Patents Examined by Siming Liu
  • Patent number: 10568056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of assigning a transmission timing to a radio terminal in a radio network system including at least a radio network node and a radio terminal and employing a time division duplex method dividing a transmission time in an uplink transmission time interval and a downlink transmission time interval for transmission between the radio network node and the radio terminal, comprising the following steps: determining a speed of movement of the radio terminal with respect to the radio network node; assigning to the radio terminal, based on the speed of movement, a transmission timing in the downlink or uplink transmission time interval. The present invention relates further to a radio network node and a radio terminal adapted to assigning a transmission timing according to the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pål Frenger, Emil Björnson, Martin Hessler, Giovanni Interdonato, Erik Larsson
  • Patent number: 10560888
    Abstract: The object of the present invention can be achieved by providing a method of a wireless prefetching of an user equipment (UE) for a program comprising a plurality of stages including at least one task, in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a broadcast message including a list of supported service; transmitting a RRCConnectionRequest message to the eNB with a establishmentCause as computation offloading for a program of a service included in the list; receiving a RRCConnectionSetupComplete in response to the RRCConnectionRequest; transmitting bits for a first task that is necessary for stage K; transmitting bits for a second task that is included in stage K+1 before completion of the stage K; and, receiving a result for the stage K and for the second task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Bonghoe Kim, Kaibin Huang, Seungwoo Ko
  • Patent number: 10536976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adapting the functioning of a device accessing a medium according to a method of the CSMA type, for example Wi-Fi, when interference caused by a device, for example of the LTE type, is detected on the same communication channel, the adaptation of the functioning of the device being able to comprise the lowering of an energy-detection threshold and/or the modification of the functioning of a contention window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS
    Inventor: Massinissa Lalam
  • Patent number: 10531363
    Abstract: A method of controlling wireless Internet access is disclosed. A problem with conventional wireless Internet access is that users of wireless Internet access devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptop computers are often presented with an indication of the availability of an Internet connection, but find when they try to use that connection that it is of a disappointing quality. In some cases, the disappointing quality is caused by a poor radio link between the wireless device and an access point. In order to alleviate the problem in those cases, a method of controlling wireless Internet access is disclosed in which the attachment of a wireless device to a wireless network triggers the access point providing that wireless network to send the wireless device a series of test frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: David Townend, Francis Scahill, Simon Ringland
  • Patent number: 10511987
    Abstract: Various features related to eMTC-U deployment are described. In an aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus (e.g., a base station) maybe configured to select a subset of non-anchor channels from a set of available non-anchor channels, where the subset of non-anchor channels may correspond to a bandwidth within an unlicensed band. The apparatus maybe further configured to transmit information indicating the subset of non-anchor channels via an anchor channel. In some configurations, the subset of non-anchor channels maybe selected based on channel measurements performed by the base station or a UE. In one aspect, a UE may receive, from a base station via an anchor channel, information indicating a subset of non-anchor channels selected from a set of available non-anchor channels. The UE may transmit data on one or more non-anchor channels of the subset of non-anchor channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Srinivas Yerramalli, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 10499455
    Abstract: An apparatus for sharing terrestrial broadcast contents by using a smart antenna configured to receive the terrestrial broadcast contents and to transmit received terrestrial broadcast contents to a display terminal via a wireless communication network and a display terminal configured to receive the terrestrial broadcast contents from the smart antenna and to display received terrestrial broadcast contents includes a smart antenna searching unit configured to search at least one other smart antenna connected via a network, a contents searching unit configured to search terrestrial broadcast contents receivable by the at least one other smart antenna, and a contents sharing unit configured to cause the terrestrial broadcast contents searched by the contents searching unit to be shared by at least one display terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Inventor: Sang Il Park
  • Patent number: 10499389
    Abstract: A base station for wireless network uses one or more MIMO channels having subchannels, to communicate with multiple user equipments, and allocates the sub channels to the user equipments. Different subchannels of a given one of the channels can be allocated to different user equipments. The ability to allocate sub channels individually rather than only allocating entire channels can enable higher data rates to be achieved. This is particularly useful for improving data rates at cell boundaries or sector boundaries, where the coverage is traditionally weakest. A user equipment can use subchannels from different MIMO channels from different sectors or from different base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fiona Wilson, Keith Wilson
  • Patent number: 10492128
    Abstract: A method for controlling delay tolerant access of a Machine-Type Communication (MTC) device based on a backoff mechanism is provided. The method includes receiving, at a terminal, a paging message including an access barring information update indicator from a base station, and receiving a System Information Block (SIB) including updated access barring information, the SIB being received regardless of modification periods. The terminal receives the SIB including the updated access barring information immediately without waiting for the arrival of next modification period, resulting in improvement of access barring efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim, Kyeongin Jeong
  • Patent number: 10484681
    Abstract: The image predictive encoding device 10 comprises an intra frame predictive signal generation method determination section 15 which determines, for adjacent areas comprising regenerated pixel signals and adjacent to the target area, a predictive method which is derived on the basis of data corresponding to the adjacent areas as an R mode predictive method or an L mode predictive method, an intra frame predictive signal generation section 16 which generates an intra frame predictive signal on the basis of the R mode predictive method thus determined, and a subtractor 18, a transform section 19, a quantization section 20, and an entropy encoding section 25 which encode a residual signal of a pixel signal of the target area on the basis of the generated intra frame predictive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Choong Seng Boon, Thiow Keng Tan
  • Patent number: 10448407
    Abstract: The embodiments herein disclose a method and system for interference cancellation in a Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) including a base station serving a User Equipment (UE), and a plurality of neighbor base stations. Further, the method includes sharing a parameter associated with the base station serving the UE and the plurality of neighbor base stations in the HetNet. Further, the method includes determining whether the UE is experiencing interference from the neighbor base station based on the parameters. Further, the method includes coordinating with the base station serving the UE to cancel the level of interference experienced by the UE based on the transmission mode associated with each base station serving the UE and the neighbor base station interfering at the UE. The transmission mode is one of a Single-Input and Multiple-Output (SIMO) and Multiple-Output and Multiple-Output (MIMO) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD
    Inventor: Kiran Kumar Kuchi
  • Patent number: 10447441
    Abstract: A first radio base station informs a second radio base station about the configuration information of a second carrier, such as NBC or EC, not having an individual first identifier, as the configuration information of the second carrier is correlated with a first carrier, such as BC, having the individual first identifier. The radio station has a function of performing communication with a radio terminal using simultaneously a plurality of carriers included in the carrier set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Futaki
  • Patent number: 10440160
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an encoder circuit and a scrambler circuit configured to receive a frame, the frame including a preamble and a payload. The scrambler circuit is further configured to scramble contents of the frame including the payload and at least a portion of the preamble, provide synchronization information with results of scrambling the contents, and send results of scrambling the contents to the encoder circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jiachi Yu, Dixon Chen, Hongming An, John Zang, Kevin Yang
  • Patent number: 10433243
    Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating and exploiting the availability of multiple communication technologies in a network of moving things, for example including a network of autonomous vehicles. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide for the flexible utilization of one or more communication pathways available to nodes in a vehicle network based, at least in part, on real-time context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Veniam, Inc.
    Inventors: Diogo Lopes, Tiago Condeixa, Ricardo Matos
  • Patent number: 10432543
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for packet-based communications. More specifically, some embodiments provide cause a machine (e.g., client device, data center, collaboration service, etc.) to receive data packets from a network. The data packets can include payloads that represent encoded data from a real-time communication between multiple devices and can be copied into multiple jitter buffers. The multiple jitter buffers can include a first jitter buffer having a first size and a second jitter buffer having a second size that is larger than the first size of the first jitter buffer. In some embodiments, the machine can decode the data packets or payloads from the multiple jitter buffers to create at least a first output signal from first jitter buffer and a second output signal from the second jitter buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Sriram Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 10425959
    Abstract: A first device senses scheduling assignment (SA) and received power of a second device, and a total received energy of each subband. The first device determines a reference value of received power of the second device and a reference value of total received energy, based on a sensing result of the second device. The first device selects a resource, based on the reference value of received power and reference value of total received energy, the first device transmits data. By adopting the method of the present disclosure, decoding performance of SA is improved, and accuracy for measuring received power of the SA is also enhanced. Subsequently, on the basis of SA and received power, performances for selecting/re-selecting channel resources are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingyang Li, Shichang Zhang, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 10419980
    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. The present disclosure further relates to a method by a session management function (SMF) in a network including a session that is established via a first user plane function (UPF). The method includes determining whether to change the first UPF to a second UPF, and transmitting, to a terminal via an access and mobility function (AMF), a first message including a maintain time of the session established via the first UPF, when the first UPF needs to be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jicheol Lee, Jinsung Lee, Jungshin Park, Beomsik Bae, Kisuk Kweon, Sangjun Moon, Hyungho Lee
  • Patent number: 10412658
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and network nodes for distributing data packets through a plurality of wide area network (WAN) interfaces and through a gateway at a network node. In order to determine whether the gateway is a slave gateway, identification request is sent to the gateway by a network node. When the gateway is configured as a slave gateway, transmitting instruction to the gateway. Further, weighting may be assigned to the WAN interfaces. Further, connections may be established through WAN interfaces of the network node and WAN interfaces of the gateway. The connections may further be aggregated together to form an aggregated connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: PISMO LABS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Patrick Ho Wai Sung, Kit Wai Chau, Wan Chun Leung, Kam Chiu Ng
  • Patent number: 10397095
    Abstract: Access-side loop mitigation may be provided. First, a first edge device may determine that a duplicate host exists on a network. Then the first edge device may detect a loop in response to determining that the duplicate host exists on the network. Detecting the loop may comprise sending a message on a plurality of access-side ports of the first edge device and then receiving, in response to sending the message on the plurality of access-side ports of the first edge device, a response on a first access-side port of the plurality of access-side ports of the first edge device. Next, the first edge device may mitigate the detected loop in response to receiving the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lukas Krattiger, Samir Thoria, Manoj Kumar Pandey
  • Patent number: 10389656
    Abstract: Techniques for determining port-to-port connectivity in an extended bridge are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a port extender (PE) of the extended bridge (e.g., a base PE) can build a local database comprising connectivity information for one or more physical cascade ports of the PE. This building can be based on one or more messages received from another PE in the extended bridge (e.g., a transit PE) that is directly connected to the PE. The PE can then transmit, at a time of joining the extended bridge, the connectivity information to a controlling bridge (CB) of the extended bridge for storage thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Bipin Agarwal
  • Patent number: 10374946
    Abstract: A centralized network management system includes a wireless controller system and a plurality of access points that are coupled together through a network. Each of the plurality of access points is configured to receive wireless traffic from user devices and determine whether flow session rules are available for the wireless traffic. If so, wireless traffic received by an access point that is part of a flow session is modified by that access point according to at least one flow session rule that was received from the wireless controller system and that is associated with the flow session to which that wireless traffic belongs. That modified wireless traffic is translated to modified wired traffic by the access point, and the access point then perform an action on the modified wired traffic according to the at least one flow session rule associated with the flow session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Rabah S. Hamdi, Christopher Stephen Petrick