Patents by Inventor Brian Classon

Brian Classon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170048019
    Abstract: A system and method for adapting code rate are provided. A method for a first communication device to transmit a resource assignment to at least one communication device includes assigning at least one transmission resource to transmit the resource assignment, adapting a code rate of an encoded payload based on the at least one transmission resource and a threshold, thereby producing an adapted payload, and transmitting the adapted payload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Anthony C.K. Soong, Philippe Sartori, Brian Classon, Zhongfeng Li, Zhengwei Gong
  • Publication number: 20170019888
    Abstract: A method includes determining a first subframe on which to transmit a first downlink control information (DCI) message and determining a second subframe on which to transmit a first information. The method also includes determining a delay between the first subframe and the second subframe and transmitting, by a communications controller to a user equipment (UE), the second subframe in accordance with the delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Jinhuan Xia, Brian Classon, Vipul Desai
  • Patent number: 9544930
    Abstract: A communication interception method by a base station, a device and a terminal belonging to device-to-device (D2D) communication includes: receiving a message sent by a device, where the message is used to instruct interception of D2D data of the terminal belonging to the D2D communication; obtaining the D2D data according to the message; and sending the obtained D2D data to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yang, Brian Classon, Bo Lin
  • Publication number: 20170005848
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a network listening method and device, where the method includes: determining, by a first device according to a type of a network listening resource, a time-frequency pattern that is of a first sequence and is corresponding to the network listening resource of this type; and then transmitting the first sequence to a second device by using the time-frequency pattern of the first sequence, so that the second device performs network listening according to the first sequence. The time-frequency pattern of the first sequence determined in this process is a time-frequency pattern obtained by transforming a time-frequency pattern of a base sequence, and a network listening signal obtained therefrom, that is, the time-frequency pattern of the first sequence, is simple, which can achieve a purpose of reducing complexity of generating a network listening signal and computational complexity of parsing a network listening signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Juan Zheng, Xiaoan Fan, Yongxia Lyu, Brian Classon
  • Patent number: 9509467
    Abstract: A system and method for adapting code rate are provided. A method for a first communication device to transmit a resource assignment to at least one communication device includes assigning at least one transmission resource to transmit the resource assignment, adapting a code rate of an encoded payload based on the at least one transmission resource and a threshold, thereby producing an adapted payload, and transmitting the adapted payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony C.K. Soong, Philippe Sartori, Brian Classon, Zhongfeng Li, Zhengwei Gong
  • Publication number: 20160338024
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose a method, a device, and an apparatus for determining a downlink parameter. The method may include: receiving category information and modulation information that are reported by UE, where the category information includes a UE category of the UE, and the modulation information includes a highest order modulation scheme supported by the UE; and determining, as a downlink parameter of the UE, a downlink parameter that corresponds to the UE category of the UE and the highest order modulation scheme supported by the UE, where the downlink parameter of the UE is determined according to a correspondence from a UE category of the UE and a highest order modulation scheme supported by the UE to a downlink parameter of the UE as well as the UE category of the UE and the highest order modulation scheme supported by the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Liang Xia, Yuan Xia, Brian Classon, Vipul Desai
  • Publication number: 20160338070
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an information processing method, user equipment, and a base station, where the information processing method includes: obtaining, by user equipment, a coverage enhancement requirement; and communicating, by the user equipment, with a base station according to the coverage enhancement requirement. The user equipment obtains the coverage enhancement requirement and communicates with the base station according to the coverage enhancement requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Xiangdong Zhang, Zheng Yu, Brian Classon
  • Patent number: 9485075
    Abstract: A base station (e.g., an evolved Node B) determines whether the physical broadcast channel (PBCH), reference signals (SCH) and common reference signals (CRS) are transmitted (or awaiting transmission) on a secondary component carrier (Scell) with the cell. The determination information is transmitted to a user equipment (UE) to inform the UE that the Scell transmissions do not include PBCH/SCH/CRS. As a result, the resource elements (REs) normally used to carry system information in the PBCH/SCH/CRS can be dynamically assigned (or reassigned) to the data channel. In this manner, the physical downlink shared channel (PBSCH) bandwidth can be increased by utilizing those resource elements that are normally reserved/assigned to the PBCH/SCH/CRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Weimin Xiao, Brian Classon, Bingyu Qu
  • Publication number: 20160302203
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a base station configuring component carriers to user equipment (UE). The base station determines one or more component carriers to configure based on the UE carrier aggregation capability and sends a first configuration signaling to configure the UE with the component carriers in one or more component carrier sets. The base station configures each of the component carrier sets with a first common parameters and operations set and sends a second configuration signaling to configure the component carrier sets of the UE with the first common parameters and operations set. The base station then sends a third configuration signaling to configure each of the component carriers in the UE with a second parameters and operations set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jialing Liu, Brian Classon, Xiang Chen, Vipul Desai, Qian Cheng, Weimin Xiao
  • Publication number: 20160301502
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an information transmission method, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: receiving indication information sent by a base station, where the indication information is used to indicate a first downlink subframe in which a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) is transmitted; determining the first downlink subframe according to the indication information; and performing information transmission according to the first downlink subframe. According to the information transmission method, the user equipment, and the base station of embodiments of the present invention, indication information is used to indicate a downlink subframe in which a cell-specific reference signal is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Yan Cheng, Lixia Xue, David jean-marie Mazzarese, Fredrik Berggren, Brian Classon
  • Patent number: 9468017
    Abstract: A method includes determining a first subframe on which to transmit a first downlink control information (DCI) message and determining a second subframe on which to transmit a first information, where the first information is scheduled to be transmitted on the second subframe in accordance with scheduling information indicated in the first DCI message. The method also includes determining a delay between the first subframe and the second subframe and transmitting, by a communications controller to a user equipment (UE), the second subframe in accordance with the delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jinhuan Xia, Brian Classon, Vipul Desai
  • Patent number: 9450735
    Abstract: An embodiment method for operating a device in receiving a transmission over a plurality of communications links includes assigning an allocatable receiver resource to each communications link in the plurality of communications links according to a measure derived from communications link characteristics of each respective communications link and combined communications link characteristics of the plurality of communications links, and receiving the transmission over the plurality of communications links with the assigned allocatable receiver resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yufei Blankenship, Weimin Xiao, Brian Classon
  • Publication number: 20160270057
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a signal transmission method, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: determining a feature parameter of UE; and according to the feature parameter of the UE and a preset correspondence, determining a coverage enhancement technology used to transmit a first signal, and/or determining a second signal that the UE supports transmitting, and/or determining a function, supported by the UE, of a third signal. The present invention can optimize resource utilization of a system, decrease processing complexity, and reduce power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: ZHENG YU, BRIAN CLASSON, FANG NAN, XIANGDONG ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160255612
    Abstract: A method for transmitting resource allocation information to a wireless node in a communications system includes selecting a search space from one of a first search space and a second search space, the first search space associated with a first set of control channel parameters and the second search space associated with a second set of control channel parameters. The method also includes modulating the first control information, and mapping the modulated first control information onto the selected search space in a first subframe, where at least one of modulating the first control information and mapping the modulated first control information is according to a selected set of control channel parameters associated with the selected search space. The method further includes transmitting the first subframe to the wireless node, and transmitting a first parameter indicator identifying the selected set of control channel parameters to the wireless node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Philippe Sartori, Bingyu Qu, Weimin Xiao, Brian Classon, Vipul Desai
  • Publication number: 20160249340
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink control information transmission method, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: receiving, by UE in a downlink subframe N, a downlink control channel sent by a base station; sending, by the UE, a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement corresponding to the downlink control channel to the base station in an uplink subframe N+4 by using a PUCCH, where when the uplink subframe N+4 belongs to a first uplink subframe set, the PUCCH is carried on a second serving cell of the UE, and when the uplink subframe N+4 belongs to a second uplink subframe set, the PUCCH is carried on the first serving cell, where a duplexing mode of the first serving cell is different from a duplexing mode of the second serving cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan CHENG, David Jean-Marie MAZZARESE, Lixia XUE, Brian CLASSON
  • Publication number: 20160227523
    Abstract: A method for allocating network resources to user equipments (UEs) includes configuring a first group of component carriers with resource allocations indicated by a joint downlink control information (DCI) message, configuring a second group of component carriers with resource allocations for each component carrier indicated by a dedicated DCI message, generating the joint DCI message indicating first resource allocations for a first subset of the first group of component carriers, generating a plurality of dedicated DCI messages, wherein each dedicated DCI message indicates a second resource allocation for a component carrier in a second subset of the second group of component carriers, mapping each one of the joint DCI message and the plurality of dedicated DCI messages to a control channel, and sending the control channels to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Vipul Desai, Brian Classon, Philippe Sartori
  • Publication number: 20160198441
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an information acquiring method, including: acquiring initial information according to at least one preset resource set, where the at least one resource set is used to indicate a resource used to acquire the initial information. In the information acquiring method according to embodiments of the present invention, a terminal may receive the initial information by using a preset resource set without a need to detect a widest scope of resources, thereby improving receiving efficiency of the terminal, and further reducing power consumption of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Jinhuan Xia, Brian Classon, Xiangdong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160157153
    Abstract: Notifying served user equipments (UEs) of the presence or absence of cell-specific reference signal (CRS) symbols transmitted by neighboring base stations in the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region of a subframe can be achieved through various of signaling techniques. The served UE may be notified by communicating a one or multi-bit indicator in a physical layer signaling channel of the serving cell, such as the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the subframe. Alternatively, the served UE may be notified through higher layer signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: David Jean-Marie Mazzarese, Qiang Li, Zheng Yu, Weimin Xiao, Brian Classon
  • Publication number: 20160142991
    Abstract: An embodiment method for operating a base station includes instructing, by the base station, a mobile device to transmit, over grouped communications resources, a first instance of a data structure for D2D signaling. The data structure includes a first data field that indicates at least one of a D2D frame number, a D2D multiplexing configuration, a resource allocation for D2D signaling, an identifier of a D2D synchronization source, a type of a D2D synchronization source, or whether the mobile device is in coverage of a network. The data structure also includes a second data field indicating at least one of whether a D2D signaling operation is prohibited, or a type of prohibited D2D signaling operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Brian Classon, Philippe Sartori
  • Publication number: 20160135152
    Abstract: A control information transmission method, user equipment, and a base station, and belong to the field of wireless technologies. The method includes: acquiring, by user equipment, configuration information of an enhanced physical downlink control channel EPDCCH set; determining, by the user equipment according to the configuration information and from the EPDCCH set, at least one EPDCCH set in which an EPDCCH needs to be monitored; and monitoring, by the user equipment, an EPDCCH on a resource corresponding to the at least one EPDCCH set, to acquire control information sent by a base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan CHENG, Lixia XUE, Brian CLASSON