Patents Examined by The Hy Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11349626
    Abstract: A signaling link retimer injects flow-rate compensation transmissions into a synthesized symbol stream in coordination with flow-rate compensation transmissions detected within a received symbol stream, enabling the retimer to switch seamlessly between forwarding the received symbol stream and outputting the synthesized symbol stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Astera Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Musoll, Subbarao Arumilli, Ken (Keqin) Han, Pulkit Khandelwal, Casey Morrison
  • Patent number: 11330595
    Abstract: A sending method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a target uplink control channel in a first uplink control channel and a second uplink control channel, where the first uplink control channel corresponds to first uplink control information and the second uplink control channel corresponds to second uplink control information; and sending, by the terminal device, target uplink control information on the target uplink control channel, where the target uplink control information includes the first uplink control information and the second uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiyu Yan, Yongxia Lyu
  • Patent number: 11316959
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a broadcast signal in a digital transmitter includes generating a link layer packet; generating the broadcast signal based on the link layer packet; and transmitting the broadcast signal. Further, the link layer packet includes at least one header and a payload, in which the at least one header includes a packet type field, and the packet type field represents a type of input data before encapsulation into the link layer packet. In addition, in response to the packet type field represents that the input data relates to a Movie Picture Experts Group-2 (MPEG-2) Transport Stream (TS) packet, a first header included in the link layer packet includes a deleted null packet indicator for representing the number of deleted null TS packets prior to the link layer packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woosuk Kwon, Sejin Oh, Kyoungsoo Moon
  • Patent number: 11303394
    Abstract: An HARQ retransmission method and apparatus and a transmission device are provided. The method includes: determining a transmission parameter; and selecting dynamically a transmission starting position of each retransmission redundancy version from a circular buffer according to the transmission parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Zhang, Jiaqing Wang, Fei Wan, Baoming Bai, Shaohui Sun
  • Patent number: 11304080
    Abstract: A method of obtaining link measurements in a mobile telecommunications system, the system including a base station configured to communicate with at least one terminal and one or more relay nodes configured to relay downlink and/or uplink transmissions between the at least one terminal and the base station. The method includes: sending, by the base station and to a mobile node, measurement instructions including a list identifying one or more relay nodes for measuring link quality, wherein the mobile node is one of the at least one terminal and the one or more relay nodes; and receiving, at the base station and from the mobile node, a list of one or more link measurements, wherein a link measurement measures a link quality for a link between the mobile node and one of the relay nodes identified in the list sent by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jussi Tapani Kahtava, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11291042
    Abstract: A method for configuring random access, comprising: initiating, by a user equipment, a random access to a base station; receiving an association relationship between a random access adjustment parameter and a type of the random access from the base station, wherein the type of the random access is associated with a tolerant latency of the random access; determining whether a random access response transmitted by the base station with respect to the random access is received within a predetermined duration upon initiation of the random access; determining the type of the random access upon it is determined that the random access response is not received; determining a random access adjustment parameter corresponding to the random access according to the association relationship; and re-initiating the random access to the base station according to the random access adjustment parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11284224
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a group communication apparatus and method and a communication system. The group communication method includes: scrambling data information of a message by using corresponding scrambling information according to a message type and/or a message transmission range; wherein, different message types and/or message transmission ranges correspond to different scrambling information. Therefore, internal members or peripheral devices of a group may selectively receive messages of different types or different target ranges. Hence, not only messages may be ensured to be accurately received by corresponding receivers, but also security of internal message may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Qinyan Jiang, Hua Zhou, Wei Xi
  • Patent number: 11272550
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the disclosure, a wireless device is configured to transmit a random access preamble. The wireless device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a tone index, and determine a location within a frequency band for transmitting the random access preamble based on the obtained tone index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Xingqin Lin, Ansuman Adhikary, Johan Bergman, Yufei Blankenship, Asbjörn Grövlen, Hazhir Shokri Razaghi, Yutao Sui, Yi-Pin Eric Wang
  • Patent number: 11272401
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technology for deriving an effect of meeting a demand of a scenario (for example, mMTC) supported by a 5G communication system and supporting service performance by implementing new uplink data transmission considering energy efficiency of a terminal and connection density of a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Soo Na, Chang Soon Choi
  • Patent number: 11272408
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for scanning for cells in a wireless network in a prioritized manner. A User Equipment (“UE”) may receive a neighboring cell list (“NCL”) or other indication of candidate cells for scanning. The UE may rank the candidate cells (e.g., based on which radio frequency (“RF”) band(s) are implemented by the candidate cells), and scan for the presence of the candidate cells in an order that is based on the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Hui Zhao, Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 11246130
    Abstract: Provided in the embodiments are a method for signal transmission, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: determining, by a first device, a basic transmission interval and at least one basic numerology; and taking, by the first device, the basic transmission interval as a time domain unit and employing parameters in the at least one basic numerology to perform transmission of data and/or a pilot signal with a second device. According to the method, the terminal device and the network device provided by the embodiment, the flexibility of signal transmission can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11240685
    Abstract: A device for performing wireless communication at least one processor configured to generate a condition signal based on at least one parameter associated with the device or the wireless communication, and select at least one of a plurality of signal processing algorithms for performing at least one of a plurality of signal processing functions based on the condition signal, each of the plurality of signal processing functions being associated with the wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-ho Lee, In-yup Kang, Young-seok Jung, Min-goo Kim, In-hyoung Kim, Ki-joon Hong
  • Patent number: 11228560
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an access point (AP) that includes a set of one or more base-station functions configured to connect a user equipment (UE) to the AP over a wireless communication interface; and a set of one or more core-network functions configured to provide services to the UE. The AP allocates an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the UE by using at least one Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server that is external to the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: FEDERATED WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Das, Arijit Banerjee, Sarath Padakandla, Saurabh Gupta
  • Patent number: 11212864
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for processing non-matching between a UE unit and a network state applicable to an access and mobility management (AMF) function. The method comprises: upon receiving a non-access stratum message transmitted by a UE unit or an N2 interface message transmitted by a radio access network (RAN) node, determining that the UE unit is in a connected state at a network side; and if it is determined that a change occurs in a RAN node serving the UE unit, notifying said RAN node that a context of the UE unit and an existing user plane connection are to be released. The invention solves technical problems in the prior art of inefficient use of an air interface resource and packet loss, thereby reducing paging overheads and packet loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hucheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11206673
    Abstract: A priority control method includes receiving, by the server, the data to be subscribed by the terminal and the default priority of the data, and setting the terminal and the default priority in priority management information in association with each other, setting, by the server, the data issued by the data source and the terminal subscribing the data in subscriber management information in association with each other, transmitting, by the data source, an importance level of the issued data, setting, by the server, the importance level received from the data source in the priority management information in association with the default priority for the terminal subscribing the data; and referring, by the server, to the priority management information to calculate a final priority from the default priority for the terminal and the importance level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Reiji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11202233
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a transportation vehicle. One method includes determining current available bandwidth rate based on network traffic generated by a plurality of devices and a plurality of traffic types on a transportation vehicle; utilizing a hierarchical tree structure to modify quality of service (QoS) that is indicated by a specific bandwidth rate associated with different priority levels, where each priority level is associated with one of the plurality of devices and the plurality of traffic types; and storing the modified QoS for the different priority levels at the hierarchical tree structure for a next update of the QoS when the current available bandwidth rate changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Changhwa Lin, Prasanna Padmanaban Mohanasundaram
  • Patent number: 11196601
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a transmission signal generator which generates a transmission signal that includes a legacy preamble, a non-legacy preamble and a data field, wherein the non-legacy preamble comprises a first signal field and a second signal field, the second signal field comprising a first channel field and a second channel field, each of the first channel field and the second channel field comprising a common field that carries resource assignment information for one or more terminal stations and a user-specific field that carries per-user allocation information for the one or more terminal stations, and wherein a part of the user-specific field of one of the first channel field and the second channel field whichever is longer than the other channel field in length before appending padding bits is relocated to the other channel field; and a transmitter which transmits the generated transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Michael Hong Cheng Sim
  • Patent number: 11178710
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises; a display; a first communication module for communicating through a first communication network; a second communication module for communicating through a second communication network; a memory; and a processor electrically connected with the memory, wherein the memory can store, during execution, instructions for enabling the second communication module to be inactivated while the processor executes a designated application by using the first communication module in a state in which both the first communication module and the second communication module having a priority higher than that of the first communication module are activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Nam, Jung-Eun Lee, Ji-Yoon Park
  • Patent number: 11165545
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may determine, when in communication with a plurality of other wireless nodes via a plurality of links of a network, a plurality of transmit powers for the plurality of links, wherein the plurality of transmit powers are selected to control inter-link interference or to satisfy a maximum transmit power criterion. The wireless node may transmit, using the plurality of transmit powers for the plurality of links, information, to the plurality of other wireless nodes, concurrently, based at least in part on determining the plurality of transmit powers for the plurality of links. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel, Jung Ryu
  • Patent number: 11166148
    Abstract: A method for resource management in a vehicle-based mobile communications unit. In the method, during a mobile communication transaction conducted via two simultaneously established mobile communication channels, the user-nonspecific data components of the currently active identity profile are compared with one another to determine the mobile communication services provider currently being used. In case of a mobile communication services provider identity determined within the context of the comparison, one of the mobile communication channels is switched off and the mobile communications are conducted via the other mobile communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Krauss, Peter Fertl, Markus Kaindl