Communication Over Free Space Patents (Class 370/277)
  • Patent number: 11258430
    Abstract: A switching circuit is provided. The switching circuit includes at least one Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter, a Single-Pole n Throw (SPnT) switch connected to an input port of each of the at least one SAW filter, and a Dual-Pole n Throw (DPnT) switch connected to an output port of each of the at least one SAW filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang-Joon Park
  • Patent number: 11251906
    Abstract: It is determined whether hardware acceleration is available for the incoming data packet. Responsive to hardware acceleration availability, and based on the received FEC conditions, it is determined, for a session associated with the incoming data packet, whether to hardware decrypt the incoming data packet before decoding the incoming data packet or to hardware decrypt after decoding the incoming data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Benzheng Xiao, Xudong Li, Mingxing Nan
  • Patent number: 11240789
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a base station to enable a user equipment (UE) configured for operation with carrier aggregation over a number of cells to determine cells and transmission time intervals (TTIs) where the base station transmits data information to the UE and for the UE to determine and arrange corresponding acknowledgement information in a codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11217253
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a talk control unit that controls proxy utterance processing in voice talk processing on the basis of environment information regarding a user terminal acquired from the user terminal. Furthermore, there is provided an information processing method performed by a processor, including: acquiring environment information regarding a user terminal from the user terminal; and controlling proxy utterance processing in voice talk processing on the basis of the acquired environment information. Furthermore, there is provided an information processing system including: a user terminal that is able to acquire environment information regarding the user terminal; and a server that includes a talk control unit controlling proxy utterance processing in voice talk processing on the basis of the environment information regarding the user terminal acquired from the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Fujita, Hiroaki Adachi, Yoji Hirose, Fumiaki Tokuhisa, Ryu Aoyama, Izumi Yagi, Akihiro Ishida
  • Patent number: 11183988
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a common terminal, a first terminal, a second terminal, a first filter, a second filter, and an inductor. The first filter has a pass band corresponding to a relatively low frequency range and includes a surface acoustic wave filter using an SH wave. The second filter has a pass band corresponding to a relatively high frequency range. The first filter is between a branch point and the first terminal on a path connecting the common terminal and the first terminal. The second filter is between the branch point and the second terminal on a path connecting the common terminal and the second terminal. The inductor is on a path connecting the branch point and the first filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Motoki Ozasa
  • Patent number: 11166306
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes: receiving scheduling signaling sent by a base station on a target bandwidth part, wherein the scheduling signaling carries frequency-domain resource indication information and parameter indication information, and the target bandwidth part is a bandwidth part capable of transmitting the scheduling signaling in a plurality of bandwidth parts; upon determining, based on the frequency-domain resource indication information and pre-stored configuration information, that the target bandwidth part is not a to-be-scheduled bandwidth part, determining the to-be-scheduled bandwidth part from the plurality of bandwidth parts based on the frequency-domain resource indication information and the configuration information; and transmitting data through the to-be-scheduled bandwidth part according to a configuration parameter associated with the parameter indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yajun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11153205
    Abstract: Aspects and examples are disclosed for apparatuses and processes for establishing a communication link between a network using a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) and a non-RPL-enabled device. For instance, a communication link establishment method includes establishing, by a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) enabled device, a communication link with a non-RPL-enabled device. The method also includes establishing, by the RPL-enabled device, a network connection with an RPL-enabled network. Further, the method includes providing, by the RPL-enabled device, a proxy communication link between the non-RPL-enabled device and the RPL-enabled network. Providing the proxy communication link includes assigning a globally unique address (GUA) to the non-RPL-enabled device, and transmitting, by the RPL-enabled device, a proxy destination advertisement object to the RPL-enabled network where the proxy destination advertisement object comprises the GUA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: James Patrick Hanley, Chad K. Wolter, Bryce D. Johnson, Lawrence Harris
  • Patent number: 11128488
    Abstract: A system and method for full-duplex communications provided by modifying the Media Access Control sub-layer of communication node protocols. The modification allows communication nodes to communicate with one another in full-duplex, where each node transmits and receives data simultaneously with other nodes in a single frequency. A timing of the simultaneous data transmissions, acknowledgments, and short-interframe-space waiting periods can be determined based on network-allocation-vector data transmitted in association with request-to-send or clear-to-send signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vaneet Aggarwal, Rittwik Jana, Christopher W. Rice, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan
  • Patent number: 11121693
    Abstract: Technologies directed to a wireless device with RF port impedance detection using concurrent radios are described. One wireless device includes an impedance detection circuit with a bi-directional RF coupler and switching circuitry. A processing device controls the switching circuitry to i) couple the bi-directional RF coupler between a first radio and a first RF port and a second radio and a second RF port. The processing device causes a first radio to send a first signal and a second radio to measure a first receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) value of a first reflected signal. The processing device determines that the first RSSI value exceeds a threshold, the threshold representing an impedance mismatch condition at or beyond the first RF port. The processing device sends a message indicative of the impedance mismatch condition to a second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Labadie, Kun Ting Tsai, Cheol Su Kim, Kalyan Teja Posani, Omar Fawazhashim Zakaria
  • Patent number: 11101826
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) control circuit is disclosed. The RF control circuit includes a transceiver module and a front-end module. The front-end module is connected to the transceiver module via a primary component carrier (PCC) path and a secondary component carrier (SCC) path. The front-end module is configured to receive an external data signal and transmit a local data signal. The transceiver module is configured to receive a PCC signal from the external data signal and transmitting the PCC signal from the local data signal through the PCC path and receiving a SCC signal from the external data signal and transmitting the SCC signal from the local data signal through the SCC path. The SCC path is controlled to be grounded such that interference of the local data signal for the PCC path on the external data signal for the SCC path is eliminated. A mobile terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiuwen Liu, Xianlong Chen, Jiafeng Yang, Xianping Xiong, Guoxi Zhang, Shaoming Pang
  • Patent number: 11070260
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. The method includes: a sending side device generating a common sequence to send to a plurality of receiving side devices; each of the plurality of receiving side devices determining a first analog weight parameter according to a receiving situation of the common sequence, and determining an antenna configuration for sending a pre-determined pilot frequency signal corresponding to the receiving side device according to the determined first analog weight parameter to send the pre-determined pilot frequency signal to the sending side device; and the sending side device determining a second analog weight parameter regarding the receiving side device according to a receiving situation of the pre-determined pilot frequency signal, and determining an antenna configuration for sending data regarding the receiving side device according to the determined second analog weight parameter to send the data to the receiving side device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Xudong Zhu, Jinhui Chen
  • Patent number: 11070331
    Abstract: A communications device for communicating data, the communications device including a receiver for receiving signals representing downlink data from a network element of a wireless telecommunications system via a wireless access interface having a logical baseband frame structure, a transmitter for transmitting signals representing uplink data to the network element via the wireless access interface, the logical baseband frame structure being formed from one or more minimum frequency units and one or more time units to form communications resources for allocation by the network element to the communications device, and a controller for controlling the transmitter and the receiver to transmit and to receive signals representing the data to and from the network element using the wireless access interface. The controller is configured in combination with the transmitter and the receiver to receive an indication of frequency resources within a host frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jussi Kahtava, Matthew William Webb
  • Patent number: 11070223
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, structures, and methods are directed to a wireless receiver. The configurations presented herein employ a structure operative to receive a plurality of analog signals, a signal encoder configured to encode the plurality of received analog signals into a single encoded analog composite signal based on a coding scheme operating under a first code rate, a signal reconstruction module configured to segregate and reconstruct the single encoded digital composite signal into a re-encoded digital composite signal in accordance with the coding scheme operating under a second code rate. In addition, a signal decoder configured to decode the digital composite signals based on the coding scheme operating under the second code rate, and to output digital signals, in which each digital signal in the plurality of digital signals corresponds to a respective analog signal of the plurality of received analog signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lan Hu, Sai Mohan Kilambi
  • Patent number: 11070258
    Abstract: A system and method are described which enable planned evolution and obsolescence of multiuser wireless spectrum. One embodiment of such a system includes one or multiple centralized processors and one or multiple distributed nodes that communicate via wireline or wireless connections. The distributed nodes may share their identification number and other reconfigurable system parameters with the centralized processor. The information about all distributed nodes may be stored in a database that is shared by all centralized processors. The reconfigurable system parameters may comprise power emission, frequency band, modulation/coding scheme. The distributed nodes may be software defined radios such as FPGA, DSP, GPU and/or GPCPU that run algorithms for baseband signal processing and may be reconfigured remotely by the centralized processor. A cloud wireless system may be used wherein the distributed nodes are reconfigured periodically or instantly to adjust to the evolving wireless architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: REARDEN, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Antonio Forenza
  • Patent number: 11032258
    Abstract: In one example, a resource system includes a local compute resource, an authorization engine to authorize a resource request to the local compute resource from a source, an interface engine to assign a data property to the local compute resource in response to a determination that the resource request is authorized to access the local compute resource, and a manager engine to assign access of the local compute resource to the resource request based on a comparison of the data property and an access term associated with an authorization level of the resource request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Patrick O Sandfort, Holt Mebane, Jun Zeng
  • Patent number: 11013050
    Abstract: The wireless communication headset system is a private communication system. The wireless communication headset system comprises a wireless routing device, a plurality of communication stations, and a plurality of wireless communication links. The wireless communication headset system supports audio and text-based communication between the plurality of communication stations. The wireless communication headset system supports a broadcast model of communication. The wireless routing device establishes a wireless communication link selected from the plurality of wireless communication link with each individual communication station contained in the plurality of communication stations. The wireless routing device is a repeater that receives a message from any first individual communication selected from the plurality of communication stations and retransmits the message to each individual headset remaining in the plurality of headsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventor: Ronald Snagg
  • Patent number: 11012204
    Abstract: The disclosure of the present invention proposes a communication method. The method may be performed by a wireless device and comprise: if a full duplex of a downlink (DL) reception and an uplink (UL) transmission is configured in an uplink carrier spectrum including a DL portion and a UL portion, considering that the DL portion in the uplink carrier spectrum is configured as protected DL portion for another device configured with non full-duplex. Here, the protected DL portion may allow the device configured with a non full-duplex to perform a UL transmission in the protected DL portion at a low power. The DL portion and the UL portion may be flexibly configured in the uplink carrier spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Kijun Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11006406
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to a discovery reference signal occasion configuration. In one embodiment, a time period for transmission of a discovery reference signal may be obtained, which comprises a plurality of consecutive subframes. Furthermore, at least one first subframe of the time period may be configured for transmission of discovery reference signals from activated small cells, and at least one second subframe of the time period may be configured for transmission of discovery reference signals from deactivated small cells, wherein the at least one second subframe is different from the at least one first subframe. In this way, the activated small cells and the deactivated small cells may transmit discovery reference signals in different subframes within the discovery reference signal occasion such that the interferences of transmission of discovery reference signals may be significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yuantao Zhang, Haitao Li
  • Patent number: 10999047
    Abstract: A frequency band configuration apparatus and method of a half-duplex system and a communication system. The method includes: determining a half-duplex frequency band, and receiving configuration information of the half-duplex frequency band; and receiving indication information for reconfiguring the half-duplex frequency band transmitted by a network device; the indication information indicates that the half-duplex frequency band is used for both uplink transmission and downlink transmission. Hence, it is supported that the half-duplex frequency band can be configured as both an uplink frequency band and a downlink frequency band at the same time, a cell capacity is not limited too much, and cases where uplink and downlink capacities are relatively large can be well supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Weiwei Wang, Xin Wang, Lei Song
  • Patent number: 10993149
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for operating a terminal device (17) in a cellular mobile communication network (10). The cellular mobile communication network (10) comprises a first base station (11) using a first radio resource, and a second base station (12, 13) using a second radio resource. The terminal device (17) comprises a first transceiver unit (25) for communicating via the first radio resource and a second transceiver unit (26) for communicating via the second radio resource. According to the method, a radio resource control information for the second radio resource is determined and received at the terminal device (17) via the first transceiver unit (25). As defined by the radio resource control information, user data communication (19) between the second base station (12) enter the terminal device (17) is established via the second transceiver unit (26). The first transceiver unit (25) is set in an idle mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Anders Berggren, Brian Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 10979088
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a front end architecture for selectively adding an external carrier aggregation band. A switch element can connect a radio frequency signal path to an antenna path through a frequency domain multiplexer, such as a diplexer, in a first mode. The switch element can connect the radio frequency path to the antenna path and bypass the frequency domain multiplexer in a second mode. The frequency domain multiplexer can be external to a front end module that include the radio frequency signal path. In the first mode, a front end system can support carrier aggregation with a band associated with circuitry implemented external to the front end module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Jen-Chien Chang, Reza Kasnavi, Roman Zbigniew Arkiszewski, Jeffrey Gordon Strahler, John G. Freed
  • Patent number: 10924154
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus may include a communication circuit including a plurality of ports, each of which transmits a signal in at least one frequency band and transmitting or receiving a signal in the at least one frequency band and a processor is configured to obtain frequency band information indicating the at least one frequency band and context information indicating a state of the electronic apparatus and to determine a port to be used for the respective at least one frequency band among the plurality of ports based on the obtained information. Other various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Man Seob Kim, Hyoungjoo Lee
  • Patent number: 10911959
    Abstract: A control apparatus and method for a wireless communication system supporting cognitive radio. The control apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a management unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire information about at least one factor capable of affecting performance of transferring an access request for a frequency spectrum resource by a communication apparatus, the access request being used for making a request to a device which controls the frequency spectrum allocation for allocating a frequency spectrum to the communication apparatus. The management unit is configured to receive the access request sent by the communication apparatus, and optimize a route for the access request of the communication apparatus according to the acquired factor in the case that the access request contains information indicating that the communication apparatus is a slave apparatus of another communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Sun, Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 10911073
    Abstract: A reconfigurable multiplexer including a plurality of filter and/or duplexers, each respectively associated with a frequency band and can be connected to an antenna connector via a band switch individually or several at the same time. One or more phase shifters capable of adjusting a phasing of a filter or duplexer during a multiplex mode so as to improve the interband insulation in a given multiplex mode. A variable notch can be connected to one of the filters or partial filters of a duplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SnapTrack, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar Schmidhammer, Thomas Metzger, Juha Ellä, Arto Holm
  • Patent number: 10901846
    Abstract: The techniques described herein are configured to improve the remanufacturing process by waiting to rebuild selective data items stored on a storage device that is unavailable. A storage device is unavailable when it is taken offline and/or disconnected from a network. The storage device may be taken offline due to a failed component (e.g., an actuator arm, an actuator head, damage to the underlying storage media, etc.). The storage device comprises multiple independent logical units, where a logical unit is a uniquely addressable portion of a storage device that is visible and/or that is exposed to a host. Accordingly, the techniques described herein are configured to conserve resources by selectively rebuilding data items stored in logical units of an offline storage device that are not affected by a remanufacturing process implemented due to a failed component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Chao-Chueh Lee, Aaron William Ogus, Subhasish Bhattacharya, Bryan Stephen Matthew, Srinivasan Malayala
  • Patent number: 10887146
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a location of a frequency-domain resource block using frequency spacing values. One apparatus includes a transceiver that communicates with a base station in a mobile communication network a processor that determines a first spacing value for frequency locations within a frequency range and determines a second spacing value for frequency locations within the frequency range. The processor receives (via the transceiver) information of a first scalar and a second scalar and determines a location of a set of frequency-domain resource blocks using a location of a reference resource block. Here, the location of the reference resource block is based on the sum of a product of the first scalar and the first spacing value and a product of the second scalar and the second spacing value. The apparatus receives data from the base station on the set of frequency-domain resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia, Ziad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 10873698
    Abstract: A method and a system for improving efficiency of a bi-directional optical camera communication between a first OCC device and a second OCC device are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method may include estimating, by a first OCC device comprising a first display device and a first camera device, a first transmission parameter with respect to the first display device and a first reception parameter with respect to the first camera device. The first reception parameter is based on a second transmission parameter of a second OCC device or a channel condition parameter, and the second transmission parameter is derived from an analysis of information captured by the second OCC device from the first OCC device. The method may further include dynamically modifying, by the first OCC device, the first transmission parameter based on the first reception parameter in order to maximize throughput of OCC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Subhas Chandra Mondal, Shailesh Prabhu
  • Patent number: 10868363
    Abstract: An antenna system and a signal transmission method are provided. The antenna system includes: an antenna array and a matching network, where an S parameter matrix of the matching network matches an S parameter matrix of the antenna array and the matching network is configured to perform pre-distortion on a to-be-transmitted signal or de-distortion on a received signal, and the antenna array is configured to transmit the pre-distorted to-be-transmitted signal. According to the antenna system and the signal transmission method provided in this application, pre-distortion may be performed on a signal that needs to be transmitted by the antenna array or de-distortion may be performed on a signal received by the antenna array, so as to configure energy that is coupled from each antenna array element to an adjacent antenna array element, thereby reducing a coupling effect between antenna array elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ni Ma, Yueheng Li, Wei Gu, Tuanjie Xue, Jianping Zhao
  • Patent number: 10854975
    Abstract: An antenna-unit (110) for at least dual-FDD bands includes a first combiner (100) splitting its input (101) into at least two outputs (102, 103). Each output (102, 103) operates in at least two narrow-bands from two different FDD systems, and is respectively connected to a second and third combiners (200, 300). The second and third combiners (200, 300) are respectively connected with a first RF circuit (800, 900) enabling separation of two different FDD channels in an inverted Transmitter/Receiver fashion. An antenna system (700) based on the antenna unit (110) includes a set of columns of dual-polarized radiating elements (500) arranged on a reflector (702), and the first RF circuit (800,900) is connected with a second RF circuit (10) of the Base Station processing, SDR is set along with the RF circuit (10) to enable 3D beamforming features as well as independent system link control for optimization purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TONGYU COMMUNICATION INC.
    Inventors: Samb Doudou, ZhongLin Wu, Mulin Liu
  • Patent number: 10840886
    Abstract: A radio-frequency filter includes a first series-arm circuit and a second series-arm circuit that is on a circuit path closer to the output terminal than the first series-arm circuit. A first parallel-arm circuit is connected to a ground and a node on the path between the first series-arm circuit and the second series-arm circuit. The first series-arm circuit includes a first series-arm resonator, and a first switch element, the first switch element including first semiconductor elements arranged in series. The second series-arm circuit includes a second series-arm resonator, and a second switch element, the second switch element including at least one second semiconductor element. A first stack number being higher than a second stack number, the first stack number being a number of the first semiconductor elements and the second stack number being a number of the one or more second semiconductor elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Nosaka
  • Patent number: 10790957
    Abstract: A method for allocating resources by a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes configuring a Resource Block Group (RBG) dependent on whether a User Equipment (UE) operates in Full Duplex Radio (FDR) mode or Half Duplex (HD) mode, and allocating resources to the UE in units of the configured RBG. The RBG includes a plurality of Resource Blocks (RBs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongkyu Kim, Kwangseok Noh, Sangrim Lee, Hojae Lee
  • Patent number: 10778403
    Abstract: Examples described herein include apparatuses and methods for full duplex device-to-device cooperative communication. Example systems described herein may include self-interference noise calculators. The output of a self-interference noise calculator may be used to compensate for the interference experienced due to signals transmitted by another antenna of the same wireless device or system. In implementing such a self-interference noise calculator, a selected wireless relaying device or wireless destination device may operate in a full-duplex mode, such that relayed messages may be transmitted as well as information from other sources or destinations during a common time period (e.g., symbol, slot, subframe, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz, Jaime Cummins
  • Patent number: 10771226
    Abstract: There is provided a method for limiting a spurious emission, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising: configuring a transceiver of the UE to use an operating band 71; and determining at least one operating band to be protected among a plurality of operating band, wherein if the determined operating band to be protected is an operating band 29, a maximum level of spurious emission is limited to ?38 dBm for protecting other UE using the operating band 29.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suhwan Lim, Sangwook Lee, Jaehyuk Jang, Manyoung Jung
  • Patent number: 10742274
    Abstract: A radio communication device includes: a full-digital array that has a first antenna element group including multiple antenna elements and that has no analog variable phase shifter; and a hybrid beamformer that has a second antenna element group including multiple antenna elements and that has an analog variable phase shifter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10693585
    Abstract: A method of link adaptation is described including establishing, using a first serving point, a multi-user full duplex mode wherein the multi-user full duplex mode enables a downlink to a first wireless device and an uplink from a second wireless device. The first serving point requests from the first wireless device a first channel quality indicator indicating channel quality between the serving point and the first wireless device in a full duplex time period and a second channel quality indicator indicating channel quality between the serving point and the first wireless device in non-full duplex time period. The full duplex mode is evaluated using the first and second channel quality indicators. At least one parameter of the full duplex mode is adjusted based on the evaluating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Bin Liu, Lili Zhang
  • Patent number: 10687360
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting uplink control information is described. The method includes according to the size and position of a feedback window, determining uplink control information; according to a transmission moment of the uplink control information, performing listen-before-talk detection to determine an actual uplink transmission moment; and transmitting the determined uplink control information at an actual uplink transmission moment. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, under the situation where no channel is occupied at a set uplink control information transmission moment, one or more times of listen-before-talk detection are continued, and the determined uplink control information is transmitted on an actual uplink transmission moment, thereby avoiding the situation that uplink control information may not be correctly transmitted in time due to not occupying a channel, and further improving the system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Qianqian Si, Xuejuan Gao, Xueming Pan, Jiaqing Wang
  • Patent number: 10681678
    Abstract: In a D2D operation method performed by a remote terminal in a wireless communication system, the present invention determines whether receiving a signal transmitted from a relay terminal by means of transmission of a signal from the remote terminal is restricted; and transmits a signal to the relay terminal on the basis of the determination, wherein in the case that receiving a signal transmitted from the relay terminal by means of transmission of a signal from the remote terminal is not restricted, the present invention transmits a signal to the relay terminal, and in the case that receiving a signal transmitted from the relay terminal by means of transmission of a signal from the remote terminal is restricted, the present invention does not transmit a signal to the relay terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Jung, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 10681550
    Abstract: The present application provides a method, a base station controller, and a user equipment. The method includes: determining, by a base station controller of a user equipment, a first access point set, and sending information about the first access point set to the user equipment; and determining, by the user equipment according to the first access point set, an access point for accessing a wireless local area network. In embodiments of the present application, when a user equipment needs to access a wireless local area network through an access point to access the Internet, a base station controller may notify the user equipment of an available access point. In this way, the user equipment can access the wireless local area network directly through the available access point and does not need to request a password from an operator and enter the password during access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingzhao Li, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Yanyan Chen
  • Patent number: 10674527
    Abstract: Method performed by a first network node (111) for handling scheduling of wireless devices. The first network node (111) obtains information about a first type of time resource used by HD-FDD wireless devices (151). The first network node (111) also obtains information about a second type of time resource not used by the HD-FDD wireless devices (151) due to a transition at the HD-FDD wireless devices (151) between UL and DL. The first network node (111) schedules a first wireless device out of FD-FDD wireless devices (152) during the second type of time resource, based on the obtained information about the second type. The first network node (111) decides whether or not to schedule a second wireless device out of the FD-FDD wireless devices (152) during the first type of time resource, based on the obtained information about the first type, and further based on whether first conditions are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Muhammad Kazmi, Santhan Thangarasa, Iana Siomina
  • Patent number: 10609522
    Abstract: Audio output of a radio frequency (RF) portable communication device is controlled. A first portable communication device (PCD) uses an audio transducer to generate one or more audio tones in response to a voice transmit operation initiated by a user of the first PCD. One or more characteristics of the tone or tones can be selectively controlled in accordance with a first talk group which is in use by the first PCD to facilitate the voice transmit operation. The one or more audio tones are received at one or more second PCDs different from the first PCD, where they are used to selectively control an audio output volume of the second PCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Allen Thompson, Stephen Welsch
  • Patent number: 10595289
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for performing, by a terminal, time and frequency synchronization with a base station in an initial access process to the base station. The method includes receiving, by the terminal, a physical broadcast channel, and detecting a synchronization signal based on the received physical broadcast channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Donghan Kim, Yongjun Kwak, Taehyoung Kim, Juho Lee
  • Patent number: 10582501
    Abstract: When a base station is going to offload a UE from a carrier and is faced with a choice of whether to transition the UE from that carrier to a first carrier or rather to a second carrier, the base station will select the first carrier as the target carrier based at least on a determination that the first carrier has higher insertion loss than the second carrier. In addition, to help offset service of the UE on the high-insertion-loss carrier, the base station may block other UEs from being served on the first carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Rajveen Narendran
  • Patent number: 10575295
    Abstract: A distributed antenna system is provided that frequency shifts the output of one or more microcells to a 60 GHz or higher frequency range for transmission to a set of distributed antennas. The cellular band outputs of these microcell base station devices are used to modulate a 60 GHz (or higher) carrier wave, yielding a group of subcarriers on the 60 GHz carrier wave. This group will then be transmitted in the air via analog microwave RF unit, after which it can be repeated or radiated to the surrounding area. The repeaters amplify the signal and resend it on the air again toward the next repeater. In places where a microcell is required, the 60 GHz signal is shifted in frequency back to its original frequency (e.g., the 1.9 GHz cellular band) and radiated locally to nearby mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Paul Shala Henry, George Blandino, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10574366
    Abstract: A method performed under control of a first device capable of full duplex radio communications may include transmitting a first frame to a second device; estimating a channel response of self interference cancellation (SIC), based, at least in part, on the first frame; and determining whether the estimated channel response is usable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Hyoung-Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 10568093
    Abstract: In enhanced licensed assisted access (eLAA), providing several approaches to report the channel state information (CSI) measurement may be desirable to provide flexibility in CSI reporting, especially in aperiodic CSI reporting. Further, a difference in using a licensed carrier and an unlicensed carrier may be considered during communication. In addition, assigning different transmit power usage based on different transmission types may be desired. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE). The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives a grant for uplink communication. The UE determines a reporting subframe based on the grant. The UE determines whether to select, as a reference subframe, a triggering subframe in which the grant is received or a subframe before the reporting subframe. The UE transmits, in the reporting subframe, CSI measured in the reference subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 10539658
    Abstract: A method of radar detection and a radar system for a motor vehicle are described. The radar system includes a transmitter for transmitting a radar signal having a time period, a plurality of receivers for receiving the transmitted radar signal reflected by an object, a signal compressor having a plurality inputs coupled to each of the receivers and at least one signal compressor output, the signal compressor being configured to compress the received signals to fewer output signals, each output signal having a number of samples. A signal re-constructor having at least one input coupled to each the signal compressor output and configured to determine a plurality signal strength values from the compressed signals, each signal strength value corresponding to a signal strength for a respective time-of-flight and angle-of-arrival value pair of a received signal. The radar system may detect an object with less memory and a lower power consumption while maintaining angular resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Zoran Zivkovic, Antonius Johannes Matheus De Graauw
  • Patent number: 10541473
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. An operation method of an inter-antenna phase calibration device in a wireless communication system using an unlicensed band according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: calculating a listen before talk (LBT) processing time while an LBT is being performed; selecting a calibration mode for calibrating an inter-antenna phase on the basis of the LBT processing time; and calibrating the inter-antenna phase according to the selected calibration mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seijoon Shim, Hayoung Yang, Chongdon Kim, Chanho Choi
  • Patent number: 10524280
    Abstract: A method for identifying, at a communication device, operation in a dual connect operating mode that enables the communication device to concurrently communicate with a first network source and a second network source. The method including monitoring, by a controller of the communication device, a plurality of transmission characteristics of a first and second transmitter and a first receiver of the communication device. The method including determining, based on the plurality of transmission characteristics, whether concurrent transmissions by the first and second transmitters result in an intermodulation interference condition that interferes with a voice carrying signal. In response to the concurrent transmissions resulting in the intermodulation interference condition, the method including mitigating an effect of the intermodulation interference condition by rescheduling transmission of at least one data signal between a second transmitter and a second network source to a later time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Armin Klomsdorf, Dale Schwent, John R. Mura
  • Patent number: 10498387
    Abstract: A high-frequency front-end circuit (10) includes a band switch (20), duplexers (31, 32, and 33), and a main switch (40). The band switch (20) includes a common terminal (PC20) and selection terminals (PS21, PS22, and PS23). The main switch (40) includes a common terminal (PC40) and selection terminals (PS41, PS42, PS43). The duplexers (31, 32, and 33) are connected between the selection terminals (PS21 and PS41), between the selection terminals (PS22 and PS42), and between the selection terminals (PS23 and PS43), respectively. The selection terminal (PS23) is connected between the selection terminals (PS21 and PS22) and the selection terminal (PS43) is connected between the selection terminals (PS41 and PS42). First and second communication bands the frequency bands of which are close to or overlapped with each other are transmitted and received through the duplexers (31 and 32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 10476562
    Abstract: A communication method includes grouping a plurality of antenna patterns of a communication device according to an antenna device group corresponding to different antenna combinations to form a plurality of antenna pattern groups, and selecting an antenna pattern group from the antenna pattern groups; according to a plurality of signal parameter statistics of a plurality of antenna pattern combinations corresponding to each of the selected antenna pattern group, selecting a first antenna pattern combination and a last antenna pattern combination among the plurality of antenna pattern combinations; and according to first data related to the first antenna pattern combination and second data related to the last antenna pattern combination, setting the first antenna pattern combination or the last antenna pattern combination as a transmission antenna pattern combination for data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: I-Ru Liu