Patents Examined by Man U. Phan
  • Patent number: 11968152
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques, systems, apparatuses, and methods of wireless communication. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by a first communications node to a second communications node, a set of information for transmission of reference signals or channels, wherein the set of information includes: timing information related to a transmission timing of the reference signals or channels, timing information related to when an antenna group or a group of reference signals and/or channels related to the antenna group is activated, or an identification of one or more antenna groups associated with the reference signals or channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Ngok Li, Bo Gao, Hao Wu, Shujuan Zhang, Chuangxin Jiang, Huahua Xiao, Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 11962509
    Abstract: A clock circuit is provided for clocking a high-speed data communication interface. The interface has (N) lanes. The clock circuit includes a triangle wave generator, N clock generators, and N lane FIFOs. The triangle wave generator provides P phase outputs, wherein P is greater than or equal to N. Each clock generator receives an associated one of the phase outputs and generates a clock signal having a frequency based upon the phase output. Each FIFO receives data and an associated one of the clock signals, and provides the data at a clock frequency associated with the associated clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Sandor Farkas, Bhyrav Mutnury
  • Patent number: 11956344
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided and receives a communication packet, acquires a timestamp of a reception of the communication packet, analyzes a type of the received communication packet, transfers the received communication packet to a predetermined memory based on information indicating an analyzed type of the communication packet, and associates the analyzed type of the communication packet with the acquired timestamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11943822
    Abstract: A communication device is configured to wirelessly connect to an electronic apparatus. The communication device comprises a first communication unit and a second communication unit of a same type as that of the first communication unit and a control unit configured to control the first communication unit and the second communication unit. The control unit is configured to acquire a communication situation of the first communication unit with electronic apparatus and another communication situation of the second communication unit with electronic apparatus. The control unit is configured to execute an allocation process for determining a connection destination of an electronic apparatus to the first communication unit or the second communication unit based on the communication situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Imada, Masashi Kamata, Tai Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 11937167
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices disclosed herein contemplate client updates to traffic filter tables that control delivery of network traffic from an access point to the client over a multi channel wireless network. The client may update the traffic filter table whenever: (i) an application on the client initiates the request; (ii) an application matching a secondary channel requirement in a look-up table is opened or closed; (iii) data characteristics matching the secondary channel requirement in the look-up table are detected or removed; (iv) data usage of the client meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold; (v) data usage of the client falls below a predetermined threshold; and/or (vi) a specified period of time has passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Luther E. Smith, Jonathan Ray Dennis, Aaron Quinto
  • Patent number: 11924725
    Abstract: A method for communication between and/or determination of the movement of at least two vehicles 2a, b, c travelling in succession by means of a communication arrangement 4, wherein the communication arrangement 4 has at least one first communication apparatus 3a for arrangement on a first vehicle 2a and at least one second communication apparatus 3b for arrangement on a second vehicle 2b, is proposed, in which a signal is transmitted via a transmission path between the communication apparatuses 3a, b, c, wherein a main transmission link H of the transmission path runs at least beneath the first and/or second vehicle 2a, b and/or in which the determination of movement is carried out on the basis of the propagation time and/or propagation time differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Karl
  • Patent number: 11924111
    Abstract: A buffer unit including a plurality of buffers, a sorting unit configured to sort an input signal to any of the plurality of buffers based on header information, a rate calculation unit configured to calculate a rate at which the input signal is read from each of the plurality of buffers based on burst information of the input signal, an adjustment unit configured to adjust a rate at which the input signal is read from each of the plurality of buffers based on the rate calculated by the rate calculation unit, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the signal read from each of the plurality of buffers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka Shibata, Hiroyuki Uzawa, Noriyuki Ota, Jun Terada
  • Patent number: 11917617
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration of a set of resources for sidelink coordination information requests. The UE may transmit a sidelink coordination information request message in at least one resource selected from the set of resources for sidelink coordination information requests. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Tugcan Aktas, Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Hwan Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11917644
    Abstract: Methods and devices may be provided for aggregating component carriers in the licensed spectrum with at least one component carriers in the licensed exempt spectrum. Control information may be processed in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) while receiving and sending information on a primary component carrier (PCC) and a supplementary component carrier (SuppCC). A PCC subframe with a control portion and a data portion may be received. Resource assignment information associated with a downlink shared channel on the PCC may be embedded in the control portion of the subframe. Based on the resource assignment information on the PCC, resource assignment information associated with a downlink shared channel on the SuppCC may be identified in the data portion of the PCC subframe. A SuppCC subframe of the shared channel on the SuppCC may be processed as per the identified resource assignment information associated with the downlink shared channel on the SuppCC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Martino Freda, Jean-Louis Gauvreau, Mihaela C. Beluri, Rocco Di Girolamo, Yuying Dai
  • Patent number: 11895654
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information indicating a pool of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states. The UE may receive an indication of a TCI state of the pool of TCI states for a communication in a frequency region that is not configured with a set of TCI states. The UE may transmit or receiving the communication using the TCI state. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11889522
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of an initial downlink bandwidth for the UE. The UE may receive, via a master information block (MIB), configuration information for a control resource set (CORESET) associated with physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring for initial access, where the configuration information indicates a frequency domain resource allocation for the CORESET, and where the frequency domain resource allocation for the CORESET is at least partially outside of the initial downlink bandwidth. The UE may receive one or more PDCCH messages associated with the CORESET based at least in part on at least one of modifying a resource mapping of the CORESET or modifying the initial downlink bandwidth. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11876744
    Abstract: A secondary cell activation method and apparatus relating to the communications field are described herein. The method may include sending, by an access network device, an activation command to a terminal device, where the activation command indicates activating a secondary cell. The method may also include sending, by the access network device, first configuration information of a first reference signal to the terminal device. Furthermore, the method may include sending, by the access network device, the first reference signal to the terminal device according to the first configuration information, where the first reference signal is used to obtain a channel measurement result of the secondary cell. According to secondary cell activation methods described herein, a flexible and efficient secondary cell activation mechanism can be provided, so as to improve secondary cell activation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bingzhao Li
  • Patent number: 11876733
    Abstract: Communication network systems are disclosed. In one or more implementations, the communication network system includes a plurality of network devices. Each of the plurality of network devices incorporates one or more multi-port switches, where each multi-port switch includes a connection to the network device incorporating the multi-port switch and a connection to at least one other port of another multi-port switch incorporated by another respective one of the plurality of network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bedrock Automation Platforms Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Rooyakkers, James G. Calvin
  • Patent number: 11877284
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for performing IAB in a cellular telecommunications network that comprises a first IAB node and a second IAB node. A method is performed by the first IAB node. The method comprises scheduling, in a first phase, downstream backhaul data from the first IAB node to the second IAB node. The method comprises receiving, in a third phase, from the second IAB node, upstream backhaul data as scheduled by the second IAB node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Henrik Ronkainen, Christer Östberg
  • Patent number: 11870721
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a UE capability to receive a first portion of a tracking reference signal (TRS) and a second portion of the TRS, the first portion and the second portion associated with a TRS pattern. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication of the TRS pattern, where the TRS pattern includes the first portion of the TRS pattern and the second portion of the TRS pattern. The UE may receive one or more TRSs according to the first portion of the TRS pattern and the second portion of the TRS pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Wooseok Nam, Sungwoo Park, Kiran Venugopal, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Jung Ho Ryu, Qian Zhang, Ling Ding
  • Patent number: 11863363
    Abstract: A wireless communication receiver including a serial to parallel converter receiving an radio frequency signal, a fast Fourier transform device connected to said serial to parallel converter converting NFFT corresponding serial signals into a frequency domain; an EZC root sequence unit generating a set of root sequence signals; an element-by-element multiply unit forming a set of products including a product of each of said frequency domain signals from said fast Fourier transform device and a corresponding root sequence signal, an NSRS-length IDFT unit performing a group cyclic-shift de-multiplexing of the products and a discrete Fourier transform unit converting connected cyclic shift de-multiplexing signals back to frequency-domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Anthony Edet Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11864008
    Abstract: Configuration of measurement requirements on cells and beams in NR is made more efficient by, in a user equipment, UE, receiving, information from a network node, which information indicates: a first number K of beams to be measured by the UE, and a second number L of cells in which the UE is required to measure the first number K of beams. The UE then carries out measurements using the received information; and performs at least one operational task based on a result of the measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Muhammad Kazmi, Iana Siomina, Icaro Leonardo Jeronimo Da Silva, Christopher Callender, Helka-Liina Määttanen
  • Patent number: 11864090
    Abstract: A communication system, a communication management method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The communication system communicates with an access source terminal connected to a first network, a communication apparatus and one or more access destination terminals each connected to a second network, the one or more access destination terminal being configured to provide a service by remote access, in response to a request from the access source terminal to use the service provided by the one or more access destination terminals, acquires access information including location information indicating location of the access source terminal and time information indicating usage time of the service, and restricts use of the service based on the access information and setting information, the setting information previously setting a range of the access information for permitting the use of the service provided by the one or more access destination terminals by the access source terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11849425
    Abstract: The present 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 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. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a method and an apparatus for preventing loss of data existing in Msg3 buffer and a method and an apparatus for determining a paging frame and/or a paging occasion are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11849443
    Abstract: An electronic device, a radio communication method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, and is configured to use a group common-physical downlink control channel (GC-PDCCH) to transmit control information relating to data in a time slot preceding a time slot of the GC-PDCCH. In the invention, a GC-PDCCH can be better designed according to characteristics of an NR communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Tao Cui