Patents Examined by Timothy J Weidner
  • Patent number: 12075281
    Abstract: A feedback information determining method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method comprises: a terminal determines, according to the position of each transmission resource in multiple transmission resources, a HARQ process index corresponding to the transmission resource; the terminal determines a first feedback information codebook according to the HARQ process indexes corresponding to the multiple transmission resources, wherein the first feedback information codebook comprises feedback information corresponding to the multiple transmission resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanan Lin, Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 12052330
    Abstract: Methods and systems directed to an autonomous bi-directional integration of telematics platforms, e.g., different APIs, through protocol transforming, standardizing, and/or integrating of machine telematics data and/or Internet-of-Things (IOT) data. The platform permits seamless merging of disparate telematics and IoT data streams and resources into a single interface, removing the need to connect to propriety systems individually, and allowing an administrator to concurrently track and manage hundreds of millions of vehicles in a centralized system. Through the process of integrating and standardizing telematics and IoT resources, a custom universal data format may be defined. Machines, vehicles, and IoT devices may establish communications and data links through the platform of the present invention, in which each machine, vehicle, and/or IoT device shares, or fuses, sensor data. To accomplish the objectives of the present invention, signal mapping from one protocol to another protocol may be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventor: Dan Khasis
  • Patent number: 12047818
    Abstract: A base station acquires information of a communication delay predicted in communication carried out by a terminal apparatus via another base station, and notifies the terminal apparatus of the acquired information of the communication delay. The terminal apparatus acquires this information of the communication delay from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 12047886
    Abstract: A signal sending method, a signal receiving method, and a device. The signal sending method includes: generating synchronization signals, where the synchronization signals include a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal; and sending the synchronization signals, where the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal overlap in time domain, and within a time domain resource in which the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal overlap, there is an intersection set between a frequency domain resource corresponding to the first synchronization signal and a frequency domain resource corresponding to the second synchronization signal. In this way, frequency domain resources occupied by the synchronization signals may be reduced, thereby saving frequency domain resources for another data transmission process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juan Zheng, Chaojun Li
  • Patent number: 12028740
    Abstract: A method for utilizing quality of service information in a network with tunneled backhaul is disclosed, comprising: establishing a backhaul bearer at a base station with a first core network, the backhaul bearer established by a backhaul user equipment (UE) at the base station, the backhaul bearer having a single priority parameter, the backhaul bearer terminating at a first packet data network gateway in the first core network; establishing an encrypted internet protocol (IP) tunnel between the base station and a coordinating gateway in communication with the first core network and a second core network; facilitating, for at least one UE attached at the base station, establishment of a plurality of UE data bearers encapsulated in the secure IP tunnel, each with their own QCI; and transmitting prioritized data of the plurality of UE data bearers via the backhaul bearer and the coordinating gateway to the second core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratik Vinod Mehta, Yang Cao, Sumit Garg, Kaitki Agarwal, Rajesh Kumar Mishra
  • Patent number: 12028875
    Abstract: A physical downlink control channel blind detection method, a user equipment and a readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving an issued first Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling to determine an Aggregation Level (AL) of the PDCCH; receiving an issued second RRC signaling; determining a specific position of each CCE in the CORESET based on the configuration information in the second RRC signaling; determining positions of all PDCCH candidates, and obtaining a target PDCCH by blindly detecting the PDCCH; and obtaining a mapping position of a Downlink Control Information (DCI) corresponding to a UE at a time domain sampling point by blindly detecting the time domain sampling based on the target PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNISOC COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huan Zhou, Hualei Wang
  • Patent number: 12010525
    Abstract: The disclosed system and method obtain a report of an issue reported by a user of the wireless telecommunication network, and historical information associated with the user and the wireless telecommunication network. The historical information includes multiple issues reported by users similar to the user, and multiple user statuses associated with the users similar to the user. The user status among the multiple user statuses includes active and inactive, indicating whether the user is an active member of the telecommunication network or has left the network. The system provides the historical information to an AI model, and obtains from the AI model a priority associated with the issue experienced by the user. The system causes a resolution of the issue based on the priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Artuso
  • Patent number: 12004117
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present application are a location management function (LMF) selection method and terminal location service method and device, said method includes a mobility management function entity, in response to a location service request message from a gateway mobile location center (GMLC), choosing a first LMF to provide a location service to the terminal, sending a confirm location request message to the first LMF, the first LMF being a core network LMF or an LLMF associated with a first access node; the mobility management entity, in response to the location redirection message from the first access node or a second access node, sending a confirm location request message to a second LMF, the second LMF being selected for the terminal by the first access node or the mobility management function entity, the second LMF being a core network LMF or an LLMF associated with the second access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunlin Ni, Jing Fu
  • Patent number: 12004063
    Abstract: An infrastructure-controller (206) for an infrastructure (202), wherein the infrastructure has a plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy, “BLE”, nodes (208, 210, 212) associated with it. The infrastructure-controller (206) is configured to: identify one of the plurality of BLE nodes as a current-BLE-node (212), and activate the current-BLE-node (212) for communication with a key (204) using BLE signals; determine a communication-quality-indicator for each of the plurality of BLE nodes (208, 210, 212), that represents the quality of communication with the key (204); based on the communication-quality-indicators, identify one of the plurality of BLE nodes as a next-BLE-node (210); and provide connection-information to the next-BLE-node (210) using out-of-band signalling (214). The infrastructure-controller (206) can then deactivate the current-BLE-node (212); and activate the next-BLE-node (212) for continued communication with the key (204) using BLE signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Mehmet Ufuk Buyuksahin, Wolfgang Eber, Dorian Haslinger
  • Patent number: 11997522
    Abstract: An apparatus (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) may experience cross-link interference from uplink signal beams from interfering UEs. To mitigate the cross-link interference, the apparatus receives an interference resource information message indicating resources allocated to one or more interfering UEs for transmission of reference signal beams, measures the reference signal beams from the one or more interfering UEs based on the resources to obtain a plurality of reference signal beam measurements; and transmits a report indicating a set of the reference signal beams from the one or more interfering UEs based on the plurality of reference signal beam measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Huilin Xu
  • Patent number: 11997512
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus is provided for performing testing using arrival of angles (AOA). The system, method, and apparatus can receive a first test signal from a first cell; receive a second test signal from a second cell; and perform a test based on AOA of the first test signal and the second test signal. At least one of the first test signal and the second test signal can include a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) signal or a synchronization signal block (SSB) signal. The first test signal can include a different number of SSBs transmitted during an Measurement Timing Configuration (MTC) window when compared to the second test signal. The system, method, and apparatus can receive the first test signal and the second test signal in a time division multiple access (TDMA) manner. The first cell can include a serving cell and the second cell can include a neighboring cell of the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Hua Li, Andrey Chervyakov
  • Patent number: 11991554
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication over a sidelink between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE. The first UE may identify a configuration for discontinuous reception (DRX) for direct link communications with a second UE. The first UE may determine a channel busy ratio (CBR) based on a plurality of CBR measurement occasions within a time window prior to a direct link transmission based on the configuration for DRX. The first UE may determine whether to perform a congestion control on the direct link transmission based on the CBR. The first UE may perform a direct link transmission subject to a channel occupancy ratio limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Tugcan Aktas, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11991675
    Abstract: Disclosed are a frame transmission method using a selective beamforming and a communication apparatus to perform the frame transmission method. The communication apparatus may determine a beamforming matrix based on classification information in which a plurality of subcarriers used for communication is classified into a plurality of frequency units, may map a long training field (LTF) sequence to the beamforming matrix, and transmit a beamforming training (BF-T) frame including the mapped LTF sequence to a plurality of stations, may receive, from the plurality of stations having receiving the BF-T frame, feedback information generated based on a reception strength of the BF-T frame, and may allocate frequency units to data frames to be transmitted to the plurality of stations based on the feedback information, and transmit the data frames using the allocated frequency units. The reception strength of the BF-T frame may be determined at each station for each frequency unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yu Ro Lee, Jae Woo Park, Jae Seung Lee, Jee Yon Choi, Il Gyu Kim, Seung Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 11991723
    Abstract: Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device and an apparatus supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: transmitting, to a second device, information related to a first resource on a sidelink (SL) bandwidth part (BWP); and performing SL reception from the second device on a second resource on the SL BWP. The second resource may not overlap with the first resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11991575
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for wireless communications is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a first base station, one or more first messages that include measurement configuration parameters and sidelink parameters associated with a first cell. The UE establishes a sidelink with a second UE based on the sidelink parameters and transmits, to the first base station, a measurement report based on the measurement configuration parameters. Responsive to the measurement report, the UE receives a second message comprising second configuration parameters of a second cell of a second base station. The second configuration parameters do not comprise sidelink parameters. The UE then switches from the first cell of the first base station to the second cell of the second base station. The sidelink of the first cell is handed over to an uplink of the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Andreas Falkenberg
  • Patent number: 11985680
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitting transport blocks in subframes of a predefined length within a wireless communication system. A downlink control information including a resource grant comprising a predetermined modulation and a predetermined transport block size is received (user equipment is the transmitter) or generated (base station is the transmitter). Then transport block including channel coded data to be transmitted in a subframe with the predetermined modulation and the predetermined transport block size is generated. Sensing is performed in the subframes and based thereon, it is determined whether a partial subframe or a complete subframe is available for transmission of the generated transport block. Finally, the transport block is transmitted with a modified modulation different from the predetermined modulation if the partial rather than complete subframe is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Michael Einhaus, Jan Ohlhorst, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 11979926
    Abstract: Relay service is enabled between a residential gateway and a remote user. For example, a 5G residential gateway (5G-RG) may include a relay user equipment (UE) to enable relay service for a 5G core (5GC)-capable UE behind the 5G-RG to connect to the 5GC. The relay UE of the 5G-RG may provide a trusted/untrusted non-3GPP access network for L2 or L3 transport connection to the 5GC-capable UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Yu Liao, Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Alexandre Saso Stojanovski
  • Patent number: 11979927
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method by user plane function (UPF) in a core network (CN) of a communication network for registering the UPF at a network repository function (NRF) of the CN. The UPF is to selectively route uplink data traffic in one or more data sessions from a user equipment (UE) to one of a plurality of session anchor network functions (NFs). The method by the UPF comprises sending (1701) a registration request to the NRF. The registration request comprises registration information comprising an indication of a type of filter supported by the UPF to selectively route uplink data traffic from a UE to a particular session anchor NF. The type of filter relates to an application identity; and an indication of a value for the indicated type of filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Aldo Bolle, Miguel Angel Puente Pestaña
  • Patent number: 11974238
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for supporting precision timing protocol (PTP) based time sensitive network (TSN) applications are provided. One method includes configuring, by a network node, a user equipment connection and user contexts for an industrial automation and control (IAC) system or configuring at least one time synchronized radio bearer for a user equipment. The method may also include determining synchronization configuration on the at least one time synchronized radio bearer for the industrial automation and control (IAC) system, and distributing the synchronization configuration periodically or on a need basis to one or more serving network nodes for the industrial automation and control (IAC) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Vinh Van Phan, Jani Moilanen, Ling Yu, Peter Rost, Rakash Sivasiva Ganesan, Vladimir Vukadinovic
  • Patent number: 11974239
    Abstract: Provided are a measurement gap configuration method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: determining, by a first network element, frequency information of a measurement target; and notifying, by the first network element, a second network element of the frequency information through first interface signaling; where the first network element and the second network element are configured on the same node. The problem in the related art of being unable to configure a measurement gap is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jiren Han, Jing Liu, Yin Gao, He Huang