Patents Examined by Mon Cheri S. Davenport
  • Patent number: 11929939
    Abstract: A system and method remotely allocate bandwidth among content consumers on a computing network based on optimizing an aggregate objective pertaining to a plurality of flows of content. The system and method create a profile for each flow of the plurality of flows from a content provider to a content consumer on the computing network. Information is stored in each profile based on at least a metric associated with the corresponding flow. A target bandwidth for each profile is computed remotely, based on optimizing an aggregate objective pertaining to the plurality of flows of content. The optimizing is also based on the information stored in their respective profiles. The system and method distribute the bandwidth to each flow of the plurality of flows based on the target bandwidth remotely computed for each profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Yih-Chun Hu, Zhuotao Liu
  • Patent number: 11902866
    Abstract: Provided is a method for determining and performing a packet duplication transmission between wireless devices. The method comprises receiving, from an evolved NodeB (eNB), configuration information associated a packet duplication transmission between wireless devices, wherein the configuration information comprising a packet reliability parameter associated with activation of the packet duplication transmission between wireless devices; determining, by a first wireless device, a data packet to be transmitted to a second wireless device; duplicating, based on determining the data packet satisfies the packet reliability parameter, the data packet to a plurality of data duplicates; mapping the plurality of data duplicates onto different logical channels in a media access channel (MAC) layer; and transmitting, by the first wireless device and via a direct communication to a second wireless device, the plurality of data duplicates mapped onto different logical channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ki Bum Kwon
  • Patent number: 11902211
    Abstract: Provided is a method of performing HARQ by a UE in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation (CA). The method includes: receiving, from an evolved nodeB (eNB), a downlink grant on a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), the downlink grant including an accumulated downlink assignment indicator (A-DAI) field and a total DAI (T-DAI) field; receiving a first PDSCH indicated by the first PDCCH, the first PDSCH being transmitted from the eNB; receiving, from the eNB, an uplink grant on a second PDCCH, the uplink grant indicating a transmission of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH); determining a size of a HARQ-ACK codebook to which a HARQ-ACK with respect to the first PDSCH is to be mapped, based on the A-DAI and the T-DAI; and transmitting, to the eNB, the HARQ-ACK with respect to the first PDSCH on the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 11882494
    Abstract: According to one aspect, there is provided a method of operating a mobile device that is configured for use in a first radio access network that uses a first radio access technology and a second radio access network that uses a second, different, radio access technology, the mobile device aggregating a plurality of carriers in the first radio access network, the method comprising obtaining information for, or pertaining to, one or more of the plurality of carriers in the first radio access network; and processing the obtained information for a single carrier to determine an action for the mobile device to take with respect to the second radio access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mattias Bergström, Gunnar Mildh, Magnus Stattin, Oumer Teyeb
  • Patent number: 11856425
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device receives observed access point (AP) features of one or more APs in a monitored network. The device clusters the observed AP features within a latent space to form AP feature clusters. The device applies labels to the AP feature clusters within the latent space. The device uses the applied labels to the AP feature clusters to describe future behaviors of the one or more APs in the monitored network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Javier Cruz Mota, Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Pierre-André Savalle, Grégory Mermoud
  • Patent number: 11825369
    Abstract: A method for handover between base stations of an access system for access to a core network including interconnections in a tree structure having wireless links and a single wired link. The wired link connects only one of the base stations, known as a donor node, to the core network. The interconnections between the base stations are solely wireless links. The method includes: transmitting, by a source base station of the access system, to which a terminal is attached, a handover request to a target base station of the access system, the source and target base stations being interconnected via at least one base station known as a decision-making node, which is different from the donor node; intercepting the handover request by the decision-making node; transmitting, by the decision-making node, an agreement message to the source base station; and transmitting a handover trigger message to the target base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventor: Hao Lin
  • Patent number: 11811531
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for altering communications of a LTE wireless communication system operating in an RF band with a conflicting WiFi system. In one embodiment, an LTE system includes a wireless base station operable to transmit downlink communications to a UE in the RF band and to receive uplink communications from the UE in the RF band. The LTE system also includes a processor operable to detect the uplink communications from the UE, to estimate a location of the UE based on the detected uplink communications, to determine a communication capability between the UE and the wireless base station based on the location of the UE, and to downgrade the downlink communications from the wireless base station to the UE based on the determined communication capability to avoid interference with the WiFi communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Belal Hamzeh, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Alireza Babaei, Luis Alberto Campos
  • Patent number: 11751206
    Abstract: A user equipment, UE, is configured to receive downlink control information, DCI, transmitted to the UE by a primary cell in a wireless communication system. The UE comprises one or more processing circuits that shall assume that a DCI message which has a common payload size and the same first control channel element index, but different bit fields, in a common search space and a UE-specific search space is transmitted by the primary cell in the common search space or the UE-specific search space, based on radio resource control, RRC, configuration of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Fredrik Huss, Daniel Chen Larsson, Christian Skärby
  • Patent number: 11751096
    Abstract: Provided are a congestion control method and device, and a base station. The congestion control method includes: determining whether a traffic data flow transmitted by a base station is congested; setting an Internet protocol (IP) data packet in the traffic data flow when the traffic data flow transmitted by the base station is congested, where the set IP data packet is used for indicating that the traffic data flow transmitted by the base station is congested. The present disclosure solves the problem in the existing art that user throughput is affected because a base station only determines whether the base station is congested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Zhuang Liu
  • Patent number: 11711685
    Abstract: A method, system and computer readable medium for providing support for CUPS PFCP Session at UE Level for Serving Gateway are presented. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) session at a User Equipment (UE) level for a Serving Gateway (SGW); anchoring, by the SGW, the UE session; handling, by the SGW, buffering of Idle UE and UE Active-to-Idle transitions; using, by the SGW, a same PFCP session for all Packet Data Networks (PDNs); and using, by the SGW, a same Buffering Action Rule (BAR) for all PDNs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Ganesh Jaju, Ketan Parikh
  • Patent number: 11689956
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a session management function (SMF) network element, identification information from an access and mobility management function (AMF) network element; obtaining, by the SMF network element, information about a plurality of anchor user plane function (UPF) network elements of a session based on the identification information, wherein each of the plurality of anchor UPF network elements is used as an Internet protocol (IP) anchor of a user equipment in the session; and sending, by the SMF network element, the information to a branching point, wherein the branching point is a UPF network element managed by the SMF network element and the branching point is capable of diverting traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongcui Li, Yan Li, Hui Ni
  • Patent number: 11677501
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for an LTE wireless communication system operating in a Radio Frequency (RF) band with a conflicting wireless system. The LTE system includes an eNodeB operable to detect a plurality of UEs in the RF band, to generate LTE frames for downlink communications to the UEs, and to time-divide each LTE frame into a plurality of subframes. The eNodeB is also operable to condense the downlink communications into a first number of the subframes that frees data from a remaining number of the subframes in each LTE frame, and to burst-transmit the first number of the subframes of each LTE frame in the RF band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Belal Hamzeh, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11665691
    Abstract: Communicating in a wireless telecommunications system comprising a communications device and one or more infrastructure equipment, wherein the communications device is configured to communicate with the infrastructure equipment via a first wireless access interface in accordance with a first radio access technology (RAT) and to communicate with the infrastructure equipment via a second wireless access interface in accordance with a second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11652746
    Abstract: Resilient consistent hashing techniques are implemented to perform requests among nodes of a distributed system. Different load balancers are assigned different groups of request handling nodes that cache data to perform request. Requests are assigned to different load balancers according to a consistent hashing scheme. Load balancers distribute requests among assigned nodes using a load balancing scheme. Different numbers of nodes can be assigned to different load balancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Christopher Sorenson, III, Akhilesh Mritunjai
  • Patent number: 11627092
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to modeling radio wave propagation in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, for a network application, identifying, by a system comprising a processor, a characteristic value of a performance characteristic associated with an uplink connection enabled via a network of a user equipment to application server equipment hosting the network application. The method can further include, based on the characteristic value and a criterion, selecting, by the system, a first packet size for the uplink connection. The method can further include communicating, by the system, to the user equipment, the first packet size for use with the uplink connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rajarajan Sivaraj, Kittipat Apicharttrisorn, Bharath Balasubramanian, Rittwik Jana, Subhabrata Sen, Dhruv Gupta, Jin Wang
  • Patent number: 11621897
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method for enabling a performance measurement in a packet-switched communication network. A first node and a second node exchange packets comprising a marking value, which they alternately switch between two alternative marking values. The second node in particular switches the marking value applicable to the packets addressed to the other node depending on the marking value comprised in packets received therefrom. The first node writes a sampling value in one packet addressed to the second node for each marking period. Upon reception of each packet comprising the sampling value, the second node copies the sampling value in a packet addressed to the first node. One or more measurement points may be provided between the two nodes, which provide performance parameters for the packets comprising the sampling value in both directions. Such performance parameters may be used for providing round trip time measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Cociglio, Giuseppe Fioccola
  • Patent number: 11606306
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a packet transmission method and an apparatus. In those embodiments, a first device supports a first protocol layer, and replicates a packet at the first protocol layer. A second device supports a second protocol layer, and deduplicates the packet at the second protocol layer. When receiving a first packet, a first access device converts a sequence number of the first protocol layer in the first packet into a sequence number of the second protocol layer, and then sends, to the second device, a second packet that carries the sequence number of the second protocol layer and a data packet of the first packet. For example, if the first access network device receives two packets having same data packets, the first access network device separately coverts sequence numbers in the two packets without performing operations of first deduplicating and then replicating the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongcui Li, Yan Li, Hui Ni, Fangyuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11601298
    Abstract: There are provided an apparatus registration method capable of efficiently associating specific information about apparatuses and arrangement information about the apparatuses stored in an operation terminal, a program for implementing the method, and an apparatus system. A method for registration of luminaires associates a plurality of luminaires with items of arrangement information about the luminaires stored in an operation terminal for operating the luminaires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kishimoto, Shojiro Kido
  • Patent number: 11582155
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus includes an observed data rate acquiring unit configured to acquire observed data rates indicating input data rates of queues, the observed data rates being observed in a layer 2 switch, a threshold value storage unit configured to store predetermined threshold values of the queues, a shaping rate determination unit configured to determine a shaping rate of each queue based on both observed data based on an observed data rate of the observed data rates acquired by the observed data rate acquiring unit and a threshold value of the predetermined threshold values stored in the threshold value storage unit, and a shaping rate setting unit configured to set, in the layer 2 switch, the shaping rate of each queue determined by the shaping rate determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Kubo, Yu Nakayama, Daisuke Hisano, Yoichi Fukada
  • Patent number: 11576072
    Abstract: A method for distributing connections to mobility management node instances includes publishing IP addresses for receiving connection requests and ingress messages from RAN nodes. The method further includes maintaining connection loading measurements of the mobility management node instances, receiving a connection request message generated by a RAN node for initiating a connection with one of the mobility management node instances, applying a connection distribution algorithm to select a mobility management node instance to handle the connection request message, and creating an association between an IP address of the selected mobility management node instance and an IP address and port of the RAN node extracted from a source IP address and source port field of the connection request. The method further includes forwarding the connection request message to the selected mobility management node instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yesh Goel