Patents Examined by Willie J. Daniel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11700633
    Abstract: The disclosure provides various methods for time-aware scheduling of time-sensitive network (TSN) streams in 5G networks. One method, performed in a core network associated with a radio access network (RAN), is for scheduling resources in the RAN according to a transmission schedule associated with an external network. The method comprises receiving (1210), from the external network, a transmission schedule associated with a time-sensitive data stream and sending (1220), to the RAN, a request to allocate radio resources for communication of the data stream between the RAN and a user equipment (UE). The request further comprises information related to the transmission schedule. The method also comprises receiving (1230), from the RAN, a response indicating whether radio resources can be allocated to meet the transmission schedule associated with the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dhruvin Patel, Hubertus Munz, Torsten Dudda, Alexandros Palaios
  • Patent number: 11696142
    Abstract: A method and apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting shared spectrum channel access is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: receiving a set of downlink channels supporting the shared spectrum channel access; identifying, a window for SS/PBCH block transmission, a bitmap for SS/PBCH blocks (ssb-PositionsInBurst), and a parameter for QCL assumption Q; determining, based on the identified window for the SS/PBCH block transmission, the identified bitmap for the ssb-PositionsInBurst, and the identified parameter for the QCL assumption Q, a SS/PBCH block as one of: a first set of SS/PBCH blocks assumed to be transmitted by the BS, or a second set of SS/PBCH blocks not transmitted by the BS; determining a set of resources that is not available for at least one PDSCH as overlapped with the first set of SS/PBCH blocks; and receiving the at least one PDSCH based on resource other than the determined set of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongbo Si, Yingzhe Li
  • Patent number: 11695896
    Abstract: Methods for obtaining a shallow depth of field effect (DOF) and improved signal-to-noise (SNR) in an image through synthetically increase the camera aperture of a compact camera using at least one actuator included in such a camera for other known purposes, for example for providing optical image stabilization (OIS). The synthetically enlarged camera aperture enables to take a plurality of images at different aperture positions. The plurality of images is processed into an image with shallow DOF and improved SNR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Noy Cohen, Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Gil Bachar
  • Patent number: 11683268
    Abstract: A switch device for relaying data in an on-vehicle network, being equipped with a switch section and a processing section for performing the relay processing via the switch section, wherein, in the case that a plurality of frames to be subjected to the relay processing is present in the processing section, the processing section performs adjustment processing so that the output rates of the respective frames to the switch section in the case that the transmission source addresses of the respective frames are different are made smaller than the output rate in the case that the transmission source addresses of the respective frames are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electrical industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Iwata, Takeshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 11683714
    Abstract: Presented herein are embodiments that provide mobile edge computing (MEC) with low latency traffic segregation within a packet data network (PDN) using dedicated bearers. Techniques are provided that are performed at an edge user plane entity and a control plane entity to coordinate the directing of low latency traffic over a dedicated bearer broken out at the edge, and to communicate normal latency traffic over a default bearer that is centrally broken out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Nithin Chitta, Amit Ghadge, Dishant Mukeshbhai Parikh
  • Patent number: 11652582
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for providing acknowledgment feedback in sidelink communications. A sidelink transmitting UE may receive a resource grant for a sidelink communication with one or more other UEs and may transmit the sidelink communication in accordance with the grant. The transmitting UE may then monitor for acknowledgment feedback from the one or more other UEs and generate sidelink acknowledgment feedback. A joint communication that provides both downlink acknowledgment feedback and the sidelink acknowledgment feedback may be provided to a serving base station. The transmitting UE may also multiplex sidelink acknowledgment feedback for each of two or more other UEs in a communication to the serving base station. The serving base station may determine whether any resources for retransmissions are to be granted based on the acknowledgment feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11646815
    Abstract: Provided are a transmission parameter determination method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: the terminal device determines a first transmission parameter according to the channel busy ratio (CBR) and the priority of service to be transmitted; and the terminal device sends the service to be transmitted using the first transmission parameter, and further comprises: the terminal device acquires at least one proportion coefficient, the at least one proportion coefficient being configured by a network device or pre-configured in the terminal device, wherein the operation of determining the first transmission parameter according to the CBR and the priority of the service to be transmitted comprises: the terminal device determines a second transmission parameter according to the CBR and the priority of the service to be transmitted, and processes the second transmission parameter using the at least one proportion coefficient to obtain the first transmission parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11641659
    Abstract: [Problem] A base station includes a plurality of radio communication units individually supporting a plurality of communication capabilities, and controls a terminal station to be connected with the base station to select a radio communication unit according to a communication scheme of the terminal station. [Solution] Provided is a radio communication method of a radio communication system. The radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations mounted with a plurality of radio communication units for which different communication schemes are settable, a terminal station configured to perform radio communication in a certain communication scheme, and a centralized control station configured to control the plurality of base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Akiyoshi Inoki, Keisuke Wakao
  • Patent number: 11638291
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a single downlink control information (DCI) message scheduling a simultaneous downlink transmission and uplink transmission in an unpaired band. In some aspects, the single DCI message may include a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field having one or more bits that indicate a first MCS for the downlink transmission. The UE may determine a second MCS for the uplink transmission based at least in part on an offset from the first MCS for the downlink transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wanshi Chen, Wei Yang, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11627529
    Abstract: A device comprising: a transceiver operable in a first or second mode and configured to receive packets from a remote device, each packet comprising an indication of whether or not the remote device has a further packet to transmit, wherein: in the first mode the transceiver: (i) sends a polling message in response to receiving the indication of a further packet for transmission; and (ii) listens for that further packet; and in the second mode the transceiver: (i) does not send a polling message in response to receiving the indication of a further packet for transmission; and (ii) listens for packets regardless of whether a received packet indicates that there is a further packet to transmit or not; and a controller configured to monitor an activity level for the transceiver and cause the transceiver to operate in the first or second mode in dependence on the activity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventor: Chaitanya Tata
  • Patent number: 11617160
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques relate to the categorization of resources in a system to enable a user equipment (UE) to determine whether resources may be reclaimed. At least two categories may be defined for the resources, and the UE may use various criteria for categorizing the resources in a system. For example, the UE may include a first set of resources in an “available” category and a second set of resources in an “occupied” category. Resources in the “occupied” category may be indicated as occupied by another UE's sidelink channel information. In cases where resources are indicated as reserved for retransmission by another UE, but no feedback is detected, then the UE may use additional parameters to determine whether those resources may be reclaimed for its own transmission and may categorize the resources accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Tien Viet Nguyen, Kapil Gulati, Gabi Sarkis, Shuanshuan Wu, Chang-Sik Choi, Anantharaman Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11601862
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved implementation of a flood fill mesh radio network that utilizes probability forwarding for rebroadcasting network messages. The forwarding probability may be determined based on analyzing a neighbor topology map constructed by each network node relative to its neighbor nodes on the network and derived from state information supplied in synchronization frames. The forwarding probability may comprise a statistical probability that a message frame received by a network node will be forwarded to the intended destination network node by one or more of the network node's neighbor network nodes. The forwarding probability may also be based on constructing a heat map of hot nodes that are identified as those originating nodes in originating node/forwarding node pairs that are the first to forward message frames along paths in the network relative to duplicate message frames received from different originating/forwarding node pairs along different paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Guy McIlroy
  • Patent number: 11576137
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for interference measurements based on a priority value in a network (e.g., an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network). One example method generally includes determining, based on a priority level associated with each of a first wireless node, a second wireless node, or both, at least one configuration for communicating one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) between the first wireless node and the second wireless node, each of the first wireless node and the second wireless node being configured to serve one or more child nodes, wherein the at least one configuration comprises information enabling the first wireless node or the second wireless node to manage interference to communications. In some aspects, the method may also include transmitting the at least one configuration to at least one of the first wireless node or the second wireless node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11570763
    Abstract: Provided are an uplink control information transmission method and device. The method is applied to a terminal and includes: determining that there is overlap in time domain between at least two types of UCIs of at least two types to be transmitted, where each type in the at least two types is independently configured with uplink transmission related information; and independently transmitting UCI of the each type in the at least two types according to the configured uplink transmission related information. The method is applied to a network device and includes: sending uplink transmission related information for at least two types of UCIs; determining that there is overlap in time domain between at least two types of UCIs of at least two types to be transmitted; and receiving UCI of the each type in the at least two types according to the uplink transmission related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11570343
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a floating touch camera module, a display device and a touch method. The floating touch camera module includes: a lens with a light collection surface and a light emitting surface; an image sensor at one side of the light emitting surface of the lens, the image sensor configured to receive light rays from the lens and form sensing information; and an infrared cut filter film at one side of a light incident surface of the image sensor and configured to filter out infrared light rays. The infrared cut filter film is movable relative to the lens between a first position at which the infrared cut filter film directly faces the lens and a second position at which the infrared cut filter film is offset from the lens, thereby enabling the floating touch camera module to switch between a photographing mode and a touch mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Gao, Xuerong Wang, Lingyun Shi, Lu Yu, Lei Chen, Junjie Ma, Xuqing Feng, Pengfei Cheng, Xin Ma, Yuanda Lu, Haixu Li
  • Patent number: 11563512
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for link adaption for Passive Intermodulation (PIM) avoidance. In one embodiment, a method includes determining an indication of a link adaption scheme for a wireless communication based at least on a first interference measurement, the first interference measurement measured on a first subset of time resources associated with passive intermodulation, PIM, interference independently of a second interference measurement measured on at least a second subset of time resources, the second subset of time resources being different from the first subset of time resources. The indication of the determined link adaption scheme may be communicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Karl Mann, Hatem Abou-Zeid
  • Patent number: 11558889
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS) for a mobile communication system are provided. The UE receives, from the BS, a first downlink control information (DCI) indicating a first uplink resource for transmitting a first uplink signal, and then receives, from the BS, a second DCI indicating a second uplink resource for transmitting a second uplink signal. The BS configures the second uplink resource to be advanced to the first uplink resource in the time domain based on the uplink out-of-order configuration. The UE decides the transmission of the first uplink signal according to the condition of resource configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
    Inventors: Chun-Che Chien, Hai-Han Wang
  • Patent number: 11546410
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device and method for receiving identification information about a mobile device from the mobile device, determining based on the identification information, the mobile device as a peer device for performing an operation of the electronic device along with, or instead of, the electronic device, and determining at least one from among the peer device and the electronic device, the determined at least one performing the operation of the electronic device, based on a condition of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xieming Guo, Jae-Sun Park, Jiayan Liang
  • Patent number: 11540289
    Abstract: A method and device are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE receiving a first signaling to configure a preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) to be used in a cell. The method further includes the UE determining whether to use the PUR in the cell at least based on whether a timing advance is valid, wherein whether the timing advance is valid is based on a difference between a first measurement result and a second measurement result, and wherein the first measurement result is not a cell measurement quantity of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Meng-Hui Ou, Yu-Hsuan Guo
  • Patent number: 11539482
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to allocating non-continuous resource units (RUs). A device may determine a non-continuous RU allocation for one or more devices in a 80 MHz bandwidth including four 20 MHz channels, the non-continuous RU allocation including disabled tones of a 20 MHz channel of the four 20 MHz channels, and the disabled tones being a subset of tones within the 20 MHz channel. The device may determine a high efficiency wireless frame comprising an indication of the non-continuous RU allocation. The device may send the high efficiency wireless frame to one or more multiple devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Daniel Bravo, Laurent Cariou, Po-Kai Huang, Feng Jiang, Qinghua Li, Robert Stacey