Patents Examined by Michael Thier
  • Patent number: 11476995
    Abstract: The present invention is provided a method for transmitting ACK/NACK information. The method is applicable for a situation that uplink-downlink configurations of multiple Component Carriers (CCs) of a Carrier Aggregation (CA) are different. The method include: transmitting, by a NodeB, a UL grant to a UE, the UL grant includes a UL Downlink Assignment Index (DAI); receiving, by the UE, the UL grant and obtaining the UL DAI in the UL grant; and transmitting, by the UE, ACK/NACK information on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), wherein the length of the ACK/NACK information or the number of elements of the ACK/NACK bundling is determined according to the UL DAI value of a CC that the PUSCH belongs to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingxing Fu, Yingyang Li
  • Patent number: 11476911
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may receive at least two reference signals from a base station. The apparatus may determine CSI associated with at least one of the at least two reference signals. The apparatus may determine at least one parameter based on the CSI. The apparatus may transmit, to the base station, the at least one parameter and the CSI to enable a predicted CSI to be determined based on the at least one parameter and the CSI. The apparatus may receive data or control information from the base station based on predictive CSI determined by the base station using the transmitted at least one parameter and CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Vasanthan Raghavan
  • Patent number: 11469852
    Abstract: A signal sending and receiving method and an apparatus is described. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first downlink signal from a network device in a first time unit of a first carrier, where the first carrier is a TDD carrier; determining, based on the first time unit, a second time unit used to send first feedback information for the first downlink signal on a second carrier, where the second carrier is an FDD uplink carrier; and sending the first feedback information to the network device on the second last symbol and/or the last symbol of the second time unit of the second carrier. Feedback information for a downlink signal on the first carrier is sent on the second carrier, so that a requirement of sending an uplink signal on the first carrier by the terminal device is reduced, thereby improving data transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiheng Guo, Lei Wan, Xinqian Xie
  • Patent number: 11463360
    Abstract: Methods and systems for range matching. The system holds a definition of one or more ranges of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The definition may specify any desired number of ranges of any suitable size, and some ranges may overlap one another or be contained in one another. The definition may also specify certain returned values and/or relative priorities for the various ranges. In a pre-processing phase, a hash table that is subsequently queried with addresses to be range-matched. The hash table may be updated at run-time. During operation, the system receives addresses (e.g., extracts addresses from monitored communication traffic) and identifies by querying the hash table, for each address, whether the address falls within any of the ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: COGNYTE TECHNOLOGIES ISRAEL LTD.
    Inventor: Yitshak Yishay
  • Patent number: 11451343
    Abstract: A device receives a coded message from a re-transmitting device designated by one or more devices for performing message re-transmission on their behalf. The coded message encodes a first message and a second message, where the receiving device has failed to receive at least the second message. The receiving device further receives a coding-based re-transmission indicator indicating that the coded message is configured as a coding-based re-transmission of two or more previously transmitted messages that are encoded together in the coded message. The receiving device recovers the second message by decoding the coded message. In another aspect, a re-transmitting device is designated by one or more devices for performing message re-transmission on behalf of the devices. The device generates a coded message that encodes a first and a second message; and transmits the coded message and an indicator indicating that the coded message is a coding-based re-transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong Cheng, Tien Viet Nguyen, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 11452022
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for steering an IEEE 802.11 station (STA) using a cloud server are disclosed herein. There may be a plurality of IEEE 802.11 access points (AP)s, where at least one AP of the plurality of APs operate at least a first virtual network. One or more APs of the plurality of APs may run a Client Steering Daemon (CSD) configured to perform unassociated STA monitoring that produces a log of data that may be sent to the cloud server on a regular or dynamic basis. The cloud server may receive the log data and transmit a signal to at least one of the APs of the plurality of APs to enable it to steer the STA between the first virtual network and a second virtual network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: AIRTIES KABLOSUZ ILETISIM SANAYI VE DIS TICARET A.S.
    Inventors: Metin Ismail Taskin, Muharrem Sarper Gokturk
  • Patent number: 11431543
    Abstract: A two-stage downlink control channel is provided for a wireless communication system. In one example, an apparatus comprises a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operation can comprise: transmitting a first portion of a downlink control channel to a mobile device according to a first specification of parameters; and transmitting a second portion of the downlink control channel to the mobile device according to a second specification of the parameters, wherein the second specification of the parameters is adaptively determined based on a condition of an environment in which the first portion of the downlink control channel is transmitted and wherein the second portion is dictated by the first specification of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11424878
    Abstract: A method in a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining one or more radio link monitoring configurations, each radio link monitoring configuration associated with at least one bandwidth part. The method comprises determining that the UE is to switch from a source bandwidth part to a target bandwidth part. The method comprises performing radio link monitoring on the target bandwidth part according to an obtained radio link monitoring configuration associated with the target bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Helka-Liina Määttanen, Iana Siomina, Muhammad Kazmi, Rui Fan
  • Patent number: 11418452
    Abstract: An electronic device including a communication circuit receiving data transmitted from another electronic device, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor electrically connected to the communication circuit and the memory and including a control core and a plurality of operation cores. The at least one processor may execute the stored instructions to cause the control core to receive the data from the communication circuit, to classify the received data into data flows of a specified number depending on an attribute of the data, and to respectively allocate the data flows to the plurality of operation cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngwook Kim, Youngki Hong
  • Patent number: 11411706
    Abstract: A resource block group partitioning method and user equipment are provided. The method includes: determining a resource block included in a first resource block group in a bandwidth part; determining a resource block included in other resource block group in the bandwidth part according to a pre-acquired resource block group size, wherein the other RBG is a resource block group other than the first resource block group in the bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanping Xing
  • Patent number: 11388272
    Abstract: Technologies for network packet processing between cloud and telecommunications networks includes a network computing device which includes two application layer packet translators (ALPTs). The first ALPT is configured to receive a network packet from a computing device in a telecommunications network, identify a virtual network function (VNF) instance, and perform an application layer encapsulation of at least a portion of data of the received network packet as a parameter of a remote procedure call (RPC) associated with the identified VNF instance. The first ALPT is additionally configured to invoke the identified VNF instance using an API call corresponding to the RPC that includes the RPC parameter and the VNF instance is configured to transmit an RPC call response to the second ALPT. The second ALPT is configured to generate a new network packet as a function of the RPC call response and transmit the new network packet to another computing device in a cloud network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vadim Sukhomlinov, Kshitij Doshi, Areg Melik-Adamyan
  • Patent number: 11388603
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for channel mapping in shared spectrum in the presence of higher tier users are provided. One technique includes evaluating, for different channel locations of orthogonal channel(s) within available spectrum, an amount of transmission limitation imposed to a group of devices due to incumbent protection, an amount of available bandwidth, and/or a maximum contiguous channel size. A channel location is assigned to each orthogonal channel, based on the evaluation. Another technique includes determining first channel location(s) in order to assign at least a first orthogonal channel within available spectrum. Each first orthogonal channel is associated with a group of devices sharing bandwidth within one or more networks. An exchange is participated in with a network entity to share a first set of information associated with the first channel locations. A determination is made whether to modify portion(s) of the first set of information, based on the exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Farhad Meshkati, Douglas Norman Knisely
  • Patent number: 11388041
    Abstract: A network node (3, 4) comprising at least one client interface port (40) and a database (46, 48) storing data allowing to retrieve for a given client interface, a service associated therewith, for a given service, a client interface associated therewith. A Maintenance End Point (MEP) (50, 52) is established on the network node and is associated with an end-to-end service between a client device (10, 12) connected with said client interface port and a remote client device connected to a remote network node (3, 4). Said MEP is configured to exchange connectivity messages with a corresponding MEP (50, 52) established on said remote network node and to detect a client interface fault and a service fault based on connectivity messages received from said corresponding MEP, or based on missing connectivity messages from said corresponding MEP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: XIEON NETWORKS S.a.r.l.
    Inventors: Sergio Silva, Thomas Hiestand
  • Patent number: 11388643
    Abstract: A user equipment, apparatus, and method transmits a random access preamble to a cell and receives a message including a random access response as a response to the random access preamble from the cell. The message indicates that a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection to the cell is rejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Chiharu Yamazaki, Masato Fujishiro, Yushi Nagasaka
  • Patent number: 11387956
    Abstract: This application discloses a signal transmission method. The method may include: obtaining, by a terminal, a first configuration parameter; determining, by the terminal based on the first configuration parameter from random access resources separately associated with a plurality of downlink signals, a random access resource used for random access preamble retransmission; and retransmitting, by the terminal, a random access preamble by using the random access resource used for random access preamble retransmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mao Yan, Huang Huang
  • Patent number: 11381291
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to channel state measurement methods and apparatus. One example method includes selecting, by a network device from N channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources, a target CSI-RS resource and a target channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource group associated with the target CSI-RS resource, where an ith CSI-RS resource in the N CSI-RS resources is associated with ni CSI-IM resource groups, and a kth CSI-IM resource group in the ni CSI-IM resource groups includes xik CSI-RS resources in the N CSI-RS resources except the ith CSI-RS resource, and sending, by the network device, first indication information by using first signaling, where the first indication information indicates the target CSI-RS resource and the target CSI-IM resource group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruiqi Zhang, Xueru Li, Di Zhang
  • Patent number: 11374672
    Abstract: Various embodiments to enable Spectrum Access System (SAS) controlled interference management are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a memory to store network configuration data and a processing device coupled to the memory. The processing device to generate a protection band based on interference measurements. The protection band is allocated to at least one of the infrastructure node of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network infrastructure. In this regard, the interference measurements are related to transmissions of data between infrastructure nodes of the LTE network infrastructure. Thereupon, a time slot is determined for the at least one of the infrastructure node based on the protection band. The time slot indicates an allocated time frame to access data in the LTE network infrastructure using a radio frequency in accordance with the protection band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bilijana Badic, Markus Dominik Mueck, Srikathyayani Kathyayani Srikanteswara, Sabine Roessel, Thomas Wirth, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Haustein
  • Patent number: 11363634
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first wireless device may receive a clear to send signal based precoded based at least in part on a receive filter at a second wireless device. The first wireless device may calculate a transmit precoder based at least in part on the clear to send signal. For example, the first wireless device may calculate a whitening filter and a second filter based at least in part on the clear to send signal. The first wireless device may transmit a request to send signal precoded by the transmit precoder to initiate communications with a third wireless device without significantly interfering with ongoing communications at the second wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhifei Fan, Taesang Yoo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11356930
    Abstract: A system information update method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, indication information and an area identifier from a first network device, where the indication information indicates whether system information of the area is the same; and determining, by the terminal based on the indication information and/or the area identifier, whether to update the system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Yalin Liu, Qinghai Zeng, Chong Lou
  • Patent number: 11356310
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method in a wireless device includes generating a signal comprising repeating segments for transmission in a subslot duration transmission time interval (TTI) to a network node. The signal comprising the repeating segments is transmitted to the network node in the subslot duration TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Mårten Sundberg, Daniel Chen Larsson, Miguel Lopez, Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Gustav Wikström