Patents Examined by Kiet Tang
  • Patent number: 10615906
    Abstract: A system and method for adapting code rate are provided. A method for a first communication device to transmit a resource assignment to at least one communication device includes assigning at least one transmission resource to transmit the resource assignment, adapting a code rate of an encoded payload based on the at least one transmission resource and a threshold, thereby producing an adapted payload, and transmitting the adapted payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony C. K. Soong, Philippe Sartori, Brian Classon, Zhongfeng Li, Zhengwei Gong
  • Patent number: 10587334
    Abstract: A method and a system are provided for use in a satellite communications network in which broadcasting services are provided to a mobile terminal. The method comprises: duplicating bits comprised in communications which the satellite is about to broadcast, thereby forming a first stream of bits and a second stream of bits; conveying the first stream of bits in an encoded form along a satellite channel whereas the second stream of bits is conveyed in an encoded form along a terrestrial channel; and combining bits conveyed along the satellite channel with bits conveyed along the terrestrial channel in order to obtain a combined stream of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SATIXFY ISRAEL LTD.
    Inventors: Doron Rainish, Yoel Gat, Avraham Freedman
  • Patent number: 10587378
    Abstract: A downlink information processing method, user equipment, a base station, and a communications system are disclosed. In one aspect, a method performed by a terminal device such as user equipment (UE) includes: determining that a cell-specific frequency shift of downlink information is equal to a cell-specific frequency shift of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), determining a resource element location according to the cell-specific frequency shift of the downlink information, where a duration of a transmission time interval (TTI) to which the resource element location belongs is less than or equal to a time length of one timeslot, receiving the downlink information at the resource element location, and demodulating downlink data according to the downlink information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Sha Ma
  • Patent number: 10575232
    Abstract: There is provided a communication control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a result of measurement by a terminal device, and a control unit configured to control switching of an operation mode of a base station of a small cell overlapping with a macro cell partially or wholly based on the result of the measurement. The switching is switching of the operation mode from one of a first mode and a second mode to the other. The first mode is a mode in which the base station can perform wireless communication with a device in the small cell, and the second mode is a mode that consumes less power than the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Ryota Kimura, Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 10568088
    Abstract: A method allocates radio resources to a plurality of communications in a broadband telecommunication system, each communication being associated with at least one piece of user equipment, at least one of the communications being associated with a single piece of user equipment, the radio resources being distributed according to time and frequency between blocks of resources. The plurality of communications forms at least one group of communications and at least the same block of resources is allocated to the group of communications in order to transmit the plurality of communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS DS SLC
    Inventors: Eric Georgeaux, Philippe Mege, Laurent Martinod, Hang Nguyen, Alina-Alexandra Florea
  • Patent number: 10567059
    Abstract: A method (300) for determining channel state information includes: receiving (301) a downlink signal, wherein the downlink signal comprises a transport block comprising a plurality of code blocks, each code block of the plurality of code blocks comprising a plurality of resource elements; determining (302) a worst case code block of the plurality of code blocks based on at least one of noise or interference experienced by the plurality of resource elements of the respective code blocks; and determining (303) a metric indicative of a channel state information based on the worst case code block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Holger Neuhaus, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Rajarajan Balraj, Axel Huebner
  • Patent number: 10548162
    Abstract: A user apparatus according to an embodiment is provided. The user apparatus communicates with a base station in a wireless communication system. The user apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain resource allocation information in which downlink signal reception quality is associated with radio resources used for uplink signal transmission; a measurement unit configured to measure the downlink signal reception quality; and a transmission unit configured to determine a radio resource of the radio resources used for uplink signal transmission by comparing the resource allocation information with the measured downlink signal reception quality, and transmit an uplink signal by using the determined radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Anass Benjebbour, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 10548020
    Abstract: One method includes identifying a listen-before-talk (LBT) silencing criterion between each pair of wireless devices in a plurality of wireless devices; dividing the plurality of wireless devices into a plurality of independent sets based at least in part on the identified LBT silencing criterions; determining, for a location, an aggregated interference value for each independent set; determining an aggregated interference value for the location based at least in part on the determined aggregated interference values for each independent set; and selectively adjusting a wireless communication parameter of at least one of the wireless devices to alter the aggregated interference value for the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Farhad Meshkati, Tamer Kadous, Mehmet Yavuz, Chirag Sureshbhai Patel
  • Patent number: 10548106
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method in which a terminal transmits a sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) in a wireless communication system, the method including: selecting an SLSS ID by means of a terminal which directly receives a signal from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to obtain synchronization; and transmitting the SLSS generated on the basis of the selected SLSS ID, wherein the selected SLSS ID is selected from an SLSS ID set, which is identical to one used when a terminal, which directly receives a synchronization signal from a base station and selects a base station timing as synchronization, transmits the SLSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 10542052
    Abstract: A first media device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for multi-area grouping of devices. The first media device includes a transceiver and a processor coupled to the transceiver. The processor detects a second media device that is not subscribed to the media group. The processor assigns the detected second media device to the media group. The processor determines a total amount of media devices in the media group. The processor recommends a multi-channel configuration for the media group based on the determined total amount of media devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David H. Law, Scott R. Ysebert, Sheng Kai Tang
  • Patent number: 10536952
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a feedback signal in a cellular mobile communication system is provided. The method of transmitting feedback in a Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) system, includes receiving feedback set information including allocation information of a Channel Status Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) transmitted for estimating a channel of a User Equipment (UE), receiving IDentification (ID) information for identifying a CoMP set including CSI-RS allocation information from a cell operating in a CoMP mode, extracting the CoMP set using the ID information and a feedback set, detecting a first feedback mode and first feedback timing with a first CSI-RS not included in the CoMP set among CSI-RSs included in the feedback set, and generating and transmitting feedback with respect to the first CSI-RS according to the detected first feedback mode and the first feedback timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Juho Lee, Kiil Kim, Younsun Kim
  • Patent number: 10536870
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method (90) performed in a network node (2) for handling simultaneous measurement signaling and data communication with a communications device (3). The method (90) comprises transmitting (91) data to the communication device (3) using a transmission mode corresponding to the communication device (3) using a first number of reception elements (123, 125); establishing (92) a need for the communication device (3) to perform measurements and a capability of the communication device (3) for receiving measurement signaling using a second number of reception elements (123, 125) while receiving data using a reduced number of reception elements (123, 125); sending (93), to the communication device (3), a request to initialize the measurements, the request comprising a measurement configuration; and transmitting (94) the data using a transmission mode corresponding to the communication device (3) using the reduced number of reception elements (123, 125) for the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Joakim Axmon, Magnus Åström
  • Patent number: 10523392
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for transmission of downlink mobile reference signals (MRSs). The method can include transmitting an MRS that includes a first part MRS and an additional part MRS, wherein the first part MRS includes first MRS bursts each multiplexed with a synchronization signal block (SS block), and the additional part MRS includes second MRS bursts and is configurable to be transmitted or not transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Li Lin, Pei-Kai Liao, Chien-Chang Li
  • Patent number: 10524286
    Abstract: An electronic device that transmits a frame to a second electronic device is described. In particular, during operation, an interface circuit in the electronic device (such as an access point in a WLAN) may transmit the frame to the second electronic device using a Wi-Fi communication protocol. The frame may include information cancelling a previously specified NAV protected time in a preamble of the frame. For example, the information may include a CF-End indication. Moreover, the information may be included in a MAC header of the frame and, more generally, in a preamble of a high efficiency (HE) physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU). Furthermore, the electronic device may transmit the frame in response to a block acknowledgment (BA) from the second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jarkko L. Kneckt, Ashok Ranganath, Yong Liu, Christiaan A. Hartman, Guoqing Li, Oren Shani, Joonsuk Kim
  • Patent number: 10524300
    Abstract: A first audio device exchanges first control signals with a source device and thereby receives first audio signals from the source device. A second audio device exchanges second control signals with the first audio device including information the second audio device needs to receive the first audio signals from the source device. The first control signals include communications using Bluetooth BR/EDR protocols and establish a first Bluetooth link for audio streaming from the source device to the first audio device. The second control signals include communications using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocols and transfer to the second audio device parameters of the first Bluetooth link, such that the second audio device can receive and decode an audio stream transmitted from the source device to the first audio device over the first Bluetooth link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Joji Ueda, Nathan A. Blagrove, Naganagouda B. Patil
  • Patent number: 10516596
    Abstract: A system includes spine switches, leaf switches, information processing apparatuses, and a processor configured to allocate a first leaf switch group to a first job, the first leaf switch group corresponding to a first column in a lattice part including points other than points at infinity of a finite projective plane corresponding to a Latin square fat-tree, and allocate a second leaf switch group to a second job, the second leaf switch group corresponding a second column, and transmit first schedule information on first communication related to the first job to a first information processing apparatus coupled to the first leaf switch group, and transmit second schedule information on second communication related to the second job to a second information processing apparatus coupled to the second leaf switch group, wherein the first and second communication are collective communication in which each of the information processing apparatuses communicates with others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro Shimizu, Kohta Nakashima
  • Patent number: 10512089
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining a 5G communication system that supports higher data transmission rates after 4G systems with IoT technology and to the system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied for intelligent services based on 5G communication technology and IoT related technology (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam-Jeong Lee, Sung-Ho Chae, Cheol Jeong, Jae-Won Kim, Jeong-Ho Park, Jae-Weon Cho
  • Patent number: 10506560
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for transmitting control plane messages in a communication network. Messaging is between two logical nodes, e.g. gNBs. Logical nodes include multiple networked sub-entities. Multiple sub-interfaces couple a pair of logical nodes. One sub-interface is selected based on keys associated with content of a message. Key-to-sub-interface associations are stored in memory. The keys may be identifiers included in the control plane message, such as UE IDs, Cell IDs, etc. Packets carrying the control plane message are configured and transmitted using the selected sub-interface. A key-to-sub-interface association may be established or updated when a control plane message is received via the sub-interface and includes the key, or in response to a rejection message specifying the correct sub-interface to use. A middle box entity may be provided in a logical node for each sub-interface and configured to act at least initially to forward messages to appropriate sub-entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Aaron James Callard
  • Patent number: 10485051
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for updating stored User Equipment (UE) context information upon re-suspend of the UE in response to a resume request from the UE. In some embodiments, a method in a UE comprises transmitting a Radio Resource Control (RRC) resume request message and, in response to the RRC resume request message, receiving an RRC connection release message with an indication for suspend. The method further comprises, in response to receiving the RRC connection release message with an indication for suspend, replacing information in a stored Access Stratum (AS) context of the UE with new information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gunnar Mildh, Icaro L. J. da Silva
  • Patent number: 10484278
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting an application associated with a given IP flow and differentially forwarding packets based on determined application are provided. According to one embodiment, an initial Internet Protocol (IP) packet of an IP flow is received by a network device. An application with which the initial IP packet is associated is determined by the network device. Based on the determined application, a forwarding rule to be applied to the initial IP packet is identified by the network device. Thereafter, the initial IP packet and subsequent IP packets associated with the IP flow are forwarded by the network device based on the identified forwarding rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Lopez