Patents Examined by Tarell Hampton
  • Patent number: 11418977
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to optimization and failure detection of a wireless base station network. Based on RF link attenuation measurement, e.g., a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) measurement, a server determines an optimal transmission sequence. Each base station of the optimal transmission sequence, a predecessor and a successor, are designated. Each base station of the sequence generates a packet. Most distant base station (relative to the server) transmits its packet to its successor. Each base station of the sequence (in turn) receives the packet from its predecessor, combines the received packet with its own generated packet, transmits the combined packet to its successor, and so on until the combined packet is relayed to a super base station at the end of the sequence. The super base station transmits the packet to the server. Based on the packet size, server can ascertain which base station (if any) failed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TRAKPOINT SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Williams, Jon Siann
  • Patent number: 11395221
    Abstract: A method of reducing a power consumption of wireless communication circuitry of an edge device according to one embodiment includes determining a delivery traffic indication map (DTIM) interval of a wireless access point communicatively coupled to the edge device via the wireless communication circuitry of the edge device and adjusting a wake-up interval of the wireless communication circuitry of the edge device based on the DTIM interval to reduce the power consumption of the wireless communication circuitry of the edge device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Ryan C. Kincaid, Srikanth Venkateswaran, Robert Prostko
  • Patent number: 11388115
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circuit within a switch, wherein the circuit includes a memory and a control circuit. The memory includes at least a first area and a second area, the first area is used to provide a minimum guaranteed storage space for each of a plurality of egress queues, the second area is used to provide a shared space of the plurality of egress queues. The control circuit is coupled to the memory, and when an input port of the switch receives an input packet and stores the input packet into the memory, the control circuit dynamically determines a size of the second area according to a number of the egress queues that the input packet is forwarded to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Yung-Chang Lin, Kuo-Cheng Lu
  • Patent number: 11356127
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide selective filtering by a network device for continuous 5 GHz and 6 GHz operation. Examples may include receiving, by the network device, a first signal in one of a 5 GHz band and a 6 GHz band, and generating, by the network device, a second signal in the other one of the 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Farhan Hasnain
  • Patent number: 11356235
    Abstract: An analog self-interference cancellation technique for In-Band Full-Duplex (IBFD) systems generates an inherent secondary self-interference (SI) signal of a circulator and uses that signal to cancel a primary SI signal leaked from a transmitter port within a communication device. The communication device manipulates the phase and angle of this secondary SI, using an adjustable Impedance Mismatch Terminal (IMT) circuit. The result is an efficient SI cancellation technique in the analog domain, which uses the circulator inherent SI signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Besma Smida, Danilo Erricolo, Seiran Khaledian, Farhad Farzami
  • Patent number: 11343856
    Abstract: A communication method includes: determining a preamble including M symbol groups; and sending the M symbol groups in K uplink subframe sets, where any uplink subframe set in the K uplink subframe sets includes one uplink subframe or more than one consecutive uplink subframes, any two uplink subframe sets in the K uplink subframe sets are spaced by at least one downlink subframe, and in each of the K uplink subframe sets at least one symbol group can be sent; N times of frequency hopping exist in the M symbol groups, each of the N times of frequency hopping is frequency hopping between adjacent symbol groups in the M symbol groups, and frequency hopping directions of at least two of the N times of frequency hopping are opposite, N is less than M, K is less than or equal to M, and K, N and M are positive integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhihu Luo, Zhe Jin, Weiliang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11343870
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure may be applied to a smart service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and security related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. Disclosed are a method and apparatus for performing radio link monitoring (RLM) and radio link failure (RLF) in a vehicle communication (V2X) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheolkyu Shin, Hyunseok Ryu, Jinyoung Oh, Jeongho Yeo, Sungjin Park, Jonghyun Bang
  • Patent number: 11343653
    Abstract: An access and mobility management function (AMF) receives from a wireless device, a first message indicating a request for a group communication session. The first message comprises a group communication session identifier. The AMF selects a session management function (SMF) for the group communication session of the wireless device. The AMF sends to a unified data management function (UDM), a second message to create a group context information. The second message comprises the group communication session identifier and an identifier of the SMF associated with the group communication session identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Peyman Talebi Fard, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Weihua Qiao, Jayshree Bharatia, Jinsook Ryu
  • Patent number: 11336419
    Abstract: A reference signal measurement method, a reference signal sending method, a user equipment, and a base station are provided. According to the embodiments of the present application, a user equipment determines reference signal resource configuration, which includes reference signal port configuration, reference signal subframe configuration, and reference signal configuration, and a quantity of ports configured in the reference signal port configuration is N; receives a reference signal according to the reference signal resource configuration; and performs measurement based on the received reference signal to obtain channel state information and/or signal quality information. In the embodiments of the present invention, a quantity of ports configured in the reference signal port configuration is N; and a quantity of supported ports may vary with different values of N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianguo Wang, Jianghua Liu, Qiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11303485
    Abstract: A signal acquisition method and device. Positioning signals as received are divided into at least two groups and frequency compensation is performed on each group of positioning signals. Each frequency compensated group of positioning signals is divided into at least two signal blocks, and an averaging operation is performed on the signal blocks in each group of signals, so as to obtain block-averaged groups of positioning signals. An acquisition result is determined based on the block-averaged groups of positioning signals. Noise power of each block-averaged group of signals is reduced. Therefore, noise power of received positioning signals can be reduced. This may improve signal-to-noise ratio of received signals and acquisition sensitivity of a receiver. Therefore, acquisition success rate of weak signals is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Zhongliang Deng, Buyun Jia, Jun Mo, Xinmei Bian, Haijun Jiang, Shiwei Fan
  • Patent number: 11297532
    Abstract: Facilitating flexible maximum transmission unit packet core design in a communications network is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise receiving a first transmission unit setting from a first network device. The first transmission unit setting can indicate a size of a largest network layer protocol data unit that is able to be communicated in a single network transaction by the first network device. The operations can also comprise setting, at the device, a configuration of the first network device to the first transmission unit setting. Further, the operations can comprise sending first communication packets to the first network device using the first transmission unit setting and second communication packets to a second network device using a second transmission unit setting different from the first transmission unit setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Marc Gottwerth, Terry Figureile, Douglas Eng, Layli Amiri, Mario Manuel Jardon
  • Patent number: 11290244
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. Receiving circuitry is configured to receive first information, second information, third information. The receiving circuitry is also configured to monitor, based on the first information, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for a downlink control information (DCI) format with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI). The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive downlink data on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). Transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit a random access preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Zhanping Yin, Jia Sheng
  • Patent number: 11290333
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for quality of service differentiation between network slices. A method is performed by a prioritization entity. The method comprises obtaining relative priority values for the network slices from a network entity. The method comprises providing an access network entity with a relative priority value for a protocol data unit (PDU) flow as given by the relative priority value for the network slice used by that PDU flow, thereby causing differentiation of the quality of service for the network slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jarl Tomas Holmström, Peter Hedman
  • Patent number: 11277782
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a service access method and device, capable of improving user experience. The method includes: a first device determines, according to path priority information, a target access path for a service to be accessed, where the path priority information is used to indicate an access path preferentially selected by the first device; and the first device accesses the service to be accessed by using the target access path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11271776
    Abstract: Example methods and computer systems are provided for logical overlay network monitoring. The method may comprise: obtaining egress metric information associated with egress encapsulated packets that are sent by a source virtual tunnel endpoint (VTEP) to a destination VTEP over a logical overlay network; and obtaining ingress metric information associated with ingress encapsulated packets that are received by the destination VTEP from the source VTEP over the logical overlay network. The method may also comprise: performing a comparison to identify a divergence between the egress metric information and the ingress metric information; and based on the divergence, detecting a performance issue affecting logical overlay network connectivity between the source VTEP and the destination VTEP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Uday Shankar Nagaraj, Shyam Sambasivan Ramachandran, Natalia Tupy Jensen, Mansi Babbar, Prerit Rodney
  • Patent number: 11272526
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to operating in a network deployed in a downlink (DL) unlicensed band and an uplink (UL) licensed band are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a first downlink communication signal in a downlink unlicensed band of a network. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, a second downlink communication signal in an uplink licensed band of the network. The second downlink communication signal includes at least one of a synchronization signal block (SSB), system information, a random access response, a contention resolution message, paging information, a downlink feedback signal, or low-latency data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaushik Chakraborty, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11272532
    Abstract: Wireless communications for random access procedures are described. One or more downlink control messages may indicate a system frame number corresponding to a random access preamble. The one or more downlink control messages may indicate the system frame number in a field and/or using a radio network identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Hua Zhou, Jinsook Ryu, Kyungmin Park, Ali Cirik, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11265137
    Abstract: A base station includes: a controller that performs control to transmit a plurality of signals that is common to each terminal to a terminal located in a coverage area of its own base station by transmitting the plurality of signals at the same timing while frequency multiplexing the plurality of signals on a frequency domain in an area where the signals can be transmitted simultaneously using a beam within the coverage area, and transmitting the plurality of signals a plurality of times while changing the area; and an antenna that transmits the plurality of signals area by area while changing a direction of the beam under the control of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11265818
    Abstract: A method of closed-loop power control for a user equipment (UE) in multi-panel transmission is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a transmission power control (TPC) command indicating at least a power control adjust value carried by downlink control information (DCI), obtaining antenna panel information for identifying a characteristic of one of a plurality of antenna panels of the UE, and applying the power control adjust value to at least one antenna panel for physical uplink (UL) shared channel (PUSCH)/physical UL control channel (PUCCH) transmission according to the obtained antenna panel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yu-Hsin Cheng, Chia-Hao Yu
  • Patent number: 11265734
    Abstract: A method, a base station, and a system for sending radio resource control (RRC) signaling are provided. The method includes a pico base station and a macro base station participate in configuration and generation of an RRC reconfiguration message; the pico base station establishes only one RRC entity that is used to generate a configuration parameter or an RRC entity; the RRC reconfiguration message cooperatively generated by the pico base station and the macro base station is uniformly sent by the macro base station to a user equipment (UE). According to the application, the UE can support an RRC reconfiguration message sent by the pico base station, only by establishing a signaling radio bearer (SRB) corresponding to the macro base station. Accordingly, design complexity and costs are lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenji Liu, Qufang Huang, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng