Patents Examined by Xuan Lu
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Patent number: 11272368Abstract: A technique controls access to a set of protected resources. The technique involves receiving a location signal which identifies a current geolocation of an endpoint device. The technique further involves, based on the current geolocation identified by the location signal, generating a heat map corresponding to a geographic region that includes the current geolocation of the endpoint device, the heat map defining one or more security zones within the geographic region. The technique further involves, selecting a particular security level from multiple security levels based on a security zone of the heat map associated with the current geolocation of the endpoint device, and communicating the selected security level to the endpoint device. The selected security level is associated with security requirements to be satisfied by the endpoint device in order for the endpoint device to access the set of protected resources.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Xiaolu Chu, Jiandong Hong, Dai Li
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Patent number: 11272467Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving a sidelink signal of a UE, comprising the steps of: receiving, by the UE from one or more of a base station or a sidelink UE, information capable of distinguishing a mode 1/3 signal or a mode 2/4 signal or control information comprising a priority assigned to each of the mode 1/3 and the mode 2/4; determining whether or not a mode 1/3 resource is used by a UE other than the UE, on the basis of the information capable of distinguishing the mode 1/3 signal or the mode 2/4 signal; and requesting, by the UE, a resource reselection to the base station, if the mode 1/3 resource is used by a UE other than the UE and the UE is a mode 1/3 UE.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee, Youngdae Lee
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Patent number: 11258492Abstract: A high-speed data transmission degradation method, a device, and a system, to implement, in high-speed data transmission and depending on a terminal requirement, resource degradation in which interaction load is low and a terminal remains connected to a network, so as to ensure a data transmission rate of the terminal and improve terminal user experience. The method includes receiving, by a network-side device, a degradation request sent by a terminal that is in a high-speed data transmission mode; obtaining, by the network-side device, a target to-be-degraded resource of the terminal based on the received degradation request; and degrading, by the network-side device, the target to-be-degraded resource.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongyue Wang, Liping Chen, Shaoli Ren, Haitao Zong, Lingjun Liu
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Patent number: 11252017Abstract: Facilitating management of secondary cell group failures in advanced networks (e.g., 5G and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise determining, by a system comprising a processor, that a first secondary cell group procedure attempt is unsuccessful. Further, the method can comprise facilitating, by the system, a second secondary cell group procedure attempt based on expiration of a delay timer and based on a determination that a retry attempt threshold level is not exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Milap Majmundar
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Patent number: 11211985Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method of operating a telecommunication network where a User Equipment, UE, is in communication with a plurality of cells, including a serving cell and a plurality of non-serving cells, wherein the UE is operable to determine an indicator which is passed to the serving cell, such that the serving cell determines which of the plurality of cells are operable in either coherent joint transmission, JT, mode or non-coherent joint transmission, NCJT mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shangbin Wu
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Patent number: 11202272Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for adjusting communication timings of beams (e.g., of beam pair links) within a beam timing advance group (TAG). In some cases, a base station may determine that transmission timing at a UE may be misaligned between multiple beams. The base station may configure a set of beams into a beam TAG, and may send a timing advance (TA) command for the beam TAG. A common timing reference value may be identified based on the TA command. UEs performing uplink transmissions may determine a TA value for the beam TAG based on the common timing reference value, and may adjust a communication timing for one or more of the beams within the beam TAG based at least in part on the common timing reference value and the timing advance value.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Navid Abedini, Bilal Sadiq, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11184077Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that the UE has data to transmit. The user equipment may transmit, to a base station (BS) and based at least in part on determining that the UE has the data to transmit, a plurality of communications on a plurality of uplink beams to trigger the BS to perform beam measurements for the uplink beams. The user equipment may receive information that identifies a subset of the plurality of uplink beams to be used for an uplink data transmission based at least in part on transmitting the communications. The user equipment may transmit the uplink data transmission on the subset of the uplink beams based at least in part on receiving the information that identifies the subset of the uplink beams. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kiran Venugopal, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Wooseok Nam, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang
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Patent number: 11147016Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to delay indication. A device may identify a first frame received from a first station device, wherein the first frame comprises a first transition delay field, wherein the first transition delay field comprises a first transition delay value associated with a power state transition. The device may determine a wake up receiver (WUR) frame comprising an indication for waking up the main radio of the first station device. The device may cause to send the WUR frame to the first station device based on the first transition delay value.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Po-Kai Huang, Shahrnaz Azizi, Daniel Bravo, Noam Ginsburg, Thomas J. Kenney, Vinod Kristem
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Patent number: 11128554Abstract: In one embodiment, a technique comprises monitoring data transfer over a radio frequency (RF) link between a first device and a second device in a mesh network where the second device is a descendent node and the first device is a parent node. The technique further transfers the data over a power link communication (PLC) when the RF link is inactive. The method also includes broadcasting, by the second device, RF link availability to at least a third device in the mesh network when the RF link with the first device is inactive where the third device has an active link with the second device and the third device is a descendent node of the second device. The method then includes communicating, between the second device and the third device, through the active RF link.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Yinfang Wang, Yajun Xia, Feiliang Wang, Chuanwei Li
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Patent number: 11108690Abstract: A method and a router device for managing memory for network overlay routes with fallback route support prioritization may be provided. A network overlay route as a candidate network overlay route may be obtained at a router for storage in a memory. The memory may store a plurality of network overlay routes for forwarding user plane traffic in a network. An assessment for storage of the candidate network overlay route based on a priority level indicator of the candidate network overlay route may be performed. The priority level indicator may be indicative of a fallback route support level of the candidate network overlay route in the router. Based on the assessment, at least one of the following may be performed: adding the candidate network overlay route to the memory and refraining from adding the candidate network overlay route to the memory.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Marc Portoles Comeras, Alberto Rodriguez Natal, Vina Ermagan, Reshad Rahman, Johnson Leong
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Patent number: 11096086Abstract: A method for transmitting feedback information by a remote user equipment (remote UE) in a further enhancement D2D (FeD2D) environment comprises a step of transmitting feedback information on a plurality of relay user equipments (relay UEs) which have been linked to the remote UE through a PC5 interface, wherein the feedback information is transmitted via a separate feedback channel set by a network rather than the PC5 interface, and the feedback information may be transmitted to the plurality of relay UEs in a multicast form.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jongwoo Hong, Hanbyul Seo
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Patent number: 11075840Abstract: Technology related to disaggregating network traffic is disclosed. In one example, a method can include determining whether individual network flows are members within a first subset of the network flows. A second subset of the first subset of network flows can be learned in response to determining a change in a number of servers available to service the network flows. A first network packet can be forwarded to a first server in response to the first network packet being a member of the first subset of network flows and a member of the learned second subset of the first subset of network flows. A second network packet can be forwarded to a second server in response to the second network packet being a member of the first subset of network flows but not a member of the learned second subset of the first subset of network flows.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: F5 NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Wei Qian, William Ross Baumann, Ning Kai Chen
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Patent number: 11032820Abstract: Receiving Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) packets from co-located access point radios and client device radios may be provided. First, a plurality of switchable gain devices corresponding to an auxiliary radio may be placed into a toggling state in response to the auxiliary radio being placed in a sniffer mode. Next, it may be determined that a primary radio is transmitting within a frequency range of a frequency band. Then, in response to determining that the primary radio is transmitting within the frequency range of the frequency band, a one of the plurality of switchable gain devices corresponding to the frequency band may be placed into a low gain state when the auxiliary radio is sniffing the frequency range of the frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Sivadeep Reddy Kalavakuru, Gerald B. Johnson, Michael Marlborough
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Patent number: 11012962Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining a transmission time interval length to be used for communications between a user equipment device and a base station in response to a new service request, wherein the transmission time interval length is selected dependent on a timing advance value to be used by the user equipment device for communication with the base station.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Martin Hans, Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas
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Patent number: 10952270Abstract: In an arrangement where an access node (e.g., a Node-B) is used in dual-connectivity service of UEs that are served by other access nodes, resources of the access node could be dynamically allocated to the UEs based at least on respective priorities designated for the other access nodes. For instance, each other access node could be prioritized based on its type, such as whether it is a macro access node, a small-cell access node, an indoor access node, an access node for a special event, or a access node for dedicated service, among other possibilities, and allocation of resources of the jointly-used access node could be defined based on these priorities, giving higher resource-allocation priority to UEs that are served by a higher priority other access node and giving lower resource-allocation priority to UEs that are served by a lower priority other access node.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Sanghoon Sung, Yun Sung Kim, George W. Harter, III, Udit Thakore
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Patent number: 10911171Abstract: A sensor network, which includes a sensor controller serially coupled to a plurality of sensor modules, is configured to program the sensor modules so as to transfer measurement data to the sensor controller and to synchronize the sensor modules to picosecond accuracy via on-chip or on-module custom circuits and a physical layer protocol. The sensor network has applications for use in PET, LiDAR or FLIM applications. Synchronization, within picosecond accuracy, is achieved through use of a picosecond time digitization circuit. Specifically, the picosecond time digitization circuit is used to measure on-chip delays with high accuracy and precision. The delay measurements are directly comparable between separate chips even with voltage and temperature variations between chips.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Anacapa Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Marc Loinaz
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Patent number: 10848409Abstract: Methods for a data-less ranging procedure may include initiating a ranging procedure via a polling message transmitted at a first time and receiving response messages at second and third times. The time intervals between the first and second time and the second and third times may be pre-defined. A time of flight may be calculated based on the pre-defined time intervals and the first, second, and third times.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alejandro J. Marquez, Shang-Te Yang, Mohit Narang, Indranil S. Sen, Joachim S. Hammerschmidt, Hung Kwan Oscar Au, Dineshan Poopalaratnam
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Patent number: 10743214Abstract: The proposed technology generally relates to flow control in wireless communication systems and in particular to methods and devices for flow control in multi-point transmission wireless communication systems.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Torbjörn Wigren, Ramon Alejandro Delgado Pulgar, Katrina Lau, Richard Middleton