Patents Examined by Rownak Islam
  • Data transmission method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11284346
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving data sent by a terminal in an inactive state, where the data includes to-be-sent data sent by the terminal and identification information of the terminal; determining an anchor base station of the terminal based on the identification information; and sending the data to the anchor base station, so that the anchor base station sends the data to a core-network device. The uplink data of the terminal is forwarded to the anchor base station by using a serving base station and through an interaction between the anchor base station and the serving base station that currently provides an air interface resource for the terminal, and is then transmitted to a core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Qinghai Zeng, Qufang Huang, Xiaoxiao Zheng
  • Coverage enhancement level signaling and efficient packing of MTC system information
    Patent number: 11265732
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitting and receiving of system information which includes controlling the transmission and/or the reception to transmit and/or receive system information including a coverage enhancement level indication for indicating enhanced coverage levels supported by the wireless communication system and to transmit and/or receive system information including a group of information elements common for different coverage enhancement levels and information elements specific for different coverage enhancement levels grouped for respective coverage enhancement levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Joachim Loehr
  • Channel feedback method and related device
    Patent number: 11265045
    Abstract: A method in the embodiments of this application includes: generating, by a terminal device, first information, where the first information includes parameters q, m1, m2, . . . , mL, and indication information of a vector V; q is an integer, and q<Q; Q is an integer, and Q>1; 0?ml?N?1, and 1?l?L; L>1, N, L, and l are integers, and N is a quantity of subbands in a frequency domain bandwidth; and the vector V includes L elements and satisfies V=Fq×C, where C is a vector formed by N elements c1, . . . , cN, C=[c1 c2 . . . cN]T, ck is used to indicate channel state information on a kth frequency domain subband, ck is a complex number, a modulus of ck is |ck|?1, and 1?k?N; and sending, by the terminal device, the first information to a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruiqi Zhang, Yongxing Zhou
  • Distance estimation device and method and signal-power calibration method
    Patent number: 11259266
    Abstract: An estimation device is provided. The distance estimation device includes a calibration circuit and a distance estimation circuit. The calibration circuit may receive channel state information (CSI), and obtain signal-path power and noise-path power according to the CSI, and perform calculation to divide the signal-path power by the noise-path power to obtain a signal-power calibration value. The distance estimation circuit is coupled to the calibration circuit. The distance estimation circuit receives a received signal strength indication (RSSI) and the signal-power calibration value, and obtains a path-loss exponent according to the RSSI and the signal-power calibration value, and obtains a distance-estimation value according to the signal-power calibration value and the path-loss exponent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: I-Ping Chang, Chia-Shing Huang, Hung-Yi Teng, I-Hsien Li
  • Handover random access
    Patent number: 11252619
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Random access procedures may include various types of procedures, such as 4-step or 2-step random access procedures. One or more indicators may be included in one or more messages for a handover to indicate a type of a random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon
  • Selection of a network element
    Patent number: 11246063
    Abstract: A method for delivering information on a serving mobile switching centre server for an user equipment between a first communication network and a second communication network. The method includes a step of requesting an attachment of the user equipment to the second communication network by signaling between the user equipment and a network node of the second communication network, the signaling including at least part of information on the mobile switching centre server serving the user equipment in the first communication network. Additionally, an user equipment and a network node implementing the aspects of the method are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Nils Bojeryd
  • Controlling channel usage in a wireless network
    Patent number: 11246016
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and embodiments related to a technique for controlling channel usage in a wireless network in a multi-band wireless networking system. In a wireless network with multiple wireless networking devices and one or more client devices, communications between the wireless networking devices occurs via a backhaul channel, and communication between the client(s) and the wireless networking devices occurs via a fronthaul channel. Based on interference characteristics of the wireless channels, a device determines a channel usage plan, and communicates the plan via the backhaul channel to the wireless networking devices of the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NETGEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel, Peiman Amini
  • Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a communication system
    Patent number: 11239958
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system to be provided to support a higher data transmission rate since fourth generation (4G) communication systems like long-term evolution (LTE). A method of a receiver in a wireless communication system is provide. The method includes receiving at least one packet, identifying whether there is a non-received packet among the at least one packet, and transmitting status report information when there is the non-received packet, in which the status report information includes a field indicating whether there are consecutively non-received packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangkyu Baek, Hyunjeong Kang
  • Flexible ethernet path establishment method and network device
    Patent number: 11228526
    Abstract: A method and a network device for establishing FlexE path includes a first forwarding node receiving a first path establishment request message sent by a first source node, where the first path establishment request message is used to establish a first FlexE path between the first source node and a first destination node, and the first FlexE path is used to transmit a first service flow; the first forwarding node establishing a second FlexE path between the first forwarding node and a second forwarding node based on the first path establishment request message, and deleting an established third FlexE path between the first forwarding node and the second forwarding node after the second FlexE path is established; and the first forwarding node establishing and storing a correspondence between the first FlexE path and the second FlexE path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zongpeng Du, Guoyi Chen, Jie Dong
  • Data transmission method and terminal
    Patent number: 11229046
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a data transmission method and a terminal. In the method, the terminal supports transmissions with different TTL The method comprises: a base station instructing the terminal to use, on the basis of a target time unit of a target carrier wave, a first TTI for transmitting first data for semi-persistent scheduling and a second TTI for transmitting a second data for dynamic scheduling; and determining, on the basis of respective positions in the target time unit of a first time resource occupied for transmitting semi-persistent scheduling and of a second time resource occupied for transmitting dynamic scheduling, to transmit at least one of the first data and the second data, thereby achieving dynamic scheduling and semi-persistent scheduling using different TTIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Bin Feng
  • Communication method, terminal device, and network device
    Patent number: 11229036
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: starting, by a terminal device, a preconfigured timer; and monitoring, by the terminal device, resource preemption indication information transmitted by a network device in a preconfigured target frequency monitoring area within a duration of the timer, where the resource preemption indication information is used to indicate a resource that is preempted by other traffic in an evolved mobile broadband traffic (eMBB) resource, the eMBB resource is a time-frequency resource used to schedule eMBB traffic, the other traffic is different from the eMBB traffic. The embodiments of the present application can inform a terminal device of a preempted eMBB resource flexibly within a duration of a timer by using the resource preemption indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Methods and apparatus relating to selective enhancement of radio signals
    Patent number: 11223460
    Abstract: A method (100), performed in a User Equipment (UE), is disclosed. The method is for facilitating the establishing of a UE processing configuration for the selective enhancement of radio signals received or transmitted by the UE. The method comprises receiving from a Transmission Point (TP) of a wireless network an indication that an identified reference signal is usable by the UE for establishing a UE processing configuration (110), and receiving the identified reference signal from a Transmission Point of the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Niclas Wiberg, Håkan Andersson, Andreas Bergström, Johan Furuskog
  • Method of providing information to an audio/video receiver device and corresponding apparatus
    Patent number: 11218523
    Abstract: To enable fast startup of an audio/video receiver device and quick receipt of a first audio/video stream, is provided a method in an intermediate device in between a router device and the receiver device. The intermediate device snoops the communication between the audio/video receiver device and the router device to determine the protocol version of the router device to subscribe to a transmission of an audio/video stream and to determine that the receiver device is starting up. If the protocol version is a version not supporting Source Specific Multicast and the receiver device is booting, a message indicating the protocol version is transmitted to the receiver device during starting up of the receiver device so that the latter can switch to a protocol version supported by the IP multicast router device without further delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Zujian Zhuang, Jiancheng Liu
  • Methods and devices associated with direct communications in a radio access network
    Patent number: 11212874
    Abstract: A method for enabling a wireless communication device to operate in a radio access network as a network relay device to a remote device, using a short range communication channel there between, wherein the communication device receives a control indication signal from the remote device as an indication of future data between the communication device and the remote device via the short range communication channel which forms part of a sidelink communication between the relay device and the remote device; wherein the relay device decodes the control indication signal from the remote device to extract a time allocation for future data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: JRD COMMUNICATION (SHENZHEN) LTD
    Inventors: Roy Ron, Olivier Marco
  • Flexible redundancy using RF switch matrix
    Patent number: 11196456
    Abstract: Techniques including controlling coupling and uncoupling of RF ports included in an RF switch matrix including first-side RF ports and second-side RF ports, where each of the first-side RF ports is configured to be selectively coupled to at least one of two or more of the second-side RF ports, identifying one or more of the second-side RF ports as active ports including an active port, causing the RF switch matrix to couple the active port to a signal port included in the first-side RF ports, obtaining at least one of a bit error rate and a signal to noise ratio for a demodulation of an RF stream received via the active port, and causing, in response to at least one of the bit error rate or the signal to noise ratio, the RF switch matrix to couple the signal port to a spare port included in the second-side RF ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Merchlinsky
  • Method and apparatus for transmitting channel state information in wireless access system supporting machine type communication
    Patent number: 11197297
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method by which an MTC terminal measures channel state information (CSI), a method for transmitting CSI, and apparatuses supporting the same. A method by which the MTC terminal feeds back CSI in a wireless access system supporting machine type communication (MTC), according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving allocation information on a limited MTC bandwidth allocated to the MK terminal; calculating CSI; and feeding back the CSI. Here, the CSI can include MTC wideband channel state information (MTC W-CQI) for the limited MTC bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bonghoe Kim, Joonkui Ahn
  • Packet transmission method and network device
    Patent number: 11190451
    Abstract: A method for transmitting packets includes: determining, by a transmitting device based on a length of a packet, whether a quantity of tokens in a first token bucket meets a requirement for transmitting the packet, where a token injection rate of the first token bucket is set based on bandwidth of a first link. If the quantity of tokens in the first token bucket meets the requirement for transmitting the packet, a quantity of tokens required for transmitting the packet is obtained, and the packet is transmitted using the first link. If the quantity of tokens in the first token bucket does not meet the requirement for transmitting the packet, determining whether a second link is congested. If the second link is not in a congested state, the transmitting device transmits the packet by using the second link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lihao Chen, Mingui Zhang
  • Device and method of handling channel access in unlicensed band
    Patent number: 11184929
    Abstract: A method of handling channel access in an unlicensed band comprises initiating a first channel access procedure according to a first channel access priority class for at least one first packet which is scheduled to be transmitted in a first duration on a carrier in an unlicensed band; setting a first counter in the first channel access procedure; initiating a second channel access procedure according to a second channel access priority class for at least one second packet which is scheduled to be transmitted on the carrier; setting a second counter in the second channel access procedure; transmitting the at least one second packet in a second duration on a first frequency resource on the carrier; and transmitting the at least one first packet in the first duration on a second frequency resource on the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Method for transmitting service signal by using ethernet channel and communications device
    Patent number: 11165698
    Abstract: By bearing multiple service signals in a same bearing area of a same Ethernet PCS channel, it is implemented that multiple types of service signals share an Ethernet channel, so that the multiple types of service signals can share a link resource and an interface module resource. This provides a basis for convergence and integration of devices in a multi-technology system, and can improve utilization of link resources and reduce a quantity, a footprint, power consumption, maintenance costs, and the like of devices in a metropolitan area network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qiwen Zhong
  • Systems and methods for automatic routing, mapping, and clustering of remote units in a distributed communication system
    Patent number: 11160048
    Abstract: Automatic routing, mapping, and clustering of remote units in a distributed communication system are disclosed. A mobile device is positioned proximate a given remote unit. Measurements are made so that the distributed communication system can map the location of the remote unit to a remote unit identifier and port within a central unit of the distributed communication system. Once the remote units are mapped to specific locations and the ports properly identified, the central unit may designate clusters within the distributed communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventor: Eytan Radian