Patents Examined by Stephen N Steiner
  • Patent number: 11246181
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus of data transmission in a wireless communication system and a method and apparatus of receiving data in a wireless communication system. The method of data reception comprises transmitting a request for the RRC message to the network node based on default transmission parameters; and receiving the RRC message from the network node at a predetermined time unit. With embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to request the RRC message when the terminal device need this message and therefore the RRC message transmission can be reduced and in turn, the inter-node interference can be limited, and the number of LBTs required for these signal transmissions can be reduced if they are transmitted on unlicensed spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hongmei Liu, Lei Jiang, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11245510
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising one or more configuration parameters of a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells comprise: a first cell comprising a first bandwidth part (BWP); and a second cell comprising a second BWP and a third BWP. The first BWP and the second BWP are bundled. A beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure for the third BWP is initiated. A switch is made to the first BWP as an active BWP of the first cell during the BFR procedure. Based on the switching: the BFR procedure is aborted; and a switch is made to the second BWP as an active BWP of the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon
  • Patent number: 11212200
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a system that implements a set of tools to define a set of one or more logical forwarding elements from a number of physical forwarding elements and a scalable framework to retrieve statistics relating each logical forwarding element. In some embodiments, the statistics relate to the logical ports of a logical forwarding element. The system of some embodiments allows a network administrator to retrieve a total packet count and byte count for one or more logical ports of the logical forwarding element, even though the logical ports may be distributed across multiple physical forwarding elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Somik Behera, Henry Mai
  • Patent number: 11212863
    Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus in a wireless network are described. One example communication method includes establishing dual connections to a first access network device and a second access network device by a terminal device. A connection that is between the terminal device and the first access network device and that is included in the dual connections is a radio resource control (RRC) connection. The terminal device receives first configuration information sent by the first access network device. The first configuration information includes signaling radio bearer (SRB) configuration information of the second access network device and a trigger condition for using the SRB configuration information. When the trigger condition is met, the terminal device uses the SRB configuration information of the second access network device to establish an RRC connection to the second access network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haifeng Yu, Xin Xiong, Feng Yu
  • Patent number: 11212826
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by user equipment. The method comprises: initiating a first timer based on a state related to a scheduling request; and when the first timer expires, then transmitting information related to the scheduling request. Furthermore, the present disclosure further provides corresponding user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11206075
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device may perform a first set of beam measurements for a first plurality of beams over a wireless channel, each beam in the first plurality of beams having a first beam-width. The communication device may transmit a first beam measurement report for the first plurality of beams, the first beam measurement report indicating a beam sweep order for a second set of beam measurements for a second plurality of beams. The communication device may perform the second set of beam measurements for the second plurality of beams over the wireless channel according to the indicated beam sweep order, each beam in the second plurality of beams having a second beam-width that is narrower than the first beam-width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Juergen Cezanne, Kobi Ravid, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11197206
    Abstract: When a UE is served with dual-connectivity by a master node (MN) over master connection on a first radio access technology (RAT) and a secondary node (SN) over a secondary connection on a second RAT and where the UE is engaged in a voice call over the master connection, an entity detects that quality of the UE's master connection has become threshold poor and responsively carries out a sequence of operations including (i) releasing the UE's secondary connection with the SN so as to transition the UE from dual-connectivity to standalone-connectivity served by the MN, and (ii) then transferring the UE's voice call from being served by the MN on the first RAT to instead being served by a tertiary node (TN) on a third RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Siddharth S. Oroskar, Jasinder P. Singh
  • Patent number: 11196654
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a statistics collection framework that is used to aggregate statistic for interfaces such as logical ports and logical port pairs. Flows that are related with these interfaces are tagged with the identifier of the logical entities for which statistics are being collected. The interface statistics is periodically sent in the background to a statistics aggregator. The read queries for the interface statistics are directed to the statistics aggregator. The statistics aggregator, therefore, acts as a cumulative cache for the interface statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Somik Behera, Henry Mai
  • Patent number: 11172053
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a transfer apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a packet from a source which distributes data according to a transmission control protocol (TCP); a storage unit configured to store data included in the received packet in a buffer based on a TCP sequence number of the received packet; a TCP transfer unit configured to transfer the received packet to a first sink which requests distribution according to the TCP; and a UDP transfer unit configured to read the data from the buffer and transfer the read data to a second sink which requests distribution according to a user datagram protocol (UDP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Higo, Ryota Ishibashi, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Yoshiko Sueda, Masao Aihara
  • Patent number: 11140584
    Abstract: A node of a radio access network (e.g., a cellular network) can receive a revocation message revoking a spectrum grant (e.g., a Citizens Broadband Radio Service, CBRS, discontinuation notice). The node can determine a first group of terminals that are in communication with the node via wireless resources within the spectrum grant. The node can, in response to the revocation message, trigger respective inter-band handovers of the terminals of the first group of terminals. In some examples, a system includes a domain proxy that receives a grant message indicating the spectrum grant; notifies the node; subsequently, receives a revocation message revoking the spectrum grant; and sends a handover command to the node in response to the revocation message. The spectrum grant can be located within 3GPP band forty-eight or other bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet Hinc, Waqas Gull, Taha Najeeb
  • Patent number: 11134527
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method executed at UE. The method comprises: determining whether a DRB-related identifier that is part of current UE configurations is included in a received RRC configuration, wherein the DRB-related identifier comprises one of the following: a PDU session identifier, a QoS flow identifier, and an SDAP identifier, and if the DRB-related identifier is included in the RRC configuration, then releasing one or a plurality of the following items of a DRB associated with the DRB-related identifier: a PDCP entity, an RLC entity, a DTCH, a DRB identifier, and an SDAP entity. The present disclosure further provides corresponding UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: FG Innovation Company Limited, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Renmao Liu, Fangying Xiao
  • Patent number: 11115882
    Abstract: A joint transmission (JT) method and apparatus, the method including selecting, by a network device of a serving cell, a JT user equipment and a coordinated neighboring cell of the JT user equipment, sending, by the network device of the serving cell, a JT user equipment request to a network device of the coordinated neighboring cell, scheduling the JT user equipment and sending scheduling information to the network device of the coordinated neighboring cell, and sending, by the network device of the serving cell, a reference signal and data to the JT user equipment according to the scheduling information, where the reference signal sent by the network device to the JT user equipment by the network device of the serving cell is the same as a reference signal sent by the network device of the coordinated neighboring cell of the JT user equipment to the JT user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Rui Cai, Chao Zhang, Ying Qian, Huaijie Xue
  • Patent number: 11115895
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved implementation of a flood fill mesh network that utilizes low power and does not require any network addressing or routing protocol for network message delivery. Network messages are only communicated to a network node's correspondents using broadcast network messages over a wireless network. Network messages propagate throughout the network based on each correspondent node rebroadcasting received messages to its correspondent nodes, and so on. Coordinated synchronization across network nodes can be achieved by each network node broadcasting synchronization frames to its correspondents within a synchronization window time period and thereafter adjusting its own start time for the next synchronization period to converge synchronization. A guard band may also be utilized to account for any clock drift and signal path delays between any two communicating network nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventor: Guy McIlroy
  • Patent number: 11088933
    Abstract: A system includes a provider network and a client network connected via a dedicated physical connection. The client network and the provider network exchange routing information using routing protocol messages, such as border gateway protocol (BGP) update messages exchanged during a BGP session. A provider network includes tag field values in outgoing routing protocol messages that indicate a portion of the provider network wherein resources of the provider network associated with a corresponding route are located. The client network may use the tag field value to determine whether to add the route to a routing table of the client network. A client network may also include tag field values in outgoing routing protocol messages to a provider network. The tag field values may indicate what portions of the provider network are to receive the routes from the client network. For example a tag field value may indicate that a route is to be propagated within a limited portion of the provider network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Po-Chun Chen, Mark Edward Stalzer, Marco Eulenfeld
  • Patent number: 11082922
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to instructing, from a layer of a modem processor, a host processor to utilize an increased power consumption state for processing data from a network node. The instructing can be performed based on transmitting a signal to the network node and/or receiving signals from the network node, and at a time that allows the host processor to wake up before receiving data from the modem processor for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arnaud Meylan, Vamsi Dokku, Amir Farajidana, Alok Mitra
  • Patent number: 11076336
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved implementation of a flood fill mesh network that utilizes probability forwarding for rebroadcasting network messages. The forwarding probability may be determined based on analyzing a network topology map constructed by each network node relative to its neighbor nodes communicating on the network and derived from state information contained in synchronization frames broadcasted by the network nodes on the network. The forwarding probability may comprise a statistical probability that a message frame received by a network node will be forwarded to the intended destination network node by one or more of the network node's neighbor network nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: Guy McIlroy
  • Patent number: 11063858
    Abstract: Various embodiments include computing devices and methods for testing a router device. A processor of the computing device may receive one or more Border Monitoring Protocol (BMP) messages collected from a production router. The processor may obtain header information from a header portion of the one or more BMP messages. The processor may modify an origination address in the header information to match an address of a first test network element. The processor may modify a next hop address in the header information to match an address of a second test network element. The processor may convert the one or more BMP messages including the modified header information to one or more Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) messages. The processor may send the one or more BGP messages to a router under test in the test network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Willard Andrew Gray
  • Patent number: 11050533
    Abstract: A method includes for a designated pilot symbol of at least one pilot symbol to be inserted into a data sequence, determining a first subcarrier and a second subcarrier adjacent to a position of the designated pilot symbol in a frequency domain; at least separately determining a first position and a second position on the first subcarrier and the second subcarrier; determining a first symbol and a second symbol, so that the first symbol is capable of neutralizing interference on the designated pilot symbol of data symbols in positions other than the first position within a predetermined range of the first subcarrier, and the second symbol is capable of neutralizing interference on the designated pilot symbol of data symbols in positions other than the second position within a predetermined range of the second subcarrier; and respectively inserting the first symbol and the second symbol in the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pingping Xu, Lin Xiao, Ying Liu, Penshun Lu
  • Patent number: 11044227
    Abstract: Approaches for, and articles of manufacturer that embody, dynamic assignment of a MAC address. A remote PHY node may comprise a non-volatile memory and a network element that comprises a CPU. For example, the network element may be a remote PHY device, an Ethernet switch, a Remote MACPHY Device (RMD), a Passive Optical Network (PON) Optical Line Terminal (OLT), a Passive Optical Network (PON) Optical Network Unit (ONU), or a Wi-Fi hot spot router. A communication link exists between the CPU of the network element and the non-volatile memory of the remote PHY node. A module on the network element causes the network element to retrieve, across the communication link, a MAC address from the non-volatile memory of the remote PHY node and adopt the MAC address to identify itself any time that the network element reboots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Harmonic, Inc.
    Inventor: Adi Bonen
  • Patent number: 11031998
    Abstract: A method for using multiple communication paths in a satellite network is disclosed. The method including: initiating a connection request from a first peer to a second peer; providing communication paths between the first peer and the second peer; retrieving a policy corresponding to the communication paths, the first peer and the second peer; receiving a transport metric for at least one of the communication paths; selecting a path from the communication paths based on a connection metric, the transport metric and the policy; and establishing a connection between the first peer and the second peer with the path, wherein at least one of the communication paths is relayed by a satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Satyajit Roy, George Choquette