Patents Examined by Pao Sinkantarakorn
  • Patent number: 11363507
    Abstract: A bearer management device that performs control to reliably receive an incoming packet call that is made while a mobile terminal device is moving is provided. A bearer management device (10) includes an incoming call control unit (11) that, in the case where a mobility management device (30) manages a location of a mobile terminal device (40) as a result of movement of the mobile terminal device (40) whose location has been managed by a mobility management device (20), suspends processing of an incoming call to the mobile terminal device (40) made during movement of the mobile terminal device (40) until receiving a notification about completion of movement of the mobile terminal device (40) from the mobility management device (30), and resumes incoming call processing to the mobile terminal device (40) after receiving a notification about completion of movement of the mobile terminal device (40) from the mobility management device (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Okabe, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11356217
    Abstract: Methods and systems for Acknowledgement (ACK)/Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) transmission strategies are provided. According to one aspect, a method of operation of a radio node comprises determining whether a combination of resources for a plurality of signals or channels fulfills a predefined criteria: if so, the plurality of signals or channels are transmitted according to a first transmission strategy in which each signal or channel is transmitted on its respective resource or resources; if not, at least some of the plurality of signals or channels are transmitted according to a second transmission strategy different from the first transmission strategy, e.g., transmitting only a subset of the signals or channels, combining signals and channels, etc. The predefined criteria may be based on the characteristics of the resources for the plurality of signals or channels, such as their locations, bandwidths, signal qualities, relative separation in the frequency domain, or other characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 11356301
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for determining a path loss for semi-persistent SRS-for-positioning if the path loss resource set is not updatable through a MAC CE. An example method according to the disclosure includes receiving, from a serving base station, a medium access control control element, determining a spatial relation reference of a first sounding reference signal resource, setting a path loss reference for a sounding reference signal for positioning resource set to the spatial relation reference if the spatial relation reference is not an uplink reference signal, setting the path loss reference equal to a reference system resource from a synchronization signal block the user equipment utilizes to obtain a master information block if the spatial relation reference is an uplink reference signal, and transmitting the resources of the sounding reference signal for positioning resource set based at least in part on the path loss reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 11356913
    Abstract: A measurement method of a non-connected state user-side device, a measurement method of a non-connected state user-side device and a user-side device are provided. The method includes: acquiring, by the user-side device, non-connected state measurement configuration information; performing, by the user-side device, a non-connected state measurement according to the non-connected state measurement configuration information. According to the present disclosure, based on the non-connected state measurement configuration information, the user-side device may help the network-side device to select a suitable user-side device to perform the non-connected state measurement, thereby achieving the measurement of the non-connected state user-side device. In addition, the non-connected state measurement configuration information may include inter-frequency measurement configuration information, thereby achieving an inter-frequency measurement and saving resources of the user-side device during the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Yang
  • Patent number: 11350442
    Abstract: During a sidelink process, a configured grant can be utilized for data reception. For example, one user device (e.g., gnodeB or local manager user equipment) can send a signal to a receiving UE indicating that the user device should monitor a specific channel for a specific time. The user device can then send another signal to a transmitting user equipment indicating that it needs to transmit on a specific sub channel at the specific time or window of time. Thus, the user device can facilitate scheduling of data transmissions/receptions such that radio resources are preserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 11343062
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for removing a self-interference signal. The apparatus includes one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program receives an upstream signal for removing self-interference, generates a downstream signal for channel estimation, replicates a self-interference signal in a time domain and a self-interference signal in a frequency domain using the upstream signal and the downstream signal, and removes the self-interference signal from the upstream signal using the replicated self-interference signal in the time domain and the replicated self-interference signal in the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Je-Won Lee, Joon-Young Jung, Dong-Joon Choi
  • Patent number: 11343854
    Abstract: A novel method that dynamically changes the contention window of access points based on system load to improve performance in a dense Wi-Fi deployment is disclosed. A key feature is that no MAC protocol changes, nor client side modifications are needed to deploy the solution. Setting an optimal contention window can lead to throughput and latency improvements up to 155%, and 50%, respectively. Furthermore, an online learning method that efficiently finds the optimal contention window with minimal training data, and yields an average improvement in throughput of 53-55% during congested periods for a real traffic-volume workload replay in a Wi-Fi test-bed is demonstrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Sandholm, Belal Hamzeh, Bernardo Huberman
  • Patent number: 11336567
    Abstract: Techniques for defining a service flow definition among container pods that provide services in a network. The techniques may include an orchestrator of a computer network platform of the network determining which container pods need to communicate with which container pods. The service flow definition thus indicates needed paths between the container pods. In configurations, a cluster topology may be determined where the cluster topology indicates corresponding nodes of the network in which each container pod is located, as well as end points of the network with which the corresponding nodes communicate. Based at least in part on the service flow definition and the cluster topology, corresponding route distribution policies may be determined for the end points. The corresponding route distribution policies may be applied to the end points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Alejandro Eguiarte, Rajiv Asati
  • Patent number: 11330490
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle communication system which distributes information which is necessary in vehicle units. A vehicle communication system according to the present invention includes: a vehicle base station which performs wireless communication with a vehicle terminal installed in a vehicle to receive vehicle related service; and a server apparatus which specifies the vehicle base station of a message distribution destination according to the vehicle related service to be provided, and distributes a message related to the vehicle related service to be provided, to the specified vehicle base station. When receiving the message transmitted from the server apparatus, the vehicle base station transmits the message to the vehicle terminal which subscribes to the vehicle related service related to the message, from a plurality of vehicle terminals and located in a communication area formed by the vehicle base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Shiga, Shinji Onishi, Daisuke Mizukami, Kazuhiro Egashira, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11329788
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes generating uplink control information at a wireless device, and transmitting the uplink control information over an interlace of a component carrier of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. The interlace includes a plurality of non-contiguous concurrent resource blocks in the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, and at least two resource blocks in the interlace include different portions of the uplink control information. A second method includes generating uplink control information at a wireless device, and transmitting the uplink control information over an uplink control channel of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. Resources of the uplink control channel are divided into a plurality of discrete dimensions and the uplink control information of the wireless device is transmitted over a number of the discrete dimensions allocated to the uplink control information of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11329849
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure disclose techniques for the indication of the allocation of the downlink (DL) demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) ports for the data channel in NR communications. In some examples, the channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) may be associated with a corresponding DM-RS for a DL data channel. The transmitting device, in some examples, may further transmit a notification that provides resource allocations (e.g., port allocations) that minimize the redundant information that is required to be transmitted from the base station to the user equipment (UE) when the DM-RS port allocation is the same as the CSI-RS port allocation received by the UE in an earlier time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: June Namgoong, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Yu Zhang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jing Jiang, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11323946
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for enabling communications in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A wireless transmit and receive unit (WTRU) may receive, from an access point (AP), a management frame comprising capability information. The capability information may comprise an indication of support for reception via non-contiguous channels. The WTRU may transmit, on a condition that reception via non-contiguous channels is supported, at least one data packet, to the AP, via multiple non-contiguous channels. The multiple non-contiguous channels may be used simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Sudheer A. Grandhi
  • Patent number: 11324051
    Abstract: A disclosure of the present specification provides a random access method for an unlicensed band. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a random access preamble in a first cell of the unlicensed band; and receiving, by the UE, a random access response in a second cell, wherein the second cell may be a first cell, a cell of the unlicensed band, included in a cell group to which the first cell belongs, or a cell of the unlicensed band, included in a timing advance group (TAG) within the cell group, to which the first cell belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11316774
    Abstract: The present application describes a path selection method and apparatus. The method may include obtaining a required latency of a service. The method may further include determining a target path for the service from m strict explicit paths based on the required latency, where a latency of the target path is less than or equal to the required latency, all the m strict explicit paths are unallocated paths, any subpath of a first strict explicit path in the m strict explicit paths exists in only the first strict explicit path, the first strict explicit path is any path in the m strict explicit paths, and m is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications technologies and resolves at least a problem where a path computation element (PCE) cannot ensure that a path allocated to a service can meet a latency requirement of the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojian Ding, Qin Wu
  • Patent number: 11310781
    Abstract: A method of transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), uplink control information (UCI) in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station (BS), physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource information for the UCI. Further, the UCI is hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information of multiple downlink cells. The method also includes transmitting, to the BS, the UCI on a PUCCH resource. In addition, the PUCCH resource is mapped to multiple resource block (RB) pairs, the multiple RB pairs include RBs included in a first slot and RBs included in a second slot, the RBs included in the first slot are consecutive RBs to each other, and the RBs included in the second slot are consecutive RBs to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myoungseob Kim, Suckchel Yang, Daesung Hwang, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11304053
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method of a policy controlling device in a communication network, for supporting Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) specific 3GPP Data Off Exempt Services (DOES), the method comprises providing one or more uplink filters associated with a PLMN specific list of 3GPP DOES to a terminal device in the communication network. According to various aspects and embodiments of the method, per PLMN 3GPP DOES may be supported with a simplified scheme, and/or impact to existing network can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Juying Gan, George Foti, Angel Navas Cornejo, Shabnam Sultana, Jinyin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11303571
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a data communication method, including: sending, by a first aggregation node in a first pod, data packets of a first data flow to at least one core node in a core layer in a packet based balancing manner; receiving, by the at least one core node, the data packets of the first data flow, and sending the received data packets to a second aggregation node in a second pod; and receiving, by the second aggregation node, the data packets of the first data flow, and sorting the data packets of the first data flow to obtain the first data flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wan Lam, Hui Lu
  • Patent number: 11284230
    Abstract: A system for sensing an environmental parameter at a cell site of a cellular communication network and transporting corresponding data over an operations and maintenance (“O&M”) channel of the cellular communication network comprises a remote radio head and a sensor operably coupled to the remote radio head to receive electrical power from the remote radio head and transmit sensor data corresponding to the environmental parameter to the remote radio head. The sensor is operable to use at least some of the electrical power to generate the sensor data and is operable to use at least some of the electrical power to transmit the sensor data to the remote radio head. The remote radio head is operable to provide the electrical power to the sensor, is operable to receive the sensor data, and is operable to transmit operations and maintenance data and the sensor data over the O&M channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Zheng Fang, Matthew J. Starzec
  • Patent number: 11284241
    Abstract: A new cell specification procedure can be defined, in order to support more efficiently a network slice function in a new radio (NR) access technology as being a part of a 5G communication system. From a perspective of a radio access network (RAN)-core network (CN) interface, a RAN node can transmit, to a CN node, a first indicator related to the slice support of the RAN node, and receive, from the CN node, a second indicator related to the slice support of the CN node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Xu, Seokjung Kim, Daewook Byun
  • Patent number: 11284417
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication by a base station (BS). The method generally includes receiving an indication of current remaining available transmit power from a user equipment (UE). The method further includes communicating information indicating a data rate parameter and a communication configuration to the UE. The data rate parameter is for use by the UE on an uplink with the BS. The communication configuration affects uplink transmission duty cycle on the uplink based on whether the current remaining available transmit power and a current channel state between the BS and the UE satisfy a condition. The method further includes receiving signals based on the data rate parameter and the communication configuration from the UE on the uplink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shiau-He Tsai, Raghu Narayan Challa