Patents Examined by The T. Ho
  • Patent number: 11889478
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for performing a sidelink operation in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a terminal. The method comprises: selecting a preferred resource pool from among a plurality of resource pools, wherein the preferred resource pool is one of a first resource pool including a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource and a second resource pool without the PSFCH resource; and, on the basis of a re-selection condition, performing the sidelink operation on the first resource pool or the second resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Sunghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 11882043
    Abstract: Method and system for providing time-critical services via a flow control environment, wherein at least one respective server component is provided for each service, wherein the server component is formed by a flow control component that is loadable into the flow control environment and executed there, where a configuration unit for at least one gateway component of a subnetwork forming the flow control environment ascertains globally valid access information associated with respective addressing information of the server components that is valid within the subnetwork, based on a mode of operation predefined via the configuration unit, one or more gateway components connected in parallel and/or in series are used, and where the at least one gateway component forwards service access requests to the server components in accordance with the forwarding and/or filter rules and the mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Harald Albrecht, Stephan Höme, Thomas Talanis
  • Patent number: 11877740
    Abstract: A method and system of enhancing facial or other body sites that are sagging, including incisionlessly inserting a lumen into a head or other areas of the body of a patient, the lumen having a first end configured to penetrate skin and a superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) of the patient, and having a first end with a suture attached thereto, a main control unit configured to translate, rotate, and flex the lumen, such that the lumen is steerable around an ear of the patient, and such that the suture remains under the skin of the face and passes through the SMAS, directing the lumen to exit the skin, detaching the lumen from the suture, and pulling taut the suture to elevate the SMAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: Michael D. Seidman
  • Patent number: 11882080
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for a set of transmission time intervals (TTIs) including at least one TTI to be used for full-duplex communications. The UE may receive control signaling that indicates a frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) for a physical uplink channel transmission in a first TTI. The UE may determine whether a second TTI is available for transmitting one or more repetitions of the physical uplink channel transmission based on comparing the FDRA to resources allocated to the second TTI. For example, the second TTI may be available if one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the FDRA are non-overlapping in a frequency domain with downlink resources allocated to the second TTI. The UE may transmit the one or more repetitions in the second TTI based on the second TTI being available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Gokul Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11882555
    Abstract: A mobile device being a member of a communication group and configured to communicate with one or more other members of the communication group and to exchange control information with the one or more other members, wherein the mobile device is configured to create an identification information and to transmit the identification information on a physical layer of the control information, wherein the identification information assigns the communication group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Elke Roth-Mandutz, Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Shubhangi Bhadauria, Martin Leyh
  • Patent number: 11877751
    Abstract: The devices and methods can prevent pulmonary aspiration thereby allowing for procedures, such as an endoscopic procedure, to be performed under sedation without general anesthesia. The device may include a first end, a second end, and a length therebetween. The body may have a central lumen along the length. The device may include a first base member fixedly disposed at the first end and a second base member fixedly disposed at the second end. The device may also include an expandable assembly movable along the length of the body with respect to the first base member. The expandable assembly may be configured to move between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The expandable assembly may also be configured to expand radially with respect to the body when in the expanded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Emory University
    Inventors: Anand Jain, Nishani Kanthasamy, Ahmed Ali Alnamos, Oscar Gutierrez, Sondos Alnamos
  • Patent number: 11877182
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device, in a scenario where CA and DC are combined, one PDCP entity may use more than two RLC entities to transmit a duplication, thus avoiding using all RLC entities to transmit the duplication during the activation, reducing a waste of resources in the duplication transmission scenario, improving system resource utilization, and ensuring the transmission performance of services such as a URLLC service while ensuring the overall transmission performance of the system. The wireless communication method is applied to a scenario where CA and DC are combined, and includes: in a case where a first condition is met, determining, by a terminal device, whether to perform a duplication transmission, and/or, determining, by the terminal device, whether to trigger a duplication transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11870685
    Abstract: The packet capsulation device 10 includes capsulation means 11 for encapsulating an initial packet in communication between a first terminal and a second terminal serving as a partner terminal by adding a header for capsulation, and for non-encapsulating on reception of an encapsulated packet, storage means 12 for storing data capable of identifying a path of a packet following the initial packet in the wireless communication channel, and non-encapsulated packet transmission means 13 for transmitting the packet following the initial packet to the wireless communication channel without encapsulating, according to the data capable of identifying the path of the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Go Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11871268
    Abstract: Provided is a high-speed communication system with the high reliability and the low latency under New Radio (NR). A base station device includes a plurality of distributed units (DUs, 802) that transmit and receive radio signals, and a central unit (CU, 801) that controls the plurality of DUs (802). The CU (801) duplicates a downlink packet addressed to a communication terminal device (804), and forwards the duplicated downlink packet to each of at least two DUs (802) among the plurality of DUs (802). Each of the at least two of the DUs (802) transmits, to the communication terminal device (804) by the radio signal, the downlink packet obtained from the CU (801). Upon redundant receipt of the downlink packets, the communication terminal device (804) removes a redundant downlink packet in accordance with a predefined downlink packet removal criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahiro Shimoda, Mitsuru Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11864999
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a core assembly, a sheath assembly, a sheath, a sheath processing method and an interventional instrument delivery system and method. A core assembly for delivering an interventional instrument according to the present invention comprises a core tube, a locking member fixed at a distal end of the core tube for connecting the interventional instrument, and a bendable adjustable tube mounted around an outer periphery of the core tube, wherein the distal ends of the bendable adjustable tube and the core tube are fixedly connected to each other, and the proximal ends can slide relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Venus Medtech (Hangzhou) Inc
    Inventors: Zhifei Zhang, Jianan Wang, Yu Zhang, Zhenjun Zi, Frank Min Zeng, Hou-Sen Lim
  • Patent number: 11871386
    Abstract: In a base station, a signal allocating unit allocates downlink control signals (DCI) to a control channel region (CORESET) constituted by a plurality of control channel elements (CCEs), and a transmitting unit transmits the downlink control signals. In this case, the number of resource element groups (REGs) that constitute the CCE is a power of 2, and a bundling size indicating the number of REGs included in the REGs that constitute the CCE and arranged in adjacent resource blocks is a power of 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11863427
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for enabling multicast-based performance routing and policy controls for software-defined networking in a wide area network deployment including a multicast application-route policy based on sources, groups, receivers, dynamic application-route policy path selection from multicast replicators, and application-route SLA switchover across paths and multicast replicators based on SD-WAN multicast routing architecture; and dynamically selecting SD-WAN multicast replicators based on policies for replication including allowed multicast groups, geographic location, bandwidth indications, system load, and performance, and switching over dynamically across multicast replicators based real-time multicast replicator status updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Changhong Shen, Lianxiang Wang, Yicheng Liu, Xiaorong Wang, Pan Wu
  • Patent number: 11848874
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may identify time and frequency resources for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to be transmitted to a user equipment (UE) in a first transmission time interval (TTI). The base station may transmit configuration information for a control channel search space set in a second TTI. The second TTI may precede the first TTI. The configuration information may include an indication of an absence of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission to send in the control channel search space set indicating the identified time and frequency resources for the PDSCH, and a set of time and frequency resources for the control channel search space set. The UE may receive the configuration information and identify the time and frequency resources allocated for the PDSCH in the second TTI, and receive the PDSCH transmission in the second TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Xiao Feng Wang, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Shengbo Chen, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11848757
    Abstract: Techniques for in-situ passive performance measurement are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a data packet at a first network element, determining whether measurement information is to be collected for the data packet, providing one or more measurement fields for the data packet based on a determination that measurement information is to be collected for the data packet in which at least one measurement field identifies a measurement type, and forwarding the data packet to a second network element. The method further includes determining, by the second network element, the measurement type for the data packet, and performing one or more actions based on the measurement type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Rakesh Gandhi, Clarence Filsfils, Sagar Soni, Patrick Khordoc
  • Patent number: 11848752
    Abstract: Hybrid Automatic Retransmit ReQuest-Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) index mapping and uplink resource allocation is performed and controlled for channel selection transmission. A method for transmitting HARQ-ACK information to an eNode-B (eNB) by a User Equipment (UE) includes identifying KPCell as a number of downlink subframe(s) of a PCell associated with an uplink subframe and identifying KSCell as a number of downlink subframe(s) of an SCell associated with the uplink subframe; generating Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) response information for a cell having a smaller number of downlink subframes between the PCell and the SCell; generating HARQ-ACK information including the generated DTX response information and response information on data received by the UE from the eNB; and transmitting the generated HARQ-ACK information to the eNB through the uplink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: PANTECH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 11843998
    Abstract: A method performed by a first entity in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a first request message for receiving a multicast service from a second entity, detecting information about a multicast session identifier (ID) from the first request message, requesting information about a fourth entity corresponding to the multicast session ID from a third entity when the first entity does not correspond to the information about the multicast session ID, receiving the information about the fourth entity corresponding to the multicast session ID, identifying the fourth entity based on the information about the fourth entity, transmitting a multicast session join request message to the fourth entity, and receiving a message accepting multicast session join from the fourth entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youngkyo Baek
  • Patent number: 11843997
    Abstract: A device-to-device (D2D) communication application is stored in a memory of a first device, and has an application identifier (ApplicationID) configured to enable D2D communication between two or more devices in proximity. The first device is configured with a user identifier (UserID). A group associated with the D2D communication application can then be established, which includes the first device and one or more second devices, each having the D2D communication capability and an associated UserID, each of the devices exchanging their ApplicationID and UserID with other devices to establish the group. A role in the group is assigned to each device of the first device and one or more second devices, which defines functions for each device to establish the D2D communications. Based on the role of each device, a set of resources from the network are allocated to enable the D2D communication on the D2D communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Yu-Ting Yu, Biljana Badic, Christian W. Mucke, Lennert Niemeyer
  • Patent number: 11839380
    Abstract: Detachment of a medical device from a delivery assembly can utilize features of electrolytic detachment and features of mechanical detachment. Detachment zones can facilitate mechanical retention of the medical device as well as electrolytic corrosion of portions of the delivery assembly to allow mechanical release of the medical device. Such a delivery system, can include an implant comprising a hub, the hub defining an aperture having an aperture cross-sectional dimension; and a delivery wire comprising (i) a core member extending through the aperture and (ii) a stopper positioned distal to the aperture, the stopper having a first cross-sectional dimension larger than the aperture cross-sectional dimension, and the stopper being electrolytically corrodible to reduce the first cross-sectional dimension to a second cross-sectional dimension smaller than the aperture cross-sectional dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventor: Madhur Kadam
  • Patent number: 11832290
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium is presented, having computer readable program instructions thereon for causing a processor to carry out the steps of: sub-dividing a time slot into consecutive time intervals, the time slot belongs to multiple time slots allocated to a first node for transmitting to a second node using a wireless time-division duplex communication link between the first node and the second node, the second node transmitting during separate time slots allocated to said second node; and disrupting communication between said first node and said second node by transmitting, using a transmitter, respective interference signals during at least some of said time intervals, each of said interference signals being transmitted on one of said frequency bands, wherein for at least two of said time intervals said interference signals are transmitted on different frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: D-FEND SOLUTIONS AD LTD.
    Inventors: Hanan Leizerovich, Assaf Monsa Chermon
  • Patent number: 11832306
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive first configuration parameters for uplink LBT failure recovery. The wireless device may create a transport block, comprising an LBT failure MAC CE, scheduled for transmission via a first cell at a first timing. The wireless device may trigger consistent LBT failure for the first cell based on the first configuration parameters and before the first timing. In response to the triggering, the wireless device may drop or transmit the transport block based on one or more conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: PanPsy Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Alireza Babaei