Patents Examined by Nguyen H. Ngo
  • Patent number: 10440618
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present invention relates to management of mobility of a terminal in a wireless communication system, and an operating method of the terminal comprises: a step of transmitting a first message requesting mobility-related capability information of an access network, and a step of receiving a second message informing of the mobility-related capability information of the access network. In addition, the present invention includes other embodiments in addition to the aforementioned embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Suk Kweon, Alper Yegin, Jung-Shin Park, Jin-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 10440693
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter provides asynchronous multi-point transmission schemes for MIMO networks. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a device comprising a processor, a first data signal from a first TP device of a wireless communication network, wherein the first data signal comprises first code-word information generated based on a data. The method further includes receiving, by the device, a second data signal from a second TP device of the wireless communication network, wherein the second data signal comprises second code-word generated based on the data, wherein the first code-word information and the second-code word information are different, and wherein the first TP device and the second TP device are geographically separated by a threshold distance. The device can further process the first data signal and the second data signal to generate a unified data signal representative of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Arunabha Ghosh, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 10433159
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system is disclosed (FIG. 6). The method includes receiving a virtual cell identification (VCID) parameter (600) from a remote transmitter. A base sequence index (BSI) and a cyclic shift hopping (CSH) parameter (604,606) are determined in response to the VCID. A pseudo-random sequence is selected in response to the BSI and CSH (610,612). A reference signal is generated using the selected pseudo-random sequence (614).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Anthony Ekpenyong, Ralf Bendlin, Runhua Chen
  • Patent number: 10433227
    Abstract: A base station according to an embodiment comprises: a receiver configured to receive resource information indicating a usage status of radio resources of a node to which an energy saving mode in which consumed power is reduced by stopping a use of at least a part of radio resources is applied. The resource information includes identification information for identifying whether or not the usage status indicated by the resource information is a usage status of radio resources available when the energy saving mode is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 10432422
    Abstract: A communication system and method including the steps of receiving a first request to initiate a guaranteed quality of service flow in a network, broadcasting a second request from a Network Coordinator to a plurality of nodes connected to the network and receiving a first response to the second request from at least one ingress node. The method further includes receiving a second response to the second request from at least one egress node indicating whether the at least one egress node has available resources to receive the guaranteed quality of service flow and allocating resources for the guaranteed quality of service flow if the at least one ingress node has available resources to transmit, and the at least one egress node has available resources to receive, the guaranteed quality of service flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Entropic Communications LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Thomas Hyslop, Abul Qasem Shamsuddin Safdar, Robert L. Hare, Zong Wu, Inderjit Singh, Shlomo Ovadia
  • Patent number: 10432372
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises an encoder for encoding service data corresponding to each of a plurality of data transmission path, wherein each of the data transmission path carries at least one service component, a frame builder for building at least one signal frame included in a super frame, wherein each of signal frames includes the encoded service data and the encoded signaling data, a modulator for modulating the at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, wherein each of the modulated signal frame includes a preamble having basic transmission parameters, wherein a length of the preamble is extendable and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals carrying the at least one modulated signal frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byounggill Kim, Jaehyung Kim, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 10420155
    Abstract: Systems and methods for setting up an access point in a Wi-Fi system, subsequent to booting up, determining whether the access point is a gateway node with a connection to a modem/router or a Wi-Fi node without a connection to the modem/router; connecting to a cloud configuration service when the access point is a gateway node for obtaining configuration parameters of the Wi-Fi system; and connecting to a predefined Service Set Identifier (SSID) when the access point is a Wi-Fi node for obtaining the configuration parameters from the gateway node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Plume Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaixiang Hu, Sameer Vaidya, Kiran Edara, Paul White, Aman Singla, Evan Jeng, Balaji Rengarajan
  • Patent number: 10420101
    Abstract: Aspects of traffic aware slot assignment are described, for example, in a multi-hop wireless network comprising a plurality of nodes. In some aspects, an apparatus of a wireless device is configured to decode signaling, received from a node of the multi-hop network, to determine an indication of a change to a topology of the multi-hop network. The apparatus is further configured to, in response to a determination, from the decoded signaling, of an addition of a second node to the multi-hop network topology, increment a total of a number of descendant nodes, and allocate one or more transmission slots to a number of unused slots in one or more transmission opportunity regions of a slotframe, wherein the slotframe includes a repeating pattern of one or more transmission opportunity periods for a plurality of nodes in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jaroslaw J. Sydir, Yiting Liao, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Vallabhajosyula S. Somayazulu
  • Patent number: 10382494
    Abstract: As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user input data received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless sink device can control the wireless source device and control the content that is being transmitted from the wireless source device to the wireless sink device. The user input data transmitted by the wireless sink device can be input data obtained at a third party device and forwarded to the wireless source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaolong Huang, Vijayalakshmi R Raveendran, Xiaodong Wang, Fawad Shaukat
  • Patent number: 10361884
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes configuring on a network element a first tunnel from the network element to a first network, wherein the configuring comprises mapping a nexthop address of the local network element to a transport address of the tunnel on the network to create a first nexthop-to-transport mapping for the network element; and advertising the first nexthop-to-transport mapping along with routing information for the network element to remote network elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Naiming Shen, Jun Zhuang, Enke Chen
  • Patent number: 10356762
    Abstract: A method for multiple point communications includes configuring a set of first communications system resources to form a plurality of first communications system resource groups, each first communications system resource group including a plurality of channels, and configuring a set of second communications system resources for each one of the plurality of first communications system resource groups, the set of second communications system resources used to convey a feedback transmission. The method also includes signaling information about the plurality of first communications system resource groups to a first user equipment, and signaling information about the sets of second communications system resources associated with the plurality of first communications system resource groups to the first user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Bingyu Qu, Weimin Xiao, Jialing Liu
  • Patent number: 10341011
    Abstract: Apparatus for on-board management of communications in a mobile node comprising a communications system configured to effect wireless data communication between the mobile node and another node by means of at least one supported wireless communications link, wherein the apparatus comprises a node manoeuvre planning module and a dynamic route planner; the node manoeuvre planning module being configured to: identify that a wireless communications link associated with the mobile node (i) has been lost, degraded or is otherwise not optimal, and/or (ii) would violate an emissions control restriction; define a desired wireless communications link between the mobile node and the other node to (i) support wireless communications therebetween, and/or (ii) comply with the emissions control restriction; determine an attitude and/or position of the mobile node with respect to the other node required to support the desired wireless communications link; derive a node manoeuvre plan including data representative of the d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: BAE Systems plc
    Inventors: Peter Noble Hudson, Rania Hamdi Eissa, Monadl Abd Al-Abbas Mansour Al-Ameri
  • Patent number: 10334511
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods for scanning in a directive multi-gigabit network are generally described herein. An apparatus of a station may include processing circuitry configured to decode a sector sweep beacon received from an access point, encode for transmission a sector sweep feedback message to include a beam refinement protocol (BRP) request, and encode for transmission BRP responses to BRP signaling received from the access point. The processing circuitry may be further configured to decode a link margin feedback signal received from the access point to determine an access point link margin, measure signal information associated with the link margin feedback signal to determine a received link margin measurement, and encode signaling for association with the access point based on the access point link quality and the receive link quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Solomon B. Trainin, Michael Glik, Alexander Sirotkin, Carlos Cordeiro, Elad Levy
  • Patent number: 10334624
    Abstract: A wireless device receives radio resource control (RRC) message(s) comprising configuration parameters for cells comprising licensed assisted access (LAA) cells. Uplink grants for the LAA cells are received. An uplink grant in the uplink grants indicates a channel access priority class. The uplink grants are grouped into grouped grants. A first grouped grant in the grouped grants comprises a first plurality of uplink grants each indicating a same first channel access priority class. Radio resources are allocated, indicated by the first grouped grant, to one or more first logical channels. A plurality of transport blocks corresponding to the first plurality of grants are generated and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 10334616
    Abstract: Methods and a system are provided for enhanced long-term evolution scheduling. A ranking is constructed for one or more users scheduled on one or more resource blocks. A layer mapping is generated, using a finite modulation and coding scheme, utilizing the ranking of each of the one or more users for the one or more resource blocks. An enhanced ranking is determined, using a finite constraint on a buffer for each of the one or more users, for the one or more resource blocks utilizing the layer mapping. The enhanced ranking is deployed into a schedule for the one or more resource blocks being utilized by each of the one or more users. Bandwidth usage is optimized in the one or more resource blocks by utilizing the schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Narayan Prasad, Sampath Rangarajan, Patricia Wells, Robert Arnott
  • Patent number: 10321499
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal by a Device-to-Device (D2D) User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes determining a resource pool for a D2D control signal, determining a resource pool for a D2D communication signal based on the resource pool for a D2D control signal, and transmitting a D2D communication signal using the resource pool for a D2D communication signal. Subframes of the resource pool for a D2D communication signal were reindexed, starting from a first subframe following a last subframe of the resource pool for a D2D control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Youngtae Kim
  • Patent number: 10299278
    Abstract: A multi-radio wireless device capable of communicating on several wireless communication protocols (WCP) such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc. may select a communication channel for a desired WCPs by measuring both overlapping and non-overlapping channels of another WCP and determining combined congestion metrics (which measure communications of other devices using the particular channels) for those overlapping and non-overlapping channels. Each channel of the desired WCP may be measured using different combined congestion metrics as well as the individual congestion metrics for the potential channels of the desired WCP. The availability of particular channels of the desired WCP may be measured in this way to select a channel of the desired WCP that is most likely to be available and whose potentially interfering traffic (as measured by the congestion metrics) is least likely to interfere with other communications of a device, including other communications on other WCPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Milos Jorgovanovic
  • Patent number: 10263905
    Abstract: A distributed flexible scheduler that dynamically balances network and storage traffic across links is proposed. The scheduler takes into account the bandwidth requirements of workloads provisioned in a cluster and dynamically distributes the network traffic and the storage traffic accordingly. There are three schemes involved in the proposed distributed flexible scheduler. In a first approach of Equal Distribution, network and storage traffic is distributed evenly across the links. In a second approach of Storage Preferred distribution, the aggregate storage bandwidth requirements of workloads exceed the network bandwidth requirements. In a third approach of Network Preferred distribution, the aggregate network bandwidth requirements of workloads exceed the storage bandwidth requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: DIAMANTI INC.
    Inventors: Venkatesh Prabhakar, Shilpa Mayanna, Hiral Patel, Chakravarthy Nelluri
  • Patent number: 10257812
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for communicating between a primary station and at least one secondary station, comprising (a) the secondary station being configured to search a first configuration of search spaces, said search spaces comprising a number of resource sets, where at least one resource set might be used to transmit a message to the secondary station, (b) configuring the secondary station by means of a configuration message to search a second configuration of search spaces, (c) the secondary station in response of the reception of the configuration message entering into a transitional configuration mode, wherein the secondary station searches partly the first configuration of search spaces and the second configuration of search spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Timothy James Moulsley
  • Patent number: 10251174
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which improves the flexibility of SRS resource allocation without increasing the amount of signaling for notifying the cyclic shift amount. In the transmitter, with regard to each basic shift amount candidate group having a basic shift amount from 0 to N?1, a transmission control unit (206) specifies the actual shift amount imparted to a cyclic shift sequence used in scrambling a reference signal transmitted from each antenna port, said specification being performed based on a table in which cyclic shift amount candidates correspond to each antenna port, and based on setting information transmitted from a base station (100). With regard to basic shift amount candidates for shift amount X, the table differentiates between an offset pattern comprising offset values for cyclic shift amount candidates corresponding to each antenna port and an offset pattern corresponding to basic shift amount candidates of X+N/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Takashi Iwai