Patents Examined by Mariela Vidal Carpio
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Patent number: 10484192Abstract: Provided is a communication method and apparatus using a multi-radio. The communication method includes establishing a link via at least one node included in a group that uses a low data-rate radio (LDR); transmitting a data frame to the at least one node included in the group; and receiving, using a multi-radio based on an availability of the LDR, an acknowledgement (ACK) with respect to the transmitted data frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Seok Kim, Tae Rim Park
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Patent number: 10476569Abstract: Described herein are technologies for intelligent antenna selection for optimal performance in an electronic device. One electronic device includes a first radio, coupled to a first antenna and a second antenna, and a processing device coupled to the first radio. During a first period, the first radio transmits a sequence of data packets using the first antenna and the processing device receives a first metric value indicative of a first amount of power received on a third antenna of the second electronic device. During a second period, the first radio transmits the sequence using the second antenna and the processing device receives a second metric value indicative of a second mount of power received on the third antenna. The processing device selects one of the first antenna and the second antenna as a selected antenna based on which one of the first metric value and the second metric value is lower.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Morris Yuanhsiang Hsu, Rohit Sammeta
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Patent number: 10448259Abstract: A wireless access point includes an antenna, a connection port providing wired communications with a network, one or more processors, and a storage device having software stored therein. When executed by the one or more processors the software causes the wireless access point to respond to a probe from a client device requesting a specific service set identifier according to a wildcard service set identifier response in order to facilitate wireless association of the client device with the wireless access point regardless of the specific service set identifier requested by the client device, and to provide the client device with wireless access to the network. In this way, the client device is enabled to associate with the wireless access point and receive access to the network without a specific service set identifier requested by the client device being preprogrammed into the wireless access point.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.Inventors: John Thomas Welch, Gary L. Smith, Michael David Drews, Wael R. Midani
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Patent number: 10447548Abstract: A head-end system and radio head apparatuses are connected to a cable network for wired transmission of radio signals. The head-end system obtains information identifying available IFs, and receives, from a RAN, information identifying communication RFs. The head-end system sends, to the radio head apparatuses, configuration instructions. The head-end system communicates data between the RAN and said radio head apparatuses, via broadcast of one or more radio signals in the cable network, located within the one or more communication IF bands. The radio head apparatuses communicate the data between the head-end system and wireless devices, via the cable network and wirelessly to/from the wireless devices using the communication RFs.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Kim Laraqui, Boris Dortschy, Erik Rickard Söderqvist, Elmar Trojer
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Patent number: 10390352Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting channel state information (CSI) by a user equipment in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving a CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) for measuring a state of a downlink channel and a CSI feedback-related configuration from a base station (BS); determining a channel quality indication (CQI) for at least one transmission point and control information for determining a CQI for multiple transmission points, based on the received CSI-RS and CSI feedback-related configuration; and transmitting the determined CQI for the at least one transmission point and control information to the BS.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Youn-Sun Kim, Ki-Il Kim, Ju-Ho Lee, Hyo-Jin Lee, Joon-Young Cho, Seung-Hoon Choi
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Patent number: 10375734Abstract: To make a mobile station apparatus efficiently generate a base sequence. In a mobile station apparatus that generates a sequence for a demodulation reference signal on the basis of at least a sequence group number and transmits to a base station apparatus the demodulation reference signal together with a physical uplink shared channel used for transmission of a transport block, the mobile station apparatus receives information indicating a value of a parameter relating to the sequence from the base station apparatus, and determines the sequence group number without using the value of the parameter in a case where the mobile station apparatus performs transmission of the transport block on the physical uplink shared channel as part of a contention based random access procedure.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Tatsushi Aiba, Wataru Ouchi
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Patent number: 10341909Abstract: 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. For licensed assisted access (LAA) technology used in a wireless communication system, an apparatus and a method for scheduling downlink data at a base station is provided. In the method, based on at least one part of parameters of a bearer to which the downlink data belongs, the base station determines a serving cell for scheduling the downlink data. Further, information about the identified serving cell is transmitted to a user equipment (UE).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaehyuk Jang, Kyeongin Jeong, Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim, Juho Lee
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Patent number: 10313987Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a power, comprising: determining an average basic transmission power of all User Equipments (UEs) in a cell in each first resource; for each first resource, determining a UE group scheduled in the first resource and a first transmission power allocation factor corresponding to the UE group according to the average basic transmission power. The present disclosure also provides an apparatus for controlling a power. According to the present disclosure, a base station determines a UE group scheduled in each subband and a transmission power for each UE in the UE group.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Anxin Li, Huiling Jiang
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Patent number: 10305627Abstract: A wireless communication system is presented for adaptive uplink (UL) link adaptation (LA). The adaptive UL LA can include multiple outer loops, for which multiple block error rate (BLER) filtering is performed. Each of the multiple BLER filtering can be performed on groups or sub-groups of subframes, in which each group has the same or similar coding characteristics. For example, one group in TD-LTE could be subframes with sounding reference signal (SRS) and another group could be subframes without SRS. Each of the multiple BLER filtering can use the same or different BLER algorithm, BLER target and/or BLER parameters.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Si Li, Zhu Ji, Srinivasan Vasudevan
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Patent number: 10299264Abstract: Where first and second reference signals for a first and second communication system, respectively, are transmitted, resources that affect a reception apparatus compatible only with the first communication system can be minimized, and the throughput can be prevented from being deteriorated. As resources for a reference signal CSI-RS for LTE-A, last half symbols in a time direction of a resource unit RB/Sub-frame defined in a frequency-time domain are used, and the CSI-RS is allocated in a position up to the last two symbols or in the last symbol, or the like, of a particular RB/Sub-frame and transmitted when a reference signal 4RS for LTE is transmitted to a reception apparatus in addition to transmitting CSI-RS for LTE-A. The reception apparatus receives CSI-RS allocated in the last half symbol of RB/Sub-frame based on CSI-RS allocation information, measures channel quality by using this CSI-RS, and transmits and reports feedback information.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
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Patent number: 10291661Abstract: In an embodiment, a method and corresponding apparatus of managing call routing includes sending a first message by a session border controller (SBC) to a routing engine, the first message including event information indicative of an event related to a call, the event being associated with a second message received by the SBC; receiving a response message including call managing information related to the call, the call managing information being determined based on at least part of the event information, the call managing information to be returned to the routing engine in a subsequent message related to the call; and maintaining the call managing information received in the response message, the call managing information to be returned to the routing engine in a subsequent message related to the call.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: iBasis, Inc.Inventors: Manpreet Singh, Hwan Jang Tang, James W. Lotti
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Patent number: 10292103Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer program products for synchronization of wireless devices in a peer-to-peer network are described herein. In one aspect, a method for synchronizing a wireless communication apparatus is provided. The method includes initiating a contention based process for transmitting a synchronization message during a discovery time interval of a discovery time period. The synchronization message includes a first timestamp of the wireless communication apparatus. The method further includes selectively transmitting the synchronization message based on a master preference value of the wireless communication apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, George Cherian, Alireza Raissinia, Guido Robert Frederiks
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Patent number: 10284482Abstract: A method and system for data communications is provided. The method reduces the overall transmission time of the information to a destination by simultaneously sending different segments of the information over a plurality of data connections. The method comprises presenting information content for transmission to a destination entity, and simultaneously sending different segments of the information over a plurality of data link connections. All segments of the information are received from the plurality of data link connections at the destination entity, and the data segments are reconstructed back into the information content at the destination entity.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Aloke Roy
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Patent number: 10271309Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for transmission and reception of an uplink grant during a gap created in radio resources assigned by a previous multiple Transmit Time Interval (multi-TTI) uplink grant in a system operating according to a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) scheme. In one embodiment, a method of operation of a radio network node in a cellular communications network is provided. The method includes transmitting a first uplink grant that assigns radio resources for a multi-TTI uplink transmission, and transmitting a second uplink grant during a gap in the radio resources assigned by the first uplink grant. In one embodiment, by utilizing the gap to transmit the second uplink grant, uplink radio resources assigned for uplink transmission can be maximized, which is particularly beneficial in high uplink traffic conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Henrik Sahlin, Mattias Frenne, Johan Furuskog, Stefan Parkvall, Qiang Zhang
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Patent number: 10257042Abstract: A management server includes a configuration and management module processing server configuration information, including a VPN peer list and VLAN/subnet settings. The management server automatically calculates the VPN configuration information, including the VPN peer subnet route information identifying which of the subnets participating in the VPN are behind which of the routers and keys to establish VPN tunnels between those routers participating in the VPN. Each of the routers participating in the VPN includes a VPN tunnel with the other routers participating in the VPN, a set of data structures storing data identifying contact information for each of the subnets participating in the VPN, a combination of an IP address and port to reach one of routers that that subnet is behind, and a forwarding module to forward traffic between the subnets.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Dan Aguayo, John Bicket, Justin J. Delegard, Clifford A. Frey, James M. Roewe, Robert Tristan Shanks, Patrick Verkaik
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Patent number: 10200982Abstract: Systems and methods to encode and/or decode structured super-position coding to enhance control channel capacity are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be configured to communicatively couple to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB). A first UE and a second UE may be coupled to the eNB. Basic PDCCH may be sent to the second UE, and extra PDCCH may be sent to the first UE on the same time-frequency resource. The second UE may be able to decode the basic PDCCH as it normally does. The first UE may be able to decode the basic PDCCH for the second UE, cancel the basic PDCCH from the signal, and decode the extra PDCCH. The extra PDCCH may be restricted to certain positions relative to the basic PDCCH to simplify searching by the first UE.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Feng Xue, Jong-Kae Fwu, Hwan-Joon Kwon
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Patent number: 10187801Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates a large-scale mobile ad hoc network to adapt to specific needs of wireless nodes in a mobile wireless network. During operation, a controller node collects state information associated with one or more wireless nodes. The controller node allocates one or more network elements based on the collected state information and a predetermined utility-based technique. Responsive to the allocation of the one or more network elements, the controller node reconfigures a logical topology of the mobile wireless network by using software-defined mobile ad hoc network nodes, thereby facilitating a large-scale mobile ad hoc network to adapt to specific application needs of wireless nodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Marc E. Mosko, Jose J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
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Patent number: 10187857Abstract: A station that performs a method to coordinate transmissions of scheduling requests (SR) with OnDurations of a connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) cycle. The station receives a packet at a packet arrival time relative to a schedule indicating the SR opportunities and onDurations, the SR opportunities occurring at a first interval, the onDurations occurring at a second interval, the first interval being less than the second interval. The station determines an SR opportunity subsequent to the packet arrival time that precedes an entirety of a subsequent onDuration, such that a transmission duration to transmit the SR and the packet maximally overlaps with the selected onDuration. A sleep mode of the processor of the station is used until a time associated with the selected SR opportunity. An active mode of the processor is used to transmit the SR and receive control channel information during the onDuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Samy Khay-Ibbat, Navid Damji, Shivesh Makharia, Johnson Sebeni, Sreevalsan Vallath, Longda Xing
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Patent number: 10178053Abstract: An improved method of hierarchical output queueing of packets for a network scheduler of a network gateway that determines delays needed to conform to applicable rate shaping, and enqueues the packets based on the delay. Queues are associated with different classes of service (CoS), and within each class, each queue has a different scheduled time upon which it becomes available for dequeuing. A single set of CoS queues can support a large number of devices, improving the efficiency of software-based queuing by reducing the number of queues and simplifying queue polling.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventor: Christopher W. Gunner
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Patent number: 10164729Abstract: A system including a direct current tone, guard tone, data tone allocation, mapping, and inverse Fourier transform (IFT) modules. The direct current tone module determines a number of direct current tones based on whether a network device is operating in a single user or multi-user mode. The guard tone module determines a number of guard tones based on whether the network device is operating in the single user or multi-user mode. The data tone allocation module determines a number of data tones based on the number of direct current and guard tones. The mapping module receives data and based on the number of data tones, maps the data to the data tones. The IFT module performs a frequency to time domain conversion of an output of the mapping module to generate orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols during the single user mode and OFDM access symbols during the multi-user mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Mingguang Xu, Yakun Sun