Patents Examined by Man U. Phan
  • Patent number: 11265120
    Abstract: The invention provides a base station that does not cause the number of blind decodings to be increased and further can prevent the flexibility of resource allocation from degrading. A search space setting unit sets search spaces each of which is constituted by one or more control channel elements (CCEs) and each of which is to be decoded in the terminals and each of which is defined by a plurality of to-be-decoded candidates. An allocating unit places, in one of the plurality of to-be-decoded candidates included in the search space, a control channel. The number of connections of CCEs constituting the to-be-decoded candidate is associated with the number of to-be-decoded candidates. The search space setting unit causes, in accordance with the control channel to be transmitted, the association of the number of connections of CCEs constituting the to-be-decoded candidate with the number of to-be-decoded candidates to differ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Akihiko Nishio, Ayako Horiuchi, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11265223
    Abstract: A slave module, connected in series with a master module on a communication line, configured to control switches to sequentially assign identification numbers of the slave module and lower slave modules, the slave module comprising: a first communication line connecting a processor to one of an adjacent upper slave module and the master module; a second communication line connecting an adjacent lower slave module to the first communication line; a switch on the second communication line and configured to control a communication connection between the first communication line and the adjacent lower slave module; and the processor configured to control an operation of the switch based on a signal received from the first communication line, wherein the processor is configured to close the switch when setting of an identification number thereof is completed based on an identification number received from the master module through the first communication line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sunmin Kim
  • Patent number: 11259358
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to determining configuration of a DRX timer. A wireless device determines a relationship between a DRX timer and different scheduling units and determines a time unit of the DRX timer based on the determined relationship. Then, the wireless device calculates a time interval indicated by the DRX timer based on the time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Rui Fan, Jinhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11252609
    Abstract: A wireless LAN access point is configured to perform a shaping operation to calculate and set an upper limit of communication speeds of belonging mobile units when the number of the belonging mobile units is equal to or more than a preset threshold. The wireless LAN access point is configured to extract a highest one or a lowest one of data transfer rates that are detected by analyzing header parts of communication packets to be exchanged respectively with the belonging mobile units as a shaping data-transfer rate. The wireless LAN access point is configured to calculate the upper limit of the communication speeds of the belonging mobile units on the basis of a correction factor that is arbitrarily set for converting the shaping data-transfer rate to an effective data-transfer rate, on the basis of the shaping data-transfer rate, and on the basis of the number of the belonging mobile units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaya Igawa
  • Patent number: 11234219
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for multiplexing control information of discovery reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bishwarup Mondal, Prerana Rane, Yongjun Kwak, Debdeep Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11229014
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for transmitting control information. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a network device is provided. According to the method, a first configuration for transmitting first control information from the first network device to a terminal device is determined based on a first control resource set (CORESET). The first configuration being different from a second configuration for transmitting second control information from a second network device to the terminal device and the second configuration being determined based on a second CORESET. The first control information is transmitted to the terminal device based on the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11223975
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an accumulation means 501 that temporarily accumulates communication data in a previous stage of transmission to the MAC layer, an estimation means 502 that estimates an amount of transmittable data, which is an amount of data that can be transmitted in the MAC layer in a predetermined period, by using a radio wave index that is an index related to a radio wave in the frequency and/or a communication index that is an index related to wireless communication using the frequency, the indices being measured by an own apparatus or a wireless device including a MAC layer used by the own apparatus, and a control means 503 that controls, on the basis of an estimation result of the amount of transmittable data, a data flow of when the communication data accumulated in the accumulation means 501 is transmitted to a lower layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Kousuke Nogami
  • Patent number: 11223578
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of client terminals, and a reception service system receiving data from the plurality of client terminals. The reception service system includes a first queue configured to receive data to be a target of predetermined processing, and a second queue configured to receive data not to be a target of the predetermined processing. Each of the plurality of client terminals transmits data relating to an event that occurred in the client terminal, to the second queue based on a second transmission rule for transmission of data to the second queue in a case where it is determined that an amount of data transmitted from the client terminal to the first queue per unit time exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Ota
  • Patent number: 11218264
    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: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bingzhao Li
  • Patent number: 11218578
    Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to determine a current data transmission sequence number for a next packet in a communication session with a remote computing device. An interruption in the communication session is detected. Checkpointed data for the communication session is determined that is indicative of a previous sequence number used for a previous packet sent to the remote computing device. A resolution procedure is performed to determine the current data transmission sequence number for the next packet in the communication session, including determining an estimated next sequence number for transmitting data in the communication session based on the checkpointed data, transmitting a first packet to the remote computing device, receiving a second packet from the remote computing device that has an associated sequence number, and determining the current sequence number for the next packet in the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Casa Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Hooker, Bin Mo, Jacob Eipe, Gaurav Paliwal
  • Patent number: 11218407
    Abstract: A router includes a plurality of ports interconnected to one or more Customer Edge (CE) nodes and one or more Provider Edge (PE) nodes; and memory storing a forwarding table of routes, wherein the routes in the forwarding table are installed automatically based on static or Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP)-learned default routes, connected routes, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes learned from peers, and routes in an Internet routing table, and wherein a number of the routes installed in the forwarding table is less than a number of routes in the Internet routing table. The number of routes in the Internet routing table exceeds a capacity of the memory, and the routes installed in the forwarding table ensure a loop-free topology. The routes installed in the forwarding table can include all of the BGP routes learned from peers plus longer prefix matches from the routes in the Internet routing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventor: Thor Odd Andres Ramsland
  • Patent number: 11212232
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a data stream containing a second ordered sequence of numerical values, which sequence is determined from a first ordered sequence, a second succession of consecutive numerical values of the second sequence being obtained from a corresponding succession of consecutive numerical values of the first sequence. The method estimates a load value representative of a current load on the network, to determine, depending on the estimated value, a second succession to be transmitted in a predefined time interval following the current time, the second succession being a corresponding first succession of the first sequence or a succession modified by applying a selection law to the bits of the first succession and to transmit the second succession and, in case of transmission of a modified succession, a processing indicator signaling a succession modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Apostolos Kountouris, Philippe Surbayrole, Marion Dumay
  • Patent number: 11206658
    Abstract: A narrowband apparatus determines a set of monitored resource blocks (RBs) on a subframe for monitoring for CRS from a base station may monitor for the CRS from the base station on the subframe based on the set of monitored RBs. The base station determines a bandwidth for transmitting the CRS to a user equipment, the bandwidth being less than a system bandwidth and transmits the CRS to the UE using the determined bandwidth. The UE monitors for the CRS on a set of monitored RBs. The set of monitored RBs may include a center set of resource blocks and a number of resources blocks around a center frequency on a subset of subframes. The center set of resource blocks may have a size based on a bandwidth capability of the UE and a system bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11202112
    Abstract: A receiver is disclosed. The present receiver comprises: a reception unit for receiving, through a channel, a frame in which an LLS for each broadcast service is included in different PLPs; and a signal processing unit for calculating the size of a memory required to time-deinterleave the PLPs including the LLS, and for processing the PLPs including the LLS, on the basis of the calculated size of the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-koo Yang, Young-ho Oh, Hak-ju Lee
  • Patent number: 11201837
    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: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: BEDROCK AUTOMATION PLATFORMS INC.
    Inventors: Albert Rooyakkers, James G. Calvin
  • Patent number: 11202196
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a radio network node for handling transmission of data from a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The radio network node determines a delay value for a transmission of data from the wireless device based on a transmission type of data from the wireless device or a capability of the wireless device. The capability is related to a processing time for processing received data from the radio network node, or for processing data for transmission to the radio network node. The radio network node further transmits an indication, to the wireless device, which indication indicates the determined delay value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mattias Frenne, HÃ¥kan Andersson, Johan Furuskog, Niclas Wiberg, Qiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11191048
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), re-synchronization signals (RSSs) over a downlink channel; identifying time-domain and frequency-domain resources used for the RSSs; and identifying a set of sequences used for constructing the RSSs from the time-domain and frequency-domain resources used for the RSSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongbo Si, Qiongjie Lin, Le Liu, Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11190312
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a parameter configuration method and apparatus, relate to the field of communications technologies, and specifically provide a method and an apparatus for setting a resource unit bundling size, to help improve accuracy of a channel estimation result. The method may include: generating parameter configuration signaling, and sending the parameter configuration signaling. The parameter configuration signaling is used to indicate the resource unit bundling size. The resource unit bundling size may be applied to at least two inconsecutive time-frequency resources in frequency domain, and each time-frequency resource includes at least one consecutive resource unit in frequency domain; or may be applied to at least two inconsecutive time-frequency resources in time domain, and each time-frequency resource includes at least one consecutive resource unit in time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Xiaoyan Bi, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11191014
    Abstract: There is described therein a method of roaming between 5G networks operator for selecting a network operator in a visited country when a mobile network user exits an area covered by a home network operator to enter the visited country covered by a plurality of visited network operators. This method of roaming is based on the concordance between the VNF supported by the visited country network and the network profile of the user. The network profile of the user embeds both the functions commonly chained in his home network to deploy the services corresponding to his usage and the functions required in the visited country network to perform the services desired by the user. Therefore, by matching this profile with VNF capabilities deployed by a network the invention allows a better user satisfaction in roaming situations providing them with the most suitable network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Bessern Sayadi, Sylvaine Kerboeuf
  • Patent number: 11184939
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes: when a data duplication function of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer is switched from an activated state to a closed state, determining a first entity of a protocol data unit (PDU) for transmitting the PDCP layer; and sending the PDU to a network device via the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang