Patents by Inventor Y. Thomas Hou

Y. Thomas Hou 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: 10873412
    Abstract: System and method for using a network with base stations to optimally or near-optimally schedule radio resources among the users are disclosed. In certain embodiments the system and method are designed to operate in real-time (such as but not limited to 100 ?s) to schedule radio resources in a 5G NR network by solving for an optimal or near-optimal solution to scheduling problem by decomposing it into a number of small and independent sub-problems, selecting a subset of sub-problems and fitting them into a number of parallel processing cores from one or multiple many-core computing devices, and solving for an optimal or near-optimal solution through parallel processing within approximately 100 ?s. In other embodiments, the sub-problems are constructed to have a similar mathematical structure. In yet other embodiments, the sub-problems are constructed to each be solved within approximately 10 s of ?s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Inventors: Yan Huang, Y. Thomas Hou, Yongce Chen
  • Publication number: 20190036639
    Abstract: System and method for using a network with base stations to optimally or near-optimally schedule radio resources among the users are disclosed. In certain embodiments the system and method are designed to operate in real-time (such as but not limited to 100 ?s) to schedule radio resources in a 5G NR network by solving for an optimal or near-optimal solution to scheduling problem by decomposing it into a number of small and independent sub-problems, selecting a subset of sub-problems and fitting them into a number of parallel processing cores from one or multiple many-core computing devices, and solving for an optimal or near-optimal solution through parallel processing within approximately 100 ?s. In other embodiments, the sub-problems are constructed to have a similar mathematical structure. In yet other embodiments, the sub-problems are constructed to each be solved within approximately 10 s of ?s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yan Huang, Y. Thomas Hou, Yongce Chen