Patents Examined by Nishant Divecha
  • Patent number: 11949474
    Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jan Schreck, Nageen Himayat, Hosein Nikopour, Feng Xue, Ehsan Aryafar, Oner Orhan, Mustafa R. Akdeniz, Wook Bong Lee, Jing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11950157
    Abstract: Methods, nodes and computer program products control radio channel deployment when using un-licensed carriers in a wireless communication network and control mobility and/or load balancing target selection when using un-licensed carriers. When performed in an access node, unlicensed carrier intrinsic cell channel load is determined in a cell served by the access node based on one or more predetermined channel load indicators and neighbor cell channel load information is obtained, from one or more neighboring access nodes. The neighbor cell channel load information includes unlicensed carrier channel load in respective cells based on the one or more predetermined channel load indicators. At least one channel deployment operation is initiated based on an outcome of one or more comparative operations including the determined unlicensed carrier intrinsic cell channel load and/or the obtained neighbor cell channel load information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Chunhui Zhang, Peter Alriksson, Tomas Hedberg, Yusheng Liu, Mai-Anh Phan, David Sugirtharaj, Emma Wittenmark
  • Patent number: 11910447
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to adjust a random access message that is transmitted to a base station in an asynchronous uplink transmission. The UE may use a constrained mapping of time and frequency resources for the random access message or transmit all portions of the message in a continuous transmission. The UE may also adjust the timing of the portions of the message. The base station may use a portion of the message, such as a preamble, to perform channel estimation for another portion of the message, such as a payload, to improve decoding of the transmitted message. Additionally, the UE may configure a waveform of the message to improve the continuous transmission of the message, for example by reducing interference between portions of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Seyong Park, Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 11895000
    Abstract: A packet transfer apparatus registers time information from a system clock on a CPU region to a time information holding table on a hardware region, adds a receiving time to a received packet using a counter value on a hardware clock and the time information registered in the table, and transfers, to a transfer destination, the packet to which the receiving time has been added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nishiki, Masato Nishiguchi, Yuki Takei
  • Patent number: 11888628
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second user equipment, an indication of a time buffer threshold associated with providing sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request feedback on a physical sidelink feedback channel. The UE may receive, from the second user equipment, an indication of an agreement to use the time buffer threshold. The UE may transmit, to the second user equipment and based at least in part on the indication of the agreement, sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request feedback for a sidelink communication received from the second user equipment, the sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request feedback being transmitted on the physical sidelink feedback channel based at least in part on the time buffer threshold. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Gabi Sarkis, Kapil Gulati, Tien Viet Nguyen, Shuanshuan Wu
  • Patent number: 11870607
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting physical loops in both native and non-native VLANs are provided. According to one embodiment, a processing resource of a network switch detects a physical loop in a non-native Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) by configuring a set of one or more network chips (e.g., an ASIC) associated with an interface associated with the non-native VLAN of multiple interfaces of the network switch to provide an indication (e.g., a Media Access Control (MAC) address or a packet) regarding a MAC move event detected on the interface. Responsive to receipt of the indication, it is determined whether a number of MAC move events for the interface meets an event count threshold within each unit of time (e.g., one or more seconds) of multiple consecutive units of time. When the determination is affirmative, the existence of the physical loop is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventor: Wayming D. Tai
  • Patent number: 11863449
    Abstract: A communication device which is configured to receive a data flow includes a monitor port and a packet processor. The monitor port is configured to receive a packet of the data flow. The packet processor is coupled to the monitor port, and the packet processor is configured to compute a digest value of the packet and compute an identification code of the packet according to the digest value of the packet, and the packet processor searches a status value associated with the identification code in a lookup table so as to determine whether a dropping event of the data flow is recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Lu, Chun-Da Wu, Yu-Hsiu Lin
  • Patent number: 11804977
    Abstract: A method can comprise determining, by a device comprising a processor, a transition between an arbitration phase of a Controller Area Network (CAN) XL node of a group of communicatively coupled CAN XL nodes of a CAN bus network and a data phase of the CAN XL node based on a voltage change of a voltage level of the CAN XL node being determined, by device, to satisfy a defined voltage change criterion of defined voltage criteria, wherein the data phase comprises both positive voltages and negative voltages, and in response to determining the transition, routing, by the device, dominant data or logic 0/1 data of the CAN XL nodes to other nodes of the group of CAN XL nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Anders Bertil Antonsson
  • Patent number: 11785630
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling uplink air-interface communication over an air interface from a given user equipment device (UE) to the access node, where the uplink air-interface communication normally operates with a modulation order corresponding with a most recently determined channel quality of the given UE. An example method includes (i) detecting at least a threshold high rate of uplink voice muting on the air interface, and (ii) responsive to at least the detecting of the threshold high rate of uplink voice muting on the air interface, suppressing the modulation order used for the uplink air-interface communication from the given UE to the access node over the air interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum LLC
    Inventors: Ashish Tuli, Krishna Sitaram, Hemanth Pawar
  • Patent number: 11777655
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique executed by a user equipment (UE) for obtaining a burst of transmission control protocol (TCP) packets conveying packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data units (PDUs) by an application protocol TCP layer of a communication protocol stack of the UE. The UE may then determine a first number of a first plurality of acknowledge (ACK) tokens to transmit in a first transmission time interval (TTI) based on an amount of data used to ACK the burst of TCP packets. The UE may then transmit the first plurality of ACK tokens in the first TTI and a single ACK token in a second TTI subsequent to the first TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi, Alok Mitra, Darshan Ashar, Arnaud Meylan
  • Patent number: 11778623
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a plurality of selectable physical resource block (PRB) bundle sizes. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) that does not include a PRB bundling size indicator that indicates a PRB bundle size to be selected from the plurality of selectable PRB bundle sizes. The UE may select a PRB bundle size, from the plurality of selectable PRB bundle sizes, despite the DCI not including the PRB bundling size indicator. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandras Manolakos, Jae Won Yoo, June Namgoong, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 11743096
    Abstract: A reception device includes: a receiver that receives a multiplexed signal; a first demapper that demaps the multiplexed signal, with a second modulated symbol stream being included in the multiplexed signal as an undetermined signal component, to generate a first bit likelihood stream; a second demapper that demaps the multiplexed signal, with a first modulated symbol stream being included in the multiplexed signal as an undetermined signal component, to generate a second bit likelihood stream; a first decoder that performs error control decoding on the first bit likelihood stream; and a second decoder that performs error control decoding on the second bit likelihood stream. The multiplexed signal is a signal on which the first modulated symbol stream and the second modulated symbol stream are superposed, the second modulated symbol stream being subjected to conversion in accordance with the first modulated symbol stream in only a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11729103
    Abstract: The controller (10) acquires information about the band of the flow within the tunnel and the band of each flow after policing or shaping, calculates the ratio of the traffic volume after policing or shaping to the traffic volume before policing or shaping by using the acquired information about the band, and estimates the traffic volume of the flow to be monitored within the tunnel by using the calculated ratio and the band of each flow after policing or shaping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Yuhei Hayashi, Yuki Miyoshi, Takeaki Nishioka, Hiroshi Osawa, Ichiro Kudo
  • Patent number: 11729760
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are a method for physical downlink shared channel receiving and a method for indicating its time domain resource, and a device, a storage medium, a base station, and a terminal thereof. The method for indicating the time domain resource for the physical downlink shared channel includes: determining a starting symbol position of the time domain resource for transmitting the physical downlink shared channel based on a symbol position for a front loaded demodulation reference signal; determining a row index in a preset time domain table at least based on the starting symbol position; and carrying the row index in a downlink control information, and transmitting the downlink control information to a user equipment. The technical solution of the present disclosure can achieve the flexibility in PDSCH schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Spreadtrum Hi-Tech Communications Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Su Huang
  • Patent number: 11711728
    Abstract: A wireless communication network manages a wireless access node. The wireless access node wirelessly exchanges user data with wireless User Equipment (UEs) and exchanges the user data with one or more network elements. The wireless access node generates status indicators that characterize wireless access node operation during the user data exchanges. An Element Management System (EMS) determines EMS load based on EMS operation and transfers load data that indicates the EMS load for delivery to the wireless access node. The wireless access node receives the load data transferred by the EMS. The wireless access node identifies individual priorities for individual ones of the status indicators. The wireless access node determines individual reporting times for the individual ones of the status indicators based on the load data and the individual priorities. The wireless access node transfers the individual ones of the status indicators to the EMS per the individual reporting times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Pawankumar C. Narang, Deveshkumar Narendrapratap Rai, Murali Krishnan Govindan, Satish Gobarbhai Thumar
  • Patent number: 11706837
    Abstract: In the present invention, a user equipment (UE) receives an UL grant that can be used while the UE is not in RRC_CONNECTED state. If the UE receives a message indicating to leave RRC_CONNECTED state, the UE starts a time alignment timer (I-TAT) when the UE leaves RRC_CONNECTED state. The UE transmits UL data using the UL grant if the UL data becomes available for transmission when the UE is not in RRC_CONNECTED state and if the I-TAT is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungjune Yi, Sunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 11677434
    Abstract: A data transmission method for use between a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver of a wireless peripheral device is provided. In a frequency hopping procedure, the wireless transmission data is re-transmitted through a secondary transmission channel. Consequently, a transmission delay problem is reduced. Moreover, the wireless receiver issues a special acknowledgement packet with loadable information to the wireless transmitter. Consequently, the master control power of the frequency hopping procedure is switched from the wireless transmitter to the wireless receiver. In addition, the information control capability of the wireless receiver to control the wireless transmitter in the communication application level can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventor: Chien-Nan Lin
  • Patent number: 11638296
    Abstract: Disclosed is a link-based autonomous cell scheduling device including: a routing information manager that records and manages information on a node's preferred parent node and child nodes in a routing information table; a slot frame manager that generates and modifies a number of slot frames by referring to routing information in the routing information table, packet queue information, and transmission/reception result information; a slot frame schedule determiner that integrates a number of slot frames to generate one integrated slot frame corresponding to a global slot frame size and record the same in an integrated slot frame table, by referring to a link unicast slot frame table, a broadcast slot frame table, and an EB slot frame table; and a TSCH MAC layer driver that operates after checking for a cell assigned to the integrated slot frame by referring to the integrated slot frame table at the TSCH MAC layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Sanghwa Chung, Heejun Lee
  • Patent number: 11625154
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for stage upgrades in a network. The system generates graph-data structured based representations of devices in the network, wherein respective attributes of the representations is selected based on respective services provided by the devices to tenants in the network and identities of respective tenants serviced by the devices. Next, the system generates a graph showing a distribution of the devices in the network according to the representations, wherein the representations are interconnected in the graph based on service roles of associated devices with respect to tenants in the network and other devices associated with the tenants. The system then schedules an upgrade of devices based on the graph, the upgrade being scheduled in stages, each stage including devices selected for upgrade in that stage, wherein the devices for each stage are selected by identifying devices having respective representations assigned to that specific stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Ayaskant Pani
  • Patent number: 11582828
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for controlling an RRC state, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a first RRC message to a network device, the first RRC message comprising an RRC connection resume request message; receiving, by the terminal device, a second RRC message sent by the network device, the second RRC message carrying first indication information which is indicative of a target RRC state of the terminal device; and entering, by the terminal device, the target RRC state based on the first indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang