Patents Examined by Lakeram Jangbahadur
  • Patent number: 11223577
    Abstract: One embodiment describes a network system. The system includes a primary enclosure including a network switch system that includes a plurality of physical interface ports. A first one of the plurality of physical interface ports is to communicatively couple to a network. The system further includes a sub-enclosure comprising a network interface card (NIC) to which a computer system is communicatively coupled and a downlink extension module (DEM) that is communicatively coupled with the NIC and a second one of the plurality of physical interface ports of the network switch system to provide network connectivity of the computer system to the network via the network switch system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Paul Vu, Guodong Zhang, Mike Witkowski, John Butler, Robert Teisberg
  • Patent number: 11218925
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, by a secondary node of a third radio access technology (RAT) that is operating as a secondary node for an inter-radio access technology (inter-RAT) dual connectivity connection with a user device from a master node of a first RAT that is operating as a master node for the inter-RAT dual connectivity connection with the user device, a release request including a forward without sequence number indication that instructs the secondary node of the third RAT to forward, without sequence numbers, data for the dual connectivity connection to a target node of a second RAT, wherein the second RAT is different than the first RAT; and forwarding, by the secondary node of the third RAT towards the target node of the second RAT, via a data forwarding path that omits the master node of the first RAT, data without sequence numbers to the target node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jürgen Mayer, Krzysztof Maliga, Jean-Michel Pugeat, Krzysztof Kordybach
  • Patent number: 11219075
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a mobility service are described. A method for providing a mobility service includes receiving a request from a user. The request includes a mobility device to assist the user and at least one logistical factor. Logistical factors may include timing, an origin, or a destination. The method also includes scheduling the mobility device and a companion vehicle for the user based, at least in part on, the at least one logistical factor. The companion vehicle provides the user transportation on at least a portion of a route between the origin and the destination. The method also includes generating data based on providing the user transportation. The generated data includes one or more of request data associated with the request, user data associated with the progress of the user on the route, mobility device data associated with the mobility device, and companion vehicle data associated with the companion vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: James R. Keller
  • Patent number: 11190958
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes at least one transmitter and at least one receiver. The transmitter is configured to establish wireless link parameters and transmit a data communication using the wireless link parameters. The receiver is configured to receive the data communication, automatically identify one or more of the wireless link parameters using the data, and extract a payload using the identified wireless link parameters. Prior to receiving the data communication, the receiver requires limited information concerning the wireless link parameters established by the transmitter. The wireless link parameters can include selectable aspects such as one or more of a transmission channel, a transmission data rate, a modulation format, a transmission power, a packet format, and a channel coding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Cornelius O'Mahony, Michael O'Brien, Andre Wolokita, Gina Aquilano, Sean Williams
  • Patent number: 11177908
    Abstract: A communication method for transmitting a block acknowledgment (BlockAck) frame is presented. The communication method includes receiving a plurality of frames from a transmitting device, wherein the payload of a frame may consist of either fragmented or unfragmented packet, recording the receive status of the frames, generating a BlockAck frame that contains at least one Bitmap field used to indicate the receive status of the frames, the number of bits allocated in the Bitmap field for a packet being variable and transmitting the BlockAck frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Lei Huang
  • Patent number: 11172382
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device capable of coverage enhancement in a wireless telecommunication system including receiving a signal from a base station within the wireless telecommunication system, measuring the received signal strength of the received signal, comparing the measured signal strength with at least one threshold value, and selecting a mode of operation of coverage enhancement based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Martin Warwick Beale, Basuki Priyanto
  • Patent number: 11172383
    Abstract: Techniques for operating a wireless network in a plurality of radio operating environments are disclosed. In some embodiments, an apparatus receives a first parameter value set that is selected from a group of multiple parameter value sets, wherein the first parameter value set is appropriate for a first target radio operating environment that corresponds to one or more of: a first level of mobility of user devices or a first range of wireless transmission. In some embodiments, the apparatus is reconfigured to receive wireless broadcast transmissions from a second broadcast transmitter using a second parameter value set that is appropriate for a second target radio operating environment. The first and second broadcast transmitters may be the same or different. The parameter value sets may include a first parameter based upon which the apparatus is configured to determine subcarrier spacing and a second parameter that indicates a cyclic prefix size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Coherent Logix, Incorporated
    Inventors: Tommy K. Eng, Kevin A. Shelby
  • Patent number: 11172538
    Abstract: In a transmission device, a signal processing circuit generates an aggregate physical layer convergence protocol data unit (A-PPDU) by adding a guard interval to each of a first part of a first physical layer convergence protocol data unit (PPDU) transmitted over each of a first through L'th channel of a predetermined channel bandwidth, where L is an integer of 2 or greater, a second part of the first PPDU transmitted over each of an (L+1)'th through P'th channel, which is a variable channel bandwidth that is N times the predetermined channel bandwidth, where N is an integer of 2 or greater and P is an integer of L+1 or greater, and a second PPDU transmitted over the (L+1)'th through P'th channel. A wireless circuit transmits the A-PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takenori Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Masataka Irie
  • Patent number: 11166327
    Abstract: Systems may establish a Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) session during a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) outage. The systems may include Network Functions (NF) that perform steps for establishing the SIP session and/or bypassing the HSS experiencing the outage. For instance, an Interrogating (I)-Call Session Control Function (CSCF) may modify a terminating message received from a User Equipment (UE) to generate a modified terminating message, and send one or more instances (e.g., forks) of the modified terminating message to one or more candidate Serving (S)-CSCFs. A particular S-CSCF of the candidate S-CSCFs may comprise the registered S-CSCF and may respond to an instance of the modified terminating message. In some embodiments, the I-CSCF may establish the SIP session by sending an instance of the modified terminating message to a designated S-CSCF. The designated S-CSCF may determine which candidate S-CSCF comprises the registered S-CSCF, for instance, by querying the candidate S-CSCFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkata Kondeti, Karthik Chandrasekaran
  • Patent number: 11159451
    Abstract: An endpoint group (EPG) can be stretched between the sites so that endpoints at different sites can be assigned to the same stretched EPG. Because the sites can use different bridge domains when establishing the stretched EPGs, the first time a site transmits a packet to an endpoint in a different site, the site learns or discovers a path to the destination endpoint. The site can use BGP to identify the site with the host and use a multicast tunnel to reach the site. A unicast tunnel can be used to transmit future packets to the destination endpoint. Additionally, a stretched EPG can be segmented to form a micro-stretched EPG. Filtering criteria can be used to identify a subset of the endpoints in the stretched EPG that are then assigned to the micro-stretched EPG, which can have different policies than the stretched EPG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Javed Asghar, Sridhar Vallepalli, Umamaheswararao Karyampudi, Srinivas Kotamraju
  • Patent number: 11159914
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an island tracking area code detection and remedial service is provided. A device may detect an island tracking area code cell based on a predicted optimal tracking area code. The device calculates scores for neighbor cells and their corresponding tracking area codes based on the distances of the neighbor cells from a target cell. The device may select the predicted optimal tracking area code based on these scores. The device may use the predicted optimal tracking area code as a basis to determine whether a tracking area code assigned to the target cell is an island tracking area code cell. The device may perform a remedial measure when an island tracking area code cell is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Winter, Xia Li
  • Patent number: 11153033
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting signals on a PUSCH in a wireless communication system are provided. Specifically, a method performed by a terminal includes receiving resource information for transmitting uplink data and channel state information (CSI) on a PUSCH from a base station; receiving first downlink control information (DCI) including control information on slot timing related to the uplink data transmission from the base station; comparing a first time related to computation of the uplink data and CSI and a second time related to computation of only the CSI; and transmitting, if a value of the slot timing is greater than the second time and smaller than the first time, only the CSI on the PUSCH to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Hyungtae Kim, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11147086
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first processor configured to perform wireless communication with a local area data network (LADN), and a second processor electrically connected with the first processor. The first processor is configured to receive a first message from the LADN indicating that a wireless communication session with the LADN is deactivated because the electronic device has departed from a geographic service area of the LADN, after receiving the first message, and transmit a second message to the second processor indicating that the wireless communication session is deactivated. The second processor is configured to terminate generation of a data packet for uplink transmission after receiving the second message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jihwan Kim, Kyunghoon Lee, Soomin Lee, Hyejeong Kim, Sangho Lee, Mooyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11140642
    Abstract: A wireless network data communication system includes a plurality of slave nodes and a central processing unit. Each slave node is assigned thereto a transmission time interval and is configured to transmit data based on its assigned transmission time interval. The central processing unit is in signal communication with the slave nodes to receive transmitted data. The central processing unit is further configured to identify a given slave node from among the plurality of slave nodes based on a comparison between an arrival time at which transmitted data was received and the transmission time intervals assigned to each slave node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ramakrishna Gattu
  • Patent number: 11140720
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method includes identifying that the user equipment (UE) is to use a two-step random access channel (RACH) procedure that includes a first message (e.g., uplink request message) and a second message (e.g., downlink response). The methods include sending, as a first message of the two-step RACH procedure, the uplink request message to a base station, receiving, from the base station, a physical downlink control channel comprising an indication of resources of a broadcast or multicast physical downlink shared channel on which the downlink response is to be received, and receiving the downlink response from the base station on the broadcast or multicast physical downlink shared channel. The physical downlink shared channel may be configured to provide downlink responses for one or multiple UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Srinivas Yerramalli, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11140716
    Abstract: Method performed by a network node in communication with a first wireless device. The network node and the first wireless device operate in a wireless communications network. The network node determines whether or not a random access procedure for the first wireless device was successful. The determining is performed after the following actions in the random access procedure: a) a first Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, order indicating a non-reserved signal has been sent to the first wireless device, the signal being one of: a preamble, a tone and a subcarrier, and b) an L2/L3 message has been received after the sending of the first PDCCH order. The determining is based on verifying whether or not the L2/L3 message originated in the first wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oscar Ohlsson, Béla Rathonyi, Magnus Stattin
  • Patent number: 11134522
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus that is a transmission opportunity holder efficiently transmits an instruction of frame transmission, to multiple terminal apparatuses. A radio communication apparatus of the present invention includes a transmission unit configured to transmit a first frame to obtain a TXOP, transmit a Trigger frame providing an instruction of transmission of a second frame addressed to the radio communication apparatus itself, to at least one of the multiple terminal apparatuses in the TXOP, and transmit a third frame addressed to at least one of the multiple terminal apparatuses in the TXOP. A value indicating a TXOP that is written in the second frame and that the third frame is to obtain is different from a value obtained by dividing a value indicating the TXOP written in the first frame by a value indicating a duration elapsed from start of transmission of the first frame to communication completion of the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Tomoki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11129135
    Abstract: In a wireless communications system, an infrastructure equipment is configured to form a synchronization signal block comprising one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed, OFDM, symbol carrying a synchronization sequence and one or more other OFDM symbols carrying information of a physical broadcast channel of the wireless access interface. Each of the one or more OFDM symbols of the synchronization block is formed by a plurality of frequency domain sub-carrier signals each being transmitted over the duration of the OFDM symbol in a resource element of the wireless access interface. Each OFDM symbol of the synchronization signal block has the same sub-carrier spacing, and each of the one or more other OFDM symbols carrying information of a physical broadcast channel of the wireless access interface is arranged to include demodulation reference symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong
  • Patent number: 11128746
    Abstract: A smart phone having a digital radio function includes a reception portion to which an analog voice signal is input, a first amplification portion to amplify the analog voice signal input through the reception portion, an A/D converter to convert the amplified analog voice signal into a digital voice signal, a control portion to receive and output the digital voice signal and to output a digital voice signal received and input through an antenna, an RF transceiver to control inputting the signal received through the antenna to the control portion and to transmit the signal output from the control portion through the antenna, a D/A converter to convert the digital voice signal into an analog voice signal, a second amplification portion to amplify the analog voice signal, and a voice output portion to externally transmit the analog voice signal output from the second amplification portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventor: Sang Rae Park
  • Patent number: 11122600
    Abstract: A new configuration suitable for a downlink single carrier is provided in a downlink control signal of a radio communication system of the future. A user terminal includes: a reception section that receives a downlink signal including a downlink control signal and a downlink data signal; and a demodulation and decoding section that uses the downlink control signal to demodulate and decode the downlink data signal, in which the downlink control signal is mapped to signal transmission points of a single carrier in units of control channel elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Moroga, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata