Patents Examined by Otis L Thompson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11765275
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11751120
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to systems, methods, and processor readable media for distributing digital data over networks. Certain embodiments relate to systems, methods, and devices used within such networks where at least a substantial portion of the interconnected devices are capable of interacting with one or more neighbouring devices, and then to form such a time synchronous network using local network information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Cognian Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Slav Zinger
  • Patent number: 11743819
    Abstract: A first device is configured to establish a connection over a short-range communication link with a second device. The first device may transition to a sleep state, terminate (i) a paging operation and a page scanning operation associated with a paging protocol and (ii) an advertisement scanning operation associated with an advertisement protocol and perform an advertisement broadcast operation associated with the advertisement protocol, the advertisement broadcast operation generating an advertisement to be broadcast at a first interval, wherein the first interval is greater than a second interval for performing advertisement broadcast operations in an active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David Shaw, Ariane Cotte, Alon Paycher, Robert Watson, Gregory Burns, Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan, Sriram Hariharan, Jonathan Shavit, Adir Eini
  • Patent number: 11728930
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques to regenerate SYNC bits of a High-Speed data packet lost by the transmission envelope detector of a repeater/hub that interconnects electronic devices compliant with Universal Serial Bus (USB) Specification Revision 2.0 or higher. A physical layer logic (PHY) of a first port of the repeater/hub receives a High-Speed data packet to store a recovered bit stream into an elastic buffer. The recovered bit stream may lose some SYNC bits at the beginning of the SYNC pattern. The repeater/hub reads the recovered bit stream from the elastic buffer for transmission through the PHY of a second port. If the end of the SYNC is read before a programmable number of SYNC bits have been transmitted, the repeater/hub generates additional SYNC bits for transmission until the programmable number of SYNC bits are transmitted. The repeater/hub then resumes transmitting the rest of the High-Speed data packet starting from the payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Godwin Gerald Arulappan, Pradeep Kumar Bajpai
  • Patent number: 11729027
    Abstract: A UE determines a respective set of subcarriers from N subcarriers in each OFDM symbol of M1 consecutive OFDM symbols within a slot. The respective set of subcarriers carries a respective set of SRSs that form transmission combs of a transmission comb size. The respective set of subcarriers in one of the M1 consecutive OFDM symbols do not overlap in frequency domain with the respective set of subcarriers in any other one of the M1 consecutive OFDM symbols. The UE applies the respective set of phase rotations to the respective set of SRSs in each OFDM symbol to obtain a cyclic shift. The UE maps the respective set of SRSs applied with phase rotations to the respective set of subcarriers in each OFDM symbol. The UE transmits the respective sets of SRSs in the M OFDM symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Chiao Yao Chuang
  • Patent number: 11729025
    Abstract: A first network device may communicate, in association with a tunnel establishment network protocol, with a second network device to cause a network tunnel between the first network device and the second network device to be established. The first network device may determine, based on communicating with the second network device to cause the network tunnel to be established, that the network tunnel is to support network micro-tunnel functionality within the network tunnel. The first network device may communicate, based on determining that the network tunnel is to support network micro-tunnel functionality, with the second network device to identify a traffic class, of one or more traffic classes, to which network micro-tunnel functionality within the network tunnel is to be applied. The first network device may cause a network micro-tunnel to be established within the network tunnel for traffic associated with the traffic class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Sai Ram Paruchuri, Goutham Kondapavuluru
  • Patent number: 11716294
    Abstract: Systems and methods for packet payload mapping for robust transmission of data are described. For example, methods may include receiving, using a network interface, packets that each respectively include a primary frame and one or more preceding frames from the sequence of frames of data that are separated from the primary frame in the sequence of frames by a respective multiple of a stride parameter; storing the frames of the packets in a buffer with entries that each hold the primary frame and the one or more preceding frames of a packet; reading a first frame from the buffer as the primary frame from one of the entries; determining that a packet with a primary frame that is a next frame in the sequence has been lost; and, responsive to the determination, reading the next frame from the buffer as a preceding frame from one of the entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Mixhalo Corp.
    Inventors: Vikram Singh, Michal Pietras
  • Patent number: 11716661
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for redirecting a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a dedicated core network (CN) node are described. An apparatus is configured to initiate a Service Request with a non-dedicated network node. The apparatus is configured to receive a special identifier in response to the Service Request, which indicates the apparatus should be redirected to a dedicated CN node based on subscription information. Radio access network resources associated with the apparatus may be released and the apparatus may then perform a tracking area update (TAU) request which is then forwarded to the dedicated CN node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmoud Watfa, Guanzhou Wang, Behrouz Aghili, Amir Helmy
  • Patent number: 11711824
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for signalling transmissions using carriers of different numerologies. In one example, a baseband processor of a base station is configured to perform operations including encoding a first signal to be transmitted on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first component carrier with a first subcarrier spacing. The first signal includes downlink control information (DCI) indicating resources for a second signal to be transmitted on a second component carrier with a second subcarrier spacing. Respective numerologies of the first component carrier and the second component carrier are different from one another in accordance with the first subcarrier spacing and the second subcarrier spacing. The baseband processor is configured to cause transmission of the first signal on the PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Hong He, Ajit Nimbalker, Joonyoung Cho, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11711827
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for utilizing positioning reference signals (PRS) in full duplex scenarios. An example method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a positioning reference signal in a time slot, wherein the positioning reference signal spans a first frequency bandwidth, transmitting a signal in a second frequency bandwidth during the time slot, wherein the second frequency bandwidth includes frequencies within the first frequency bandwidth, and processing the positioning reference signal received in the first frequency bandwidth excluding the frequencies in the second frequency bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar
  • Patent number: 11706838
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, and services associated with security and safety) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for configuring an efficient hierarchical layer 2 architecture and main functions thereof in a next-generation mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 11706349
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11705944
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) is provided. The UE receives configuration information for a first control resource set that includes a number of symbols in a time domain and a number of resource blocks (RBs) in a frequency domain, configuration information indicating a first number of Nbundle,1 frequency contiguous RBs, and a PDCCH in the first control resource set in a number of frequency distributed blocks of Nbundle,1 RBs. The UE assumes that a demodulation reference signal associated with the reception of the PDCCH has a same preceding over the Nbundle,1 RBs. A method for constructing a search space to reduce a number of channel estimations that the UE performs for decoding PDCCHs, relative to conventional search spaces, is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11705984
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for a terminal device to determine demodulation reference signal (DMRS), comprising: obtaining (211) a DMRS configuration and a corresponding signature assigned by a network side node; constructing (212) a DMRS according to the DMRS configuration; mapping (213) the DMRS to a physical channel assigned to the terminal device. The signature indicates a processing configuration for the physical channel. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the signature, and DMRS configuration may be configured correspondingly, to obtain low-crosstalk DMRS signals for different terminal devices, thus, the number of the supported terminal devices may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhipeng Lin, Ali Behravan, Andres Reial, Robert Mark Harrison, Robert Baldemair, Krishna Chitti
  • Patent number: 11700621
    Abstract: Techniques are described relating to hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback using a HARQ-ACK aggregation window. A User Equipment (UE) may receive control information (e.g., downlink control information (DCI) or radio resource control (RRC) signaling) from a base station including HARQ-ACK codebook information. The HARQ-ACK codebook information may include information on a size of a HARQ-ACK aggregation window. The UE may decode physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions and encode corresponding HARQ-ACK feedback using the HARQ-ACK aggregation window based on the control signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Hong He, Ajit Nimbalker, Joonyoung Cho, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11696268
    Abstract: A wireless communication base station device which makes it possible to provide a base station, terminal and CCE allocation method capable of reducing the number of times blind decoding of a terminal is performed, without increasing the CCE block rate, even when a plurality of unit bands are set in a terminal. In this device, a search space setting section (103) sets in each of a plurality of unit bands a common search space in respect of a terminal which is communicating using the plurality of unit bands and other terminals, and sets in each of the plurality of unit bands an individual search space in respect of the terminal. An allocation section (106) allocates control information solely to CCEs within the common search spaces set in specified unit bands among the plurality of unit bands, or solely to CCEs within individual search spaces set in specified unit bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 11689408
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling pre-compensation of timing offsets in OFDM receivers without invalidating channel estimates are described. Timing offset estimations may be sent along with the received OFDM symbols for FFT computation and generating a de-rotated signal output. The timing offset estimation may provide a reference point for dynamic tracking of timing for an OFDM signal and estimated based on an integral value associated with the OFDM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Schell, Carl Scarpa
  • Patent number: 11683661
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a first node (e.g., a UE or a BS) performs a channel response measurement on a reference signal for positioning (e.g., UL reference signal such as SRS for positioning, or a DL PRS). The first node determines, for each of a plurality of peaks detected within the channel response measurement, peak-specific information comprising at least peak magnitude data that is based on a peak magnitude relative to a reference value. The first node reports the peak-specific information for the plurality of peaks to a second node (e.g., a BS, UE, or LMF). The second node receives the peak-specific information, and determines a positioning estimate for a UE based on the peak-specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Taesang Yoo, Naga Bhushan, Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11683736
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and eNB equipment for supporting seamless handover. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving, by a target eNB, random access information or an RRC connection reconfiguration completion message from a UE; transmitting, by the target eNB, a data transmission stopping indication message to a source eNB; and, stopping, by the source eNB, transmitting downlink data to the UE, and/or stopping, by the source eNB, receiving uplink data from the UE. The present invention further provides several other methods and eNB equipments for supporting seamless handover. By the methods for supporting seamless handover provided by the present invention, the delay of data transmission and the unnecessary data transmission or unnecessary data monitoring of a source eNB can be avoided, the waste of resources and the power consumption can be reduced, and the missing and duplication transmission of data can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Xiaowan Ke, Hong Wang, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 11683801
    Abstract: Disclosed is a base station which transmits and retransmits to a terminal first and second downlink data in first and second component carriers, respectively, wherein a first configuration pattern of UL (uplink) and DL (downlink) subframes is set for the first component carrier and a second configuration pattern of UL and DL subframes is set for the second component carrier. The base station receives from the terminal in the first component carrier an ACK/NACK for the first and second downlink data received by the terminal, which stores retransmission data of the first and second downlink data in a soft buffer, wherein the soft buffer for the second downlink data is sized according to a maximum number of downlink HARQ retransmission processes executable in a reference configuration pattern of UL and DL subframes, and the reference configuration pattern is determined according to the first and second configuration patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Toru Oizumi, Akihiko Nishio