Patents Examined by Kiet Tang
  • Patent number: 10841930
    Abstract: A wireless communication method, a base station and a terminal are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes determining, by a base station, a first resource and a second resource from a target resource, wherein the target resource is a resource shared by at least one terminal in a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) and at least one terminal in a second RAT, the first resource being a resource used by the terminal in the first RAT, and the second resource being a resource used by the terminal in the second RAT, sending, by the base station, first indication information to the terminal in the first RAT, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate the first resource to be used by the terminal in the first RAT and sending, by the base station, second indication information to the terminal in the second RAT, wherein the second indication information is used to indicate the second resource to be used by the terminal in the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Quanzhong Gao, Chaoyi Yan, Heng Xu, Chao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10834777
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more messages. The one or more messages comprise discontinuous reception configuration parameters comprising a value for a discontinuous reception inactivity timer. A first downlink control information is received that indicates a channel state information request; and no uplink packet transmission. The discontinuous reception inactivity timer is started in response to the first downlink control information indicating the channel state information request and no uplink packet transmission. A second downlink control information is received while the discontinuous reception inactivity timer is running. One or more transport blocks is transmitted based on the second downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Ofinnon, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Dinan, Ali Cirik, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon
  • Patent number: 10834732
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data using multiple paths in a wireless communication system using a distributed Media Access Control (MAC). More particularly, provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data that may select a path with a better channel status from multiple paths that include a direct path using a Line of Sight (LOS) and a relay path passing through a relay apparatus, in a wireless communication system that may transmit data via the LOS using a distributed MAC and a directional antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyoung Jin Kwon, Jin Kyeong Kim, Yong Sun Kim, Kyeongpyo Kim, Seung Eun Hong, Woo Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 10833976
    Abstract: A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving a packet of a traffic flow at an ingress node of a communications network; routing the packet to an egress node of the communications network via a first path comprising a tunnel if the packet was received from a node external to the communications network; and routing the packet to the egress node of the communications network via a second path that does not traverse the tunnel if the packet was received from a node internal to the communications network. The first path is identified by a first Forwarding Information Base (“FIB”) entry corresponding to the flow and the second path is identified by a second FIB entry corresponding to the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarek Saad, Clarence Filsfils, Muthurajah Sivabalan
  • Patent number: 10813015
    Abstract: A method (1100) in a wireless device (110) comprises obtaining (1104) a configuration for measurement management associated to cell definitions based on multiple signals, the configuration defining a first cell (125A) based on a first set of signals. The method comprises configuring (1108) measurement management associated to cell definitions based on multiple signals according to the obtained configuration. The method comprises performing (1112) one or more measurements on the first set of signals defining the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Pradeepa Ramachandra, Kristina Zetterberg
  • Patent number: 10812991
    Abstract: Mitigating interference between transmitters and receivers associated with satellite systems and mobile wireless systems may include receiving information associated with the transmitter, determining a distance between the transmitter and the receiver based on the received information, determining if the distance is less than a distance threshold, estimating an interference level based on determining that the distance is less than the distance threshold, determining if the estimated interference level exceeds an interference threshold, computing an angle between an antenna of the transmitter and the receiver based upon determining that the estimated interference exceeds the interference threshold, and directing, when receiving a signal, a main lobe of a receive antenna pattern of the receiver towards the signal, and forming nulls in the receive antenna pattern in a direction of at least one side lobe of a transmit pattern of the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Vishwanath Ramamurthi, Ozgur Dural, Arda Aksu
  • Patent number: 10813049
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for wireless communication are provided. In one configuration, an apparatus is configured to transmit a wake-up radio (WUR) signal, to determine to transmit a second signal within a SIFS after transmitting the WUR signal to increase medium reuse, and to transmit the second signal within the SIFS after transmitting the WUR signal based on the determination. The second signal may be a data, management, control, ACK, or CF-end frame to enable legacy devices that do not decode the WUR signal to avoid wasted airtime cause by EIFS after the WUR signal. In another configuration, the apparatus is configured to transmit a CTS-to-self frame, to determine to transmit a second signal within a SIFS after transmitting the CTS-to-self frame, and to transmit the second signal based on the determination. The second signal may be a WUR signal or an intermediate signal followed by a WUR signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yanjun Sun, Alfred Asterjadhi, Bin Tian, George Cherian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Lochan Verma
  • Patent number: 10805873
    Abstract: A set of functions, which comprises one or more access function and at least one network function, is provided in a telecommunication network. The telecommunication network is configured to provide compositions of functions based on the access function and the network function. Each composition of functions is uniquely identified by an identifier. The telecommunication network is further configured to provide to a terminal equipment one or more composition of functions based on the access function and the network function. The telecommunication network is further configured to make available the identifier of each composition of functions to the terminal equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xueli An, Chan Zhou, Riccardo Guerzoni, Riccardo Trivisonno, Alexandros Kaloxylos
  • Patent number: 10798624
    Abstract: Provided are a method in which a source distribution unit (DU) of a base station stops transmitting data to a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus supporting the method. The method may include: receiving, from a central unit (CU) of the base station, a message indicating to stop transmitting data to the UE; and stopping transmitting data to the UE, upon receiving the message from the CU of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Daewook Byun, Jian Xu, Jaewook Lee, Seokjung Kim
  • Patent number: 10797911
    Abstract: A first network device includes a processor configured to analyze a data stream entering a network on which the first network device is located to obtain a traffic characteristic of a target data stream, and advertise a Flow Specification (FlowSpec) route, where the FlowSpec route carries redirect indication information, the redirect indication information includes identification information, the identification information is used to uniquely identify a first virtual private network (VPN) instance in a second network device, the redirect indication information instructing to redirect the data stream including the traffic characteristic of the target data stream to the first VPN instance, the second network device is an edge device of a service provider network accessed by the network, and the first VPN instance is a target VPN instance to which the target data stream is redirected in the second network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunwan Zhuang, Haijun Xu, Haibo Wang, Zhenbin Li, Jia Che, Shuanglong Chen
  • Patent number: 10779336
    Abstract: The present application is to provide a method and a device for establishing wireless connection through a first application on user equipment. The present application is based on the connection request sent by the second application that works in the same user equipment as the first application, establishes the wireless connection between the user equipment and the target wireless access point according to the access information of the target wireless access point corresponding to the connection request through the first application. Herein, executive codes corresponding to the connection operations are not needed to be embedded and executed in the second application, thereby security risks to the second application brought by executing unknown codes of other applications in the second application can be avoided. Meanwhile, risks of information leakage are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI ZHANGXIAN NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Su, Jian Yang
  • Patent number: 10771352
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product of prioritizing network services is provided. Such prioritization may include a better level of service, more timely system response and/or preferential treatment of traffic. In an embodiment, prioritization is controlled by defining modes and levels of prioritization typically based on criteria, such as the value of a transaction, the standing of a user, or the type of transaction. Prioritization can also be established, for example, for a length of time or for a given transaction. The modes of prioritization may include remapping TCP ports to which a communication is directed, remapping uniform resource locators and/or Internet Protocol addresses to which a communication is directed and/or tagging communications with quality of service information. The levels of prioritization define the type(s) of priority service offered to a user, such as timeliness of system response and preference of traffic treatment, and may be arbitrarily defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: NETPRECEPT LTD.
    Inventors: Mark Jasen, Guy Daley
  • Patent number: 10764021
    Abstract: There is a need to support narrowband TDD frame structure for narrowband communications. The present disclosure provides a solution by supporting one or more narrowband TDD frame structure(s) for narrowband communications. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. In a further aspect, the apparatus may receive information associated with a narrowband TDD frame structure having a first contiguous uplink transmission duration. The apparatus may transmit a first portion of an uplink transmission comprising a first number of slots in the first contiguous uplink transmission duration. In certain aspects, the uplink transmission may have a duration longer than the first contiguous uplink transmission duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Xiao feng Wang, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 10757606
    Abstract: A gateway comprises a transceiver configured to receive a sequence of data packets on a Radio Access Bearer, RAB, from a core network, a processor configured to obtain a first distribution of the received sequence of data packets into a first sub-sequence of data packets and at least a second sub-sequence of data packets, wherein the transceiver is configured to forward the first sub-sequence of data packets on the RAB to a master access node, forward the second sub-sequence of data packets on the RAB to a secondary access node. The master access node comprises a processor, a transceiver configured to receive a first sub-sequence of data packets of a sequence of data packets carried by a RAB from a gateway, wherein the RAB is associated with a user device, and to forward at least one part of the first sub-sequence of data packets on the RAB to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Panagiotis Fotiadis, Pablo Soldati
  • Patent number: 10749708
    Abstract: Transport packets comprising Universal Serial Bus (USB) packet data are transported over a communications network in a manner adapted to the USB context of the USB data transfers the USB packet data belongs to. A transport packet comprising USB packet data has assigned thereto at least one quality-of-service parameter value that depends on the USB context of the USB data transfer applicable to the USB packet data. A USB-data source device is configured to run a computer program causing it to expose the respective USB contexts of the USB data transfers applicable to USB packet data of the transport packets it outputs. The USB-data source device (or its sink) may inform the network of the relationship between transport packets and USB contexts of USB data transfers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Konrad Gawda, Kamil Dabrowski, Sebastian Nowosielski
  • Patent number: 10743343
    Abstract: A method performed by a first network node for reducing the number of colliding transmissions in a mesh network is provided. The first network node and the second network node are configured to use periodic advertising for transmissions in the mesh network. The first network node calculates (402a) a first duration related to a transmission of data of a first size to be transmitted to the second network node. The first network node further calculates (402b) a second duration related to a period of time until a reception or a transmission of data is scheduled for second network node will occur. Based on the first and second duration the first network node decides (403) whether or not to decrease the first size of the transmission to a second size, so that first duration becomes shorter than the second duration. The first network then performs (404) the transmission according to the outcome of the deciding (403).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Pontus Arvidson, Roman Chirikov, Piergiuseppe di Marco, Per Skillermark
  • Patent number: 10735598
    Abstract: A system and method for voice communication between sender users and recipient users, and the sender users and external network entities is provided. The system includes a plurality of voice communication domains interacting with each other and with network entities, and a cross-domain coordinator configured to coordinate interaction between the voice communication domains over Internet. Each voice communication domain includes a plurality of personal communication devices (PCDs) associated with the corresponding users, and a voice communication server deployed within the voice communication domain to control operation of the PCDs. Each PCD is controlled and operated by voice user commands provided verbally, and is configured to provide voice communication between a sender user and a recipient user within the same voice communication domain, between the users of different voice communication domains, and between the sender user and the external network entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Echo SmartLab LLC.
    Inventors: Vladimir Dmitriyevich Ponomarev, Dmitrii Maksimovich Ponomarev, Sergei Vladimirovich Drozhilkin, Nikolay Nikolayevich Mikhaylov
  • Patent number: 10716132
    Abstract: A wireless communication base station device, terminal device, and method have reduced signaling while maintaining high scheduling gain. A judgment unit pre-stores a correspondence between the number of code words and the number of clusters to reduce the maximum value for the number of clusters allocated to each terminal as the number of code words increases, and thus determines the maximum value for the number of clusters based on the number of code words acquired. Based on the number of code words for a transmission signal from a terminal, an estimated value for the reception quality, and the maximum value for the number of clusters that is output by the judgment unit, a scheduling unit schedules the allocation of the transmission signal transmitted by each terminal to a transmission band frequency (frequency resource) so as not to exceed the maximum value for the number of clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino, Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi
  • Patent number: 10715440
    Abstract: A system for resolving next hops in a distributed manner includes a plurality of next hop resolution subsystems, each of the plurality of next hop resolution subsystems including (1) a next hop registry, (2) a partial-view tree storing a local instance of next hop resolution information, and (3) a full-view tree storing a local instance of next hop resolution information. The system (1) receives a request to resolve a next hop; (2) obtains a plurality of partial results using the partial-view trees of the next hop resolution subsystems; (3) select a best one of the plurality of partial results; and 4) replies to the request using the selected best one of the plurality of partial results. The full-view trees are updated such that their contents tend to converge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaihari V. Loganathan, Sanjay Khanna
  • Patent number: 10715959
    Abstract: A method includes accessing, at a base station of a wireless communications network, information identifying a plurality of user devices in a coverage area of the base station. The method includes determining a forecasted content request for media content at a particular time for delivery to a first user device of the plurality of user devices based on media consumption data for the first user device. The method includes receiving, from a second user device of the plurality of user devices, a request for the media content at a time before the particular time. The method includes sending an instruction to the first user device that directs the first user device store the media content received via a multicast transmission of the media content. The method also includes sending the media content via the multicast transmission to the first user device and to the second user device responsive to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lee Begeja, David Crawford Gibbon, Raghuraman Gopalan, Zhu Liu, Yadong Mu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray, Eric Zavesky