Patents Examined by Kyaw Z Soe
  • Patent number: 11096136
    Abstract: A method is provided for synchronizing timing in phase and frequency of clocks associated with a plurality of radio nodes (RNs) in a small cell radio access network (RAN) having an access controller operatively coupled to each of the RNs. In accordance with the method, a donor list is generated for each given RN in the RAN. The donor list represents an ordered list of potential wireless access points that are able to serve as a source of a wireless sync signal for the given RN. The donor lists are distributed to the respective RNs. An access point is selected by each of the RNs from their respective donor lists to use as a sync signal source. Each of the RNs synchronize their respective clocks in phase and frequency using wireless sync signals received from the respective selected access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Chen, Olivier Duval, Hithesh Nama
  • Patent number: 11089390
    Abstract: A configured mode of operation of a wireless sensor node unit can selectively activate a first subset of sensor channels of data and selectively deactivate a second subset of sensor channels of data. The configured mode of operation customizes the sensor functionality in the wireless sensor node unit in support of the delivery of data streams to customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Senseware, Inc.
    Inventor: Julien G. Stamatakis
  • Patent number: 11082201
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for preventing message loops in communications among network devices. The techniques include preventing messages from being returned to a sending node and preventing messages from being sent more than once to any particular node. Such message loops may reverberate among network devices before triage efforts are able to stop the loop. As such, message loop prevention may help decrease the computational load among networked devices. At scale, the techniques may help prevent an exponential increase in data traffic that may propagate widely over the network. Loop prevention techniques may even prevent disabling of a network due to data traffic overload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Saravanan Arunachalam
  • Patent number: 11071030
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. An apparatus, a method and a system for system information acquisition, beam failure recovery, and cell reselection in wireless communication system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11039447
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for receiving a downlink signal and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method for receiving a downlink signal comprises the steps of: receiving first time offset information and second time offset information from a base station, wherein the first time offset information and the second time offset information each indicate the time offset between the reception time of a specific signal and the reception time of a specific channel associated with the specific signal, and the first time offset information is set to have a length shorter than that of the second time offset information; and monitoring the specific signal at a time position determined on the basis of one of the first time offset information and the second time offset information, wherein the one offset information is determined on the basis of the capability of a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seunggye Hwang, Changhwan Park, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 11038717
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides mechanisms for identifying a source location in a service chaining topology. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining, at an egress interface of a host that hosts a virtual machine (“VM”), whether a service plane MAC address (“spmac”) in a packet header of a packet, provided to the egress interface, is the same as an inner destination MAC address in the packet; in response to determining that the spmac in the packet header of the packet, provided to the egress interface, is the same as the inner destination MAC address in the packet: encapsulating the packet with a destination virtual tunnel endpoint (“VTEP”) address retrieved from a mapping of VTEP-labels onto VTEP addresses; and causing providing the packet from the egress interface of the host that hosts the VM to a source host that hosts a source guest virtual machine (“GVM”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Mansi Babbar, Subin Cyriac Mathew, Chidambareswaran Raman
  • Patent number: 11032828
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may signal an indication to designate resources in a slot for uplink and downlink communications with a user equipment (UE). In some cases, resources may further be designated for one or more inactive durations within the slot, where the UE enters an inactive state and the base station refrains from communicating with the UE during the inactive duration(s). Accordingly, the UE may suspend communications with the base station, enter a sleep-mode operation, refrain from monitoring downlink channels, or a combination thereof. The base station may signal this designation of resources via semi-persistent signaling, dynamic signaling, or combinations thereof. Additionally, the designation of resources may be indicated by slot format indices in a slot format table or a slot format indicator table, where the resources in the slot may include the designations of the inactive durations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11026199
    Abstract: A method of user equipment (UE) for system information transmission in a wireless communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Han Nam, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Li Guo, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11012315
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for creating a lightweight snapshot of a network fabric without having to capture snapshots at a predefined interval. Instead, the snapshot system uses a data store to capture state changes to network objects in the network fabric. Because the data store captures these state changes (along with timestamps indicating when these changes occurred), the snapshot system can retroactively generate snapshots of the network fabric at any desired time. In one embodiment, the snapshot system includes an event detector that determines when to capture snapshots. Once an event is identified by the event detector, the snapshot system can use the historical changes in the data store to retroactively generate a first snapshot to capture the overall state of the network fabric before the event and a second snapshot to capture the overall state of the network fabric after the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghu R. Arur, Rachana A. Soni
  • Patent number: 11012360
    Abstract: A device for determining oversubscription of a first virtualized network function (70) in order to enable flow control in the virtualization of at least one node in a communication network comprises a first virtualized network function (70) having packet handling resources comprising at least one queue (108, 112, 114, 120) and being a downstream network function located downstream from at least one second upstream network function in a packet flow between the network functions. The device comprises flow control functionality (79) set to monitor at least one queue (108, 112, 114, 120), determine if the first virtualized network function (70) is oversubscribed based on the monitoring, and generate, in case the first virtualized network function is determined to be oversubscribed, an instruction for at least one upstream network function to change its transmission rate to the first virtualized network function (70) in order to reduce the oversubscription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ashwani Kumar Mehra, Brian Alleyne, Chakri Padala, Chandramouli Sargor
  • Patent number: 11006453
    Abstract: A CCA level is made to be variable efficiently while maintaining the fairness relating to acquisition of a transmission opportunity by wireless terminal apparatuses, and thus efficiency of a radio resource is improved. Provided is a terminal apparatus that performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus, and includes; a MAC frame categorization unit categorizing MAC frames, in each of which media access control header is attached to transmission data, based on a type of MAC frame; and a QoS control unit performing a carrier sense using a first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a first category that results from the categorization by the MAC frame categorization unit, and performing the carrier sense using a second CCA level different from the first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a second category different from the first category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera
  • Patent number: 10999846
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product where a UE receives a RACH configuration, comprising time/frequency resources for each RACH Preamble and a corresponding Msg1 Data Part. The UE selects the RACH preamble, transmits the selected RACH preamble, and ascertains whether the selected RACH preamble is associated with a 2-step RA procedure. The UE determines at least one resource for Msg1 Data Part based on the selected RACH preamble. The UE performs a LBT preceding the Msg1 Data Part at a predetermined point in time and transmits the Msg1 Data Part provided that the channel is unoccupied based on the LBT. Likewise, a gNB sending a RACH configuration to the UE, receiving a RACH preamble back, ascertaining that RACH preamble is associated with a 2-step RACH procedure, and determining at least one resource for Msg1 Data Part based on the received RACH preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Timo Lunttila, Esa Tiirola, Kari Hooli
  • Patent number: 10999823
    Abstract: There is provided a device that acquires resource information indicating a radio resource for use in device-to-device (D2D) communication between a first terminal device belonging to a first public land mobile network (PLMN) and a second terminal device belonging to a second PLMN; and controls D2D communication between the first terminal device and the second terminal device based on the resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10992493
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for augmenting a building control system domain. A sensor network platform can be configured to collect data based on measurements from sensors outside of a legacy building control system domain, and to present information based on the collected data to a known interface supported by the legacy building control system. In one embodiment, the collected data can undergo customized processing by an operation center outside of the legacy building control system domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Senseware, Inc.
    Inventor: Julien G. Stamatakis
  • Patent number: 10993277
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform enhanced duplication handling and/or failure handling procedures with a network, including one or more base station. The wireless device may connect to a network using multiple paths. The wireless device may autonomously determine whether to duplicate one or more transmissions to the network on the multiple paths. In the event of a radio link control failure associated with one bearer, the wireless device may suspend transmission of the failed bearer while continuing to use one or more other bearers for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 10986635
    Abstract: A wireless terminal capable of communicating with multiple wireless base stations through a network in which multiple wireless communication methods are used in a mixed manner. A storage unit stores, as a communication history, at least location information for the wireless terminal and information pertaining to the wireless base station at the time of communication with each wireless base station. An acquisition unit acquires the location information for the wireless terminal. On the basis of the acquired location information for the wireless terminal and the communication history stored in the storage unit a derivation unit derives a connection base station from the multiple wireless base stations, as the wireless base station to be used in data communication. A communication unit performs data communication with the derived connection base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Kato, Noriyuki Shimizu, Masaaki Yoshino, Yasuhiro Aoyama
  • Patent number: 10986683
    Abstract: Provided are a data communication method and system, an electronic device, a chip and a storage medium. The data communication method includes: establishing a wireless communication connection with a preset first receiving terminal, and notifying the connection information to a second receiving terminal. The connection information includes information of a communication channel for performing wireless communication between the transmitting terminal and the first receiving terminal. The connection information is used to instruct the second receiving terminal to monitor communication data in the communication channel. When the second receiving terminal knows after monitoring the communication data, data required to be transmitted to the first receiving terminal is transmitted to the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventors: Fei Liu, Dekun Chen, Guochao Yin, Jun Zhou, Long Xie, Fahai Chen, Qingbin Li
  • Patent number: 10972926
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided to for RRM measurement in the new radio (NR) access system. In one novel aspect, multiple transmission (TX) beams are measured by a user equipment (UE) with multiple receiving (RX) beams, stores the measured TX-RX pair in a measurement matrix, and calculates a consolidation measurement for each cell based on a consolidation rule. In one embodiment, the consolidation rule indicates generating a RX consolidated vector by consolidating all RX beams with the same TX beam ID, and subsequently, generating the consolidation measurement for the cell based on the RX consolidated vector. In another embodiment, the measurement matrix is layer-3 filtered and consolidated. In yet another embodiment, the UE sends a measurement report, either contains the consolidated measurement or the measurement vector, to the NR network based on the consolidation measurement. In one embodiment, the network performs consolidation on the received measurement vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Zhang, Chia-Hao Yu, Li-Chuan Tseng, Ming-Po Chang
  • Patent number: 10966192
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a terminal, set by a first uplink carrier, receives downlink control information from a base station in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving setting information of a second uplink carrier through an upper layer; receiving, from the base station, the downlink control information for transmission of an uplink signal through the first uplink carrier or the second uplink carrier; and transmitting, to the base station, the uplink signal on the basis of the downlink control information, wherein the last bit of padding bits of the downlink control information is indicator information indicating either the first uplink carrier or the second uplink carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Seonwook Kim, Duckhyun Bae, Huayue Song, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi, Hyunho Lee, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10966110
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism that can improve the continuity of beam tracking. [Solution] A terminal apparatus, including: a communication unit configured to perform communication with a base station configured to form a plurality of beams and perform communication; and a control unit configured to report first report information for downlink user data related to reception results of a group of downlink reference signals including a plurality of downlink reference signals transmitted from the base station using the beams and second report information for beam tracking intended for the terminal apparatus by the base station to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano