Patents Examined by Peter Chen
  • Patent number: 11122507
    Abstract: An object is to provide a user device and a radio communication method that are capable of appropriately detecting radio link failure (RLF) even when an enhanced coverage mode is in operation. UE (200) includes CE level setting unit (230) that sets, when the UE is set in the enhanced coverage mode, a reception quality threshold (Qin/Qout) of a reference reception power level (RSRP/RSRQ) specified for CE level, and a radio link monitoring unit (240) that executes radio link monitoring based on the set reception quality threshold. The CE level setting unit (230) sets, regardless of whether the UE (200) is set to any CE level or not, a reception quality threshold specified for the maximum CE level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 11121756
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a radio signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, a method for performing, by a terminal, channel state information (CSI) reporting in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, bandwidth part (BWP) configuration information on a BWP for uplink and/or downlink transmission; receiving, from the base station, reporting configuration information including a reporting configuration for the CSI reporting; and performing the CSI reporting on the basis of the BWP configuration information and the reporting configuration information, wherein the reporting configuration is associated with the BWP, and whether or not the reporting configuration is activated may be determined on the basis of whether or not the BWP is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Duckhyun Bae, Jiwon Kang, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11115238
    Abstract: Provided is a gateway device capable of reducing power consumption in a sleep state and relaying an activation signal between networks without delay. When receiving an activation signal, the gateway device according to the present invention transfers the activation signal to another network via a relay switch, and outputs a signal indicating the reception of the activation signal from a transceiver, thereby turning on a microcomputer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Masashi Saito
  • Patent number: 11109252
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for adjusting a network configuration based on a channel occupancy and/or a channel busy ratio in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless device performs a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement and/or channel occupancy measurement for an unlicensed frequency. The wireless device may determine a frequency priority of the unlicensed frequency based on a result of the RSSI measurement and/or the channel occupancy measurement. Alternatively, the wireless device may adjust a value of a parameter for measurement reporting, cell selection and/or cell reselection based on the result of the RSSI measurement and/or the channel occupancy measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 11108705
    Abstract: A network node having a receiver for receiving input packets, a local node memory where one or more parameters for coding are stored, an encoder for creating coded packets from the input packets using linear network coding, and a transmitter to transmit the coded packets. Each coefficient of the linear network coding is a parameter of the one or more parameters or a pre-determined function of the one or more parameters. A related method and a network are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CODE ON NETWORK CODING, LLC
    Inventors: Kerim Fouli, Muriel Medard
  • Patent number: 11102810
    Abstract: Provided are a method for a user equipment (UE) to request system information in a wireless communication system and a device supporting the same. The method may include: transmitting a random access preamble for requesting system information to a base station (BS); receiving, from the BS, a random access response including only a random access preamble identifier (RAPID) corresponding to the transmitted random access preamble; and considering that a random access procedure is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Youngdae Lee, Jaewook Lee
  • Patent number: 11095497
    Abstract: A method is implemented by a switch in a Software Defined Networking (SDN) network to trace packets belonging to a flow. The method includes setting a value in a first field and a second field associated with the packet to indicate that tracing is enabled for the packet, where the second field is a field that is not used for packet matching, determining, at a second flow table, whether tracing is enabled for the packet based on the value in the first field, transmitting a trace message for the packet to a trace collector in response to a determination that tracing is enabled for the packet, setting a value in the first field to indicate that tracing is disabled for the packet, resubmitting the packet to the second flow table, and copying the value in the second field to the first field before directing the packet to another flow table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ashutosh Bisht, Nishant Saurabh
  • Patent number: 11096015
    Abstract: Location positioning methods, devices, systems, and computer-readable mediums are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving a vehicle identification and location information from at least one client terminal; and determining a location of a target vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification according to the location information. The determining the location of the target vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification according to the location information comprises: determining location information corresponding to the vehicle identification of the target vehicle received from the at least one client terminal within a set time period; determining a number of occurrences of each piece of the determined location information; and determining the location of the target vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification according to a piece of the determined location information with a number of occurrences larger than a set threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Liu, Jiajia Li
  • Patent number: 11096069
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for a hybrid multiple access wireless communication system. The apparatus comprises: a parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a relevant parameter of a hybrid multiple access wireless communication system; and a sub-carrier allocation unit configured to use the relevant parameter to allocate sub-carriers to each user equipment with the purpose of optimizing overall communication quality of the hybrid multiple access wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jian Dang, Jianqing Dou, Yu Shi, Zaichen Zhang, Liang Wu, Pen-shun Lu
  • Patent number: 11089533
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for connecting to a node of a mesh network. A method is provided for causing transmission of an advertisement message comprising connectivity characteristics for a joining node and receiving a connection opening indication from a first node of a plurality of nodes in a mesh network. The connection opening indication is based on first node of the plurality of nodes satisfying the connection characteristic and the connection opening indication is also based on the respective connection characteristics or performance metrics of the plurality of nodes. The method also includes causing an establishment of a connection between the joining node and the first node of the plurality of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Teemu Ilmari Savolainen
  • Patent number: 11088945
    Abstract: A computer implemented method comprises receiving an ethernet frame on an access port of a source switch in a switch fabric, the ethernet frame comprising a source media access control (SMAC) address and a destination media access control (DMAC) address, in response to a determination that the destination media access control address is not programmed into a media access control table of the source switch sending a destination lookup failure (DLF) message to a control plane associated with the switch, the destination lookup failure (DLF) message indicating that the destination media access control address received with the frame is not programmed into a media access control table of the source switch, and in response to a determination that the destination media access control address is programmed into a media access control table of at least one switch of the plurality of additional switches in the switch fabric, initiating a sequenced path setup on the source switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Kartik Deshpande, Scott Griffiths, Jason Nyberg
  • Patent number: 11083019
    Abstract: Techniques for communication of a partial subframe and properties related to the partial subframe of a plurality of subframes in licensed assisted access (LAA) for an unlicensed frequency band are discussed. A network device (e.g., an evolved NodeB, or other cell network device) can generate a listen before talk (LBT) protocol in order to determine whether an unlicensed carrier of a secondary cell device is idle or busy. The evolved Node B (eNB) can communicate starting or ending partial subframes in a downlink transmission, and a user equipment (UE) can process partial subframes based on the communications and a scheduling policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijeet Bhorkar, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Jeongho Jeon, Qiaoyang Ye
  • Patent number: 11082952
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for a User Equipment (UE) transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a device therefor according to various embodiments. Disclosed are a method for transmitting a PUSCH and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an uplink (UL) grant from a base station; selecting at least one radio resource among a first radio resource which is a radio resource allocated by the UL grant, and a predetermined second radio resource; and transmitting a PUSCH using the selected at least one radio resource, wherein the second radio resource is a radio resource enabling PUSCH transmission without receiving the UL grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Duckhyun Bae, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang, Ilmu Byun
  • Patent number: 11082184
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and a device. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, first indication information or second indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that a reference signal is carried in a resource unit, and the second indication information is used to indicate that no reference signal is carried in a resource unit; and performing, by the terminal, data transmission according to the first indication information or the second indication information. The reference signal can be properly configured in the embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongfeng Li, Yongzhao Cao
  • Patent number: 11082979
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting and receiving a signal for device-to-device (D2D) communication and apparatus for the same, which are used in a wireless access system supporting D2D communication. As one aspect of the present invention, a method for transmitting and receiving a D2D signal by a terminal comprises the steps of: determining whether a D2D signal can be transmitted and received in at least one frequency band; transmitting, to a base station, information on a frequency band capacity; and generating the D2D signal according to the information on a frequency band capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim, Sunghoon Jung, Byounghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11070858
    Abstract: A broadcast transmitter for processing a broadcast signal is discussed. The broadcast transmitter includes a packetizer to generate transport packets based on a Layered Coding Transport (LCT) format, wherein the transport packets are used to transport at least one delivery object and signaling data; and a transmitter to transmit the broadcast signal comprising the transport packets, wherein the signaling data includes a real-time attribute which is a boolean flag that is set to true when the transport packets carry a real-time content that is comprised of the at least one delivery object, and wherein a header of at least one transport packet of the transport packets includes codepoint information for indicating a type of a payload that is carried by the at least one transport packet, transport object identifier information for identifying the at least one delivery object, and information for identifying a starting position of a fragment of the delivery object carried in the at least one transport packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jangwon Lee, Sejin Oh, Kyoungsoo Moon, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 11063732
    Abstract: A device may determine one or more parameters relating to a network. The device may detect a trigger to alter a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) configuration for the network based on the one or more parameters relating to the network. The device may determine an alteration to the HARQ configuration based on detecting the trigger to alter the HARQ configuration. The device may communicate with a distributed unit or a centralized unit of the network to cause the alteration to the HARQ configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Vishwanath Ramamurthi, Arda Aksu, Ozgur Dural, Yuexin Dong
  • Patent number: 11064511
    Abstract: Described embodiments include a system that includes a network interface and a processor. The network interface is configured to receive, at a first time, a packet transmitted from a source communication terminal over a communication network en route to a target communication terminal, before the packet passes through a particular portion of the communication network, and to receive the packet at a second time, after the packet has passed through the particular portion of the communication network. The processor is configured to delay the packet, subsequently to the packet being received at the second time, by a delay duration that is a decreasing function of a duration between the first time and the second time, and to send the delayed packet, subsequently, via the network interface, en route to the target communication terminal. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: VASONA NETWORKS INC.
    Inventors: Oren Sadeh, Nery Strasman, Vijay Devarapalli
  • Patent number: 11057855
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of detecting an access address of a physical channel in a Bluetooth signal to which channel coding is applied, the method including: performing initial signal processing in a unit of a specific length in a preamble section of a Bluetooth signal; and performing channel decoding in the specific length for a preamble part remained after the initial signal processing, wherein the specific length is a bit pattern length of a bitstream which is repeated in the preamble section or a length of a bitstream input for channel decoding. According to the present invention, channel decoding is performed in a unit of a bit pattern length of an access address from the remaining preamble part, and thus detection of the access address is available even though a start point of the access address is not provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: ABOV Semiconductor co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Tae Moon, Sang Young Chu, Suk Kyun Hong
  • Patent number: 11051194
    Abstract: Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a mobile device to determine signal measurements on a plurality of frequencies and to provide signal measurements for position calculation on a location server or on the mobile device. Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses on a mobile device to concurrently scan for signals across two or more frequencies while optimizing sending and/or utilizing signal measurements made at higher frequency bands or signal measurements of signals sent from devices at a shorter range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amit Jain, Akash Kumar, Govind Ram Venkat Narayan