Patents Examined by Ricky Q. Ngo
  • Patent number: 11930452
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to instructing, from a layer of a modem processor, a host processor to utilize an increased power consumption state for processing data from a network node. The instructing can be performed based on transmitting a signal to the network node and/or receiving signals from the network node, and at a time that allows the host processor to wake up before receiving data from the modem processor for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arnaud Meylan, Vamsi Dokku, Amir Farajidana, Alok Mitra
  • Patent number: 11929897
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for highly-scalable, in-network multicasting of statistics data is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, from an underlay controller, a match-and-action table that is indexed using one or more multicast (“MC”) group identifiers and includes one or more special MC headers; detecting a packet carrying statistics data; determining whether the packet includes an MC group identifier; in response to determining that the packet includes the MC group identifier: using the MC group identifier, retrieving a special MC header, of the one or more special MC headers, from the match-and-action table; generating an encapsulated packet by encapsulating the packet with the special MC header; and providing the encapsulated packet to an interface controller for transmitting the encapsulated packet to one or more physical switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Shahbaz, Mukesh Hira, Lalith Suresh
  • Patent number: 11929851
    Abstract: A gateway device selection method is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a message from a gateway device, where the message includes identification information of the gateway device, and the identification information of the gateway device indicates information about the gateway device; determining, by the terminal device, that the identification information of the gateway device is consistent with preset identification information of a gateway device on the terminal device, and using the gateway device as a selected gateway device; and sending, by the terminal device, a data packet to the selected gateway device. This helps the terminal device correctly identify the gateway device to which the terminal device is to send data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Qin, Ling Wu
  • Patent number: 11930479
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transmission of PDSCH and HARQ-ACK feedback in 5G networks are described. The TDRA of PDSCH repetitions are indicated in a DCI by a SLIV sequence configuration that contains multiple SLIV sequences. Each SLIV sequence for a slot is associated with an independent repetition factor and may also be associated with a partition factor to indicate a partition within the slot. One or more TRPs may be used to transmit each PDSCH repetition. The TCI states are mapped to the PDSCH repetitions in a round-robin fashion using an offset in terms of number of PDSCH repetitions from where TCI state switching starts and a number of consecutive PDSCH repetitions per TCI state. The HARQ-ACK bits in response to the PDSCH from the TRPs are concatenated in order of increasing control resource set higher layer signaling index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bishwarup Mondal, Gang Xiong, Alexei Davydov, Avik Sengupta, Sergey Panteleev, Debdeep Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11917474
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a source base station, configuration information for a conditional handover indicating an execution condition and one or more secondary cell group (SCG) configurations associated with one or more candidate base stations. The UE may transmit, to the source base station, a measurement report indicating one or more measurements associated with at least one of the source base station or the one or more candidate base stations. The UE may perform the conditional handover with a candidate base station, of the one or more candidate base stations, using an updated SCG configuration associated with the candidate base station, wherein the updated SCG configuration is based on an SCG configuration, of the one or more SCG configurations, and the one or more measurements. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11902217
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods for a network node to activate semi-persistent sounding reference signal (SP-SRS) resources for transmission by a user equipment (UE). Such methods include sending, to the UE, a control message comprising configuration of a set of SP-SRS resources associated with a particular serving cell of the wireless communication network. Such methods include sending to the UE a further control message for activating the configured set of SP-SRS resources. The further control message includes information identifying an SP-SRS resource of the set of SP-SRS resources to be activated, and an indication of the identified SP-SRS resource's spatial relation with a further resource that is not associated with the particular serving cell. The indication comprising an identity of a further serving cell that is different from the particular serving cell and that is associated with the further resource. Other embodiments include complementary methods for a UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stephen Grant, Sebastian Faxér, Claes Tidestav
  • Patent number: 11902894
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for determining radio frequency (RF) conditions using sensing information. A network node may construct a map of RF conditions associated with location information within its coverage area. The network node may configure a radio resource control (RRC)-connected UE to operate in an RF sensing mode. The network node may obtain a positioning of the UE from a sensing node. The network node may determine the RF conditions of the UE based on its position using the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Rapeepat Ratasuk, Ryan Keating, Amitabha Ghosh, Jie Chen, Athul Prasad, Nitin Mangalvedhe
  • Patent number: 11902939
    Abstract: A wireless communication network that includes a backhaul network interconnecting node devices for extending a radio coverage of a wireless fronthaul network by using a plurality of access points of the wireless fronthaul network, the communication channel is used for interconnecting said node devices. A node device of the backhaul network makes an evaluation of the transmission conditions of its radio environment; calculates a score representing a quality of transmission via this communication channel; transmits to said master node device a message requesting change of communication channel of the backhaul network when at least one other communication channel has obtained a better score than the communication channel selected by the master node device. On reception of the message, master node device obtains scores for the other node devices, and decides to change, or not, communication channel used in the backhaul network according to the scores obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS
    Inventors: Massinissa Lalam, Laurent Alarcon
  • Patent number: 11894914
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) selects or reselects a target cell of a non-terrestrial network or resumes connectivity with the target cell after a satellite handover for a permanently fixed low Earth orbit (LEO) cell. The target cell is a serving or non-serving cell. The UE determines a cell type of the target cell. The cell type may be a LEO cell type, a geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) cell type, a moving cell type, a fixed cell type, a temporarily fixed LEO cell type, or a permanently fixed LEO cell type. The UE completes selection or reselection of the target cell or completes the connectivity with the target cell, based on the cell type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Xiao Feng Wang, Masato Kitazoe, Ayan Sengupta, Amer Catovic, Umesh Phuyal, Liangping Ma, Le Liu
  • Patent number: 11889511
    Abstract: A method and apparatus communicate a transport block in an unlicensed uplink transmission on a wireless network. Downlink Control Information (DCI) can be sent on a control channel. The DCI can schedule an unlicensed uplink (UL) transmission for a UE. The DCI can include a field that indicates whether the UE should apply a scaling factor when determining a Transport Block Size (TBS). A transport block can be received in the unlicensed UL transmission based on the sent DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Robert T. Love, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 11888697
    Abstract: The disclosure describes configuration schemes for secondary cell (SCell), bandwidth part (BWP) and physical resource block (PRB) indexing. An apparatus of user equipment (UE) for BWP activation and deactivation operation is disclosed. The apparatus includes baseband circuitry that includes a radio frequency (RF) interface, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are to receive radio resource control (RRC) data via the RF interface, configure a timer for a BWP according to the RRC data, and trigger the timer for the BWP in response to detection of an event associated with an access node after the BWP has been activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Jeongho Jeon, Alexei Davydov, Hong He, Debdeep Chatterjee, Joonyoung Cho, Daewon Lee, Gang Xiong
  • Patent number: 11882203
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a Segment Routing network node provides efficiencies in processing and communicating Internet Protocol packets in a network. This Segment Routing node typically advertises (e.g., using Border Gateway Protocol) its Segment Routing processing capabilities, such as Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) and/or Ultimate Segment Pop (USP) of a Segment Routing Header (including in the context of a packet that has multiple Segment Routing Headers). Subsequently, an Internet Protocol Segment Routing packet having multiple Segment Routing Headers is received. The packet is processed according to a Segment Routing function, with is processing including removing a first one of the Segment Routing Headers and forwarding the resultant Segment Routing packet. The value of the Segments Left field in the first Segment Routing Header identifies to perform PSP when the value is one, to perform USP when the value is zero, or to perform other processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Refaat Bashandy, Jisu Bhattacharya, Syed Kamran Raza, Clarence Filsfils
  • Patent number: 11877283
    Abstract: A terminal device for performing communication method, the terminal device comprising a receiver for receiving a PDCCH having a first DCI format; and a transmitter for transmitting a PUCCH including UCI, and a PUSCH. The transmitter multiplexes the UCI onto a first PUSCH dynamically scheduled via the first DCI format when the PUCCH conflicts with a first plurality of PUSCHs including the first PUSCH and a second PUSCH for semi-permanently transmitted CSI, and multiplexes the UCI onto a third PUSCH for aperiodically transmitted CSI when the PUCCH conflicts with the third PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Huifa Lin, Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee, Wataru Ouchi, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 11870546
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method of generating a downlink frame. The method of generating the downlink frame includes: generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information; generating a first scrambling sequence and a second scrambling sequence determined by the primary synchronization signal; generating a third scrambling sequence determined by the first short sequence and a fourth scrambling sequence determined by the second short sequence; scrambling the short sequences with the respective scrambling sequences; and mapping the secondary synchronization signal that includes the first short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the second scrambling sequence and the third scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence and the first short sequence scrambled by the second scrambling sequence and the fourth scrambling sequence to a frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Inst.
    Inventors: Kap Seok Chang, Il Gyu Kim, Hyeong Geun Park, Young Jo Ko, Hyo Seok Yi, Chan Bok Jeong, Young Hoon Kim, Seung Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 11871414
    Abstract: A method of multi-access point (multi-AP) communication performed by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprises: receiving (1510) a first trigger frame from a first access point (AP) of a plurality of APs, the first trigger frame comprising first information; receiving (1520) a second trigger frame from a second AP of the plurality of APs at a predetermined time duration after receiving the first trigger frame, the second trigger frame also comprising the first information of the first trigger frame; generating (1530) a synchronization frame based on the first trigger frame and the second trigger frame, the synchronization frame comprising synchronization information; transmitting the synchronization frame to at least the first AP and the second AP; and receiving (1540) a data transmission based on the synchronization information from each of the first AP and the second AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Hanqing Lou, Li-Hsiang Sun, Xiaofei Wang, Alphan Sahin, Rui Yang, Frank La Sita
  • Patent number: 11871469
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may support multiple radio access technologies (RATs). The UE may communicate using both a Long Term Evolution (LTE) connection for control signaling and a New Radio (NR) connection for data signaling in a non-standalone (NSA) mode. However, if the UE uses a data rate below a threshold, the NR connection may be inefficient. To reduce processing overhead, the UE may fall back to using the LTE connection for data communications. For example, the UE may delay or abort adding an NR connection based on the data rate. In some examples, the UE may transmit a fake report or a fake uplink message to trigger dropping an NR connection. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may indicate a preferred mode of operation to the network indicating a preference for communicating data via an LTE connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nikhil Challa, Mahesh Kommi, Anil Rao, Nishith Chaubey, Heekab Shin, Brian Danque
  • Patent number: 11864145
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for neighbor cell measurement based timing advance validation. A method may include receiving a network configuration comprising a timing advance command from a network element. The method may also include acquiring at least measurement data of a serving cell relative to a first set of neighbor cells at a first time instance, and measurement data of the serving cell relative to a second set of neighbor cells at a second time instance according to the network configuration. The method may further include performing a timing advance validity check using at least the acquired measurement data from the first time instance and the second time instance. Further, the method may include performing data transmission based on a result of the timing advance validity check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Daniela Laselva, Oana-Elena Barbu, Nuno Pratas, Karri Markus Ranta-Aho
  • Patent number: 11825386
    Abstract: A method for handling a broadcast data packet using a network (300) including a plurality of nodes (NH, N1, N2, N3, N4, N5, N6), the method including: receiving, at a sending node, the broadcast data packet; checking, at the sending node, whether the broadcast data packet has been received at the sending node on a previous occasion, wherein if the sending node has not previously received the broadcast data packet the sending node enters a broadcast delivery mode, the broadcast delivery mode including: switching to a scan mode to listen for advertisements from other nodes in the network; starting a timer; wherein upon receipt of an advertisement from a neighbouring node the sending node sends an instance of the broadcast data packet to the neighbouring node and resets the timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam Kuenzi, Michael Lang, Chih-Kuang Lin, Davide Villa
  • Patent number: 11825535
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may establish a PC5 unicast link with a second UE. The UE may transmit, to a second UE in a PC5 radio resource control (RRC) message, capability information that includes an indication that the first UE is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Umesh Phuyal, Stefano Faccin, Xiao Feng Wang, Juan Montojo, Francesco Pica, Chiranjib Saha, Vishnu Vardhan Chetlur Ravi
  • Patent number: 11811502
    Abstract: An outdoor device of a timing system includes a receiver for receiving clock information from a satellite system, a processing system for running master functionality of a clock synchronization protocol to transfer the clock information to an indoor device of the timing system, and a transceiver for transferring data between the outdoor device and the indoor device. A memory device stores a fixed delay value estimating a time delay from a reception moment of a request message related to the clock synchronization protocol to a transmission moment of a reply message. There is no need to compute a difference between clock times corresponding to the reception moment and the transmission moment because the fixed delay value is used in lieu of the difference in the clock synchronization protocol. Thus, quality requirements related to an oscillator of the outdoor device can be mitigated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ADTRAN NETWORKS SE
    Inventor: Kenneth Hann