Patents Examined by Nicholas Sloms
  • Patent number: 11212375
    Abstract: A first add-in card is connected to a second add-in card via a network communication link using a first network protocol. The first add-in card determines that a first network interface device is directly connected to a second network interface device via the network communication link, and directs that the first and second network interface devices communicate via a second network protocol based upon the first network interface device being directly connected to the second network interface device via the network communication link. The second network protocol transmits a higher proportion of data than the first network protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Johan Rahardjo, Joshua David Anderson, Jeremiah James Bartlett
  • Patent number: 11212156
    Abstract: A method for uplink multiuser data transmission and a system for uplink multiuser multiple input multiple output are provided. The method includes: sending, by an access point (AP), indication information to at least two stations (STAs), wherein the indication information is used for indicating that the at least two STAs perform an uplink multiuser data transmission; receiving, by the AP, uplink data sent by the at least two STAs through channels from the at least two STAs to the AP, respectively; and demodulating, by the AP, the uplink data sent by the at least two STAs using receiving beams corresponding to pre-estimated channels from the at least two STAs to the AP, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Yang, Yi Luo
  • Patent number: 11178719
    Abstract: A base station comprises instructions of: a first CU transmitting a UE CONTEXT SETUP REQUEST message comprising at least one first configuration, to a first DU, in response to an INITIAL UL RRC MESSAGE TRANSFER message comprising an RRC Resume Request message; the first CU receiving a UE CONTEXT SETUP RESPONSE message comprising at least one second configuration and a first full configuration indication, from the first DU; the first CU comprising a second full configuration indication in an RRC Resume message according to the first full configuration indication; the first CU transmitting the RRC Resume message comprising the at least one second configuration to a communication device via the first DU; the first DU communicating at least one of data and at least one signal with the communication device according to the at least one second configuration and not according to the at least one first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11146490
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a load balancing system. A load balancing system is configured to receive health monitoring metrics, at a controller, from a plurality of leaf switches. The load balancing system is further configured to determine, based on the health monitoring metrics, that a server has failed and modify a load balancing configuration for the network fabric. The load balancing system is further configured to transmit the load balancing configuration to each leaf switch in the network fabric and update the tables in each leaf switch to reflect an available server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Manish Chandra Agrawal, Samar Sharma, Shyam Kapadia, Lukas Krattiger
  • Patent number: 11140729
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a relay transmission method and device, enabling reduction of complexity and latency of data processing. The method comprises: a relay terminal apparatus receives a first layer-two PDU sent by a transmitting-end apparatus to a receiving-end apparatus, wherein the first layer-two PDU carries identifier information of a remote terminal apparatus, or the first layer-two PDU schedules a scrambled PDCCH by means of an RNTI of the remote terminal apparatus; the relay terminal apparatus generates, according to the first layer-two PDU, a second layer-two PDU; and the relay terminal apparatus sends to the receiving-end apparatus the second layer-two PDU, wherein the transmitting-end apparatus is the remote terminal apparatus, and the receiving-end apparatus is a network apparatus; alternatively, the transmitting-end apparatus is a network apparatus, and the receiving-end apparatus is the remote terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Bin Feng
  • Patent number: 11115493
    Abstract: A system and method for decreasing latency in providing a data packet to a user device subsequent to receipt of an electronic signal from the user device are disclosed herein. The system can include memory including: a user profile database; and a content library database. The system can include a user device including: a network interface; and an I/O subsystem. The system can include a content management server. The content management server can: provide a data packet to the user device; request generation of a contingent recommendation; receive the contingent recommendation; receive an electronic signal including a user response; select a next action; and provide the next action to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Dean McFall, Yaohang Hong
  • Patent number: 11100023
    Abstract: In one example, a semiconductor die includes a plurality of agents and a fabric coupled to at least some of the plurality of agents. The fabric may include at least one router to provide communication between two or more of the plurality of agents, the at least one router coupled to a first agent of the plurality of agents, where the first agent is to send a first message to the at least one router, the first message comprising a first header including a first source identifier, and the at least one router is to validate that the first source identifier is associated with the first agent and if so to direct the first message towards a destination agent, and otherwise to prevent the first message from being directed towards the destination agent. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ruirui Huang, Nilanjan Palit, Robert P. Adler, Ioannis T. Schoinas, Avishay Snir, Boris Dolgunov
  • Patent number: 11101941
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reference symbol indication methods, devices, and systems. One example method includes receiving, by a user equipment, a target parameter including a target reference symbol indication sent by a base station, determining a target transmission mode and target reference symbol information based on the target parameter and a preset reference symbol mapping relationship, generating a target reference symbol based on the target reference symbol information, and demodulating data based on the target reference symbol and the target transmission mode, where the preset reference symbol mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship among a reference symbol indication, reference symbol information, and a transmission mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruiqi Zhang, Jianqin Liu
  • Patent number: 11082288
    Abstract: Fault tolerance techniques for a plurality of nodes executing application thread groups include executing at least a portion of a first application thread group based on a delegation by a first node, wherein the first node delegates an execution of the first application thread group amongst the plurality of nodes and has a highest priority indicated by an ordered priority of the plurality of nodes. A failure of the first node can be identified based on the first node failing to respond to a message sent to it. A second node can then be identified as having a next highest priority indicated by the ordered priority such that the second node can delegate an execution of a second application thread group amongst the plurality of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Bendre, Jared Laethem
  • Patent number: 11075712
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may receive an indicator of retransmission scheduling for a plurality of UEs, determine, based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) update in the indicator, resources for receiving a retransmission, and receive the retransmission on the determined resources. A base station may receive a negative acknowledgement report from at least one UE of a plurality of UEs, determine a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) update for the at least one UE, generate an indicator of retransmission scheduling for the plurality of UEs, the indicator including the MCS update for the at least one UE, and transmit the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li, Chong Li
  • Patent number: 11076404
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses providing a visual metric of the efficiency of a network of devices communicating through a wireless access point (AP). These apparatuses and methods may also determine and display pseudo-dynamic error vector magnitude (EVM) information for a network of wireless stations, including displaying a pseudo-dynamic constellation diagrams using EVM information. These methods and apparatuses may transmit a plurality of sounding packets from each of one or more radio devices different modulation types (e.g., BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM and 1024QAM), and receiving at least some of the sounding packets at a second radio device (e.g., an access point) and determining EVM information from the received sounding packets, and displaying (or providing for display) a constellation diagram including pseudo-dynamic EVM information that is a constrained approximation of actual EVM information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: UBIQUITI INC.
    Inventors: Sriram Dayanandan, Vish Ponnampalam, Robert J. Pera
  • Patent number: 11063807
    Abstract: A method for uplink multiuser data transmission and a system for uplink multiuser multiple input multiple output are provided. The method implemented by an access point (AP) includes: sending, indication information to at least two stations (STAs), wherein the indication information indicates that the at least two STAs perform an uplink multiuser data transmission; receiving, uplink data sent by the at least two STAs through channels, respectively; and demodulating, the uplink data using receiving beams corresponding to pre-estimated channels, respectively. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the AP receives the uplink data from multiple STAs through different channels from the STAs to the AP respectively, and demodulates data using the receiving beams corresponding to the channels respectively, thereby realizing that the AP performs separation and demodulation of the uplink data sent by multiple STAs and realizing the uplink multiuser data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Yang, Yi Luo
  • Patent number: 11057882
    Abstract: A system for dynamically setting a frame configuration in a wireless network in an emergency event includes an access node configured to deploy a first radio air interface. The system also includes a plurality of end-user wireless devices attached to the first radio air interface. The system further includes a processor configured to determine a trigger indicating the emergency event associated with one or more of the plurality of end-user wireless devices. The processor is also configured to switch the frame configuration for the access node from a first frame configuration to a second frame configuration, the second frame configuration including more uplink subframes than the first frame configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Andrew M Wurtenberger, Rajveen Narendran
  • Patent number: 11050554
    Abstract: Technologies for managing exact match hash table growth include a network computing device which includes a compute engine and a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC is configured to allocate a plurality of physical bucket addresses in non-contiguous chunks of memory of the compute engine, configure a bucket threshold value as a function of a hash size of the hash table, generate a plurality of virtual bucket addresses as a function of the bucket threshold value, and map each generated virtual bucket address to an allocated physical bucket address. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Naru Sundar, Chih-Jen Chang, Robert Southworth, Hsi-Cheng Chu
  • Patent number: 11051134
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for information transmission in a machine-to-machine telecommunications network and a machine-to-machine telecommunications network. The telecommunications network supports information transmission between a server and a plurality of communication terminals. A common group identifier is assigned to a group containing at least some of the plurality of communication terminals. An information message is transmitted to the plurality of communication terminals to which the common group identifier has been assigned. The in-formation message contains the common group identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V., NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
    Inventors: Johannes Maria Van Loon, Antonius Norp, Michael Schenk, Annemieke Kips
  • Patent number: 11038737
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for uplink multiuser data transmission and a system for uplink multiuser multiple input multiple output. The method includes: sending, by an access point AP, indication information to at least two stations STAs, wherein the indication information is used for indicating that the at least two STAs perform an uplink multiuser data transmission; receiving, by the AP, uplink data sent by the at least two STAs through channels from the at least two STAs to the AP, respectively; and demodulating, by the AP, the uplink data sent by the at least two STAs using receiving beams corresponding to pre-estimated channels from the at least two STAs to the AP, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Yang, Yi Luo
  • Patent number: 11005744
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a port rate determines a channel transmission rate of an SAS port including N physical channels. The method includes: determining M different negotiated rates of the N physical channels; separately determining M total port bandwidths corresponding to the M different negotiated rates; and determining a negotiated rate corresponding to a largest total port bandwidth in the M total port bandwidths as a channel transmission rate of the port. A lowest negotiated rate is no longer used as the channel transmission rate of the port, but the negotiated rate corresponding to the largest total port bandwidth is determined as the channel transmission rate of the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xu Wei, Yuanting Long
  • Patent number: 11005526
    Abstract: An electronic communication device comprises echo cancellation circuitry and signal modification circuitry. The echo cancellation circuitry may be operable to generate a first signal that approximates interference present in a second signal. The signal modification circuitry may be operable to generate a first cancellation signal in a frequency band that is not used on a communication medium over which the electronic communication device is configured to communicate. The signal modification circuitry may be operable to combine the first cancellation signal with the first signal, wherein the combining of the signals results in a modified first signal that has a lower crest factor and/or peak-to-average power ratio than the first signal. The signal modification circuitry may be operable to combine the modified first signal with the second signal to reduce interference present in the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Scott Walley, Steve Krapp, Eitan Tsur, Sridhar Ramesh
  • Patent number: 11006387
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of transmitting a Physical Broadcasting Channel (PBCH) by a base station in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method may include generating a PBCH payload including bits indicating a frame in which the PBCH is transmitted; scrambling at least some of the bits included in the PBCH payload using second and third least significant bits among the bits; and transmitting the bits of the PBCH payload including the at least some scrambled bits to a user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Eunsun Kim, Youngsub Kim, Byounghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10999034
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a reference signal includes selecting one of a first initialization value and a second initialization value, generating selection instruction information corresponding to the selected initialization value, transmitting the selection instruction information to a mobile station, generating a reference signal based on the selected initialization value, and transmitting the generated reference signal to the mobile station. A method for estimating a channel includes receiving selection instruction information indicating a selection of at least one of a first initialization value and a second initialization value, receiving a first reference signal based on the selection instruction information, generating a second reference signal based on an initialization value indicated as being selected by the selection instruction information, and estimating a channel state by comparing the first reference signal with the second reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Sungjun Yoon