Patents Issued in August 1, 2023
  • Patent number: 11716114
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to video or other media transmission, and more particularly, to encoding and decoding of video media that has been transmitted between a video source and a video sink using spread spectrum direct sequence (SSDS) modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: HYPHY USA INC.
    Inventor: Robert Steven Hannebauer
  • Patent number: 11716115
    Abstract: A signal processing system includes a signal processing device including a processor and a memory device storing first information and a signal transmitting device including a memory device storing second information. The processor reads the memory devices to obtain the first information and the second information, determines a threshold date according to a first date indicated by the first information and a margin, and determines whether a second date indicated by the second information is earlier than the threshold date. When the second date is earlier than the threshold date, the processor controls the signal processing device to operate in a limited mode. In the limited mode, the signal processing device does not output any signal to the signal transmitting device or ignores any signal from the signal transmitting device, or the signal processing device only outputs a limited signal to the signal transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventor: Lien-Hsiang Sung
  • Patent number: 11716116
    Abstract: A method includes: generating a first signal according to a digital signal; filtering the first signal according to first filter coefficients of first filter to generate a second signal; adding a first reference signal with the second signal to generate a third signal; performing digital-to-analog conversion according to the first and third signals to generate and output an echo signal; performing analog-to-digital conversion according to the echo signal to generate a fourth signal; generating a fifth signal according to the digital signal and the fourth signal; and updating the first filter coefficients according to the fifth signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsuan-Ting Ho, Liang-Wei Huang, Po-Han Lin, Chia-Lin Chang
  • Patent number: 11716117
    Abstract: A circuit support structure includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, isolation material containing the first and second metal layers, an isolation circuit, a first plurality of contact pads, and a second plurality of contact pads. The isolation circuit includes a first circuit element in the first metal layer and a second circuit element in the second metal layer and electrically isolated from the first circuit element by the isolation material. The first plurality of contact pads is adapted to be coupled to a first integrated circuit on the circuit support structure and includes a first contact pad electrically coupled to the first circuit element. The second plurality of contact pads is adapted to be coupled to a second integrated circuit on the circuit support structure and includes a second contact pad electrically coupled to the second circuit element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael Lueders, Giacomo Calabrese, Nicola Bertoni
  • Patent number: 11716118
    Abstract: A method for programming a network transceiver is provided. The method includes: providing a network transceiver having a programming interface; obtaining transceiver identification information via a radio-frequency transceiver programming system (RTPS); obtaining, via the RTPS, configuration data for the network transceiver based on the transceiver identification information; transmitting, via the RTPS, at least some of the configuration data via a radio-frequency (RF) interface; and programming the network transceiver via the programming interface using the at least some of the configuration data received via the RF interface. Corresponding systems, apparatuses (including smart labels, host devices, and transceivers) are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: FONEX DATA SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Gordon Harney
  • Patent number: 11716119
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of operating a distributed antenna system (DAS) interworking with a spectrum sharing system (SSS) including: transmitting, by a node unit of the DAS, DAS information to a management system entity (MSE); generating, by the MSE, linkage information based on the DAS information and radio service device (RSD) information received from at least one RSD of the SSS; transmitting, by the MSE, the interworking information to a system controller of the SSS; receiving, by the MSE, allocation information including a result of allocating shared radio resources to the DAS and the at least one RSD, respectively, according to the interworking information from the system controller; transmitting, by the MSE, the allocation information to the node unit; and operating, by the node unit, according to the allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventor: Ok Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11716120
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for allocating and processing sequences in a communication system is disclosed. The method includes: dividing sequences in a sequence group into multiple sub-groups, each sub-group corresponding to its own mode of occupying time frequency resources; selecting sequences from a candidate sequence collection corresponding to each sub-group to form the sequences in the sub-group by: the sequences in a sub-group i in a sequence group k being composed of n sequences in the candidate sequence collection, the n sequences making a |ri/Ni?ck/Np1| or |(ri/Ni?ck/Np1) modu mk,i| function value the smallest, second smallest, till the nth smallest respectively; allocating the sequence group to cells, users or channels. It prevents the sequences highly correlated with the sequences of a specific length from appearing in other sequence groups, thus reducing interference, avoiding the trouble of storing the lists of massive sequence groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingyu Qu, Yujuan He, Xuan Feng
  • Patent number: 11716121
    Abstract: An access point (AP) configured for multi-AP coordinated beamforming (CBF) and multi-AP joint transmission (JT) in an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless local area network (WLAN), when operating as a master AP (AP1) in a multi-AP network, is configured to encode a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame for multi-AP channel sounding. The NDPA is configured for transmission to a second AP (AP2) and a plurality of stations (STAs) of an EHT group. The NDPA may be encoded to have an information field indicating whether a sounding sequence type is for JT channel sounding or CBF channel sounding. The NDPA may further be encoded to include fields identifying the APs participating in the channel sounding. In these embodiments, the channel sounding sequence for JT can be reused for the channel sounding on CBF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Jiang, Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Po-Kai Huang, Danny Alexander, Chen Kojokaro, Assaf Gurevitz, Ziv Avital
  • Patent number: 11716122
    Abstract: Various systems and methods disclosed herein describe improvements for beam management that leverage virtualization across a vertical polarization (V-Pol) and horizontal polarization (H-Pol). One or more of a user equipment (UE) and a base station may include an antenna array comprising V-Pol antenna elements and H-Pol antenna elements. The UE may determine a number of receive (Rx) beam of an Rx beam sweep are needed, signal this number to the base station, and perform the beam sweep according to one or both of the V-Pol and H-Pol. A UE may use group based beam reporting to indicate to the base station a transmit (Tx) beam upon which downlink MIMO using V-Pol and H-Pol may be supported by reporting a same transmission configuration indication (TCI) corresponding to the Tx beam for both a first Rx beam and a second Rx beam in a group based beam reporting message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Pengkai Zhao, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Wen Zhao, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11716123
    Abstract: Mechanisms for recovering data symbols in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) receivers, the mechanisms comprising receiving, at Na antennas that each have an output: first signals corresponding to Np pilot symbols transmitted from each of K transmitters for a total of Np*K transmitted pilot symbols; and second signals corresponding to a plurality of transmitted data symbols transmitted from the K transmitters, wherein Np is less than Na, and wherein K is less than Na; receiving, at a hardware processor, first digital signals representing the Np*K transmitted pilot symbols; receiving, at the hardware processor, second digital signals representing the plurality of transmitted data symbols; and recovering the plurality of transmitted data symbols using the second digital signals and no more pilot symbols than the Np*K transmitted pilot symbols represented by the first digital signals using the hardware processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventor: Xiaodong Wang
  • Patent number: 11716124
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station to communicate with a set of user equipments (UEs) in a spatial division multiplexing (SDM) configuration for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) communications. One or more first UEs of the set of UEs may communicate via a first radio access technology (RAT), and one or more second UEs may communicate via a second RAT in a multiple-user multiple-input multiple output (MU-MIMO) configuration. The base station may indicate the SDM configuration to one or more of the set of UEs. In some examples, the base station may transmit an indication to the set of UEs which may indicate a set of resources to be used for DSS communications. In some examples, the SDM configuration may specify one or more reference signal patterns for communicating in the set of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Kausik Ray Chaudhuri
  • Patent number: 11716125
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for signaling a multi-user packet. More specifically, provided are a wireless communication terminal including a communication unit; and a processor configured to process signals transmitted and received through the communication unit, wherein the processor receives, through the communication unit, a high efficiency multi-user PHY protocol data unit (HE MU PPDU), wherein a preamble of the HE MU PPDU includes high efficiency signal A field (HE-SIG-A) and high efficiency signal B field (HE-SIG-B), and decodes the received HE MU PPDU based on information obtained from the HE-SIG-A, wherein a configuration of the HE-SIG-B is identified based on information obtained from at least one subfield of the HE-SIG-A and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko, Woojin Ahn
  • Patent number: 11716126
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method includes receiving a transmission parameter of a second wireless network, scanning, based on the transmission parameter, for transmission activity of the second wireless network using a set of beams generated in accordance with a beamforming codebook, and opportunistically communicating with a second wireless device of the first wireless network using the beamforming codebook based on the scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Marco Papaleo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11716127
    Abstract: All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11716128
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) for an uplink (UL) transmission, comprising: receiving a configuration information including a full power mode and indicating an UL codebook, wherein: the UL codebook is one of a first codebook and a second codebook, when the full power mode is set to full power mode 1, and the UL codebook is one of the first codebook, the second codebook, and a third codebook, when the full power mode is either not provided or is set to a value other than the full power mode 1; identifying the UL codebook to use for the UL transmission based on the configuration information; and transmitting the UL transmission based on the UL codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi
  • Patent number: 11716129
    Abstract: A method and a device are provided. The device includes an antenna module, an interface for delivery to a protocol for transmission, a memory, and a processor, wherein the processor is set to determine antenna information for each beam index based on a transmission beam that can be generated in the antenna module, generate beam book information based on the determined antenna information, and transmit the beam book information and device connection information, related to an electronic device present inside the coverage of a base station, to an external server through the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Huh, Sunmin Park, Sangwon Chae, Mooyoung Kim, Minjung Kim, Jungeun Lee
  • Patent number: 11716130
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for determining whether a user device is experiencing interference; attempting to identify a source of the interference based on determining that the user device is experiencing interference; initiating a timer in response to determining that the user device is experiencing interference; determining whether the source of the interference was identified before the timer expires; and dynamically mitigating the interference based on identifying the source of the interference before the timer expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Susan Wu Sanders, Nischal Patel
  • Patent number: 11716131
    Abstract: A processor coupled to a first communication device produces and transmits a first encoded vector and a second encoded vector to a second communication device via a communication channel that applies a channel transformation to the encoded vectors during transmission. A processor coupled to the second communication device receives the transformed signals, constructs a matrix based on the transformed signals, detects an effective channel thereof, and identifies left and right singular vectors of the effective channel. A precoding matrix is selected from a codebook of unitary matrices based on a message, and a second encoded vector is produced based on a second known vector, the precoding matrix, a complex conjugate of the left singular vectors, and the right singular vectors. A first symbol of the second encoded vector and a second symbol of the second encoded vector are sent to the first communication device for identification of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Rampart Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Brandon Robinson
  • Patent number: 11716132
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE maintains a first counter and a second counter, wherein the first counter and the second counter are associated with a Special Cell (SpCell) and are for counting beam failure instance indications. The UE initiates a first beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure based on the first counter being equal to or larger than a value, wherein the first BFR procedure includes initiating a random access procedure for SpCell BFR associated with the SpCell. The UE sets the first counter and the second counter to a defined value in response to completion of the first BFR procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Hsuan Kung, Yu-Hsuan Guo
  • Patent number: 11716133
    Abstract: An operating method of a base station in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a terminal, information related to a first beam switching time for transmission of an uplink signal, determining a second beam switching time for transmission of the uplink signal, based on configuration information related to the uplink signal and the first beam switching time, transmitting the configuration information related to the uplink signal and the second beam switching time to the terminal, and receiving the uplink signal from the terminal, wherein the uplink signal includes at least one of a sounding reference signal (SRS), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Youngrok Jang, Hoondong Noh, Jinhyun Park, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11716134
    Abstract: A phase noise suppression method for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with a plurality of co-reference channels includes: dividing the phase noise of each channel in the MIMO system into common phase noise and independent phase noise, and constructing a certain number of joint phase states for the independent phase noise; inserting a pilot sequence into the sent signal based on a preset cycle, obtaining the common phase noise based on the pilot at receiver, and performing compensation; and performing signal demodulation on each joint state of the independent phase noise, and comparing the posterior log likelihood values to select the optimal result to output. The above method can significantly improve the phase noise suppression performance of the MIMO system with a plurality of co-reference channels, thereby providing support for improving the system capacity by using MIMO technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Changming Zhang, Xianbin Yu
  • Patent number: 11716135
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for the granular network-based detection of UE location in a RAN that includes one or more mobile base stations using quantum computing. Mobile base stations may be, for example, affixed on vehicles (e.g., cars, trucks, drones, etc.), may be implemented by other UEs, and/or may otherwise be non-stationary. In contrast, fixed base stations may be mounted to towers, buildings, or other types of permanent or semi-permanent installations. Quantum computing techniques, as described herein, may aid in the precise determination of UE location using triangulation techniques and/or other network-based location techniques. Further, in RANs that include mobile base stations, the locations of both the UE and a reference point may change relatively rapidly. The use of quantum computing, as described herein, may aid in the fast and precise determination of UE location in situations where mobile base stations and/or UEs are moving rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Vamsi Krishna Boyapati, Kishore K. Guntuku
  • Patent number: 11716136
    Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods configure a plurality of wireless access points to perform probe request handling operations including, responsive to receiving a probe request from a mobile device, relaying the probe request to a network controller, and responsive to receiving a probe response from the network controller, relaying the probe response to the mobile device. The network controller is configured to provide the mobile device with a multipoint wireless network by identifying two or more of the plurality of wireless access points as selected access points for multipoint transmission with the mobile device, coordinating the selected access points to allow simultaneous transmissions to the mobile device from each of the selected access points, and forwarding a probe response indicative of the selected access points to the selected access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Baylor University
    Inventors: Liang Dong, Jonathan Hu, Yang Li
  • Patent number: 11716137
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for determining a distance (or range) between a first wireless entity and a second wireless entity. In an aspect, the first wireless entity transmits a first positioning reference signaling (PRS) signal to the second wireless entity at a first time, where the first PRS signal is received by the second wireless entity at a second time, and receives a second PRS signal from the second wireless entity at a third time, where the second PRS signal is transmitted by the second wireless entity at a fourth time. The first wireless entity enables the distance to be determined by a location computing entity, for example, by a location server, based on the first, second, third, and fourth times. The first wireless entity may be a mobile device or a base station and the second wireless entity may be the other of the mobile device or base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Hem Agnihotri, Stephen William Edge, Sven Fischer, Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi, Venkata A Naidu Babbadi
  • Patent number: 11716138
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods for monitoring, by a coherent optical monitor (OPM), generalized optical signal-to-noise ratio (gOSNR) of an optical channel, the method comprising: i) receiving, by an input port of the coherent OPM, a first signal and a second signal, wherein: the first signal and the second signal include same data, the first signal is an optical signal received from the optical channel, and the first signal is affected by a noise; ii) processing, by a digital signal processor (DSP) of the coherent OPM, the first signal and the second signal and extract the data from the first signal and the second signal; iii) computing, by the DSP, a first correlation between the data from the first signal and the data from the second digital signal; and iv) computing, by the DSP, a first gOSNR based on the first correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiping Jiang, Choloong Hahn
  • Patent number: 11716140
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system for transmitting and receiving optical signals. The system includes a first mirror of a communication device, a first mirror actuator configured to control a pointing direction of the first mirror, a second mirror of the communication device, a second mirror actuator configured to control a pointing direction of the second mirror, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to direct the second mirror actuator to move the second mirror to track a signal within a zone in an area of coverage of the communication device and meanwhile keep the first mirror stationary at a first angle. The one or more processors are also configured to direct the first mirror actuator to move the first mirror to a second angle in a direction of motion of the signal when the signal reaches an edge of the zone and meanwhile move the second mirror to a default angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Paul Csonka, Klaus Ulander, Baris Ibrahim Erkmen
  • Patent number: 11716141
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a photonic integrated circuit having an optical phased array, where the optical phased array includes multiple unit cells. Each unit cell includes (i) an antenna element configured to receive optical signals and (ii) a modulator configured to phase-shift the optical signals received by the antenna element. Multiple subgroups of the unit cells in the optical phased array are configured to generate multiple combined optical signals based on the received optical signals. The apparatus also includes at least one of: (i) amplitude adjusters configured to modify amplitudes of the combined optical signals in order to compensate for amplitude modulations across a receive aperture of the optical phased array and (ii) phase modulators configured to modify phases of the combined optical signals in order to compensate for phase modulations across the receive aperture of the optical phased array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Stephen P. Palese
  • Patent number: 11716142
    Abstract: A robust wireless communications network is deployed by retrofitting spatially distributed light sockets with integrated light/communicator modules. Each light/communicator module comprises an electric lamp and a communicator unit, the communicator unit having an RF transceiver, an antenna, and a Broadband processor for communicating with other nodes in the wireless communication network, using a suitable mesh network protocol. A power conversion unit is optionally provided in each integrated light/communicator module so that the individual components of the module may operate on the standard light socket power or selectably from other power sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Legasus Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Yaron Owen-Pines, Douglas J. Lee, Thao Tran
  • Patent number: 11716143
    Abstract: Useful data is transmitted to a terminal existing in a transportation vehicle. A communication apparatus installed in the transportation vehicle and configured to transmit the data to the terminal existing in the transportation vehicle includes a data selection unit and an illumination unit. The data selection unit acquires location information indicating a location of the transportation vehicle in which the terminal exists and which is traveling. Based on the acquired location information, the data selection unit selects approaching-location data related to a location ahead of a current location of the transportation vehicle in a traveling direction from a plurality of pieces of data related to the location. The illumination unit transmits, as a modulated light signal, a signal comprising the approaching-location data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Patent number: 11716144
    Abstract: An optical transmission system includes: a transmission unit configured to co-propagate a signal light in which data is modulated and an idler light having complex amplitude that is phase conjugate with the signal light via an optical transmission medium; at least one optical amplifier configured to perform a phase sensitive amplification operation through an action among the signal light, the idler light, and an excitation light in a nonlinear medium; and a reception unit configured to receive the signal light that has been amplified by the optical amplifier, coherently detect the signal light and the idler light individually, and conduct a diversity synthesis to demodulate the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Shimizu, Takayuki Kobayashi, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11716145
    Abstract: Provided is a distributed antenna system (DAS) for multi-frequency band and multi-carrier equipped with an open radio access network (O-RAN) remote unit (RU) according to an O-RAN technology standard for building a next-generation radio infrastructure. To this end, the DAS for multi-carrier and multi-frequency band based on an O-RAN standard includes an O-RAN RU connected to a fronthaul network according to an O-RAN split option specification of base station transceiver systems (BTSs), and including a plurality of O-RAN RUs to accommodate a plurality of carriers and a plurality of frequency bands; and a channel combiner to which outputs of the plurality of O-RAN RUs are combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ADRF KOREA, Inc.
    Inventors: Chong Youn Chun, Chan Ki Cho
  • Patent number: 11716146
    Abstract: To relax the accuracy with respect to a positional deviation, and thus to reduce costs. An optical waveguide is included that performs propagation only in a reference mode at a first wavelength. Communication is performed using light that has a second wavelength and includes a component of at least a first order mode in addition to a component of the reference mode. Here, the second wavelength is a wavelength that enables the optical waveguide to perform propagation in at least the first order mode in addition to the reference mode. For example, a light path adjuster that adjusts a light path such that input light is guided to a core of the optical waveguide, is further included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morita, Kazuaki Toba, Masanari Yamamoto, Yusuke Oyama
  • Patent number: 11716147
    Abstract: Provided is an optical communication device including: a first channel card configured to convert an input first signal into a first optical signal and output the first optical signal to any one of a first MUX/DEMUX connected to a first optical line and a second MUX/DEMUX connected to a second optical line; a second channel card configured to convert an input second signal into a second optical signal and output the second optical signal to any one of the first MUX/DEMUX and the second MUX/DEMUX; and a controller configured to monitor states of the first optical line and the second optical line to determine a MUX/DEMUX from which the first optical signal and the second optical signal are respectively output, from among the first MUX/DEMUX and the second MUX/DEMUX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventor: Eun Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 11716148
    Abstract: In a system for converting digital data into a modulated optical signal, an electrically controllable device, including a modulator having one or more actuating electrodes, provides an analog-modulated optical signal that is modulated in response to output data bits of a digital-to-digital mapping. A digital-to-digital conversion provides the mapping of input data words to the output data bits. The mapping enables adjustments to correct for non-linearities and other undesirable characteristics, thereby improving signal quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Ramot At Tel Aviv University Ltd.
    Inventors: Yossef Ehrlichman, Ofer Amrani, Shlomo Ruschin
  • Patent number: 11716149
    Abstract: An optical reception device includes a nonlinear optical compensation section which performs compensation of wavelength dispersion of a received signal obtained by receiving an optical signal according to a coherent detection method and compensation of a nonlinear optical effect of the received signal N (N is an integer of at least 1) step(s), and a coefficient update section which updates a coefficient so as to optimize the coefficient used in each step of the nonlinear optical compensation section based on a signal having been subjected to the compensation by the nonlinear optical compensation section and a predetermined training signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeo Sasai, Fukutaro Hamaoka
  • Patent number: 11716150
    Abstract: An optical receiver capable of substantially measuring the phase and amplitude of a received intensity- or amplitude-modulated optical signal by performing digital-signal processing. In an example embodiment, a DSP of the receiver operates to reduce the detrimental effects of relative phase noise between the optical reference oscillator and optical carrier based on an optical pilot present in the received optical signal. The DSP may employ a sequence of digital filters configured to select a signal component that represents a non-vestigial modulation sideband and then perform signal equalization thereon. The signal equalization may include but is not limited to dispersion compensation. In some embodiments, the optical receiver can be a direct-detection optical receiver. In an example embodiment, the optical reference oscillator and optical carrier are generated using two respective independently running lasers that may or may not be co-located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Qian Hu, Robert Borkowski
  • Patent number: 11716151
    Abstract: A method for routing in a quantum network is provided. The method may include receiving parameters including a fidelity with coherence decay time and an entanglement generation rate for each quantum node in a mesh quantum network by a controller, the controller being configured to communicate with each quantum node of a plurality of quantum nodes in the mesh quantum network. Each quantum node includes a quantum memory and a processor. The method may also include analyzing the fidelity with coherence decay time and the entanglement generation rate to yield a determination of a path fidelity with a path coherence decay time and a path entanglement generation rate between at least one pair of quantum nodes. The method may further include, based on the determination, selecting a quantum communication path from a source node to a destination node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Luca Della Chiesa, Louis Gwyn Samuel, Paul Polakos, Scott Fluhrer, Santanu Ganguly
  • Patent number: 11716152
    Abstract: The application discloses a transceiver, including a calibration signal generation unit, a transmission unit, a receiving unit and a control unit. The calibration signal generation unit generates test signal to the transmission unit in a phase calibration mode. The receiving unit generates a digital receiving signal. The control unit calculates a phase difference between the digital receiving signal and a given reference phase and selectively adjust the transmission unit or the receiving unit accordingly. The application discloses a transceiver calibration method as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bishen Tseng, Meng Che Li
  • Patent number: 11716153
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a transmit section including a first baseband section and a first radio frequency (RF) section, wherein the transmit section is configured to receive a calibration signal, the first RF section is configured to generate a RF calibration signal based on modulating the calibration signal. The calibration signal comprises an orthogonal code based signal; and a receive section configured to receive the RF calibration signal over-the-air, the receive section includes a second RF section and a calibration section, the second RF section is configured to generate a received calibration signal based on the RF calibration signal, the received calibration signal and a reference signal associated with the RF calibration signal comprise inputs to the calibration section and the calibration section is configured to determine one or more of gain, baseband delay, or RF delay compensation values, based on the inputs, to calibrate the transmit section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: David Francois Jacquet, Masoud Kahrizi, Robert Baummer, Jr., Jean-Noel Rozec, Fabrice Jean André Belvèze, Paul Lee Pearson, Francois Lucien Emile Icher, Marc Gens, Pascal Triaire
  • Patent number: 11716154
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a communications system includes a first transmitter including a digital beamforming baseband section configured to receive an input signal to be transmitted, the input signal at a baseband frequency, and a modulation section electrically coupled to the digital beamforming baseband section and a first antenna of a phased array antenna. The modulation section is configured to receive a local oscillator signal at a first local oscillator frequency and apply a baseband frequency shift to the input signal to generate a baseband frequency shifted input signal. The modulation section generates a modulated signal based on the input signal. The communication system includes a second transmitter included in a second IC chip of the plurality of IC chips electrically coupled to a second antenna and configured to provide a second modulated signal at the carrier frequency and a second LO leakage signal at a second local oscillator frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: David Francois Jacquet, Marc Gens, Paul Lee Pearson, Pascal Triaire
  • Patent number: 11716155
    Abstract: The method includes splitting a radio signal received at an in-vehicle antenna into two RF streams, and at the device under test, converting the first RF stream into a demodulated audio signal and transmitting it to the tester and recorder device. The tester and recorder device also receives the demodulated audio signal, determines a spectrum of frequencies over time, inputs the spectrum of frequencies into an artificial intelligence (AI) module of audio abnormality detection. The device also receives the second RF stream, converts it into a data signal, and records the data signal into a temporary storage memory. Then, when the AI module outputs of a positive detection of audio abnormality, the device transfers data from the temporary storage memory into a permanent storage memory, where the transferred data corresponds to a time window including the detected audio abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Marcin Szelest, Pawel Skruch
  • Patent number: 11716156
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security or safety services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunseok Ryu, Sungjin Park, Jonghyun Bang, Jeongho Yeo, Jinyoung Oh
  • Patent number: 11716158
    Abstract: Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is measured accurately even in a case where a discovery signal is transmitted. A receiver receives a plurality of subframes, at least one of which includes a discovery signal, and a measurer measures Reference Signal Reception Power (RSRP) using a first resource in which the discovery signal is mapped, measures RSSI using a second resource different from the first resource for which the discovery signal is mapped, and calculates Reference Signal Reception Quality (RSRQ) using RSRP and RSSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Masayuki Hoshino, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 11716159
    Abstract: One example communication device receives a radio frequency (RF) signal. The communication device may include a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) that includes an internal attenuator. The RFIC and other processing circuitry may convert the received RF signal to a baseband frequency to generate a processed complex baseband signal. A digital signal processor of the communication device may determine, based on detection of or lack of detection of distortion terms in a frequency spectrum of the processed complex baseband signal at frequencies corresponding to integer multiples of a symbol rate of a linear modulation interferer, a modulation type of an interferer signal that forms at least part of the processed complex baseband signal. The digital signal processor may also control whether the internal attenuator is enabled based on a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of a desired RF signal and the modulation type of the interferer signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Moh Lim Sim, Boon Heng Fong, Ariel L. Galan, Ondy Dharma Indra
  • Patent number: 11716160
    Abstract: A vehicle remote instruction system 100 transmits a remote instruction request from an autonomous driving vehicle 2 to a remote instruction apparatus 1, and controls travel of the autonomous driving vehicle 2 based on a remote instruction transmitted from the remote instruction apparatus 1 in response to the remote instruction request. The vehicle remote instruction system 100 includes a delay determination unit 39 configured to determine whether or not a communication delay occurs between the remote instruction apparatus 1 and the autonomous driving vehicle 2, and a rejection unit 40 configured to reject the remote instruction transmitted in response to the remote instruction request if it is determined by the delay determination unit 39 that the communication delay occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho Otaki, Hiromitsu Urano
  • Patent number: 11716161
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the use of artificial intelligence/machine learning (“AI/ML”) techniques to generate models for various locations or regions (e.g., sectors) associated with one or more radio access networks (“RANs”) of a wireless network. The system may further use AI/ML techniques to generate interference models to reflect types and/or amounts of channel propagation metrics measured within the RAN. The system may further determine, based on attributes of a given sector, a sector model and/or a channel propagation model associated with the sector. Based on the sector model and/or the determined channel propagation model, one or more actions may be determined in order to enhance channel propagation metrics within the sector, such as at portions of the sector at which increased demand for wireless service is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Farid Khafizov, Mark Ernest Newbury, Venkata Sambasivarao Dhulipalla
  • Patent number: 11716162
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method and system for controlling network timing precision of a seismic collector, and a terminal device. The method includes: using an interrupt mode to transmit a data packet; calculating an optimal network delay; and correcting a transmission error in a network timing process according to the optimal network delay, after which the physical layer of a server receives the data packet and sends the data from the physical layer of the server to the application layer of the server using the interrupt mode thereby timing the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Shengquan Zhang, Tianyao Hao, Qing Xu, Yan Zhang, Juan Wang
  • Patent number: 11716163
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic device for mitigating inter-cell interference in a dynamic TDD environment, the electronic device including: at least one antenna array including antenna elements; and a processor configured to use the antenna array and form a plurality of reception beams having mutually different directions, wherein at least one processor may enable: a first beam pair link to be formed with a first transmission beam emitted from a first base station by using a first reception beam having a first direction; information about a first TDD pattern indicating a TDD sequence set in a serving cell formed by the first base station and information about a second TDD pattern indicating a TDD sequence set in an adjacent cell adjacent to a serving cell formed by a second base station to be acquired; a first portion of the first TDD pattern to be selected on the basis of the information about the first TDD pattern and the information about the second TDD pattern; the detection of whether inter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonsuk Chung, Jongmin Baik, Kyunghoon Lee, Sangho Lee, Hyejeong Kim, Suyoung Park
  • Patent number: 11716164
    Abstract: A full duplex communication network includes an optical transmitter end having a first coherent optics transceiver, an optical receiver end having a second coherent optics transceiver, and an optical transport medium operably coupling the first coherent optics transceiver to the second coherent optics transceiver. The first coherent optics transceiver is configured to simultaneously transmit a downstream optical signal and receive an upstream optical signal. The second coherent optics transceiver is configured to simultaneously receive the downstream optical signal from the first coherent optics transceiver and transmit the upstream optical signal first coherent optics transceiver. At least one of the downstream optical signal and the upstream optical signal includes at least one coherent optical carrier and at least one non-coherent optical carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhensheng Jia, Luis Alberto Campos, Jing Wang, Mu Xu, Haipeng Zhang, Curtis Dean Knittle
  • Patent number: 11716165
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for concealing radio communications and the spatial position of radio transmitters involved therein include the use of electrotechnical signal variation and dynamic, pseudo-random radio identifier. Transmitted radio signals contain radio identifiers identifying the transmitting mobile radio device. Each radio identifier is dynamically selected for each radio signal from a sequence of radio identifiers selected from a set of predefined pseudo-random sequences. The sequence is selected based on a predetermined selection rule. The radio identifier is selected from the thus selected sequence according to a predetermined deterministic update pattern associated with the selected sequence. The associated transmission power and/or transmission frequency is dynamically varied on the transmitter side according to a predetermined deterministic variation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Martin Salfer