Patents Examined by Saba Tsegaye
  • Patent number: 10673726
    Abstract: A heartbeat packet timer identification method and a device, where the identification method is performed by a device that sets a timer, and the method includes determining, in a data packet transmitted by the device, each associated data packet corresponding to each timing end moment of the timer and determining, according to each associated data packet and each timing end moment of the timer, whether the timer is a heartbeat packet timer set by the device for transmitting a heartbeat packet. With reference to a data packet transmitted by a device and each associated data packet that corresponds to each timing end moment of a timer, the heartbeat packet timer identification method and the device may determine with relatively high accuracy whether the timer is a heartbeat packet timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Peng, Youzhen Chen, Song Yang, Yuhua Guo
  • Patent number: 10660065
    Abstract: Provided are a method of transmitting a paging message and a device supporting the method. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting a paging message in a wireless communication system includes: receiving a paging information from a Central Unit (CU) of the base station; and transmitting the paging message based on the paging information to a User Equipment (UE), wherein the DU is a lower layer of the base station, and the CU is a higher layer of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Daewook Byun, Jaewook Lee, Jian Xu, Seokjung Kim
  • Patent number: 10652786
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing 5G access for a UE are generally described. The UE is simultaneously connected via dual radio operation to a legacy and 5G access system. The UE mobility management states for the access systems are independent of each other. The EPC and 5G CN share an HSS and may share a IP anchor. When handover occurs between access systems, the IP address is retained and the IP anchor used when the UE transmits an Attach Request having a Handover Attach Request Type and otherwise a new IP address is provided and the HSS but not the IP anchor is common between the access systems. The 5G eNB to which the UE is connected is standalone and connected to the 5G CN or dual mode and connected with an EPC via an LTE anchor in addition to the 5G CN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Muthaiah Venkatachalam
  • Patent number: 10652123
    Abstract: In order to enable to measure a throughput with high accuracy in an application layer, a throughput measuring method according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes: transmitting data to a receiving device, receiving a feedback indicating a receiving completion of the data, from the receiving device, calculating a boundary value of a range of values allowable for a throughput, based on the feedback and a transmitted data amount of the data, measuring a theoretical value of the throughput, and outputting the boundary value when the theoretical value falls outside the range, and outputting the theoretical value when the theoretical value falls within the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Natsuki Kai
  • Patent number: 10645599
    Abstract: A method of reporting channel state information (CSI) on a terminal in which a plurality of CSI processes are configured in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: measuring a channel based on a CSI reference signal (RS) resource related to one of the CSI processes; measuring interference based on a CSI-interference measurement (IM) resource related to the CSI process; determining CSI based on the measured channel and the measured interference; and reporting the CSI through an uplink channel, wherein a codebook for reporting the CSI, which is used for determining the CSI, is one of two or more codebooks that correspond independently to each of the CSI processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park, Hanbyul Seo, Hanjun Park
  • Patent number: 10638470
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a downlink control channel can be transmitted in varied numbers of OFDM symbols. The downlink control channel can be transmitted in a first number of OFDM symbols or can be transmitted in a second number of OFDM symbols. A user equipment can monitor a first downlink control channel candidate that spans the first number of OFDM symbols and can monitor a second downlink control channel candidate that spans the second number of OFDM symbols in a transmission time interval (TTI) for the reception of the downlink control channel. The downlink control channel can be transmitted by means of one or more control channel elements (CCE), each CCE comprising resources in the same OFDM symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyangsun You, Yunjung Yi, Eunsun Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 10631344
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for acquiring a resource. Herein, the method includes the following steps: acquiring a resource request index and a contention opportunity set (100); acquiring a number of maximum contention times (101); determining a contention opportunity that UE participates in contention according to the acquired resource request index, the contention opportunity set and the number of the maximum contention times; and acquiring a resource for sending data by using the contention opportunity (102). By means of the present disclosure, since UE can participate in contention for the contention opportunity set only after acquiring information about the number of the maximum contention times, the problem of collision, i.e., contention conflict caused by a reason that a plurality of UEs contend for the same contention opportunity can be easily reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shuqiang Xia, Bo Dai, Wei Gou, Focai Peng
  • Patent number: 10624070
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a scheduling and transmission scheme to manage multiple uplink control information (UCI) resource grants for periodic and aperiodic UCI for a particular user equipment (UE). Grant selection rules may be defined to enable the UE to select one or more of the UCI resource grants allocated within a particular period of time. In addition, the grant selection rules may further enable the UE to combine both periodic and aperiodic UCI within a particular UCI resource grant. The grant selection rules may further enable the UE to multiplex UCI over multiple UCI resource grants. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Bilal Sadiq
  • Patent number: 10623313
    Abstract: A path computation method and a related device are disclosed. The method includes: a second network device receives path requirement information and a recomputation condition that are sent by a first network device; the second network device first obtains by means of computation a path meeting a requirement according to the path requirement information, and sends description information of the path meeting the requirement to the first network device; then the second network device constantly determines whether the recomputation condition is met; and when the recomputation condition is met, the second network device performs path recomputation, and sends description information of a path obtained by means of recomputation to the first network device. Therefore sensitivity for triggering path recomputation can be improved and a quantity of communication messages between network devices can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Zhou, Qin Wu, Feng Li, Yue Yin
  • Patent number: 10608866
    Abstract: Forwarding Ethernet packets is disclosed, including: receiving an incoming packet; determining a value based at least in part on performing a hash operation on at least a portion of a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address included in the incoming packet; comparing the value against a pre-established look-up table to determine whether a corresponding index value is found, wherein the pre-established look-up table stores index values and corresponding data sets to respective ones of the index values; determining a destination media access control (MAC) address associated with the incoming packet based at least in part on whether the corresponding index value is found in the pre-established look-up table; and forwarding the incoming packet to a virtual machine associated with the determined destination MAC address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Shikun Tian, Yingbin Wang, Weicai Chen, Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 10595213
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and embodiments of the present application disclose a method and an apparatus for configuring a secondary cell, and a host, where the method includes: receiving a secondary cell configuration message sent by a first base station, where the secondary cell configuration message includes a secondary cell index configured by the first base station for a secondary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junren Chang
  • Patent number: 10595247
    Abstract: The application relates to Network Function Virtualisation as standardised by ETSI GS NFV002 VI.2.1. The standard provides for dynamic instantiation and management of VNF instances. When using base stations as platforms on which VNFs can be instantiated, it has to be decided how this is done in an efficient way. The application proposes that in case a UE moves from an area covered by a source base station (210) to an area covered by a target base station (220), at least one VNF (250) is deployed on the target base station. This VNF may be a clone of a VNF (240) hosted by the source bases station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Uwe Horn, Branko Djordjevic
  • Patent number: 10588117
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to packaging of feedback information bits in a wireless communication system. Some embodiments are applicable to both Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) and Time Division Duplexing (TDD) systems, whereas other embodiments are particularly well-suited for TDD systems. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a cellular communications network comprises receiving, from the cellular communications network, an indication of one of a plurality of predefined sets of feedback information codebook sizes, the plurality of predefined sets of feedback information codebook sizes being disjoint subsets of a plurality of predefined feedback information codebook sizes. In some embodiments, the indication enables the wireless device to return an expected number of feedback information bits to the cellular communications network, particularly in a saturation where the wireless device misses one or more downlink assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Shaohua Li, Mattias Andersson
  • Patent number: 10587325
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for reporting channel state information, including receiving a sounding signal set sent by the base station and determining a reference signal resource configuration index according to the sounding signal set, where the reference signal resource configuration index is used to indicate a reference signal resource configuration in reference signal resource configuration set information. The method also includes receiving a reference signal set sent by the base station, where the reference signal set corresponds to the reference signal resource configuration and determining channel state information according to the reference signal set. Additionally, the method includes sending the reference signal resource configuration index and the channel state information to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianguo Wang, Yongxing Zhou
  • Patent number: 10581942
    Abstract: A user of a communication network may have specific requirements for its critical data streams. The user may require dedicated channel capacity for its critical application. A dedicated channel may be separate from a common channel carrying non-critical data of the user. The user may create policies for assigning channel capacities to its critical data streams based on various criteria. The user may also create policies on sharing the dedicated channel capacity among its different critical data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Thomas Sella, James Michael Sella, Pete Joseph Caputo, II
  • Patent number: 10582465
    Abstract: A method for configuration of radio interface based synchronisation comprises obtaining of hearability information and synchronisation ability information concerning a multitude of radio base stations. The hearability information comprises an identity of the radio base station, and experienced signal quality from and identities of other radio base stations. The synchronisation ability information comprises information about a quality of synchronisation obtainable by the radio base station. A radio interface based synchronisation configuration is created in dependence of the obtained information. The radio interface based synchronisation configuration comprises definitions of synchronisation links, which radio base stations are recommended to use for synchronisation purposes. Data defining the radio interface based synchronisation configuration is provided for transmission to the respective radio base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Mikael Olofsson, Angelo Centonza, Magnus Sandgren
  • Patent number: 10574830
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to various methods to increase network coverage with respect to Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) sessions and/or other voice-based multimedia services. In particular, when establishing a voice session, two or more terminals may perform a codec negotiation to exchange information related to supported multimedia codecs and/or codec modes, jitter buffer management (JBM), and packet loss concealment (PLC) capabilities. Based on the exchanged information, a message may be sent to a base station to indicate the maximum packet loss rate (PLR) for each terminal. Additional techniques may ensure that the terminals use the most robust codecs or codec modes that are available when nearing the edge of coverage to help avoid unnecessary and/or excessive handovers to different radio access technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incoporated
    Inventors: Vivek Rajendran, Nikolai Konrad Leung, Min Wang, Venkatraman Atti
  • Patent number: 10575351
    Abstract: Provided are D2D communication methods and D2D-enabled wireless devices. The D2D communication method performed by a D2D-enabled wireless device includes transmitting signals in D2D subframes with a randomization pattern. The randomization pattern is designed based on relative subframe positions in a virtual pure D2D subframe sequence composed of multiple D2D subframes in one or more radio frames. In another embodiment, the eNB scheduling based resource allocation and the D2D-enabled wireless device selection on its own based resource allocation share a same randomization pattern design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10567122
    Abstract: A method, base station, and terminal for dynamic uplink configuration in a wireless communication system, the method including: determining reconfiguration information including a reconfiguration point of time, to employ first uplink and downlink subframe configuration in the first configuration period before the reconfiguration point of time, and to employ second uplink and downlink subframe configuration in a second configuration period after the reconfiguration point of time; and in the last transmission period before the reconfiguration point of time, employing an uplink scheduling timing sequence of a reference uplink and downlink subframe configuration according to an uplink data timing sequence, the reference uplink and downlink subframe configuration including the second uplink and downlink subframe configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Mingliang Tao, Ting Fu
  • Patent number: 10567136
    Abstract: A method for downlink control information (DCI) transmission/reception is provided. The method for DCI transmission comprises: receiving, by a user equipment, a narrowband physical downlink control channel (N-PDCCH) carrying the DCI. The N-PDCCH is received using at least one of two control channel element (CCEs) on the 1 resource block (RB) only. A first CCE of the two CCEs occupies 6 subcarriers of the lowest indices among the 12 subcarriers and a second CCE of the two CCEs occupies 6 subcarriers of the highest indices among the 12 subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyangsun You, Yunjung Yi