Fourier Transform Patents (Class 370/210)
  • Patent number: 10237032
    Abstract: In mixed numerology case, the performance of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) can be improved by multiplexing PDSCH of one numerology with the channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) of the other numerology and use of an advanced receiver. However, due to the interference from the PDSCH of the other numerology, the channel estimation for the underlying UE can be impacted if the CSI-RS is corrupted. An adaptive CSI-RS configuration can be deployed where the CSI-RS density is adapted based on the PDSCH transmission of the other numerology. Namely, based on the scheduling decision of the other numerology, the CSI-RS density can be changed. Thus, the impact on channel estimation can be minimized when the data channel of one numerology is multiplexed with the CSI-RS of the other numerology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10230443
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for feeding back channel state information, a user equipment, and abase station, to improve feedback precision of channel state information. The method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by a base station; selecting a precoding matrix W from a codebook according to the reference signal, where a column vector of the precoding matrix W may be expressed as ?[V ej?v]T, v=[1 ej?]; and sending a precoding matrix indicator PMI to the base station, where the PMI is corresponding to the selected precoding matrix W. The present invention may further improve quantization precision and achieve balance between overheads and the quantization precision. The base station performs precoding on a sent signal according to a fed back precoding matrix indicator, which can improve precoding precision, thereby improving a data transmission rate and system throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianguo Wang, Yongxing Zhou, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10230821
    Abstract: A system and method of classifying a set of internet protocol network data traffic as likely or unlikely to contain constant-packet-rate data or VoIP traffic using frequency spectrum analysis of data packet arrival times. The method is performed with an apparatus connected in-line on the network link from which the set of network data traffic is obtained. The network data traffic is presorted by packet size, source IP address, destination IP address, source port number, destination port number, or transport-layer protocol to limit the required analysis. A sliding window function is used to provide the time-domain input data to the frequency spectrum analysis. A threshold function is used to detect peaks in the calculated frequency spectrum that indicate constant-packet-rate traffic. An automated system preferably captures the network data traffic from one or more network links, immediately performs the frequency spectrum analysis on the data traffic and stores the results in memory for later access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Research Electronics International, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce R. Barsumian, Thomas H. Jones, Ross Alan Binkley
  • Patent number: 10223139
    Abstract: CRYSTAL “Cognitive radio you share, trust and access locally” (CRYSTAL) is a virtualized cognitive access point that may provide for combining multiple wireless access applications on a single hardware platform. Radio technologies such as LTE, WiMax, GSM, and the like can be supported. CRYSTAL platforms can be aggregated and managed as a cloud, which provides a model for access point sharing, control, and management. CRYSTAL may be used for scenarios such as neighborhood spectrum management. CRYSTAL security features allow for home/residential as well as private infrastructure implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Smith, Eric R. Keller, Thomas W. Rondeau, Kyle B. Super
  • Patent number: 10217346
    Abstract: In a disclosed method, a computing device receiver, from a wireless receiver (RX), first data indicative of channel properties of a first communication link between the wireless receiver (RX) in a first device and a wireless transmitter (TX) in a second device. The first device and the second device are located in a building. The computing device further executes a neural network to process the first data to distinguish humans from stationary objects within the building and detect presence of the human in the building. The computing device transmits result data indicative of the presence to at least one of the first device or the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ce Zhang, Ming Zheng, Peruvemba Ranganathan Sai Ananthanarayanan, Anuj Dron, Celalettin Umit Bas
  • Patent number: 10219106
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for generation of a beacon identifier (ID) for increased security of a system for a location based service. The system includes a beacon device, such as a BLE device, a mobile device, and a server. The beacon device is configured to generate a beacon ID based on a beacon device identifier, such as a unique device identifier, of a beacon device and a time value. In some implementations, generation of the beacon ID includes a pseudorandom function and a shared key that is established between the beacon device and the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Andy Lam, Fred Wong, Aldar Chan
  • Patent number: 10219274
    Abstract: Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes sensing a group of channels for a channel contention operation that acquires two or more channels of the group of channels and detects a busy channel of the group of channels; determining a channel bonding indicator based on the channel contention operation; generating a preamble portion of a frame that includes the channel bonding indicator; generating a data portion of the frame, and transmitting the frame to one or more devices. Generating the preamble portion can include duplicating a legacy preamble on each of the acquired channels within the preamble portion. Generating the data portion can include setting first subcarriers that correspond to the acquired channels to data values, and setting second subcarriers that correspond to the busy channel to null values for at least a portion of the data portion of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: MARVELL WORLD TRADE LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Hongyuan Zhang, Yakun Sun, Liwen Chu, Jinjing Jiang, Yan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 10211856
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hardware scalable channelizer (“HSC”). The HSC includes an integrated circuit (“IC”) that utilizes neuromorphic processing. The IC also includes an IC input configured to receive an input signal and a plurality of infinite impulse response (“IIR”) channelizer filters in signal communication with the IC input, where each IIR channelizer filter of the plurality of IIR channelizer filters is configured to select a frequency band from the input signal and provide synchronous filtering of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Peter Petre, Daniel S. Matic, Gabriel L. Virbila
  • Patent number: 10206167
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method for partitioning an energy or power source. The energy source may be, for example, a battery or batteries or other power supply or power supplies for an electronic device, such as a cell phone, or mobile device. The energy source (battery for example), or power supply, provides power to a cell phone, or mobile device or any other load or power consuming device. Partitioning this energy source is a technique for controlling its operation so that power is provided to the power consuming device, such as a cell phone more efficiently, thereby extending the length of time the phone can be used between re-charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: ParkerVision, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory S. Rawlins
  • Patent number: 10200872
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for direct current (DC) subcarrier handling for narrowband user equipment (UE). A UE may identify a narrow bandwidth region allocated for operation within a wide bandwidth carrier, determine that the narrow bandwidth region is centered about a different frequency than a center subcarrier of the wide bandwidth carrier, and, accordingly, select an operating mode. Various operating modes may include down-converting a carrier frequency of the allocated narrow bandwidth region. A base station may support narrowband UE operation by determining that the narrow bandwidth region is centered about a different frequency than a center subcarrier of the wide bandwidth carrier and rate matching subcarriers of the narrow bandwidth region around tones of a center frequency of the narrow bandwidth region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Hao Xu, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 10171207
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for control bit detection. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes receiving an LLR sequence (l) that includes P control bits and calculating a sum of LLR squares parameter (L) associated with the LLR sequence. The method also includes generating a value (Vp) for each of the 2P combination of the control bits. Each Vp value is based on a parameter sequence and the LLR sequence. The method also includes determining a smallest value of Vp, and outputting a determination that a control bit combination was received if the smallest value of Vp is less than a threshold value (THD) multiplied by the parameter L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Cavium, LLC
    Inventor: Tianmin Ren
  • Patent number: 10164729
    Abstract: A system including a direct current tone, guard tone, data tone allocation, mapping, and inverse Fourier transform (IFT) modules. The direct current tone module determines a number of direct current tones based on whether a network device is operating in a single user or multi-user mode. The guard tone module determines a number of guard tones based on whether the network device is operating in the single user or multi-user mode. The data tone allocation module determines a number of data tones based on the number of direct current and guard tones. The mapping module receives data and based on the number of data tones, maps the data to the data tones. The IFT module performs a frequency to time domain conversion of an output of the mapping module to generate orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols during the single user mode and OFDM access symbols during the multi-user mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Mingguang Xu, Yakun Sun
  • Patent number: 10164659
    Abstract: Concepts and schemes pertaining to quasi-cyclic-low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) coding are described. A processor of an apparatus may generate a QC-LDPC code having a plurality of codebooks embedded therein. The processor may select a codebook from the plurality of codebooks. The processor may also encode data using the selected codebook. Alternatively or additionally, the processor may generate the QC-LDPC code including at least one quasi-row orthogonal layer. Alternatively or additionally, the processor may generate the QC-LDPC code including a base matrix a portion of which forming a kernel matrix that corresponds to a code rate of at least a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Mao-Ching Chiu, Chong-You Lee, Cheng-Yi Hsu, Timothy Perrin Fisher-Jeffes, Yen-Shuo Chang, Wei-Jen Chen, Ju-Ya Chen
  • Patent number: 10153812
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication is described herein. The method may include advertising support by a wireless device for a first bandwidth mode and a second bandwidth mode, wherein the first bandwidth mode utilizes a single channel and the second bandwidth mode utilizes channel bonding between a plurality of channels. The method may also include switching a current bandwidth mode of the wireless device from one of the bandwidth modes to the other of the bandwidth modes and adjusting a number of multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) spatial streams supported by the wireless device in response to the switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Albert van Zelst, Didier Johannes Richard van Nee, Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Simon Jan Brand, Patrick Daniel Kelliher, MeeLan Lee, Todd Daniel Antes, Maarten Menzo Wentink
  • Patent number: 10148360
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a plurality of input streams from a transmitter to a receiver processes each of a plurality of input data streams to generate a plurality of parallel pairs of data streams including an in-phase stream (I) and a quadrature-phase stream (Q) for each of the plurality of input data streams. Each of the plurality of parallel pairs of data streams are modulated with a selected one of at least three prolate spheroidal wave functions, respectively, to generate a plurality of data signals, each of the plurality of data signals associated with one of the plurality of parallel pairs of data streams. A plurality of composite data streams are generated by overlaying at least one data signal of the plurality of data signals in a first data layer with the at least one data signal of the plurality of data signals in a second data layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: NXGEN PARTNERS IP, LLC
    Inventor: Solyman Ashrafi
  • Patent number: 10142818
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods to reuse wireless circuitry to communicate with multiple wireless networks to support multiple subscriber identities in a wireless communication device are disclosed. A representative method includes receiving signaling messages for a second subscriber identity from a second wireless network while connected to a first wireless network for a first subscriber identity. A portion of radio frequency wireless circuitry is reconfigured to communicate with the second wireless network to establish a signaling channel and respond to signaling messages received from the second wireless network. The portion of radio frequency wireless circuitry is reconfigured between the first and second wireless networks to maintain a connection with the first wireless network while also receiving from the second wireless network limited information that can be provided to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiang Miao, Jianxiong Shi, Li Su, Wenping Lou
  • Patent number: 10122560
    Abstract: An OFDM transmitter comprising an input for acquiring or receiving a signal to be transmitted, an output for transmitting a PAPR reduced version of the signal, a processor and memory storing code for execution by the processor. The processor, when executing the code, is configure to determine a plurality of possible values of tone reservation, hereinafter referred to as TR, tones for use in TR based PAPR reduction and to perform a tree search over some or all of the possible values under a first constraint that the average power per TR tone does not exceed the average power per tone used for data transmission and a second constraint that selected values for the TR tones reduce PAPR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Filippo Tosato, Magnus Stig Torsten Sandell
  • Patent number: 10117200
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for acquiring a synchronization by a device to device (D2D) terminal in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the method comprising the steps of: measuring D2D synchronization signal reception power and/or D2D synchronization signal reception quality from a D2D synchronization signal; selecting a D2D synchronization signal to be used for synchronization acquisition on the basis of the measurement result; and acquiring a synchronization from the selected D2D synchronization signal, wherein the D2D synchronization signal reception quality is a value obtained by dividing the D2D synchronization signal reception power by the differential between total reception power and the D2D synchronization signal reception power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Inkwon Seo, Hanbyul Seo, Jihyun Lee
  • Patent number: 10111253
    Abstract: Provided is a communication method in a wireless communication system using an interference alignment. The method includes: receiving, by a first AP, a data stream by using N1 (natural number) first reception antennas, and receiving, by a second AP, the data stream by using N2 (natural number) second reception antennas, in a wireless communication system including the first AP and the second AP which receive the data stream through a transmission beam which one or more user terminals having m (natural number) transmission antennas within a given number transmit; and updating to selectively add a part of user terminals which are newly connected to the first AP and the second AP to a set of connected user terminal, and transmitting, by each terminal of the set of connected user terminal, linearly independent transmission beams by applying an interference alignment with respect to a plurality of the first and the second reception antennas for the updated set of connected user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jin Hyung Oh, Sang Woon Jeon, Myung Sun Song
  • Patent number: 10103844
    Abstract: An information receiving and sending method and apparatus are provided, where the information receiving method includes: receiving, by a station (STA) in a transmit opportunity (TXOP) phase, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) data that is from a wireless access point (AP), where some data frames in the OFDMA data carry a legacy physical-layer preamble; and in a process of receiving the OFDMA data, working, by the STA, in an OFDMA receiving mode when receiving a data frame that does not carry the legacy physical-layer preamble, determining, by the STA according to a preset rule, a data frame that carries the legacy physical-layer preamble, and switching from the OFDMA receiving mode to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiving mode to receive the data frame that carries the legacy physical-layer preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xun Yang
  • Patent number: 10097393
    Abstract: A system including a modulator, a repetition module, and a phase rotation module. The modulator is configured to (i) modulate data using dual sub-carrier modulation, and (ii) generate modulated symbols for transmission on a plurality of subcarriers. The repetition module is configured to repeat the modulated symbols from a first half of the plurality of subcarriers to a second half of the plurality of subcarriers. The phase rotation module is configured to rotate phase of the modulated symbols on selected subcarriers of the second half of the plurality of subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Huang, Hongyuan Zhang, Yakun Sun, Rui Cao
  • Patent number: 10057089
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: selecting at least two groups of data from a to-be-processed data stream according to a preset first interval in a staggered manner; performing Fourier transform on each of the at least two groups of data to obtain at least two groups of first data; performing frequency domain filtering on the at least two groups of first data by using a prototype filter, to obtain at least two groups of second data; performing inverse Fourier transform on each of the at least two groups of second data to obtain at least two groups of third data; and adding the at least two groups of third data according to a preset second interval in a staggered manner. In the process, data obtained after transform reserves a feature of a single carrier, and has a low peak-to-average ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiming Qu, Fang Wang, Tao Jiang, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 10057899
    Abstract: A frame transmission method is provided by a device in a wireless communication network. The device generates a signal field including a symbol using a 64 FFT and carrying signaling information, and generates a data field including a symbol using a FFT having a larger size than the 64 FFT and carrying data. The device transmits a frame including the signal field and the data field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, INC.
    Inventors: Ilgu Lee, Changwahn Yu
  • Patent number: 10045263
    Abstract: A network switching method and a terminal device, which relate to the field of communications technologies, includes acquiring a network resource parameter of a network allowed to be accessed, and determining, from the network allowed to be accessed and according to the network resource parameter of the network allowed to be accessed, a target network to be switched to and a network resource parameter of the target network, where the network resource parameter of the target network is used to determine and set a running parameter of an application program that is to be run in the target network, and switching from a current network to the target network, and running the application program in the target network. The solutions can be used to enable the application program to implement, to some extent, seamless network switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Kangmin Huang, Mingjie Dong
  • Patent number: 10039020
    Abstract: A single complex calculation for locating a dominant frequency, such as an interfering signal in a frequency range, is replaced by several much easier ones. A signal is analyzed over a first frequency range to locate at least one comparatively significant frequency component therein. This can involve analyzing, using electronic hardware, a test range of frequencies to identify a potentially significant component within the test range; and determining, using electronic hardware, if a condition for finishing the analysis has been met. If the condition has not been met, the test range is modified as a result of the analysis and the operations of analyzing and determining are repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Analog Devices Global
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Pratt
  • Patent number: 10007836
    Abstract: A bird detection device equipped with: a captured image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image; a bird candidate image extraction unit that extracts a bird candidate image, which is a candidate bird image, from the captured image; and a bird detection determination unit that, on the basis of the time required for the bird candidate image to move in accordance with the size of the bird candidate image in the captured image, determines whether a bird has been detected. The bird detection determination unit also can determine whether a bird has been detected on the basis of the degree of change in the shape of the bird candidate image for a prescribed time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Okamoto, Hiroyuki Kumeno
  • Patent number: 10003546
    Abstract: Allowing a subscriber to modify a data transfer rate or available bandwidth associated with an Internet subscription tier for a selected or predetermined time period is provided. Upon receiving an indication of a selection to decrease an allowed amount of bandwidth or to boost or increase a data transfer rate to a next available service tier, a request may be sent to a gateway device associated with the subscriber to override firmware on the gateway device to restrict access to an amount of bandwidth or to allow access to additional bandwidth respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Clasen, Lior Koren, Franco Morales, Carson Banov, Shubh Singhi, Joshua Edward Fierstein, Douglas David Gravino
  • Patent number: 9979583
    Abstract: Methods and a system are described for generating a waveform for transmitting data over a channel divided into a plurality of adjacent frequency subcarriers. One method includes receiving a plurality of data bits, each destined for a different receiver of a plurality of receivers. For each received data bit, the method further includes coding the data bit using a unique spreading code of a first set of spreading codes to generate a corresponding group of multiple copies of a data symbol. Additionally, the groups of data symbols, corresponding to the plurality of data bits, are interleaved to generate a sequence of interleaved data symbols, and the sequence of interleaved data symbols is mapped to the plurality of adjacent frequency subcarriers to generate a waveform symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharad Kumar, Amin Abdel Khalek, Yun Bai, Balaji Tamirisa
  • Patent number: 9960945
    Abstract: Provided is a method of processing a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal timing offset for a signal analyzer. The method includes estimating an integer multiple timing offset of WCDMA baseband sample data corresponding to an amount of at least one frame; generating a frequency domain signal which is time delayed corresponding to a fractional timing offset estimation resolution after generating the frequency domain signal by performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) calculation on an already-known reference signal; converting each time-delayed frequency domain signal into a time domain signal by performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) calculation on each time-delayed frequency domain signal and calculating a correlation between an input signal from a position of the integer multiple timing offset and the time domain signal; and estimating a delay time leading to a maximum correlation as a fractional timing offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: INNOWIRELESS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Soup Joung, Joo Hyeong Lee, Yong Hoon Lim, Kyoung Hwan Ju
  • Patent number: 9942081
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for guard band utilization for synchronous and asynchronous communications in wireless networks. A user equipment (UE) or a network component transmits symbols on data bands assigned for primary communications. The data bands are separated by a guard band having smaller bandwidth than the data bands. The UE or network component further modulates symbols for secondary communications with a spectrally contained wave form, which has a smaller bandwidth than the guard band. The spectrally contained wave form is achieved with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation or with joint OFDM and Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (OQAM) modulation. The modulated symbols for the secondary communications are transmitted within the guard band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Usa Vilaipornsawai, Javad Abdoli, Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia
  • Patent number: 9936434
    Abstract: A method for providing communication in a communication device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a control instruction for a call session via the communication device, and assessing a quality of service of at least one of a default Wi-Fi network and a radio network. The method may also include selectively recommending to a user of the communication device the radio network for the call session based on the quality of service, and initiating the call session using the default Wi-Fi network or the radio network based on a selection made by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: RingCentral, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrice Khawam, Xiaoqiang Sun, Tetsumasa Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9917933
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a wideband Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) transmission in a High Efficiency WLAN (HEW) include a method for transmitting a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) in a wireless local area network. The method may further include performing a stream parsing of data bit streams to output blocks, determining whether to perform a segment parsing of the blocks based on a predetermined condition to output frequency subblocks, performing a constellation mapping of the blocks or the frequency subblocks, and transmitting the PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, Inc.
    Inventor: Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 9910762
    Abstract: A system that manages a unified sandbox environment activates a plurality of components in the unified sandbox environment, each component being configured to manage the lifecycle of its own component data. The system orchestrates an operation across the unified sandbox environment, the orchestrating including delegating one or more operations to the components, the components being configured to wait until all delegated operations are completed successfully before committing changes based on the delegated operations. The system manages a central label repository including distributing labels to the components, the components being configured to associate the centrally managed labels with versions of their respective component data. The system then creates a unified sandbox view across the respective component data of all components based on a selection of one or more of the centrally managed labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charu Chandra, Denny McKinney, Jeremy Liu, Rohit Marwaha, George Kellner
  • Patent number: 9912515
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A packet transmission method and apparatus for use in a wireless communication system and, in particular, for transmitting packets in a filter bank-based multicarrier wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yeohun Yun, Sooyong Choi, Hyungju Nam, Wonsuk Chung, Moonchang Choi, Seongbae Han, Daesik Hong
  • Patent number: 9912388
    Abstract: A method for simultaneous communication with multiple communication devices in a wireless local area network is described. Respective sub-channels of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication channel are allocated to two or more second communication devices for simultaneous OFDM transmission to the two or more second communication devices, including allocating first and second sub-channels to first and second ones of the two or more second communication devices, respectively. Respective downlink OFDM data units are generated using the corresponding allocated sub-channels. The downlink OFDM data units are transmitted using the corresponding allocated sub-channels. At least first and second uplink OFDM data units transmitted by the respective second communication device in response to the corresponding downlink OFDM data unit are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, Lei Wang, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou, Yakun Sun, Jinjing Jiang
  • Patent number: 9912450
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system including mobile terminals of first type and second type configured to transmit uplink data to a network over a radio interface using plural sub-carriers. The mobile terminals of first type configured to transmit uplink data on a first group of the sub-carriers over a first bandwidth and the mobile terminals of second type configured to transmit uplink data on a second group of the sub-carriers within the first group of sub-carrier over a second bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth. The mobile terminals of first type transmit random access request messages to a base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a first random access channel. The mobile terminals of second type transmit random access request messages to the base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a second random access channel on sub-carriers within the second sub-carrier group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC
    Inventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
  • Patent number: 9906387
    Abstract: An apparatus for receiving signals includes a receiver for receiving a time domain signal from a transmitter, wherein at least one first information bit is mapped, resulting in at least one first mapped symbol; at least one second information bit is mapped, resulting in at least one second mapped symbol; the at least one second mapped symbol is multiplied by at least one third information bit; and the time domain signal is generated from the at least one first mapped symbol and the at least one second mapped symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Seung Hee Han, Min Seok Noh, Young Woo Yun
  • Patent number: 9882758
    Abstract: The invention relates to a receiver and a FBMC reception method making it possible to reduce the decoding latency time and to increase the data rate in a communication system using a handshake exchange protocol or a TDMA access protocol. The receiver introduces zero padding values in place of the last samples of the last block of samples of a FBMC packet, without waiting for the end of this packet. The decoding of the FBMC packet is thus decoded more rapidly, without significant degradation of the error rate and without reduction of the out-of-band rejection rate of the FBMC signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventor: Jean-Baptiste Dore
  • Patent number: 9872296
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE). A wireless communications system may improve UE discovery latency by dynamically selecting and switching beam forming codebooks at the millimeter wave base station and the wireless device. Selecting an optimal beam forming codebook may allow the wireless communication system to improve link margins between the base station without compromising resources. In some examples, a wireless device may determine whether the received signals from the millimeter wave base station satisfy established signal to noise (SNR) thresholds, and select an optimal beam codebook to establish communication. Additionally or alternately, the wireless device may further signal the selected beam codebook to the millimeter wave base station and direct the millimeter wave base station to adjust its codebook based on the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Juergen Cezanne, Sundar Subramanian, Ashwin Sampath, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 9871685
    Abstract: A filter bank for signal decomposition is provided. The filter bank comprises a plurality of filter units each of which has one input and two outputs forming two paths whose transfer functions are complementary to each other, where the plurality of filter units are connected to form a tree structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wenjiang Pei, Jinguang Hao, Kai Wang, Jianjun Ma
  • Patent number: 9847897
    Abstract: A method for reducing a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal. A first signal in the frequency domain is processed to generate a second signal by performing a modular permutation on the first signal according to a modular permutation index, and/or by performing a cyclic shift on the first signal according to a cyclic shift parameter. The second signal is then mapped to a number of tones, and transformed into a time-domain signal for transmission. The modular permutation index and/or the cyclic shift parameter are selected so that the signal for transmission has a PAPR that satisfies a predefined PAPR criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qian Cheng, Weimin Xiao, Jialing Liu
  • Patent number: 9819458
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for bundling feedback related to downlink transmissions on a plurality of component carriers (CCs). In some examples, a base station configures a multi-carrier mobile device to use different feedback bundling schemes when it determines that the mobile device is power limited. The bundling scheme configured for the mobile device may be based, in part, on one or more transmission modes of the downlink CCs. Bundling schemes may include combinations of bundling techniques and an order in which these techniques are applied. In particular, the bundling techniques may include CC bundling in combination with spatial bundling and/or feedback repetition. For efficiency and performance, a bundling scheme may require application of CC bundling before resorting to use of feedback repetition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporation
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo, Jelena M. Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 9801028
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for an enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) in a wireless communications network. In one embodiment, a number of base stations in a MBMS zone, or broadcast region, accommodate both Spatial Multiplexing (SM) enabled user elements and non-SM enabled user elements. In another embodiment, a number of base stations form a MBMS zone, or broadcast region, where the MBMS zone is sub-divided into an SM zone and a non-SM zone. In another embodiment, the wireless communications network includes multiple MBMS zones. For each MBMS zone, base stations serving the MBMS zone transmit an MBMS zone identifier (ID) for the MBMS zone. The MBMS zone ID may be used by a user element for decoding and/or to determine when to perform a handoff from one MBMS zone to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Aaron Callard, Ming Jia, Wen Tong, Peiying Zhu, Hang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9787289
    Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus and method to filter a signal. In such an apparatus, an outer polyphase filter is configured for receiving an input signal and for channelizing the input signal into outer filtered samples. An outer Inverse Fourier Transform block is coupled to the outer polyphase filter and configured for transforming the outer filtered samples into a coarse multi-path output. An inner polyphase filter is coupled to a path of the coarse multi-path output for receiving information therefrom and configured for generating inner filtered samples of the information obtained from the path. The inner filtered samples are for moving an edge of a passband associated with the outer filtered samples toward a center of the passband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Fredric J. Harris, Christopher H. Dick
  • Patent number: 9787333
    Abstract: A first set of subcarriers having signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values that exceed a target SNR value is identified at a transmitter. A second set of subcarriers having SNR values below the target SNR value is identified. Power is iteratively reallocated from the first and second set of subcarriers to a third set of subcarriers having SNR values below the target value but closer to the target SNR value than the second set of subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Souvik Sen, Jung Gun Lee, Tom Hogan
  • Patent number: 9787517
    Abstract: A coarse timing method for a communication system is provided. The coarse timing method may include: calculating timing metric values for received signal samples using a self-correlation based timing metric function; calculating average timing metric values based on previous timing metric values; and determining whether there is a data frame based on the timing metric values and the average timing metric values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wenjiang Pei, Jinguang Hao, Kai Wang, Qingshan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9772611
    Abstract: There is provided an inter-main-apparatus interface device which, even if a first-standard main apparatus and a second-standard main apparatus are gathered in a main apparatus system, enables both of main apparatuses to function normally. The device comprises a control data interface provided between the first-standard main apparatus and the second-standard main apparatus for operating a controller included in the second-standard main apparatus on the basis of control data supplied from the first-standard main apparatus, and a content data interface provided between the first-standard main apparatus and the second-standard main apparatus for enabling the second-standard main apparatus, as controlled by the controller operating on the basis of the control data, to relay by multiplexing and demultiplexing, content data sent and received by a base station connected to the first-standard main apparatus and content data sent and received by a base station connected to the second-standard main apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: NEC PLATFORMS, LTD
    Inventor: Shingo Shimado
  • Patent number: 9768916
    Abstract: A method for detecting a signal by a signal receiving apparatus is provided. The method includes detecting a part of block diagonal matrices included in a diagonal matrix based on at least one channel impulse response (CIR) for a received signal, detecting remaining block diagonal matrices excluding the part of block diagonal matrices from among block diagonal matrices included in the diagonal matrix, estimating modulation symbols from the received signal based on the diagonal matrix, generating a block diagonal matrix by multiplying one of second matrices included in a first matrix, which is generated by applying a circular extension scheme to a fourth matrix including third matrices, by a fast Fourier transform (FFT) matrix, generating a third matrix for one of the estimated modulation symbols, the third matrix includes vectors for channelization codes, and generating a vector based on the channelization codes or the at least one CIR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hyun-Seok Yu
  • Patent number: 9755767
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the claimed invention generally relate to a network dynamically configuring one or more cells based on signal quality measurements received from all antennas of a receiver-limited UE. The receiver-limited UE may have a number of receivers that is less than or equal to a number of antennas of the UE. Further, the UE may be capable of operating in a CA mode. Dynamically configuring the one or more cells based, at least in part, on the received signal quality measurements may allow the UE to operate on M×N MIMO on the Pcell or Scell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhinav Dayal, Manjinder Singh Sandhu, Madhusudan Kinthada Venkata
  • Patent number: 9730197
    Abstract: A communication system is provided in which a communication node can allocate resources, for another communication node, within a number of consecutive subframes using a single control message. The other communication node receives codewords transmitted over using the allocated resources, aggregates ACK/NACK feedback for the received codewords and transmits the aggregated ACK/NACK feedback to the communication node for use in controlling subsequent transmission of new codewords or retransmission of previous codewords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yassin Aden Awad