Patents Examined by Rasheed Gidado
  • Patent number: 11637661
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may determine that a transmission resource includes a first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol that is configured as a downlink symbol or as flexible, where the transmission resource is allocated for uplink (UL) transmissions during a time duration, and includes K transmission occasions (TOs). The UE may transmit a first UL transmission in the transmission resource omitting the first OFDM symbol. The first UL transmission includes K repetitions to be transmitted in the respective K TOs, and the K repetitions includes an initial transmission and at least one retransmission of the initial transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Cao, Liqing Zhang, Hua Xu, Jianglei Ma, Toufiqul Islam, Amine Maaref
  • Patent number: 11638248
    Abstract: Improved communications, including indication of channel occupancy time-structure information (COT-SI) for NR-U sidelink (NR-U SL) operations is disclosed. A UE may establish a current channel occupancy time (COT) on a shared communication spectrum for UE transmissions in response to a successful listen before talk (LBT) procedure. The UE may then generates a COT structure information (COT-SI) message including at least a remaining duration of the current COT and a set of time and frequency resources of the current COT. The COT-SI message may be transmitted by the UE to one or more neighboring UEs via sidelink transmission. Once the COT-SI message is sent, the UE transmits the UE transmission within the set of time and frequency resource of the current COT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Gene Wesley Marsh, Shailesh Patil, Juan Montojo, Ozcan Ozturk, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11626936
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first node may determine a grid allocation of single carrier resource blocks (SC-RBs) that defines a plurality of SC-RBs in a time domain and in a frequency domain. The first node may perform, to a second node, a frequency division multiplexed transmission associated with a single carrier waveform using one or more SC-RBs indicated in the grid allocation of SC-RBs. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Jun Ma, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11627073
    Abstract: The disclosed method and system increase routing efficiency by identifying a set of candidate Autonomous Systems (ASes) able to reduce average AS distances towards a set of target ASes. Starting from a list of Routing Information Base (RIB) snapshots and a set of target ASes, candidate ASes are ranked based on the gain they would provide in terms of AS distance if they were connected to the network administrator AS. A set of starting ASes may represent the ASes to which the administrator is already connected, and a set of forbidden ASes may represent the ASes to which the administrator does not want to connect. An exemplary web-based interface may show gains of candidate ASes, allowing the administrator to better understand how much an average AS distance toward the set of target ASes would improve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Catchpoint Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alessandro Improta, Luca Sani, Dritan Suljoti, Sergey Katsev
  • Patent number: 11621724
    Abstract: A data-sparsity homogenizer includes a plurality of multiplexers and a controller. The plurality of multiplexers receives 2N bit streams of non-homogenous sparse data in which the non-homogenous sparse data includes non-zero value data clumped together. The plurality of multiplexers is arranged in 2N rows and N columns. Each input of a multiplexer in a first column receives a respective bit stream of the 2N bit streams of non-homogenized sparse data, and the multiplexers in a last column output 2N bit streams of sparse data that is more homogenous than the non-homogenous sparse data of the 2N bit streams. The controller controls the plurality of multiplexers so that the multiplexers in the last column output the 2N channels of bit streams of sparse data that is more homogeneous than the non-homogenous sparse data of the 2N bit streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventors: Ilia Ovsiannikov, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 11614946
    Abstract: A computer comprising a plurality of processing nodes is provided. Each processing node has at least one processor configured to process input data to generate an array of data items. The processing nodes are arranged in cliques in which each processing node of a clique is connected to each other processing node in the clique by first and second clique links. The cliques are inter-connected in rings such that each processing node is a member of a single clique and a single ring. The processing nodes of all cliques are configured to exchange in each exchange step of a machine learning collective via the respective first and second clique links at least two data items with the other processing node(s) in its clique, and all processing nodes are configured to reduce each received data item with the data item in the corresponding position in the array on that processing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GRAPHCORE LIMITED
    Inventor: Simon Knowles
  • Patent number: 11606675
    Abstract: A system for testing one or more electric circuits simultaneously includes one or more wireless testing devices connected to one or more electric circuits through wired connection, and a receiver device communicatively coupled to the one or more wireless testing devices through wireless connection. Each wireless testing device includes an input unit for converting a physical electrical input received from corresponding electric circuit, into an electrical signal, a generator unit configured to generate one or more variable service set identifier (SSID) communication signals based on corresponding input electrical signal, and a transmitter unit configured to transmit the one or more SSID communication signals to one or more receiver devices simultaneously. The receiver device is configured to receive and monitor the one or more SSID signals, to troubleshoot, verify, analyze, monitor, control and identify the one or more electrical circuits simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: CircuitIQ Inc.
    Inventors: Luke Gordon Begley, Travis Michael Hunter Dunn
  • Patent number: 11595130
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a client signal in an optical transport network. In the transmission method, a received client signal is mapped into a variable-rate container OTU-N, wherein a rate of the OTU-N is N times as high as a preset reference rate; and then, the variable-rate container OTU-N is split into N optical stab-channel transport units OTUsubs by column, where a rate of each OTUsub equals to the reference rate; next, the N optical sub-channel transport units OTUsubs are modulated onto one or more optical carriers; at last, the one or more optical carriers is transmitted through a fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Su, Qiuyou Wu, Limin Dong
  • Patent number: 11588664
    Abstract: A method for an asset tracking system is provided. An example method includes receiving data messages from an asset coupled to the asset tracking system and attempting to obtain asset information from data messages with reference to a local set of signal definitions indicating how data messages received from the asset are to be decoded into asset information. Upon failing to obtain the asset information the asset tracking system requests from an asset data analysis system the generation of a generated signal definition indicating how the data message of the outstanding type is to be obtained from the asset. The asset tracking system provides access to at least one undecoded data message of the outstanding data type to the asset data analysis system, receives the generated signal definition from the asset data analysis system, and adds the generated signal definition to the local set of signal definitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth James Hendrik Geertsema, Paul Philip Ciolek, Michael Giannikouris, Alexander K. Koch, Ryan Andrew MacDonald
  • Patent number: 11582061
    Abstract: A bus coupler for a network, in particular for an optical ring network, includes: a bus participant interface for data connection to at least one bus participant device; a bus receiving interface for receiving bus input data via a bus line; a bus transmitting interface for transmitting bus output data via the bus line; and a control unit for generating bus output data based on participant input data received via the bus participant interface, the bus transmission data including bus control data, and to transfer the bus output data to a further bus coupler by the bus transmitting interface. The control unit specifies a control signal based on the bus input data received by the bus receiving interface and performs a relaying of the bus input data to the further bus coupler based on the specified control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TURCK HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Marcel Mertens, Ludger Knaak
  • Patent number: 11582059
    Abstract: Messaging between an ultra-tag and external microcontroller. In an embodiment, a transmitting device is communicatively connected to a receiving device by a clear-to-communicate line and request line. When data to be transmitted has normal priority, the transmitting device detects whether the clear-to-communicate line indicates that the receiving device is available, indicates a request to transmit on the request line if so, waits until the receiving device is available and then indicates a request to transmit on the request line if not, after indicating a request to transmit, transmits the data when the clear-to-communicate line indicates that the receiving device is unavailable, and, after transmitting the data, releases the indication of the request to transmit on the request line. On the other hand, when the data has high priority, the transmitting device indicates a request to transmit on the request line, regardless of an indication on the clear-to-communicate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Tracie Wireless LLC
    Inventor: Christopher D. Williams
  • Patent number: 11576213
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive, initial timing advance information in a msg2 communication of a four-step random access channel procedure based at least in part on a subcarrier spacing in a cell associated with the base station. The UE may transmit, and the base station may receive, a msg3 communication with an initial timing advance that is based at least in part on the initial timing advance information. The base station may transmit, and the UE may receive, updated timing advance information resolving a timing advance wrap-around between the UE and the base station based at least in part on the base station detecting the msg3 communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Zhifei Fan, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11576119
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The disclosure relates to a technique for controlling a base station power using an artificial intelligence based technology to improve an energy efficiency of a communication network. A method performed by a base station of a communication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include acquiring state information, determining an active/sleep request indicator (ASRI) based on at least a part of the state information, transmitting at least one of the state information and the ASRI to a central unit, receiving, from the central unit, power control information determined based on the at least one of the state information and the ASRI, and performing a power control based on the received power control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Youngjoon Kim, Hyungyu Ju, Byonghyo Shim, Hyojin Lee
  • Patent number: 11570067
    Abstract: A collection device (10) collects traffic from a core network (10N) connected to a plurality of operator networks (20N). Further, an analysis device has a plurality of functions of analyzing traffic. Further, a setting device sets a scenario that designates at least one of the plurality of functions. Further, a pre-processing device converts the traffic collected by the collection device (10) to traffic of a format suitable for the function designated by the scenario. Further, a distribution device distributes the traffic converted by the pre-processing device to a designated function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Kudo, Hiroyuki Onishi, Hiroshi Osawa, Hiroshi Suzuki, Takeaki Nishioka, Yuki Miyoshi, Yuhei Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11563856
    Abstract: An impact of a delay time on a conversation is reduced. A voice packet is transmitted to a distribution server. A user is notified of being in a wait time from when transmission of the voice packet stops until when voice packet transmission becomes available next. The wait time is calculated on the basis of a first delay time that is a delay time between a local terminal and the distribution server and a second delay time that is the maximum delay time among delay times between a plurality of terminals including the local terminal and the distribution server. The user can easily know the speaking timing from the local terminal, and speech from the local terminal and speech from another terminal can be made not to mix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Ide
  • Patent number: 11564247
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a single downlink control information (DCI) message that schedules communications on multiple cells, wherein the single DCI message indicates multiple time domain resource assignments (TDRAs) corresponding to the multiple cells, wherein each of the multiple TDRAs corresponds to a different scheduled communication; and communicate using the multiple TDRAs corresponding to the multiple cells, wherein the communicating comprises: transmitting the communications using the multiple TDRAs corresponding to the multiple cells, or receiving the communications using the multiple TDRAs corresponding to the multiple cells. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Huilin Xu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Kazuki Takeda, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Wanshi Chen, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11558775
    Abstract: A network device may receive packets and may calculate, during a time interval, an arrival rate and a departure rate, of the packets, at one of multiple virtual output queues. The network device may calculate a current oversubscription factor based on the arrival rate and the departure rate, and may calculate a target oversubscription factor based on an average of previous oversubscription factors associated with the multiple virtual output queues. The network device may determine whether a difference exists between the target oversubscription factor and the current oversubscription factor and may calculate, when the difference exists, a scale factor based on the current oversubscription factor and the target oversubscription factor. The network device may calculate new scheduling weights based on prior scheduling weights and the scale factor, and may process packets received by the multiple virtual output queues based on the new scheduling weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig R. Frink, Anurag P. Gupta, Harshad B. Agashe, Weidong Xu
  • Patent number: 11558217
    Abstract: A device for coupling a fieldbus to a local bus for connection to at least one data bus subscriber, the device comprising a first unit that is connectable to the fieldbus and is adapted for sending and receiving data via the fieldbus; a second unit that is connectable to the local bus and is adapted for sending and receiving data via the local bus in at least one data packet; a data management unit that is connected to the first unit and the second unit, wherein the data management unit is adapted for transferring first symbols from data received via said first unit to said second unit in a sequence-dependent manner; and wherein the second unit is adapted to send at least one data packet including the first symbols on the local bus. In addition, a corresponding method for transferring data is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Frank Quakernack, Hans-Herbert Kirste
  • Patent number: 11553091
    Abstract: A server is configured to provide data communications services to a plurality of endpoint devices. Geolocation information identifying a first geographic location of the particular endpoint device is received at the server and from an application running on an endpoint device. A second geographic location for an IP address is compared to the first geographic location. In response to a mismatch between the compared geographic locations, a location database is modified to include an entry specifying that the particular endpoint device is located at the first geographic location. For an outgoing telephone call from the endpoint device, the modified entry is used to select a telephone carrier. The outgoing telephone call is routed using the selected telephone carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Slobodan Miskovic
  • Patent number: 11552819
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for addressing at least one bus subscriber, in particular a control device or sensor, which is connected to a bus system for the purpose of exchanging data, and which is supplied with DC voltage in order to supply the bus subscriber with supply voltage rectified as defined via a DC voltage input of said bus subscriber. It is proved according to the invention that the respective bus subscriber detects the polarity of the DC voltage at its DC voltage input, selects a predefined address depending on the detected polarity, and assigns the selected address to itself for the purpose of exchanging the data. The invention further relates to the bus subscriber and a system consisting of a bus system and exactly two bus subscribers of such kind. The invention also relates to a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Hauke Baumgaertel, Paul Deron, Carsten Horst, Karl Kreft, Daniel Peretzki, Daniel Zoellner