Patents Examined by Matthew W. Genack
  • Patent number: 11812319
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a source base station associated with a source master cell group (MCG), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition in one or more slots of the source MCG during a handover of the UE from the source MCG to a target MCG. The UE may perform, to a target base station associated with the target MCG, an uplink transmission in one or more slots to the target MCG during the handover, wherein PUSCH repetitions associated with the source MCG that overlap in time with the uplink transmission to MCG are canceled and a counting of the PUSCH repetitions is based at least in part on slots of the source MCG associated with canceled PUSCH repetitions. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Gokul Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11805450
    Abstract: A communication system is provided, including: an acquiring unit for acquiring quality information on a wireless communication quality between a wireless base station and a movable mobile relaying apparatus that relays communications between the wireless base station and wireless communication terminals; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the quality information to the wireless communication terminals. In addition, an information processing method performed by a computer is provided, the method including: acquiring quality information on a wireless communication quality between a wireless base station and a movable mobile relaying apparatus that relays communications between the wireless base station and wireless communication terminals; and transmitting the quality information to the wireless communication terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Patent number: 11805566
    Abstract: In a connection reactivation method, a connection of a PDU session established by user equipment on a N3GPP side is reactivated through communications via a 3GPP network. The user equipment accesses both the 3GPP and the N3GPP network and is originally in an idle state on the N3GPP network. An access and mobility management function entity receives a first message from a session management function entity to reactivate the PDU session connection of the user equipment. The access and mobility management function entity sends a second message to the user equipment via the 3GPP access network to instruct the user equipment to reactivate the connection of the PDU session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huan Li, Youyang Yu
  • Patent number: 11800008
    Abstract: Various media or other related information may be provided during a call between a calling device and a called device. One example method of operation may include initiating a call via an origination device to a recipient device, transmitting a call notification to an enhanced information server responsive to initiating the call, retrieving enhanced information associated with the intended recipient device and/or the origination device, transmitting the enhanced information to the intended recipient device and/or the origination device, and connecting the call between the origination device and the intended recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Joshua Harrison Lange, Mark Himelfarb, Scott Hambuchen, Matthew Beckham
  • Patent number: 11792701
    Abstract: There is provided a method in a cellular communication network, the method comprising: upon detecting that a terminal device has or is going to have a mobility condition previously determined to be associated with a handover anomaly or failure, determining terminal device specific handover parameters for said terminal device to avoid said handover anomaly or failure; and causing utilizing said terminal device specific handover parameters in one or more handovers associated with the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Peter Szilagyi, Csaba Vulkán
  • Patent number: 11792706
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing uplink transmissions during a dual active protocol stack handover. A wireless device may determine a propagation delay between the wireless device and each of a source cell and a target cell of a dual active protocol stack handover by the wireless device. The wireless device may provide an indication to the source cell of the propagation delay between the wireless device and the source cell, the propagation delay between the wireless device and the target cell, and a propagation delay difference handling capability of the wireless device. The cellular base station that provides the source cell may determine a time division multiplexing pattern for uplink communication for the wireless device during the dual active protocol stack handover based at least in part on the information provided by the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11792696
    Abstract: A secondary node (2) transmits to a radio terminal (3), via a master node (1), a first RRC message indicating an execution condition of a conditional primary cell change of a primary cell of a secondary cell group from a first cell to a second cell. In addition, the secondary node (2) receives, via the master node (1), a second RRC message that is transmitted from the radio terminal (3) in response to a satisfaction of the execution condition. This contributes to, for example, allowing the secondary node to be aware of a satisfaction of an execution condition of a conditional PSCell change where RRC signaling between the secondary node and the radio terminal is performed via the master node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11785514
    Abstract: Techniques to maximize connectivity to a preferred radio access technology (RAT) (e.g., 5G NR) over a less preferred RAT (e.g., 4G LTE) are disclosed. When a user equipment (UE) is camped on a preferred RAT connectivity capable cell (e.g., NR cell, EUTRA dual-connectivity (ENDC) cell), offsets or biases may be applied to delay triggering of a cell reselection. When UE is camped on a non-preferred RAT connectivity capable cell, offset(s) may be applied to accelerate triggering of the cell reselection. When cell reselection is triggered, offsets or biases may be applied to favor reselection to preferred RAT connectivity capable cell over a non-preferred RAT connectivity capable cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Hargovind Prasad Bansal
  • Patent number: 11765569
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless serving node may determine mobility history information associated with the wireless serving node, wherein the mobility history information is associated with a relative mobility between the wireless serving node and one or more reported cells; and transmit, to a child node of the wireless serving node, the mobility history information associated with the wireless serving node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Ozcan Ozturk, Gavin Bernard Horn, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11764900
    Abstract: Methods, a Base Station (BS), and a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving control information are provided. The method for transmitting control information by a BS in a wireless communication system includes receiving information related to a signal transmitted by a second BS that the second BS which is a neighboring BS of the first BS, determining whether a second UE using an identical resource to that used by a first UE included in a cell of the first BS exists within a cell of the second BS based on the received information, when the second UE exists, generating control information for controlling a signal transmitted to the second UE by the second BS based on the received information, and transmitting the generated control information to the first UE through a control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-Ju Kim, Chae-Man Lim, Min-Goo Kim, Jong-Han Lim, Hyuk-Joon Kwon, Jung-Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11758614
    Abstract: Provided are a method for adjusting timer T when disaster roaming occurs, and a device supporting same. When a disaster condition is applied to a home public land mobile network (HPLMN), a user equipment (UE) performs registration with a disaster roaming PLMN. When the registration with the disaster roaming PLMN is performed, a timer for periodically searching for the HPLMN does not operate, and the HPLMN is not searched while the timer does not operate. In addition, the UE re-operates the timer on the basis of the disaster condition no longer being applied to the HPLMN or the UE leaving a disaster area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangmin Park, Sungduck Chun, Hyunsook Kim
  • Patent number: 11751114
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device avoiding reselection or handover to cells of different operators. The wireless device may attach to a first base station of a first network operator. The wireless device may determine that a neighboring base station is associated with a second network operator. Based on determining the neighboring base station is associated with the second network operator, the wireless device may exclude the third base station from handover or reselection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou
  • Patent number: 11741135
    Abstract: Geographic data corresponding to a certain geographic area of offline coverage is stored in a memory of a computing device. An indication of a geographic boundary delimiting a region smaller than, and contained within, the geographic area is obtained. A current location of the computing device relative to the geographic boundary is determined and, in response to determining that the current location is outside the region, additional geographic data is retrieved via a wireless communication network to expand the geographic area of offline coverage. At least some of the geographic data corresponding to the expanded geographic area is provided via a user interface of the computing device when the computing device is offline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Messmer, David Barth, Brett McLarnon, Jennifer Maurer
  • Patent number: 11743711
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for enforcing a steering of roaming (SoR) decision. More particularly, enforcing the SoR decision includes receiving, at a proxy and from a user equipment (UE) located in a visitor network, a registration message to register with a home network, the registration message including an identifier of the visitor network. The proxy routes the registration message to a steering controller to determine a SoR policy decision. The proxy then enforces the SoR policy decision of the steering controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Romil Sood, Boris Antsev
  • Patent number: 11729671
    Abstract: A method of performing communication, by a network exposure function (NEF), in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a connection establishment request from a session management function (SMF), based on a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment procedure performed between the SMF and a user equipment (UE), performing a non-internet protocol (IP) data delivery (NIDD) configuration procedure according to NIDD configuration information included in the connection establishment request, based on whether the NIDD configuration procedure is previously performed on the UE between the NEF and an application function (AF), establishing connection between the SMF and the NEF, and transmitting a connection establishment response to the SMF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kisuk Kweon, Sunghoon Kim, Jungje Son, Hoyeon Lee, Yoonseon Han
  • Patent number: 11722935
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) includes receiving one of a stand-alone non-public network (SNPN) selection request, while the UE has stored at least one of cell (re)selection priorities (cellReselectionPriorities), deleting the stored at least one of cellReselectionPriorities when an SNPN selection in response to the SNPN selection request is performed by the UE, and stopping a T320 timer in response to receiving the SNPN selection request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yung-Lan Tseng, Mei-Ju Shih, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 11711735
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving a message for dual-active-protocol stack (DAPs) handover (HO) from a source network entity to a target network entity, wherein carrier-aggregation (CA) is configured with the source network entity prior to reception of the message for HO, deactivating the CA in response to reception of the message for handover (HO) to activate a single carrier mode with the source network entity, and performing the HO from the source network entity to the target network entity during a HO period, wherein the single carrier mode is maintained with the source network entity during at least a portion of the HO period, and wherein connection with the target network entity is maintained during the at least the portion of the HO period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Hung Dinh Ly, Karthika Paladugu, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11700557
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment maintaining a first set of configuration parameters includes: measuring strength of signals transmitted by a first base station, measuring strength of signal transmitted by at least one of a set of neighbor base stations operating in unlicensed spectrum, determining a second set of configuration parameters corresponding to the cellular network for a second base station in a set of neighbor base stations, by retrieving said set of configuration parameter from said second base station, considering the second base station for cell re-selection when: the measured signal strength for the second base station is higher than said measured signal strength of first base station, and said determined second set of configuration parameters corresponds to said first set of configuration parameters, and carrying out a cell selection to said second base station when these conditions are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Telit Cinterion Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Volker Breuer
  • Patent number: 11689972
    Abstract: A handover method, information exchange method, device and computer readable storage medium are provided. In some embodiments, a first network device may acquire multi-connectivity capability information of a candidate second network device during a handover process, so that the first network device may select, based on the multi-connectivity capability information, a candidate second network device capable of providing an multi-connectivity service as a second network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang Xie, Zhuo Chen, Liang Liu, Na Li
  • Patent number: 11678233
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device through a mobile communication network, and comprises: a throughput measuring unit; a throughput predicting unit configured to predict a future communication throughput; a communication rate controller; a band information acquiring unit; a communication environment information storage unit by associating; and a detection unit configured to detect at least one of a handover execution and a communication band switching, wherein if the detection unit has detected at least one of a handover execution and a communication band switching, the communication rate controller switches from controlling the communication rate based on a future communication throughput predicted by the throughput predicting unit to controlling the communication rate based on band information acquired by the communication environment information storage unit and the band information acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kosei Tsushima