Patents Examined by Saba Tsegaye
  • Patent number: 11632730
    Abstract: A method for performing, by a first apparatus, wireless communication is proposed in an embodiment. The method may comprise a step for generating a plurality of sidelink-synchronization signal blocks (S-SSBs) and transmitting the plurality of S-SSBs to a second apparatus within a preset period. For example, each of the plurality of S-SSBs may include a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS), sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS), and a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH). For example, the step for transmitting the plurality of S-SSBs within the preset period may comprise a step for performing scrambling on bit information associated with the PSBCH, modulating the scrambled bit information into a complex signal, and mapping the complex signal onto a physical resource. For example, the scrambling may be performed on the PSBCH included in each of the plurality of S-SSBs on the basis of a same scrambling sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woosuk Ko, Hyunsoo Ko, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11627580
    Abstract: A method comprising receiving a first indication, from a terminal device, indicating that the terminal device is capable of supporting carrier aggregation, obtaining information regarding a battery level of the terminal device, estimating battery consumption per one carrier component, and based, at least partly, on the estimated battery consumption and information regarding the battery level, determining a number of additional carrier components to be activated for the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Afef Feki, Fahad Syed Muhammad, Veronique Capdevielle, Muhammad Majid Butt
  • Patent number: 11627068
    Abstract: A device receives border gateway protocol (BGP) data associated with links provided in a segment routing network. The segment routing network includes a first autonomous system (AS) with first network devices interconnected by a first portion of the links, a second AS with second network devices interconnected by a second portion of the links, and an inter-AS link provided between one of the first network devices and one of the second network devices. The device filters prefixes of the BGP data to identify BGP data associated with the inter-AS link, where the BGP data associated with the inter-AS link includes data identifying state information associated with the inter-AS link. The device determines an operational state of the inter-AS link based on the BGP data associated with the inter-AS link, and performs one or more actions based on the operational state of the inter-AS link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Rosian Bin Md Zaki, Richard M. Chen, Patricio Giecco, Weiguo Lu
  • Patent number: 11627107
    Abstract: An integrated GW (I-GW) can be utilized to facilitate communications with Internet of things (IoT) devices that operate without Internet protocol (IP) addresses, based on assigned preferences and/or priority. In one aspect, the I-GW can efficiently deliver existing services for various types of IoT devices (e.g., that support different non-IP protocols) and can create emerging applications across different vertical applications. Further, the I-GW can leverage mobility network elements to authenticate, prioritize connections, and/or enable data orchestration via underlying software defined network (SDN)-enabled capabilities and/or infrastructure services. By utilizing IoT devices that do not have IP stacks, a cost and/or size of the IoT devices can be decreased and battery life can be significantly extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Erie Lai Har Lau, Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 11622339
    Abstract: This application discloses a communication method and a communications apparatus, and relates to the communications field, to reduce power consumption of a terminal. The communication method includes: determining, by a first network device, first information, where the first information includes type information of a synchronization signal block, and the type information of the synchronization signal block is used to indicate that the synchronization signal block is a cell-defined synchronization signal block or a non-cell-defined synchronization signal block; and sending, by the first network device, the first information to a second network device. Embodiments of this application are applied to an indication of the cell-defined or non-cell-defined synchronization signal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Jinyao Liang, Le Yan, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11606709
    Abstract: A method for controlling a function of a terminal device, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method comprises operations as follows. Function configuration information is acquired. The function configuration information is used to instruct the terminal device to activate a target function. Whether to execute the target function that is indicated to be activated in the function configuration information is determined based on a preset condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Shukun Wang, Ning Yang, Yang Xu, Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 11606184
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for indication of asymmetric default operating frequencies (DOFs) for bidirectional communications. In one aspect, a first device may report to the second device that the first device is using either a same DOF for communications in different transmission directions or different DOFs for the different transmission directions. Based on the reported DOF(s), the second device may use beam correspondence-based beam relationships on the different transmission directions if the DOFs are the same and resource block allocations for the communications in both transmission directions are closely matched in frequencies. Alternatively, if the DOFs are different for the different transmission directions, the second device may adjust either a codebook parameter or may use an appropriate antenna panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11589354
    Abstract: Performing inter-band carrier aggregation based on device capability includes monitoring a dominant type of wireless devices in a wireless sector based on whether or not they are capable of inter-band carrier aggregation, and enabling or disabling inter-band carrier aggregation in the sector based on the dominant type. Enabling/disabling inter-band carrier aggregation can include allowing or preventing usage of usage of a low-frequency carrier as a primary component carrier aggregated with a high-frequency carrier as a secondary component carrier. Carriers using FDD and TDD duplexing modes are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum LP
    Inventors: Hemanth Pawar, Krishna Sitaram, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas
  • Patent number: 11575588
    Abstract: A traffic control and monitoring module includes a firewall operating in a container namespace that is configured to control and monitor traffic to and from a container in the container namespace. The traffic control and monitoring module reports detected traffic to a traffic flow reporting module operating in a host namespace of the host operating system. The traffic control and monitoring module obtains traffic flows associated with a plurality of containers in different container namespaces and reports the traffic flows to a segmentation policy. Based on the reported traffic flows, the segmentation server may update a segmentation policy to improve network security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Illumio, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Michael McCormick, Juraj George Fandli
  • Patent number: 11576176
    Abstract: A communication method, a mobile terminal, a base station, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The present disclosure includes: obtaining a target resource for an uplink communication in a current communication process, where a frequency point corresponding to the target resource includes a first serving frequency point of a non-new radio NR communication system, and a communication system where the mobile terminal is located is a new radio NR communication system; and communicating with a base station according to the target resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Li Chen, Dajie Jiang, Xiaodong Yang, Fei Qin
  • Patent number: 11569949
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication methods. One example method includes determining a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second BWP, determining an association relationship between the first BWP and the second BWP, and at least one of determining a first quasi co-location (QCL) relationship based on the association relationship, and receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in the second BWP based on the first QCL relationship, or determining a second QCL relationship based on the association relationship, and receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the second BWP based on the second QCL relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Di Zhang, Jianqin Liu
  • Patent number: 11570779
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides communication apparatuses and communication methods for 5G NR based V2X communications. The communication apparatuses include a communication apparatus which comprises a receiver, which in operation, receives from a base station a first resource information indicating a first resource allocated by the base station; and a transmitter, which in operation, transmits to a target communication apparatus or a plurality of target communication apparatuses including the target communication apparatus a second resource information indicating a second resource allocated to at least the target communication apparatus, the second resource including a whole or a part of the first resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tien Ming Benjamin Koh, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang, Madhav Gupta, Lei Huang, Yang Kang, Chan Wah Ng, Hong Cheng Michael Sim
  • Patent number: 11558854
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of sending an inter-base station message between a first and second base station in a cellular telecommunications network, wherein the inter-base station message is transmitted via a relay component, the method including the relay component receiving a first inter-base station message from a first base station, wherein the first inter-base station message includes: a first address portion identifying a second and third base station, and a first content portion; the relay component transmitting a second inter-base station message to the second base station, the second inter-base station message including: a second address portion identifying the second base station, and a second content portion; and the relay component transmitting a third inter-base station message to the third base station, the third inter-base station message including: a third address portion identifying the third base station, and a third content portion, wherein the second and third content portio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Salvador Diaz Sendra
  • Patent number: 11546896
    Abstract: To appropriately notify information of a control channel configuration domain in a radio communication system that uses a synchronization signal block, one aspect of a user terminal according to the present invention includes: a reception section that receives a Synchronization Signal (SS) block including given bit information indicating a configuration of a control resource set; and a control section that decides contents of the given bit information according to a subcarrier-spacing and/or a frequency band applied to transmission of the SS block, and controls reception of a downlink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Murayama, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11546956
    Abstract: A method for controlling bearers in a core network includes receiving, from a user equipment (UE) device, a request for access to network resources, where the core network is coupled with a primary radio access technology (RAT) and a secondary RAT. The method includes determining an access point name (APN) RAT access restriction in response to the received request, where the APN RAT access restriction associates an APN with a corresponding RAT, where the corresponding RAT comprises at least one of the primary RAT or the secondary RAT. The method also includes assigning a radio bearer based on the determined APN RAT access restriction, wherein the assigned radio bearer exchanges data via the corresponding RAT; and identifying, to a master node, the assigned radio bearer for exchanging data between the UE device and a device specified by the APN via the corresponding RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Violeta Cakulev, Lalit R. Kotecha
  • Patent number: 11546914
    Abstract: A system information configuration method and device are provided, related to the field of communications. The method includes: determining, based on a target parameter which is predetermined, a frequency offset configuration parameter of a Remaining Minimum System Information (RMSI) Control Resource Set (CORESET) with respect to a System Synchronization Block (SSB), where the target parameter includes one or more of a channel bandwidth parameter, a Subcarrier Spacing (SCS) parameter of RMSI, an SCS parameter of SSB, a System Synchronization (SS) Raster parameter, and a RMSI CORESET bandwidth parameter; and performing a frequency offset configuration of the RMSI CORESET with respect to the SSB according to the frequency offset configuration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Bin Ren, Zheng Zhao, FangChen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11540318
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a carrier set, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes following steps: a first carrier set corresponding to a predetermined logical channel group for a UE performing a sidelink transmission is determined, where the predetermined logical channel group includes one or more logical channels, and the logical channels in the predetermined logical channel group correspond to a same destination ID. The problem of lacking the method of determining a complete carrier set when the UE performs a sidelink transmission in the related art is solved, and a purpose of determining a carrier set required by the UE for determining the sidelink transmission is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Weimin Xing, Youxiong Lu
  • Patent number: 11516811
    Abstract: This application provides a control information transmission method and a device. The method includes: sending, by a first network device, configuration information to a terminal device, where the configuration information is used to instruct the terminal device to detect first control information on a first carrier and detect second control information on a second carrier, and both the first control information and the second control information are control information for scheduling data on the second carrier; and sending, by the first network device, at least one of the first control information and the second control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ting Wang, Shengyue Dou, Yuanjie Li, Hao Tang
  • Patent number: 11516800
    Abstract: Bandwidth part (BWP) configurations supporting various communication approaches (e.g., full duplex and/or half duplex operations) are described. Full duplex (FD) frequency-based BWP configurations may, for example, be configured as a subset of defined BWP resources for supporting full duplex operation by base stations and/or user equipments (UEs). Usable bandwidth of a FD frequency-based BWP configuration may be selected from half duplex frequency-based BWPs in legacy BWPs. Bandwidths of usable BWPs for a FD frequency-based BWP configuration may be selected so as to be non-overlapping in frequency. Transition between configurations and modes (e.g., between full duplex frequency-based BWP configurations, between half duplex and full duplex modes, etc.) may be managed to avoid periods in which a communication device cannot perform any uplink or downlink transmissions due to switching between defined BWP configurations, or otherwise reduces BWP switching time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Huilin Xu, Hung Dinh Ly, June Namgoong
  • Patent number: 11516801
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system or a 6th-Generation (6G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system. A method of communicating with a user equipment by using a frequency resource of a second mobile communication provider in a mobile communication system, the method being performed by a first base station of a first mobile communication provider is provided. The method includes requesting to permit the first base station to use a second frequency resource of the second mobile communication provider, transmitting, to the user equipment, setting information, for establishing communication using the second frequency resource of the second mobile communication provider, through a first frequency resource of the first mobile communication provider, and communicating with the user equipment through the second frequency resource, based on the setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungil Park, Youngjoon Kim, Hyojin Lee