Patents Examined by Zewdu A Beyen
  • Patent number: 11153218
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In aspects, a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may identify an amount of acknowledgement (ACK) reduction associated with an applications processor. The amount of ACK reduction may be determined based on a communication from the applications processor, or an ACK frequency in a group of packets received from the applications processor. The UE may determine whether to modify an ACK management scheme (e.g., a transmission control protocol (TCP) ACK coalescing scheme) based at least in part on the amount of ACK reduction associated with the applications processor. The UE may modify the ACK management scheme. The UE may transmit ACKs in accordance with the modified ACK management scheme. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Reddy Mudireddy, Arnaud Meylan, Shailesh Maheshwari
  • Patent number: 11153835
    Abstract: Provided are a method for a terminal transmitting a sidelink in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using same. The method comprises: determining at least one sidelink subframe for sidelink transmission from subframes, in a set of all subframes, other than subframes having a sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) resource configured, and reserved subframes; and transmitting the sidelink using the at least one sidelink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 11115813
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing fault tolerance for wireless communications in a wireless network (e.g., wireless local area network (LAN)). A client establishes a first connection with a first access point (AP) of multiple APs via first radio of the client and a second connection with a second AP of the multiple APs via a second radio of the client. The first AP and the second AP are connected to the same wireless LAN. Data associated with a communication session is communicated via the first and second connections. In response to detecting that the second connection satisfies one or more criteria, a third connection is established with a third AP of the multiple APs via the second radio of the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik R. Parker, Trent Allie, Andrew Michael Johnson
  • Patent number: 11108492
    Abstract: Provided are a transmission parameter determination method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: the first terminal device determines a transmission parameter of the first terminal device according to a channel busy ratio (CBR), a priority of a service to be transmitted and a first mapping relationship. The first mapping relationship is configured to indicate a correspondence among CBRs, priorities of services and transmission parameters of the first terminal device, the transmission parameter of the first terminal device comprises a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index, an MCS table corresponding to the MCS index of the first terminal device is different from an MCS table corresponding to an MCS index of a second terminal device, and the second terminal device is a terminal device supporting a version of a communication protocol different from a version of a communication protocol supported by the first terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11095568
    Abstract: Described herein include systems, methods, and apparatuses for the scheduling of data over a network (e.g., a wired or wireless network). A scheduler may be configured to receive a portion of packets at a receiving buffer and classify the packets into real time packets or non-real time packets using associated first and second queues. Further, a first re-transmission component may receive the real time packets from the first queue, and a second re-transmission component may receive the non-real time packets from the second queue. The real time packets may be received, by a transmission component, from the first re-transmission component; the transmission component may also receive non-real time packets from the second re-transmission component. The scheduler may then transmit at least one real time packet or non-real time packet to another device over a network using any suitable scheduling algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Finkelstein
  • Patent number: 11089502
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and associated method performs a voice call with a network, including exchanging voice packets, determines an uplink data transmission to be performed concurrently with the voice call and stores the uplink data transmission in a buffer. A base station and associated method performs a voice call with a UE, determines a downlink data transmission for the UE is to be performed concurrently with the voice call and stores the downlink data transmission in a buffer when the UE is a predetermined type. A UE and associated method associates with a first access point (AP), determines first performance characteristics of a connection with the first AP, determines second performance characteristics of a potential connection with a second AP, declares a radio link failure when the second performance characteristics exceed the first performance characteristics to trigger a handover procedure from the first AP to the second AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Samy Khay-Ibbat, Tarik Tabet
  • Patent number: 11088959
    Abstract: A distributed computing system, such as may be used to implement an electronic trading system, supports a notion of fairness in latency. The system does not favor any particular client. Thus, being connected to a particular access point into the system (such as via a gateway) does not give any particular device an unfair advantage or disadvantage over another. That end is accomplished by precisely controlling latency, that is, the time between when request messages arrive at the system and a time at which corresponding response messages are permitted to leave. The precisely controlled, deterministic latency can be fixed over time, or it can vary according to some predetermined pattern, or vary randomly within a pre-determined range of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: HYANNIS PORT RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony D. Amicangioli, Allen Bast, B. Joshua Rosen, Christophe Juhasz
  • Patent number: 11071137
    Abstract: A data transmission method and device are provided. The method includes: receiving a BSR sent by a terminal; receiving information about a currently accessed WLAN AP sent by the terminal; determining, according to the information about the WLAN AP, the amount of data to be transmitted by the terminal through a LTE network; and sending a UL Grant to the terminal, so that the terminal may determine, according to the U Grant, the amount of data to be transmitted via the LTE network, and the then transmit data via the LTE network and a WLAN network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Hong, Ming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11070331
    Abstract: A communications device for communicating data, the communications device including a receiver for receiving signals representing downlink data from a network element of a wireless telecommunications system via a wireless access interface having a logical baseband frame structure, a transmitter for transmitting signals representing uplink data to the network element via the wireless access interface, the logical baseband frame structure being formed from one or more minimum frequency units and one or more time units to form communications resources for allocation by the network element to the communications device, and a controller for controlling the transmitter and the receiver to transmit and to receive signals representing the data to and from the network element using the wireless access interface. The controller is configured in combination with the transmitter and the receiver to receive an indication of frequency resources within a host frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jussi Kahtava, Matthew William Webb
  • Patent number: 11070470
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for routing packets to services in a gateway device. The gateway device may be implemented as a virtual computing instance running in a host machine. The gateway device includes a host router configured to route packets to services coupled to ports of the host router in the gateway device based on a destination internet protocol (IP) address of the packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Jia Yu, Xinhua Hong
  • Patent number: 11044654
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for facilitating efficient handoff and data throughput in mobile broadband communication systems. Methods implemented by a system constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention include selectively enabled soft handoff, performing Layer 2 bearer functions at the base station and using the mobile device to coordinate soft handoff and interference avoidance without the need for a centralized coordination function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nimal Senarath, Bill Gage, Shalini Periyalwar, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 11044593
    Abstract: A method (30) performed in a client device (16) is provided for managing constrained devices (14a, 14b, 14c), which to at least some extent fail to support a Lightweight Machine to Machine, LWM2M, protocol. The client device (16) is compatible with a LWM2Mprotocol for communicating with a LWM2M server (17) and comprises a LWM2Mcontroller object (22) for management of any discovered constrained device (14a, 14b, 14c). The method (30) comprises discovering (31) one or more constrained devices (14a, 14b, 14c); creating (32), for each discovered constrained device (14a, 4b, 14c), a respective LWM2M connected device object (23), wherein the LWM2M controller object (22) points at the one or more created LWM2Mconnected device 10 objects (23); and exposing (33) the LWM2M controller object (22) to the LWM2M server (17). A method (40) in a server device (17), client device (16), server device (17), computer programs and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sumit Singhal, Jan Höller
  • Patent number: 11012266
    Abstract: Provided are a sub-carrier estimation method in a multi-carrier communication system and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving a data frame transmitted by a transmitting end, and extracting a training sequence from the data frame; performing fast Fourier transform operation on the training sequence and a preset reference sequence, respectively, to obtain frequency domain data of the training sequence and frequency domain data of the reference sequence, and conjugately multiplying the two kinds of frequency domain data; extracting real part of conjugate multiplication result; averaging values in each column of an M×N array, respectively, to obtain an output array of 1 row and N columns; and estimating, according to the value in each column of the output array of 1 row and N columns, whether valid data is transmitted over N sub-carriers corresponding to the output array of 1 row and N columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI EASTSOFT MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Song Pan, Liwei Shen, Guangsheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11006267
    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: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gunnar Mildh, Ingrid Nordstrand, András Rácz, Magnus Stattin, Pontus Wallentin
  • Patent number: 10999177
    Abstract: A first node (110) and a method therein for managing modes of operation of a service, referred to as “service modes” are disclosed. The service is executed in the first node (110). The service is capable of communicating with a second node (120) over a wireless network (100). The first node (110) receives an estimated level of a connectivity for the service from the wireless network (100). The estimated level of the connectivity relates to likelihood of maintaining the connectivity to the second node (120). The first node (110) selects one of the service modes based on the estimated level of the connectivity. Moreover, corresponding computer programs and computer program products are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Erik Dahlman, Magnus Frodigh, Mikael Hook, Harald Kallin, Gunnar Mildh, Joachim Sachs
  • Patent number: 10979988
    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: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    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: 10972939
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique and system for converging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cards, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related services, etc.), on the basis of the 5G communication technology and IoT associated technology. According to the present invention, in a method of receiving a MAC PDU, when an unused value is included in a received MAC PDU, the MAC PDU is received through a multicast channel, and the unused value is included in a sub-header of the MAC PDU, the sub-header and a payload portion corresponding to the sub-header are ignored and the remaining sub-header and payload portion are processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Sangbum Kim, Kyeongin Jeong, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 10966201
    Abstract: Enhancement of wireless Channel Order and rank (ECHO) systems and ECHO repeater devices for enhancement of a wireless propagation channel for point to point or point to multipoint radio configurations are disclosed. The enhancement may be used for MIMO communications channels. Aspects support a richer multipath environment to increase the rank of the channel propagation matrix and/or to increase the magnitude of the coefficients of the propagation matrix between two or more radios. Such enhancement is applicable to backhaul radios in terms of increased range or in the number of supportable information streams. The installation, provisioning, optimization, control, monitoring, and adaptation of such devices within a network of backhaul radios is also disclosed. Wireless links and control between IBR and ECHO devices, and between ECHO devices and other ECHO devices, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SKYLINE PARTNERS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Negus, James A. Proctor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10966093
    Abstract: A method is performed by a wireless device (16). The method comprises determining whether a core network functionality (12) of a wireless communication system (10) refreshes a temporary identifier (18) associated with the wireless device (16) in accordance with a defined procedure. The method also comprises, responsive to determining that the core network functionality (12) does not refresh the temporary identifier (18) in accordance with the defined procedure, performing one or more actions. The action(s) may for instance include recording at the wireless device (16) that the core network functionality (12) does not refresh a temporary identifier (18) in accordance with the defined procedure and/or reporting the core network functionality (12) as not refreshing the temporary identifier (18) in accordance with the defined procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Karl Norrman, Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi
  • Patent number: 10966109
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for adaptation of WLAN selection thresholds. In one aspect there is provided a method, which may include receiving, at a user equipment, information including one or more thresholds for use when evaluating a selection of a wireless local area network access point for offloading; comparing, by the user equipment, a quality of an access provided by the wireless local area network access point selected in accordance with the one or more thresholds to another quality provided by a cellular access point; reporting, by the user equipment, a result of the comparing; and receiving, by the user equipment in response to the reporting, additional information including one or more adjusted thresholds for use when evaluating wireless local area network access point selection. Related systems, articles of manufacture, and the like are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Mika Kasslin, Janne Marin, Mika Rinne, Antti Sorri