Patents Examined by Walli Z Butt
  • Patent number: 11533765
    Abstract: A communications device acting as a rely device is configured to transmit a buffer status report message indicating that the buffer is storing data received from the infrastructure equipment for transmission to a remote communications device, when predetermined conditions are satisfied or a trigger event occurs so that the transmission of the data to the remote communications device can make more efficient use of communications resources to transmit the data or the remote communications device receives the data when the remote communications device is in a state in which it should receive the data, for example when not in a reduced power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Brian Alexander Martin, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda, Chrysovalantis Kosta
  • Patent number: 11533133
    Abstract: A method for an STA to transmit or receive a frame in a WLAN, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a first HARQ trigger frame that triggers transmission of an A-PHDU into which PHDUs that are PHY data transmission units for a HARQ process are combined; transmitting at least one PHDU within the A-PHDU on the basis of the first HARQ trigger frame at the timing designated for the STA; and retransmitting the at least one PHDU or transmitting a new PHDU according to reception of a second HARQ trigger frame, wherein the first HARQ trigger frame includes timing offset information between the STA and another STA transmitting the PHDU within the A-PHDU, and the STA may determine the timing designated for the STA by using the timing offset information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinyoung Chun, Jeongki Kim, Kiseon Ryu, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11528670
    Abstract: A method for a User Equipment, UE, operating in a wireless communication system, includes triggering power headroom reports (PHRs), in a first Medium Access Control (MAC), entity and a second MAC entity when a first type event occurs in the second MAC entity, wherein the UE is configured with the first MAC entity corresponding to a first base station and the second MAC entity corresponding to a second base station for a radio bearer; triggering a PHR in the second MAC entity only, when a second type event occurs in the second MAC entity, wherein the first type event includes: there are uplink resources allocated for transmission on any cell of the second MAC entity and a required power backoff for the any cell of the second MAC entity has changed more than a threshold, or wherein the first type event includes: there is uplink transmission on any cell of the second MAC entity and a required power backoff for the any cell of the second MAC entity has changed more than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 11515961
    Abstract: When encoding a block of data elements in an array of data elements, the data values for data elements in the block are represented and stored in a data packet as truncated data values using a subset of one or more most significant bits of the respective bit sequences for the data values of the data elements. A rounding mode is selected from a plurality of available rounding modes that can be applied when decoding the block of data elements and an indication of the selected rounding mode is provided along with the encoded data packet. The rounding mode is associated with one or more rounding bit sequence(s) that can then be applied to the truncated data values when decoding the data packet to obtain decoded data values for the data elements in the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Sven Ola Johannes Hugosson, Jakob Axel Fries, Hakan Lars-Goran Persson, Muhammad Ali Shami
  • Patent number: 11516127
    Abstract: To efficiently distribute data to a plurality of distribution destinations. According to the present disclosure, a system controller is provided controlling an IP switch that distributes data received from a device on a transmission side to a device on a reception side, the system controller building a plurality of virtual networks in the IP switch and causing data received by any of the virtual networks to be transmitted to respective distribution destinations connected to the virtual networks. With this configuration, data can be efficiently distributed to a plurality of distribution destinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Vijitha Sanjeewa Ranatunga
  • Patent number: 11515985
    Abstract: Provided are an eNB, a UE and wireless communication methods. A UE according to an embodiment of the present disclosure can comprise circuitry operative to determine valid transmission time interval(s) (TTI(s)) for a physical channel in a subframe based on the resource element (RE) number of each TTI in the subframe; and a receiver operative to receive the physical channel in one or more of the valid TTI(s) by blindly decoding part or all of the valid TTI(s), wherein each TTI comprises 1-7 orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Ayako Horiuchi, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11509376
    Abstract: A base station, user equipment, and communication signal transmitting and receiving methods. A communication signal transmitting apparatus includes a transmitter; a processor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for execution by the processor, the program including instructions to determine at least two different resource element groups to use to transmit a synchronization signal, each different resource element group of the at least two different resource element groups used to separately transmit the synchronization signal, and transmit the synchronization signal to user equipment on each of the resource element groups, where, for each resource element group, the synchronization signal transmitted on the respective resource element group carries at least one piece of same information, the same information is cell specific information, and the synchronization signals transmitted on the at least two resource element groups using different beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongxing Zhou, Jianguo Wang, Leiming Zhang, Jianghua Liu
  • Patent number: 11510260
    Abstract: A method is performed at a first multilink device configured to communicate wirelessly with a first radio and a second radio of a second multilink device. The method includes accessing a set of parameters for a known mathematical model that establishes a frequency separation to be imposed between transmission from the first radio and reception at the second radio in order to achieve a predetermined reception performance at the second radio when the transmission and the reception are simultaneous. The method further includes, using the known mathematical model, computing the frequency separation based on the set of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Pooya Monajemi, Brian Hart
  • Patent number: 11510246
    Abstract: Management of throughput, link rate, airtime, access, collision probability and other factors influencing performance of a wireless access point configured to wirelessly support two or more networks over the same radio channel and/or antenna is contemplated. The management may be suitable for use with access points operating according to a Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) based on Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) whereby each device desiring airtime executes a random binary backoff procedure or other suitable contention based process before attempting to access the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Padden
  • Patent number: 11501207
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a decision-making process that includes an increasing set of actions, compute a policy function for a Markov decision process (MDP) for the decision-making process, wherein the policy function is computed based on a state conditional function mapping states into an embedding space, an inverse dynamics function mapping state transitions into the embedding space, and an action selection function mapping the elements of the embedding space to actions, identify an additional set of actions in the increasing set of actions, update the inverse dynamics function based at least in part on the additional set of actions, update the policy function based on the updated inverse dynamics function and parameters learned during the computing the policy function, and select an action based on the updated policy function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Georgios Theocharous, Yash Chandak
  • Patent number: 11503497
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for triggering a buffer status reporting in dual connectivity, the method comprising: configuring a threshold value for a PDCP entity associated with a first MAC entity for a first eNB and a second MAC entity for a second eNB for a radio bearer; checking, by the PDCP entity, whether an amount of uplink data available for transmission in the PDCP entity is less than the threshold value; and indicating, by the PDCP entity, that the amount of uplink data available for transmission in the PDCP entity is ‘0’ to the second MAC entity, if the amount of uplink data available for transmission in the PDCP entity is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungjune Yi, Sunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 11503621
    Abstract: Provided are methods for transmitting and receiving uplink data, a user equipment and a base station. The method for transmitting uplink data by a user equipment includes: transmitting to a base station a scheduling request (SR); receiving, from the base station, an uplink grant indicating scheduling information for transmitting uplink data, wherein the scheduling information is allocated by the base station according to a volume of the uplink data, the volume being determined by the SR; and transmitting to the base station the uplink data by employing the scheduling information. In this way, the present invention reduces power consumption and time delay during an uplink data transmission process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Naoto Okubo, Wei Xu, Yong Li, Wenbo Wang
  • Patent number: 11497079
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for performing discontinuous reception (DRX) in a wireless communication system. An operating method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes detecting a wake-up signal (WUS), and determining whether to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a paging message for a specific time occasion based on the WUS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Alexander Sayenko, Seungri Jin, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11489764
    Abstract: A communications router (6) is provided with an add-on device (7) for diverting data traffic over a replacement connection (70, 80) when a primary connection route (60) meets a failover criterion. Traffic addressed to an allocated network address associated with the primary connection (60) is diverted to a network termination of the replacement connection (70) by a routing function (31) if the replacement connection (70) has been authenticated by an authentication system (35). Authentication is provided by setting up an association between the internet IP address of the router (6) when addressed through the link (60), and a network identity of the add-in unit (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventors: Thomas Curry, Malcolm Hubert
  • Patent number: 11483058
    Abstract: A relay communication method, includes: a relay node receives data from a second network node; the relay node performs first-part processing and second-part processing on the data; and the relay node sends to a third network node, data obtained after the first-part processing and the second-part processing. In one non-limiting example, thy first-part processing includes at least one of: physical layer function processing, media access control layer function processing, and adaptation function processing. In another non-limiting example, the second-part processing includes at least one of simplified radio link control layer function processing, adaptation function processing, media access control layer function processing, and physical layer function processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanping Zhu, Mingzeng Dai, Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 11483681
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a special effect synchronization method, device, and a storage medium; wherein the method comprises: receiving a synchronization request for synchronizing the special effect file sent by a special effect preview end; based on the synchronization request, when determining that a direct connection condition is satisfied, establishing a communication link with the special effect preview end in a direct connection mode; receiving an acquisition request for the target special effect file through the communication link; synchronizing the target special effect file to the special effect preview end based on the acquisition request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruifeng Ma, Le Gao
  • Patent number: 11483808
    Abstract: A mobile communication uplink information transmission method and system are provided, to solve a problem that when a terminal device allocates uplink control information and an uplink shared channel on a semi-statically configured physical uplink shared channel, transmission performance of the uplink shared channel is affected by a quantity of resources occupied by the uplink control information. The method is used for a terminal device to send uplink information and a network device to receive uplink information, and the terminal device receives grant-free resource configuration information, and determines a first resource used to allocate a physical uplink shared channel. The terminal device further determines a third resource used to allocate an uplink shared channel. The third resource is a part of the first resource and does not intersect with the second resource, or the second resource is empty. The present invention further provides a system used for the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
    Inventor: Ying Du
  • Patent number: 11477816
    Abstract: A method by which a first device performs sidelink communication is provided. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a sidelink grant associated with a first retransmission resource and an initial transmission resource of a transport block; transmitting, to a second device, a PSCCH and a PSSCH associated with the PSCCH, on the basis of the initial transmission resource; determining a PSFCH resource for receiving a PSFCH from the second device, on the basis of the index of a slot and the index of a subchannel associated with the PSSCH; receiving, from the second device, the PSFCH on a first PSSCH, on the basis of the PSFCH resource; comparing a time interval between the PSFCH resource and the first retransmission resource with a minimum processing time required between the reception of the PSFCH and retransmission of the transport block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11469859
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a retransmission protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The retransmission protocol may be based on a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol that supports a delayed acknowledgement for a HARQ retransmission based on receiver processing capability. A first WLAN device may determine that a second WLAN device requires more time to process the HARQ retransmission and may transmit a different communication (interlaced within the HARQ process) to either the second WLAN device or a third WLAN device during the time that the second WLAN device is processing the HARQ retransmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Jialing Li Chen, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian, Youhan Kim, Alfred Asterjadhi
  • Patent number: 11469962
    Abstract: A method of configuring information includes: generating first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information indicates a time-frequency position of a synchronization signal block (SSB) corresponding to a common control resource set (CORESET) of current remaining minimum system information (RMSI); and sending the first configuration information to user equipment (UE). By generating and sending to the UE the first configuration information indicating the time-frequency position of the SSB corresponding to the CORESET of the current RMSI, a flexible configuration for time-frequency position of SSB can be realized, and the UE can easily get the time-frequency position of the SSB corresponding to the CORESET of the current RMSI based on the position of the CORESET of the current RMSI and the received first configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Liu