Patents Examined by Moo Jeong
  • Patent number: 11245512
    Abstract: A communication system comprising: input buffers adapted for buffering incoming data streams of samples from one or more channels; a receiver adapted for sequentially processing data from the input buffers; a processing rate of the receiver is higher than or equal to an incoming data rate of the incoming data; context memory adapted for saving an internal status of the receiver after processing the data corresponding with an input buffer before switching to a next input buffer and for restoring the internal status, wherein the receiver is adapted for processing the incoming data in a frame detection phase, and in a frame demodulation phase in which frames and/or subframes are demodulated into bits and wherein the internal status of the receiver related to an input buffer is only saved and restored in the frame detection phase or before and after demodulating subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: UNIVERSITEIT GENT, IMEC VZW
    Inventors: Xianjun Jiao, Wei Liu, Felipe Augusto Pereira De Figueiredo, Ingrid Moerman
  • Patent number: 11218268
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a terminal has a receiving section that receives configuration information for multiplexing a short uplink control channel having a short time length and a long uplink control channel having a longer time length than the short uplink control channel within a predetermined period, and a control section that decides whether or not to multiplex the short uplink control channel and the long uplink control channel in the predetermined period based on the configuration information. According to one aspect of the present invention, uplink control information can be reported properly even when multiple uplink control channels of varying time lengths are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11212794
    Abstract: In one aspect, a user equipment is disclosed including a control unit configured to precode an uplink reference signal based on a downlink reference signal, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the precoded uplink reference signal. In another aspect, a transmission method is disclosed including precoding an uplink reference signal based on a downlink reference signal, and transmitting the precoded uplink reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Xin Wang, Chongning Na, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11212707
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for allocating resources to a wireless device. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises transmitting a control message in a search space to the wireless device, the search space comprising at least two groups of Control Channel Elements (CCEs), wherein one of the groups of CCEs comprises the control message. The method comprises transmitting information to the wireless device indicating at least one of the groups of CCEs comprising resources for the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Daniel Larsson, Niklas Andgart, Laetitia Falconetti, Jingya Li
  • Patent number: 11206197
    Abstract: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) scaling systems and methods are implemented by a network function performed by one of a physical network element and a virtual network element executed on one or more processors. The OAM scaling method includes providing N packet services, N is an integer; and, responsive to determined OAM session scaling limits, providing OAM sessions for the N packet services in an oversubscribed manner, wherein the determined OAM session scaling limits include M OAM sessions supported by the network function, M is an integer and less than N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventor: Marc Holness
  • Patent number: 11206213
    Abstract: A method of creating containers in a physical host that includes a managed forwarding element (MFE) configured to forward packets to and from a set of data compute nodes (DCNs) hosted by the physical host. The method creates a container DCN in the host. The container DCN includes a virtual network interface card (VNIC) configured to exchange packets with the MFE. The method creates a plurality of containers in the container DCN. The method, for each container in the container DCN, creates a corresponding port on the MFE. The method sends packets addressed to each of the plurality of containers from the corresponding MFE port to the VNIC of the container DCN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Jianjun Shen, Donghai Han, Vadim Egorov, Corentin Derbois
  • Patent number: 11202240
    Abstract: A method may include storing, in a block chain ledger, information associated with an agreement between a first service provider associated with a first network and a second service provider associated with a second network. The method may also include receiving, by a device, first capacity information associated with slices in the first network, storing the first capacity information in the block chain ledger and receiving a message associated with a roaming handoff for a communication session in the first network. The method may further include determining, by the device whether adequate resources are available in the second network to support the communication session and sending, to the first service provider, a message indicating that adequate resources are available in the second network to support the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Abdul Raheem, Kristen Sydney Young, Farid Feisullin
  • Patent number: 11190992
    Abstract: A device communicates with a terminal in association with at least a first other device, using at least two carriers, wherein at least a first carrier towards the terminal is established from the device and at least a second carrier is established towards the terminal from the first other device. The device receives a report indicative of a connection quality of the first carrier, responsive thereto issues a request for handover of the first carrier towards a second device, sends relocation information in relation to the first carrier towards the first other device, and only after sending that relocation information, commands the terminal to perform a handover of the first carrier to the second device. Such device, in cooperation with other devices, accomplishes an optimized handover in terms of a primary component carrier relocation from a serving eNB towards a target eNB, while a secondary component carrier is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Seppo Ilmari Vesterinen, Johanna Katariina Pekonen, Henri Markus Koskinen
  • Patent number: 11190551
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to interception of data traffic that is traversing a network at a relatively high throughput rate. In some examples, a request to initiate interception is received from a server. In response to receiving the request to initiate interception, an instruction to forward user plane data to the server can be transmitted to a User Plane Function (UPF). The UPF may be transferring the user plane data in a data flow. The instruction may cause the UPF to forward the user plane data to the server in multiple streams. In addition, control plane data associated with the data flow can be transmitted to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Suliman Albasheir, Rahul Pal
  • Patent number: 11184098
    Abstract: A method for a base station to control inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system comprises: a step in which a base station receives, in a predefined physical resource region, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) or a sounding reference symbol (SRS) from a terminal in a cell to which the base station belongs; a step of measuring interference in a resource on which the DMRS or the SRS has been transmitted, on the basis of an interference measurement method corresponding to the predefined physical resource region; and a step of determining the terminal as a victim terminal associated with the predefined physical resource region, if the intensity of the interference measured is greater than a predetermined threshold, wherein the predefined physical resource region may be a first physical resource region for an uplink data transmission in the cell to which the base station belongs, or a second physical resource region for uplink beam sweeping in the cell to which the base station belongs, the fi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kukheon Choi, Kyuseok Kim, Minki Ahn, Kilbom Lee
  • Patent number: 11172478
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of efficiently operating vast millimeter-wave band resources. [Solution] Provided is an apparatus that operates a small cell, the apparatus including: a processing unit configured to improve a downlink quality of a unit frequency band used in the small cell by limiting resources used for downlink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11166194
    Abstract: A wireless access node controls error correction for wireless User Equipment (UEs). A radio wirelessly exchanges data with the wireless UEs and exchanges the data with a baseband unit. Some of the data is corrupt or missing. The baseband unit exchanges redundant data with the radio to replace a portion of the corrupt or missing data per an error correction target. The radio wirelessly exchanges the redundant data with the wireless UEs. The baseband unit identifies a concentration of the UEs at a location and responsively modifies the error correction target based on the location. The radio wirelessly exchanges additional data with the wireless UEs and exchanges the additional data with the baseband unit. Some of the additional data is corrupt or missing. The baseband unit exchanges redundant data with the radio to replace a portion of the corrupt or missing additional data per the modified error correction target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11166287
    Abstract: A wireless access point serves wireless relays that serve wireless user devices. The wireless access point determines buffer status and device load for the wireless relays. The wireless access point assigns Carrier Aggregation (CA) Secondary Component Carriers (SCCs) to the wireless relays based on their buffer status. The wireless access point assigns data thresholds to the wireless relays based their device loads. The wireless access point wirelessly transfers user data to the wireless relays over their CA SCCs and within their data thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11159381
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a network schema including switches, links connecting the switches, and a topology that maps the switches to the links. The switches may include ports. The method may further include receiving a software defined networking (SDN) policy including a function that modifies a state of a packet entering a switch, converting the topology to a graph including nodes corresponding to the switches, while searching the graph, determining, according to the function, whether a port of a switch corresponding to a node is reachable by the packet entering the switch, and in response to searching the graph, verifying a property of the SDN policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Henry John O'Brien, Padmanabhan Krishnan, Nathan Robert Albert Keynes, Marius Portmann
  • Patent number: 11153126
    Abstract: An apparatus can receive or transmit parameters for a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission configuration as an uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration of a serving cell. A time division duplex (TDD) operation with a plurality of component carriers (CCs) can be enabled/generated based on the parameters and at least one component carriers being reserved for the UL transmission or having a higher priority than a physical channel transmission such as a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Gang Xiong, Seunghee Han, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Alexei Davydov
  • Patent number: 11153039
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for improved data transmissions using puncturing and error correction encoding. A decoder receives an encoded data input that includes a set of individual values. The decoder performing a puncturing of the encoded data input, yielding a punctured encoded data input that includes a subset of the individual values from the set of individual values. The decoder determines whether the punctured encoded data input maps to any predetermined data outputs from a set of predetermined data outputs, and in response to determining that the punctured encoded data input maps to a predetermined data output from the set of predetermined data outputs, the decoder determines that the encoded data input corresponds to the predetermined data output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Edward C. Giaimo, III, Russell Andrew Penar
  • Patent number: 11147049
    Abstract: An uplink control channel resource determining method, a terminal, and a network side device are provided. The terminal determines the number N of uplink control information bits to be transmitted; the terminal determines the number of first resources according to a target encoding rate and N; the terminal determines the number of resources actually used according to the number of the first resources and the number of pre-configured resources; and the terminal transmits the uplink control information by means of the number of resources actually used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11122514
    Abstract: A communication method is provided, including: determining, by a first device, a relative power ratio between a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) and a data channel; determining, by the first device, a transmit power of the PTRS based on the relative power ratio of the PTRS to the data channel; and sending, by the first device, the PTRS to a second device by using the transmit power of the PTRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Peng Guan, Xiaoyong Tang
  • Patent number: 11122521
    Abstract: A method for controlling random access power of a user equipment (UE), a UE, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: receiving system broadcast information sent from a network side; obtaining a scaling factor corresponding to a speed of the UE from the system broadcast information, wherein the scaling factor corresponding to the speed of the UE comprises at least one of the following: a power adjustment parameter for the UE to perform random access, an adjustment parameter for a power ramp step, or an adjustment parameter for a random access fallback; and correcting a power in a random access procedure of the UE and a time for transmitting a preamble in the random access procedure based on the scaling factor corresponding to the speed of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11108522
    Abstract: A user equipment (110), UE, receives (410), on a frequency carrier (200), a plurality of beams (130a, 130b). Each beam (130a, 130b) comprises a corresponding reference signal (210a, 210b). The UE (110) identifies (420) resources of the frequency carrier (200) carrying the corresponding reference signals (210a, 210b) and transmits (430) a report (310) comprising an indication of the resources on which the corresponding reference signals (210a, 210b) were carried. The access node (120a) receives (510) the report (310) from the UE (110) and identifies (520) a given access node (120a, 120b) based on the indication of the resources on which the corresponding reference signals (210a, 210b) were carried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Reza Moosavi, Pradeepa Ramachandra