Patents Examined by Omer S Mian
  • Patent number: 11304261
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing cellular communication using a control information monitoring framework. A wireless device may monitor a control channel for control information according to a first periodic pattern. According to the first periodic pattern, the wireless device may monitor the control channel in a specified slot during each period of the first periodic pattern. Each period of the first periodic pattern may include multiple slots. The wireless device may receive control information during a first slot. The first slot may be a specified slot according to the first periodic pattern. The control information received during the first slot may schedule a data communication. The wireless device may monitor the control channel for control information in at least one slot that is not specified according to the first periodic pattern based at least in part on receiving control information during a specified slot according to the first periodic pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Junsung Lim, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Wei Zhang, Galib A. Mohiuddin, Sami M. Almalfouh, Yang Li, Zhu Ji, Tianyan Pu, Dawei Zhang, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Patent number: 11283707
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for segment routing (SR) with fast reroute in a container network. An SR ingress can receive a packet from a first container destined for a container service. The ingress can generate an SR packet including a segment list comprising a first segment to a first container service host, a second segment to a second service host, and a third segment to the service. The ingress can forward the SR packet to a first SR egress corresponding to the first host using the first segment. The first egress can determine whether the first service and/or host is reachable. If so, the first egress can forward the SR packet to the first host or the packet to the service. If not, the first egress can perform a fast reroute and forward the SR packet to a second SR egress corresponding to the second host using the second segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Giles Douglas Yorke Heron, Edward A. Warnicke, William Mark Townsley, Yoann Desmouceaux
  • Patent number: 11277502
    Abstract: A communication device, processing device or method constructs M RLC PDUs including M RLC SDUs, respectively, where M is larger than 1; submits, for a transmission opportunity, only L RLC PDUs for L RLC SDUs with lowest L SNs among the M RLC PDUs to a MAC layer, where L<M and the L RLC PDUs include a first RLC PDU having a poll to trigger status reporting at a receiving device; transmits the L RLC PDUs to the receiving device; constructs a second RLC PDU including a second RLC SDU having a highest SN among SNs of RLC SDUs submitted to the MAC layer, when the poll retransmission timer started upon submitting the first RLC PDU having the poll expires and no new RLC SDU or RLC SDU segment can be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Gyeongcheol Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 11272544
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The communication method may include receiving, from a base station, a message including first information on a physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration period, identifying a set of association period which corresponds to the PRACH configuration period, identifying an association period from the set of association period, and transmitting, to the base station, a random access preamble in a random access occasion within the association period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Xiong, Bin Yu, Chen Qian
  • Patent number: 11265254
    Abstract: A network device may receive, from a user equipment, a dataset identifying: applications utilized by the user equipment, network protocol types associated with the applications, and network addresses associated with the applications. The network device may segregate the dataset based on the network protocol types and to generate a segregated dataset. The network device may determine, based on the segregated dataset, a policy that causes particular application traffic associated with a particular network protocol type to be allocated to a particular network slice of the network. The network device may cause the policy to be provided to the user equipment to cause the user equipment to allocate the particular application traffic associated with the particular network protocol type to the particular network slice of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Bharadwaj Vemuri, Ratul K. Guha, Kalyani Bogineni, Deepa Jagannatha
  • Patent number: 11265948
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for re-establishing a link between terminals in a wireless communication system, and a device therefor. Particularly, the method for a first terminal to re-establish a link with another terminal in a wireless communication system comprises: a step of determining a radio link failure with respect to a radio link with a second terminal; a step of transmitting a first message, requesting measurement for re-establishing the radio link with the second terminal, to a base station on the basis of the determined radio link failure; a step of receiving a second message, including information on the configuration of the measurement, from the base station in response to the transmitted first message; and a step of transmitting, to the base station, a third message including a report on the radio link with the second terminal which has been re-established by performing the measurement based on the information on the configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Heejin Kim, Ilmu Byun, Heejeong Cho, Genebeck Hahn, Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 11251922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for receiving a downlink control signal in a wireless communication system including monitoring EPDCCH (enhanced physical downlink control channel) candidates to decode an EPDCCH in one or two EPDCCH sets on a first serving cell configured for the UE, and receiving a PDSCH (physical downlink shared channel) corresponding to the decoded EPDCCH. The EPDCCH candidates may include EPDCCH candidates for the first serving cell and EPDCCH candidates for a second serving cell scheduled by the first serving cell. Aggregation levels and the number of the EPDCCH candidates for the second serving cell at each of the aggregation levels are associated with bandwidth of the second serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jihyun Lee, Seungmin Lee, Inkwon Seo, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11252054
    Abstract: A device may receive information associated with a service chain to be implemented in association with a flow. The information associated with the service chain may include a source network address associated with the flow, a destination network address associated with the flow, a set of protocols associated with the flow, and a set of network services, of the service chain, to be implemented in association with the flow. The device may implement the service chain in association with the flow. The device may receive network traffic information associated with the flow based on implementing the service chain in association with the flow. The device may modify the service chain based on the network traffic information associated with the flow to permit a modified service chain to be implemented in association with the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Bollineni, Lei Wang, Juguang Huang, Ruiyan Shi, Wei Zhao
  • Patent number: 11252718
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may receive at least part of a resource pattern of a child IAB node associated with the IAB node. The resource pattern may indicate one or more configurations of one or more resources of the child IAB node. The IAB node may communicate with the child IAB node based on the at least part of the resource pattern. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Karl Georg Hampel, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11252631
    Abstract: Systems and methods herein recognize that form factors executing personal computer (PC) operating systems experience limited connectivity when traveling between WiFi connections and/or wired connections. Not only does this limit research capabilities of the PC form factor while between WiFi and/or wired connections, but the limitations place data integrity at risk. Systems and methods herein monitor for conditions that cause data integrity risks and seamlessly implement solutions that resolve, reduce, and/or manage identified data integrity risk conditions at least by simplifying a user's ability to identify and connect to networks, which offer data integrity risk solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Wael Jendli, Jeffrey J. Malvern, Anand Muthurajan
  • Patent number: 11246129
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for transmitting a signal, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: a network device determines transmission information of a synchronization signal block, where the transmission information includes information on the number m of the synchronization signal block, and information on a time-domain resource set over which the m synchronization signal block is transmitted, where the time-domain resource set includes m time-domain resource unit over which the m synchronization signal block is transmitted, and locations of m time-domain resource units in different time-domain resource sets are not completely the same; the network device sending the transmission information to a terminal device, so that the terminal device receives, according to the transmission information, the m synchronization signal block transmitted by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11245508
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a carrier resource configuration method, an uplink information transmission method, a base station, and a user equipment. The configuration method includes: determining, by the base station, a serving cell group to which a serving cell of the UE belongs; and sending, by the base station, a belonging relationship between a serving cell and a serving cell group to the UE, so that the UE performs uplink transmission according to the belonging relationship. The technical solutions of the present invention solve a problem that a UE cannot be scheduled correctly because a base station cannot acquire UCI of the UE in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yan Peng
  • Patent number: 11246122
    Abstract: A method for handling BWPs utilized in a communication device comprises receiving a first MAC CE for activating at least one first SCell, from a network; activating the at least one first SCell; starting a sCellDeactivationTimer associated with the at least one first SCell, when activating the at least one first SCell; deactivating the at least one first SCell, if a second MAC CE for deactivating the at least one first SCell is received from the network, or if the sCellDeactivationTimer expires; stopping the sCellDeactivationTimer, when deactivating the at least one first SCell; and stopping a first BWP-InactivityTimer for the at least one first SCell, when deactivating the at least one first SCell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Shiang-Rung Ye, Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11240774
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to communication systems, apparatus and methods which enable or support configuring timing advance in a radio access network. The method includes defining a timing advance configuration for a radio access network that employs a modulation scheme with scalable numerology, determining timing advance parameters consistent with the timing advance configuration for a user equipment (UE) that is in communication with the radio access network, and transmitting the timing advance parameters to the UE during an initial access procedure involving the UE or while the UE is in a connected state in the radio access network. The timing advance configuration may be defined to accommodate a numerology used by the radio access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Renqiu Wang, Wanshi Chen, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Hao Xu, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11228329
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for enhanced signal interference monitoring by sampling a signal of interest and using a representation of the sampled signal in combination with certain audio output capabilities to determine the nature of either the primary received data signal or the secondary interfering signals without requiring any specialized, dedicated external equipment, additional hardware and/or disturbing the primary functions of a radio modem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Vernon Joseph Brabec
  • Patent number: 11212041
    Abstract: Provided is a method of transmitting a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in a special subframe by a User Equipment (UE). The method includes receiving an Uplink (UL) grant from a base station, the UL grant being included in a downlink time period of Time Division Duplex (TDD) cell, wherein the TDD cell having TDD UL/DL configuration 1, 2 or 6; determining a resource in an Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS) of a special subframe of the TDD cell to transmit a PUSCH associated with the received UL grant, wherein the special subframe, having subframe number 1 or 6, consists of a Downlink Pilot Time Slot (DwPTS), a guard period (GP), and the UpPTS; transmitting, from the UE, the PUSCH mapped to the resource in the UpPTS; and receiving a Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Indicator Channel (PHICH) responsive to the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 11212814
    Abstract: A swarm communication system. Each of a plurality of transceivers determines a transmission cycle duration, and transmits one packet per transmission cycle, each packet being transmitted at a random point in time within the transmission cycle. The duration of the transmission cycle of a first transceiver may be adjusted according to the number of other transceivers within range of the first transceiver, or according to the number of other transmitters within range of each of the other transmitters that are within range of the first transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: APIUM INC.
    Inventors: Tyler MacCready, Karl Magnus Delight, Alan Nise
  • Patent number: 11206095
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing time synchronization for a plurality of computing devices that exhibit asymmetric path delay. In one example, processing circuitry receives data indicative of a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and vertices, wherein each node represents a clock and each vertex represents a bidirectional path between two clocks. Each bidirectional path has a first path delay in a first direction that is different from a second path delay in a second direction. The processing circuitry determines one or more closed loops in the graph and a path delay of the closed loop. The processing circuitry applies a minimization function to the path delay of each closed loop to determine values for the first and second path delays of each bidirectional path. The processing circuitry applies, based on the values for the first and second path delays of each bidirectional path, a time correction to a clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Equinix, Inc.
    Inventors: Lanfa Wang, Danjue Li
  • Patent number: 11206100
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can suppress inter-code interference between an ACK/NACK signal and a CQI signal which are code-multiplexed. A diffusion unit (214) diffuses the ACK/NACK signal inputted from a judgment unit (208) by using a ZC sequence. A diffusion unit (219) diffuses the CQI signal by using a cyclic shift ZC sequence. By using a Walsh sequence, a diffusion unit (216) further diffuses the ACK/NACK signal which has been diffused by using the ZC sequence. A control unit (209) controls the diffusion unit (214), the diffusion unit (216), and the diffusion unit (219) so that the minimum value of the difference between the CQI signals from a plurality of mobile stations and a cyclic shift amount of the ACK/NACK signal is not smaller than the minimum value of the difference between the cyclic shift amounts of the ACK/NACK signals from the plurality of mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Sadaki Futagi, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11206174
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method and a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for operating a communications network is disclosed. The method involves setting, at a first network node in the communications network, a register value that is indicative of a fault status associated with the first network node, the register value being set in a physical layer device of the first network node, receiving fault status information at an element in the communications network, the fault status information corresponding to the register value that is set in the physical layer device of the first network node, and determining, at the element in the communications network, a fault status of the communications network in response to the fault status information received at the element in the communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Sujan Pandey