Patents Examined by Phuc Tran
  • Patent number: 9838163
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for performing an HARQ process by a first D2D terminal in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for the same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving data from a second D2D terminal; transmitting an HARQ response for the data to the second D2D terminal; and when the HARQ response is NACK, receiving a retransmission signal for the data from a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 9820109
    Abstract: A mobile communication method is a method for distributing MBMS data to a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system including a general cell supporting a broadcasting of the MBMS data and a specific cell not supporting the broadcasting of the MBMS data, comprising: a step A of determining whether or not to continue a reception of the MBMS data in the general cell, based on at least one of an operation state of the general specific cell and a state of service with which the mobile terminal is provided by the general cell, when the mobile terminal receives, in a connected state, the MBMS data broadcasted from the general cell in a connected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Chang, Noriyoshi Fukuta
  • Patent number: 9813280
    Abstract: A likelihood generation apparatus for acquiring a likelihood of a 16QAM signal includes a first likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of two bits of a 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal from a relationship of each of an I-axis component and a Q-axis component with a likelihood when the 16QAM signal point is mapped on a constellation diagram, and a second likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of remaining two bits other than the two bits of the 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal based on a position of the 16QAM signal point in a lookup table, which is configured to input the I-axis component and the Q-axis component of the 16QAM signal point as arguments, and includes regions acquired by dividing the constellation diagram based on a possible value of each of the bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Konishi, Kenya Sugihara, Yoshikuni Miyata, Hideo Yoshida, Kazuo Kubo
  • Patent number: 9814061
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data scheduling method and a data scheduling device, which is configured to: receive channel quality information sent by a first terminal; calculate a current instantaneous scheduling rate of the first terminal on a first component carrier by using the channel quality information; acquire an average scheduling rate of the first terminal on the first component carrier; calculate a scheduling priority of the first terminal on the first component carrier by using the instantaneous scheduling rate and the average scheduling rate; and allocate a physical resource of the first component carrier to the first terminal. In this way, a multi-carrier terminal is enabled to obtain a stable high rate, differentiation between terminals is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Ren, Minxi Fang
  • Patent number: 9814031
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting downlink control information, a network side device, and a user equipment. The method includes: selecting, by a network side device, a aggregation level of a physical control channel set in a transmission subframe, and selecting the number of physical control channel candidates corresponding to the aggregation level according to the aggregation level; and sending, by the network side, downlink control information on a physical control channel candidate corresponding to the selected number. The times that blind detection is performed corresponding to the aggregation level corresponds to the number of physical control channel candidates, and therefore, when the number of physical control channel candidates is determined, the times that blind detection is performed is determined, so that the network side device and the user equipment can communicate with each other without increasing the times that blind detection is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanjie Li, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 9807767
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for signaling tone allocations in OFDMA communication are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes determining a tone allocation which divides a plurality of tones between a plurality of wireless communication devices, the tone allocation including at least one of determining a plurality of subbands, each subband comprising an exclusive contiguous subset of the plurality of tones, at least one subband of the plurality of subbands assigned to two or more devices of the plurality of wireless communication and assigning a tone group size to each wireless communication device of the plurality of wireless communication devices, wherein the tone group size indicates a number of contiguous tones that the wireless communication device is allocated, wherein at least one tone group size is larger than one. The method also includes transmitting the tone allocation to each of the plurality of wireless communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jialing Li Chen, Lin Yang, Sameer Vermani, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 9806905
    Abstract: A local gateway and router device is configured to route uplink IP packets from a base station to a network element of a wireless local area network (WLAN) by configuring an IP route for the uplink IP packets based on a source IP address of the uplink IP packets. The source IP address is obtained from the WLAN; the uplink IP packets originate from a user equipment application having the source IP address; and the uplink IP packets have an indicator indicating that the uplink IP packets were received at the base station over a cellular link between the user equipment and the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Satish Kanugovi, Subramanian Vasudevan, Michael Scharf
  • Patent number: 9794082
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communication interfacing unit and a processor. The processor operable to perform operations includes controlling the communication interfacing unit to transmit a first signal to a network controller according to a user-inputted command; logging first MBSFN measurement results in a first period; and controlling the communication interfacing unit to transmit the logged first MBSFN measurement results to the network controller, so that the network controller adjusts at least one parameter of a network corresponding to a MBSFN transmission of a MBMS signal according to the logged first MBSFN measurement results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 9794046
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) in a wireless access system supporting a multi-connection mode for a terminal to be connected to at least two small cells, and an apparatus therefor. In a wireless access system supporting a multi-connection mode, a method for enabling a terminal to transmit a confirmation response signal (ACK/NACK) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: receiving an upper layer signal containing resource allotment information representing an allotted resource region in order to transmit a confirmation response signal; receiving a first physical downlink sharing channel (PDSCH) signal from a first small cell; receiving a second PDSCH signal from a second small cell; and transmitting a single confirmation response signal for the first PDSCH signal and the second PDSCH signal through the resource region represented by the resource allotment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bonghoe Kim, Dongyoun Seo, Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 9781730
    Abstract: In a broadband wireless communication system, a primary control signal may be relocated within the operation band for transmission while avoiding interference. For example, if the primary control signal employs P contiguous subcarriers, the primary control signal can be placed in any section of the band that has P contiguous subcarriers. If a narrow-band interferer appears at one end of the band, the primary control signals can be placed at the other end. If the interferer appears in the middle, the primary can be relocated to either end of the band. The placement of primary control signals can be changed as the interference environment changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Neocific, Inc.
    Inventors: Titus Lo, Xiaodong Li
  • Patent number: 9774540
    Abstract: A hypervisor executed by a processing device retrieves a plurality of packets from a network device and forwards the packets to one or more virtual machines. The hypervisor determines a number of the plurality of packets successfully received by the one or more virtual machines, and when a function of the number is below a first threshold, decreases a priority for the network device associated with handling incoming packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael Tsirkin
  • Patent number: 9769746
    Abstract: Disclosed are operation method of station in wireless local area network. An operation method comprises setting transmission power of a frame; setting a clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold based on a difference between the set transmission power and a default value of the transmission power; and performing a CCA operation based on the set CCA threshold. Therefore, performance of WLAN can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, INC.
    Inventors: Hyoung Jin Kwon, Min Ho Cheong, Hee Jung Yu
  • Patent number: 9763239
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data transmission method for a half-duplex device in a wireless communication system. The half-duplex device transmits first uplink data to a base station in an n-th subframe. The half-duplex device determines whether to receive downlink data which is a response to the first uplink data from the base station in an (n+r)-th (where r>1) subframe or to transmit second uplink data to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yun Jung Yi, Joon Kui Ahn, Dong Youn Seo
  • Patent number: 9756616
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting and receiving an uplink sounding reference signal, and a terminal for same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Min Seok Noh
  • Patent number: 9755972
    Abstract: A system and method for protocol independent receive side scaling (RSS) includes storing a plurality of RSS hash M-tuple definitions, each definition corresponding to one of a set of possible protocol header combinations for routing an incoming packet, the set of possible protocol header combinations being modifiable to include later-developed protocols. Based on initial bytes of the incoming packet, a pattern of protocol headers is detected, and used to select one of the plurality of RSS hash M-tuple definitions. The selected RSS hash M-tuple definition is applied as a protocol-independent arbitrary set of bits to the headers of the incoming packet to form a RSS hash M-tuple vector, which is used to compute a RSS hash. Based on the RSS hash, a particular queue is selected from a set of destination queues identified for the packet, and the packet is delivered to the selected particular queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhong Mao, Richard Lee Sites
  • Patent number: 9743459
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for optimizing long term evolution (LTE) connected discontinuous reception (CDRX) for single radio hybrid tune away devices. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes entering a DRX mode wherein the UE alternates between an activity period and an inactivity period while connected to a first radio access technology (RAT) network, tuning away from the first RAT network for a tune away period to monitor signals in a second RAT network, determining when an inactivity timer for the DRX mode expires or will expire, and adjusting a value of the inactivity timer based, at least in part, on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chintan Shirish Shah, Prasad Kadiri, Deepak Krishnamoorthi, Nirmal Shekar, Neelakanta Venkata Seshachalam Chimmapudi
  • Patent number: 9735932
    Abstract: A precoding scheme to accommodate user equipment (UEs) having higher Doppler speeds. In such transmission schemes, a different precoding matrix is applied to each orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) symbol in the transmission stream. Additionally, a downlink control message format is defined to handle assignment of multiple different transmission schemes using the same message format. The downlink control message format includes a control element in one of the message fields along with a set of parameters specifically applicable to the assigned transmission scheme. Based on the value of this control element, the UE sets the specific transmission scheme and determines a set of interpretation rules uniquely associated with that transmission scheme. Using the interpretation rules, the UE is able to read the set of parameters as applied to the selected transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiliang Luo, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Tao Luo, Kapil Bhattad
  • Patent number: 9729498
    Abstract: A network device within a data communication network includes a plurality of network interfaces, each programmed with a respective set of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) routing entries for correlating network addresses with physical addresses. Each network interface is further programmed with an additional respective set of Longest Prefix Match (LPM) routing entries for correlating other network addresses with designated network interfaces to enable traffic matching one of the LPM routing entries to be forwarded to the appropriate designated network interface within the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Gregory G. Page, Sahil P. Dighe, Edgard Vargas
  • Patent number: 9730094
    Abstract: A method of interference management for a wireless device in a wireless communication system may comprise monitoring a packet error metric associated with transmissions over a communication channel of the wireless communication system, modifying a packet size attribute associated with MPDUs processed at the wireless device, identifying a bursty interference condition on the communication channel based on a change in the packet error metric in response to the modified packet size attribute, and generating a bursty interference indicator based on the identification of the bursty interference condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Kairouz, Ahmed Kamel Sadek, Kambiz Azarian Yazdi, Nachiappan Valliappan
  • Patent number: 9730169
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for reporting a Power Headroom (PH) of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system having a plurality of aggregated uplink carriers. A method includes receiving a configuration message to configure at least one uplink carrier; triggering a power headroom report (PHR) for a first uplink carrier if a predetermined event occurs; detecting an allocation of an uplink transmission resource for the PHR; identifying whether the first uplink carrier for which a power headroom (PH) is to be determined is different from a second carrier to which the uplink transmission resource is allocated; determining the PH based on a first pathloss associated with the first uplink carrier, if the first uplink carrier is different from the second carrier; and transmitting the PHR generated based the determined PH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Soeng-Hun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout, Kyeong-In Jeong