Patents Examined by Nghi H. Ly
  • Patent number: 11470556
    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: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Jungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11457347
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to techniques to manage service requests in a wireless network. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise processing circuitry. The apparatus may further include computer-readable storage media having stored thereon instructions for execution by the processing circuitry. The instructions, when executed, may determine, at user equipment (UE) operating in an Evolved Packet System (EPS) mobility management (EMM)-IDLE mode and configured to use EPS services with control plane Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT) EPS optimization, to initiate a service request procedure to enable transfer of user data via a control plane, generate a service request message that contains a service type information element (IE) comprising a service type value set to indicate either a mobile originating request or a mobile terminating request, and send the service request message to a mobility management entity (MME) to initiate the service request procedure. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Vivek Gupta
  • Patent number: 11451950
    Abstract: This application relates to the communications field, and discloses a communication method and a communications apparatus, so that a terminal device can register with a network through another network. The communication method is performed by a first access and mobility management function network element, including: receiving a first message from a terminal device, where the first message includes first identification information of the terminal device, and the first access and mobility management function network element is located in a first network; obtaining second identification information of the terminal device based on the first identification information; and sending a second message to a second access and mobility management function network element located in the second network, where the second message is used to request to register the terminal device with a second network, the second message includes the second identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Li, Jiangwei Ying, Yanmei Yang
  • Patent number: 11438756
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A method may include identifying an absence of a subscriber identity module (SIM) profile (e.g., in response to powering on a communication component). The method may further include determining a provider-specific configuration for communications with a wireless network and generating a set of SIM configuration parameters for a registration procedure with the wireless network based on identifying the absence of the SIM profile and the provider-specific configuration. The method may further include performing a registration procedure with the wireless network using the set of SIM configuration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jose Alfredo Ruvalcaba, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Kiran Kumar Vemareddy
  • Patent number: 11438729
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for report identification and power control for ranging in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of a responding station (RSTA) is disclosed, where the apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to perform ranging with a initiating stations (ISTAs) and maintain a separate sounding dialogue token for each of the ISTAs and transmit a corresponding sounding dialogue token for a ISTA in a trigger frame for ranging and sounding or a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame, and in a responding to initiating location measurement report. Apparatuses of RSTAs and ISTAS are disclosed that perform power control management during non-trigger-based ranging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dibakar Das, Jonathan Segev, Chittabrata Ghosh, Ganesh Venkatesan, Feng Jiang, Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Eran Segev, Huaning Niu, Shlomi Vituri, Elad Oren, Chen Kojokaro
  • Patent number: 11419039
    Abstract: A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: transmitting a message to a wireless communication device through a first channel. In some embodiments, the message indicates a portion of system information that is configured to be transmitted through a second channel different from the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haigang He, Peng Hao, Feng Bi, Xing Liu
  • Patent number: 11418948
    Abstract: A method of adaptively setting an access point name, APN, for a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a broadcast message or an EMM information to a mobile device of the wireless communication system, wherein the broadcast message or the EMM information includes an APN data for the mobile device to establish a packet data network, PDN, connection with a server, such that the mobile device could obtain private network service provided by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Wang, Yu-Wei Fan, Cheng-Ying Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11419086
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to sending of a one time identifier of a UE during the NAS procedure. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to determining whether to use same one time identifier or different one time identifier during registration retry procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kundan Tiwari, Toshiyuki Tamura, Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran
  • Patent number: 11418931
    Abstract: An information handling system operating as a thin client across a 5G infrastructure may include a wireless network interface device to communicate with a 5G communication network using a mm-wave antenna transceiver; an input/output (I/O) controller to send user input across to the 5G communication network to a backend server via a 5G antenna transceiver; and a graphical processing unit (GPU) to: transmit graphics data across the 5G communication network; and receive application program interface (API)-processed graphics data across the 5G communication network from the backend server descriptive of a user interface to be displayed on a video display communicatively coupled to the GPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Jace W. Files, Liam B. Quinn, Abu S. Sanaullah
  • Patent number: 11412386
    Abstract: An inbound roaming system processes a connection of a wireless device to roam on a visited wireless network. The system queries a network resource that stores security data of a home wireless network for the wireless device. In response to the query, the system receives an indication of a security parameter that relates the security data to a potential cyberattack enabled by the wireless device roaming on the visited wireless network. The system then performs, based on the security parameter, an action to mitigate the potential cyberattack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Gaviphat Lekutai
  • Patent number: 11395150
    Abstract: An electronic device that coordinates frequencies of coexisting communication protocols is described. During operation, the electronic device may receive messages with beacon information for a communication protocol, where the beacon information is sourced from one or more gateways and is associated with a second electronic device, and wherein the beacon information in a given message includes a frequency of a given beacon and a given received signal strength of the given beacon. Then, the electronic device may provide, from the interface circuit, an instruction addressed to the second electronic device, where the instruction restricts frequencies of beacons from the second electronic device based at least in part on a band of frequencies associated with a second communication protocol used by at least one of the one or more gateways. For example, the instruction may eliminate beacons having one of the beacon frequencies that overlaps the band of frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Jari Malinen, Siby Mathew Tarigopla Pancras, Dinesh Raman
  • Patent number: 11388694
    Abstract: A paging synchronization indication method includes: adding indication information into a Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, the indication information being used for indicating whether a non-cell-defining Synchronization Broadcast Block (SSB) is capable of being used for establishing paging synchronization; and transmitting, to User Equipment (UE), the RRC signaling added with the indication information and paging configuration information used for configuring a paging occasion respectively. The indication information and the paging configuration information jointly serve as a received information set of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11388690
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a capability or mobility mode indication to a base station. The base station may select a timing advance (TA) adjustment scheme based on the information included in the indication. The base station may select a TA adjustment scheme in which the UE autonomously adjusts a TA value; the UE adjusts the TA value after receiving a command from the base station; or the UE transmits a message to the base station including a proposed TA adjustment, and the UE adjusts the TA value after receiving an approval message from the base station. The base station may transmit a TA adjustment scheme configuration to the UE including an indication of the selected TA adjustment scheme. The UE may adjust a TA value for an uplink transmission based on applying the TA adjustment scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11382055
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a paging synchronization method, applied to a base station, and including: when it is determined that transmission of a synchronous signal block (SSB) for synchronization of a terminal is disabled, configuring a reference signal for paging synchronization for a paging occasion (PO) to be transmitted to the terminal; and transmitting the reference signal to the terminal, to enable the terminal to perform paging synchronization based on the reference signal. Therefore, the present disclosure can ensure that the terminal has a higher paging reception performance, and improve the paging synchronization efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11361016
    Abstract: A system for providing a life log service and a method of providing the life log service. The computing device for providing the life log service includes: a display which displays a map in a first display area and which displays like content in a second display area; and a processor including a content generator which generates the life content of a user based on a current position of the computing device, and a controller, which, in response to the generated live content, updates the second display area in real time to display the generated life content and updates the map in the first display area to display a path synchronized with the generated life content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-won Yang, Du-seok Kim, Hyun-cheol Park, Seung-chur Oh, Ho-sik Cho
  • Patent number: 11363492
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The wireless communication method is used for the terminal device, and when the network device connected to the terminal device is switched from a source network device to a target network device, the connection between the terminal device and the source network device and the connection between the terminal device and the target network device are both maintained. Said method comprises: when the terminal device satisfies a first condition, releasing the connection between the terminal device and a source network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Xin You
  • Patent number: 11356865
    Abstract: A communication system is provided that, if a large number of small cells are installed, is capable of configuring an operation suitable for small cells through simple operation and administration. If a small cell installed in Step ST1401 judges in Step ST1403 that a coverage macro cell, which includes the small cell in the coverage of the coverage macro cell, is present as a result of neighbor cell search in Step ST1402, notifies the coverage macro cell and another neighbor cell of its own capability in Steps ST1404 and 1405. The coverage macro cell selects a configuration parameter suitable for the capability of the small cell in Step ST1406 and notifies the small cell in Step ST1407. The small cell recognizes an operation mode configured by the coverage macro cell from the configuration parameter notified from the coverage macro cell, and then, starts operating in the operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Miho Maeda, Shinsuke Uga, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11356859
    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: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Kumar Mishra, Eugina Jordan, Zahid Ghadialy
  • Patent number: 11356904
    Abstract: A method, performed by a terminal, in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a source base station, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including data radio bearer (DRB) configuration information, wherein the DRB configuration information includes an identifier of a DRB and an indicator for a dual active protocol stack (DAPS) handover, and in case that the DRB configuration information includes service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) configuration information, and completion of a random access to a target base station is indicated by a target medium access control (MAC) entity for the target base station, reconfiguring a SDAP entity based on the SDAP configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Anil Agiwal, Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11356971
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless base stations, the wireless base stations other than the uppermost wireless base station among the plurality of wireless base stations each determine a frame timing on the basis of synchronization timing information received from the upper wireless base station, and the wireless base stations other than the lowermost wireless base station among the plurality of wireless base stations each notify the lower wireless base station of the synchronization timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Miyake, Tetsuya Aoyama