Patents Examined by Minh Trang T Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10985971
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a satellite service channel that provides a first media content item for processing by a media processor for presentation by equipment of a user. A terrestrial service source is identified that provides a second media content item via a terrestrial service. A portion of the second version of the media content item is buffered for subsequent processing by the media processing device for presentation in place of the first version of the media content item responsive to an unavailability of the satellite service channel Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Douglas Medina, Todd Andrew Fryer, Nicholas Nicas
  • Patent number: 10979891
    Abstract: In a 5G network, new radios (NR) can be deployed as a standalone radio access technology or as a non-standalone radio access technology assisted by another radio access technology. Long-term evolution (LTE), which is widely deployed can provide seamless coverage and uninterrupted connectivity, however NRs can provide significantly increased data rates or new services. However, the deployment of NR can be limited to hotspots under the footprint of LTE. Therefore, dual connectivity between LTE and NR can be utilized for non-standalone NR because control plane functions can be sent over LTE while the data plane can be managed on NR, allowing for simplified NR deployments where device support for both LTE and NR is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Milap Majmundar, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10972894
    Abstract: A wireless pairing system includes an emitting terminal and a receiving terminal, the emitting terminal includes an emitting terminal storage unit, a traversal unit, a pairing unit and an emitting terminal wireless transceiver. The receiving terminal includes a receiving terminal storage unit, a detecting unit, a coupling receiver and a receiving terminal wireless transceiver. The emitting terminal transmits matching requests in priority to receiving terminals having been paired in history record. The receiving terminal in priority gets the matching request sent by the emitting terminal having been paired with at last time, thereby pairing cycles can be effectively shortened, and pairing efficiency of the mitting terminal and the receiving terminal can be effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN MINGZONG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhizhou Jiang
  • Patent number: 10965569
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for Internet of Things (IoT) end-to-end continuous monitoring. In one example, a method may include transmitting a first message by a first device to a second device in an IoT cloud system, the first message including a first timestamp indicating when the first message is transmitted, receiving a second message by the first device from the second device, the second message including the first timestamp and a second timestamp indicating when the first message was received by the second device, the second message being received at a time indicated by a third timestamp, and monitoring by the first device end-to-end communication between the first device and the second device in the IoT cloud system based on at least one of the first, second, or third timestamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Michael Ameling, Ralf Ackermann
  • Patent number: 10965558
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and systems for effective data collection, aggregation, and analysis in a distributed heterogeneous communication network for effective fault detection or performance anomaly detection. In one embodiment, the method may include determining impact characteristics with respect to a network slice or a service in the distributed heterogeneous communication network. The method may further include determining one or more collection nodes, one or more aggregation nodes, and one or more analysis nodes within the distributed heterogeneous communication network based on the impact characteristics. The method may further include activating the one or more collection nodes for collecting data, the one or more aggregation nodes for aggregating the collected data, and the one or more analysis nodes for analyzing the aggregated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Dhebeha Jayakumar, Vignesh Karunakaran, Swaminathan Seetharaman
  • Patent number: 10959236
    Abstract: A system and method for characterizing an interference demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a piece of user equipment (UE), e.g., a mobile device. The UE determines whether the serving signal is transmitted in a DMRS-based transmission mode; if it is, the UE cancels the serving DMRS from the received signal; otherwise the UE cancels the serving data signal from the received signal. The remaining signal is then analyzed for the amount of power it has in each of four interference DMRS candidates, and hypothesis testing is performed to determine whether interference DMRS is present in the signal, and, if so, to determine the rank of the interference DMRS, and the port and scrambling identity of each of the interference DMRS layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoo Jin Choi, Dongwoon Bai, Jungwon Lee, Sungyoon Cho, Heunchul Lee, Sungsoo Kim
  • Patent number: 10959231
    Abstract: A frequency domain resource configuration method and apparatus, the method including obtaining, by a base station, a first frequency hopping parameter set of UE in N sub-bands, where the N sub-bands have a mapping relationship with a frequency hopping pattern that is indicated by the first frequency hopping parameter set, where the sub-band is a length of consecutive frequency domain resources in a system bandwidth, and where N?1, and further including sending, by the base station, first configuration information to the UE, where the first configuration information includes sub-band identifiers of the N sub-bands and the first frequency hopping parameter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhuan Xia, Brian Classon, Matthew William Webb
  • Patent number: 10951746
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. A first node transmits a first radio signal in a first time window, the first time window is any one time window of M time windows, the first radio signal carries a first check bit block. Herein, an information bit block corresponding to the first check bit block comprises a first bit block; values of bits comprised in the first check bit block are related to a position of the first time window in the M time windows, or, a total number of bits comprised in the first check bit block is or isn't related to a position of the first time window in the M time windows, the M is a positive integer greater than 1. The method improves precision of error correction without increasing redundancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: KeYing Wu, XiaoBo Zhang, Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 10938460
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an inter-base station beam configuration and management method, a base station, user equipment, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, a beam signal sent by a base station; determining, by the user equipment, a receive beam based on the sent beam signal; receiving, by the base station, a beam signal sent by a terminal device; determining, by the base station, a receive beam based on the sent beam signal; performing dynamic selection and fast beam switching between base stations in combination with a coordinated multi-point technology; and performing fast beam alignment between the base station end with the user equipment end. This application can effectively implement fast beam switching and alignment between base stations and support dynamic base station selection, thereby improving link reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Shang, Lu Wu, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 10925001
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a wireless network receives a target wake time (TWT) request from a wireless client. The device computes TWT parameters based on the received request. The device predicts, using the computed TWT parameters as input to a machine learning model, whether the computed TWT parameters will be accepted by the wireless client. The device provides the computed TWT parameters to the wireless client, based on a prediction by the machine learning model that the client will accept the computed TWT parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gautam Dilip Bhanage, Pooya Monajemi, Khashayar Mirfakhraei, Ardalan Alizadeh, Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10917350
    Abstract: A transmission device includes at least one port, first and second transceivers, and a processor. The first transceiver transmits or receives a frame signal to or from one adjacent node within a ring network including a plurality of nodes. The frame signal includes an overhead and a plurality of slots. The second transceiver transmits or receives a frame signal to or from another adjacent node within the ring network. The processor sets port information to the overhead of a frame signal to be transmitted from the first transceiver. The processor acquires slot information from the overhead of a frame signal received by the first transceiver or the second transceiver based on the port information. The processor sets a received data signal in a slot allocated based on the slot information, among the plurality of slots of a frame signal to be transmitted from the first transceiver or the second transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuji Tochio
  • Patent number: 10911914
    Abstract: A method for estimating transmitted signals transmitted from a plurality of transmitters, the method comprising: simultaneously receiving at each of a plurality of receivers a respective received signal resulting from the transmitted signals; determining for each receiver a set of equation coefficients; forming for each received signal a characterisation of that received signal composed of elements weighted in accordance with the equation coefficients determined for the receiver at which that received signal was received; and processing the characterisations to estimate the transmitted signals; wherein the equation coefficients are determined such that the characterisations are substantially linearly independent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventors: Chan Zhou, Alexandros Kaloxylos, Jan Schreck, Slawomir Stanczak, Peter Jung, Miruna Raceala-Motoc
  • Patent number: 10911364
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application describe a packet processing method and a router. The method includes: receiving, by an input line card, at least one packet; obtaining, by the input line card, information about an available first buffer block in a third buffer module, where the third buffer module is a first buffer module that includes an available first buffer block; allocating, by the input line card, a third buffer block to each of the at least one packet based on at least one buffer information block stored in the input line card and the information about an available first buffer block; and buffering, by the input line card, each packet into the third buffer block. Distributed packet buffering can be implemented by using the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongmiao Xia, Tuanhui Sun
  • Patent number: 10904153
    Abstract: A computer implemented system is provided for improving performance of transmission in real-time or near real-time applications from at least one transmitter unit to at least one receiver unit. The system includes an intelligent data connection manager utility that generates or accesses performance data for two or more data connections associated with the two or more communication networks, and based on the current performance data determining current network transmission characteristics associated the two or more data connections, and bonds the two or more data connections based on: a predetermined system latency requirement; and dynamically allocating different functions associated with data transmission between the two or more data connections based on their respective current network transmission characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: DEJERO LABS INC.
    Inventors: David Sze, Bogdan Frusina, Barry Gilhuly, Todd Schneider
  • Patent number: 10897424
    Abstract: Methods and systems for changing communication paths in a network based on predicted Quality of Experience metrics are described herein. Computing devices in a network may communicate via one or more communication paths and using one or more applications. One or more Quality of Experience metrics may be determined for the one or more applications. Network metrics for the network may be measured and, based on one or more Quality of Service policies for the network, predicted Quality of Experience metrics may be determined using, e.g., a model network. A communication path recommendation may be output based on the predicted Quality of Experience metrics. For example, the recommendation may cause an application to change from a first communication path to a second communication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Praveen Raja Dhanabalan, Sachin Shelar, Snigdhendu Mukhopadhyay
  • Patent number: 10897698
    Abstract: An embodiment is a method for support of retrieval and/or reporting and/or triggering the reporting of user location information in a mobile network, wherein said user location information is retrieved and/or reported and/or the reporting of said user location information is triggered, at a granularity of an area referred to as administrative area defined as a set of mobile network related areas, mobile network related areas being defined at mobile network management level, and mobile network related areas being mapped to administrative areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Nicolas Drevon, Laurent Thiebaut
  • Patent number: 10893426
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application relate to the communications field, and disclose a channel quality information calculation method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a downlink configuration instruction sent by an access network device; performing, by the terminal, measurement on a reference signal resource indicated by the downlink configuration instruction, to obtain first channel quality information, and sending the first channel quality information to the access network device; sending, by the terminal, an SRS to the access network device; and calculating, by the access network device, second channel quality information based on the first channel quality information and the SRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kunpeng Liu
  • Patent number: 10893443
    Abstract: The present invention faces identifying resource allocation results when resource request and modifications occur in fast succession, and provides for associating at an AF each media component description transmitted to a PCRF with a media component instance identifier, associating at the PCRF each media component instance identifier with rule instance identifiers for control rules determined for each media component description, and associating at a PCEF each rule instance identifier with a control rule and with a bearer for which the control rule is to be installed or modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ignacio Rivas Molina, Susana Fernandez Alonso
  • Patent number: 10887914
    Abstract: An electronic device, information processing apparatus, and information processing method. The electronic device at a base station side includes a processor circuit. The processor circuit is configured to acquire information related to a success rate of uplink transmission in an unlicensed frequency band of at least one user equipment unit, wherein the user equipment unit employs a channel detection process to perform carrier sensing on the unlicensed frequency band, and the channel detection process includes a random back-off process having a variable contention window size. The processor circuit is further configured to adjust, based on the information, the contention window size of the user equipment unit. The processor circuit is further configured to perform control, such that the user equipment unit is notified of the adjusted contention window size or a value of a random back-off counter generated on the basis of the adjusted contention window size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bingshan Hu, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 10880697
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving from a first system information comprising a message and an identifier of a user, selecting a channel from a plurality of different third party communication channels for sending the message based on one or more properties of communications on the channel, determining a channel-specific user identifier for the selected channel based on the identifier of the user, creating a channel-specific message formatted for the selected channel based on the message, and sending the message to the user on the selected channel using the channel-specific user identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Nexmo, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Shirazi, Tiago Lam, Eric Nadalin, Chris Moore, Sumit Suman