Patents Examined by Nghi H. Ly
  • Patent number: 12048029
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first node of a wireless communications network may determine a service type of the first node. The first node may transmit, to a second node during a random access procedure, an indication of the service type of the first node. The first node may then establish a connection with a unit of the second node that is for serving nodes of the wireless network associated with the service type. The connection may be established based on transmitting the indication of the service type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Soo Bum Lee, Gavin Bernard Horn, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 12041448
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling permissions of a UE for accessing a network. A method disclosed herein includes initiating, by a User Equipment (UE), a registration procedure with a serving network for accessing a selected network, wherein the selected network includes one of at least one CAG cell of an NPN and a VPLMN. The registration procedure indicates a network selection mode using which the UE has selected the network and the network selection mode includes one of an automatic mode and a manual mode. The method further incudes determining, by the serving network, a reject mode for rejecting the registration request of the UE based on the network selection mode indicated in the registration request, when the permissions of the UE to access the selected network have not been verified, wherein the reject mode includes a protected reject mode and an unprotected reject mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rajavelsamy Rajadurai, Kundan Tiwari, Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar, Narendranath Durga Tangudu, Lalith Kumar
  • Patent number: 12028772
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining data of a plurality of traveling users, wherein at least some of the plurality of traveling users have associated mobile client computer devices, and determining, by machine logic, based on the examining that certain traveling users of the plurality of traveling users are traveling in a group; deciding, by machine logic, based on the determining that one or more action is to be performed, wherein the deciding is in dependence on a processing of historical data, the historical data specifying activities of the certain traveling users when the certain traveling users travel in a group; and providing one or more output for performance of the one or more action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jeremy A. Greenberger
  • Patent number: 12022348
    Abstract: A system and method for call selection and migration in a NG-CU over NGRAN is disclosed. The system and method comprises a CP VNFC assigning a call initiated by a user to a source user plane VNFC. A management VNFC detects an overload traffic condition upon receiving the assigned call by the source user plane VNFC from the CP VNFC. The source user plane VNFC selects the call to be migrated with a higher migration preference value to another VNFC and signals CP VNFC to initiate call migration. The CP VNFC then migrates the selected call through at least one GTP tunnel to a target user plane VNFC. The source user plane VNFC then forwards the target user plane VNFC a request to handle complete trafficking of the migrated call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Veerabhadrappa Murigeppa Gadag, Lavanya Suresh, Karthikeyan Subramaniam, Abhishek V Joshi
  • Patent number: 12015982
    Abstract: A terminal receives a power saving signal sent by a network device, where the power saving signal indicates N time units, and where N is greater than 0. The terminal determines a state of the terminal in a first time period corresponding to the N time units on a first frequency domain resource and a state in a second time period corresponding to the N time units on a second frequency domain resource. The state of the terminal includes a sleep state or a wake-up state. The sleep state indicates that the terminal monitors no first signal, and the wake-up state indicates that the terminal monitors a first signal based on a configuration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifan Xue, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 12016068
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for session management. A method comprises receiving from a user equipment (UE) a request for establishing another session to a data network identified by a data network identification. At least one existing session of the UE has been established to the data network. The method further comprises checking whether the subscription data or the policy data for the UE includes a first indication which indicates that a same session management node for multiple sessions to the data network identified by the same data network identification is required. The method further comprises selecting the same session management node as the at least one existing session for the UE when the subscription data or the policy data includes the first indication. The method further comprises sending a session establishment request to the selected session management node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos, Juying Gan, Erik Wikström
  • Patent number: 12016029
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method, an apparatus and a terminal for determining the number of times of blind detections, which includes: blind-detecting, by a terminal, a downlink control channel in a first search space of a first cell, where the downlink control channel is configured to schedule a second cell, and the number of times of blind detections of the downlink control channel are determined based on configuration information of a second search space of the second cell and/or configuration information of the first search space of the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Cong Shi, Shukun Wang, Jia Shen, Zhenshan Zhao, Zhihua Shi, Huei-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 12010623
    Abstract: A wireless device (14) is configured for use in a wireless communication system (10). The wireless device (14) configures a number of parallel hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, processes (18) as being available for use. The wireless device (14) discontinuously monitors a downlink control channel (20), including monitoring the downlink control channel (20) during an active time (24) that is based on how many of the configured number of parallel HARQ processes (18) are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Björn Hofström, Helka-Liina Määttänen
  • Patent number: 11997497
    Abstract: Satellite access to a PLMN with a Fifth Generation (5G) core network (5GCN) is supported by a serving satellite NodeB (gNB). The gNB determines or verifies the country in which a user equipment (UE) is located to ensure that the UE is located in the same country as the PLMN. The gNB may determine the country of the UE based on UE measurements from broadcast satellite signals and a positioning ID (PID) broadcast for each radio cell. The PID frequently changes to prevent spoofing. The gNB may use multiple UE measurements from a moving radio cell over a period of time to generate a more accurate location for the UE. The gNB may indicate to a 5GCN whether the country of the UE has been verified. The 5GCN will determine the location and country of the UE if the gNB indicates that the country is not fully verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen William Edge
  • Patent number: 11997568
    Abstract: A method of managing access to a push-to-talk-over-cellular (POC) talkgroup may include providing a control device configured to manage a first talkgroup, granting a first non-subscriber device access to the first talkgroup, and transmitting, from the control device to the first non-subscriber device, a first communication including a link to download a POC software application configured to access the first talkgroup. A method of managing access to a push-to-talk-over-cellular (POC) talkgroup may alternatively include providing a control device configured to manage a first talkgroup, providing a first subscriber device, transmitting, from the first subscriber device to the control device, first non-subscriber contact information associated with a first non-subscriber device, and granting the first non-subscriber device access to the first talkgroup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: BK TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: John Marvin Suzuki, Lorenzo Cruger, Jr., James Lowell Teel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11985564
    Abstract: In a method for adapting a mobile network, a terminal is connected to a first access node of the mobile network via a first connection and to a second access node via a second connection. The first access node controls a data transmission for the terminal and the second access node assists in the data transmission for the terminal. The method comprises determining whether a quality of at least one of the first connection and the second connection is degraded, acquiring quality degradation information about the degradation of the quality of at least one of the first connection and the second connection based on the step of determining, and adapting the mobile network based on the step of acquiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Torsten Dudda, Walter Müller, Mattias Bergström, Stefan Wager, Zhiyi Xuan
  • Patent number: 11974142
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing a 5G native architecture. In one embodiment a method includes providing an all G software platform, including a core virtualization stack capable of communication with all hauls, and a radio virtualization stack capable of communication with all cores; and wherein the core virtualization stack communicates with an analytics layer, the analytics layer communicates with an orchestration layer, the orchestration layer communicates with a consolidation layer, and the consolidation layer communicates with the radio virtualization stack such that any G core is able to communicate with any G radio access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Kumar Mishra, Eugina Jordan, Zahid Ghadialy
  • Patent number: 11962540
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods related to multiplexing patterns for synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) and remaining minimum system information (RMSI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11950249
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating in a communication medium are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates with a second wireless communication device, a first scheduling grant. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, a second scheduling grant including at least one of a start slot index (SSI) or a slot format indicator (SFI). The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, an uplink communication signal based on the first scheduling grant and the second scheduling grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Kapil Bhattad, Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan
  • Patent number: 11950188
    Abstract: A wireless communication method of a receiver, including performing a first determination of whether to decode a control channel of a current time transmission interval (TTI) based on control channel information of a previous TTI; decoding the control channel of the current TTI based on a result of the first determination; performing a second determination of whether a data channel is included in the current TTI based on a result of the decoding; and performing a third determination of whether to deactivate a communication interface configured to process a received signal based on a result of the second determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Jungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11950315
    Abstract: A method UE for receiving configuration data in a wireless communication network is provided. The UE receives configuration data to configure the UE with early measurement configuration, which the UE (10) will use to perform measurements in dormant state and with one or more SCG configuration(s) that are to be stored by the UEand/or the radio network node, while the UE (10) is in dormant state. The UE performs (605) early measurements in a dormant state according to the early measurement configuration. Upon transition to a connected mode, the UE compares (606) the early measurements to one or more trigger conditions associated with the one or more SCG configurations.Publ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Patrik Rugeland, Oumer Teyeb
  • Patent number: 11930406
    Abstract: A handover method and apparatus, where the method includes: determining, by a first control plane function network element, at least one bearer that needs to be established when a protocol data unit (PDU) session of a terminal in a first network is to be switched to a packet data network (PDN) connection in a second network; and obtaining, by the first control plane function network element, tunnel information of the PDN connection, where the tunnel information of the PDN connection includes user plane tunnel information corresponding to each of the at least one bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zaifeng Zong, Fenqin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11924918
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhancing shared data in a communications system are provided. One method may include receiving or retrieving, at a service consumer, shared data from a service producer. The shared data may include at least one treatment attribute configured to indicate a treatment of at least one attribute in the shared data with respect to at least one attribute in individual subscriber data. The method may also include applying a value provided in the at least one shared data attribute or a value provided in the at least one individual subscriber data attribute based on the at least one treatment attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Narasimha Rao Pulipati, Ulrich Wiehe, Saurabh Khare
  • Patent number: 11924875
    Abstract: A transmitter (12) obtains data packets at a higher layer (16A) of a protocol stack (16), and duplicates each data packet at the higher layer (16A) to obtain duplicates of each data packet. The duplicates are transmitted on different respective channels from the higher layer (16A) to a lower layer (16B) of the protocol stack (16). The transmitter (12) generates different transport blocks to include data from the different respective channels, such that the duplicates of each data packet are conveyed by different transport blocks. For each transport block, the transmitter (12) transmits or does not transmit at least a part of the transport block within at least a part of a different respective transmission opportunity on a link (26) to a receiver (14) using unlicensed frequency spectrum (28), depending on whether or not a channel sensing procedure indicates the unlicensed frequency spectrum (28) is clear during that at least part of the transmission opportunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Min Wang, Jinhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11924898
    Abstract: Some embodiments include utilizing a multilink media access control (MAC) address structure to support multilink devices (MLDs) that can operate concurrently in more than one link such as extremely high throughput (EHT) access points (APs) and EHT stations (STA), where the multilink MAC address structure is compatible with legacy devices. An EHT AP can utilize a multilink basic service set (BSS) identification (BSSID) MAC address to communicate with an EHT STA identified by a multilink MAC address. Values of the multilink BSSID and the multilink MAC address of the EHT STA are independent of which of the multiple links are used in the communication. In addition, to utilizing a multilink BSSID, the EHT AP can also support unique link-specific MAC addresses to concurrently support legacy and MLD stations. The EHT STA can also utilize unique link-specific MAC addresses that can be different than the EHT AP's link-specific MAC addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jarkko L. Kneckt, Gaurav Jain, Yong Liu, Jinjing Jiang, Tianyu Wu, Su Khiong Yong, Guoqing Li, Charles F. Dominguez