Patents Examined by Raj Jain
  • Patent number: 10980050
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that it is possible to reduce the measurement-induced increase of load and power consumption in user terminals even when the number of component carriers that can be configured per user terminal is expanded. A user terminal communicates with a radio base station that configures groups (TAGs) comprised of one or more cells, and has a receiving section that receives information related to component carriers (CCs) included in the groups, and a measurement section that makes measurements on a per group basis based on the information related to the component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10959215
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for wireless communication, for use in a communication system at least using two beams. The method comprises: a network device determines transmission resources that can be used by M beam groups, wherein each beam group comprises at least one beam in the at least two beams, M?1; the network device sends configuration information to a first terminal device, the configuration information being used for indicating the transmission source used by each beam group, so that the practicability and user experience of a multi-beam system can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 10951745
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment) for applying header compression and decompression on a Sidelink Radio Bearer (SLRB). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE obtaining at least one Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) parameter for the SLRB from a network node. The method also includes determining whether the header compression and decompression is used for transmitting (Vehicle-to-Everything) V2X messages on the SLRB according to whether (Internet Protocol) IP based or non-IP based V2X messages are to be transmitted on the SLRB, wherein the header compression and decompression is used if IP based V2X messages are to be transmitted on the SLRB, and the header compression and decompression is not used if non-IP based V2X messages are to be transmitted on the SLRB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Li-Te Pan, Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 10944657
    Abstract: A method of acquiring software by a source node in a wireless ad hoc network. The method includes the source node executing application software from which a need to process a particular modality of data is identified, and making a determination that the source node is incapable of processing the particular modality of data. Responsive to the determination, the source node searches a local module repository (MR) of the source node for a software module usable to process the particular modality of data, and responsive to the source node failing to locate the software module in the local MR, broadcasts a request for the software module to neighbor nodes of the plurality of nodes in radio range of the source node. The source node receives the software module from the neighbor node, and uses the software module to process the particular modality of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Rahul C. Thakkar, Roland N. Freeman
  • Patent number: 10945290
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may configure a plurality of random access configurations for a wireless device on different uplink carriers, such as a supplemental uplink carrier and a non-supplemental uplink carrier. The wireless device may fall back to a second uplink carrier if a random access procedure fails on the first uplink carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Alireza Babaei, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10932290
    Abstract: Provided is an uplink reference signal transmitting method for a terminal configured to support a length of a transmission time interval (TTI) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method is performed by a terminal and may comprise the steps of: receiving configuration information associated with an uplink reference signal for a plurality of TTIs from a base station; and transmitting an uplink reference signal in at least one TTI from among the plurality of TTIs, using the received configuration information, wherein the configuration information may be included in signaling that schedules at least one TTI from among the plurality of TTIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Kijun Kim, Eunsun Kim, Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi, Youngtae Kim, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10924257
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for canceling self-interference signals in a communication system. A first communication node includes a signal transmission unit configured to generate a first RF signal, an antenna module configured to transmit the first RF signal generated by the signal transmission unit and receive a second RF signal from a second communication node, a signal reception unit configured to process the second RF signal and a self-interference signal caused by the first RF signal, and an SIC circuit configured to cancel the self-interference signal. The SIC circuit includes a DSIC circuit for canceling the self-interference signal in a digital domain and an ASIC circuit and an HSIC circuit for canceling the self-interference signal in an analog domain. Accordingly, the performance of the communication system may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae Ho Jung, Kwang Seon Kim
  • Patent number: 10924403
    Abstract: In an example implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving at a switch a packet having a tuple, wherein the tuple comprises a plurality of fields, wherein the switch operates using a protocol that compares each one of the plurality of fields to a table of a plurality of tables in series. The switch compares the plurality of fields of the tuple to a single cache table instead of the plurality of tables in series. When a match is found, a plurality of actions associated with the plurality of fields of the tuple is accumulated. The plurality of actions is applied to the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Diego Valverde Garro, Claudio Enrique Viquez Calderon
  • Patent number: 10925078
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe configuration and use of sub-physical resource block allocation for physical uplink shared channel and demodulation reference signals. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Debdeep Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 10917200
    Abstract: A communication circuit unit of an FI-ECU receives a signal from an AT-ECU. An arithmetic processing unit determines transmitted data at a control cycle ?Tn, transmits a communication data signal including the transmitted data to the AT-ECU at a time point t2 after the start point of the current control cycle ?Tn, and retransmits it at a time point t3 where a state, in which an ACK signal from the AT-ECU has not been received, has continued for a predetermined period of time. When the current control cycle ?Tn is ended in a state in which the ACK signal has not been received, at a time point t5 after the start point of the next control cycle ?Tn, the arithmetic processing unit transmits the communication data signal including a newest value of the transmitted data determined at the start point of the next control cycle ?Tn to the AT-ECU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Wakita
  • Patent number: 10917335
    Abstract: Method and systems for data switching, including receiving first input data at a network switching system comprising a crosspoint switch and a data processing card; transmitting the first input data from the crosspoint switch to the data processing card; making a first determination, by the data processing card, that the first input data meets a first pre-determined filtering criterion; and transmitting, based on the first determination, the first input data from a first crosspoint switch port of the crosspoint switch towards a first client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert James Walker, Stefan Josef Gratzl, Sergey Sardaryan, Vahan Sardaryan
  • Patent number: 10904167
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for processing incoming packets for virtual machines in a computer system. A method of the disclosure includes: processing, by a hypervisor executed on a host machine, a packet to be routed via a virtual machine in view of a packet processing program running on the virtual machine; determining, by the hypervisor, whether the packet is to be passed to a network stack in view of the processing; and in response to determining that the packet is not to be passed to the network stack, placing the packet in a first receive queue of a plurality of receive queues associated with a network interface card associated with the virtual machine, wherein the first receive queue comprises one or more packets to be processed by a packet processing program running on the virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Tsirkin
  • Patent number: 10904906
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a method for transmitting data, a terminal device, and a network device, where the method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information sent by a network device, where the first indication information indicates that data is capable of being transmitted on a semi-persistent scheduling resource within a first bandwidth part BWP of at least one BWP and where the first BWP is in an active state; determining, by the terminal device, the semi-persistent scheduling resource within the first BWP according to the first indication information; and performing, by the terminal device, data transmission on the semi-persistent scheduling resource within the first BWP with the network device. The method, the terminal device and the network device in the embodiments of the present application are beneficial to improving an accuracy of data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 10887786
    Abstract: Techniques for performing near-uniform load balancing in a visibility network based on usage prediction are provided. According to one embodiment, a packet broker of the visibility network can receive a control packet replicated from a core network, where the control packet includes a user or device identifier and a request to create a user session for a user identified by the user/device identifier. The packet broker can further determine, based on the user/device identifier and one or more other parameters, a rank value for the user session, where the rank value indicates an amount of network traffic that the user is likely to generate in the core network during the user session. The packet broker can then select an egress port for the user session based on the rank value and forward subsequent control and data traffic for the user session through the selected egress port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Extreme Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jude Pragash Vedam, Deepak Hegde, Ashwin Naresh, Shubharanjan Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 10880068
    Abstract: A method includes: obtaining, by an access point AP, use permission of a channel; determining, by the AP after obtaining the use permission of the channel, scheduling information for a station STA participating in full-duplex transmission, where the scheduling information includes information about a first station that performs uplink transmission on the channel and information about a second station that performs downlink transmission on the channel at the same time, or the scheduling information includes information about a third station that simultaneously performs uplink and downlink transmission on the channel; and sending, by the AP, a trigger frame, where the trigger frame includes the scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 10880784
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication method and a base station, the communication method comprising: receiving, from a network entity, a message including context capability information and context type information of a terminal; transmitting, to the terminal, a context request message requesting the transmission of particular context information among the context information supported by the terminal; receiving, from the terminal, a context response message including the context information of the terminal; and changing configuration values of radio resources on the basis of the context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sungduck Chun, Jinsook Ryu, Hyunsook Kim, Laeyoung Kim, Taehun Kim
  • Patent number: 10880725
    Abstract: A multi-subscriber identification module (SIM) device is provided, and includes first and second SIMs, first and second radio frequency (RF) resources, and a baseband processor. The first and second SIMs are for using first and second services of first and second networks respectively. The first RF resource supports a non-limiting channel configuration use in accordance with a radio resource control (RRC) protocol. The second RF resource supports a limiting channel configuration use in accordance with the RRC protocol. The baseband processor, in a dual radio (DR) mode, configures one of the first and second SIMs as a main SIM based on information on the first and second networks, allots the first RF resource to the main SIM, configures the other one as a sub-SIM, and allots the second RF resource to the sub-SIM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-su Park, Jun-kyoung Lee, Jong-hoon Ryu, Young-yong Lee
  • Patent number: 10869289
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for device-to-device (D2D) communication and a terminal device. The method includes: determining first access information by a first terminal device, the first access information being used to access a first cell; and sending the first access information by the first terminal device, causing a second terminal device to determine, based on the first access information as received, second access information used by the second terminal device to access a second cell. Thus, different terminal devices obtain access information used for accessing a cell by way of D2D communication, which can reduce delay generated by obtaining the access information from a network device by a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 10868687
    Abstract: Disclosed are a traffic delivery method, apparatus and system, and a relevant computer storage medium. The method may include: determining the number of traffic flows according to a traffic bandwidth of a traffic to be transmitted; grouping the traffic flows of the traffic to be transmitted according to the number of the traffic flows and a preset grouping policy to obtain a plurality of traffic groups of the traffic to be transmitted; where the number of the traffic groups is equal to the number of physical layer (PHY) transport channels; and determining a PHY transport channel corresponding to each of the traffic groups of the traffic to be transmitted according to a matching relationship between traffic bandwidths of the traffic groups and transmission rates of the PHY transport channels, and sending the each of the traffic groups of the traffic to be transmitted through the PHY transport channel corresponding to the each of the traffic groups of the traffic to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 10868610
    Abstract: A communications device including a transmitter and a receiver configured to transmit and receive signals representing data to and from an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network via a first wireless access interface. The communications device transmits signals via a second wireless access interface to a communications apparatus operating as a relay node, and determines an additional delay caused by the transmission of the signals to the communications apparatus acting as the relay node via the second wireless access interface compared with a time taken which would have been taken to transmit the signals to the infrastructure equipment as if transmitted via the first wireless access interface, and transmits an indication from which the infrastructure equipment can derive the determined additional delay for adjusting the transmission or reception of the synchronized response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ayesha Ijaz, Atta Ul Quddus, Muhammad Ali Imran, Lei Zhang, Hideji Wakabayashi, Jussi Tapani Kahtava