Patents Issued in August 1, 2017
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Patent number: 9723562Abstract: A position-based mobile terminal power management device, includes a positioning module connected to the power management and control module; a network connection monitoring module connected to the power management and control module; a power management and control module connected to the positioning module, network connection monitoring module, storage module, and terminal function module respectively; a storage module connected to the power management and control module; and a terminal function module connected to the power management and control module. With the device, a mobile terminal can automatically enable or disable the accessory devices thereof according to the position of the mobile terminal, thus saving power and facilitating use by a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: BARQS WIRELESS LTD.Inventor: Yanqun Deng
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Patent number: 9723563Abstract: A method of waking up a device includes capturing an image by scanning a fingerprint pattern in a sleep mode; analyzing the captured image representing the scanned fingerprint pattern to obtain an amount of pixels in the captured image with respect to each brightness value; transforming the analyzed captured image into brightness distribution; operating the brightness distribution to obtain a feature value; and comparing the feature value with a pre-stored value, the device being woken up when the feature value is matched with the pre-stored value.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Himax Technologies LimitedInventors: Shing-Chia Chen, Yi-Long Yang, Yaw-Guang Chang
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Patent number: 9723564Abstract: Systems and methods for power management of a mobile electronic device. During operation of a modular mobile electronic device, module power characteristic data of a plurality of modules coupled to the electronic device is collected. Each module is coupled to the electronic device via a respective module interface of the electronic device. A module power model is updated for at least one module of the plurality of modules based on module power characteristic data collected for the at least one module. A context-aware power budget of the electronic device is updated based on updating of the module power model for the at least one module. Module power flow of the electronic device is adapted based on updates to the context-aware power budget. Adapting module power flow includes adapting allocation of power in real-time to at least one power consumer module coupled the electronic device via a respective module interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David Fishman, Seth Newburg, Ara Knaian, Paul Eremenko
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Patent number: 9723565Abstract: A radio base station (1), which is to be pre-blockaded, transmits a pre-blockade initiate notification to radio base stations (2A-2F) neighboring the radio base station (1). Further, the radio base station (1) reduces the transmission power thereof at a predetermined reduction rate at a initiation time of the pre-blockade. Meanwhile, each of the radio base stations (2A-2F) receives the pre-blockade initiate notification and increases the transmission power at a predetermined increase rate at the initiation time of the pre-blockade, the absolute value of predetermined increase rate being equal to that of the predetermined reduction rate at the radio base station (1).Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Shinji Nakano
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Patent number: 9723566Abstract: A method implemented in a wireless communications system including a first uplink (UL) client device, a second UL client device, a first downlink (DL) client device, and an access point (AP) is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps in this order: a) determining interference alignment (IA) solution between the first and second UL client devices and the first device; and b) determining, according to the IA solution, receive filter U0 for the AP and precoder V0 for the AP to improve a UL stream rate and a DL stream rate. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Mohammad Khojastepour, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Eugene Chai, Sampath Rangarajan
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Patent number: 9723567Abstract: A method implemented in an access point (AP) having N antennas used in a wireless communications system including two first client devices each of which has M antennas and two second client devices each of which has N antennas, where M and N are even is disclosed. The method comprises: performing interference alignment (IA) in common vector spaces; and delivering M+N streams. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Mohammad Khojastepour, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Eugene Chai, Sampath Rangarajan
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Patent number: 9723568Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a terminal unit, first-signal and second-signal converting units, a selector, and a controller. The terminal unit may alternatively receive a first signal having multiplexed signals based on different standards, a second signal which is one of the signals, and a third signal based on a standard different from the standards of the signals. The first-signal converting unit converts the first or second signal into an internal connection signal. The second-signal converting unit converts the second or third signal into the internal connection signal. The selector performs switching so that a signal from the terminal unit is connected to the first-signal or second-signal converting unit. The controller controls the selector so that, when one of the first-signal and second-signal converting unit is converting the second signal into the internal connection signal, the signal from the terminal unit is connected to the other signal converting unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Teruya Kusuda
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Patent number: 9723569Abstract: The present invention is designed to provide a radio communication system which can control uplink transmission power adequately even in an HetNet environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Satoshi Nagata, Tetsushi Abe
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Patent number: 9723570Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a power control method and apparatus, where the method includes: performing a slow fading evaluation on an uplink channel of a UE to obtain a slow fading value of the uplink channel; comparing the slow fading value with a target slow fading value to obtain a first comparison result; generating, according to the first comparison result, first control signaling of a downlink control channel corresponding to the uplink channel, where the first control signaling is used to instruct the UE to adjust transmit power of the UE on the uplink channel; and sending the first control signaling to the user equipment UE. In the embodiments of the present invention, making full use of power efficiency, improving a cell throughput, and reducing neighboring cell interference.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Panming Lou, Fan Wang
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Patent number: 9723571Abstract: An information format and apparatus used by a base station to make a scheduling decision when the base station allocates resources to a terminal in a mobile communication system are provided. Operations of a terminal to report a maximum transmission power accurately to the base station in a scheduling process are also provided. A method for calculating a maximum transmit power in a constant manner regardless of a channel status is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang Soo Jeong, Soeng Hun Kim
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Patent number: 9723572Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating uplink power control (PC) and scheduling in a wireless network are provided. In one example, common interference patterns are obtained from long term channel statistics, and used to perform local PC and scheduling by distributed base stations (eNBs). In some implementations, the common interference patterns are obtained through statistical narrowing techniques that identify common ones out of a plurality of potential interference patterns. The common interference patterns may specify maximum interference thresholds and/or individual eNB-to-eNB interference thresholds which may govern the local PC and scheduling decisions of the distributed eNBs.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nimal Gamini Senarath, Hang Zhang, Liqing Zhang, Ho Ting Cheng
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Patent number: 9723573Abstract: Provided is a communication device, which is enabled to improve the throughput of a communication system by reducing the difference of a transmission power between an SCCH and an SDCH thereby to satisfy the required quality of a PAPR. In this device, an MCS selection unit (111) of a transmission unit (110) decides, with reference to a CQI lookup table, an MCS pattern (MCS1) of the SDCH, an MCS pattern (MCS2) of the SCCH and information (multiplex information) on multiplex positions on the time axes of those two channels, on the basis of the CQI information. On the basis of the MCS2 and the MCS1, encoding modulation units (112 and 113) perform encoding and modulating operations. According to the multiplex information, a channel multiplexing unit (114) time-division multiplexes the SCCH and the SDCH thereby to generate a transmission signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLCInventors: Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Matsumoto, Takashi Iwai
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Patent number: 9723574Abstract: An imbalanced area pilot frequency transmission power enhancement method and a base station are provided. In accordance with the transmission power and increment of a main public pilot frequency channel prior to power enhancement, post-power enhancement main public pilot frequency channel transmission power is obtained. The transmission power of a downlink traffic channel is the same as transmission power prior to power enhancement. In accordance with the transmission power of the main public pilot frequency channel prior to power enhancement, the downlink traffic channel transmission power is also obtained. The post-power enhancement main public pilot frequency channel transmission power and the downlink traffic channel transmission power are used to transmit data in the main public pilot frequency channel and the downlink traffic channel, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Jianming Zhan
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Patent number: 9723575Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power control method and a wireless device, in a cluster comprised of wireless devices including a first wireless device and a second wireless device, comprising: receiving power control information including a second data channel transmission power, from the second wireless device; determining a first data channel transmission power based on the second data channel transmission power; and controlling data channel transmission power of the first wireless device according to the first data channel transmission power; wherein, the first data channel transmission power is a power allowing the first wireless device to reach all wireless devices in the cluster, and the second data channel transmission power is a power allowing the second wireless device to reach all wireless devices in the cluster.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino, Lilei Wang
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Patent number: 9723576Abstract: The present application relates to the field of wireless communications. Disclosed in an embodiment of the present application are a method and device for reporting power headroom (PH) under carrier aggregation, for solving the problem of how to report PH when a terminal supports the transmission of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) on different uplink carriers corresponding to different carrier groups. In the present application, a terminal generates a Type 1 PH and a Type 2 PH for each of multiple PUCCH-transmitting uplink carriers requiring PH reporting, generates a Type 1 PH for each non-PUCCH-transmitting uplink carrier requiring PH reporting, and reports each generated Type 1 PH and Type 2 PH to a network side in the current uplink subframe. The present application solves the above problem.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGInventors: Xuejuan Gao, Yanan Lin, Zukang Shen
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Patent number: 9723577Abstract: A method is provided for performing, by a user equipment (UE), a power headroom reporting (PHR) procedure in a wireless communication system. The UE determines whether at least one PHR has been triggered and not canceled, and whether an uplink (UL) resource can accommodate a PHR media access control (MAC) control element (CE) plus its subheader as a result of a logical channel prioritization (LCP). The UE transmits the PHR MAC CE, if it is determined that the at least one PHR has been triggered and not canceled, and that the UL resource can accommodate the PHR MAC CE plus its subheader.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sung Jun Park, Sun Young Lee, Sung Hoon Jung, Young Dae Lee, Seung June Yi
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Patent number: 9723578Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for identifying a location of an integrated circuit that is sensitive to RTS noise may include applying localized heat to a scan area of the integrated circuit, observing any change in one or more electrical parameters of the integrated circuit in response to the localized heat being applied to the scan area indicative of sensitivity to RTS noise, and identifying the location sensitive to RTS noise responsive to observing change in one or more electrical parameters of the integrated circuit indicative of sensitivity to RTS noise in response to the localized heat being applied to the scan area.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.Inventors: John L. Melanson, Aaron J. Brennan, Justin Dougherty, Ramya Balasundaram
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Patent number: 9723579Abstract: A traffic data integration method includes: obtaining, by using a computer, pieces of frame data having a same data pattern between first and second traffic data collected respectively by first and second capture devices that capture, as traffic data, frame data communicated by a node in a network; performing, by using the computer, a time correction process by which a time of each piece of frame data in the first and second traffic data is corrected so that capturing times of pieces of obtained frame data are identical; using, by using the computer, frame data for which a same data pattern does not appear repeatedly in a same capture device, as frame data for performing the time correction process; and restricting, by using the computer, a time difference of frame data used when the time correction process is performed.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Koutarou Chihara, Harutaka Tanaka, Wataru Nakamura, Takao Shikama
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Patent number: 9723580Abstract: Synchronization of plural outputs of data transported by a wireless network is facilitated by bandlimiting a sample clock signal controlling a rate at which data is processed by the network's devices and/or bandlimiting wall time data controlling the real time for presenting a datum.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Summit Semiconductor LLCInventor: Kenneth A. Boehlke
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Patent number: 9723581Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing synchronized operations on a data delivery network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving synchronization information for a neighbor aware network and for a second channel associated with a data delivery network (including a paging window for one of the networks), and receiving service data on the data delivery channels while maintaining synchronization on all data delivery channels using only the synchronization information from the neighbor aware network channel. The synchronization allows devices to increase efficiency by allowing them to sleep, wake-up, send or store data traffic, and receive or transmit indicators of stored data traffic, among other actions, in a coordinated manner such that the devices are awake at the same specified times (e.g., paging windows). Devices may then stay awake to receive or transmit traffic or sleep to conserve power if there is no traffic to send or receive.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Santosh Paul Abraham
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Patent number: 9723582Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and apparatus for synchronizing beacon transmissions. Synchronization beacons may be transmitted from multiple nodes during a same time slot of a discovery window with accommodation for managing potential signal interference. For certain example embodiments, a first wireless communication device includes a transceiver and a synchronization beacon transmission system. A transceiver may be configured to transmit a synchronization beacon in a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) environment, wherein the NAN environment includes multiple wireless communication devices arranged in a cluster. A synchronization beacon transmission system may be configured to determine a transmission time based at least partially on an operation that separates the wireless communication devices of the cluster into multiple groups.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventor: Binh Quoc Tran
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Patent number: 9723583Abstract: An approach is provided for collaboratively synchronizing devices in an ad hoc network. Responsive to a transmission of a map by a first device to other device(s) listening to the first device, a second device determines the map, which allocates time slots to devices, indicates a conflict by which a same time slot is allocated to the second device and another device. The transmission is responsive to a determination that a Boolean value is true with a probability p if the first device is in an alive mode or a probability q if the first device is in a dormant mode, where p>q and q>0, and where p and q indicate respective likelihoods of performing the transmission. The second device resolves the conflict by allocating another time slot to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Frederic Bauchot, Jean-Yves Clement, Gerard Marmigere, Joaquin Picon
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Patent number: 9723584Abstract: Disclosed are a network-based device, method and computer-readable medium for operating an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to provide registration review. The method embodiment includes tracking and storing all current registrations for each user in an IMS system, receiving a request from a user for a status of the user's current registrations and presenting, in response to the request, the current status of current registrations for the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Siroos K. Afshar, Leopold Strahs
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Patent number: 9723585Abstract: A scaling apparatus and method scales uncertainty criteria (horizontal and vertical accuracy requirements) originally received from an end user before the uncertainty criteria is sent on to a wireless terminal (30) as requirements on the accuracy of location positioning performed by/for the wireless terminal. In an example embodiment the amount/degree of scaling is selected according to a configured best estimate of the confidence and uncertainty relation, and such best estimate can be based on the majority of the terminals of the network. For a WCDMA radio access network (RAN) case the scaling can be performed in a radio network controller (RNC). For a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio access network (RAN) case the scaling can be performed in the evolved Serving Mobile Location Center (eSMLC) node. In another case the scaling can alternatively be performed in the wireless terminal itself.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Ari Kangas, Torbjorn Wigren
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Patent number: 9723586Abstract: A method, computer readable storage device and an apparatus for locating a mobile endpoint device in an indoor environment are disclosed. For example, the method generates a location map having a predicted signal strength for each respective location on the location map, receives a signal strength associated with the mobile endpoint device within the indoor environment, compares the signal strength to the location map having the predicted signal strength for each respective location on the location map and locates the mobile endpoint device as being at a particular location within the indoor environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Vaneet Aggarwal, Rittwik Jana, Sarat Puthenpura, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan
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Patent number: 9723587Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a movement information processing method and system, a user equipment, and an access network device. In one embodiment, a UE measures a characteristic parameter of a cell to be measured, and then obtains movement information of the UE according to a change of the characteristic parameter within a predetermined time. In this way, the UE can send the movement information to an access network device and the access network device executes a movement-related operation according to the movement information.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Wei Quan, Yuhua Chen, Yi Jiang
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Patent number: 9723588Abstract: A method for determining a location of a wireless transmitter includes: receiving, at data processing hardware, receiver signals from corresponding receivers located within an observation area; estimating, by the data processing hardware, the location of the rogue transmitter; and reporting the estimated location of the rogue transmitter to a remote system in communication with the data processing hardware. Estimating the location of a rogue transmitter includes, for each receiver, determining a transmitter location contour about the receiver based on the corresponding at least one receiver signal and one or more propagation path loss functions and identifying an intersection of the transmitter location contours of the receivers as the estimated location of the rogue transmitter. Each propagation path loss function is based on terrain information corresponding to the observation area.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Carlos Urrutia, Guanghua Li, Jun Yin
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Patent number: 9723589Abstract: A method and electronic device are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to implement the method, including receiving a first notification for a first application, generating, by at least one processor, a first notification page including at least a part of the first notification, generating an abstract page including a first object related to the first notification and displaying the abstract page on a display, and switching from displaying the abstract page to displaying the first notification page in response to detecting an input signal selecting the first object, wherein the abstract page and the first notification page are generated and displayed based on a same application or home application.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eunbi Cho, Hyunjung Park, Junho Lee, Jihwa Park, Daehyung Jo, Dongjin Choi
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Patent number: 9723590Abstract: A method for obtaining a monitoring frequency channel number, and an access terminal, where the method includes, when an Evolution-Data Optimized session of an access terminal is in a closed state or in an initialization process, and when a first expected frequency channel number obtained according to a first session seed and a first sector parameters message is different from a current frequency channel number of a signal currently received by a access terminal, generating, a second session seed, receiving, a second sector parameters message, obtaining, by the access terminal, a second expected frequency channel number according to the second sector parameters message, the second session seed, and a non-coherence parameter, and setting, the second expected frequency channel number as the monitoring frequency channel number when the second expected frequency channel number is the same as the current frequency channel number.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nengfu Tang
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Patent number: 9723591Abstract: Independent signalling method for bearer management in a communication network with transporting bearer resource request message of both the UE and RN via Base station to managing entity of RN within EPC, as a signalling message over uplink channel referred to as ‘Union of Resource Request (UR Request)’ message. The bearer resource response message referred to as ‘Independent Admission Response (IA Response)’ from one of the management entity of EPE or management entities of UE and RN within EPC are transported as a signalling message to Evolved Packet Edge (EPE) via Base station over the downlink channel. This manages bearer setup signalling as a single loop, by transportation of ‘UR Request’ signalling message and receiving one “Independent Admission Response” signalling message over uplink and downlink channels respectively. EPE is a conglomeration of network nodes comprising of UEs, RNs and all other network nodes that communicate over EPC via Base station.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: TEJAS NETWORKS LTD.Inventors: Kumar Rohit, R C Sanil, Kumar M Vinod
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Patent number: 9723592Abstract: A UE receives downlink control information from an eNB through a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) including one or more CCEs (Control Channel Elements). The UE transmits ACK/NACK (ACKnowledgment/Negative ACK) information associated with the downlink control information to the eNB by using at least one of a first PUCCH resource, which corresponds to an index determined on the basis of first offset information and an index of a specific CCE in the PDCCH and is generated using first cell identification information, and a second PUCCH resource, which corresponds to an index determined on the basis of second offset information and the index of the specific CCE and is generated using second cell identification information.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
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Patent number: 9723593Abstract: A terminal apparatus sets a first UL-DL configuration, receives information indicating a second UL-DL configuration via a physical downlink control channel, and monitors a physical downlink control channel with a C-RNTI, during an active time based on a first subframe which is set as a downlink subframe or a subframe including a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS) on the basis of the first UL-DL configuration, in a second subframe which is set as a downlink subframe or a subframe including a DwPTS on the basis of the second UL-DL configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura, Daiichiro Nakashima, Tatsushi Aiba
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Patent number: 9723594Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method in which a terminal transmits control information in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for the method, wherein the method comprises the following steps: spreading a control information block corresponding to one single carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDMA) symbol, such that the spread control information blocks correspond to a plurality of first SC-FDMA symbols; performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoding process on the spread control information blocks on an SC-FDMA symbol basis; transmitting, in the plurality of first SC-FDMA symbols in a subframe, the DFT precoded control information blocks; and transmitting, in a plurality of second SC-FDMA symbols in the subframe, a reference signal sequence, wherein an orthogonal code is applied to the plurality of second SC-FDMA symbols in a time domain.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seunghee Han, Hyunwoo Lee
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Patent number: 9723595Abstract: A system and method for transmitting high speed data on fixed rate and for variable rate channels. The system and method provides the flexibility of adjusting the data rate, the coding rate, and the nature of individual retransmissions. Further, the system and method supports partial soft combining of retransmitted data with previously transmitted data, supports parity bit selection for successive retransmissions, and supports various combinations of data rate variations, coding rate variations, and partial data transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wen Tong, Leo L. Strawczynski, Shalini Periyalwar, Claude Royer
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Patent number: 9723596Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhanced uplink (EU) dedicated channel data transmission. On a condition that a scheduling message is not available, wherein the scheduling message is for scheduling scheduled data transmission, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmits non-scheduled data up to a threshold amount of data in absence of the scheduling message. On a condition that scheduled data for a logical channel is in an EU data buffer of the WTRU, the WTRU transmits EU scheduling information with EU non-scheduled data transmission in absence of the scheduling message, wherein the scheduling information indicates a total amount of data in the EU data buffer and an amount of EU data buffered for a priority logical channel. The WTRU receives a scheduling message in response to the transmitted EU scheduling information and transmits the scheduled data in response to the scheduling message.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Guodong Zhang, Stephen E. Terry, Stephen G. Dick
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Patent number: 9723597Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a system for transmitting control information, which relate to the field of communication technologies. In order to feed back response information in an application scenario of dynamic TDD subframe, the present invention provides the following technical solution: determining a subframe set corresponding to uplink subframe n, the subframe set comprising dynamic subframes; determining feedback response information according to the subframe set; and sending, in uplink subframe n, the feedback response information to a base station through a physical uplink channel, wherein n is a subframe serial number of the uplink subframe.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongxia Lv, Yan Cheng
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Patent number: 9723598Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink signal. A method for transmitting an uplink signal at a UE in a wireless communication system includes, when a virtual cell ID for a reference signal for demodulation of a physical uplink channel is provided, generating a sequence of the reference signal on the basis of the virtual cell ID, and transmitting the generated reference signal to an eNB. A group hopping pattern of the reference signal can be determined on the basis of the virtual cell ID.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim, Byounghoon Kim
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Patent number: 9723599Abstract: It is possible to solve the problem that a downstream control information amount is significantly increased if allocation information is periodically reported because no allocation method of a default E-DCH resource configuration is defined for a preamble signature. A base station and a mobile station decide a default resource configuration by using a total number of resource configurations or a value obtained from the total number.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Aminaka, Jinsock Lee
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Patent number: 9723600Abstract: A method of receiving information by a wireless communication device is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of wireless subframes at a periodic interval, wherein an interval duration of the periodic interval is greater than a duration of each of the plurality of wireless subframes. The method further includes determining for each wireless subframe of the plurality whether the wireless subframe includes a grant resource that indicates that a resource unit pattern of a plurality of selectively assignable resource unit patterns of resource units of the subframe includes information for the communication device. A method of transmitting information by the wireless communication device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: James W. McCoy, Leo G. Dehner
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Patent number: 9723601Abstract: The proposed technology relates to a method for conveying information from a node to user equipment, UE, in a HSPA, system. The method comprises the step of obtaining (S1) rank information and modulation information related to a four-branch Multiple Input Multiple Output, MIMO, system. The method also comprises the step of combining (S2) the rank information and the modulation information related to the four-branch MIMO system into a bit pattern, and the step of transmitting (S3) the combined rank information and modulation information related to the four-branch MIMO system as said bit pattern in a control channel to the UE. In this way, a power-efficient solution for conveying information related to a four-branch MIMO system in a control channel from a node to a UE in a HSPA system is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Sairamesh Nammi
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Patent number: 9723602Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In one configuration, the apparatus may be a UE. The apparatus may receive a message (e.g., via an ePCFICH) from an eNB and may process an ePDCCH using the message. The apparatus may receive a message via an ePCFICH indicating resources for ePDCCH, the ePDCCH being a localized ePDCCH and/or a distributed ePDCCH and process the ePDCCH using the message. The apparatus may receive an ePCFICH from an eNB, where the ePCFICH is a function of at least a PCI or a virtual cell identifier. The apparatus may process an ePDCCH using a default set of resources when an ePCFICH is not detected. The apparatus may receive an ePCFICH value and may determine either a starting symbol index for an ePDCCH or one or more ePDCCH resource sets based at least on the ePCFICH value.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 9723603Abstract: In order to prevent any increase in number of blind detections and make efficient use of radio resources even when a format of downlink control information is changed in accordance with a communication environment, the present invention provides a radio communication method for generating control information by using a predetermined DCI format out of a plurality of DCI formats including a first DCI format having an uplink scheduling grant and a second DCI format having downlink scheduling assignment. When the first DCI format is extended in size, the second DCI format is added with an information field so as to have the same size as the extended first DCI format, and information to extend an existing function of the second DCI format and/or information to add a new function is added to the information field thereby to generate the control information.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Daisuke Nishikawa, Nobuhiko Miki
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Patent number: 9723604Abstract: A method operating a telecommunications system including a base station and plural terminal devices arranged to communicate over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices. The control-plane data conveys information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective of the terminal devices. The radio interface is based on a radio frame structure including plural subframes each including a control region supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region supporting the downlink shared channel. The method uses the control region of a first radio subframe to convey an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe subsequent to the first radio subframe.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY EUROPE LIMITEDInventor: Yuichi Morioka
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Patent number: 9723605Abstract: A network node (100), a wireless device (102) and methods therein, for controlling uplink transmission from the wireless device (102), e.g. in a time division multiplexing scheme. The network node (100) signals (1:2) an Absolute Grant Scope, AGS, bit to the wireless device (102), wherein the AGS bit indicates one of: the wireless device (102) is granted for uplink transmission (204) during a single Transmit Time Interval, TTI, and the wireless device (102) is granted for uplink transmission (206) until a next grant is signalled to the wireless device (102).Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Cagatay Konuskan, Billy Hogan, Waikwok Kwong, Gerardo Agni Medina Acosta
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Patent number: 9723606Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for enhanced control channel-based operation. A method for a base station for transmitting a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining one antenna port to be used for the downlink control channel; mapping the downlink control channel to a resource element on the basis of a reference signal for the one antenna port; and transmitting the mapped downlink control channel to a terminal, wherein an index for the one antenna port can be determined on the basis of a control channel element (CCE) index of the downlink control channel derived from the terminal identifier.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Hakseong Kim, Kijun Kim, Dongyoun Seo, Inkwon Seo
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Patent number: 9723607Abstract: A method for transmitting machine type communication (MTC) downlink data. The method includes acquiring, by a user equipment (UE), downlink transmission parameters, where the downlink transmission parameters include a quantity of resource blocks in downlink transmission bandwidth that is configured by a base station for the UE, an antenna port used by the base station for sending the MTC downlink data, and at least one of the following a cell-specific frequency shift value or a cyclic prefix (CP) type, setting, by the UE, a local oscillator frequency of a receiver according to the downlink transmission parameters; and receiving, by the UE, the MTC downlink data sent by the base station, where a subcarrier located in a subcarrier reservation location does not carry any data signal or reference signal, and the subcarrier reservation location is determined in the downlink transmission bandwidth by the base station according to the downlink transmission parameters.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shuiping Long
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Patent number: 9723608Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for D2D communication. The method includes carrying control information and data information, to be sent, in a physical resource block, wherein the physical resource block comprises M OFDM symbols in the time domain and N subcarriers in the frequency domain. The control information comprises at least one of MCS, RV, and NDI, at least one of the MCS, the RV, and the NDI being mapped onto an RE in a high frequency part of the physical resource block. The data information is mapped onto a blank RE in the physical resource block excluding the RE onto which the control information is mapped. The method also includes sending the physical resource block to a target user equipment on a D2D communication link. Spectral efficiency and data transmission rate can be improved by reasonably configuring an uplink physical channel of D2D communication.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xingwei Zhang
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Patent number: 9723609Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of extending cell coverage, a base station using the same method, and a user equipment using the same method. In one of the exemplary embodiments, a base station transmits a system information over a physical channel located at a first physical location in a group of radio frames to a user equipment (UE). The base station would then determine based on at least a cell identification (ID) of the base station the second physical location for a repetition of the system information over the physical channel located at the second physical location in a group of radio frames. The base station would then transmit the repetition of the system information at the second physical location in the group of radio frames to the UE.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: HTC CorporationInventor: Chih-Yao Wu
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Patent number: 9723610Abstract: A device for transmitting data to a network includes a source subsystem and a communication subsystem. The source subsystem generates a first data packet that includes first timing information that is based on a time that the first data packet is generated. The first timing information is generated responsive to a first timing generator included in the source subsystem. The communication subsystem is coupled to the source subsystem via one or more abstraction layers and is configured to modify the first data packet to generate a modified data packet for transmission to the network. The modified data packet includes the first timing information and second timing information that is based on a time that the modified data packed is transmitted. The communications subsystem includes a second timing generator that is linked to the first timing generator through the one or more abstraction layers to generate the second timing information.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Khosro Mohammad Rabii, Vijay Naicker Subramaniam, Alireza Raissinia, Fawad Shaukat, Shivakumar Balasubramanyam
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Patent number: 9723611Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and more specifically, to a method for supporting a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless LAN system and an apparatus therefor. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for supporting a BSS by an access point (AP) in a wireless LAN system can comprise the steps of: scanning an overlapping BSS (OBSS); and selecting a primary channel for a new BSS of the AP from channels for which a beacon is not detected during the OBSS scanning. The primary channel can be selected from all channels except the secondary channel of the OBSS. In addition, if the new BSS supports an operating channel having a 4 MHz, 8 MHz or 16 MHz channel bandwidth, a primary channel having a 2 MHz channel bandwidth can be chosen for the new BSS.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Yongho Seok