Patents Examined by Will W Lin
  • Patent number: 10582556
    Abstract: A communication device for handling a bearer type change comprises at least one storage device for storing instructions and at least one processing circuit coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the at least one storage device. The instructions comprise receiving a first RRC message from a first BS; transmitting a first RRC response message to the first BS; establishing a PDCP entity; transmitting a first plurality of PDCP SDUs to the first BS; receiving a second RRC message from the first BS, wherein the second message configures the MCG bearer type to a SCG bearer type or a split bearer type; transmitting a second RRC response message to the first BS; reconfiguring the PDCP entity; and transmitting a second plurality of PDCP SDUs to a second BS when connecting to the first BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 10574582
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining packet handling rules from network nodes in a network. The method also includes, using the rules, generating a transitive reduction of a partially ordered set of elements, where the elements correspond to match conditions in the rules, each match condition representing a set of packets identified by packet headers. The method may also include generating packet equivalence classes (PECs) by removing children elements from a parent element in the transitive reduction, where each PEC covers disjoint sets of packets, and each PEC is identified by fields in the packet headers including source address, destination address, and protocol of packets. The PECs may represent a group of packets treated in a same manner in the network. The method may also include generating a graph representation of the network nodes utilizing the PECs, and, using the graph representation, verifying properties of operation of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Alexander Horn, Ali Kheradmand
  • Patent number: 10574339
    Abstract: A device can include control channel receiver circuitry to receive airborne vehicle control channel packets, decode circuitry to determine contents of the airborne vehicle control channel packets, transceiver circuitry to provide uplink to and receive downlink data from an airborne vehicle, processing circuitry, and a program for execution by the processing circuitry to perform operations comprising determining, based on data from the receiver circuitry, a received signal strength (RSS) of a signal from each of a plurality of airborne vehicles, determining, for each of the airborne vehicles and based on decoded data from the decode circuitry, a length of time the airborne vehicle will be within transmission range of the transceiver circuitry, determining, for each of the airborne vehicles and based on the determined RSS, determined length of time, and a determined bit-rate, an association metric, and causing association with the airborne vehicle associated with the greatest association metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ranveer Chandra, Eric J. Horvitz, Ashish Kapoor, Talal Ahmad
  • Patent number: 10568113
    Abstract: A UE receives a target radio signal, transmits a first radio signal on a first channel, transmits a second radio signal on a second channel, and monitors a third radio signal in a first time window. A measurement for the target radio signal is used for triggering the transmission of the first radio signal and the second radio signal; a time resource occupied by the first radio signal is used for determining the start time of the first time window; and a time resource occupied by the second radio signal is used for determining the end time of the first time window. The application of the present disclosure can make full use of the allocated aerial resources, and improve the utilization of the aerial resources configured to transmit a report request that is determined autonomously by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 10568149
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can determine that a thermal condition or a battery condition is satisfied with regard to the UE, wherein the UE is associated with a 4G/Long Term Evolution (4G/LTE) connection and a 5G/New Radio (5G/NR) connection; determine whether the 5G/NR connection is to be activated or deactivated based on the thermal condition or the battery condition; transmit a tracking area update request based on determining that the thermal condition or the battery condition is satisfied; transmit capability information, wherein, when the 5G/NR connection is to be activated, the capability information indicates a 5G/NR capability of the UE, and wherein, when the 5G/NR connection is to be deactivated, the capability information does not indicate the 5G/NR capability of the UE; and deactivate or activate a 5G/NR modem of the UE based on determining that the thermal condition or the battery condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Lily Zhu, Xin Wang, Balaji L. Raghavachari
  • Patent number: 10567985
    Abstract: A method for relay node related measurements is provided. The method includes the following steps: obtaining air interface related measurements; and forming form the measurements at least one merely relay node related measurement result. The method can facilitate use of relay nodes and guarantee the advantages provided by the relay nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventor: Shunliang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10568120
    Abstract: A sequence-based signal processing method and apparatus are provided. A sequence meeting a requirement for sending a signal by using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined, where the sequence is a sequence {fn} consisting of N elements, fn is an element in the sequence {fn}, and the determined sequence {fn} is a sequence meeting a preset condition; then, the N elements in the sequence {fn} are respectively mapped to N subcarriers to generate a first signal; and the first signal is sent. By using the determined sequence, when a signal is sent by using a PUCCH, a low sequence correlation can be maintained, and a relatively small peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) value and cubic metric (CM) value can also be maintained, thereby meeting a requirement of a communication application environment in which a signal is sent by using a PUCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingyu Qu, Hao Sun
  • Patent number: 10560966
    Abstract: Management of receiver sensitivity in a packet based wireless communication system is achieved by controlling a clear channel sensing process which determines if the channel is clear for use, governed by a sensitivity to use of the channel. The sensitivity of the clear channel sensing process is effected by monitoring transmission performance over a plurality of emissions, and making adjustments to the sensitivity based on comparison of that performance with a performance criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Parag Gopal Kulkarni, Fengming Cao
  • Patent number: 10560382
    Abstract: A data transmission method and an apparatus are provided. The data transmission method in the present invention includes: determining, by a first device and according to data stream information, whether a data transfer protocol TCP parameter in a data stream corresponding to the data stream information needs to be modified, where the data stream information includes at least one of the following information: information about the first device, information about a second device, service information, or network status information; if determining that the TCP parameter needs to be modified, modifying, by the first device, the TCP parameter, to obtain a modified TCP parameter; and generating, by the first device, a modification result of the TCP parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Li, Feng Li, Yihong Huang
  • Patent number: 10554763
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for a virtual base station migration in a BBU pool which has multiple baseband units. The migration method comprises the following steps performed by a first virtual base station: measuring an available bandwidth between the first virtual base station and a second virtual base station, wherein the first virtual base station and the second virtual base station belong to different baseband units in the BBU pool; estimating a service interruption time of the first virtual base station; selecting a migration mechanism of the first virtual base station according to the estimated service interruption time. The migration mechanism comprises configuring a common measurement gap for user devices of the first virtual base station, or configuring random access time slots for user devices of the first virtual base station, or configuring a discontinuous receiving cycle for user devices of the first virtual base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Cheng Wang, Yun Deng, Liyu Cai
  • Patent number: 10523360
    Abstract: A method at a client includes monitoring a data connection to a server, adjusting a value of a channel quality indicator based on the detection of a start of a data transmission from the server, and transmitting the adjusted value of the channel quality indicator to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Jan Ellenbeck
  • Patent number: 10524251
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a network node in a radio access network, the method includes transmitting a resource allocation message comprising a bit field, the resource allocation message being transmitted for reception in a common search space to which a first bandwidth part with a first unit size of resource allocation is associated. The bit field allocates resources in a second bandwidth part with a second unit size of resource allocation. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Axel Guthmann, Robert Baldemair, Daniel Chen Larsson, Erik Dahlman, Sorour Falahati, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 10516560
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a transmitter terminal (10), the transmitter terminal (10) being adapted for D2D communication and/or transmission. The transmitter terminal (10) is further being adapted for transmitting multiplexed control information and data, wherein the control information and data are multiplexed based on a mapping. The present disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ricardo Blasco Serrano, Hieu Do, Stefano Sorrentino
  • Patent number: 10511361
    Abstract: A method for determining a precoding matrix for a MIMO transmitter based on a weighted MMSE algorithm is disclosed. A precoding module identically transforms a first matrix expression into a second matrix expression. The first matrix expression comprises a matrix inversion operation of a quadratic matrix having a rank equal to a number of antennas of the MIMO transmitter. The second matrix expression comprises a matrix inversion operation of a quadratic matrix having a rank equal to a number of receivers scheduled for the MIMO transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Wenting Chang, Guangjie Li, Yujun Chen, Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10512006
    Abstract: A network comprising a first base station (BS) and a second BS is configured to execute instructions of the first BS transmitting a first radio resource control (RRC) message on a signaling radio bearer (SRB) to a communication device, wherein the first RRC message configures a data radio bearer (DRB); the first BS receiving a first RRC response message from the communication device on the SRB, in response to the first RRC message; the first BS receiving a first plurality of packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) Service Data Units (SDUs) associated to the DRB from the communication device; and the first BS performing a dual connectivity (DC) operation procedure for the communication device with the second BS to modify the DRB to be a secondary cell group (SCG) bearer or a split bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 10498644
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a grace link state advertisement (LSA) from a virtual stack device. In an example, a first member network device of a virtual stack device may an input from a Multi-Active Detection (MAD) device. The virtual stack device may be a logical network device comprising the first member network device and a second member network device. Based on the input from the MAD device, the first member network device may determine whether a grace link state advertisement (LSA) is to be sent to a neighbor Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) enabled router by the first member network device, wherein the neighbor OSPF enabled router is an OSPF neighbor to the virtual stack device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Anil Raj, Anoop Govindan Nair, Venkatavaradhan Devarajan
  • Patent number: 10499267
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to operate in an E-UTRA network. The UE is configured to transmit, to the E-UTRA network, a capability indication message indicating that the UE is capable of receiving, from the E-UTRA network, a measurement configuration message comprised in a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message, wherein the measurement configuration message comprises an instruction that the wireless communication device should use a first or a second Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) measurement method, wherein in the first method, a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) is measured only from orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols containing reference symbols for antenna port 0; and in the second method, the RSSI is measured over all OFDM symbols in a subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Muhammad Kazmi, Bengt Lindoff
  • Patent number: 10492193
    Abstract: A multi-stream data transmission method, including: obtaining, by an anchor, resource availability data of all data transmission paths from a UE, where the resource availability data includes resource data of wireless backhaul links between all access nodes and the anchor; determining, by the anchor, multiple target data transmission paths according to the resource availability data of all the data transmission paths; transmitting service data to the UE in a multi-stream manner by using the multiple target data transmission paths, where the multiple target data transmission paths include a corresponding wireless backhaul link that is established between a target access node and the anchor by using a wireless backhaul device; sending, by the target access node, the service data to the UE by using the corresponding wireless backhaul link; and obtaining, by the UE, the service data by using the multiple target data transmission paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhichang Lai, Ziqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 10474222
    Abstract: A method, in a node of a communication network, for managing effects of a scheduled outage of mains power is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a notification of a scheduled outage of mains power (A), the notification comprising a location to be affected by the scheduled outage and a time period during which the scheduled outage is scheduled. The method further comprises identifying mains powered devices registered on the communication network and situated in the notified location (B), discovering an entity affected by an outage of at least one of the identified devices (D), and informing the discovered entity that the identified devices are scheduled to be without power during the notified time period (F). Also disclosed area computer program product for carrying out the above method and a communication network node (100, 200) configured to carry out the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ankur Dauneria, Sandeep Akhouri
  • Patent number: 10462691
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for MBSFN measurements. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include logging, at a user equipment, one or more measurements performed on one or more subframes associated with multicast broadcast mobile services; and determining, by the user equipment based on a configured rule, whether a serving network node is a public land mobile network to which the user equipment is allowed to indicate availability of the logged one or more measurements and/or report the logged one or more measurements. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Ilkka Antero Keskitalo, Jarkko Tuomo Koskela, Jussi-Pekka Koskinen