Patents Examined by Lalita W Pace
  • Patent number: 11432307
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receives a grant on a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) resource from an eNodeB (eNB). The UE determines that the SPS resource cannot accommodate an amount of data available for transmission for a specific logical channel. The UE transmits the SPS scheduling information for the specific logical channel to the eNB. The SPS scheduling information for the specific logical channel may be a scheduling request for the specific logical channel, and may be transmitted on an additional L1 control resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Sunghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 11432220
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for network assisted side-link resource configuration for unicast and/or multi-cast/groupcast communications in V2X networks. A UE may, after establishing an RRC connection with a base station, transmit, to the base station, V2X connection information. The V2X connection information may include a V2X identifier associated with the UE and a V2X identifier associated with a target UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a side-link configuration for data transmission with the target UE. The side-link configuration may include a resource allocation defined in time and frequency (e.g., a transmit/receive pool). The UE may communicate with the target UE using the resource allocation included in the side-link configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    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, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11419025
    Abstract: This application discloses a path switching method that includes: sending, by a first terminal, a first message to a first network device, where the first message is used to request to switch a second terminal from an indirect connection path for communicating with the first network device by using the first terminal to a direct connection path for communicating with the first network device or a second network device, or the first message is used to request to release a link between the first terminal and the second terminal, and the first network device is different from the second network device; and releasing, by the first terminal, the link between the first terminal and the second terminal. With this solution, a relay terminal can trigger switching of a remote terminal from an indirect connection path to a direct connection path, to adapt to a relay scenario more flexibly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haibo Xu, Nathan Edward Tenny, Yiru Kuang, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 11412567
    Abstract: A method for access control, a terminal device and a base station are provided. The method includes: responsive to that a terminal device satisfies a condition of radio resource control connection reestablishment when the terminal device performs or is to perform an access procedure to a target primary secondary cell, the terminal device terminates an ongoing access to the target primary secondary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11382004
    Abstract: A terminal device and a method of operating a terminal device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises establishing, by the terminal device, a first radio connection with a first network access node for transmission of data via a first bearer and a second radio connection with the first network access node for transmission of data via a second bearer. Based on a difference between quality of service for the data transmission via the first bearer and the second bearer, a third radio connection is established between the terminal device and a second network access node for transmission of the data via the first bearer; and the third radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node, a fourth radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node for transmission of the data via the second bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren
  • Patent number: 11362947
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a first controller device in a first OpenFlow domain, a packet from an originating endpoint in the first OpenFlow domain destined for a destination endpoint in a second OpenFlow domain that is separate from the first OpenFlow domain; outputting, by the first controller device, a broadcast message identifying the destination endpoint to a plurality of respective controller devices associated with separate OpenFlow domains; receiving, by the first controller device, a response to the broadcast message from the destination endpoint via a second controller device associated with the second OpenFlow domain; updating, by the first controller device, a local flow table identifying a flow for transmitting the packet to the destination endpoint based on information included in the response; and transmitting, by the first controller device, the packet towards the destination endpoint based on updating the local flow table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Venkata Siva N. Amulothu, Ashish Kapur, Vishal Shukla
  • Patent number: 11363505
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of managing a connection of a user equipment, UE, device to a core network, the UE device being capable of establishing a connection to the core network using a mobile communication system network and of establishing a connection to the core network via a network other than the mobile communication system network, the method comprising having established a first connection to the core network via the network other than the mobile communication system network, in response to receiving a request from a base station of the mobile communication system to establish a second connection to the base station via the network other than the mobile communication system network, informing the core network of a temporary suspension of the first connection and storing context information of the first connection for a future resumption of the first connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans
  • Patent number: 11330620
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit to a base station an indication of a UE capability associated with a beam change at the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station during a scheduling slot, a control signal including a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) and a grant for a transport block over a first slot aggregation including a set of slots. In some cases, each slot of the first slot aggregation is offset from the scheduling slot according to a scheduling constraint based on the indicated UE capability. The UE may transmit or receive the transport block over the first slot aggregation using a UE beam based on the TCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Jung Ho Ryu, Kiran Venugopal, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11297524
    Abstract: Disclosed is technology for applying a more differential QoS, that is, service quality to each communication service by implementing a differential QoS control in a radio section more precisely without any increase in complexity and load compared to a conventional bearer based QoS control method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Soo Na, Chang Soon Choi
  • Patent number: 11290983
    Abstract: A radio device receives first sidelink control information from a further radio device. Based on assistance information stored in the radio device and the received first sidelink control information, the radio device determines a configuration for transmission of second sidelink control information. Based on the determined configuration for transmission of the second sidelink control information, the radio device receives the second sidelink control information from the further radio device. Based on the received second sidelink control information, the radio device receives a sidelink radio transmission from the further radio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Shehzad Ali Ashraf, Ricardo Blasco Serrano, Gabor Fodor, Jingya Li
  • Patent number: 11265922
    Abstract: Provided are a method for accessing a wireless local area network, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device sends a system message request to a network device, the system message request being used for requesting the network device to send a system message to the terminal device, and the system message being information for accessing a wireless local area network by the terminal device; and the terminal device receives the system message sent by the network device. In the method for accessing a wireless local area network in an embodiment of the present invention, for a 5G communication system, part or all of traffic can be transferred to the WLAN or an unlicensed frequency band by adding system information, thereby saving licensed frequency band resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11252740
    Abstract: A first wireless access point uses a first radio access technology in a heterogeneous wireless network. The heterogeneous wireless network includes the first wireless access point and a second wireless access point using a second radio access technology. The first wireless access point determines one or more performance characteristics of traffic management and traffic between a first client device and the first wireless access point using the first radio access technology and the second wireless access point using the second radio access technology. The first wireless device (access point or some other network device) calculates one or more traffic indicators based on these performance characteristics. The first wireless device further communicates at least one of the one or more traffic indicators to the second wireless access point. The communicated traffic indicators are for use by the second wireless access point to schedule radio resources of the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mukesh Taneja, Brian Hart, Sudhir Jain
  • Patent number: 11246114
    Abstract: Selection of time-frequency resources, for autonomous mode operation of V2V UEs, may be performed based on measurements of power transmitted by other UEs and received sidelink control information (SCI) transmitted by the other UEs. Based on these measurements, the UE may selectively exclude spectrum resources, from the set of possible resources, to obtain a final set of resources from which the UE may select resources to use for transmitting. In some implementations, the exclusion of the resources may be based on an iterative operation in which a power threshold value is incrementally modified until a candidate number of resources are available. Additionally, in some implementations, UE priority assignments may be used to obtain the power threshold value for a particular UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Sergey Panteleev, Sergey Sosnin, Mikhail Shilov
  • Patent number: 11246069
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to communications in a wireless network during handover and/or dual connectivity operations are provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits, to a first base station (BS), a first communication signal based on a first time-division multiplexed (TDM) configuration. The UE transmits, to a second BS different from the first BS, a second communication signal, the second communication signal being multiplexed with the first communication signal based on the first TDM configuration. The UE transmits, to the first BS, a third communication signal based on a second TDM configuration different from the first TDM configuration. The first TDM configuration and the second TDM configuration are associated with a handover from the first BS to the second BS. The UE transmits, to the second BS, a fourth communication signal, the fourth communication signal being multiplexed with the third communication signal based on the second TDM configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 11233616
    Abstract: A method performed by a network node for managing transmission of one or more CRS subframes. The network node identifies if a cell is actively serving a set of UEs. When the cell is actively serving a set of UEs, which set of UEs is configured for DRX the network node sends CRS over the first bandwidth in one or more CRS subframes which are transmitted in the cell during an onDuration interval of the DRX pattern and/or in one or more CRS subframes where system information is sent and/or in one or more CRS subframes where downlink, DL, data is sent. The network node sends CRS over a second bandwidth, in CRS subframes which are not transmitted in the cell during the onDuration interval of the DRX and/or in the one or more CRS subframes except CRS subframes where system information is sent and/or in the one or more CRS subframes except CRS subframes where DL data is sent, which second bandwidth is reduced in relation to the first bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: David Better, Tomas Lagerqvist, Peter Nordlund, Anthony Paravati
  • Patent number: 11228991
    Abstract: Techniques that provide link auto-negotiation between a radio equipment controller (REC) and a radio equipment (RE) are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes performing, by a proxy master, a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) Layer 1 (L1) link auto-negotiation with a RE to achieve a L1 synchronization between the proxy master and the RE at a link bit rate; communicating the link bit rate from the proxy master to a proxy slave; performing, by the proxy slave, a CPRI L1 link auto-negotiation with a REC to determine whether a L1 synchronization between the proxy slave and the REC is achieved, wherein if the L1 synchronization is achieved, the link bit rate is a common matching link bit rate achieved; and upon the common matching link bit rate being achieved, establishing a CPRI link between the REC and the RE using the common matching link bit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Prashant Anand, Manoj Kumar, Sudhir Kayamkulangara, Dinuraj K, Manigandan Boopalan
  • Patent number: 11218206
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some cases, a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink transmission from a base station over a wireless channel, select, based on the received downlink transmission, a channel state information (CSI) computation mode for the wireless channel, where the CSI computation mode is based on an effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) constraint, measure a set of one or more CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs) from the base station to obtain a CSI measurement, and transmit a CSI report to the base station based on the selected CSI computation mode and the CSI measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Chih-Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11178526
    Abstract: The application provides a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: a terminal device determining, according to a service identifier of a service to be transmitted, a carrier or a carrier set for sending or receiving the service to be transmitted; and the terminal device sending or receiving the service to be transmitted on a carrier or a carrier set corresponding to the service identifier, wherein the service identifier is a service code point or a service primitive of the service to be transmitted generated at the service layer, the service code point is a code of a service generated by the service to be transmitted on the service layer, and the service primitive is a textual description of the service generated by the service to be transmitted on the service layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11172498
    Abstract: A method of generating a communication schedule for a plurality of nodes in a multi-hop network, the plurality of nodes comprising a first node, a second node and a third node, wherein: the second node is a primary parent of the first node and the third node is a secondary parent of the first node. The method comprises requesting, by the first node, a first resource in the communication schedule for communication from the first node to the second node and a second resource in the communication schedule for communication from the first node to the third node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Adnan Aijaz, Aleksandar Stanoev
  • Patent number: 11166317
    Abstract: A method of a UE is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, first information of a first timer of a bandwidth part inactivity associated with a bandwidth part of a primary cell (PCell) and second information of a second timer of a bandwidth part inactivity associated with a bandwidth part of a secondary cell (SCell), identifying that a random access procedure is initiated on the PCell or the S cell, stopping the first timer, if running, in response to identifying that the random access procedure is initiated on the Pcell, and stopping the first timer and the second timer, if running, in response to identifying that the random access procedure is initiated on the SCell. The method relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Anil Agiwal