Patents by Inventor Nathan Edwards

Nathan Edwards 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).

  • Patent number: 10764812
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) adapted to transmit beacons includes adjusting an initial beacon interval between successively transmitted beacons in accordance with a value of at least one parameter and a beacon configuration received from a network entity, thereby producing an adjusted beacon interval, and transmitting a beacon selected in accordance with the adjusted beacon interval in a beacon transmission opportunity determined in accordance with the initial beacon interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Yalin Liu, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 10764811
    Abstract: A method for handover to a relay node, a related device, and a system, where the method includes sending, by a base station of a target cell in an initial random access procedure initiated by a terminal device for the target cell, indication information to the terminal device using a random access message to instruct the terminal device to report information about a candidate relay device corresponding to the terminal device, receiving the information about the candidate relay device from the terminal device determining, in the candidate relay device according to the information about the candidate relay device, a target relay node used for relay communication between the terminal device and the base station, and handing over the terminal device to the target relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guorong Li, Jian Wang, Da Wang, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Patent number: 10757582
    Abstract: A method includes measuring beam-formed reference signals transmitted by a plurality of mmWave transmission points (TPs), sending a cloud cell formation request including indicators associated with best mmWave TPs determined in accordance with the measured beam-formed reference signals, receiving a cloud cell formation request response including indicators associated with a subset of the best mmWave TPs selected by a central controller in accordance with selection information, where the subset of the best mmWave TPs includes a first mmWave transmission point (TP) serving as a master TP and a second mmWave TP serving as a slave TP, and establishing a cloud cell with mmWave TPs of the subset of the best mmWave TPs selected by the central controller, where a data connection is established with the slave TP and at least a control connection is established with the master TP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Bin Liu, Nathan Edward Tenny, Lili Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200267578
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for managing and mitigation contention of high reliability and low latency transmissions in wireless communications networks. According to an embodiment, a network entity indicates a first grant to a first device associated with a first service. The first grant includes a first resource for transmitting for the first service and a second resource for retransmitting for the first service. The network entity also indicates a second grant to a second device associated with a second service. The second grant includes the first resource for transmitting for the second service and a third resource for retransmitting for the second service. A third grant is also indicated to a third device associated with a third service. The third grant includes the first resource for transmitting for the third service. The first service and the second service have higher transmission reliability and latency requirements than the third service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Bin Liu
  • Patent number: 10747945
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive a set of text entered by a composing user. A style identifier associated with a pre-defined style is received. The set of text and the style identifier are transmitted to a viewing user computing device for rendering of a stylized text post on the viewing user computing device based on the set of text and the style identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Cemre Güngör, Linda Linlan Zhang, Nathan Edward Butler, Kory Matthew Westerhold, Karla Cole
  • Patent number: 10750414
    Abstract: A method for operating a first access node in a dual connectivity (DuCo) handover includes receiving an event trigger for a combined event from a user equipment (UE), sending to a second access node, a combined instruction for primary secondary cell (PSCell) addition and a role change with the second access node in accordance with the event trigger, adding as the second access node as a PSCell, and indicating to the UE, a role change between the first access node and the second access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Xuelong Wang
  • Patent number: 10736066
    Abstract: A device-to-device (D2D) communication method and a D2D terminal device, where the method includes determining, by a first device, a time that the first device is out of coverage of a synchronization source after leaving the coverage of the synchronization source determining, by the first device, target timing based on the time, and performing, by the first device, D2D communication based on the target timing. Hence, the target timing can be selected more accurately for the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Cai, Yongbo Zeng, Bin Liu, Jian Wang, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Publication number: 20200245226
    Abstract: A system information transmission method and apparatus are disclosed. A second terminal device sends identifier information, and a first terminal device obtains the identifier information sent by the second terminal device, where the identifier information includes a first cell identifier, and the first cell identifier is a cell identifier of a camped-on cell or a serving cell that is accessed before a direct link between the second terminal device and the first terminal device is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yiru Kuang, Haibo Xu, Nathan Edward Tenny, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 10725795
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing dynamic creation of an external code segment within a cloud based computing environment. For instance, an exemplary system having at least a processor and a memory therein includes means for executing object code comprising software instructions that when executed create an instance of an external segment of software instructions that is to perform business logic, wherein a name of the external segment of software instructions is to be first received during runtime of the object code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Lipke, Samuel William Bailey, James Johnson, Hugh Cockburn
  • Patent number: 10728747
    Abstract: A method for identifier management for user devices operating in an inactive mode includes receiving a first uplink transmission including a user device identifier associated with a user device, transmitting a first downlink transmission including an indication of an ephemeral identifier assigned to the user device, transmitting a second downlink transmission including data associated with the ephemeral identifier, and discarding the ephemeral identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, William Anthony Gage
  • Patent number: 10728948
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, by the UE from a network, a mobile subscriber identifier for the UE, the mobile subscriber identifier being exclusively assigned to the UE within a wireless tracking area of the network, and transmitting, by the UE to a relay node, an initial message of an access procedure for accessing a user data service of the network, wherein the initial message comprises a request to connect to a control node of the network, and wherein the initial message includes the mobile subscriber identifier, and an indication to relay the initial message over a first signaling radio bearer (SRB) to the control node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Haibo Xu
  • Publication number: 20200236625
    Abstract: The present invention provides an activation system information transmission method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: receiving, by UE, a first system message sent by a base station, where the first system message includes activation indication information and a change indication tag, the activation indication information is used to indicate whether a function indicated in an activation system message is activated, and the change indication tag is used to indicate whether scheduling information of the activation system message changes; obtaining, by the UE, first scheduling information of the activation system message according to the activation indication information and the change indication tag; and reading the activation system message according to the first scheduling information, and selecting, according to the activation indication information and the change indication tag, different manners to obtain the first scheduling information of the activation system message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yinghui YU, Lei LIU, Nathan Edward TENNY
  • Patent number: 10708754
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for controlling device-to-device discovery. The method includes: obtaining, by a network device, N first relay function parameter sets of N user equipment supporting a relay function; obtaining, by the network device, a second relay function parameter set of remote user equipment; determining, by the network device for the remote user equipment, at least one of the N user equipment supporting the relay function; and sending, by the network device, a first notification message to the at least one user equipment supporting the relay function, to trigger the at least one user equipment supporting the relay function to initiate a device-to-device discovery process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haibo Xu, Jian Wang, Hongcheng Zhuang, Nathan Edward Tenny, Zhenguo Du
  • Publication number: 20200210216
    Abstract: A system may include an application server and one or more tenants served by the application server. The application server may host a virtual machine with multiple isolated sub-environments. Each tenant of the application server may request to run a program in a tenant-specific sub-environment of the virtual machine. The sub-environments may be configured so the execution of one tenant's code does not affect execution of another tenant's code or the hosting virtual machine, for example, by considering the resources used to execute the code. The application server may implement techniques to securely execute “untrusted” code, programmed using one or more different programming languages, in the sub-environments by enforcing resource restrictions and restricting the sub-environments from accessing the host's local file system. In this way, one tenant's code does not negatively impact execution of another tenant's code by using too many resources of the virtual machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Goldberg Boilen, James Bock Wunderlich, Nathan Edward Lipke
  • Patent number: 10701618
    Abstract: A method for performing access barring includes receiving barring parameters, modifying a subset of the barring parameters associated with an access class barring type, and forwarding the modified subset of the barring parameters to a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Da Wang
  • Publication number: 20200196369
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, by the UE from a network, a mobile subscriber identifier for the UE, the mobile subscriber identifier being exclusively assigned to the UE within a wireless tracking area of the network, and transmitting, by the UE to a relay node, an initial message of an access procedure for accessing a user data service of the network, wherein the initial message comprises a request to connect to a control node of the network, and wherein the initial message includes the mobile subscriber identifier, and an indication to relay the initial message over a first signaling radio bearer (SRB) to the control node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, Haibo Xu
  • Publication number: 20200195335
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure provide techniques for detecting and recovering from beam-failure events. In some embodiments, motion sensor information generated by motion sensors on a UE is used to detect, predict, and/or recover from a beam failure event that results, or would otherwise result, from movement of the UE. The motion sensor information may be used to adjust a current beam direction used by the UE to transmit or receive a signal, or to determine a recommendation for adjusting a current beam direction of the base station. The motion sensor information may be generated by any sensor that detects a movement of the UE, such as a gyroscope, an accelerometer, a magnetometer, a global positioning system (GPS) sensor, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) sensor, or any other device that detects a change in position/orientation of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Pengfei Xia, Bin Liu, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Publication number: 20200187146
    Abstract: A method for receiving device position determination includes receiving beamformed position reference signals (BF-PRSs) on a plurality of communications beams from at least two transmitting devices in accordance with a BF-PRS configuration, making at least one observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) measurement in accordance with the BF-PRSs on the plurality of communications beams, and transmitting OTDOA feedback including the at least one OTDOA measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Nathan Edward Tenny, Bin Liu, Pengfei Xia, Aimin Justin Sang, Jian Luo
  • Publication number: 20200178194
    Abstract: A measurement gap parameter configuration method, a reference signal measurement method, and a device are disclosed. The measurement gap configuration method includes: determining, by a network device, that a first condition is satisfied; and configuring, by the network device, one or more measurement gap parameters for a terminal device, where the measurement gap parameter is used by the terminal device to measure a to-be-measured reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Bingzhao Li, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Publication number: 20200178155
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a path switching method and a related device. The method includes: receiving, by a base station, a first message sent by first user equipment, where the first message is used to request to switch the first user equipment from a non-direct path for communicating with the base station by using second user equipment to a direct path communicating with the base station; and sending, by the base station, a second message to the first user equipment, where the second message is used to instruct the first user equipment to perform path switching, and the second message includes at least one of a timing advance, a closed-loop power control value, and an uplink grant configuration. Therefore, service continuity in a path switching process is maintained, and service quality is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Haibo Xu, Nathan Edward Tenny, Yiru Kuang, Jian Wang