Patents Examined by Peter P Chau
  • Patent number: 11381484
    Abstract: A mobile communications device may determine whether to report information regarding operation of the mobile device on a mobile network. The determination may be based on a reporting parameter set by a network control device and received via a broadcast message from a radio access node. The mobile device may compare the value of the reporting parameter to a randomly generated number. Based on the comparison, the mobile device may determine whether or not to provide information regarding operation of the mobile device or the radio access node to the network control device. The network control device may adjust the value of the reporting parameter to control the likelihood that a mobile device will report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Biren Parekh
  • Patent number: 11381950
    Abstract: An example method includes identifying, by a mobile computing device, short-range wireless communication signals that are associated with a vehicle computing system; determining, by the mobile computing device, based on the short-range wireless communication signals, that the mobile computing device is proximate to the vehicle computing system; identifying, by the mobile computing device, an electrical connection between the mobile computing device and the vehicle, wherein the electrical connection is provided by an electrical cable that connects a port of the mobile computing device to a port of the vehicle; determining, by the mobile computing device, that the electrical connection is a charge-only connection, wherein the charge-only connection enables an electrical charging or discharging of the mobile computing device but prohibits any data transfer between the mobile computing device and the vehicle computing system; and outputting, by the mobile computing device, a notification indicative of the charge-
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sriram Viswanathan, Lukasz Pawel Krakowiak, Dan Feng, Eugene Koh
  • Patent number: 11368990
    Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and device. In a process in which a terminal device is handed over from a source access network device to a target access network device, the source access network device processes buffered packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) data, so that when a forwarding tunnel is a tunnel of a session granularity or a group granularity, the target access network device accurately forwards data in the handover process. The method includes: encapsulating, by a source access network device, indication information in an encapsulation header of PDCP data, where the indication information is used to indicate a radio bearer used for sending the PDCP data by a target access network device; and sending, by the source access network device to the target access network device, the PDCP data in which the indication information is encapsulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongcui Li, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 11362767
    Abstract: A receiver includes an antenna, a transceiver coupled to the antenna, a decoder and a processor. The transceiver receives from a transmitter of a wireless communication network a data block. The data block includes encoded data transmitted on a plurality of resources allocated to the receiver. The decoder decodes the encoded data and determines for the allocated resources whether decoding of the encoded data was successful or failed. The processor evaluates whether one or more of the resources for which the decoding failed are included in a report, the report indicating for one or more of the allocated resources that encoded data transmitted on the one or more allocated resources is not decodable or is likely to be not decodable, and causes the transceiver to send a retransmission request to the transmitter responsive to the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Robin Thomas, Thomas Wirth
  • Patent number: 11356166
    Abstract: A beam failure caused by an event initiated by the UE such as folding of the UE or shutting down of a UE antenna penal may be predictable. Accordingly, the UE may declare a beam failure detection (BFD) without going through a potentially long detection procedure. Disclosed herein are apparatus and methods for detecting beam failure and terminating BFD earlier than the current DFD process would have. The method may include identifying a beam failure (BF) event at the UE that impacts at least one beam pair link (BPL) and communicating a request to an associated base station to stop communicating on an impacted beam pair link, without going through an entire BFD process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Vasanthan Raghavan, Jung Ho Ryu, Kiran Venugopal, Juergen Cezanne, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11343689
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the connection between a first node and a second node of a communication network, includes selecting a session established between the first node and the second node, the selected session becoming a monitoring session, monitoring the connection between the first node and the second node via the monitoring session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS DS SLC
    Inventors: Olivier Paterour, Pascal Laffitte
  • Patent number: 11343205
    Abstract: An ultra-high speed electronic communications device includes: a network communications interface; a memory; and one or more processing units, communicatively coupled to the memory and the network communications interface, wherein the memory stores instructions configured to cause the one or more processing units to: receive a data packet using the network communications interface; determine a classification of the data packet based, at least in part, on a plurality of factors, wherein the plurality of factors comprises a rate at which the data packet was received and a time at which the data packet was received; select, based at least in part, on the classification, an operation from a plurality of operations, wherein the plurality of operations comprises a cut-through operation and a store-and-forward operation; and perform the selected operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Anton Leyrer, William Cronin Wallace, Pratheesh Gangadhar Thalakkal Kottilaveedu
  • Patent number: 11330394
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an early warning method and an early warning device based on WIFI signal strength disturbance, and a storage medium. The early warning method includes receiving and analyzing WIFI signals in a monitoring area in real time to obtain amplitude and phase of a current WIFI signal in the monitoring area; determining whether the amplitude and the phase of the current WIFI signal are disturbed according to a difference between the amplitude and the phase of the current WIFI signal and those of a previous WIFI signal; and sending out an early warning signal when it is determined that the amplitude and the phase of the current WIFI signal are disturbed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiajia Sun
  • Patent number: 11323920
    Abstract: A handover method, including sending, by a source base station to a source core network device in a process of handing user equipment (UE) over from the source base station to a target base station, a handover required message. The message comprises identification information of a target core network device, and the identification information of the target core network device instructs the source core network device to perform a core network relocation process with the target core network device. The source base station is connected to the source core network device, and the target base station is connected to both the source core network device and the target core network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoli Shi, Mingzeng Dai, Hongzhuo Zhang, Qinghai Zeng, Rui Wang, Yi Guo, Lei Liu
  • Patent number: 11316561
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for signal processing and wireless communication are described. For example, a device may include a plurality of antennas operable to transmit and receive communication packets via a plurality of communication protocols and an integrated circuit chip coupled to the plurality of antennas. The integrated circuit chip may comprise a first and a second plurality of processing elements. The first plurality of processing elements may be operable to receive communication packets via a first one of a plurality of communication protocols and process an optimal route. The second plurality of processing elements may be communicatively coupled to the first plurality of processing elements and operable to determine the optimal route to transmit the communication packets from a source device to a destination device based, at least in part, on transmission characteristics associated with at least one of the source or destination devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy Chritz
  • Patent number: 11290236
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to reference signal transmission and receiving in a wireless communication system A common reference signal sequence is generated based on a frequency range configuration at network side, the common reference signal sequence being shared by at least some of terminal devices respectively allocated with their own reference signal transmission configurations. The common reference signal sequence and sequence configuration information is transmitted to a terminal device, the sequence configuration information indicating a parameter by which a reference signal sequence transmitted for the terminal device can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11290295
    Abstract: Techniques for bridging communication between multiple networks to facilitate distribution of multicast data are described herein. For example, a node that is able to communicate with its network and an adjacent network may send a subscription message indicating that the node is a member of a multicast group. The subscription message may be forwarded up both networks. The node may then forward, between the networks, data that is destined for members of the multicast group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Itron, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Bartier, James Laurence Taylor, Viet-Hung Nguyen, Hartman Van Wyk
  • Patent number: 11284457
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for managing packet data network (PDN) connectivity for a device. A device may receive one or more parameters specifying whether PDN connectivity to a local gateway is allowed for the device at one or more access points. The one or more parameters can be specific for the device and/or for one or more access point names. The device can determine whether to initiate a PDN connection to the local gateway from at least one of the one or more access points based at least in part on the one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin Bernard Horn, Miguel Griot, Ramachandran Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11283563
    Abstract: A method of power saving for a wireless transceiver (FIGS. 1 and 2) is disclosed. The transceiver has an active power mode (504) and a reduced power mode (510). The transceiver is operated in the reduced power mode (510) and monitors transmissions from a remote wireless transmitter while in the reduced power mode. The transceiver identifies a transmission from the remote wireless transmitter by a transceiver identity included in the transmission (FIG. 6, UE identification). The transceiver transitions to the active power mode (512) in response to identifying the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Mark Schmidl, Eko Nugroho Onggosanusi, Anand Ganesh Dabak, Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11284296
    Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present application are a method of supporting data replication, transmitting terminal device and receiving terminal device capable of realizing reliable transmission of replicated data in a vehicle-to-everything system. The method comprises: a transmitting terminal device transmitting a plurality of radio link control protocol data units (RLC PDUs) to a receiving terminal device, an RLC header of at least one RLC PDU in the plurality of RLC PDUs comprising an indication field for indicating a radio bearer corresponding to a current RLC PDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11272392
    Abstract: A buffer status report processing method and an apparatus are disclosed. A network device determines a logical channel or a logical channel group for which a separate buffer status report BSR needs to be reported, and sends separate-BSR reporting indication information. A terminal device receives the separate-BSR reporting indication information sent by the network device, and reports the separate BSR for the logical channel or the logical channel group indicated in the separate-BSR reporting indication information. The network device receives the separate BSR reported by the terminal device, and determines, based on the separate BSR, uplink buffer data amount information corresponding to the logical channel or the logical channel group. According to the BSR processing method, resource scheduling accuracy of the network device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Yu, Haifeng Yu, Xin Xiong, Guangwei Yu
  • Patent number: 11265900
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for the utilization of multiple partial bands used in the transmission of one or more channel state information (CSI) reference signals (CSI-RSs). The partial bands may be non-consecutive in the frequency domain, time domain, or a combination thereof and each of which may be precoder using a different precoder configuration. The time intervals, cycling granularity, and number of ports may vary between partial bands. Using RSs transmitted via the multiple partial bands, a user equipment (UE) may determine a channel state parameter for each partial band, which may be used for channel feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chenxi Hao, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11265889
    Abstract: A method of scheduling user equipment, a multiple antenna network node and computer program are disclosed. The method comprises: estimating at least one access network node channel within the unlicensed band between at least one access node operable to transmit in the unlicensed band, such as a WiFi Access Point, and the multiple antenna network node. Estimating a plurality of user equipment channels within the unlicensed band between a plurality of user equipment and the multiple antenna network node. Determining a degree of channel correlation of each of the plurality of user equipment channels and the at least one access node channel. Selecting at least one of the multiple user equipment to be scheduled, using the degree of channel correlation as a selection parameter, a lower degree of channel correlation increasing a user equipment's chance of being selected. In this manner the interference that LTE transmissions from and to scheduled UEs create on the at least one access node is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Giovanni Geraci, Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Adrian Garcia Rodriguez, David Lopez Perez
  • Patent number: 11258698
    Abstract: A multicast forwarding method applied to a BIER multicast network includes establishing, by a head node device, a first tunnel; generating a first entry; obtaining bit string information of a first multicast stream, where the bit string information includes an identifier of a tail node device that the first multicast stream is expected to reach; determining whether first bit string map information includes the identifier, in the bit string information, of the tail node device that the first multicast stream is expected to reach; and forwarding, by the head node device, the first multicast stream to a first intermediate node device through the first tunnel when the head node device determines that the first bit string map information includes the identifier in the bit string information, of the tail node device that the first multicast stream is expected to reach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jingrong Xie
  • Patent number: 11252702
    Abstract: A method for sending uplink control information, a method for receiving uplink control information, and a device are provided. The method for sending uplink control information includes: obtaining, by user equipment, uplink control information; and mapping, by the user equipment, the uplink control information to at least two transmission time units, to send the uplink control information to a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Tang, Zhongfeng Li