stations to determine which stations are to send the network discovery beacons, so that at any given period of time not all stations need to be transmitting the discovery beacons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohamed Abouelseoud, Ramy Abdallah, Kazuyuki Sakoda
  • Patent number: 11228957
    Abstract: Techniques to select a network interface herein can be used with an application that is configured to send and receive data. These techniques include detecting an event indicative of a problem with network connectivity associated with a first network interface of the plurality of network interfaces in an application utilizing the first network interface; testing connectivity of each network interface of the plurality of network interfaces other than the first network interface to produce a set of candidate network interfaces; selecting a candidate network interface from the candidate network interfaces; and routing data for the application through the selected candidate network interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rajesh Gunnalan, Mihhail Konovalov, Tin Qian
  • Patent number: 11218980
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for transmission of messages between wireless transceiver devices including fields representing values such as, for example, a range between devices, time of transmission of a message or time of receipt of a previous message. In particular embodiments, message may also comprise fields to express a maximum error in values representing range, time of transmission of a message or time of receipt of a previous message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Carlos Horacio Aldana
  • Patent number: 11218996
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) before radio resource control connection setup completion. A by a base station (BS) generally includes transmitting a system information block, to a user equipment (UE), containing system information indicating a resource set of a plurality of predefined resource sets, each containing a plurality of resources. The BS transmits downlink control information on physical downlink control channel associated with a control channel element (CCE) index, to the UE, containing resource indicator (RI) bits to indicate a resource of the plurality of resources of the indicated resource set available for the UE to use for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) in a PUCCH. The BS monitors the indicated resource for the PUCCH transmission. A UE determines the resource based on the SI, RI bits, and CCE index, and transmits UCI in the PUCCH on the determined resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Renqiu Wang, Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11212224
    Abstract: System and method for isolating network traffic of multiple users across a network of a computing platform. For example, a method includes receiving data at a networking device of a computing platform. The networking device includes a plurality of routing tables. Each routing table of the plurality of routing tables is associated with a different user of multiple users of the computing platform. A user of the multiple users is identified based at least in part on the received data. In response to identifying the user of the multiple users based at least in part on the received data, a routing table of the plurality of routing tables is identified based at least in part on the identified user. A route from the identified routing table is determined based at least in part on the received data. The received data is sent across a network of the computing platform according to the determined route. The method is performed using one or more processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Austin, Matthew Williamson