Patents Examined by Prenell P Jones
  • Patent number: 11140604
    Abstract: A system that determines a cell density and cell type in an area corresponding to a location of a user equipment; determines a mobility state of the user equipment based on the determined cell density and the determined cell type; and controls cell reselection for the user equipment based on the determined mobility state of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xu, Cuibo Yu, Yateng Hong, Ya Liu, Cong Zheng, Liyao Wei, Xiaojia Song, Zhongbin Qin
  • Patent number: 11140685
    Abstract: Provided are a communication method, a network device and a User Equipment (UE), which can improve communication performance. The method includes that: a UE generates processing time information, the processing time information indicating a UE processing time supported by the UE; and the UE transmits the processing time information to a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11115936
    Abstract: Methods and corresponding systems for determining a transmit power in a mobile device include receiving, in the mobile device, a cell-wide power control parameter related to a target receive power at a serving base station. Thereafter, a transmit power is calculated in response to the cell-wide power control parameter and an implicit mobile-specific power control parameter. The mobile device then transmits using the transmit power. The cell-wide power control parameter can be a cell target signal to interference-plus-noise ratio, or a fractional power control exponent. The implicit mobile-specific power control parameter can be a modulation and coding level previously used by the mobile device, or a downlink SINR level measured by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, James McCoy
  • Patent number: 11115804
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to smart contract technology. In one example of the technology, responsive to a smart contract subscription request from a requestor to a first smart contract, a registry entry is added to a first smart contract registry such that the added registry entry includes requestor information associated with the requestor, and subscription information associated with at least one exposed interface of the first smart contract. Responsive to a change occurring that is associated with at least one exposed interface of the first smart contract, based on the registry, any subscribers to the first smart contract that have a subscription to which the change pertains are determined. Responsive to determining subscribers to the first smart contract that have a subscription to which the change pertains, the determined subscribers are caused to be notified of the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Marc Edward Mercuri
  • Patent number: 11108507
    Abstract: Provided herein are a method of transmitting a Sidelink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (SL HARQ) feedback by a first device and a device supporting the same. The method may include the steps of receiving a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) from a second device, and transmitting a SL HARQ feedback related to the PSSCH to the second device, wherein a resource in which the SL HARQ feedback is transmitted is determined based on an identifier (ID) of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11089508
    Abstract: A BM-SC, and a method therein for transmitting data file by broadcast session to at least one UE, in a radio communication system; and a UE and a method therein for receiving a broadcast session of transmission of a data file from a BM-SC are provided. The method in the BM-SC comprises determining to transmit the data file to the at least one UE, and determining a FEC redundancy level to use for the transmission. The method also comprises transmitting, to the at least one UE, the data file using the determined FEC redundancy level and an indication of the determined FEC redundancy level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Kun Chen, Jie Ling, Shiyuan Xiao, Jinyang Xie
  • Patent number: 11089545
    Abstract: Present disclosure describes a method for low power communication between smart devices, including data transmission and control. The method for communicating with a smart device, includes following steps: waking up from a sleep mode periodically; performing an incoming transmission signal detection at a first frequency after waking up from the sleep mode; determining if an incoming transmission signal is detected; determining if at least part of a wake message is received, based on the determination that the incoming transmission signal is detected; determining if the at least part of the wake message is associated with the device, based on the determination that the at least part of the wake message is received; and switching to a second frequency for communication, based on the determination that the at least part of the wake message is associated with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventors: Manxiang Xu, Weilong Zuo, Duojian Wu
  • Patent number: 11082105
    Abstract: In order to provide a more robust RLM procedure for 5G/NR, a base station may provide a dynamic relationship between a PDCCH and another reference signal (e.g., SS/CSI-RS) to a UE. For example, an apparatus may receive an adjustment parameter regarding a PDCCH from a base station. The adjustment parameter may comprise a relationship between the PDCCH and the at least one of the SS or the CSI-RS for deriving a radio link quality of a hypothetical PDCCH. The apparatus may receive an SS/CSI-RS that is QCL with the PDCCH and perform a radio link measurement based on the received at least one of the SS or the CSI-RS using the adjustment parameter regarding the PDCCH. Among other relationships/offsets, the adjustment parameter may indicate a TPR difference, a beamforming gain difference, a beam width difference, a beam orientation difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Heechoon Lee, Xiaoxia Zhang, Xiao feng Wang
  • Patent number: 11076419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system. The present invention may provide a method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a terminal, an urgent signal indicating the occurrence of an event related to an urgent situation; and transmitting, to at least one terminal included in a cell, a response signal for notifying the at least one terminal of the occurrence of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunjong Lee, Heejeong Cho, Genebeck Hahn, Ilmu Byun
  • Patent number: 11070387
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for recording a central control unit (U) belonging to a home-automation facility (17); the method being executed by a user terminal (T) and comprising the following steps: establishing (ELRT2) a connection between the user terminal (T) and at least one central control unit (U); creating (ELRT3) a facility identifier (StID); sending (ELRT4) a discovery message (MD); receiving (ELRT5, ELRT8) at least one signalling message (MLRSU) transmitted by at least one central control unit (U, U1, U2) for the facility (17) linked with a unique identifier (UID) of said central control unit (U, U1, U2), recording (ELRT6, ELRT9) an attachment of the at least one identifier (UID) of the at least one central control unit (U, U1, U2) to the identifier of the facility (StID).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY SAS
    Inventors: Hubert Cosserat, Florent Michel
  • Patent number: 11044186
    Abstract: Technologies for link capability estimation are disclosed. A compute device may determine a maximum radio bitrate for a certain connection, such as an LTE connection to a specific cell antenna. The compute device may also determine a maximum downlink bitrate for that connection, and store both the maximum radio bitrate and the maximum downlink bitrate in a database on the compute device. At a later time, an application of the compute device may want to know an estimate of the current maximum downlink bitrate, such as for the purpose of selecting a bitrate in streaming a video. The compute device can determine the current maximum radio bitrate, and look for similar entries in the database. Based on entries in the database, a link capability estimation can be determined and provided to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Perraud, Edward Marmounier
  • Patent number: 11032805
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention relates to a method for receiving control information in a wireless communication system and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a PDCCH signal including uplink scheduling information; transmitting a PUSCH signal by using the uplink scheduling information; and receiving a PHICH signal including acknowledgement information on the PUSCH signal, wherein an RS for the PUSCH signal exists only in one slot per RB pair within an RB set in which the PUSCH signal is transmitted, and a resource for receiving the PHICH signal is determined by using an index of the slot in which the RS exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn, Bonghoe Kim
  • Patent number: 11032770
    Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may provide a wake-up-radio (WUR) discovery frame for a recipient electronic device, where the WUR discovery frame includes an operating class of a wireless local area network (WLAN) associated with the electronic device. The operating class may specify a regulatory domain and a channel set of the WLAN. Moreover, the WUR discovery frame may include an index of a channel in the channel set. Furthermore, the WUR discovery frame may include a compressed or a partial identifier associated with the electronic device or the WLAN. The amount of compression may be based at least in part on a communication environment of the electronic device, such as a number of electronic devices, or a number of neighboring WLANs. Thus, the WUR discovery frame may have a variable size or length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Veerendra Boodannavar, Zheng Zeng, Yong Liu, Christiaan A. Hartman, Jarkko L. Kneckt
  • Patent number: 11019587
    Abstract: An information indication method and apparatus, information detection method and apparatus and communication system. The information indication apparatus includes: a first transmitting unit configured to transmit first indication information to UE indicating a position of a synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block (SS/PBCH block) in a signal transmission period (an SS burst set); wherein, the first indication information includes at least two parts of information. Hence, the position of the synchronization signal in the signal transmission period by at least two parts information, so that frame timing at the UE side is supported, and currently existed problems are solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Qinyan Jiang, Hua Zhou, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 11012915
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless systems, a base station centralized unit (CU) may communicate with a user equipment (UE) through a multi-hop backhaul architecture. This multi-hop backhaul connection may include a donor base station and any number of relay base stations connected via backhaul links. In some cases, the relay base stations or the UE may experience data congestion in a logical channel-specific buffer. The relay base stations or UE may implement backpressure signaling (e.g., in the medium access control (MAC) layer) to mitigate the congestion. A wireless device operating as a mobile termination (MT) endpoint may transmit a backpressure report message to a wireless device operating as a base station distributed unit (DU) endpoint for the logical channel. The base station DU may adjust a scheduling rate for data unit transmissions over the indicated logical channel based on the backpressure report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li, Hong Cheng, Navid Abedini, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Jianghong Luo
  • Patent number: 11012986
    Abstract: Method performed by a first communication device (101) for sending downlink information to a second communication device (102). The first communication device (101) and the second communication device (102) operate in a communications network (100). The first communication device (101) determines (702) whether or not one or more third communication devices (103) operating in the communications network (100) are sending uplink information on an adjacent carrier (142). The adjacent carrier (142) is adjacent to a carrier (141) assigned to the first communication device (101) for sending the downlink information to the second communication device (102). The first communication device (101) sends (703) the downlink information to the second communication device (102) on the carrier (141) when it has determined that the one or more third communication devices (103) are not sending uplink information on the adjacent carrier (142) to the carrier (141).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Sairamesh Nammi, Dominque Everaere, Christian Hoymann
  • Patent number: 11006295
    Abstract: A Core Service Platform (CSP) system is integrated with an operator network and IT system to provide services to subscribers and operators. Based on information collected from the operator network and IT system, the CSP system delivers alerts to a subscriber's device and provides offers to resolve the condition causing the alerts. The CSP system provides customized contextual offers to the subscriber's device based on contextual assessments of a subscriber's current context, such as time in contract, loyalty status, data and voice usage, value of customer, time, location and purchase history. The CSP system also provides an operator a suite of tools for the operator to manage its pricing, offers, campaigns and other subscriber-related issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jahangir Mohammed, Amit Gupta, Daniel Gerard Collins, Gautam M. Shah, Scott Barkley, Jack McGwire
  • Patent number: 11006468
    Abstract: One example relay implementation method includes setting up a first bearer to a second terminal, where the first terminal serves as a relay device between the second terminal and a base station, receiving, by using the first bearer, a service request message, forwarding the service request message to the base station, receiving a first service response message sent by the base station, forwarding the first service response message to the second terminal by using the first bearer, where the first service response message comprises first configuration information, and the first configuration information is configuration information of bearers between the base station and the second terminal, and setting up a second bearer to the second terminal and a third bearer to the base station according to fourth configuration information, where the second bearer and the third bearer serve as the bearers between the second terminal and the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiangdong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10999828
    Abstract: A wireless communications system is configured to perform wireless communication by using a first band dedicated to the system and a second band shared by the system and another wireless communications system. The system includes a base station configured to transmit in the first band to a terminal when detecting an available carrier wave of the second band, a control signal permitting data transmission in the second band from the terminal to the base station, the base station continuously sending out a radio wave of the second band during a period until the data transmission; and the terminal configured to perform the data transmission after a predetermined time from transmission of the control signal by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10999026
    Abstract: A method for receiving orthogonal time, frequency and space (OFTS) basis allocation information by an user equipment in a wireless communication system using an OTFS transmission scheme includes receiving control information including information on an OTFS basis size N from a base station; and receiving data on OTFS bases of a predetermined size indexed according to a pre-defined rule in an N×N OTFS transform matrix on time and frequency domains corresponding to the OTFS basis size, wherein the OTFS bases of the OTFS basis size N is represented into an N×N OTFS transform matrix, wherein in the N×N OTFS transform matrix, a row index represents a cyclic frequency shift index, and a column index represents a cyclic time shift index, wherein the indexing according to the pre-defined rule includes indexing the OTFS bases of the predetermined size in an order such that the cyclic frequency shift and the cyclic time shift in the N×N OTFS transform matrix are maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hojae Lee, Sangrim Lee, Kwangseok Noh, Dongkyu Kim