Patents Examined by Robert M Morlan
  • Patent number: 11936616
    Abstract: A controller assigns variable length addresses to addressable elements that are connected to a network. The variable length addresses are determined based on probabilities that packets are addressed to the corresponding addressable element. The controller transmits, to the addressable elements via the network, a routing table indicating the variable length addresses assigned to the addressable elements. Routers or addressable elements receive the routing table and route one or more packets over the network to an addressable element using variable length addresses included in a header of the one or more packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: David A. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11930529
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network, the radio node being adapted for accessing a carrier for transmission based on a Clear Channel Assessment procedure, the method including transmitting Short Control Signaling on the carrier without a CCA procedure and/or with limited CCA procedure based on the fulfillment of one or more SCS criteria. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Peter Alriksson, Reem Karaki, Stephen Grant, Narendar Madhavan, Havish Koorapaty
  • Patent number: 11923926
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver receives a plurality of first frames each including first information for generation of a trigger frame for uplink multi-user transmission. The transmitter transmits a second frame generated on the basis of the first information included in the plurality of first frames, the second frame being the trigger frame and designating at least one target terminal for the uplink multi-user transmission. Each of the first frames is transmitted by a respective one of terminals, each of which accesses a wireless medium using an access category associated with the first frame under CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Carrier Avoidance) to transmit the first frame. The second frame instructs the at least one target terminal to transmit third frames including data in a SIFS (Short Interframe Space) after the second frame is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: International Semiconductor Group
    Inventor: Tomoko Adachi
  • Patent number: 11916677
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for responding to a new data indicator for a hybrid automatic repeat request process. One method includes determining whether a current new data indicator in a current sidelink grant matches a last received new data indicator in a last received sidelink grant for a first hybrid automatic repeat request process. The method includes, in response to determining that the current new data indicator does not match the last received new data indicator, determining whether a negative acknowledgement has been transmitted in response to the last received sidelink grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Karthikeyan Ganesan, Joachim Loehr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11917702
    Abstract: An indication method, including receiving, by first user equipment, a first message sent by second user equipment, where the first message includes information indicating that the second user equipment supports an evolved user equipment-to-network relay function, and receiving, by the first user equipment, a second message sent by a network device, where the second message includes information indicating that the network device supports an evolved user equipment-to-network relay, or the second message includes information indicating that a cell in which the network device sends the second message supports an evolved user equipment-to-network relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haibo Xu, Nathan Edward Tenny, Yiru Kuang, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 11917618
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive an indication of a first set of resources for feedback and an indication of a second set of resources for feedback, where the second set of resources are associated with a smaller quantity of cyclic shifts than the first set of resources. Accordingly, the mobile station may transmit feedback on either the first set of resources or the second set of resources based at least in part on a distance associated with the feedback. As an alternative, the mobile station may compute a timing advance associated with transmission of feedback. Accordingly, the mobile station may feedback that is shifted in time according to the timing advance. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chiranjib Saha, Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Vishnu Vardhan Chetlur Ravi, Kazuki Takeda, Umesh Phuyal, Xiao Feng Wang, Peter Gaal, Gabi Sarkis
  • Patent number: 11917046
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for synchronising a node in a deterministic mesh network, in particular a network of sensors using a channel hopping (TSCH) transmission medium access mode. Each node measures the successive synchronisation offsets of its local clock in relation to those of neighbour nodes with which it enters into communication, the measurement being carried out by detecting a reception event of a packet transmitted by the neighbour node or an acknowledgement of a packet transmitted by said node to the neighbour node. The node estimates from these synchronisation offsets, a synchronisation offset for the timeslot and corrects its local clock by a fraction of the synchronisation offset thus estimated. Said fraction may be determined by means of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), each agent being associated with a node of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Meriem Smache, Thibault Franco Rondisson, Alexis Olivereau, Assia Tria
  • Patent number: 11910490
    Abstract: A multi-member Bluetooth device for communicating data with a remote Bluetooth device is disclosed including: a main Bluetooth circuit and an auxiliary Bluetooth circuit. In the period during which the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit operates at a relay mode, the main Bluetooth circuit receives packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device and forwards the received packets to the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit; the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit does not sniff packets issued from the remote Bluetooth device, but will switch to a sniffing mode if a signal reception quality indicator of the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit is superior to a predetermined indicator value. In the period during which the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit operates at the sniffing mode, the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit sniffs packets issued from the remote Bluetooth device and the main Bluetooth circuit receives packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Chen, Kuan-Chung Huang, Chia Chun Hung, Hou Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11870878
    Abstract: An electronic device in a network capable of enhancing transmission efficiency of other electronic devices in the network is provided. The electronic device includes a network interface, a non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to execute the instructions to request transmission of data from another electronic device in the wireless network. Moreover, the hardware processor is configured to execute the instructions to receive, using the network interface, the data from the other electronic device using a first protocol, and determine a condition of a transmission delay of the data. In response to determining the condition of the transmission delay, an instruction is transmitted to the other electronic device to retransmit the data using a second protocol. The data is received from the other electronic device using the second protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Prasad Panje, Lakshmi Arunkumar
  • Patent number: 11855962
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises storing, in one or more data repositories, a plurality of channel records, each channel record including a channel identification (ID) and channel status indicator; receiving, at a computing device, a join request for a client account to join a channel, the join request including a first channel ID; determining whether a channel record of the plurality of channel records stored in the one or more data repositories includes a channel ID that matches the first channel ID; in response to determining that each channel record of the plurality of channel records does not include a channel ID that matches the first channel ID, creating and storing, in the one or more data repositories, a first channel record that includes: the first channel ID and a channel status indicator set to active; receiving, at the computing device, a first notification from a programmed message transport service that a channel corresponding to the first channel ID is set to inactive
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN US, INC.
    Inventors: Julien Hoarau, Jerome Touffe-Blin, Patrick Streule
  • Patent number: 11848800
    Abstract: A system and method for connecting virtual computer networks in a public cloud computing environment using a transit virtual computer network uses a cloud gateway device in the transit virtual computer network that includes a first-tier logical router and a plurality of second-tier logical routers connected to the virtual computer networks. A source Internet Protocol (IP) address of outgoing data packets from a particular virtual computer network is translated at a particular second-tier logical router of the cloud gateway device from an IP address of the particular virtual computer network to an internal IP address from a particular pool of IP addresses. The outgoing data packets are then routed to the first-tier logical router of the cloud gateway device, where the outgoing data packets are transmitted a destination network from a particular interface of the first-tier logical router of the cloud gateway device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Rahul Jain, Mukesh Hira
  • Patent number: 11848852
    Abstract: An autonomous system border router (ASBR) provided in a domain in which routers share an anycast address, may perform a method comprising: (a) receiving, from an exterior Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) peer, first reachability information for a first prefix, the first reachability information including a first next hop (NH) address; (b) communicating first link state information about the first prefix to another router in the domain, the first link state information associating the first prefix with the anycast address; (c) receiving, from an eBGP peer, second reachability information for a second prefix, the second reachability information including a second next hop (NH) address; and (d) communicating second link state information about the second prefix to the other router in the domain, the second link state information associating the second prefix with the anycast address. This effectively reduces the number of next hops related to a prefix learned by two or more ASBRs (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Suraj Narayan Sharma, Hitesh Mali
  • Patent number: 11838158
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes identifying a slot type of a terminal from a first slot type and a second slot type, determining a position of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based on the slot type, and receiving the DMRS based on the position from a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheolkyu Shin, Taehyoung Kim, Jinyoung Oh, Youngwoo Kwak, Seunghoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11831397
    Abstract: Scrambling code is initialized based on a parameter, n?RNTI, that changes from a given block of sub-frames to a subsequent block of sub-frames wherein the parameter is derived using one of the following formulas: n?RNTI=(nRNTI+SFN)mod 216 n?RNTI=(nRNTI+k)mod 216 where nRNTI is a temporary identifier associated with a mobile device connected to said cell and for which said scrambling code is applicable; and SFN is a system frame number associated with said at least one of said sequence of sub-frames; and k is a sub-frame counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Arnott, Yassin Aden Awad, Caroline Liang
  • Patent number: 11831546
    Abstract: A relay network system includes a plurality of relay nodes connected to each other to constitute a relay network and one or more blockchain peer nodes connected to the relay nodes. Each relay node receives at least one of a connection packet including connection request information and a block packet including block information at the user level, transmits the block packet to a connected blockchain peer node and another relay node, and updates a connection information table so that information on the connection to the blockchain peer node and relay node connected to transmit or receive the block packet corresponds to the connection packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Changhyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11811901
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for managing forwarding equivalence class (FEC) hierarchies, including obtaining a forwarding equivalence class (FEC) hierarchy; making a first determination that a first hardware component supports a maximum levels of indirection (MLI) quantity; making a second determination that the FEC hierarchy has a hierarchy height; based on the first determination and the second determination, performing a comparison between the MLI quantity and the hierarchy height to obtain a comparison result; and based on the comparison result, performing a FEC hierarchy action set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor A. W. Siemens, Mayukh Saubhasik
  • Patent number: 11812382
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a system and method is disclosed for efficient wake up in a wireless communication device for receiving beacons without significantly affecting the battery power and data throughput. Wireless device receives beacons from network elements such as access points. If beacons are not received as scheduled within defined intervals, then the wireless device determines a pattern of beacon reception timings and uses a weighted score process to select the best possible reception timing pattern and uses it as the schedule for receiving beacons on going forward basis, thus avoiding staying awake at all time to receive misaligned beacons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Oran Naftali, Yuval Jakira, Liran Brecher, Asaf Even-Chen
  • Patent number: 11758481
    Abstract: A method of wireless communications by a sidelink UE (user equipment) includes receiving a first signal as part of a discontinuous reception (DRX) wake-up procedure at the beginning of a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) ON duration. The method also includes transmitting a response to the first signal as part of a DRX wake-up procedure. The method further includes starting a timer after sending the response. The method still further includes entering a sleep state upon not receiving a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) or physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) before the timer expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ling Ding, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Qian Zhang, Tianyang Bai, Kiran Venugopal, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11750536
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method on a device. The device has hardware including storage. The method includes obtaining log event data from at least one component or service on the device that is to be delivered to a component or service on a distinct device. Each log event data item has a priority. If a connection to an external location is lost, at least some of the log event data items are selectively stored in the storage, wherein the storing is based on priority of the log event data items. Otherwise, if the connection is not lost, at least some of the log event data items are sent to the at least one external location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Newton
  • Patent number: 11736455
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for performing a verification process. In some embodiments, video streams may be exchanged between two devices via a first network connection. Additionally, an out-of-band connection can be established between the two devices. A degradation in the first network connection may be detected. In response to the detection, the first device may be configured to identify one or more key frames from the video stream. The key frames can be identified due to the inclusion of information indicative of the identity of the user of the first device (e.g., a representation of the user’s face and/or an identity document such as a driver’s license). The key frames are transmitted via the out-of-band connection with a higher quality resolution than the resolution utilized by the video stream. The first user’s identity may be verified using the key frames despite the degradation of the first network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amit Mittal