Patents Issued in November 9, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170324477
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a visible light signal receiving and control method, a control apparatus, and a receiving device. The method comprises: determining a communication performance between a visible light signal receiving device and at least one visible light signal transmit device; and in response to an increase in the communication performance between the visible light signal receiving device and the at least one visible light signal transmit device, combining two first logic pixel units of an image sensor related to the at least one visible light signal transmit device as one second logic pixel unit to be read, when reading an inductive charge of the image sensor of the visible light signal receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: RAN XU, LIN DU
  • Publication number: 20170324478
    Abstract: A method implemented by a wireless fronthaul unit, the method comprises aggregating a plurality of first wireless channel signals to produce a first aggregated signal via digital frequency-domain mapping (FDM), wherein the first wireless channel signals are positioned in the first aggregated signal in non-overlapping first frequency bands, each non-overlapping first frequency band having a first bandwidth and a center frequency, wherein each respective center frequency is an odd integer multiple of a lowest center frequency, converting the first aggregated signal into a first modulated signal, and transmitting the first modulated signal to a wireless fronthaul link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Xiang Liu, Frank Effenberger, Lei Zhou, Huafeng Lin
  • Publication number: 20170324479
    Abstract: A wireless communications network radio unit (10) comprising: an input (12) arranged to receive a radio over fibre, RoF input optical signal (14) carrying digital radio communications traffic for transmission from a plurality of antenna elements, synchronisation traffic and control and management traffic; a digital receiver (16) arranged to receive and terminate the RoF input optical signal to obtain the digital radio communications traffic; a framer (18) arranged to frame the digital radio communications traffic into at least one digital traffic stream consisting of the digital radio communications traffic for transmission from a plurality of the antenna elements and clock recovery information; and at least one optical transmitter (20) arranged to generate an RoF output optical signal (22) carrying the digital traffic stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Fabio CAVALIERE, Luca GIORGI, Filippo PONZINI, Elmar TROJER
  • Publication number: 20170324480
    Abstract: A data centre network, comprises a first group of optical ports for connection to respective servers of a first group of servers; a second group of optical ports for connection to respective servers of a second group of servers; a first lower passive optical routing element arranged to route optical communication signals between the first group of optical ports and a first lower optical communication path; a second lower passive optical routing element arranged to route optical communication signals between the second group of optical ports and a second lower optical communication path; an upper passive optical routing element arranged to: (i) route optical communication signals between the first lower optical communication path and an upper optical communication path, and (ii) route optical communication signals between the second lower optical communication path and the upper optical communication path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
    Inventors: Jaafar ELMIRGHANI, Taisir EL-GORASHI, Ali HAMMADI
  • Publication number: 20170324481
    Abstract: A method of controlling a parameter in the generation of a coherent optical signal, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a set of signal samples relating to detection of a coherent optical signal; transforming the set of signal samples into a set of spectrum samples in the frequency domain, the set of spectrum samples being an estimation of the spectrum of the coherent optical signal; calculating at least one feedback variable based on the spectrum samples; and adjusting the parameter based on the at least one feedback variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Fabio CAVALIERE, Francesco FRESI, Gianluca MELONI, Luca POTI
  • Publication number: 20170324482
    Abstract: A silicon photonics based temperature-insensitive delay line interferometer (DLI). The DLI includes a first arm comprising a first length of a first material characterized by a first group index corresponding to a first phase delay to transfer a first light wave with a first peak frequency and a second arm comprising a second length of a second material characterized by a second group index corresponding to a second phase to transfer a second light wave with a second peak frequency with a time-delay difference relative to the first light wave. The first phase delay and the second phase delay are configured to change equally upon a change of temperature. The time-delay difference between the first light wave and the second light wave is set to be inversed value of a free spectral range (FSR) to align at least the first peak frequency to a channel of a designated frequency grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Masaki KATO, Radhakrishnan L. NAGARAJAN
  • Publication number: 20170324483
    Abstract: A system for transmitting routable energy packets includes an optical power source and a processing circuit. The optical power source is configured to generate an optical power packet having optical energy, generate an optical data packet comprising routing information configured to control a route of the optical power packet, and transmit the optical power packet and the optical data packet via a conduit. The processing circuit is configured to generate the routing information to be transmitted within the optical data packet, and control a transmission by the optical power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Edward K.Y. Jung
  • Publication number: 20170324484
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a mobile device, comprising: a radio receiver configured to receive a radio signal; a power receiving unit (PRU) configured to receive a wireless charging signal from a power transmission unit (PTU) configured to charge the mobile device; a wireless broadcast receiver configured to receive a harmonic of the wireless charging signal during charging of the mobile device; a frequency manager configured to scan for a frequency of the harmonic and to detect a fundamental frequency of the wireless charging signal based on the scanned harmonic; and a mitigation module configured to mitigate a harmonic content of the wireless charging signal in the received radio signal based on the detected fundamental frequency of the wireless charging signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yossi Saada, Christoph Schultz, Ron Rotstein
  • Publication number: 20170324485
    Abstract: For wireless cellular communications, a “smart” multi-band combiner system has a multi-band combiner and a passive inter-modulation (PIM) detection sub-system. The multi-band combiner combines multiple transmit signals in different downlink frequency bands into a single, multi-band transmit signal for transmission from a cell tower antenna. The PIM detection sub-system characterizes the frequency components in the multi-band transmit signal to predict PIM products and determine if any predicted PIM products might interfere with any receive signals in any uplink frequency bands. If so, the PIM detection sub-system generates a signal indicating the presence of such predicted interfering PIM products, and the system installer and/or the network administrator can take remedial action to prevent the PIM products from interfering with user communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Sammit A. PATEL, Ray K. BUTLER, John W. BRUNNER, Xiaohua HOU
  • Publication number: 20170324486
    Abstract: An array of antenna elements are located in relation with a plurality of pre-characterized reference detectors. At baseband frequencies, a transmit radiation pattern of the array of antenna elements is sensed with the plurality of pre-characterized reference detectors, at a plurality of phase and gain settings, to detect mismatch among two or more elements of the array of antenna elements. Phase and gain settings for the array of antenna elements are updated to correct the mismatch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Alberto Valdes Garcia, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Yahya Mesgarpour Tousi
  • Publication number: 20170324487
    Abstract: According to the embodiments of the present invention, a wireless communication used in a kitchen environment can be supervised and improved as a consequence of the supervision and indication. A sensor device (350) that communicates with a household appliance e.g. a kitchen hob (300) via a wireless communication line (360) can be used for automated cooking processes, and the kitchen hob (100) comprises an indicator (480) to indicate the received signal strength of a wireless signal. A receiver (485) can be used to generate signal strength information for the indicator (480). A user is readily informed and can take corrective measures, once no proper wireless signal is available. Also, a feedback to a user can be given at the sensor device (350) by light or vibrating signals in order to take corrective measures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Kurt Reul
  • Publication number: 20170324488
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method and apparatus for evaluating node performance and a system. The method includes: real-time communication related information of a network node is collected; normalization on the test data within the predetermined period of time is performed by using preobtained best data vectors and worst data vectors, so as to obtain normalized multi-dimensional vectors of the test data within the period of time; and the normalized multi-dimensional vectors of the test data within the period of time is weighted, distance from the weighted normalized multi-dimensional vectors to the best data vectors is calculated, and a grade of the network node is determined according to the distance and a predefined monotonically decreasing function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Su YI, Hao Wang, Jun Tian, Xiaojing Fan, Lefei Wang, Wenqian Xue, Ryuichi Matsukura
  • Publication number: 20170324489
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: a receiver configured to receive from a first further radio communication device first information indicating a Received Signal Strength Indication in the first further radio communication device and configured to receive from a second further radio communication device second information indicating a Received Signal Strength Indication in the second further radio communication device; a selection circuit configured to select the first further radio communication device or the second further radio communication device based on the first information and the second information; and a pairing request circuit configured to send a request for pairing to the selected further radio communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Stuart Wells, Jeffrey Brian Kinsey
  • Publication number: 20170324490
    Abstract: A signal leakage in a cable network may be detected by using a test device to obtain a spectrum of an electromagnetic wave propagating in vicinity of the cable network, and automatically detecting QAM channels in the obtained spectrum by detecting characteristic spectral roll-offs at boundary frequencies between QAM channels of the cable network. A test device may be used to determine which QAM channels are currently active on the cable network, thereby facilitating automatic QAM signal leakage detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Al RUTH, Rodney Harbison Weaver, Koji Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20170324491
    Abstract: An automotive radio receiver includes an over-the-air radio tuner and a network interface. When a broadcast received at the radio receiver, it includes embedded information that can be used to identify the radio station providing the broadcast. The radio receiver uses the embedded information to identify a streaming station that corresponds to the broadcast station. The radio receiver transmits information associated with the streaming station to a web service, which returns an address at which the radio receiver can access the streaming station. The address of the streaming station is stored in a memory accessible to the radio receiver for later use. The next time the radio receiver is tuned to the same broadcast station, the radio receiver instead connects to the streaming station at the stored address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn
  • Publication number: 20170324492
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for enabling a plurality of media feeds, such as internet radio stations, to be played through a standard media player, such as a radio receiving device, using the tuning or input selection controls of the media player to control the selection of which media feed to play. Identification signatures are added to channels and transmitted to the media player by transmitter. A controller captures the feedback of the media player and, if it detects one of the signature signals in the feedback, instructs the media feed selector to select a media feed which corresponds to the detected identification signature. The selected audio feed may then be transmitted to the media player on the corresponding channel for playback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Urs-Viktor Marti
  • Publication number: 20170324493
    Abstract: A tactical audio distribution device may include a housing. A plurality of connection jacks may be coupled to the housing. A plurality of microphone input signal connection points may be contained in the housing and may be in electrical communication with at least a portion of the connection jacks. At least one digital audio matrix processor may be contained in the housing. The at least one digital audio matrix processor may be configured to receive audio signals based on audio signals from microphones, to combine those signals into a mixed audio signal, and to output the mixed audio signal. A plurality of headphones output signal connection points may be contained in the housing and be in electrical communication with at least some of the connection jacks and may be configured to receive signals based on the mixed audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: James M. Christian
  • Publication number: 20170324494
    Abstract: A platform for audio and electronic music applications where the electronics are implemented as modules, and the modules mount in a cabinet with a common power supply and infrastructure. The platform addresses problems in electrical, mechanical, usability, and power distribution areas, and is suitable for guitar effects, synthesizers, studio equipment, and DJ gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: John Donald Tillman
  • Publication number: 20170324495
    Abstract: A method is provided herein for selecting a combination of a subset of weather stations from among a plurality of weather stations for estimating the weather at a specific location. The method may include: receiving an indication of a plurality of weather stations within a predefined area, where the predefined area includes a first location; determining, for each of the plurality of weather stations, a distance of the weather station from the first location; calculating, for a plurality of different combinations of subsets of the plurality of weather stations, an average distance of the weather stations of each of the plurality of different combinations from the first location; calculating, for each of the different combinations of subsets, an average location relative to the first location; and selecting a combination of a subset of the plurality of weather stations based on the average distance and the average location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: LEON STENNETH, ALEX AVERBUCH
  • Publication number: 20170324496
    Abstract: In the optical transport system a transport frame generator divides a transport frame accommodating plural client signals into plural transmission signals. Subcarrier transmission units convert the signals into optical signals using different optical carriers and transmit the converted optical signals. Subcarrier reception units receive the transmitted optical signals and convert the optical signals into reception signals. A transport frame termination unit combines the reception signals to restore the transport frame. A time-demultiplexing processor time-demultiplexes the restored transport frame to be separated into the client signals. A time slot control unit determines a new time slot allocation when time-multiplexing the client signals in the transport frame and stops supply of electric power to a subcarrier transmission unit and a subcarrier reception unit that transmit and receive an optical signal to which the client signals are not allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki YAMADA, Kengo SHINTAKU, Takuya OHARA, Kei KITAMURA, Takashi KOTANIGAWA, Takafumi HAMANO, Kaoru ARAI, Masahiro YOKOTA, Hideki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20170324497
    Abstract: A method of operation of a Multiprotocol Label Switching network involves, in an active node of the network, receiving a first data packet from a source node and forwarding the first data packet to a destination node. At the same time, the active node measures a residence time of the first data packet in the active node. The active node then sends a further data packet containing residence time information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stefano RUFFINI, Eric Ward GRAY, Sriganesh KINI, Gregory Mirsky
  • Publication number: 20170324498
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a Layered Division Multiplexing (LDM)-based broadcast relay apparatus and method. The LDM-based broadcast relay apparatus includes a first layer symbol generation unit for outputting a first layer broadcast signal based on a received Layered Division Multiplexed (LDM) broadcast signal, a data buffer unit for storing the received LDM broadcast signal for a delay time before the first layer broadcast signal is output, and a second layer symbol generation unit for outputting a second layer broadcast signal by eliminating the first layer broadcast signal from the stored broadcast signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae-Hyun SEO, Young-Min KIM, Heung-Mook KIM
  • Publication number: 20170324499
    Abstract: A method of small cell discovery and RSRP/RSRQ measurements in OFDM/OFDMA systems is proposed. A discovery reference signal (DRS) with low transmission frequency is introduced to support small cell detection within a short time, multiple small cell discovery, and accurate measurement of multiple small cells. The DRS consists of one or multiple reference signal types with the functionalities including timing and frequency synchronization, cell detection, RSRP/RSSI/RSRQ measurements, and interference mitigation. RE muting is configured for the DRS to reduce interference level from data to DRS for discovery and RSRP/RSRQ measurements for small cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Pei-Kai Liao, Hsiao-Lan Chiang, Chien-Chang Li, Xiangyang Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20170324500
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-ho MYUNG, Belkacem MOUHOUCHE, Daniel Ansorregui LOBETE, Kyung-joong KIM, Hong-sil JEONG
  • Publication number: 20170324501
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication control apparatus, a radio communication apparatus, a communication control method, a radio communication method, and a program that are capable of contributing to improving a radio communication technology related to IDMA. [Solution] Provided is a communication control apparatus including: a communication unit configured to communicate with a radio communication apparatus of a radio communication system using interleave division multiple access (IDMA); and a control unit configured to allocate an interleaver type of an interleaver to be used for IDMA by the radio communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, RYOTA KIMURA, SHO FURUICHI
  • Publication number: 20170324502
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the communications field, and discloses a data transmission method, a device, and a system, so as to resolve a problem in the prior art that user equipment cannot correctly parse data or measure a channel due to incapability of identifying different operators. A specific solution is: obtaining a scrambling code sequence, where the scrambling code sequence is generated according to a specific sequence of an operator to which a first device belongs; scrambling data according to the scrambling code sequence to obtain the scrambled data; and sending the scrambled data. The present invention is used for data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Da WANG, Jian WANG
  • Publication number: 20170324503
    Abstract: A fixed communication network is disclosed in which a plurality of transmitters feed signals via tributary transmission lines of different lengths onto a shared network component. A timing reference signal is distributed to the transmitters. The shared network component in some embodiments takes the form of a transmission line. In order to enable the sharing of the capacity of the shared network component, each of the plurality of transmitters codes data for transmission in accordance with a code division multiple access scheme. The efficiency of usage of the shared network component is improved by synchronizing the arrival of the encoded bits at the shared network component. This is achieved by populating a store within each transmitter with a pre-set timing offset, and timing the transmission of data in accordance with the timing reference signal received by the transmitters and the pre-set timing offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Mohammad ZOUALFAGHARI
  • Publication number: 20170324504
    Abstract: Method and apparatus of a network configuration configured to permit a dense wavelength division multiplexing (“DWDM”) element to connect to a storage server, an Internet Protocol (“IP”) router, and DWDM network are disclosed. The configuration includes the DWDM network, storage area network (“SAN”) server, IP router, and optical transport network (“OTN”) switch. While the DWDM network transports information via optical fibers, the DWDM switch is coupled to the DWDM network for transporting optical signals. The SAN server is coupled to a port of the DWDM switch and is configured to store data at a remote location. The IP router which is coupled to the DWDM switch facilitates IP traffic between a user and the DWDM network. The OTN switch, coupled to the first DWDM switch, is capable of processing at least a portion of the optical signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Tellabs Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: David Jenkins, Ramasubramanian Anand, Joel Butz
  • Publication number: 20170324505
    Abstract: An optical communications system includes an optical transmitter and an optical receiver optically coupled to an optical combiner/splitter, the combiner/splitter coupled to optical media; and, another optical transmitter and another optical receiver optically coupled to another optical combiner/splitter, the another combiner/splitter remotely coupled to the optical media; wherein the optical transmitter and the another optical transmitter are configured to transmit optical signals at substantially the same wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: PINHAS YEHUDA ROSENFELDER, CARMI SHAPIRA
  • Publication number: 20170324506
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a wavefront muxing processor receiving first and second input signals to generate first and second output signals on first and second communication channels, respectively, the first and second output signals being at a common frequency slot and having relative differential amplitude and phase delays; and an amplitude and phase adjustment element located at one of the first and second communication channels to adjust the relative differential amplitude and phase delays using an adjustment amount to reduce interference in the first and second communication channels. The first output signal is a weighted sum of the first input signal and the second input signal that is phase shifted by a second phase shift. The second output signal is a weighted sum of the second input signal and the first input signal that is phase shifted by a first phase shift. The two output signals are transmitted to a transponder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Juo-Yu Lee, Donald C.D. Chang, Tzer-Hso Lin
  • Publication number: 20170324507
    Abstract: A method for detecting an optical network unit (ONU) in a passive optical network (PON), an ONU, a PON and an optical line terminal (OLT) are disclosed. In an embodiment the method include detecting an ONU identity code in an open uplink empty window or an empty timeslot, wherein the ONU identity code is a specific code stream sequence of the ONU that identifies a single ONU of the plurality of ONUs included in the PON system during the open uplink empty window or the empty timeslot and determining that the single ONU corresponding to the ONU identity code is a rogue ONU according to the ONU identity code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Min Wan, Xiaofei Zeng
  • Publication number: 20170324508
    Abstract: A method for performing link adaptation includes in a first network node of a wireless network: initializing data transmission with a second network node of the wireless network by transmitting a request-to-send message to the second network node and by receiving a clear-to-send message from the second network node, wherein the request-to-send message and the clear-to-send message are transmitted on one or more channels of the wireless network; after said initializing, generating a first data packet of the data transmission, wherein said generating comprises processing the first data packet with link adaptation parameters fixedly associated for use in connection with first data packets of data transmissions, wherein said link adaptation parameters are included in a subset of most robust link adaptation parameters supported by the first network node; receiving, from the second network node, a message indicating new link adaptation parameters for use in a subsequent data transmission; and generating a second da
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Teemu Antero Vanninen, Matti Petteri Raustia, Toni Ilmari Linden
  • Publication number: 20170324509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to transmission and reception of digital broadcast in a digital broadcast network supporting a configuration of multiple physical layer pipes (PLPs). In particular, signalling parameters relating to a complete PLP are transmitted within layer 1 signalling related to the PLP. The baseband frames mapped on the pipe are configured according to this layer 1 signalling in the same way at the transmitter as they are demapped on the receiver side. The baseband frames are transmitted and received without including these parameters, in particular, at least one of parameters indicating (i) an input stream format, (ii) a single or a multiple input stream, (iii) constant or adaptive coding and modulation, (iv) presence of input stream synchronization, (v) presence of null packet deletion, or (vi) input stream identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Frank HERRMANN, Mihail PETROV
  • Publication number: 20170324510
    Abstract: A control device for use in a broadcast system includes a broadcast controller that controls a broadcast transmitter of the broadcast system that broadcasts signals in a coverage area for reception by terminals including a broadcast receiver and a broadband receiver, and a broadband controller that controls a broadband server of a broadband system that provides redundancy data to terminals within the coverage area. The broadband controller is configured to control the provision of redundancy data by the broadband server for use by one or more terminals which use the redundancy data together with broadcast signals received via said broadcast system for recovering content received within the broadcast signals and/or provided via the broadband system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junge QI, Joerg ROBERT, Jan ZOELLNER, Lothar STADELMEIER, Nabil LOGHIN
  • Publication number: 20170324511
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for operating a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises receiving, by the wireless device, of transmission data signals from the wireless communication network, and performing blind detection, by the wireless device, on the transmission data signals. There are also disclosed further related methods and apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Reza MOOSAVI, Jung-Fu CHENG, Erik ERIKSSON
  • Publication number: 20170324512
    Abstract: A decoding apparatus and method. When all the code words in the to-be-decoded group meet that a checksum is 0, forward error correction (FEC) decoding is not performed, and only the sign bit decision is performed. That is, in a process of performing multiple times of decoding on each code word, FEC decoding is not always performed every time. This reduces power consumption required by FEC decoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Zhiyu Xiao, Mo Li
  • Publication number: 20170324513
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmitting or receiving method and device for dual Transport Blocks (TBs), a transmitter and a receiver. Data to be transmitted is divided into two portions, where transport blocks TB1 and TB2 are generated respectively according to a corresponding predetermined Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS) for each portion. The TB1 is modulated into an amplitude weighted complex symbol sequence S1, and the TB2 is modulated into an amplitude weighted complex symbol sequence S2. The S1 and the S2 are superposed to generate a complex symbol sequence S3 corresponding to a new TB, where the complex symbol sequence S3 corresponding to the new TB possesses Gray properties. The new TB is transmitted to a receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Zhifeng YUAN, Jianqiang DAI
  • Publication number: 20170324514
    Abstract: A polar code generation method and device are disclosed. The method includes: determining an index set of information bits of a polar code according to a first modulation scheme; and encoding the polar code according to the index set of the information bits of the polar code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hui Shen, Bin Li
  • Publication number: 20170324515
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for verifying the integrity of data transmission between a main upstream unit (10a) and a main downstream unit (20a), the method being characterised in that it includes the implementation of the following steps: a data-processing module (11a) of the main upstream unit (10a) generates a first frame (T1) including a packet (P1) of data to be transmitted and a cyclic redundancy code (E1) of said packet (P1); encapsulating the first frame (T1) in a second frame (T2) which also includes a cyclic redundancy code (C1) of the first frame (T1); encapsulating the cyclic redundancy code (E1) of the packet (P1) in a third frame (T3); the data-processing module (11b) of the at least one auxiliary upstream unit (10b) compares each of the cyclic redundancy codes (E1) extracted from the first frame (T1) with those extracted from the third frame (T3); and confirming the integrity of data transmission to the main downstream unit (20a) only if the comparison is positive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Yann VANDENBAVIERE, Christophe TUZI, Olivier GALLAY, Sebastien LHENORET
  • Publication number: 20170324516
    Abstract: The present invention provides an uplink feedback method, user equipment, and a base station, where the method includes: detecting, by user equipment, downlink data in at least two consecutive downlink sub-frames; performing joint encoding, by the user equipment, for a feedback for the downlink data in the at least two consecutive downlink sub-frames; and transmitting, by the user equipment in an uplink sub-frame corresponding to the last sub-frame of the at least two consecutive downlink sub-frames, joint uplink feedback information for the at least two consecutive downlink sub-frames, so as to resolve issue how uplink feedback is performed when downlink bandwidth is different from uplink bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Dong Chen, Xiaoying Xu
  • Publication number: 20170324517
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data in a multiple-input-multiple-output space-time coded communication using a mapping table mapping a plurality of symbols defining the communication to respective antennae from amongst a plurality of transmission antennae and to at least one other transmission resource. The mapping table may comprise Alamouti-coded primary segments and may also comprise secondary segments, comprising primary segments. The primary segments in the secondary segments may be defined in accordance to an Alamouti based code pattern applied at the segment level to define a segment-level Alamouti based code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Novak, Hosein Nikopourdeilami, Mo-Han Fong, Sophie Vrzic
  • Publication number: 20170324518
    Abstract: Techniques for presenting communication between two or more stations in a WLAN environment are provided. Specifically, methods are presented, that when taken alone or together, provide a device or group of devices with an efficient way of selecting the appropriate BA size based on changes in the environment. The present disclosure includes a method that provides a wireless device with the option to use various packets per bit in a block acknowledgment mechanism based on a window duration and packet error rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Peng MENG, Rongzhen YANG, Qinghua LI
  • Publication number: 20170324519
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and media are provided for recovery of information from redundancy version packets in systematic encoding environments when a redundancy version packet containing primarily systematic information may be corrupted. A plurality of redundancy version packets may be received at a user equipment device from a transmission device. Each redundancy version packet of the plurality of redundancy version packets may be based on a same group of information bits. A first redundancy version packet of the plurality of redundancy version packets may contain more bits of the same group of information bits than do the other redundancy version packets of the plurality of redundancy version packets. The same group of information bits may be recovered based on one or more second redundancy version packets of the plurality of redundancy version packets but not based on the first redundancy version packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Jiming Guo, Xiaohui Liu, Cheol Hee Park, Chintan Shirish Shah, Reza Shahidi
  • Publication number: 20170324520
    Abstract: Techniques according to which HARQ feedback transmitted from a wireless device to a base station includes not only the ACK/NACK status for the corresponding hybrid automatic-repeat-request (HARQ) process, but also certain information that was provided by the network in the last received downlink assignment. An example method, as implemented in a wireless device operating in a wireless communication network, comprises receiving from the wireless communication network, in a first transmission-time interval, a resource-assignment message indicating resources allocated for a data transmission to the wireless device. The example method further comprises transmitting to the wireless communication network, in a second transmission-time interval, feedback information that includes an indication of whether the data transmission was correctly received by the wireless device and further includes one or more mirrored information fields copied from the resource-assignment message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Bergström, Håkan Andersson, Johan Furuskog, Niclas Wiberg, Qiang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170324521
    Abstract: Provided are a method for determining the number of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes in a carrier aggregated system configured with a plurality of serving cells, and an apparatus using such a method. The method receives data from a downlink subframe of a second serving cell, and transmits an ACK/NACK signal for the data from an uplink subframe of a first serving cell, wherein the first serving cell uses a first-type frame, the second serving cell uses a second-type frame, and the number of HARQ processes in the second serving cell are determined with respect to each subframe comprised in the second-type frame and on the basis of the number of downlink subframes comprised in each section comprising a set number of subframes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongyoun SEO, Joonkui AHN, Suckchel YANG, Yunjung YI, Daesung HWANG
  • Publication number: 20170324522
    Abstract: A communication device includes a processor configured to generate OFDMA packets using various OFDMA packet structures and to transmit such OFDMA packets, via a communication interface, to at least one other communication device. The processor is also configured to receive, interpret, and process such OFDMA packets. One example of an OFDMA packet includes common SIG for two or more other wireless communication devices modulated across all sub-carriers of the OFDMA packet. The common SIG is followed by first SIG and first data for a first other wireless communication device modulated across first subset of the sub-carriers of the OFDMA packet and is also followed by second SIG and second data for a second other wireless communication device modulated across second subset of the sub-carriers of the OFDMA packet. Another example of an OFDMA packet includes the common SIG followed directly by first data and second data modulated as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Ron Porat, Matthew James Fischer, Nihar Jindal, Vinko Erceg
  • Publication number: 20170324523
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described that are suitable for channelization, in particular, but not limited to, the IEEE 80216.m telecommunications standard. For a time-frequency resource, physical sub-carriers for each of one or more zones in the time-frequency resource are assigned to one or more zones having a respective type of transmission. At least one zone is allocated for a type of transmission using localized sub-carriers. The physical sub-carriers assigned to each zone are permuted to map to logical sub-carriers. Groups of resource blocks are formed, in which each resource block includes at least one logical sub-carrier for each of the one or more zones. The information defining the groups of resource blocks for each of the one or more zones can then be transmitted to a user. The information may be in the form of a zone configuration index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Sophie Vrzic, Dong-Sheng Yu, Mo-Han Fong
  • Publication number: 20170324524
    Abstract: A user equipment, a control method thereof and a network side device are provided in the present disclosure. The control method includes: indicating configuration information of a subband to be configured to a user equipment via a common control channel of a basic subband, such that the user equipment can use the subband to be configured according to the configuration information, wherein the basic subband is a subband to which the user equipment has access, and the subband to be configured comprises any subband within a bandwidth resource. The above method can support the flexibility of subband configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Huayu ZHOU, Hualei WANG, Weijie XU, Yang LIU, Yanan JIA
  • Publication number: 20170324525
    Abstract: The present specification presents a technique for transmitting a PPDU by using a resource unit including carriers of different sizes. For example, a PPDU is transmitted by using five frequency bands, a left guard band, and a right guard band. Null subcarriers can be included in the five frequency bands according to the type of included resource unit. The null subcarriers can be the leftmost side or the rightmost side of each frequency band, and the number of included null subcarriers can be determined according to the size of the carrier included in each resource unit or the type of resource unit. A frequency band including DC carriers can include only one resource unit having a discontinuous carrier, and null subcarriers can be further included around the DC carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsoo CHOI, Hangyu CHO, Eunsung PARK, Wookbong LEE
  • Publication number: 20170324526
    Abstract: A signal transmission method for reducing inter-cell interference according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: determining a rank on the basis of feedback information received from a terminal; generating a transmission sequence according to the rank; generating a repetitive transmission sequence by repeating the transmission sequence, and shifting a position of a symbol within the repetitive transmission sequence; and transmitting the transmission sequence and the repetitive transmission sequence. As a result, the present invention can implement an inter-cell interference randomization even in a closed-loop MINO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kungmin PARK, Heejeong CHO, Hyunsoo KO, Hyeyoung CHOI, Ilmu BYUN