Patents by Inventor Suli Zhao

Suli Zhao 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: 10638526
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus for utilizing a control protocol to establish multiple packet data network (PDN) connections through a trusted wide area network (TWAN). Techniques are provided for expanding mobile network capacity by offloading traffic from wireless wide area networks (WWAN) to other types of networks, including wireless local area networks (WLAN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Suli Zhao, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Gerardo Giaretta, Arungundram Chandrasekaran Mahendran, Ajith Tom Payyappilly, Uppinder Singh Babbar
  • Publication number: 20200107230
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may connect to a network over a packet data network (PDN) connection using a first radio access technology (RAT), such as a second generation (2G) or third generation (3G) RAT. The PDN connection may switch from the first RAT to a second RAT (e.g., a fourth generation (4G) RAT) based on an inter-system change performed by the network and the UE. The UE may transmit a protocol data unit (PDU) session identifier for the PDN connection based on switching to the second RAT. The network may receive the PDU session identifier and determine whether a serving gateway handling the PDN connection supports a third RAT (e.g., a fifth generation (5G) RAT). If the serving gateway supports the third RAT, the network may transmit, to the UE, mapped parameters for communicating using the third RAT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Suli Zhao, Stefano Faccin
  • Patent number: 10608947
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for per-flow jumbo maximum transmission unit (MTU) in new radio (NR) systems. A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes determining a default MTU size to be used for communications in a packet data network (PDN). The method includes determining one or more per-flow MTU sizes, different than the default MTU size, to be used for communications in the PDN. The method includes communicating in the PDN according to the determined per-flow MTU sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Reza Shahidi, Suli Zhao, Arnaud Meylan, Aziz Gholmieh
  • Publication number: 20200100156
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for avoiding out of order uplink data reception upon data radio bearer (DRB) release or quality of service (QoS) flow addition. An exemplary method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE), includes obtaining an indication that a first data radio bearer (DRB) is released or handed over to a second DRB, wherein a first mapping maps a first quality of service (QoS) flow to the first DRB; obtaining a second mapping that maps the first QoS flow to a second DRB; editing service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) headers of uplink protocol data units (PDUs) in an uplink transmission buffer associated with the first DRB, based on a difference between a first configuration of the first DRB and a second configuration of the second DRB; and transmitting the uplink PDUs via the second DRB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Feilu LIU, Liping SHEN, Suli ZHAO, Vishal SHETH, Alok MITRA
  • Patent number: 10498551
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Data for a broadcast or multicast service may be sent over a control channel. A network device may broadcast a message to indicate a plurality of enhanced multimedia broadcast multicast service (eMBMS) services offered by the network. The mobile device may transmit an indication to the network device identifying an eMBMS service of interest. The network device may transmit a configuration message before broadcasting or multicasting data of the eMBMS service of interest. The configuration message may notify the mobile device of a control channel on which to receive the data related to the eMBMS service. The network device may then broadcast or multicast the eMBMS service data on the control channel. The data may be segmented at a particular protocol layer and mapped to several transmission time intervals within each repetition of the control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Sivaramakrishna Veerepalli, Liangchi Hsu, Chun-Hao Hsu, Suli Zhao, Ralph Akram Gholmieh, Nagaraju Naik, Carlos Pazos, Masato Kitazoe, Mungal Singh Dhanda, Hao Xu, Feilu Liu
  • Publication number: 20190342722
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for avoiding conflicts between evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (eMBMS) operations and paging and/or mobile originated (MO) operations in communication systems. A method for wireless communications by a user Equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes identifying at least one evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) session available for receiving one or more eMBMS services from a base station. The method also includes taking one or more actions to reduce a conflict between receiving the one or more eMBMS services from the base station and receiving a paging message from the base station during the eMBMS session. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun LEE, Sivaramakrishna VEEREPALLI, Liangchi HSU, Suli ZHAO, Chun-Hao HSU, Ralph Akram GHOLMIEH, Xipeng ZHU
  • Publication number: 20190320362
    Abstract: Aspects directed towards Quality of Service (QoS) flow remapping are disclosed. In an example, upon detecting a mapping reconfiguration of a first QoS flow from a first data radio bearer (DRB) to another DRB, a Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) control protocol data unit (PDU) is generated indicating that a final SDAP data PDU associated with the first QoS flow has been transmitted on the first DRB. The SDAP control PDU is then transmitted via the first DRB. In another example, upon detecting a mapping reconfiguration of a first QoS flow from a first DRB to another DRB, an end marker parameter is set in an SDAP header of a first SDAP data PDU received from an upper layer after the mapping reconfiguration indicating that the first SDAP data PDU is a final SDAP data PDU associated with the first QoS flow transmitted on the first DRB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Feilu LIU, Yu-Ting YU, Srinivas Reddy MUDIREDDY, Tom CHIN, Suli ZHAO, Aziz GHOLMIEH, Xing CHEN, Ozcan OZTURK, Arnaud MEYLAN
  • Patent number: 10448443
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may prevent rejected attachment requests when connecting to a trusted wireless local area network (WLAN) and from a wireless wide area network (WWAN). For example, an attachment packet data network (PDN) connection may be maintained with the WWAN while connected to the trusted WLAN. In some cases, the connection used to maintain the attachment may be an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) connection. Alternatively, the UE may determine that the WLAN connection is a trusted connection and deactivate the WWAN connection. Should the WLAN become unavailable the UE may reactivate the connection with the WWAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Zhang, Ajith Tom Payyappilly, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Suli Zhao, Sivaramakrishna Veerepalli
  • Publication number: 20190268276
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for per-flow jumbo maximum transmission unit (MTU) in new radio (NR) systems. A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes determining a default MTU size to be used for communications in a packet data network (PDN). The method includes determining one or more per-flow MTU sizes, different than the default MTU size, to be used for communications in the PDN. The method includes communicating in the PDN according to the determined per-flow MTU sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun LEE, Srinivasan BALASUBRAMANIAN, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM, Reza SHAHIDI, Suli ZHAO, Arnaud MEYLAN, Aziz GHOLMIEH
  • Publication number: 20190116551
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to identifying, by a processor of a wireless communications device, a service, determining, by the processor and based at least in part on the service, whether to prioritize a type of connection gateway to utilize in connecting to the service, where the processor determines to prioritize the type of connection gateway, selecting, by the processor, a connection gateway for the service based at least in part on a stored network access preference for the service, where the processor determines not to prioritize the type of connection gateway, selecting, by the processor, the connection gateway for the service regardless of the stored network access preference for the service, and connecting, by the processor, to the service via the connection gateway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Stefano FACCIN, Suli ZHAO, Haris ZISIMOPOULOS
  • Patent number: 10243839
    Abstract: In aspects of the disclosure, a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) are provided. In one aspect, the UE associates with an access point of a wireless local area network which may be untrusted, obtains a list comprising a plurality of public land mobile network (PLMN) entries and one or more selection conditions associated with each one of the plurality of PLMN entries, and selects a PLMN from the list when the one or more selection conditions associated with the PLMN are satisfied. The UE may further discover an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG) for the selected PLMN using one or more fully qualified domain name (FQDN) rules for the selected PLMN. The UE may then attach to the selected PLMN using the discovered ePDG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen William Edge, Stefano Faccin, Suli Zhao
  • Patent number: 10237795
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) device may be connected to a first evolved packet data gateway (ePDG) via a first radio access technology (RAT). The UE may evaluate, either periodically or based on a trigger event, an ePDG reselection metric associated with the first ePDG to determine whether selecting a second ePDG different from the first ePDG is viable. The UE may then reselect to a second ePDG based on whether the ePDG reselection metric satisfies one or more selection conditions. Selection conditions may include, for example, a change in the location or public land mobile network (PLMN) of the UE, UE movement between networks, or a connection failure associated with the first ePDG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Suli Zhao, Stefano Faccin
  • Publication number: 20190075076
    Abstract: In aspects of the disclosure, a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus determines if a connection to a PLMN has been established. In another aspect, the apparatus builds a FQDN based on the determination by attempting to build the FQDN using each of the prioritized FQDNs in order of priority until the FQDN is built, building the FQDN using a PLMN ID of the PLMN if it is determined that the PLMN is found in the list, or building the FQDN based on the wildcard PLMN if it is determined that the list comprises the wildcard PLMN. Further still, the apparatus selects a network security gateway to provide network security and internet working control based on the FQDN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Stefano FACCIN, Suli ZHAO, Amer CATOVIC
  • Patent number: 10194303
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product are provided. The apparatus may be a UE configured to receive from a base station access parameters corresponding to respective types of access controls for different types of data services, receive a TFT established at a core network based on mapping a packet filter to access control information for each type of access control, receive a data packet from an application, match the data packet to the packet filter to determine access control information corresponding to the data packet, and establish communication for the data packet based on access parameters for the determined access control information. Alternatively, the apparatus may be policy server configured to receive a request for traffic control regarding data being communicated to an application server, determine a policy update for the application server based on the request, and transmit the policy update to a UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Wang, George Cherian, Masakazu Shirota, Suli Zhao, Aleksandar Gogic, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Haris Zisimopoulos, Roozbeh Atarius, Charles Nung Lo
  • Publication number: 20180368016
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to providing an indication that a user equipment (UE) is within coverage by a particular network are provided. An example method of wireless communications obtaining, by a first wireless communication device from a second device associated with a second network, information regarding whether the first wireless communication device is within coverage by a first network. The first wireless communication device supports dual connectivity with the first network and the second network. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the information, whether to display an icon indicating that the first wireless communication device is connected to the first network. The method further includes in response to a determination to display the icon, displaying, by the first wireless communication device, the icon on a display coupled to the first wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Reza Shahidi, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Aziz Gholmieh, Oronzo Flore, Haris Zisimopoulos, Gerardo Giaretta, Suli Zhao
  • Patent number: 10158601
    Abstract: In aspects of the disclosure, a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus determines if a connection to a PLMN has been established. In another aspect, the apparatus builds a FQDN based on the determination by attempting to build the FQDN using each of the prioritized FQDNs in order of priority until the FQDN is built, building the FQDN using a PLMN ID of the PLMN if it is determined that the PLMN is found in the list, or building the FQDN based on the wildcard PLMN if it is determined that the list comprises the wildcard PLMN. Further still, the apparatus selects an ePDG based on the FQDN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stefano Faccin, Suli Zhao, Amer Catovic
  • Patent number: 10150903
    Abstract: A composition and use thereof are disclosed herein. The composition comprises at least two selected from the group of amphiphilic block copolymer, polyurethane and acidic ionic compound. Also an oil-based drilling fluid comprising the composition and a method improving shearing force of oil-based drilling fluid are disclosed. The composition disclosed herewith can raise the shearing force of oil-based drilling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Yongxue Lin, Xianguang Wang, Zhoujun Li, Xiuzhen Han, Sheng Li, Xiaohua Yang, Xiong Li, Jianwu Zhen, Suli Zhao
  • Patent number: 10085274
    Abstract: A method for call setup for a voice-over-long-term evolution (VoLTE) call on multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) multi-standby (MSMS) mobile communication device includes: receiving a long-term evolution (LTE) page; determining whether a WiFi connection is available; in response to determining that the WiFi connection is not available, determining whether the LTE page was received on a non-dedicated data subscription (DDS) subscription; and in response to determining that the LTE page was received on the non-DDS subscription, granting a highest priority for communication activities to an LTE page response on the non-DDS subscription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yongsheng Shi, Suli Zhao, Mona Agrawal, Qingxin Chen, Reza Shahidi, Uttam Pattanayak
  • Publication number: 20180270682
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive information from a network node. The system information may include inter-frequency configuration and measurement reporting configuration. The UE may perform a measurement of a frequency or multiple frequencies that are associated with the inter-frequency configuration. Subsequent to the measurement, the UE may transmit a report of the measurement of the frequency or multiple frequencies to the network node during a radio resource control (RRC) connection procedure based on the measurement reporting configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Leena Zacharias, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Masato Kitazoe, Gavin Bernard Horn, Aziz Gholmieh, Kuo-Chun Lee, Suli Zhao, Reza Shahidi, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Yongsheng Shi
  • Publication number: 20180159816
    Abstract: In aspects of the disclosure, a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus determines if a connection to a PLMN has been established. In another aspect, the apparatus builds a FQDN based on the determination by attempting to build the FQDN using each of the prioritized FQDNs in order of priority until the FQDN is built, building the FQDN using a PLMN ID of the PLMN if it is determined that the PLMN is found in the list, or building the FQDN based on the wildcard PLMN if it is determined that the list comprises the wildcard PLMN. Further still, the apparatus selects an ePDG based on the FQDN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Stefano FACCIN, Suli ZHAO, Amer CATOVIC