Patents Examined by Latresa McCallum
  • Patent number: 10516552
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes one or more antennas that resonate within a licensed band and an unlicensed band, a first communication circuit electrically connected with at least part of the one or more antennas and processing an LTE signal, a second communication circuit electrically connected with at least part of the one or more antennas and processing a Wi-Fi signal, and a processor electrically connected with the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit. The processor is configured to obtain first data indicating a state of a first channel corresponding to a first communication protocol, obtain second data indicating a state of a second channel corresponding to a second communication protocol, select at least one communication protocol based on the first data and the second data, and perform communication through a communication circuit, which corresponds to the selected at least one communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Park, Hyung Yeol Lee, Chang Won Nam, Yun Gyu Bae, Won Joon Cho
  • Patent number: 10502810
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for compensating for non-linear phase responses and resulting frequency-dependent group delay using data for a specific device are described. The error in the delay value of a channel determined from a received data packet due to frequency-dependent group delay is removed by subtracting a delay value determined from measurements of a specific device from the delay value of the channel. Furthermore, compensated delay values are calculated for multiple training fields in the received data packet, enabling combining of delay values determined from different training fields that may operate at different frequencies (e.g., with different subcarriers). Hence, the systems and techniques described herein are suitable to provide accurate timing estimates that support calculations for location services, including sub-meter location of a device using a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Vijay Ahirwar, Sri Varsha Rottela, Sudhir Srinivasa
  • Patent number: 10498650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting or receiving a MAC PDU in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: setting a LCID field in a MAC subheader to a first value indicating that an eLCID field is included in the MAC subheader when a MAC PDU including the LCID field and the eLCID field is to be generated, setting the eLCID field to a second value identifying a logical channel of a MAC SDU or a type of a MAC CE, and generating and transmitting the MAC PDU including the LCID field and the eLCID field, and the MAC SDU or the MAC CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 10498477
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may determine a signal configuration for transmitting a tracking reference signal (TRS) to a user equipment (UE). The signal configuration may identify a subset of locations, of a set of locations included in a transmission window, that is to be used to transmit the TRS, and the signal configuration may be selected to assist the UE with one or more measurements. The apparatus may transmit, based at least in part on the signal configuration, the TRS in the subset of locations. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tao Luo, Heechoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10492047
    Abstract: In order to perform efficient communications, provided is a terminal device configured to communicate with a base station device. The terminal device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a higher layer signal including a configuration relating to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); a scrambling sequence generator configured to, if the terminal device supports a capability relating to low complexity and/or coverage enhancement, apply the same scrambling sequence to the PUSCH during a certain period; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the PUSCH, on the basis of the number of repetitions in the configuration relating to the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shohei Yamada, Takashi Hayashi, Yasuyuki Kato, Naoki Kusashima, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10484161
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for determining a downlink control indicator (DCI) at a receiver. A signal is received at the receiver. The receiver measures channel quality based on the received signal. Signals of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) areas that correspond to each channel format indicator (CFI) in the received signal are decoded, if a measurement of the channel quality is not a configuration condition. The receiver obtains the CFI by decoding a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) of the received signal, if the measurement of the channel quality is the configuration condition. The receiver determines the DCI based on the decoded signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yoochang Eun, Mingoo Kim, Chaehag Yi
  • Patent number: 10470137
    Abstract: A method and network node for configuring a device-to-device (D2D) pair and a cellular wireless device, the cellular wireless device configured to have a direct link with a serving network device of a network cell in which the cellular wireless device resides. The method includes receiving Channel State Information (CSI) data for the D2D pair, a cellular wireless device, and at least one neighbor interference level, determining feasibility conditions for pairing the D2D pair and the cellular wireless device transmissions, determining a power allocation for the pairing of the D2D pair and cellular wireless device transmissions, the power allocation being based on a sum rate of the D2D pair and cellular wireless device transmissions, and configuring the D2D pair and cellular wireless device based at least in part on the determined power allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gary Boudreau, Min Dong, Ben Liang, Ali Ramezanikebrya, Hossein Seyedmehdi
  • Patent number: 10455539
    Abstract: Aspects described herein may enable a network entity to create an mmW cell geometry and/or to seed a base station codebook and a UE codebook to improve a beamforming procedure while maintaining peak performance gain that is provided by scanning narrower beams. The network entity may provide information associated with the base station codebook and the UE codebook to the base station. The network entity may also provide, to the base station, a subframe structure to be used during a beamforming procedure that is based on the base station codebook and the UE codebook. The base station and the UE may perform the beamforming procedure based in the subframe structure using beam orientations indicated in the base station codebook and the UE codebook. From the beamforming procedure, the base station and the UE may determine an access beam to be used in communication between the base station and the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Assaf Touboul, Junyi Li, Udara Fernando
  • Patent number: 10454649
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A communication method of a user equipment (UE) in a dual connectivity (DC)-based mobile communication system in which a master cell group (MCG) and a secondary cell group (SCG), the MCG is associated with a master eNB (MeNB) and the SCG is associated with a second eNB (SeNB) is provided. The method includes receiving measurement gap configuration information including a gap offset, determining a first sub-frame of a measurement gap at a system frame number (SFN) of at least one serving cell of the MCG and a sub-frame of the at least one serving cell of the MCG, wherein the SFN and the sub-frame are determined based on the gap offset, and performing a measurement on at least one serving cell at the first sub-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Soeng-Hun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Kyeong-In Jeong
  • Patent number: 10448364
    Abstract: In an aspect, an apparatus, e.g., a base station of a first network, maybe configured to receive UE capability information from each UE of a plurality of UEs, the UE capability information indicating a number of different carrier synchronization timings that the UE can track within a plurality of carriers. The carriers maybe associated with multiple different networks including the first network. The apparatus maybe configured to determine, based on the received UE capability information, a set of synchronization-timing priorities indicating a priority for timing synchronization types for use within each carrier of a set of carriers of the plurality of carriers, and broadcast the set to the UEs. In an aspect, a UE may determine and send the UE capability to a base station. The UE may receive the set of synchronization-timing priorities and perform timing synchronization based on the received set of synchronization-timing priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Shailesh Patil, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 10433324
    Abstract: A communication method and a 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) are provided. The present 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. A method for allocating resources and a method of a base station is provided. The method includes receiving from a terminal a resource allocation request, receiving from the terminal a control message including location information of a zone where the terminal is located, and allocating a resource group based on the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seungri Jin
  • Patent number: 10419343
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting or receiving a MAC PDU in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: setting a LCID field in a MAC subheader to a first value indicating that an eLCID field is included in the MAC subheader when a MAC PDU including the LCID field and the eLCID field is to be generated, setting the eLCID field to a second value identifying a logical channel of a MAC SDU or a type of a MAC CE, and generating and transmitting the MAC PDU including the LCID field and the eLCID field, and the MAC SDU or the MAC CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 10412663
    Abstract: Some methods for detecting and avoiding radio interference in a wireless sensor network can include an access point device periodically transmitting a beacon message to a plurality of IoT enabled devices via a radio channel, upon receipt of the beacon message, an IoT enabled device attempting to decode the beacon message, the IoT enabled device measuring and storing a signal strength of a successfully decoded beacon message as signal strength data in a memory of the IoT enabled device, the IoT enabled device increasing a missed beacon counter stored in the memory of the IoT enabled device responsive to a beacon message that cannot be decoded, each of the plurality of IoT enabled devices periodically transmitting stored data to the access point device, and the access point device using the received data to identify an interference source, or an interference issue or a fading issue on the radio channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: ADEMCO INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Eskildsen, Sandeep Suresh, Thomas Winkeler
  • Patent number: 10404654
    Abstract: A wireless data communication network distributes network addresses to wireless relays. The network receives attachment requests from the wireless relay over wireless access points and transfers network address requests to a network address server. The network receives network address responses from the network address server having network addresses for the wireless relay. The network stores the network addresses for the wireless relay in a memory and transfers the network addresses to the wireless relay. The network wirelessly exchanges user data with the wireless relay. The network receives subsequent attachment requests from the wireless relay and retrieves the network addresses for the wireless relay from the memory without re-using the network address server. The network transfers the network addresses to the wireless relay and wirelessly exchanges user data with the wireless relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Saravana Velusamy, Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 10390332
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method in which a base station transmits signals to a relay node in a multiuser multi-antenna (MIMO) wireless communication system. More particularly, the method includes: allocating one or more antenna ports to one or more relay nodes, respectively; mapping each of a plurality of downlink grant signals for the one or more relay nodes to a preset resource domain from among resource domains corresponding to one of the allocated antenna ports; mapping uplink grant signals or data signals for the one or more relay nodes to the resource domains corresponding to the allocated antenna ports; and transmitting the mapped signals to the one or more relay nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Han Byul Seo, Byoung Hoon Kim, Ki Jun Kim, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 10367727
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. A collaboration conferencing routing server may provide configurability in routing a collaboration conference to a conference bridge based on any number of criteria and information about the requester and the communications network on which the conference occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew J. Broadworth, Darren J. Behmlander, Adam C. Uzelac
  • Patent number: 10356627
    Abstract: An access point (AP) transmits Wi-Fi transmit frames according to a Wi-Fi protocol and Long-Term Evolution-Unlicensed (LTE-U) transmit frames according to an LTE-U protocol in a shared channel bandwidth that encompasses unlicensed channel bandwidth associated with the LTE-U protocol. The AP assigns a Wi-Fi access category to each Wi-Fi transmit frame and assigns to each LTE-U transmit frame an LTE-U access category. The AP schedules Wi-Fi and LTE-U transmit opportunities for the Wi-Fi transmit frames and the LTE-U transmit frames, respectively, in the shared channel bandwidth based on the Wi-Fi and LTE-U access categories. The scheduling includes, for each scheduled LTE-U transmit opportunity: constructing a Wi-Fi quiet message commanding Wi-Fi clients of the AP not to transmit in the shared channel bandwidth during the LTE-U transmit opportunity; and scheduling the Wi-Fi quiet message for transmission to the Wi-Fi clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Hedayat, Rajesh Pazhyannur
  • Patent number: 10355768
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a relay node for relaying user data from/to one or more communication devices to/from a radio access node in a wireless communication network. The relay node receives a first user data stream in a first time slot and/or a second user data stream in a second time slot from a first communication device and a second communication device respectively, or from the radio access node. The relay node independently applies a network coding on the received first and/or second user data streams. The relay node forwards the network coded first user data stream in a third time slot to the radio access node or the first communication device, and/or the second user data stream in another time slot to the radio access node or the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Afif Osseiran, Ben Slimane
  • Patent number: 10349424
    Abstract: A wireless device operates as a wireless station (STA) associated with a first access point (AP) of one basic service set (BSS) in a first set of intervals, and as a second AP of another BSS in a second set of intervals. The wireless device, operating as a STA receives, in a first interval of the first set of intervals, indication that data is buffered in the first AP for the STA. The wireless device, operating as a STA issues, in a second interval of the first set of intervals, a request to the first AP for at least some portion of the buffered data. The second interval is later than the first interval and separated from the first interval by a third interval, the wireless device operating as the second AP in the third interval. Due to such operation, efficiencies such as reduced data loss can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: GainSpan Corporation
    Inventors: Indudharswamy G Hiremath, Shyju Narangaprath
  • Patent number: 10342016
    Abstract: A radio station (3) allocates a first plurality of time-frequency resources (430) and a second plurality of time-frequency resources (530) to at least one radio terminal (1, 2). The first plurality of time-frequency resources (430) are used to transmit or receive a first transport block (460) in accordance with a first transmission time interval (TTI). The first TTI is equal to a duration of one subframe (410, 510). The second plurality of time-frequency resources (530) are used to transmit or receive a second transport block (560) in accordance with a second TTI. The second TTI is shorter than the duration of the subframe (410, 510).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Futaki