Patents Examined by Will W Lin
  • Patent number: 10454628
    Abstract: A transmitter, a receiver and a method for communicating data packets. The method comprises receiving a data packet and determining if it is a re- or new transmission; and, when it is a retransmission: combining the received data packet with oldest unsuccessfully decoded data packet stored in a second memory, and decoding the combined data packet; when it is a new transmission: decoding the received data packet; checking if the decoding is successful; deleting the oldest stored data packet in the first memory; storing the decoded data packet in the first memory when the decoding is successful or storing the decoded data packet in the second memory when the decoding is not successful; and transmitting feed-back information to the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Petteri Kela, Yinggang Du, Johan Christer Qvarfordt
  • Patent number: 10447528
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: slave devices which repetitively transmit, a plurality of times, a radio signal with a prescribed frequency that includes device identification information during a radio communication with a master device; a master device which generates communication situation information including a reception success rate and received signal strength of a radio signal during each radio communication from each slave device; and a failure factor estimation apparatus which, based on communication situation information with respect to a plurality of radio communications including a radio communication in which a communication failure of the received signal strength is lower than prescribed strength and/or the reception success rate is lower than a prescribed rate has occurred, generates and outputs failure factor presentation information indicating a failure inducer estimated to have induced the communication failure and an estimation result of a position of the failure inducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Soji Ohmae, Ryota Yamada, Hajime Umeki, Yasushi Kawashima, Yuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 10433340
    Abstract: A mobile station (MS) obtains a parameter, performs transmission of a preamble, and sets a counter incremented based on transmission of the preamble. The MS is able to indicate a random access problem corresponding to one transmission timing cell group in a case where the counter reaches the parameter+1 and the transmission of the preamble is performed on the one transmission timing cell group, where the one transmission timing cell group being one of the plurality of transmission timing cell groups, and the MS is able to not indicate a random access problem corresponding to another transmission timing cell group in a case where the counter reaches the parameter+1 and the transmission of the preamble is performed on the another transmission timing cell group, where the another transmission timing cell group being one of the plurality of transmission timing cell groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10432501
    Abstract: An SDN architecture and a method for forwarding message based on the SDN architecture are provided. The SDN architecture includes controllers and a forwarding device, and the SDN further includes: a monitoring controller, which is connected between the multiple controllers and the forwarding device and configured to receive or monitor control plane messages of the multiple controllers, and determine a flow table to be sent to the forwarding device according to a local strategy and the control plane messages of the multiple controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: XI'AN Zhongxing New Software Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Feicai Jin, Ran Chen, Yanjie Zhao, Xinwen Jiao
  • Patent number: 10433187
    Abstract: Space-time block codes (STBCs) is a known approach for using multiple transmit antennas to provide higher data rates and better reliability by exploiting spatial diversity. Existing STBCs use independent two-dimensional constellations. Methods and systems for using multidimensional constellations to improve the performance of orthogonal STBCs are disclosed. Methods for finding optimized multidimensional constellations for orthogonal STBCs are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hossein Khoshnevis, Ian Marsland, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Ngoc Dung Dao, Nimal Gamini Senarath
  • Patent number: 10425921
    Abstract: A method of uplink control information (UCI) transmission for a user equipment in a communication system includes determining information associated with a first maximum payload size configured for a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format; and transmitting a first channel status information (CSI) subset on a first PUCCH with the first PUCCH format to the network node. The first CSI subset corresponds to the first group of serving cells, and the first PUCCH is associated with a first group of serving cells. The first maximum payload size is configurable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Chien-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 10425862
    Abstract: A method for employing an indication of stored temporary information during redirection may include receiving a temporary stored information indicator from a mobile terminal indicating that the mobile terminal stores a system information container comprising temporary information, and determining whether to replace the temporary information with non-temporary information based on reception of the temporary stored information indicator. Alternatively, the method may include receiving a system information container for at least one target cell, storing the system information container, and generating a temporary stored information indicator at a mobile terminal indicating that the mobile terminal stores the system information container comprising temporary information. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Keiichi Kubota
  • Patent number: 10419169
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCCH resources notified in advance from a base station and PUCCH resources mapped to a CCE, and controls the transmission of the response signal. A response signal generating unit supports implicit signaling with respect to any given response signal, and at the same time as supporting LTE fallback from 2CC, uses a mapping method that, between bits, smooths the number of PUCCH resources that can determine ACK/NACK simply by determining the PUCCH resource regarding which the response signal had notified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Toru Oizumi, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 10405213
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a called service processing method, a mobility management entity, and a home subscriber server. The method includes: generating, by an MME, VOPS capability indication information according to a faulty state of a PGW after determining that the PGW in which UE is located is faulty, where the VOPS capability indication information is used to indicate that a network in which the UE is located does not support VOPS; and sending, by the MME, the VOPS capability indication information to an HSS. According to the called service processing method, the mobility management entity, and the home subscriber server provided in embodiments of the present invention, a called service is not affected after a PGW is faulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guoyu Ni, Rui Wang, Guobao Xi
  • Patent number: 10396954
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a network element of a distributed antenna system, a clock signal, a control channel and a first modulated signal at a first carrier frequency, the first modulated signal including first communications data provided by a base station and directed to a mobile communication device. The clock signal synchronizes timing of digital control channel processing by the network element to recover instructions from the control channel. The instructions in the control channel direct the network element of the distributed antenna system to convert the first modulated signal at the first carrier frequency to the first modulated signal in a first spectral segment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Irwin Gerszberg, Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10397827
    Abstract: An apparatus for managing deterministic and synchronous multi-channel extension (DSME) network fluctuations in an industrial wireless sensor network includes: a network congestion rate measurer configured to measure a network congestion rate on the basis of a number of times an association request message is received and a number of times carrier sensing is performed, a DSME-guaranteed time slot (GTS) allocation information collector configured to continuously collect DSME-GTS allocation information using coordinators, a DSME-GTS maintenance determiner configured to determine whether to maintain or collect DSME-GTSs on the basis of collected network information, a slot reallocation determiner configured to determine whether data is received without collision from two nodes to which a slot is redundantly allocated and transmit a DSME-GTS expiration request to a sensor node for reallocation of empty slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Sanghwa Chung, Yunsung Lee
  • Patent number: 10397913
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for wireless communications involving base stations. A base station may configure a downlink channel (e.g., a physical downlink control channel) based on the configuration of a downlink channel associated with another base station. One or more base stations may manage overlap between downlink channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 10390232
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, and methods related to bridging communication networks. A computing device may identify one or more signals at one or more communication interfaces in accordance with one or more communication standards. The computing device may select one or more available frequency segments from a frequency spectrum database. The computing device may transform the one or more signals into one or more converted signals for transmission on a backhaul link, the backhaul link being established for two-way data communication using the one or more available frequency segments. The computing device may cause to send the one or more converted signals using the one or more available frequency segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Keith Nolan, Mark Kelly, Hugh Carr
  • Patent number: 10389636
    Abstract: Technologies for adaptive routing based on network traffic pattern characterization include a network switch configured to receive a network packet via one of a plurality of input ports and identify a set of the plurality of output ports associated with a path usable to forward the received network packet to a destination computing device along. The network switch is further configured to adjust a total congestion value for each of the set of output ports based on a type of the path to which each of the set of output ports corresponds and a value of a minimal path counter to which each of the set of output ports corresponds and enqueue the received network packet into an output buffer queue of one of the set of output ports based on the total congestion value. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mario Flajslik, Eric R. Borch, Michael A. Parker
  • Patent number: 10372673
    Abstract: A storage network element discovery method and an apparatus, where the method includes broadcasting or multicasting, by a control network element, a heartbeat message to at least one storage network element, where the heartbeat message includes address information of the control network element, receiving, by the control network element, a response message returned by at least one storage network element according to the heartbeat message, and determining an accessible storage network element according to the response message, where the response message includes network parameter information of the corresponding storage network element. Therefore, in a storage array, by broadcasting or multicasting a heartbeat message and according to a reply from a storage network element, a control network element may determine a storage network element that can be accessed by the control network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao Guo, Yu Zhang, Yajun Chen
  • Patent number: 10368391
    Abstract: A communication device generates a physical layer (PHY) data unit that includes a PHY preamble and one or more PHY midambles. The communication generates the PHY preamble of the PHY data unit to include i) a signal field having a subfield that indicates that the PHY data unit includes one or more PHY midambles, ii) a short training field (STF) for automatic gain control (AGC) training and synchronization at a receiver, and iii) one or more long training fields (LTFs) for determining a channel estimate at the receiver. The communication generates a data payload of the PHY data unit having i) a set of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and ii) one or more PHY midambles. Each of the one or more PHY midambles includes one or more LTFs for determining an updated channel estimate. The communication device transmits the PHY data unit via a wireless communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Rohit U. Nabar, Sudhir Srinivasa, Raja Banerjea, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 10356786
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a network element of a distributed antenna system, a reference signal, an ultra-wideband control channel and a first modulated signal at a first carrier frequency, the first modulated signal including first communications data provided by a base station and directed to a mobile communication device. The instructions in the ultra-wideband control channel direct the network element of the distributed antenna system to convert the first modulated signal at the first carrier frequency to the first modulated signal in a first spectral segment. The reference signal is received at an in-band frequency relative to the control channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Irwin Gerszberg, Henry Kafka, Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10356798
    Abstract: A frame structure for network communication, in particular for device-to-device network communication, with high and low priority data. The frame structure includes a control channel related to a first communication resource, a high priority data channel related to a second communication resource, and a low priority data channel related to a third communication resource. The control channel includes a high priority data channel control portion configured to communicate control data that is related to the high priority data channel, and a low priority data channel control portion configured to communicate control data that is related to the low priority data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Hu, Markus Martin Dillinger, Abdelmajid Khelil
  • Patent number: 10348559
    Abstract: A method for creating a port group, includes generating, by a first software defined network (SDN) controller, the specified identifier according to a device identifier of a first forwarding device in a preset path, a device identifier of a last forwarding device in the preset path, and a device identifier of a specified forwarding device in the preset path; and sending, by the first SDN controller, the specified identifier to a second SDN controller, so that the second SDN controller creates, on the specified forwarding device, a specified port group corresponding to the specified identifier. Therefore, the first SDN controller needs to interact with the second SDN controller only once, to create a port group on the specified forwarding device that is directly controlled by the second SDN controller, and thus the port group creation process is simple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhifeng Chen
  • Patent number: 10349293
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. An eNB determines a CCA parameter for use by a UE in performing a CCA procedure for UL transmission and transmits an indication of the CCA parameter to the UE. The UE receives an indication of the CCA parameter for UL transmission from the eNB and performs the CCA procedure for UL transmission using the indicated CCA parameter. The UE may transmit to the eNB prior to receiving the indication of the CCA parameter. The eNB may use the report in determining the CCA parameter for use by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic