Patents Examined by Zhiren Qin
  • Method for transmitting and receiving random access preamble in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 11096222
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting a random access preamble in a wireless communication system supporting a narrowband-Internet of things (NB-IoT) and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method performed by the terminal may include: receiving, from a base station, first configuration information for a first random access preamble and second configuration information for a second random access preamble; transmitting, to the base station, the first random access preamble by using the first configuration information; and transmitting, to the base station, the second random access preamble based on the second configuration information, when transmission of the first random access preamble satisfies a predetermined criterion, in which any one of the first random access preamble and the second random access preamble may be generated based on a sequence in which all elements are not configured to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seokmin Shin, Changhwan Park, Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Daesung Hwang
  • Methods and systems for an improved communication network
    Patent number: 11082140
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for an improved communication network. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising receiving, at a first device, a first signal over a first medium, the signal comprising a first portion and a second portion, and extracting by a processor a third portion of the first signal, the third portion being at least a portion of the first portion of the first signal, the third portion being intended for receipt by a second device associated with a particular user account. The method may further include combining at least a fifth portion of the first signal with the third portion of the first signal to generate a second signal, the fifth portion of the first signal being at least a portion of the second portion of the first signal and providing the second signal to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Finkelstein
  • Method for facilitating network identification, access node, method for network identification and user equipment
    Patent number: 11071046
    Abstract: A method for facilitating network identification is provided. The method at an access node of a first network, comprises: detecting a physical-layer-related identity of each of one or more neighboring access nodes; decoding, for each of the one or more neighboring access nodes, a network identity of the neighboring access node; for each of the one or more neighboring access nodes: determining whether the neighboring access node belongs to the first network or a different network; and determining an identity group in which the detected physical-layer-related identity of the neighboring access node is included; and selecting, as a physical-layer-related identity of the access node, a physical-layer-related identity from an identity group other than any identity group in which a physical-layer-related identity of a neighboring access node belonging to a different network is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gen Li, Tim Irnich
  • Candidate transmission configuration information states for slot aggregation
    Patent number: 11057915
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine, during a multi-slot downlink transmission, that a mapping from a transmission configuration information (TCI) state index to a first TCI state configuration has changed to a second TCI state configuration. The UE may select, based at least in part on the determined change, the first TCI state configuration or the second TCI state configuration to use for at least a portion of the multi-slot downlink transmission. The UE may receive the multi-slot downlink transmission during one or more slots according to the selected TCI state configuration and the TCI state index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Kiran Venugopal, Tianyang Bai
  • Message processing method and apparatus, radio access network device and storage medium
    Patent number: 11051197
    Abstract: Provided are a message processing method and apparatus, a radio access network device, and a storage medium. The method includes: after receiving information about a first measurement signal of a second radio access network device reported by a terminal, a first radio access network device performing following operations: determining whether to send a first message to the second radio access network device according to obtained association information and first information, where the association information indicates association between the first measurement signal and a second measurement signal of the second radio access network device, and the first information indicates whether the second measurement signal is being sent; or sending the first message to the second radio access network device. The first message carries the information about the first measurement signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xiaojuan Shi
  • Utilizing unstructured data in self-organized networks
    Patent number: 11044155
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for optimizing user experience by utilizing at least one self-organizing network (SON) is provided. The present invention may include generating one or more predictions associated with one or more optimizations for a plurality of unstructured data associated with one or more combined data sets. The present invention may then include transferring the generated one or more predictions associated with the one or more optimizations to at least one SON controller. The present invention may further include implementing the one or more optimizations to an antennae signal to determine a relationship with the implemented one or more optimizations and the plurality of unstructured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bruno dos Santos Silva, Diogo Tadeu Silva de Araujo
  • Method and apparatus for performing measurement in an extension carrier
    Patent number: 11026112
    Abstract: A method of configuring a measurement for a mobile terminal configured with a plurality of component carriers in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method is performed by a base station and includes transmitting, by the base station, configuration information to the mobile terminal. Further, when the transmitted configuration information includes an indication information for the measurement in an extension component carrier among the plurality of component carriers, the measurement in the extension component carrier is based on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and when the transmitted configuration information does not include the indication information for the measurement in the extension component carrier among the plurality of component carriers, the measurement in the extension component carrier is based on a common reference signal (CRS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Soyeon Kim, Sungho Moon, Jaehoon Chung, Minseok Noh
  • Methods and apparatuses for efficient battery utilization during content delivery in telecommunication networks
    Patent number: 11012937
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for controlling a manner of delivering content to a content user in a mobile telecommunication network are provided. The content is sent to the content user using first a first transmission rate when the content user is in a first radio state and uses a first battery power, and then using a second transmission rate that is lower than the first transmission rate, when the content user is in a second radio state and uses a second battery power that is smaller than the first battery power. The sending is performed such as, (A) while delivering the content, an amount of the content already received by the content user to exceed an amount of the content used by the content user, and (B) to minimize an energy used by the content user during delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ayodele Damola, Lars Westberg
  • Radio frequency database automation for 5G or other next generation network
    Patent number: 11006290
    Abstract: By utilizing a database module, retrieving configuration management data related to network parameters can generate additional network efficiencies. The database module can be strategically placed to be utilized by various activities such as system network optimization, load balancing, network coverage, etc. The database module can also be utilized to automatically print out a radio frequency data sheet and utilized to perform network planning, generate updated sector information and import manually data that is currently procured manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Helen Zeng, Mario Kosseifi
  • Random access method and device
    Patent number: 11006458
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for random access. The method includes: receiving, via a terminal device, N groups of random access-related information sent by a network device, wherein the N groups of random access-related information are determined by the network device according to a network deployment and optimization policy, and the ith group of random access-related information is used by the terminal device for determining a random access preamble set i and a time-frequency resource corresponding to the random access preamble set i, N being a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, i=1, . . . N; and sending, via the terminal device, a random access preamble to the network device according to the N groups of random access-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Hua Xu
  • Resource monitoring
    Patent number: 10979328
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for a network element that can be configured to receive a link monitoring message, determine one or more resources associated with the link monitoring message, determine a status of each of the one or more resources, and send a response that provides an indication of the status of each of the one or more resources. In an example, the link monitoring is part of a bidirectional forwarding detection packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mark D. Gray, John J. Browne, Maryam Tahhan
  • Methods and apparatus to announce channel capabilities in wireless communication systems
    Patent number: 10939445
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to announce channel capabilities in wireless communication systems are discussed herein. An example first wireless communication device includes a channel support identifier to determine wireless communication channels supported by the wireless communication device, a channel capability field generator to generate a listing of the supported wireless communication channels, a channel capability field inserter to insert the listing into a Capabilities element transmitted to a second wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carlos Cordeiro, Solomon Trainin, Ou Yang
  • Adaptive traffic processing in communications network
    Patent number: 10932160
    Abstract: There is provided adaptive traffic processing in a communications network. Traffic flows from real-life traffic are detected, rules are applied to detected traffic flows, machine-learning based clustering of the detected traffic flows is performed, at least one new traffic rule is generated on the basis of one or more generated traffic clusters, the generated rules are simulated for obtaining a result indicating behavioural effect in the traffic of the communications network, the result is evaluated against one or more performance criteria of the communications network and the generated rules are applied if the performance criteria of the communications network have been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Comptel Oy
    Inventors: Juhana Enqvist, Simo Isomaki, Mikko Jarva
  • SMS-IWF reassignment for SMS link outage
    Patent number: 10917759
    Abstract: A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a service request from a user equipment (UE) device via a wireless access network; identify a Short Message Service Inter-Working Function (SMS-IWF) device associated with the UE device; and determine that the identified SMS-IWF device is associated with a link failure. The processor may further be configured to instruct the UE device to detach based on determining that the identified SMS-IWF device is associated with a link failure; receive a re-attach request from the UE device, in response to instructing the UE device to detach; and assign a functioning SMS-IWF device to the UE device, in response to receiving the re-attach request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Suzann Hua, Priscilla Lau
  • Access method, device, and system
    Patent number: 10911918
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an access method to implement access of an IoT gateway. A specific solution includes: UE obtains an address of the to-be-connected IoT gateway. An IoT cloud platform allocates, to the MAPP installed on the UE, a unique access identifier corresponding to the MAPP. The UE provides an address of the IoT cloud platform and the allocated access identifier for the IoT gateway whose address is already learned. The IoT gateway adds the access identifier to a registration message, and sends the registration message to the IoT cloud platform. The IoT cloud platform binds the IoT gateway to the MAPP corresponding to the access identifier included in the registration message, so as to complete access of the IoT gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongjun Xia
  • Codebook-based signal transmission/reception method in multi-antenna wireless communication system, and device for same
    Patent number: 10897290
    Abstract: Disclosed are a codebook-based signal transmission and reception method in a multi-antenna wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting or receiving a signal on the basis of a codebook by a terminal in a 2-dimensional multi-antenna wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) through a multi-antenna port from a base station; and reporting channel state information to the base station, wherein the channel state information may include a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for indicating a precoding matrix, the PMI may include a first PMI for selecting a set of precoding matrixes from the codebook and a second PMI for selecting one precoding matrix from the set of precoding matrixes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park
  • Fast multi-beam listen before talk
    Patent number: 10887890
    Abstract: Facilitating fast multi-beam listen before talk in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a device can comprise determining a first inactivity in a first beam based on a first performance of a first listen before talk procedure in the first beam and, based on determining the first inactivity, analyzing a presence of an activity in a second beam based on a second performance of a second listen before talk procedure in the second beam. Further, the operations can comprise, based on determining a lack of the presence of the activity in the second beam, transmitting a signal via the second beam. In an example, analyzing the presence of the activity in the second beam can be performed prior to completion of the determining the first inactivity in the first beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Thomas Novlan
  • Control and data multiplexing
    Patent number: 10868622
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may relate to an apparatus with a first component and a second component coupled with the first component by a plurality of signal wires. A first wire of the plurality of signal wires may be to carry a command byte of a packet and a first data byte of the packet from the first component to the second component. A second wire of the plurality of signal wires may be to carry a second data byte of the packet from the first component to the second component when the first signal wire carries the command byte of the packet and carry a third data byte of the packet from the first component to the second component when the first signal wire carries the first data byte of the packet. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Todor M. Mladenov, Helmut Reinig, Simona Bernardi
  • Methods to signal antenna panel capability of user equipment (UE) for carrier aggregation (CA) in millimeter-wave (MMWAVE) frequency bands
    Patent number: 10863582
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may be configured for carrier aggregation (CA) in which a plurality of component carriers (CCs) are aggregated. The UE may determine a mapping of the CCs to a plurality of antenna panels for downlink reception, wherein a subset of the CCs are mapped to each antenna panel. The UE may transmit, to the gNB, radio resource control (RRC) signaling that indicates information related to the mapping. The gNB may, based at least partly on the mapping, determine, for each CC: a first scheduled time period for transmit beam refinement, and a second scheduled time period for receive beam refinement at the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Michael A. Ruder, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Method for performing measurement for aerial UE in wireless communication system and a device therefor
    Patent number: 10856168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing measurement for aerial UE in wireless communication system, the method comprising: informing a network of location information of the UE, which is used for figuring the network out current status of the UE which is in airborne status or is staying or hovering on the ground; receiving triggering conditions for measurement reporting which is associated with the informed location information of the UE; performing a measurement for a serving cell; and reporting result of the measurement to the serving cell if at least one of the triggering condition for the serving cell is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hongsuk Kim, Youngdae Lee