Patents Examined by Siren Wei
  • Patent number: 10477597
    Abstract: A communication apparatus reads a two-dimensional code displayed by an external apparatus, and then stores in a clipboard a security key, which is included in the read two-dimensional code, for connecting to an access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10469150
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for determining a precoding matrix indicator, a receiving device, and a sending device. The method for determining a precoding matrix indicator includes: selecting, by a receive end, a precoding matrix W from a codebook based on a reference signal sent by a transmit end, where the precoding matrix W is a product of two matrices W1 and W2, where the W1 includes NB block matrices Xi, NB?1, and the W1 is indicated as: W1=diag{X1, . . . , XNB}, where 1?i?NB, and a column xi,j of each block matrix Xi is a Kronecker product of a first vector Aij and a second vector Bij, that is, xij=Aij?Bij; and sending, by the receive end, a precoding matrix indicator PMI corresponding to the precoding matrix W to the transmit end, so that the transmit end obtains the precoding matrix W according to the PMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianqin Liu
  • Patent number: 10454717
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes a radio processing circuit and a baseband processing circuit adapted to interact with the radio processing circuit. The mobile terminal device is configured to identify a first set of frequency resources allocated for a wireless channel by a mobile communication network, calculate a first channel response estimate for a second set of frequency resources of the wireless channel using a reference signal derived from a second mobile terminal device, wherein the reference signal is distributed across the second set of frequency resources of wireless channel, calculate a second channel response estimate for the first set of frequency resources of the wireless channel using the first channel response estimate, and apply the second channel response estimate to schedule data transmission intended for the second mobile terminal device over the wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Tianyan Pu, Biljana Badic
  • Patent number: 10447606
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided, comprising receiving one or more data frames at a Time Sensitive Network (TSN) module; determining a classification for each data frame via the TSN module; generating a schedule for the one or more data frames to transmit the data frame through a communication network based on the classification; transmitting the one or more data frames based on the schedule; and controlling one or more operations of an installed product based on the transmitted one or more data frames. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Stephen Francis Bush
  • Patent number: 10447462
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of determining an optimum point at which to synchronize a digital subscriber line in a telecommunications network, with the aim of maximizing the resulting synchronization rate while maintaining a stable line. For many lines, the signal to noise ratio (SNR) varies over the course of a day, and recurs on a daily basis. The phenomenon is often referred to as the “diurnal effect”. The SNR history for the line is monitored, and the minimum SNR for the line is determined over a 24 hour period to take into account the diurnal effect. The current target SNR margin imposed by DLM on the line is determined, for example, by interrogating the DLM system or by noting the SNR margin on the line immediately after the most recent line synchronization. The optimum point at which a resynchronization is to be performed is calculated as point when the SNR on the line is equal to the minimum SNR plus the current target SNR margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventors: Richard Gedge, Chi-Fai Lau, Simeon P Williamson
  • Patent number: 10440692
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus such as for example a mobile or a base station, comprising at least one processing core configured to compile a message comprising information concerning resources used in a communication network, the at least one processing core being configured to perform a first determination, that a second user equipment is engaged in a device-to-device session with a first user equipment, the at least one processing core being configured to, responsive to the first determination, include in the message information concerning the second user equipment, and a transmitter configured to cause the message to be transmitted toward a network node. The message may comprise a resource usage report and/or charging report, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Dajiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10425930
    Abstract: Provided is a method of transmitting control information of a base station in a mobile communication system includes obtaining scheduling information from a terminal; and transmitting at least two control channels through one down link carrier, wherein each control channel corresponds to a different uplink carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Young Bum Kim, Ju Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10420109
    Abstract: A method for transmitting feedback includes receiving feedback configuration information for explicit channel feedback for a plurality of transmit beam-receive beam combinations (TRBCs) between the user device and transmit-receive points (TRPs) of a multi-point set associated with the user device, generating the explicit channel feedback for the plurality of TRBCs, generating at least one modified uplink resource for each TRP in a subset of the TRPs of the multi-point set, the modified uplink resources are generated in accordance with the feedback configuration information, the modified uplink resources are configured to convey the explicit channel feedback to the subset of TRPs of the multi-point set, and transmitting the modified uplink resources to the subset of the TRPs of the multi-point set, where the at least one modified uplink resource associated with a TRP in the subset of the TRPs is transmitted to the TRP using a single TRBC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Bin Liu, Lili Zhang, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Patent number: 10419197
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to performing initial network access procedures using shared resources are provided. A first wireless communication device transmits, in a first frequency band, a random access request to a first network. The first wireless communication device receives, in response to the random access request, a random access response from a second wireless communication device of the first network. The random access response is in a second frequency band allocated to the first network for time-division duplexing (TDD) communications. The second frequency band is different than the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Montojo, Yeliz Tokgoz, Valentin Gheorghiu
  • Patent number: 10412717
    Abstract: A system, comprising a base station and a wireless device, is provided for managing reference signal interference in a wireless communication system allowing device-to-device, D2D, communication. The base station and the wireless device and methods therein are described. The method in the wireless device comprises receiving an indication, from a base station, of downlink transmission resources that are associated with D2D communication in a cell associated with the BS during at least a time period T. The method further comprises determining based on the received indication, downlink reference signals that may be subjected to interference, caused by D2D communication, when performing reference signal measurements during at least the time period T. The method further comprises excluding or reducing 403 the influence of said downlink reference signals when performing reference signal measurements during at least the time period T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gabor Fodor, Chrysostomos Koutsimanis, Govardhan Madhugiri Dwarakinath, Per Skillermark
  • Patent number: 10411952
    Abstract: A method is provided for localizing a physical network fault in a network having a plurality of network participants. The method comprises detecting by a first network participant and a second network participant that communication with a third network participant and the respective further participant of the first and second network participants is disrupted. In response to the detecting, the first network participant and second network participant automatically reduce their baud rate. The method comprises further establishing a connection between the first network participant and second network participant with use of the reduced baud rate, detecting by the first network participant and/or the second network participant that communication with the third network participant is not possible with use of the reduced baud rate, and storing information on the impossibility of communication with the third network participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Georg Westerkamp, Lars Friedrich
  • Patent number: 10412634
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the field of queue management. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a technique of adjusting adaptive queue management operation in a wireless communication network. A method embodiment comprises determining (S202), by an access network node (100) of the wireless communication network, whether an increase in capacity for data transmission between the access network node (100) and a wireless communication device (300) is expected, and adjusting (S204), by the access network node (100), AQM operation associated with the access network node (100), if it is determined that an increase in capacity for data transmission between the access network node (100) and the wireless communication device (300) is expected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Torsten Dudda, Martin Isaksson, Reem Karaki, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 10404427
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a protocol structure and packet segmentation and NACK information feedback mechanism for efficient data transmission in a mobile communication in which a terminal receives data on the multiple carriers from multiple base stations. The present invention proposes a protocol structure appropriate for a mobile communication system supporting inter-eNB carrier aggregation and the terminal and base station operations for packet efficient segmentation and efficient NACK information feedback in association with the protocol structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Bum Kim, Soeng Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 10404721
    Abstract: A communication device capable of detecting transmission of an improper message to a network. A CAN controller in the gateway transmits and receives a message attached with a priority level (ID) to/from an ECU through a communication line, and counts, by the consecutive block number counter, the number of transmitted messages that are consecutively blocked as a result of arbitration processing as the number of consecutive blocks and stores the number as the number of allowed blocks into an allowed block number table in the storage unit in association with a priority level attached to the message received at the communication line. Every time a message is received, the controller compares the number of consecutive blocks with the number of allowed blocks for this message, and detects abnormality if the number of consecutive blocks is larger than the number of allowed blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takada, Ryo Kurachi, Hiroshi Ueda, Satoshi Horihata
  • Patent number: 10404534
    Abstract: Provided a method for networking intelligent terminals. The method includes regularly transmitting a networking connection message by a first intelligent terminal in an intelligent terminal system. Upon receiving, by the first intelligent terminal, a networking request returned by a second intelligent terminal according to the networking connection message, the first intelligent terminal controls the second intelligent terminal to join the intelligent terminal system. Also provided is a device for networking intelligent terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD.
    Inventor: Chunhong Tan
  • Patent number: 10390369
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus in a multi-carrier cellular wireless network with random access improve receiving reliability and reduce interference of uplink signals of a random access, while improving the detection performance of a base station receiver by employing specifically configured ranging signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Neocific, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Titus Lo, Kemin Li, Haiming Huang
  • Patent number: 10375726
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device communicating critical or latency sensitive information may determine that a transmission has failed in a shared radio frequency (RF) spectrum band. The device may then transmit a silencing signal in a managed RF spectrum band, and switch to communicating in the managed band. Other wireless devices communicating with the first device may receive the silencing signal and may also switch to the managed RF spectrum band. Based on the silencing signal, user equipments (UEs) not associated with the critical communications and operating in the managed band may suspend transmissions, although they may still receive downlink (DL) data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li, Vincent Douglas Park
  • Patent number: 10341905
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless device operable in a first wireless communication network and a second wireless communication network comprises receiving, from the first wireless communication network, an identification of network nodes of the second wireless communication network. The network nodes of the second wireless communication network are operable to process traffic for the wireless device. The method further comprises receiving an instruction from the second wireless communication network to move traffic from a first network node of the second wireless communication network to a second network node of the second wireless communication network. The first network node is one of the identified one or more network nodes of the second wireless communication network. The method also comprises determining that an identification of the second network node is not included in the received identification of one or more network nodes of the second wireless communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Oumer Teyeb, Mattias Tan Bergström, Filip Mestanov
  • Patent number: 10341046
    Abstract: Mixed mode constellation mapping to map a data block to a block of sub-carriers based on a configurable set of one or more constellation mapping schemes, and corresponding mixed mode least likelihood ratio (LLR) de-mapping based on the configurable set of one or more modulation schemes. The set may be configurable to include multiple modulation schemes to provide to a SEvSNR measure that is a non-weighted or weighted average of SEvSNR measures of the multiple modulation schemes. Mixed mode constellation mapping may be useful be configurable to control spectral efficiency versus SNR (SEvSNR) over a range of SNR with relatively fine SNR granularity, and may be configurable to control SEvSNR over a range of SNR at a fixed FEC code rate, which may include a highest available or highest permitted code rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard Arambepola, Noam Tal, Sahan S. Gamage, Thushara Hewavithana, Shaul Shulman
  • Patent number: 10313852
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for a terminal selecting a distributed antenna in a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system. Here, the method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from all the terminals in a group in which the terminal is included, channel space information for each of the terminals; determining a DU selection on the basis of the received channel space information for each of the terminals; and transmitting the determined DU selection information. Here, the terminal may determine all of the DU selection for each of every terminal in the group, and transmit each determined DU selection information to the corresponding terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heejin Kim, Jiwon Kang, Kitae Kim, Kilbom Lee, Kungmin Park