Patents Examined by Robert C. Scheibel
  • Patent number: 10924388
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically routing packets using multi-flow and multi-path multiplexing connections. A first computing device and second computing device communicate via a plurality of data flows, which may be routed across various network paths. Each flow is defined by a set of network addresses, a set of ports, and a protocol specification, such as UDP. The second device sends information to the first device regarding the various data flows. The first device may send probing packets to facilitate collecting data flow information. Information may include latency, packet loss, and other values. Based on the information received, the first device may select or prioritize data flows to mitigate congestion, and address performance criteria. The first device may also transmit information regarding selected data flows to other devices, allowing the other devices to utilize a selected data flow even if they lack multiplexing capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Burns, Bin Wang, Scott Wright Heath
  • Patent number: 10917147
    Abstract: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless transceiver with “N” transmit and receive chains and a bandwidth evaluation circuit, a chain partitioning circuit and a switchable radio frequency ‘RF’ filter bank. The bandwidth evaluation circuit evaluates both the utilization of the WLAN(s) and any remaining communications channels and determines whether to operate the MIMO chains synchronously as a single radio or asynchronously as multiple radios. The chain partitioning circuit either partitions subsets of the MIMO chains for asynchronous operation as distinct radios or combines all MIMO chains for synchronous operation as a single radio. The switchable RF filter bank is responsive to a partitioning of subsets of the chains into distinct radios to add RF filters to a RF portion of the chains to isolate each radio from one another, and responsive to a combining of all MIMO chains into a single radio to remove all RF filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: ON SEMICONDUCTOR CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Simon Duxbury, Abhishek Agrawal, Saied Ansari, Didier Margairaz, Hongping Liu
  • Patent number: 10917837
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive when operating in a network that provides synchronization signals at a plurality of locations in a channel bandwidth, a common search space (CSS) indicator for a synchronization signal, wherein the CSS indicator indicates that the synchronization signal is not associated with a CSS for a downlink control channel. The user equipment may determine a location of the CSS for the downlink control channel based at least in part on the CSS indicator. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Heechoon Lee, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Jing Sun, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10917217
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) of a station (STA) device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, includes generating a PPDU configured based on a high efficiency-short training field (HE-STF) sequence including a HE-STF field and transmitting the PPDU, wherein the HE-STF field is transmitted on a channel, wherein the HE-STF sequence is mapped to the channel per 2-tone unit, wherein, when the channel is a 20 MHz channel, the HE-STF sequence is configured to have a structure of {a M Sequence, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, the M sequence}, and, when the channel is a 40 MHz channel, the HE-STF sequence is configured to have a structure of {the M sequence, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, the M sequence, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, the M sequence, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, the M sequence}.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunsung Park, Wookbong Lee, Jinsoo Choi, Hangyu Cho
  • Patent number: 10917888
    Abstract: Transmission time interval (TTI) bundling for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) uplink and downlink transmissions is discussed in which a base station or user equipments (UEs) determine conditions for one or more served UEs that would indicate enabling TTI bundling for data and/or control transmissions. The serving base station transmits an enablement signal signifying that TTI bundling will be performed for data and/or control transmissions. The enablement signal may include a bundle length for the transmission bundle. The data or control signal packets may then be repeatedly transmitted to the UEs a number of times corresponding to the bundle length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih Ping Li, Chong Li, Jing Jiang, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Haitong Sun
  • Patent number: 10893476
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit. A first device that transmits data to the information processing device has a multiplexing function for multiplexing and transmitting data from a plurality of devices including the first device to the information processing device. The control unit provided in the information processing device performs control to tell the first device having the multiplexing function a multiplexing method for notification information and presence of data addressed to the first device. The notification information indicates that the first device has shifted from a functional suspension state to a data receivable state. The information processing device can reduce power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Yuichi Morioka, Takeshi Itagaki, Tomoya Yamaura
  • Patent number: 10887165
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a personal working system with a dynamic structure, including a central control unit, wherein the central control unit includes an external device identification component used for identifying a plurality of external devices and connecting the identified plurality of external devices into a working system; a weak (or short-distance) communication interface for the communication between the central control unit and the external devices; a strong (or medium-distance and long-distance) communication interface for the communication between the central control unit and an external node; the weak communication interface includes Bluetooth; and the strong communication interface includes WIFI connection, Internet connection, local area network connection and radio telephone connection. The present invention has the advantages that the external devices will not be outdate and is universal with the external devices of the system in the world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Zhenhua Li, Shuang Sa
  • Patent number: 10887826
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: allocate a physical uplink channel between at least one integrated access and backhaul node user equipment function and a parent distributed unit; and send at least one message via the physical uplink channel, wherein the at least one message includes at least: a destination queue depth scheduled on a downlink by at least one integrated access and backhaul node distributed unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Mark Cudak, Anup Talukdar, Eugene Visotsky, Esa M. Malkamäki
  • Patent number: 10886957
    Abstract: A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, a method of identifying, by a system comprising a processor, network communication degradation in one or more layers of a multi-layered communication protocol above a physical layer, wherein the network communication degradation is associated with communications taking place through a network, in part over a radio frequency link, between a plurality of communication devices, obtaining, by the system, data from a layer below the one or more layers of the multi-layered communication protocol identified as having the network communication degradation, determining, by the system, one or more geographic regions of the network associated with the network communication degradation from the data, and mitigating, by the system, effects of the network communication degradation in the one or more geographic regions of the network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ISCO International, LLC
    Inventor: Amr Abdelmonem
  • Patent number: 10880782
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an instruction to aggregate cellular bandwidth of a user device with the cellular bandwidth of one or more participating user devices; appending a shared character string to a network name of the user device based on receiving the instruction; scanning for wireless local area networks (WLANs) after appending the shared character string; identifying one or more WLAN networks with the network names having the shared character string, where the one or more WLAN networks are hosted by the one or more participating user devices; connecting to a particular WLAN network, of the one or more WLAN networks via a WLAN interface of the user device; combining bandwidth from the cellular interface of the user device with the bandwidth from the WLAN interface of the user device; and hosting a WLAN network providing a sum of the bandwidth from the WLAN interface and the cellular interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Scott D. Hicks
  • Patent number: 10880783
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an instruction to aggregate cellular bandwidth of a user device with the cellular bandwidth of one or more participating user devices; appending a shared character string to a network name of the user device based on receiving the instruction; scanning for wireless local area networks (WLANs) after appending the shared character string; identifying one or more WLAN networks with the network names having the shared character string, where the one or more WLAN networks are hosted by the one or more participating user devices; connecting to a particular WLAN network, of the one or more WLAN networks via a WLAN interface of the user device; combining bandwidth from the cellular interface of the user device with the bandwidth from the WLAN interface of the user device; and hosting a WLAN network providing a sum of the bandwidth from the WLAN interface and the cellular interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Scott D. Hicks
  • Patent number: 10863483
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided that controls other electronic devices through one electronic device in a communication system. The electronic device for executing control commands includes a communication unit configured to communicate with at least one of other electronic devices, a memory configured to store identification information about other electronic devices to execute a group control command, and a controller configured to execute, when receiving the control command, the received control command, determine whether the received control command is a group control command that other electronic devices need to execute in the same way as the electronic device, read, when the received control command is a group control command, identification information about at least one of other electronic devices as group control objects from the memory, and transmit the identification information to other electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Hanil Yu
  • Patent number: 10863406
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a cell change method, a terminal, and a network device. By implementing this application, a problem that a receiving success rate of the change command cannot be improved when the another intra-frequency measurement event except the event 1D is triggered can be resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Dong Chen, Bing Shu, Yinghong Yang
  • Patent number: 10862647
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communications field, and provide a signal transmission method and apparatus, which can effectively resolve a resource waste problem of user data resource elements and improve system power utilization. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a first parameter value of a user data resource element (RE), an initial parameter value of a demodulation reference signal resource element (DMRS RE), and a compensation parameter value of the DMRS RE; determining, by the base station according to the initial parameter value and the compensation parameter value, a second parameter value required for transmitting a DMRS; and transmitting, by the base station, the DMRS, the user data, and the compensation parameter value to user equipment, so that the user equipment demodulates the user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dageng Chen, Yong Liu, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 10856178
    Abstract: Provided are a radio transmission apparatus, a radio receiving apparatus, a radio communication system, and a communication method that make it possible for the radio transmission apparatus performing OFDMA transmission to highly efficiently determine a radio receiving apparatus that is caused to participate in the OFDMA transmission. The radio transmission apparatus that performs OFDMA transmission with a plurality of radio receiving apparatuses includes a reception unit that has a function of performing carrier sense and a function of receiving a function information response frame including function response information indicating that a function of performing the OFDMA transmission is included, and a transmission unit that has a function of switching whether or not to transmit a frame to at least one of the plurality of radio receiving apparatuses on a basis of the carrier sense.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Tomoki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10834185
    Abstract: Technology related to activating a first communication channel is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, operations can be performed for initiating communications with a remote computing device over a first communication channel. The operations can comprise determining an address associated with a second communication channel of the remote computing device, transmitting a network packet addressed to the remote computing device over the second communication channel for causing the remote computing device to begin a sequence to activate the first communication channel, and initiating communication over the first communication channel with the remote computing device at a different address associated with the first communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anders Edgar Klemets, Cristian Matesan, Rouella Mendonca
  • Patent number: 10826826
    Abstract: A network management method includes a controller receiving an underlay network identifier and a network segment identifier. The underlay network identifier and network segment identifier can be associated with entries in a forwarding information base and border gateway protocol speakers may be deployed in association with the entries. A virtual network can be associated with the underlay network and network traffic can be forwarded to the virtual network according to the entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Yichen Wang, Ian Wells, Vasudevan Mahalingam
  • Patent number: 10827543
    Abstract: A service continuity ensuring method, a control plane gateway, and a mobility management network element, where the method includes: receiving, by a control plane gateway (C-GW), current location information of a user equipment (UE) sent by a mobility management network element; selecting, by the C-GW, at least one forwarding distributed gateway (D-GW) for the UE according to the current location information of the UE; establishing, by the C-GW for the UE, a data forwarding tunnel between a source D-GW of the UE and the forwarding D-GW, and a data forwarding tunnel between the forwarding D-GW and a target base station of the UE, where the data forwarding tunnels are used to transmit uplink user plane data and/or downlink user plane data of the UE in a moving process of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Shu, Yanping Zhang, Longyu Cao, Runze Zhou
  • Patent number: 10820352
    Abstract: In one of its aspects the technology disclosed herein concerns a communications system comprising an access node (22) and a wireless terminal (26). The wireless terminal comprises receiving circuitry (40) and transmitting circuitry (44) as well as processor circuitry (40). The transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a random access preamble configured for a request of system information. The receiving circuitry configured to receive a random access response. The processor circuitry is configured to consider a reception of the random access response as successful in a case that the random access response comprises a random access preamble identifier (RAPID) corresponding to the transmitted random access preamble, wherein the RAPID is in a medium access control (MAC) subheader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishii
  • Patent number: 10805854
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a first switching unit, and a second switching unit. The communication unit is configured to conduct a wireless communication using plural transmission methods, one of which has plural channels. The first switching unit switches between the channels according to quality of a communication that is being conducted. The second switching unit switches between the transmission methods when the first switching unit could not switch between the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Koue