Patents Examined by Mark H. Rinehart
  • Patent number: 10554350
    Abstract: A communication management resource associated with a wireless access point in a network environment allocates use of a wireless channel and sub-channels over time to multiple communication devices in communication with the wireless access point. For example, during use, from a first communication device of the multiple communication devices competing for wireless bandwidth, the communication management resource receives a request for allocation of wireless bandwidth to communicate over a wireless communication link with the wireless access point. Subsequent to receiving the request, the communication management resource identifies an appropriate amount of wireless bandwidth suitable to satisfy the request for bandwidth from the first communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Praveen C. Srivastava, Rajesh M. Gangadhar, Hussain Zaheer Syed
  • Patent number: 10530555
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for canceling and/or suppressing inter-cell interference in a wireless communication. The method includes: establishing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a base station through a first serving cell; receiving, at a User Equipment (UE), an RRC message through the first serving cell, the RRC message comprising cell-specific reference signal (CRS) information of a neighbor cell and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) information of the neighbor cell, and the PDSCH information of the neighbor cell comprising a parameter relating to a power ratio of a CRS of the neighbor cell and a PDSCH of the neighbor cell; receiving the PDSCH through the first serving cell; performing a channel estimation for retrieving data from a PDSCH of the first serving cell; and retrieving the data from the PDSCH of the first serving cell based on the second channel estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianjun Li
  • Patent number: 10516549
    Abstract: Aspects of the embodiments are directed to systems, methods, and network elements executing instructions stored thereon. Aspects are directed to, for each spine node connected to a leaf node network element, identifying a spine router identifier, identifying a multicast group address, computing a plurality of hash values based on a hash function using the spine router identifier and the multicast group address, identifying a root spine node based on a highest hash value from the plurality of hash values; and transmitting an IS-IS message to root spine node indicating election of spine node as the root spine node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Naiming Shen, Stig I. Venaas, Ashutosh Gupta
  • Patent number: 10492092
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band, and provides a method for reporting channel state information (CSI) on the basis of a CSI measurement set, and apparatuses for supporting the method. The method comprising receiving an upper layer signal including CSI subframe set configuration information through a primary cell (Pcell); measuring CSI on a secondary cell (Scell) in a preoccupation access period (PAP) or a non-PAP on the basis of the CSI subframe set configuration information; and transmitting a CSI report including the measured CSI. At this time, the non-PAP is set as a first CSI subframe set, the PAP is set as a second CSI subframe set, the first CSI subframe set and the second CSI subframe set are set in the terminal through the CSI subframe set configuration information, and the Scell can be configured in an unlicensed band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee, Byounghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10462051
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a first network element in local communication with a gateway of a core network portion of a mobility network. Establishment of a first logical network connection is facilitated between the first network element and a second network element in local communication with a remotely accessible system, such as a back-end system of an enterprise data center or cloud service provider. A request from a mobile device serviced by the mobility network is detected for access to a service of the remotely accessible system. The request and/or a translation of the request is forwarded to the second network element by way of the first logical network connection. The second network element forwards the translated request to the remotely accessible system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Arturo Maria
  • Patent number: 10419873
    Abstract: A mobile communication system is provided. A service provider terminal distributes service initiation information by using a control channel. Upon receipt of the service initiation information, an onboard terminal determines, based on service type information included in the service initiation information and available service type stored in the onboard terminal, whether the service provided by the service provider terminal is available to the onboard terminal itself. The onboard terminal determines, based on target terminal information included in the service initiation information and determination information acquired by the onboard terminal, whether the onboard terminal itself is an onboard terminal targeted for the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Yamashiro, Seigou Kumabe, Naoyuki Kida
  • Patent number: 10419875
    Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering customized content to wireless service subscribers are disclosed. According to the disclosed embodiments, wireless access points can be grouped into various zones. Some of all of these zones can be further associated with predefined service types or other customized attributes. When a wireless subscriber connects to an access point in a given zone, the subscriber can be provided with content and/or services based on the zone to which he is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Caldwell, Janne P. Linkola
  • Patent number: 10411987
    Abstract: Provided are a signaling monitoring method and system. In the method, multi-path network signalings are accessed, and one or multiple key control signalings are acquired from the acquired multi-path network signalings; the one or multiple key control signalings are analyzed to acquire and share whole-network key control information; and the multi-path network signalings are managed and distributed by utilizing the acquired whole-network key control information. Since each access point has an identical whole-network control table consisting of the whole-network key control information, the technical solution can distribute user plane signalings and control plane signalings per a user to each data analysis center according to the whole-network control table, thus ensuring the control plane and user plane signalings related to the user to be distributed to the same data analysis center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhisen Gao, Ping Liang, Bin Xu, Xunniu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10405251
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling a L2 entity in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives data via a first logical channel, changes a type of a logical channel from the first logical channel to a second logical channel, determines whether to re-establish a L2 entity for the first logical channel, and receives the data via the second logical channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Sunghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 10397119
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for handling voice and data under uplink limited conditions in a wireless communication system. A wireless device and a base station may establish a wireless communication link. Transmission time interval bundling (TTI-B) may be enabled for uplink communications between the wireless device and the base station. It may be determined that the wireless device is experiencing uplink limited conditions. One or more rules prioritizing a first type of data over a second type of data for uplink communications may be enabled based on TTI-B being enabled and the wireless device experiencing uplink limited conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sree Ram Kodali, Shivesh Makharia, Longda Xing, Li Su
  • Patent number: 10397793
    Abstract: An apparatus, configured to communicate with an access terminal in a wireless network and operating in a frequency-division duplexing mode, can be caused to refrain from transmitting during at least one subframe of a frame of a downlink frequency band, and can be caused to monitor for the radar transmission during the at least one subframe of the frame of the downlink frequency band. Optionally, a placement of the at least one subframe within the frame of the downlink frequency band can correspond to a placement of at least one subframe that is designated for an uplink communication within a frame of a wireless network that is operating in accordance with the Long-Term Evolution Time-Division Duplex standard, or can correspond to a placement of at least one subframe that is designated for a transmission in accordance with the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Kamel Sadek, Mehmet Yavuz
  • Patent number: 10383039
    Abstract: For each one of a plurality of subsequent access points, a respective quantity of client devices that roam from a current access point to each of the respective plurality of subsequent access points may be determined. Then, for each one of the plurality of subsequent access points based on the determined quantity of client devices that roam from the current access point to each of the plurality of subsequent access points, a corresponding respective weight indicating a likelihood of its respective corresponding one of the plurality of subsequent access points being roamed to may be determined. Next, a table may be created indicating the desirability of at least a portion of the plurality of subsequent access points to be roamed to based upon the corresponding respective weight of the plurality of subsequent access points indicated in the table. The current access point may be provided with the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, James Frank Florwick, Allen Joseph Huotari
  • Patent number: 10375609
    Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for repairing corrupt security information. At a serving node in a telecommunications network, security capabilities of a terminal are received when the terminal registers with the serving node. The received security capabilities are stored. A path switch request message is received from a target base station following an X2 handover request sent from a source base station to the target base station for handover of the terminal, the path switch request including the security capabilities of the terminal. The serving node determines whether the security capabilities of the terminal stored in the storage medium should be sent to the target base station. If so, the serving node sends the stored security capabilities of the terminal to the target base station for use in reselecting security algorithms to be used in communications between the target base station and terminal following the handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Karl Norrman
  • Patent number: 10374847
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for indicating a modulation coding scheme (MCS) in LTE are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive downlink control information (DCI) from an evolved Node B (eNB) that includes an uplink grant of resources. The DCI may be configured and have a format that conveys an MCS table reference. The UE may identify the MCS table reference and, based on the reference, identify a legacy MCS table or a non-legacy MCS table. The legacy MCS table may be associated with quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) up to a first order, and the non-legacy MCS table may be associated with QAM up to a second order, the second order being higher than the first order. The UE may modulate and code information for uplink transmissions using the identified MCS table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 10368286
    Abstract: A wireless remote communication unit for communicating with a cellular network node and other wireless remote communication units is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Veea Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Timothy James Speight
  • Patent number: 10356000
    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 a long term evolution (LTE). A method for uploading data by a station (STA) in a mobile communication system supporting a plurality of radio access interfaces (RAIs) is provided. The method includes, upon detecting that there is content to be uploaded, determining whether a first RAI among the plurality of RAIs is available, and when the first RAI is available, transmitting a header message including information related to the content and a body message including at least one of a plurality of segments which are generated based on the content to a proxy server through the first RAI to upload the at least one of the plurality of segments to an original server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Joo Lee, Chul-Ho Lee, Jin-Hyoung Kim, Yong-Seok Park, Jin-Ho Lee, Joon-Young Choi
  • Patent number: 10349438
    Abstract: Channel availability is uncertain when employing an unlicensed carrier. In particular, it may be difficult to schedule grants in advance because of the uncertainty associated with future channels availability. Accordingly, scheduling UL and/or DL grants exclusively using self-scheduling or exclusively using cross-carrier scheduling for utilizing an unlicensed carrier may result in wasted communication opportunities. Aspects disclosed herein whereby an eNB may use licensed and unlicensed carriers to communicate downlink grants and uplink grants for an unlicensed carrier to a UE. In one aspect, the eNB may use an unlicensed carrier to communicate downlink grants for downlink communication on the unlicensed carrier, and may use a licensed carrier to communicate uplink grants for uplink communication on the unlicensed carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 10340993
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitter arrangement for a wireless communication network, the transmitter arrangement adapted for beamforming. The method comprises determining a maximum power level mask for the power of transmission and/or beams in a critical angular interval, the maximum power level mask covering at least the critical angular interval and controlling beamforming based on the maximum power level mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Simon Järmyr, George Jöngren, Niklas Wernersson, Sebastian Faxér
  • Patent number: 10334294
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, generating input packets including broadcast content data; generating a link layer packet by using the generated input packets, wherein the link layer packet includes a link layer header and a link layer payload including the generated input packets, wherein the link layer header includes a count field indicating number of the input packets included in the link layer payload, wherein the link layer header further includes a length part, wherein the length part includes a plurality of length fields as many as that the count field indicates, wherein each of the length fields indicates length of the each input packets included in the link layer payload; generating a broadcast signal including the generated link layer packet; and transmitting the broadcast signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woosuk Kwon, Sejin Oh, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong, Kyoungsoo Moon
  • Patent number: 10313143
    Abstract: A wireless communication system synchronizes a Single Frequency Network (SFN). The wireless communication system includes a multicast server system that transmits multimedia content to wireless access points. The wireless access points determine and transmit SFN transmit time information to the multicast server system. The multicast server system uses the SFN transmit time information to determine individual buffering information for each of the wireless access points. The multicast server system adjusts a buffer delay for each individual wireless access points using the individual buffering information. The multicast server system transmits the multimedia content to wireless access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Volkan Sevindik