Patents Examined by Phirin Sam
  • Patent number: 11664912
    Abstract: A method for delivering data in a digital transmitter including generating service layer signaling (SLS) information comprising information for discovery and acquisition of at least one content component: generating service list table (SLT) information including bootstrap information for acquiring the SLS information; encapsulating the at least one content component, the SLS information and the SLT information via UDP/IP; and transmitting a broadcast signal comprising the at least one content component, the SLS information and the SLT information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsung Kwak, Seungryul Yang, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 11659523
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to bandwidth part (BWP) switching after data communication are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station (BS) in a first bandwidth part (BWP), one or more data bursts and BWP switching information. The UE switches from the first BWP to a second BWP based on the BWP switching information after receiving the one or more data bursts. The UE communicates, with the BS, a communication in the second BWP after the switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pravjyot Singh Deogun, Kapil Bhattad, Jing Sun, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Ahmed Zaki, Gowrisankar Somichetty
  • Patent number: 11652580
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting downlink control information in a wireless communication system configured with a plurality of serving cells. The method generates downlink control information scheduling frequency division duplex (FDD) cells by means of FDD frames (DCI_FDD) and downlink control information scheduling time division duplex (TDD) cells by means of TDD frames (DCI_TDD), and transmits the DCI_FDD and the DCI_TDD, wherein parts of the fields of DCI_FDD and DCI_TDD are generated to have equal bit sizes, and if the FDD or TDD cell is used exclusively, then said parts of the fields in the FDD and TDD cells have mutually different bit sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongyoun Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11653301
    Abstract: Various solutions for wake-up signal and preamble design for mobile communications are described. An apparatus, while in a first mode of operation, receives a wake-up signal (WUS) from a network. In response to receiving the WUS, the apparatus switches to a second mode of operation from the first mode of operation. The apparatus then detects a preamble in downlink (DL) transmissions from the network. In response to detecting the preamble, the apparatus monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to check for an uplink (UL) transmission grant for the apparatus from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventors: Chun-Hsuan Kuo, Jiann-Ching Guey, Chiou-Wei Tsai, Chien-Chang Li, Cheng Rung Tsai
  • Patent number: 11653216
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may configure a system bandwidth of shared spectrum partitioned into a plurality of bandwidth parts based on interference associated with each of the plurality of bandwidth parts. The base station may then transmit the configuration of the system bandwidth to a plurality of devices. A UE may receive, from a base station, a configuration of a system bandwidth of shared spectrum. The system bandwidth may be partitioned into a plurality of bandwidth parts based on interference associated with each of the plurality of bandwidth parts. The UE may then communicate with the base station on at least one of the bandwidth parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Rahul Malik, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11646768
    Abstract: A method for downlink transmission in a cloud radio access network for a number of users is applied in a central unit. The central unit determines a specific number of remote radio heads (RRHs) as non-serving RRHs based on a predetermined data compression ratio. For each of many pieces of user equipment (UEs), the central unit determines a combination of RRHs which are non-serving in coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) from a plurality of RRHs based on the determined specific number, and then performs CoMP downlink transmission based on the combination of RRHs which are non-serving in the CoMP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HON LIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tzu-Yu Lin, Shang-Ho Tsai, Yu-Heng You, Hsin-Hung Chou, Wei-Han Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11646851
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, for an occasion of a resource of a physical channel, a collision of a first channel state information (CSI) report associated with a first target time period and a second CSI report a second target time period; prioritize one of the first CSI report or the second CSI report based at least in part on one or more prioritization criteria; and transmit the one of the first CSI report or the second CSI report based at least in part on prioritizing the one of the first CSI report or the second CSI report. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Patent number: 11632322
    Abstract: A method implemented by a network element (NE) in a network, comprising receiving, by the NE, preferred path route (PPR) information describing a PPR graph, the PPR graph representing a plurality of PPRs between an ingress NE and an egress NE in the network, and updating, by the NE, a forwarding database to include a forwarding entry for the egress NE in response to identifying the NE in the plurality of PPR-PDEs, the forwarding entry indicating a next hop by which to forward a data packet comprising the PPR-ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toerless Eckert, Uma S. Chunduri, Yingzhen Qu
  • Patent number: 11626906
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of first frames which are transmitted by multiplexing; and a transmitter configured to transmit a second frame containing check results indicating whether the plurality of first frames are successfully received and first information specifying at least one wireless communication device. The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of third frames transmitted by multiplexing in response to the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: International Semiconductor Group
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabetani, Ryoko Matsuo, Tomoko Adachi, Tsuguhide Aoki
  • Patent number: 11627084
    Abstract: The method includes: generating, by a first device, a first packet including a BIER header, where the BIER header includes entropy, and the entropy includes a first part and a second part; determining, by the first device based on the first packet, that there are a plurality of forwarding entries used to forward the first packet; selecting, by the first device, one forwarding entry from the plurality of forwarding entries based on the first part, where the selected forwarding entry includes an address of a second device, and the second device is a next-hop device of the first device; and sending, by the first device, the first packet to the second device, where the second part is used by the second device to select, from a plurality of forwarding entries used to forward the first packet, a forwarding entry used by the second device to forward the first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingrong Xie, Yang Xia, Gang Yan, Shunwan Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11615173
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing requests to implement account related actions based on biometric data are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a system includes a first computing device comprising a user account manager configured to manage an account of a user. The user account manager is also configured to receive a request to implement an action associated with the account. Further, the user account manager is configured to receive, from a second computing device of the user, biometric data associated with the user. The user account manager is also configured to manage the request to implement the action based on the received biometric data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Gary Cudak, Nathan Peterson, John Petersen, Heather Cudak
  • Patent number: 11606172
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for data acknowledgment. One apparatus includes a processor that determines a duration for a downlink (“DL”) burst. The apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits the DL burst having the duration, and signaling indicating a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (“HARQ-ACK”) codebook size for transmission of HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the DL burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)
    Inventor: Haipeng Lei
  • Patent number: 11601965
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for determining when to apply beam updates. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving signaling indicating a beam update, determining an application time of the beam update occurs between a downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a transmission and the scheduled transmission, and deciding whether to apply the beam update to the scheduled transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11600128
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for casting a vote in an electronic balloting system. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, authenticating a voter from whom a request for casting a vote is received, when the voter is successfully authenticated, generating an electronic ballot based on voting information, gathering data about an electronic vote of the voter, the electronic vote representing a choice of the voter on the electronic ballot, generating and sending at least one request to the voter, the request being generated for confirmation of a validity of the gathered data on the electronic vote, generating a hardcopy of the ballot filled out by the voter and placing the generated hardcopy in a centralized repository, and counting the vote, when the hardcopy of the ballot is successfully generated and an affirmative response is received from the voter in response to the at least one request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: AO Kaspersky Lab
    Inventors: Alexandra M. Nikolina, Alexander S. Korunov, Alexander V. Sazonov, Ochir V. Abushinov, Zoya S. Sergeeva
  • Patent number: 11595313
    Abstract: Rate limiting systems and methods for regulating access to a shared network resource in a computing device accessed through an application programming interface. A rate limit associated with a shared network resource is assigned to a user for a time period. During the time period, access to the shared network resource is granted or denied repeatedly based upon the rate limit; a cost is calculated using a cost function; and, the rate limit is updated based upon the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Rapid7, Inc.
    Inventor: Chris Mowforth
  • Patent number: 11588600
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select an antenna for transmitting a New Radio sounding reference signal (SRS) such that antenna resource conflicts with receiving an LTE cell-specific reference signal are minimized based at least in part on an antenna resource configuration. The UE may transmit the SRS on the selected antenna. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Akash Kumar
  • Patent number: 11581927
    Abstract: In wireless communications for multi-users, a station may receive a trigger frame including a transmitter address field. When the trigger frame is a multi-user request-to-send (MU-RTS) frame eliciting clear-to-send (CTS) frames from a plurality of stations, the station transmit a CTS frame including a first receiver address field in response to the trigger frame. The first receiver address field may be set equal to the transmitter address field. When the trigger frame elicits data frames from a plurality of stations, the station transmit a data frame including a second receiver address field in response to the trigger frame. The second receiver address field may be set to a destination address. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Atlas Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 11580879
    Abstract: An algorithm and method to provide personal recommendations for nutrition based on preferences, habits, medical and activity profiles for users, and constraints. The algorithm can also be fed and takes into account real-time feedback from the user. The method allows creating a personal nutritional schedule based on a set of constraints, which are solved using an optimization algorithm to find the diet best fitting each user. The method also includes analyzing a single user by applying various statistical techniques, enabling the algorithm to infer the user's preferences and updating of the constraints, analyzing and clustering of the general user population based on statistical principles, giving the algorithm insightful information and allowing improved performance by means of “machine-learning,” and creating a list of recommended food items/recipes to help users live a balanced, healthier lifestyle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Yaron Hadad, Jonathan Lipnik, Ido Cohn
  • Patent number: 11575453
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for providing reference signal received power (RSRP) are disclosed herein. A signal is received in a modem. Signal elements at reference signal (RS) locations are extracted from the received signal. The signal elements at the RS locations are descrambled. Virtual reference signal (VRS) elements are formed using the descrambled signal elements. The VRS elements have smaller noise variances than original RS elements in corresponding locations of the received signal. The RSRP is estimated from the VRS elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Abdulrahman Baknina, Hyuk Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11565924
    Abstract: A system for a pallet truck load wheel mechanism comprises a logic device and first and second sensor arrangements. The first and second sensor arrangements include first and second sensing fields that define first and second edges of an operability window, respectively. The logic device has an operable state indicating that the load wheel mechanism can raise a pallet lifting device and an inoperable state indicating that the load wheel mechanism should not raise the pallet lifting device. The logic device is initialized in the operable state and is configured to change to the inoperable state in response to each time the first sensor arrangement detects an edge of a board intersecting, the first edge of the operability window and to change to the operable state in response to each time the second sensor arrangement detects an edge of a board intersecting the second edge of the operability window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hyster-Yale Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Darrell Long