Patents Examined by Zewdu A Beyen
  • Patent number: 11979214
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Hua Xu, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 11956768
    Abstract: A method and an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node are disclosed for resource scheduling. According to an embodiment, the IAB node determines a first range of scheduling delay such that the first range is different from a second range of scheduling delay determined by a neighboring IAB node having a hop to the IAB node. The IAB node schedules an uplink transmission or downlink reception to occur within the first range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jinhua Liu, Min Wang
  • Patent number: 11956740
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may attempt to decode sidelink synchronization signals (SLSSs) received on component carriers (CCs) of a carrier aggregation. In one configuration, synchronization resources for SLSS transmissions may be aligned across the CCs at subframe boundaries in time, restricted to a portion of the CCs, and restricted to a same sub-frame. The UE may, for multiple CCs, determine a priority level for the CC based on indicators in the SLSSs received on the CC. The UE may select, from the CCs on which one or more SLSSs are decoded, the CC for which the determined priority level is highest. The UE may determine a reference timing for sidelink communication based on the one or more SLSSs received on the selected CC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ajit Nimbalker, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jeongho Jeon, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Sergey Panteleev, Gang Xiong, Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev, Mikhail Shilov, Sergey Sosnin, Andrey Chervyakov
  • Patent number: 11956801
    Abstract: Control information may be used to schedule communications between a wireless device and a base station. The wireless device may monitor control channels associated with one or more cells to receive the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Bing Hui, Kai Xu, Hyoungsuk Jeon
  • Patent number: 11950182
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may be configurable to operate as an initiating UE for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) application that includes PCS communication between the initiating UE and a receiving UE. The initiating UE may receive, from a base station, control signaling that indicates a default PCS radio access technology (RAT) for the V2X service. The default PCS RAT may be either a Long Term Evolution (LTE) PCS RAT or a New Radio (NR) PCS RAT. Based on the default PCS RAT and/or PCS RATs supported by the initiating UE, the initiating UE may select either the LTE PCS RAT or the NR PCS RAT. The selected PCS RAT may be proposed, in a negotiation with the receiving UE, for the V2X service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Chang Hong Shan, Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde
  • Patent number: 11943167
    Abstract: A wireless mesh network includes a controller in wireless communication with a plurality of slave devices where each slave device is assigned a virtual routing number that defines a time slot in a TDMA communications frame. The slave devices are configured to receive, out of band and/or separately from the TDMA communications frame, asynchronous transmissions of sensor data from battery operated sensor devices. The battery operated sensor devices transmit asynchronously and do not participate in the TDMA communications frame in order to save battery power. The slave devices store data received from the sensor devices until the data is requested by the controller through an initiation message. In response, the slave devices aggregate data received directly from asynchronous communications with data received from other slave devices during an accumulation process that passes the accumulated date back to the controller through the mesh network during a TDMA acknowledgement frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Vladimir Sulc
  • Patent number: 11943298
    Abstract: A vehicular communication device is configured to perform communication in accordance with an Ethernet standard, and includes a medium access controller (MAC), a clock monitor, and a return processor. The MAC is configured to execute medium access control. The clock monitor is configured to monitor a clock signal for operating the MAC. The return processer is configured to restart a clock output source that outputs the clock signal, in response to the clock monitor detecting that the clock signal is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuhei Itoda
  • Patent number: 11937283
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for quasi-colocation (QCL) assumption for an aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) reference signal (RS) configured with multiple transmission reception point (mTRP). A user equipment (UE) may receive signaling configuring the UE with a plurality of index values associated with different control resource sets (CORESETS). The UE may receive, from a base station (BS), first downlink control information (DCI) triggering an A-CSI-RS resource set for A-CSI reporting. The first DCI is received in a first CORESET of the different CORESETs associated with a first index value of the plurality of index values. The UE may determine a first time offset between the first DCI and the A-CSI-RS resource set. When the first time offset is smaller than a threshold time offset, the UE may determine a QCL assumption for receiving the A-CSI-RS based, at least in part, on the first index value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11937235
    Abstract: Aspects relate to dynamically changing the slot format of a slot between half-duplex and sub-band full-duplex and/or to changing flexible symbols within a flexible slot between half-duplex and sub-band full-duplex when a base station is configured to operate in a sub-band full-duplex mode. A slot format indicator (SFI) indicating the slot format of the slot may be signaled, for example, via downlink control information (DCI) mapped to a downlink control channel or medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE) mapped to a downlink data channel. To improve reliability, various SFI boosting mechanisms may further be employed. For example, the base station may apply a higher aggregation level to the SFI, transmit repetitions of the SFI across multiple beams, apply a CRC enhancement and/or MCS enhancement to the downlink control channel carrying the SFI, and/or apply a power boost to the SFI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Huilin Xu, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Ahmed Attia Abotabl
  • Patent number: 11937164
    Abstract: A method for processing a data packet at a node in a Bluetooth Mesh network, comprising: (a) determining a one-hop device cache list of the node, wherein the one-hop device cache list comprises an address of one or more one-hop nodes; (b) when the node sends a data packet, checking whether a destination address of the data packet is the same as an address stored in the one-hop device cache list; if yes, setting a TTL value of the data packet to 0 and sending the data packet; otherwise, setting the TTL value of the data packet to be greater than a specified TTL threshold, and sending the data packet; and (c) when the node forwards a data packet, checking whether the destination address of the data packet is the same as an address stored in the one-hop device cache list; if yes, setting the TTL value of the data packet to 1 and forwarding the data packet; otherwise, deducting the TTL value of the data packet by 1 and forwarding the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ESPRESSIF SYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yizan Zhou, Swee Ann Teo
  • Patent number: 11937340
    Abstract: Handling of UE capability information in a mobile telecommunications network wherein an eNodeB receives information regarding the UE capability information from the UE and stores the information. The eNodeB sends the UE capability information to the EPC, i.e., to an MME, which receives and stores the UE capability information. When the UE transits from idle to active state, does an initial attach, or when a part of the UE capabilities have changed, it sends a message to the eNodeB regarding the update. The eNodeB forwards the message to the MME, which sends a response associated with the previously stored UE capability information to the eNodeB. The eNodeB decides whether the UE capabilities stored in the MME is up-to-date based on the message from the UE and the response from the MME. If the UE holds updated UE capabilities the eNodeB can request updated UE capability information from the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gunnar Mildh, Ingrid Nordstrand, András Rácz, Magnus Stattin, Pontus Wallentin
  • Patent number: 11937218
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for transmitting, by a first device, information on an SL resource. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, TDD-UL-DL configuration information; obtaining information on an SL resource, on the basis of the TDD-UL-DL configuration information; and transmitting, to a second device over a PSBCH, the information on the SL resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Daesung Hwang, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11937229
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) which communicates with a base station is described. The method may comprise acquiring radio resource control (RRC) configuration information. The RRC configuration information may indicate one or more entries, each of the entries specifying a slot format. The method may also comprise receiving a physical signal and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with a downlink control (DCI) format. The DCI format may include a first information field and a second information field. The first information field may indicate an entry out of the entries. The second information field may indicates channel occupancy status of all channel access bandwidths in a bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: 11929860
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receiver unit (WTRU) is configured to receive sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information. The SRS configuration information indicates a plurality of SRS configurations and indicates antenna transmission information. The WTRU is configured to receive SRS trigger information. The SRS trigger information comprises an indication to trigger transmission of one of the plurality of SRS configurations. The WTRU is configured to transmit a plurality of SRS associated with the indication in the SRS trigger information and based on the SRS configuration information. At least a first SRS of the plurality of SRS is transmitted over a first antenna port in a first symbol and at least a second SRS of the plurality of SRS is transmitted over a second antenna port in a second symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Chang-Soo Koo, Peter S. Wang, Sung-Hyuk Shin, John W. Haim, Stephen G. Dick, Mihaela C. Beluri
  • Patent number: 11924108
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an offload platform is an compute platform, adjunct to a router or other packet switching device, that performs packet processing operations including determining an egress forwarding value corresponding to the next-hop node of the packet switching device to which to send an offload-platform processed packet. The offload platform downloads forwarding information from the router, and augments it, such as, but not limited to, representing interfaces of the router as identifiable virtual interface(s) on the offload platform, and including each of one or more next-hop nodes of the router represented as an identifiable virtual adjacency and identifiable tunnel (e.g., identified by the egress forwarding value). In one embodiment, the egress forwarding value is an Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) label or Segment Routing Identifier. The router identifies packets of certain packet flows to send to the adjunct offload platform, rather than processing per its routing information base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ijsbrand Wijnands, Neale David Raymond Ranns, David Delano Ward, David Richard Barach
  • Patent number: 11924738
    Abstract: Techniques for managing connections in a mesh network that includes multiple provisioners are described. In an example, a computer system receives, from a first device set up as a first provisioner in the mesh network, a first identifier of a third device of the mesh network. The computer system also receives, from a second device set up as a second provisioner in the mesh network, the first identifier of the third device. The computer system generates an association between the third device and the first device based at least in part on a determination that the third device is to be reached exclusively via the first device. The computer system also generates a message about an action to be performed by the third device and sends, based at least in part on the association, the message to the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Soon Hyeok Choi, VenkatRaghavan VijayaRaghavan, Bowei Feng, Lakshmi Venkatraman
  • Patent number: 11910232
    Abstract: This invention introduces methods and mechanisms of partial integrity protection in mobile systems. A user equipment (UE), comprising: a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive, from a network device, user plane data having integrity protection; send an error indication indicating an integrity protection error relating to the user plane data; and receive retransmitted user plane data from the network device with a reduced data rate, based on the error indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sander De Kievit, Hironori Ito, Anand Raghawa Prasad, Takahito Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11909796
    Abstract: An electronic device for processing real-time-streaming-protocol (RTSP) packets in a network to provide enhanced video-on-demand (VOD) services is provided. The electronic device includes a user interface, a non-transitory memory configured to store instructions including an application layer gateway (ALG) module and network service software, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to execute the instructions to store a list of mac-bridge clients that includes a MAC address and a MAC mask corresponding to each mac-bridge client, and determine whether at least one of the source and destination MAC address of a received RTSP packet is on the list. When at least one of the source and destination MAC address is on the list, the RTSP packet is processed using the network service software and a next RTSP packet is received; otherwise, the received RTSP packet is processed using the ALG module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Jinji Guo, Xing Feng, Jianming Liang, Feng Li, Yuping Dong
  • Patent number: 11902989
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method includes receiving, from a base station and at the UE of a group of UEs, control signaling indicating a link between a first search space set and a second search space set used for a multicast broadcast service, where a first downlink control channel for the group of UEs is transmitted in the first search space set and a second downlink control channel is transmitted in the second search space set, monitoring the first search space set for a first instance of control information in the first downlink control channel and the second search space set for a second instance of the control information in the second downlink control channel, and decoding the first instance or the second instance of the control information, or both, based on the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Kazuki Takeda, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Umesh Phuyal
  • Patent number: 11902844
    Abstract: This application provides a data processing method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium. When a PDCP entity over a UM DRB is re-established, or when a cell handover occurs and the PDCP entity over a UM DRB uses a key used before the handover, the PDCP entity determines a first SDU, where the first SDU is an SDU that is associated with a sequence number by the PDCP entity but whose corresponding data has not been transmitted through an air interface; and delivers a PDU corresponding to the first SDU to an RLC entity. Data corresponding to the first SDU is redelivered, to avoid a data packet loss caused by preprocessing of the PDCP entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuting Yao, Haibo Xu, Bingzhao Li, Zhenzhen Cao, Jian Wang