Patents Examined by Oussama Roudani
  • Patent number: 11616736
    Abstract: A communication system in which DRA control is aided by RL. An example embodiment may control one or more buffer queues populated by downstream and/or upstream data streams. The egress rates of the buffer queues can be dynamically controlled using an RL technique, according to which a learning agent can adaptively change the state-to-action mapping function of the DRA controller while circumventing the RL exploration phase and relying on extrapolation of the already taken actions instead. This feature may result in at least two benefits: (i) cancellation of a performance penalty typically associated with RL exploration; and (ii) faster learning of the environment, as the learning agent can determine the performance metrics of many actions per state in a single occurrence of the state. In an example embodiment, the communication system may be a DSL system, a PON system, or a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventor: Paschalis Tsiaflakis
  • Patent number: 11611452
    Abstract: A gateway for data communication in a vehicle includes: a first communication interface, configured to use a first communication protocol; and a second communication interface configured to use a second communication protocol. The gateway is configured to transmit data from the first to the second communication interface and to transmit data from the second communication interface to the first communication interface. The gateway further includes a media converter configured to convert quality of service information from the first to the second communication protocol and from the second to the first communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Arndt, Stefan Brunner, Helge Zinner
  • Patent number: 11611766
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing a Superposition Coded Modulation (SCM) scheme in a broadcasting or communication system including a controller are provided. The method includes controlling an SCM coefficient by the controller. The SCM coefficient is controlled according to a channel capacity of each layer of one or more layers in which information included in a signal is encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Seho Myung, Kyung-Joong Kim, Kyeong-Cheol Yang
  • Patent number: 11601226
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for receiver feedback in wireless systems. Receiver feedback format, content, type and/or timing may be determined as a function of, for example, at least one of a type of soft-combining processing to apply in a HARQ process, a HARQ operating point for the HARQ process, one or more reference transmissions for controlling a type of HARQ feedback for the HARQ process, and a feedback suppression parameter for one or more transmissions in a sequence associated with the HARQ process or a transport block (TB). Uniform and non-uniform CB-to-CBG mapping may be provided (e.g., by a WTRU) based on, for example, one or more parameters, interference and channel conditions and/or a probability of or actual pre-empting transmissions. A CB to CBG mapping indication may be provided, for example, in support of selecting a CB to CBG mapping from multiple CB to CBG mappings. Intra- and inter-WTRU interference/preemption indications may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, J. Patrick Tooher, Faris Alfarhan, Ghyslain Pelletier, Aata El Hamss
  • Patent number: 11595955
    Abstract: An apparatus of a communications network system provides (S11) a bandwidth part with a subcarrier spacing of 3.75*2M kHz, M being a value of 0 or 1, determines (S12) a resource allocation granularity for the bandwidth part, and performs (S13) resource allocation of allocating resource blocks of the bandwidth part based on the determined resource allocation granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Esa Tiirola, Kari Pajukoski
  • Patent number: 11570126
    Abstract: A reception service system transmits a first transmission rule to a predetermined client terminal among a plurality of client terminals in a case where an amount of data transmitted from the predetermined client terminal per unit time exceeds a predetermined value. Each of the plurality of client terminals transmits data about an event that has occurred at that client terminal to the reception service system, and stores the first transmission rule transmitted from the reception service system. The client terminal does not transmit at least some of the data about the event that has occurred at the client terminal so that the amount of data transmitted per unit time does not exceed the predetermined value according to the first transmission rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoto Yuki
  • Patent number: 11570673
    Abstract: A mobile station in a wireless communication network. The mobile station includes a radio communication that transmits an access request message to a base station via a first communication resource, and receives a timing adjustment in response to the access request message from the base station. The mobile station also includes an adjustment value storage unit that stores the timing adjustment, and a control unit that adjusts access timing corresponding to a second communication resource based on the timing adjustment value stored in the adjustment value storage unit. The radio communication unit then communicates with the base station via the first communication resource and the second communication resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takano, Yuichi Morioka, Ryo Sawai
  • Patent number: 11563624
    Abstract: A method includes determining vehicle driving parameters associated with a driving behavior of a vehicle while in an autonomous driving mode. A plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) is interconnected to a vehicle bus for communicating instructions from electromechanical contacts to actuators to control the driving behavior. The computing unit may receive a control signal from one of the ECUs. The computing unit lacks knowledge of whether the control signal a valid. The method further includes analyzing vehicle driving parameters associated with the driving behavior to determine whether the vehicle driving parameters satisfy a driving behavior criteria. Subsequent to determining that the vehicle driving parameters fails to satisfy the driving behavior criteria, the method includes generating a signal that causes the electromechanical contacts to disconnect from the vehicle bus and disable communication of instructions between the ECUs and the vehicle bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Woven Planet North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikael Kjell Anders Thor, Palak Talwar, Francis Everett Fearon, Hans-Peter Loeb, Pedro Oscar Varangot, Glen Alan Sapilewski
  • Patent number: 11552732
    Abstract: The invention refers to the parallel calculation method for polarization coding (PCPE) for channel coding technique in 5th next generation mobile communication systems which includes to split N-bits input sequence into X parallel streams, each stream has Y bits; to multiply Y bits at each stream by the columns of the Kronecker matrix GY, the results are displayed in rows according to the principle of bit elimination; and to multiply the matrix obtained with the columns of the Kronecker matrix GX according to the sample repeat and scalar multiplication. In addition, the invention also refers to the polarization coding system according to the Parallel Computation for Polarization Encoding (PCPE) for the channel coding technique in the 5th next generation mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: VIETTEL GROUP
    Inventors: Thanh Bang Le, Tuan Linh Tu
  • Patent number: 11553396
    Abstract: A path selection apparatus for selecting a path when storing sensor reports from lower nodes in a packet and transmitting the packet to an upper node in a sensor tree including a plurality of nodes includes a node movement unit that selects a first node holding a child node under the first node in the sensor tree, and moves a second node under the subtree with the first node as a vertex to a position under a third node not belonging to the subtree in the sensor tree when a movement of the second node to the position under the third node decreases a total number of packets to be transmitted and received in the sensor tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11546198
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to multi-MAC controller and single PHY systems and methods. An example method may include transmitting, via a first device in a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) network, a first block of data within a first time slot and at a first power level, the first power level being based on an attenuation of a first network tap device associated with the first device. The example method may also include transmitting, via a second device in the DOCSIS network, a second block of data within the first time slot and at a second power level, the second power level being based on an attenuation of a second network tap device associated with the second device, the first power level being different than the second power level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeff Finkelstein
  • Patent number: 11546892
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and base station may implement improved communication methods which enable a UE that is peak current limited to perform UL transmissions which are consistent with the UL timeline. A UE that is peak current limited may utilize a new form of distributed TTI (transmit time interval) bundling for improved uplink communication performance. In performing “distributed” TTI bundling, the UE may transmit a plurality of redundancy versions of first information to the base station, wherein the plurality of redundancy versions are transmitted in non-consecutive sub-frames with a periodicity of X ms. After the plurality of redundancy versions of first information are transmitted to the base station, the base station may provide a single acknowledge/negative acknowledge (ACK/NACK) to the UE. A method for dynamically generating and using a bundle size for TTI bundling is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Syed Aon Mujtaba
  • Patent number: 11539461
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an encoding method and a related device. The method includes: receiving a to-be-encoded code block whose length is L, where L is a positive integer; and encoding the to-be-encoded code block to obtain a forward error correction FEC code, where a valid information length K of the FEC code is an integer multiple of a largest prime factor of L, and a total length N of the FEC code is a sum of K and a product of 2 and an error correction capability T of the FEC code. According to the embodiments of this application, it can be ensured that an FEC codeword satisfies a requirement for a low latency and a high gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuchun Lu, Lin Ma, Liang Li, Yongyao Li, Shengyu Shen
  • Patent number: 11520600
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a controller area network, CAN, transceiver and a CAN controller. The CAN transceiver is configured to: compare a signal from the CAN bus with a negative threshold level; and provide a wake-up indication to the CAN controller based on the signal matching a predetermined pattern of one or more periods in which the signal is less than the negative threshold level. The CAN controller is configured to provide instructions to transmit a wake-up indication on the CAN bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Matthias Berthold Muth
  • Patent number: 11516315
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a communication method of a controller is disclosed. One form of a method may include: transmitting a diagnostic information request and attribute information of a diagnostic device to an Ethernet ECU; in response to the diagnostic information request, determining a protocol type of the diagnostic device based on the attribute information; controlling the Ethernet ECU to perform protocol conversion according to the determination result; and receiving a diagnostic message from the Ethernet ECU in response to the diagnostic information request by diagnostic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Hojin Jung
  • Patent number: 11516774
    Abstract: Provided are wireless communication methods for D2D communication and UEs therefor. A wireless communication method involves transmitting either a first DCI or a second DCI based on whether a first UE and a second UE are to be in a communication type of groupcast or unicast. In the wireless communication methods, the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the UE ID of the second UE if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of unicast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI, and the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the group ID if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of groupcast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11514381
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for customizing integration flow templates. The method can include can include monitoring user interaction with a plurality of systems external to an integration system to read data changes at the external systems and identifying at least one event pair, wherein each event pair is between two external systems having a same data change event in the two external systems. The identified event pairs are filtered for inclusion in an events chain and the external systems of the filtered event pairs are ordered in the events chain based on timestamps of the data change events. The method outputs integration flow templates based on the ordered external systems of the event pairs that define a flow trigger and at least one flow node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Matthew Paul Chapman, Andrew James Daniel
  • Patent number: 11503571
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for grant-free resource allocation. One apparatus (200) includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (602) assistant information to a base unit (104) to assist in grant-free resource allocation. In such an apparatus, the assistant information may include an expected type of resource, a bit rate requirement, reliability information, or some combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Haipeng Lei, Jing Han, Haiming Wang
  • Patent number: 11490296
    Abstract: Apparatuses for partially offloading processing from a user equipment (UE) to a cellular Radio Access Network (RAN) node is disclosed. An apparatus for a UE includes at least one processor configured to perform Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) processing and offload only a portion of the TCP/IP processing to a cellular RAN node while maintaining TCP protocols running end-to-end between the UE and a remote host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Jing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11477736
    Abstract: Described are apparatus, systems, and methods that are operable to conserve battery power of a wearable device by monitoring a state of the user wearing the wearable device and adjusting power state of one or more components of the device based on the determined user state and/or altering a wireless transmission of sensor data collected by the wearable device from the wearable device to a portable device associated with the user. For example, if it is determined that the user is in a sleep state, the wireless connection between the wearable device and the portable device may be terminated, the wireless transmitter and the processor transitioned to a low power state, and sensor data stored in a buffer memory of the wearable device until a defined period of time before the user exits the sleep state and/or upon satisfaction of a buffer usage threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Arun Prasath Sivakumaran, Ravikant Cherukuri, Rong Shen, Amol Vengurlekar, Sonal Saha