Patents Examined by Sumitra Ganguly
  • Patent number: 10728793
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of sending, to a policy control unit of a mobile communications network, congestion information for a plurality of mobile entities (MEs) are described. Each of the MEs being connected to a respective radio access network (RAT) and associated with the policy control unit, the congestion information indicates congestion of the respective RAT. The disclosure includes a congestion monitoring unit aggregating the congestion information for at least some of the MEs based on the respective MEs being associated with the policy control unit, and sending a message including the aggregated congestion information to the policy control unit. A congestion monitoring unit is configured to aggregate the congestion information for at least some of the MEs based on the respective MEs being associated with the policy control unit, and an interface configured to send the message including the aggregated congestion information to the policy control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonakitiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: György Miklós, Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos
  • Patent number: 10721176
    Abstract: A bandwidth management system includes a plurality of queues respectively corresponding to a plurality of zones. An enqueuing module receives network traffic from one or more incoming network interfaces, determines a belonging zone to which the network traffic belongs, and enqueues the network traffic on a queue corresponding to the belonging zone. A dequeuing module selectively dequeues data from the queues and passes the data to one or more outgoing network interfaces. When dequeuing data from the queues the dequeuing module dequeues an amount of data from a selected queue, and the amount of data dequeued from the selected queue is determined according to user load of a zone to which the selected queue corresponds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment LTD.
    Inventor: David T. Ong
  • Patent number: 10708812
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for discovery of one or more relay user equipments within a mobile communication network. A relay user equipment is capable to perform direct communication over a direct sidelink connection respectively with one or more remote user equipments, and is further capable to serve as a relay respectively for the one or more remote user equipments to relay communication between the one or more remote user equipments and the radio base station. The relay user equipment determines whether an overload situation exists in the relay user equipment or not, the overload situation preventing the relay user equipment to serve as a relay for a further remote user equipment. The relay user equipment transmits a relay discovery message, at least comprising an overload indication providing information on the result of the determination as to whether the overload situation exists in the relay user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Takako Hori, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 10693581
    Abstract: An Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation (OTFS) modulation scheme that maps data symbols, along with optional pilot symbols, using a symplectic-like transformation such as a 2D Fourier transform and optional scrambling operation, into a complex wave aggregate and be backward compatible with legacy OFDM systems, is described. This wave aggregate may be processed for transmission by selecting portions of the aggregate according to various time and frequency intervals. The output from this process can be used to modulate transmitted waveforms according to various time intervals over a plurality of narrow-band subcarriers, often by using mutually orthogonal subcarrier “tones” or carrier frequencies. The entire wave aggregate may be transmitted over various time intervals. At the receiver, an inverse of this process can be used to both characterize the data channel and to correct the received signals for channel distortions, thus receiving a clear form of the original data symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shlomo Selim Rakib, Ronny Hadani
  • Patent number: 10645572
    Abstract: The proposed technology generally relates to wireless communication, and more specifically to a method for generating an identifier for a wireless device (30), a method for identifying a wireless device (30) in a wireless communication environment, a method for assisting in the exchange of information for a wireless device (30) between at least two different types of wireless networks such as a WLAN (10) and a cellular network (20), a method for linking context information of a wireless device (30) between different types of wireless networks, and a method for supporting access selection and/or mobility decision in a wireless communication environment, as well as corresponding systems, apparatuses, communication devices, network nodes, computer programs, and computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Christofer Lindheimer, Filip Mestanov, Oumer Teyeb
  • Patent number: 10608987
    Abstract: A method for providing IP address translation services includes receiving, at a network node, a data packet from a wireless device. The data packet includes a target IP address associated with a destination device. The network node translates the target IP address into a synthetic IP address that contains the target IP address. A modified data packet is generated by replacing the target IP address in the data packet with the synthetic IP address. The network node transmits the modified data packet to the destination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jan Backman, Fredrik Garneij
  • Patent number: 10594376
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses configured to direct wireless communication. In some embodiments, a networking apparatus is configured to generate a plurality of sequences of symbols for transmission to plurality of client devices; transmit the plurality of sequences to the plurality of client device via one or more beams focused toward the client devices; receive information regarding the one or more beams from the client devices; and modify at least one of the one or more beams based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventors: Marcus Da Silva, William J. Crilly, Jr., James Brennan, Robert J. Conley, Siavash Alamouti, Eduardo Casas, Hujun Yin, Bobby Jose, Yang-Seok Choi, Vahid Tarokh, Praveen Mehrotra
  • Patent number: 10548160
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide for various methods and apparatuses for mitigating intra-cell interference when multiplexing grant-less traffic and grant-based traffic. When a wireless device transmits data without first requesting a grant of certain network resources from a base station, such data transmission may be called grant-less traffic in this disclosure. Different from grant-less traffic, when a wireless device needs to request a grant of certain network resources before transmitting data, such data may be called grant-based traffic in this disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Chong Li, Junyi Li, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 10516425
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining interference at a receiver of a wireless mobile device based on an updated indication of receiver performance at a receiver frequency. A wireless interference pattern is determined based on wireless emitters operating at a number of emitter frequencies. Distances are determined between the wireless mobile device and at least some of the wireless emitters, and an interference source is identified based on both of the wireless interference pattern and the distances. After determining the interference source, one of the emitter frequency, the receive frequency, or a combination thereof, is reassigned to a new frequency. The frequency reassignment is based on the interference pattern and separation distances and results in a modification to the interference pattern. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Yuang Lou
  • Patent number: 10517090
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sequence report method and a sequence report device for reducing a signaling amount for reporting a Zadoff-Chu sequence or a GCL sequence allocated for a cell. Indexes starting at 1 are correlated to different ZC sequences and are allocated for cells so that the indexes are continuous. When such ZC sequences are reported from BS to UE, a start index indicating the start of the continuous indexes is combined with the number of allocated sequences and they are reported as allocation sequence information by a report channel. The UE and the BS share the correlation between the ZC sequences and the indexes and the UE identifies a usable sequence number according to the correlation and the allocation sequence information reported from the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Kazunori Inogai, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10511428
    Abstract: Channel State Information (CSI) is reported by a subscriber station to a base station. The CSI is reported periodically for at least two physical uplink control channels (PUCCH). In case of a collision between a report for a first PUCCH and a report for the second PUCCH, each of the report types is partitioned into one of a number of classes, which include: a first class for rank indicator related report types and wideband (WB) W1 report types; a second class for WB report types or WB channel quality indicator report types; and a third class for subband related report types or W1 report types. A priority rule assigns a priority to each of the classes. The CSI feedback reports are transmitted according to the priority rule such that the report type included in a higher class is transmitted and the report type included in the lower class are dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lingjia Liu, Young-Han Nam, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10470112
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes configuring a small cell with activation parameters. The activation parameters include a new carrier type having a reduced periodicity. The method also includes configuring a UE with time restricted measurements. The time restricted measurements correspond to the new carrier type and the reduced periodicity. The method further includes receiving small cell signal measurements from the UE and initiating an activation sequence in response to the small cell signal measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Durga Prasad Malladi, Siddhartha Mallik, Naga Bhushan, Yongbin Wei, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 10439764
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for determining a repetition quantity of a downlink control channel, which relate to the radio communications field. The method includes: acquiring processing information corresponding to a repetition quantity of a downlink control channel; and sending the downlink control channel to user equipment UE according to the processing information, where the downlink control channel is used to carry processed downlink control information, so that the UE determines the repetition quantity of the downlink control channel according to the processing information. The apparatus includes a first acquisition module and a sending module. In the present invention, a repetition quantity sent by a network side is the same as a repetition quantity detected by UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhongfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10425883
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (400) for coordination of beacon transmissions. The method (400) comprises, at a network node of a first network: determining (S410), for each of a plurality of candidate slots, whether the candidate slot is used by any neighboring network node of a second network for beacon transmission; selecting (S420), as a beacon slot, one of the plurality of candidate slots that is determined not to be used by any neighboring network node of the second network for beacon transmission; and transmitting (S430) a beacon in the beacon slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Gen Li, Zhenshan Zhao
  • Patent number: 10419333
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for compressing a label stack. The method includes: obtaining a first label stack corresponding to a forwarding path, where the first label stack comprises node labels corresponding to each node on the forwarding path; selecting a first node label from the first label stack, where when forwarding a packet, a node corresponding to the first node label is capable of encapsulating at least two layers of labels in the packet; replacing at least two adjacent labels located after the first node label in the first label stack with a first compression label, to generate a second label stack; and instructing a source node on the forwarding path to perform packet processing according to the second label stack. In this way, a length of a label stack pushed into the packet can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuefeng Lin, Enhui Liu, Guoyi Chen
  • Patent number: 10361782
    Abstract: Connectivity between components in a system is monitored by applying a low voltage at one end of an RF cable, interpreted as a “0” logical state, and determining whether a similar voltage appears at the other end of the cable. If the cable is connected properly, the DC voltage applied at one end will appear at the other end and a proper indication is generated. If the expected voltage level does not appear at the other side, it means that RF connection was not correctly established and an alert is generated. Test systems for testing connectivity may include a first component comprising at least one port, at least one capacitor, and at least one resistor for providing high impedance. A controller provides a first logic state to the at least one port, scans multiple input ports of the system, and records a link corresponding to the applied first logic state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventor: Ami Hazani
  • Patent number: 10362115
    Abstract: A method for generating sensor data is presented. A number of wireless power signals is sent to a group of sensor units. A number of wireless data collection signals is sent to the group of sensor units after the number of wireless power signals have been sent to the group of sensor units. Sensor data in a number of wireless response signals is received from the group of sensor units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jason P. Bommer, David William Minteer, Richard J. Nesting, Arun Ayyagari, Richard Neal Bostwick, Andrew Michael Robb
  • Patent number: 10342041
    Abstract: There is provided access to a communications channel in a wireless communications network. Stations (STAs) associated with an access point (AP) are grouped in at least two groups of STAs, each group being associated with a minimum transmission power level needed by the AP to communicate with the STAs in that group. A first time interval is allocated for a first group of STAs associated with highest minimum transmission power to access the communications channel concurrently with a third time interval being allocated by another AP for a third group of STAs associated with lowest minimum transmission power level needed by said another AP to communicate with the third group of STAs to access the communications channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Leif Wilhelmsson, Guido Roland Hiertz, Dzevdan Kapetanovic, Christofer Lindheimer, Filip Mestanov, Thomas Nilsson, Eric Nordstrom, Hakan Persson, Johan Soder, Meng Wang
  • Patent number: 10291374
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a reference signal detection method and receiving method, user equipment, and a base station. The user equipment includes: a determining unit, configured to determine configuration information of a reference signal, where the configuration information includes information about a first candidate time-frequency resource and information about a second candidate time-frequency resource, where the first candidate time-frequency resource includes a first partial time-frequency resource and a second partial time-frequency resource; the second candidate time-frequency resource includes a third partial time-frequency resource and a fourth partial time-frequency resource; and the first partial resource, the second partial resource, the third partial resource, and the fourth partial resource do not overlap one another; and a detection unit, configured to detect the reference signal according to the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Guan, Yongxing Zhou, Lixia Xue
  • Patent number: 10277511
    Abstract: A network processor has a “bi-level” architecture including a classification algorithm level and a single-record search level to search a hash database that stores packet classification information based on packet field values. The classification algorithm level implements multiple different classification algorithm engines, wherein the individual algorithm applied to a received packet can be selected based on a field of the packet, a port at which the packet was received, or other criteria. Each classification algorithm engine generates one or more single-record search requests to search the hash database for classification information based on one or more field values of the received packet or other classification parameters. Each single-record search requests is provided to the single-record search level, which executes the requests at the hash database and returns the corresponding record to the requesting classification algorithm engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Shai Koren, Evgeni Ginzburg, Yuval Harari, Adi Katz, Roman Nos