Patents Examined by Rodrick Mak
  • Patent number: 11601899
    Abstract: Techniques that provide link establishment between a radio equipment controller (REC) and a radio equipment (RE) in a fronthaul network are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes performing, Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) Layer 1 (L1) link auto-negotiation operations to establish a CPRI link between the REC and RE. A proxy slave may achieve a hyper frame number (HFN) synchronization with the REC at a link bit rate for a first CPRI bit stream and communicate the first CPRI bit stream and the link bit rate to a proxy master. The proxy master may communicate a second CPRI bit stream to the proxy slave to transmit to the REC. The L1 link auto-negotiation operations are completed and CPRI link is established between the REC and the RE when the REC achieves a HFN synchronization for the second CPRI bit stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Prashant Anand, Manoj Kumar, Sudhir Kayamkulangara, Dinuraj K, Manigandan Boopalan
  • Patent number: 11588567
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing devices in a vehicle may make use of the Controller Area Network (CAN) communication bus. A bus interface of each of two or more devices coupled to the bus may be configured to accept a same message broadcast via the communication bus, in which the message has a specific message identification (ID) header. A message may be received from the communication bus that has the specific message ID simultaneously by each of the two or more devices. Operation of the two or more devices may be synchronized by triggering a task on each of the two or more devices in response to receiving the message having the specific message ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Jasbir Singh Nayyar, Brian Paul Ginsburg
  • Patent number: 11575422
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically detecting and correcting the deactivation of beamforming from an antenna. One or more users are identified as present within a particular geographic area typically served by beamforming, and the average signal strength of the one or more user devices is monitored. If a threshold level of degradation of the average signal strength is detected, then a beamforming status is determined for one or more of the antennas serving the user device or devices. Based on the determination, corrective measures are taken and beamforming is reactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Andrew M. Wurtenberger
  • Patent number: 11496234
    Abstract: A control plane, available to all of the line cards in a system, is used to exchange time stamps to align the Time of Day counters in the master line cards. The master line cards are locked to a system clock distributed over the backplane by a timing card. The timing card is locked to timing of a slave line card that is synchronized with the grand master. Each master line card synchronizes updating its Time of Day counter based on a time stamp exchange and a local clock locked to the system clock and without the use of a 1 pulse per second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Srisai Rao Seethamraju
  • Patent number: 11483691
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for time of arrival estimation in wireless systems and devices. Devices include a packet detector configured to identify a data packet included in a received signal having a symbol frequency. Devices also include a time stamping unit configured to generate an initial time stamp in response to the packet detector identifying the data packet. Devices further include an IQ capture unit configured to acquire a plurality of IQ samples representing phase features of the received signal. Devices additionally include a processing unit that includes one or more processors configured to generate an estimated time of arrival based on the initial time stamp and the plurality of IQ samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Victor Simileysky
  • Patent number: 11469945
    Abstract: In order to conserve power resources for low complexity UEs, a base station may apparatus dynamically adjust a bandwidth configuration of a UE or the base station and communicates with the UE according to the dynamically adjusted bandwidth configuration. The communication may be narrowband communication. A UE may apparatus dynamically adjust a bandwidth configuration of the UE and communicates with a base station based on the dynamically adjusted bandwidth configuration. The dynamically adjusted bandwidth configuration may correspond to a function performed by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Chih-Hao Liu, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11418633
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for scheduling and indicating scheduling information in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A station (STA) includes a transceiver configured to receive a header for a protocol data unit and a controller configured to identify common information for a plurality of STAs that are scheduled in the WLAN from a common field in the header and to identify user-specific information for the STA from a user-specific field in the header that follows the common field. An access point (AP) includes a controller configured to include common information for a plurality STAs that are scheduled in the WLAN in a common field in a header of a protocol data unit, and to include user-specific information for the STAs in a user-specific field in the header that follows the common field. The AP also includes a transceiver configured to transmit the protocol data unit including the header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaushik M. Josiam, Rakesh Taori
  • Patent number: 11412383
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating data transmission using a decentralized consensus network. The system comprising: a verified and decentralized consensus network comprising a plurality of node, wherein at least one of the nodes is configured to: (a) determine a target node from the plurality of nodes to be verified; verify the target node by validating a geographic location of the target node or a time of the target node; and (c) receive a token for verifying and validating the target node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventors: Amir Haleem, Andrew Thompson, Andrew Allen, Marc Nijdam, Jay Kickliter
  • Patent number: 11405303
    Abstract: An intelligent decision-making device and method for UAV formation information interaction topologies in communication interference, comprising: acquiring a three-dimensional UAV formation without communication interference, an initial communication network D1 and an initial information interaction topology T1; acquiring communication links A0 interrupted by UAV formation with communication interference; acquiring interrupted communication links A1 in T1 based on A0 and T1; determining whether A0 affects T1; if not, T1 being the final information interaction topology; if yes, acquiring substitute reverse arcs of A1 and substituting A1 with them to obtain an information interaction topology T2; determining whether T2 is a three-dimensional persistent graph; if yes, T2 being the final information interaction topology; if not, acquiring an undirected graph R1 corresponding to T2; acquiring spare edges based on R1; and adding an arc corresponding to a spare edge in T2 based on the spare edges to obtain a final in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hefei University of Technology
    Inventors: Guoqiang Wang, He Luo, Xiaoduo Li, Xiaoxuan Hu, Xin Cao, Huawei Ma, Wei Xia, Peng Jin, Ya Li
  • Patent number: 11395242
    Abstract: Techniques associated with link establishment in a fronthaul network are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a proxy node, a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) bit stream transmitted by a radio equipment controller, wherein the CPRI bit stream is transmitted within a transmit time interval of the radio equipment controller; and fast-sampling, by the proxy node, the CPRI bit stream to determine whether a hyper frame number synchronization with the radio equipment controller at a common matching link bit rate is achievable, wherein the fast-sampling comprises attempting to decode the received CPRI bit stream and achieve the hyper frame number synchronization for each of a plurality of link bit rates configured for a fast-sampling time period during at least one fast-sampling time interval configured for the proxy node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Prashant Anand, Manoj Kumar, Sudhir Kayamkulangara, Dinuraj K, Manigandan Boopalan
  • Patent number: 11381509
    Abstract: Described embodiments improve the performance of a computer network via selectively forwarding packets to bypass quality of service (QoS) processing, avoiding processing delays during critical periods of high demand, increasing throughput and efficiency may be increased by sacrificing a small amount of QoS accuracy. QoS processing may be applied to a subset of packets of a flow or connection, referred to herein as “lazy” processing or lazy byte batching. Packets that bypass QoS processing may be immediately forwarded with the same QoS settings as packets of the flow for which QoS processing is applied, resulting in tremendous overhead savings with only minimal decline in accuracy. In case of backlog, packets may be collected together into an aggregated or ‘uber’ packet, with QoS processing applied based on a virtual size of the aggregated packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Kenneth Keith, Mustafa Kutluk Testicioglu
  • Patent number: 11375395
    Abstract: Network hardware devices organized in a wireless network. A controller device receives device information about each of a multiple network devices, network congestion at each device, scan data, and a station list from each of the devices. The controller device assigns a channel to each radio of the multiple network devices using the device information, the network congestion data, the scan data, and the station list and outputs a first subset of channel assignments to a first group of the network devices, a second subset of channel assignments to a second group of the network devices, and a third subset of channel assignments to a third group of the network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chiu Ngok Eric Wong, Kun Ting Tsai, Xueheng Hu, Jian Lu, Armando J. Lucrecio
  • Patent number: 11343781
    Abstract: Techniques that provide link establishment between a radio equipment controller (REC) and a radio equipment (RE) in a fronthaul network are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes performing, Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) Layer 1 (L1) link auto-negotiation operations to establish a CPRI link between the REC and RE. A proxy slave may achieve a hyper frame number (HFN) synchronization with the REC at a link bit rate for a first CPRI bit stream and communicate the first CPRI bit stream and the link bit rate to a proxy master. The proxy master may communicate a second CPRI bit stream to the proxy slave to transmit to the REC. The L1 link auto-negotiation operations are completed and CPRI link is established between the REC and the RE when the REC achieves a HFN synchronization for the second CPRI bit stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Prashant Anand, Manoj Kumar, Sudhir Kayamkulangara, Dinuraj K, Manigandan Boopalan
  • Patent number: 11336385
    Abstract: Disclosed is a data transmission method in a mobile communication system. The data transmission method through a code sequence in a mobile communication system includes grouping input data streams into a plurality of blocks consisting of at least one bit so as to map each block to a corresponding signature sequence, multiplying a signature sequence stream, to which the plurality of blocks are mapped, by a specific code sequence, and transmitting the signature sequence stream multiplied by the specific code sequence to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Evolved Wireless LLC
    Inventors: Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Seung Hee Han, Hyun Hwa Park, Dong Cheol Kim, Hyun Woo Lee, Min Seok Noh
  • Patent number: 11310150
    Abstract: A novel method for fully utilizing the multicast or broadcast capability of a physical network is provided. The method identifies segments of the network within which broadcast traffic, multicast traffic, or traffic to unknown recipients (BUM traffic) is allowed or enabled. The identified segment encompasses parts of the network that the BUM traffic is able reach while excluding parts of the network nodes that the BUM traffic is unable to reach. Each identified segment includes network nodes that are interconnected by physical network hardware that supports BUM traffic. The method identifies multiple BUM traffic segments in a given network that each supports its own BUM traffic. The different BUM traffic segments are interconnected by physical network hardware that does not support BUM network traffic. Each identified segment is assigned an identifier that uniquely distinguishes the identified segment from other identified segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Tessmer, Ram Dular Singh, Ganesan Chandrashekhar
  • Patent number: 11304214
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication method of a communication device, an electronic device, and a storage medium, the communication method includes: constructing a target group, wherein the target group includes the communication device and at least one other communication device, and each communication device in the target group sequentially transmits a message on a communication frequency point of the target group; determining a priority of the communication device in the target group, and determining a transmission time slot corresponding to the priority according to the priority; transmitting data message in the transmission time slot, and receiving data message at a time other than the transmission time slot. With the communication method, the electronic device and the storage medium provided by the present disclosure, communication can be implemented in a relatively convenient and economical way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kejun Hu
  • Patent number: 11223932
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. For example, a requesting device may transmit a sensor data request message to a responding device. The sensor data request message may include a token identifier associated with the sensor data request message. The requesting device may receive a sensor data response message from the responding device. The sensor data response message may include a first indication of the token identifier at a first layer and a second indication of the token identifier at a second layer. The first layer may be a physical layer that is a lower layer than the second layer. The requesting device may transmit a first feedback message to the responding device and in response to detecting the first indication of the token identifier at the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sudhir Kumar Baghel
  • Patent number: 11218896
    Abstract: A method for a base station (BS) operating in a wireless communication system, the method includes transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), first information indicating a threshold value for an uplink data split operation; and receiving a buffer status report (BSR) from the UE, wherein a value of a buffer size in the BSR is determined based on second information that indicates an amount of data available for transmission for a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity of the UE when the amount of the data available for transmission is larger than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi, Youngdae Lee, Sungjun Park
  • Patent number: 11219054
    Abstract: The present aspects relate to device-to-device (D2D) relaying in a wireless communication system. In an aspect, a remote user equipment (UE) may transmit, on at least one sidelink channel, a scheduling request to a relay UE connected with a network entity. The remote UE may further receive, on one or more sidelink channels, a scheduling indication including a resource grant from the relay UE in response to transmitting the scheduling request. In a further aspect, a relay UE may receive, on at least one sidelink channel, a scheduling request from a remote UE. The relay UE may further determine, a resource grant for the remote UE in response to receiving the scheduling request. The relay UE may further transmit, on one or more sidelink channels, a scheduling indication including the resource grant to the remote UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Gulati, Zhibin Wu, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
  • Patent number: 11212743
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for connecting to a local area communication resource in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes receiving access point connection-related information and automatic connection support-related information from a plurality of access points, identifying at least one access point capable of supporting automatic connection among the plurality of access points based on the automatic connection support-related information, receiving connection information from an information server connected to the at least one access point, selecting one access point from the at least one access points based on basic service set (BSS) link information included in the access point connection-related information with respect to the at least one access point, Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) information, and link information of an external network included in the connection information, and performing a local area communication with the selected access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bu-Seop Jung, Edwin Joseph Vimal Bastin, Ji-Hyun Jung