Patents Issued in May 18, 2021
  • Patent number: 11012876
    Abstract: A radio terminal (2) is used in a radio communication system (100) and communicates with a radio station (1). The radio terminal (2) includes a measurement unit (20). The measurement unit (20) operates to perform, using a terminal measurement procedure for executing a first terminal measurement corresponding to radio access technology applied to the radio communication system (100), a second terminal measurement of a shared frequency shared by a plurality of radio systems including the radio communication system (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Hiroaki Aminaka, Hiroto Sugahara, Yoshikazu Kakura, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11012877
    Abstract: In accordance with the example embodiments there is at least a method and apparatus to determine a measurement configuration for a mobile communication device, wherein the measurement configuration is specific to the mobile communication device; associate a reporting configuration for the mobile communication device; and send the measurement configuration and the reporting configuration to the mobile communication device to trigger the measurement and the reporting at the mobile communication device. Further, in accordance with the example embodiments there is at least a method and apparatus to receive a measurement configuration and a reporting configuration from a network node; and trigger a measurement and a measurement report based on the measurement configuration and the reporting configuration from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Malgorzata Tomala, Tero Henttonen
  • Patent number: 11012878
    Abstract: A beam measuring and reporting method adapted for a user equipment for a multibeam wireless communication system is provided. The method includes the following. A beam configuration for a plurality of first candidate beams is received. A channel measurement for each of the first candidate beams is performed in response to receiving the beam configuration. Beam information of at least one selected beam of the first candidate beams is reported in response to receiving the beam configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chien-Min Lee, Li-Chung Lo, Tsung-Hua Tsai
  • Patent number: 11012879
    Abstract: A first base station (BS) for handling a flexible duplexing comprises at least one storage device and at least one processing circuit coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of: scheduling a first cell of the first BS according to a first uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration, wherein the first UL/DL configuration comprises at least one flexible slot; and transmitting assistance information of the at least one flexible slot of the first cell from the first cell to a second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wei-Chen Pao, Chien-Min Lee, Chia-Wen Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11012880
    Abstract: A wireless communication device comprising circuitry that is configured to measure, in an idle mode, only macro cells, and to start the measurement of one or more indirect network connection nodes in accordance with the wireless communication device turning into a connected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11012881
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for selecting a beam mode and/or beam for communicating with one or more devices are described. The beam mode selection maybe and sometimes is between a broad beam mode of operation and a narrow beam mode of operation with respect to a particular device. Communication with one or more device may happen at a given time with the preferred beam mode and/or choice for an individual device sometimes being replaced with a beam mode and/or beam choice which is preferable from an overall system perspective, e.g., because it allows data transmission and/QoS requirements to multiple devices to be supported better than would be achieved if the preferred beam mode and/or beam selection made with respect to an individual device was used. The beam mode and/or beam selected for traffic data communication sometimes is different from the beam mode and/or beam used for communicating control channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Mixcomm, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Lane, Harish Krishnaswamy, Ashwin Sampath
  • Patent number: 11012882
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method for interference measurement in a wireless communication system, and the method is performed by a base station and comprises the steps of: transmitting a resource setting for interference measurement, which is acquired from a neighboring interference base station, to a plurality of terminals, wherein the resource setting includes information on a predetermined beam used in each interference measurement resource; and receiving, from the plurality of terminals, a measurement result obtained by measurement in each interference measurement resource within the resource setting, wherein the measurement result includes indices of N beams in which a highest interference power is measured or indices of N interference measurement resources in which a highest interference power is measured, and N may be an integer of one or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kunil Yum, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 11012883
    Abstract: An element manager (EM) of a virtualized network for a wireless communication system processes a suspend measurement job request received from a network manager (NM). The request is to suspend a measurement job to provide network function (NF) performance measurements related to a virtualized resource (VR). In response to the suspend measurement job request, the EM stops reports reporting measurement result data for the measurement job and determines whether to instruct a virtualized network function manager (VNFM) to delete one or more performance management (PM) jobs used to support the measurement job. The EM then generates a suspend measurement job response to indicate to the NM a result of the request to suspend the measurement job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
  • Patent number: 11012884
    Abstract: An access method and system, a user equipment, and a network side device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a user equipment, a first message that carries an identifier of a second network access point, where the second network access point can perform air interface offloading on a first network in which a user equipment is currently located; and when the first message carries identifiers of a plurality of second network access points, selecting, by the user equipment, one second network access point from the plurality of second network access points according to first auxiliary information, and accessing the selected second network access point. By adopting the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, an access delay can be effectively shortened, and access efficiency can improved, thereby effectively implementing offloading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hantao Li, Min Huang
  • Patent number: 11012885
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are described herein for communicating data using an adjustable software defined radio. In one aspect, an ultra-narrowband communication device may include a radio frequency (RF) element and a computing element communicatively coupled to the RF element. The computing element, which may include at least one processor and memory, may define a software defined radio. The memory of the computing element may store instructions, that when executed by the at least one processor, configure the communication device to at least one of transmit or receive data over at least two different ultra-narrowband channels using a first communication protocol. The software defined radio may be adjustable to operate at any of a variety of different ultra-narrowband channels responsive to a frequency band selection or allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Agile Radio Management Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas W Irwin, Kyle Anthony Stanton, Surjit Brad Gill, Carlos Alfonso Salcido, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11012886
    Abstract: Example data transmission methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining first configuration information by a terminal device. The first configuration information includes at least one first bearer identifier and path configuration information corresponding to the first bearer identifier, and the path configuration information corresponding to the first bearer identifier includes at least one of a sidelink transmission path or a network device forwarding transmission path. The terminal device obtains first service data and a second bearer identifier corresponding to the first service data, and selects a transmission path for the first service data based on the first bearer identifier, the second bearer identifier, and the path configuration information. The terminal device transmits the first service data on the transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hejun Wang, Mingchao Li, Zhenzhen Cao, Hang Liu, Yinghui Yu
  • Patent number: 11012887
    Abstract: A method for reporting a buffer state includes: determining a logic channel or logic channel group satisfying a BSR triggering criterion; and if the determined logic channel or logic channel group corresponds to a DRB mapped by an SDAP entity, then reporting to a base station a BSR comprising a buffer of the SDAP entity mapped to the determined logic channel or logic channel group. By determining the logic channel or logic channel group satisfying the BSR triggering criterion and, when the determined logic channel or logic channel group corresponds to the DRB mapped by the SDAP entity, and reporting to the base station the BSR comprising the buffer of the SDAP entity mapped to the determined logic channel or logic channel group, the problem with reporting the buffer state of the logic channel or logic channel group when a new protocol layer is introduced can be solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11012888
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of receiving a data unit by a receiver in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: receiving the data unit including a payload; and decompressing a header of the payload based on both a first type header compression algorithm and a second type header compression algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungjune Yi, Geumsan Jo, Sunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 11012889
    Abstract: A communication technique of fusing a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with an Internet of things (IoT) technology and a system thereof are provided. The communication technique may be used for an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, health care, digital education, a retail business, a security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. A method for defining media access control (MAC) sub-header structures suitable for a next generation mobile communication system and applying the MAC sub-header structures to provide a high data transmission rate and a low latency in the next generation mobile communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim, Seungri Jin, Sangbum Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Alexander Sayenko, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11012890
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems, methods and software for determining an optimal burst transmission time through a modem, such as a cable modem, a wireless access point, a node in a cable network, or a satellite communication link. Particularly, the present disclosure makes it possible for a burst of queued data, defined as data above a certain percentile of a monitored traffic rate, to be transmitted by the modem at a time that provides the best chance of avoiding a collision with a co-occurring burst of data from another user connected to the same modem. In an embodiment, the systems, methods and software disclosed herein use the optimal transmission time to replace a contention window transmission time, at least for bursty data, or they completely eliminate the need for contention windows, at least for bursty data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernardo Huberman, Scott H. Clearwater
  • Patent number: 11012891
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for relative quality of service indicators. A processor obtains quality of service data for a sector that is serving a user device. In response to determining that a quality of service associated with the sector is degraded, an offer can be provided to the user device to upgrade the quality of service. In response to detecting acceptance of the offer, enhancement of the quality of service can be triggered. Quality of service data for the sector can be collected. The quality of service data can represent the quality of service for the user device and a further quality of service for another device located in the sector. Quality of service display data that presents the quality of service for the user device and the further quality of service for the other device can be generated and provided to the user device for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Tamara Lynne MacKinney, Gary Casagrande
  • Patent number: 11012892
    Abstract: A resource obtaining method, apparatus, and system, wherein the method includes: when a first edge node receives a first resource obtaining request sent by a second edge node, and a first target resource is not locally cached, the first edge node may determine, using shared popularity information of the first target resource, whether the first target resource needs to be cached. The shared popularity information of the first target resource is determined by a quantity of obtaining requests for the first target resource that are received by the first edge node from the first edge node and another edge node. Therefore, it is determined, using the shared popularity information, whether the first target resource needs to be cached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaoye Zhang, Ying Gao
  • Patent number: 11012893
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. A mobility management entity (MME) and a bearer management method of the MME during an X2 handover in a wireless communication system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nitin Goyal
  • Patent number: 11012894
    Abstract: In an example method, a base station determines that a UE is CSFB capable and that the base station is currently serving a relay on a first carrier of a plurality of carriers. The base station provides a coverage area on which to serve UEs, and the coverage area operates on the plurality of carriers. Based on at least the determining that the UE is CSFB capable and that the base station is currently serving the relay on the first carrier, the base station assigns the UE to operate on a carrier of the plurality of carriers other than the first carrier rather than having the UE operate on the first carrier on which the base station is currently serving the relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Siddharth S. Oroskar, Jasinder P. Singh, Anoop K. Goyal
  • Patent number: 11012895
    Abstract: Disclosed are a session management method and apparatus, wherein same are applied to a mobile network. The method comprises: determining a registration mode of a terminal sending a session establishment request or an interoperation capability supported by a network side device; and when the registration mode is a single-registration mode or when the network side device supports the interoperation capability, determining the completion of the mapping of QoS parameters between different systems when a session connection is created for the terminal. The present invention solves the technical problems in the prior art that an SMF cannot determine whether QoS mapping needs to be performed when a terminal is establishing a session connection in a mobile network and that an unnecessary signalling process will be caused for a terminal with a dual-registration mode if the SMF always performs QoS mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventor: Hucheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11012896
    Abstract: A secondary base station (2) is configured to receive an SeNB addition request message from a second master base station (3) while providing a radio terminal (1) with a secondary cell group (SCG) for DC in cooperation with a first master base station. The SeNB addition request message indicates whether each of at least one bearer that has already been configured in the secondary base station (2) for DC with the first master base station (1) is to be kept at the secondary base station (2). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to performing a procedure for changing a master base station in Dual Connectivity (DC) by using existing inter-base station interface procedures and inter-base station signaling messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11012897
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a method of operating a first radio access node in a communication network, the method comprising determining whether a first base key that is used to determine a first encryption key for encrypting communications between a communication device and the first radio access node can be used by a second radio access node for determining a second encryption key for encrypting communications between the communication device and the second radio access node; and if the first base key can be used by the second radio access node, sending the first base key to the second radio access node during handover of the communication device from the first radio access node to the second radio access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Rasmus Axén, Karl Norrman
  • Patent number: 11012898
    Abstract: A system and method of allowing a new device to join an existing network are disclosed. A configuration tool is used to communicate relevant information from the new network device to the gateway in the existing network using a secondary network protocol different from that used by the primary network. For example, in one embodiment, messages are exchanged between the configuration tool and the new device and between the configuration tool and the gateway using BLUETOOTH®. Once all of the pertinent information has been exchanged, the new device is able to securely join the primary network, which may be based on the IEEE802.15.4 standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Wing Ming Cheung, DeWitt Clinton Seward, IV, Gregory Allan Hodgson, Rasmus Christian Larsen, Bernt Georg Breivik
  • Patent number: 11012899
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for controlling the delivery of voice communications. A profile is created for the user of a mobile device that specifies the thresholds for switching between a cellular network and a wireless network to conduct voice communications as well as stores a list of contacts and associated security levels. If the signal strength of the cellular radio signal is below a threshold, then the mobile device detects one or more wireless networks that are in the area of the user of the mobile device. The profile of the user of the mobile device is then checked to determine if the mobile device is authorized to switch to one of the detected wireless networks to deliver voice communications based on a security level associated with the party communicating with the user. In this manner, the user is able to control the delivery of voice communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Darryl M. Adderly, Jonathan W. Jackson, Ajit Jariwala, Eric B. Libow
  • Patent number: 11012900
    Abstract: A first user equipment (UE) comprising a processor adapted to execute the following operations to assist a handover of a second UE from a source network apparatus to a target network apparatus: maintain a sidelink connection with the second UE, maintain and/or establish a cellular connection, in particular with the target network apparatus, report to the target network apparatus a link state information, based on the link state information received from the second UE through the sidelink connection, receive from the target network apparatus a first control information calculated based on the link state information and send to the second UE through the sidelink connection a second control information, based on the first control information, to assist the handover of the second UE to the target network apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH
    Inventors: Wen Xu, Konstantinos Manolakis
  • Patent number: 11012901
    Abstract: The method is applied to a communications system including a first network device, a second network device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is communicatively connected to the first network device and the second network device respectively. The method includes: sending, by a network device, a first message to the terminal device, where the first message is used to determine that the terminal device stops communication with the first network device, or the first message is used to determine that the terminal device releases a protocol stack and a data radio bearer that are corresponding to the first network device; and the network device is the first network device or the second network device. Therefore, power consumption of the terminal device or the first network device and waste of air interface resources can be reduced, and flexibility can effectively be improved in a communication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chuting Yao, Haibo Xu, Jian Wang, Zhenguo Du, Zhiming Ding
  • Patent number: 11012902
    Abstract: Provided are a resource configuration method for switching, a network access point and a mobile station. The method comprises: a first network access point determining switching resource configuration information with a second network access point; the first network access point sending the switching resource configuration information to a mobile station; and the first network access point receiving switching indication information sent by the mobile station, wherein the switching indication information is used for indicating that the mobile station is to switch. In the embodiments of the present invention, by utilizing the feature that the movement of a mobile station has a predictable directionality, and by introducing the concept of a switching resource and coordinating the switching resource between network access points in advance, the switching resource can be used for switching when the mobile station needs switching, thereby reducing the switching interrupt time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Yang, Yanan Lin, Hai Tang, Bin Feng
  • Patent number: 11012903
    Abstract: A UE in an idle state selects any of a group A, to which a cell of which coverage its own device is in, belongs and a group different from the group A, for example, a group B, and then measures cells belonging to the selected group for selecting a cell being a re-selection destination. A UE in a connected state selects any of the group B to which a cell connected with the UE belongs and a group different from the group B, for example, the group A, and measures cells belonging to the selected group for handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Miho Maeda, Shinsuke Uga, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11012904
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for management of conditional handover (CHO) configurations. A source base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with one or more CHO configurations for multiple target base stations. The CHO configurations may provide, for each target base station, one or more associated conditions that may trigger the UE to initiate a handover to the particular target base station, or to deconfigure a CHO configuration, such as based on a measurement threshold of one or more target base station measurements, one or more source base station measurements, or combinations thereof. The CHO configurations may also include failure handling information for initiating one or more subsequent handovers responsive to a failure of an initial handover attempt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Punyaslok Purkayastha, Karthika Paladugu, Ozcan Ozturk, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 11012905
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for supporting wireless communication using an anchor carrier and data carriers. A wireless device may attach to a cellular network via an anchor carrier. The wireless device may receive data transfer scheduling information from the cellular network via the anchor carrier. The data transfer scheduling information may indicate a data carrier on which data transfer is scheduled. The wireless device may receive data for the data transfer via the data carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, David Boettger
  • Patent number: 11012906
    Abstract: A user equipment receives an MBMS service provided using SC-PTM transmission. The user equipment performs a cell reselection operation of selecting a cell to be used as a serving cell of the user equipment while the user equipment is in an RRC idle mode. In the cell reselection operation, the user equipment selects, as the serving cell, a cell having a highest ranking determined based on a radio quality and an offset from among a plurality of cells. In the cell reselection operation, when the user equipment is in an enhanced coverage, the user equipment uses an infinite offset as the offset to be applied to a cell where the MBMS service is provided by the SC-PTM transmission, in response to a predetermined condition for the SC-PTM transmission being satisfied, when the user equipment goes out of the enhanced coverage, stop using the infinite offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Hiroyuki Adachi, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 11012907
    Abstract: A method and system for transferring user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system are provided. According to the method, a source core (CN) network determines to transfer a UE that it serves and sends a transfer instruction carrying UE transfer restriction information to the UE; an access network receives a transfer request that is sent by the UE according to the restriction information carried in the transfer instruction; the access network selects a target CN entity that is different from the source CN entity for the UE; and the UE is transferred to the target CN entity. The method and system provided by the disclosure are applicable to user transferring between CN entities in any communication network. The transferring is initiated by a network side entity, and a more preferable CN entity is selected for the UE to provide a better service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingyu Li, Xiaolong Guo, Ying Sun
  • Patent number: 11012908
    Abstract: A method for managing network traffic on a portable communication device including a processor, a memory, and a plurality of network interfaces configured to connect to a plurality of networks includes: processing network traffic of an application running on the processor via a first network of the plurality of networks, the first network being specified as a primary network by an operating system running on the processor; monitoring a plurality of network status information associated with the first network; detecting a problem of the first network when one or more parameters of the received network status information is outside of one or more threshold values; in response to detecting the problem in the first network, selecting a second network of the plurality of networks as the primary network; and processing the network traffic via the second network as the updated primary network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: MOBOPHILES, INC.
    Inventors: William Weiyeh Chow, Mark Lea Tsuie, Brian Alex Truong
  • Patent number: 11012909
    Abstract: A wireless communication method including: when a wireless station has dual connectivity to a first base station that is a primary base station and a second base station that is a secondary base station and when a handover of the primary base station is to be performed from the first base station to a third base station, transmitting from the first base station to the third base station a first signal requesting the handover, when the third base station makes a determination not to change the secondary base station based on the first signal, transmitting from the third base station to the second base station a second signal indicating the determination and to the first base station a third signal indicating the determination, and performing the handover based on the third signal without transferring a connection between the wireless station and the second base station to the first base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Shinichiro Aikawa
  • Patent number: 11012910
    Abstract: A method is performed in a first infrastructure equipment for a handover of a wireless device from the first infrastructure equipment as a source to a second infrastructure equipment as a target. The method comprises maintaining a mapping between a plurality of packet bearers and a data radio bearer for the wireless device, each of the plurality of packet bearers being configured to provide a specified quality of service, determining that the wireless device should handover from the first infrastructure equipment to the second infrastructure equipment, determining that the second infrastructure equipment does not support the mapping of the plurality of packet bearers to the data radio bearer, and providing an indication of a mapping of the plurality of packet bearers for the second infrastructure equipment after handover to one of a core network equipment and the second infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11012911
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for processing handover between 5G base stations, which support beamforming and interwork with a 5G core network system in a next-generation/radio access network. The method of processing handover in a base station includes: receiving radio quality measurement information on a plurality of cells and on beams of the respective cells from a user equipment; determining whether handover is required based on the radio quality measurement information and transmitting a handover required message to a core network entity when it is determined that handover is required; and receiving a handover command message from the core network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ha Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 11012912
    Abstract: According to one configuration, a first wireless access point communicates probe request communications to a mobile communication device. The first wireless access point monitors power levels associated with probe response communications from the mobile communication device. Via the monitored power levels, the communication management resource quantifies motion of the mobile communication device with respect to the first wireless access point and a corresponding region of wireless coverage provided by the first wireless access point. The communication management resource selects amongst multiple neighboring wireless access points in which to handoff the mobile communication device based on a prediction of which of the multiple wireless access points will provide a best chance of successfully receiving a handoff of a mobile communication device and corresponding wireless communication link from the first wireless access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher W. Watson, Matthew J. Dillon, Taren G. McCullough
  • Patent number: 11012913
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may provide, to a source base station (BS) and prior to a handover of the UE from the source BS to a target BS, information that identifies a set of transition capabilities of the UE. The UE may receive, from the source BS, a handover command or reconfiguration message after providing the information to the source BS. The UE may communicate, using a subset of the transition capabilities, with the target BS prior to the release. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ozcan Ozturk, Karthika Paladugu, Masato Kitazoe, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11012914
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for configuring a path in a communication system including an Xhaul network. A method for changing a path, performed by a first XDU, may comprise receiving from the XCU a path setup request message requesting to change a first path between the second XDU and the third XDU to a second path between the first XDU and the third XDU; receiving an SN status transfer message including an SN of data for the third XDU from the second XDU belonging to the first path, when the path setup request message is received; receiving from the second XDU the data corresponding to the SN indicated by the SN status transfer message; configuring the second path with the third XDU; and transmitting the data received from the second XDU to the third XDU through the second path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Mi Young Yun, Won Ik Kim, Jae Heung Kim, Seung Kwon Baek, Jae Su Song
  • Patent number: 11012915
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless systems, a base station centralized unit (CU) may communicate with a user equipment (UE) through a multi-hop backhaul architecture. This multi-hop backhaul connection may include a donor base station and any number of relay base stations connected via backhaul links. In some cases, the relay base stations or the UE may experience data congestion in a logical channel-specific buffer. The relay base stations or UE may implement backpressure signaling (e.g., in the medium access control (MAC) layer) to mitigate the congestion. A wireless device operating as a mobile termination (MT) endpoint may transmit a backpressure report message to a wireless device operating as a base station distributed unit (DU) endpoint for the logical channel. The base station DU may adjust a scheduling rate for data unit transmissions over the indicated logical channel based on the backpressure report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li, Hong Cheng, Navid Abedini, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Jianghong Luo
  • Patent number: 11012916
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a processor and memory storing instructions that cause the processor to effectuate operations. The operations include determining that the mobile device does not meet a camping threshold for a cell of a network, determining that the mobile device is synchronized with the cell, and permitting a limited network communication between the mobile device and the network via the cell. The limited network communication may be limited to text-only communications, emergency communications, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Robert Steven Klein
  • Patent number: 11012918
    Abstract: A circuit includes a controller to determine whether to prohibit entry of an end unit to a base station in a wireless communication network, the controller configured to process a media access control (MAC) management message that includes a timer value, the timer value designating a time period during which entry is prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Jeong Shim, Won-Il Roh
  • Patent number: 11012919
    Abstract: A method in a client device of mitigating connection impact on service infrastructure includes: prior to initiating a connection to a service, generating an impact indicator corresponding to the service, the impact indicator representing a predicted load at the service; determining whether the impact indicator exceeds an impact threshold; when the impact indicator exceeds the impact threshold, incrementing a connection interval according to a backoff interval; and initiating a connection with the service upon expiry of the connection interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Subramani Rajendiran, Satish Shivarudrappa, Sandeep Ramakrishnan, Nagendra Desai
  • Patent number: 11012920
    Abstract: An access point that implements operating modes in which beacons may be selectively disabled. Beacons may be disabled when no device is actively associated through the access point. Beacons may be enabled in response to one or more triggers, which may include events such as a client forming an association through the access point following a probe request message identifying the access point. In addition, active beaconing may be triggered by user input or may occur during periodic brief intervals that allow client devices to discover the network identifier for the access point. Selective control of beaconing may lead to more effective wireless communication, particularly in areas where users congregate with computers implementing soft APs for personal networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David A. Roberts, Hui Shen, Christopher D. Gual, Anirban Banerjee, Yi Lu, John W. Archer, Michael Bell, Xiong Jiang, Anirudh Anirudh
  • Patent number: 11012921
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system include intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a base station for transmitting a paging message is provided. The method includes determining a number of paging frames (PFs) in a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle based on information on paging search space, transmitting, to a terminal, information on the number of PFs in system information block 1 (SIB1), identifying at least one PF based on the number of PFs, and transmitting, to the terminal, at least one paging message in the at least one PF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11012922
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station and user equipment (UE) may utilize an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) within a common search space to establish a MulteFire connection. The common search space may include a common PDCCH (C-PDCCH) and a MulteFire system information block (SIB-MF1) grant. The base station may define one or more common search spaces for the SIB-MF1 grants and C-PDCCH and signal the resource allocation for the common search spaces to the UE within a master information block (MIB). Each common search space may include a fixed set of control elements that the UE monitors for decoding the SIB-MF1 grants and C-PDCCH. In some cases, the base station may hardcode resources for the SIB-MF1 grants and C-PDCCH. Alternatively, the base station may signal the resources for each of the SIB-MF1 grants and C-PDCCH via reserved bits in the MIB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Srinivas Yerramalli, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11012923
    Abstract: During a communication technique, an access point provides a message that includes one or more public land mobile network identifiers of one or more cellular-telephone networks that are supported by the access point. Then, an electronic device, which received the message, provides a candidate list specifying one or more access points that support communication with a cellular telephone network to a radio node that is associated with this cellular-telephone network. By communicating with a wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) controller, the radio node validates the one or more access points, and selects a target access point based on performance feedback from the WLAN controller. Next, the radio node instructs the electronic device to associate with the target access point. Moreover, the radio node and the target access point establish a secure-communication pathway, which allows the radio node to communicate data to the electronic device via the access point using an LTE Wi-Fi aggregation protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Steve A. Martin, Henry H. Tzeng, Sudhakar Padala, Ron Mok, Shailender Potharaju, Stuart Kerry, Sandip C. Patel
  • Patent number: 11012924
    Abstract: Techniques are described to provide to discourage use of an unlicensed spectrum channel by Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) technologies. In one example, a method includes performing a plurality of wireless transmissions for an unlicensed channel, wherein performing the plurality of wireless transmissions comprises: determining whether a next wireless transmission is proximate to a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) transmission window; based on determining that the next wireless transmission is proximate to the DRS transmission window, determining whether the unlicensed channel is available; and based on determining that the unlicensed channel is available, starting the next wireless transmission before the DRS transmission window, wherein the next wireless transmission overlaps the DRS transmission window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew Frederick Myles
  • Patent number: 11012926
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application disclose a method and apparatus for acquiring wireless access points information. One specific embodiment of the method comprises: in response to detecting a user operation of initiating a target application, acquiring a Wifi privilege; in response to detecting that the user opening a system interface for displaying a wireless access points information list, acquiring the wireless access points information list; in response to detecting a switch from the system interface for displaying the wireless access points information list to an interface of the target application, presenting the wireless access points information list in the interface of the target application. The embodiment implements displaying the wireless access points information list in the interface of the target application of a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI SHANGWANG NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pei Zhang, Yinglin Cui
  • Patent number: 11012927
    Abstract: One aspect of the patent application is directed to a method for detecting a rogue device in a network. The method includes a step of performing a cellular scan across the network. The method also includes a step of receiving, from the cellular scan, survey data including system information blocks (SIBs) associated with plural devices. The method also includes a step of decoding the SIBS of the devices. The method further includes a step of comparing the decoded SIBs with the predetermined criteria. The method even further includes a step of determining a threshold of the predetermined criteria has been met by the decoded SIBs associated with one of the plural devices. Yet even further, the method includes a step of calculating a confidence level based upon the met threshold of the one device. Lastly, the method includes a step of determining, based on the confidence level, the one device exhibits characteristics of the rogue device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ronald Lance Justin, Jennifer Lynn Ryan, Kerri Ann Stone