Transmit/receive Interaction Control Patents (Class 370/278)
  • Patent number: 10142978
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for controlling signal transmission and reception by a terminal in a situation in which simultaneous transmission and reception is restricted, and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: configuring a PCell and an SCell; and restricting signal transmission and reception on the SCell in an subframe when the PCell and the SCell have different transmission directions in the subframe, wherein the transmission direction of the SCell is defined according to first UL-DL information in an SIB when the SCell is not an eIMTA cell, and the transmission direction of the SCell is defined according to second UL-DL configuration information in a PDCCH when the SCell is the eIMTA cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 10139484
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. An apparatus and method for measuring a distance between wireless devices using a first signal transmitted/received between the wireless devices in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes: receiving the first signal for distance measurement transmitted from a first of the wireless devices; receiving a signal reflected by a reflector after being transmitted from the first of the wireless devices; and based on the received first signal and the received reflected signal, estimating a distance between the second of the wireless devices and the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Rok Yoon, Jong-Ho Oh, Jung-Min Yoon, Sang-Hyun Chang, Chang-Yeul Kwon
  • Patent number: 10135651
    Abstract: In an example of multi-user wireless communications, an access point may send a downlink frame to a first station. The first station may generate and transmit an uplink frame. A second station in a same or different basic service set coverage area as that of the access point performs a clear channel assessment of a medium associated with the station for transmitting a frame without interrupting a frame exchange between the access point and the first station. The second station receives the downlink frame and the uplink frame of the frame exchange. The second station determines a signal measurement of the uplink frame, and determines a status of the medium based on the signal measurement and the downlink frame. The first station may update or ignore a network allocation vector timer based on the status of the medium. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, INC.
    Inventor: Ahmad Reza Hedayat
  • Patent number: 10135533
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed in the detailed description include analog distributed antenna system (DAS) supporting distribution of digital communications signals interfaced from a digital signal source and analog radio frequency (RF) communications signals. Analog RF communications signals received from analog RF signal sources are distributed in the analog DAS without being digitized. The analog DAS is also configured to interface with digital signal sources and compatibly distribute digital communications signals. Hence, a digital signal interface in head-end equipment (HEE) is configured to convert downlink digital communications signals to downlink analog RF communications signals for distribution to a plurality of remote units. The digital signal interface is also configured to convert uplink analog RF communications signals to uplink digital communications signals for distribution to the digital signal source(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications Wireless Ltd
    Inventors: Ami Hazani, Eytan Radian
  • Patent number: 10116405
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining an interference based on a channel gain for each signal of a group of signals received at a receiver from a group of transmitters. A determination is made of an interference value based on a group of interference signals received at a receiver from a group of transmitters, wherein the interference value is based on channel gains that are estimated for the group of transmitters, and wherein a portion of the interference is self-interference generated from transmitting and receiving at a same time. One of an analog time domain cancellation, a digital time domain cancellation or both, is performed responsive to a determination that the interference value does not satisfy a threshold range of an analog-to-digital converter of the receiver. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vaneet Aggarwal, Dinesh Bharadia, Rittwik Jana, Christopher W. Rice, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan
  • Patent number: 10111122
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to schedule user equipment (UE) measurements. An HeNB may identify a first cluster of UEs and a second cluster of UEs. The HeNB may determine a measuring gap schedule relating to the first cluster of UEs and the second cluster of UEs. The measuring gap schedule may indicate a measurement time for each cluster. The measurement time may indicate that UEs in a cluster withhold a transmission during the measurement time. The UEs in the cluster may measure a spectrum (e.g., frequency, channel, etc.) associated with a supplementary cell during the measurement time. The HeNB may send the measuring gap schedule to the first cluster of UEs and the second cluster of U Es. The HeN B may receive spectrum measurements of the supplementary cell from the first cluster of UEs and the second cluster of UEs, e.g., in accordance with the measuring gap schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Amith V. Chincholi, Joseph M. Murray, Martino Freda, Alpaslan Demir
  • Patent number: 10111185
    Abstract: A communication device receives a signal during a backoff period of a backoff procedure, wherein the communication device is part of a first communication network. In response to determining that i) the signal is valid, ii) the signal is from another communication network, and iii) the power level of the signal does not meet a threshold that is higher than a default threshold, the communication device continues a count of a backoff timer during reception of the signal. In connection with comparing the power level of the signal to the threshold higher than the default threshold, the communication device sets a transmit power level to a reduced power level that is lower than a default power level. The communication device transmits at a transmit power level that is less than or equal to the reduced transmit power level in response to the backoff timer expiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, Lei Wang, Jinjing Jiang, Hongyuan Zhang, Yakun Sun, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 10103778
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for line control of access network applied G.hn technology thereto, and access network multiplexer (GAM), access network terminal (GNT), and access network system using the method, which includes a domain master as a collection of G.hn nodes communicating with the end-point of the access network, a switch connecting the physical layer of G.hn specification with the multiple domain masters, and a controller controlling at least one of bandwidth, output, and signal to noise ratio (SNR) offset of the signal transmitted by at least one of the domain master and the end-point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: UBIQUOSS INC.
    Inventors: Byung Gil Jung, Young Jib Kim
  • Patent number: 10097221
    Abstract: A radio frequency receiver subject to a large in-band interferor employs active cancellation with coarse and at least one fine cancellation signal, each with a respective radio frequency combiner, in order to increase the effective dynamic range of the receiver for weak signals of interest. One or both can be digitally synthesized. This is particularly applicable for co-site interference, whereby the interfering transmit signal is directly accessible. A similar system and method may also be applied to external interferors such as those produced by deliberate or unintentional jamming signals, or by strong multipath signals. An adaptive algorithm may be used for dynamic delay and gain matching. In a preferred embodiment, a hybrid technology hybrid temperature system incorporates both superconducting and semiconducting components to achieve enhanced broadband performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Hypres, Inc.
    Inventors: Deepnarayan Gupta, Amol Inamdar
  • Patent number: 10097320
    Abstract: To suppress complication of transmission/reception processing even in the case where a user terminal supports a plurality of bandwidths, or the case where the terminal concurrently connects to a plurality of radio communication systems with different usage frequencies, a user terminal, which communicates with a radio base station for forming a wide-area cell and anther radio base station for forming a narrow-area cell in a radio communication system where the narrow-area cell is provided inside the wide-area cell, is provided with a reference signal generating section that generates a sampling frequency of a baseband signal of the wide-area cell as a reference signal, a frequency adjusting section that converts a frequency of the reference signal by n/m times, and a baseband processing section that uses a frequency subjected to frequency conversion as a sampling frequency of a baseband signal of the narrow-area cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jiyun Shen, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10085218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention may comprises: a step of a terminal calculating a first maximum power reduction value to be applied to a first uplink channel; and a step of transmitting, from a plurality of subframes, the first uplink channel at the maximum transmission power by applying the first maximum power reduction value. The first uplink channel is transmitted through different frequency resources within the plurality of subframes. The maximum transmission power value has different values according to frequency resources through which specific channels are transmitted. The first maximum power reduction value is a predetermined value applied during the transmission of the first uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 10075209
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radio system comprising an antenna device, an antenna connector arrangement and a radio transceiver with a transmitter branch and a receiver branch. The antenna connector arrangement connects the antenna device to the transmitter branch and to the receiver branch, and comprises a first tuneable band-stop filter, a second tuneable band-stop filter and a three-way-junction. The first tuneable band-stop filter is connected to the transmitter branch and a transmitter input port of the three-way-junction to filter radio signals, and the second tuneable band-stop filter is connected to the receiver branch and a receiver output port of the three-way-junction to filter radio signals. The three-way-junction comprises a first antenna port that is connected to the antenna device. The present disclosure also relates to an antenna connector arrangement, an antenna arrangement, and an electrically tuneable waveguide band-stop filter arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Tobias Nilsson, Göran Nilsson, Robert Lindgren, Ove Persson
  • Patent number: 10064112
    Abstract: A user equipment (“UE”) connected to a first network that performs methods including receiving a page from the first network indicating an incoming voice call, when it is determined the voice call was not successfully connected, incrementing a value of a counter and when the value satisfies the threshold, switching from the first network to a second network. Another method includes originating a voice call via the first network, when it is determined the voice call was not successfully connected, opening a socket connection with the first network and attempting to re-originate the voice call via the first network. Another method includes determining whether the UE has switched a connection from a first network to a second network and when it is determined that the UE has switched the connection to the second network, initiating an action by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Giri Prassad Deivasigamani, Gencer Cili, Muhammad A. Alam, Guarav Nukala, Luciano M. Verger, Yogesh D. Karandikar, Srinivasan Vasudeven, Deepak Chitlur Lakshman
  • Patent number: 10064127
    Abstract: A system is configured to store user preferences relating to selection of a network, from a group of networks, via which to establish a connection, where the user preferences includes information for selecting the network based on rates and information for selecting the network based on signal strength or quality levels; receive, from a server device that communicates with the group of networks, a set of rates associated with use of the group of networks; detect signals transmitted by the group of networks; determine, for the group of networks, signal strength or quality levels associated with the signals transmitted by the group of networks; select a particular network, of the group of networks, based on the user preferences, the set of rates, and the signal strength or quality levels; and establish a connection via the particular network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Sagiv Draznin, Patricia Ruey-Jane Chang, Vikram K. Rawat, Lalit R. Kotecha
  • Patent number: 10056962
    Abstract: A method for reducing adjacent-channel interference includes: obtaining, by a receiver, a first analog signal from a radio frequency front-end of a transmitter, where the first analog signal is a signal transmitted by the transmitter to the outside, and the signal transmitted by the transmitter to the outside forms a self-interference signal at an antenna of the receiver; performing analog-to-digital conversion on the first analog signal so as to obtain a first digital signal; receiving, by the receiver, a second analog signal, where the second analog signal includes a wanted signal and the self-interference signal; performing analog-to-digital conversion on the second analog signal so as to obtain a second digital signal; and performing digital cancellation on the second digital signal and the first digital signal so as to obtain a wanted digital signal of the second digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huajiong Lin, Weimin Chen, Zhengzheng Li, Qing Wang
  • Patent number: 10057930
    Abstract: In TDD-FDD carrier aggregation, delay in downlink retransmission timing and UE's battery energy consumption are reduced. In a mobile communication system that performs carrier aggregation using a first component carrier associated with a first cell conducting radio communication in a first duplex mode and a second component carrier associated with a second cell conducting radio communication in a second duplex mode, a cell is provided on which an uplink control channel carrying acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for the first component carrier and the second component carrier is transmitted, and a user equipment performs discontinuous reception using a timer value corresponding to a duplex mode of said cell on which the uplink control channel is transmitted upon receiving at least one of a first downlink data signal transmitted over the first component carrier and a second downlink data signal transmitted over the second component carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10044683
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to reduce a load of time and cost at the time of transition to a safer system in which an encryption scheme is newly set. By allowing a device of a transition step which implements a predetermined security reinforcement measure to handle high-value content only for a given system transition period, a problem of a time necessary for the transition can be avoided and the transition to the safer system can be performed smoothly. The device mentioned herein which implements the predetermined security reinforcement measure is, for example, a device which supports only an existing encryption algorithm and for which security of a weaker portion other than the encryption scheme is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 10038543
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a many to one communication protocol. In one novel aspect, a modified CTS is sent by a receiving wireless communications station in response to a regular RTS. The modified CTS includes an indication for an uplink MU operation. In one embodiment, a modified CTS indicates a restricted access window (RAW) followed by RAW parameter set (RPS). In one embodiment, a subset of wireless communications devices associated with the receiving wireless communications station sends modified PS-poll with uplink data indication. Such PS-poll traffic is protected from passerby wireless communications devices from an OBSS. The receiving wireless communications station sends a modified resource-allocation map frame followed by a regular CTS frame. The subsets of wireless communications devices send their uplink data based on the received resource allocation map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao-Chun Wang, Jianhan Liu, Tianyu Wu, Rongsheng Huang
  • Patent number: 10038458
    Abstract: A radio frequency multiplexer, which supports a plurality of frequency bands, comprises a common node, a plurality of single band nodes, and a plurality of parallel branches. Each of the plurality of parallel branches is designated to one of the plurality of frequency bands and connects the common node and one of the plurality of single band nodes. A particular branch of the parallel branches may comprises a filter for a desired frequency band that passes through the particular branch, a quadrature hybrid coupler coupled to the filter, and a set of one or more other filters for one or more other frequency bands in the plurality of frequency bands respectively. The set of one or more other filters is coupled to the quadrature hybrid coupler for rejecting the one or more other frequency bands by the particular branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: ABTUM INC.
    Inventor: Sam Mandegaran
  • Patent number: 10034189
    Abstract: A method and a radio parameter control system, as well as a network operation management apparatus and a radio station, are provided that enable optimization control for problems varying with sites of occurrence. Using location information at the time of measurement included in a measurement report from a radio terminal (30) located in a radio cell (C10), quality indicators based on measurement information acquired by the radio terminals or the radio station are compiled in association with areas (Ai), each of which is smaller than the radio cell (C10), and control of a radio parameter is performed in the radio cell or across a plurality of radio cells, based on a result of compilation of the quality indicators for each area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Hiroto Sugahara, Kosei Kobayashi, Yoshinori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10028235
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a method by which a first user equipment (UE) performs a transmission power control (TPC) of device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system supporting the D2D communication, comprising the steps of: acquiring a resource pool to be used in the D2D communication, the resource pool including a scheduling assignment (SA) resource pool indicating an SA transmission resource region and/or a data resource pool indicating a D2D data transmission resource region; transmitting an SA including information related to D2D data transmission to a second UE through the SA resource pool; and transmitting D2D data to the second UE, wherein the TPC in the D2D communication is performed through control information related to a TPC of the SA and/or the D2D data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 10014963
    Abstract: An apparatus for facilitating antenna calibration comprising: a directional coupler having first, second, third and fourth ports, the first port selectively connected to a radio transmitter or a radio receiver and the second port connected to an antenna; a power combiner/divider having first, second and third ports; the first port of the power combiner/divider selectively connected to a measurement receiver or a measurement transmitter and the second port of the power combiner/divider connected to the third port of the direction coupler; and a magnitude and phase adjustor connected between the fourth port of the directional coupler and the third port of the power combiner/divider. The magnitude and phase adjustor is configured to be tuned such that any signal input to the second port of the directional coupler results in an output smaller than a predetermined threshold at the first port of the power combiner/divider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Youping Su, Ming Li
  • Patent number: 10003697
    Abstract: Methods and devices provide access to a sponsored data service (SDS) via a mobile device. A method may include receiving information identifying attributes to ascertain whether a user qualifies to access sponsored data, where an attribute from the identified attributes may include a position of the mobile device or a time of access to the SDS. The method may include determining parameters associated with the attributes. The method may further include sending the parameters to a validation device, where the validation device determines, based on the parameters, whether the user qualifies to receive sponsored data. The method also includes receiving a network address from the validation device, in response to the validation device determining that the user qualifies to receive sponsored data, and accessing sponsored data from a device associated with the network address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Hannah Y. Moon
  • Patent number: 9999002
    Abstract: A device includes circuitry configured to determine that pending transmissions on two or more physical channels overlap in time and determine that a total transmit power of the pending transmissions exceeds a maximum transmit power. The circuitry is also configured to assign priorities to the pending transmissions based on one or more predetermined criteria. Power scaling is applied to at least one lower priority transmission so that the total transmission power of the pending transmissions is less than or equal to the maximum transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sami Jukka Hakola, Helka-Liina Maattanen, Karl Marko Juhani Lampinen
  • Patent number: 9999088
    Abstract: A method of saving power in a user device that is operable in a discontinuous reception mode, the user device comprising a receiver circuitry. The method comprises the steps of powering down at least a part of the receiver circuitry during one or more predefined power down periods during a transition between an idle mode of operation and a connected mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Tuomas Tirronen, Anna Larmo, Riikka Susitaival, Johan Rune
  • Patent number: 9992790
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure that supports both single and multiple interlace modes of operation. In a single interlace mode, control information, data information corresponding to the control information and acknowledgement information corresponding to the data information are included in a single subframe. In a multiple interlace mode, at least one of the control information, the data information corresponding to the control information or the acknowledgement information corresponding to the data information is included in a different subframe. Both single and multiple interlace modes can be multiplexed together within the TDD subframe structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Jiang, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, John Edward Smee
  • Patent number: 9985739
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining a transmission rate in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for receiving an uplink frame from a Station (STA) by an Access Point (AP) in a WLAN may be provided. The method may include transmitting to the STA a downlink frame eliciting the uplink frame, and receiving the uplink frame from the STA at a rate determined based on whether the type of the uplink frame is a single user type or a multi-user type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, INC.
    Inventor: Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 9977853
    Abstract: Systems and methods for application specific integrated circuit design using Chronos links are disclosed. A Chronos Link is an ASIC on-chip and off-chip interconnect communication protocol that allows interfaces to transmit and receive information. The protocol may utilize messages or signals to indicate the availability and/or readiness of information to be exchanged between a producer and a consumer allowing the communication to be placed on hold and to be resumed seamlessly. A method includes inserting gaskets and channel repeaters connected to interfaces of multiple intellectual property (IP) blocks in order to replace traditional links with Chronos Links; performing simplified floorplanning; performing simplified placement; performing simplified clock tree synthesis (CTS) and routing; and performing simplified timing closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CHRONOS TECH LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Giaconi, Giacomo Rinaldi
  • Patent number: 9973233
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference cancellation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 9967072
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal to a receiver by a transmitter in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting information about a first non-precoded pilot signal and information about a second non-precoded pilot signal to the receiver, transmitting the first non-precoded pilot signal the second non-precoded pilot signal to the receiver, and transmitting one or more transmission streams to the receiver through first logical antenna ports and second logical antenna ports, wherein the number of the first logical antenna ports is less than or equal to the number of the second logical antenna ports, the first non-precoded pilot signal is a pilot signal for measuring channel state information at the receiver, and the second non-precoded pilot signal is a pilot signal for determining the number of the first logical antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Kilbom Lee, Kitae Kim
  • Patent number: 9961678
    Abstract: Embodiments of master station and method for high-efficiency WLAN (HEW) communication are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the master station is configured for HEW communication in accordance with an IEEE 802.11ax technique. The master station may transmit an indication to one or more of a plurality of HEW stations to indicate which one of a plurality of 20 MHz channels to monitor for a HEW signal field. The master station may configure the HEW signal field to indicate which of a plurality of subchannels of the indicated 20 MHz channel is allocated to the HEW stations for communication. The master station may transmit the configured HEW signal field in the indicated one of the 20 MHz channels and may communicate with the HEW stations on the indicated subchannels in accordance with an orthogonal-frequency divisional multiple access (OFDMA) technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Guoqing C. Li, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas J. Kenney, Eldad Perahia, Robert J. Stacey
  • Patent number: 9961683
    Abstract: It is provided a method, including identifying a weak cell serving a downlink of a first user device; detecting a strong cell different from the weak cell, wherein an uplink of the first user device has a lower uplink path loss towards the strong cell than towards the weak cell; preventing the weak cell from providing a first grant for the uplink, if the strong cell is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Amaanat Ali, Marcin Rybakowski, Hans Thomas Hoehne, Karri Markus Ranta-Aho, Alexander Sayenko
  • Patent number: 9948370
    Abstract: A method of multi user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communication in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, and a transmitting device therefore, are discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes generating an Aggregate-Medium Access Control Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU) including an A-MPDU subframe which includes a Medium Access Control Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) delimiter field and an MPDU; and generating a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including the A-MPDU by using a guard interval. The guard interval is selected by the transmitting device among a short guard interval and a long guard interval. The guard interval used for the PPDU is selected to be the short guard interval when the PPDU is generated for a plurality of receiving devices, all of which support the short guard interval. The method according to the embodiment further includes transmitting the PPDU to the plurality of receiving devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yong Ho Seok
  • Patent number: 9941861
    Abstract: [Object] To propose a wireless communication apparatus capable of realizing separation of transmission signals and reception signals with a low power consumption and a small size. [Solution] Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including: a gyrator that includes at least four terminals; a single-phase differential converter that mutually converts single-phase signals and differential signals; a low-noise differential amplifier that amplifies reception signals that the gyrator outputs; and a differential power amplifier that amplifies transmission signals to be output to the gyrator. The gyrator transmits signals from a first terminal and a second terminal in the direction of a third terminal and a fourth terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sachio Iida
  • Patent number: 9942102
    Abstract: A change to a state of a particular managed server within an administrative domain is processed. The administrative domain includes a plurality of managed servers that use management instructions to configure management modules so that the configured management modules implement an administrative domain-wide management policy that comprises a set of one or more rules. A first description of the particular managed server is modified to indicate the particular managed server's changed state, thereby specifying a second description of the particular managed server. The unmodified first description is compared to the second description, thereby specifying a description change. A determination is made, based on the description change, regarding whether to update management instructions previously sent to the particular managed server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Illumio, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Kirner, Daniel R. Cook, Juraj G. Fandli, Matthew K. Glenn, Mukesh Gupta, Andrew S. Rubin, Jerry B. Scott, Sehyo Chang, Alan B. Stokol
  • Patent number: 9930678
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes determining a set of subframes with a reduced likelihood of being received as uplink transmissions of a first user equipment (UE). The method also includes scheduling uplink transmissions of the first UE by scheduling uplink control information (UCI) on subframes other than the determined set of subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raj K. Kumar, Kapil Bhattad, Dhananjay A. Gore
  • Patent number: 9929849
    Abstract: A method and system are provided in which a device that is operable to handle WiFi communication and WiMAX communication may receive downlink medium access protocol (MAP) information in a downlink sub-frame of a WiMAX frame and disable WiFi transmission during a portion of the downlink sub-frame based on the downlink MAP information. The disabled WiFi transmission may be enabled after data within the downlink sub-frame is decoded. The device may also receive uplink MAP information in the downlink sub-frame and may control a clear channel assessment associated with the WiFi transmission based on the uplink MAP information. The MAP information may comprise data or burst profile information and/or one or more physical control messages. A similar time domain approach may be utilized for coexistence between WiFi and long term evolution (LTE) coexistence, Bluetooth and WiMAX, and Bluetooth and LTE. Frame aggregation may be enabled to alleviate pending WiFi traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kameswara Rao Medapalli
  • Patent number: 9929967
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for packet processing. One method embodiment for packet flow control includes deconstructing a transport layer packet into a number of link-control layer packets, wherein each of the link-control layer packets has an associated sequence number, communicating the number of link-control layer packets via a common physical connection for a plurality of peripheral devices, and limiting a number of outstanding link-control layer packets during the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Radke, Victor Y. Tsai, Peter Feeley, Neal A. Galbo, Robert N. Leibowitz
  • Patent number: 9923707
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling the dynamic allocation of certain subframes as downlink or uplink resources in a time division duplexed over the air communications system. A base station or eNB may allocate certain subframes within a repeating radio frame of a TDD configuration as either DL or UL subframes for communicating to user equipment or UE devices to increase efficient use of system resources based on the data to be transmitted. Methods for determining the capabilities of a selected UE and based on the determining step, dynamically allocating certain subframes are disclosed. The methods and systems are compatible with user equipment that does not support the dynamic allocation of subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Xiang Guang Che, Troels Emil Kolding
  • Patent number: 9918181
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for achieving synchronization for the device-to-device (D2D) communication of a first terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: calculating a time advance of a second terminal using the information relating to the transmission timing of a second transmission point, the downlink transmission timing of a first transmission point, timing the receipt of a downlink signal from the second transmission point; and receiving a signal from the second terminal using the timing advance of the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Inkwon Seo, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 9912369
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for adaptively maintaining a communications link during an idle mode is disclosed. The integrated circuit may operate in a first (active) mode and a second (idle) mode. The integrated circuit includes a transceiver circuit that establishes a communications link with an additional transceiver circuit of an external integrated circuit. The transceiver circuit may receive data packets from the additional transceiver circuit during the first mode. The integrated circuit further includes monitoring circuitry that monitors a health metric associated with maintaining the communications link between the transceiver circuit and the additional transceiver circuit during the second mode. A control circuit may generate keep-alive signals and adaptively adjusts the frequency of the keep-alive signals such that the health metric is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Michael James Armstrong
  • Patent number: 9912395
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for utilizing a physical layer (PHY) header comprising an identifier for an access point (AP) or a Basic Service Set (BSS). A station (STA) that is assigned an order in a sequential response sequence may count only frames with PHY headers that contain the correct identifier. A STA may terminate its sequential access procedure when it receives a frame with a PHY header that specifies a different identifier for the AP or BSS that assigned the sequence. In this manner, the STA may prevent partly synchronizing to an overlapping network and avoid accessing the wireless medium at the wrong time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventor: Maarten Menzo Wentink
  • Patent number: 9906248
    Abstract: A processor, comprising a first data input configured to receive a stream of samples of a first signal having a spectral space, the stream having a data rate of at least 4 GHz; a second data input configured to receive a stream of samples of a second signal; a multitap correlator, configured to receive the first stream of samples and the second stream of samples, and producing at least one correlation output for each respective sequential sample of the first signal received; and a programmable control configured to alter a relationship of the stream of samples of the first signal and the stream of samples of the second signal, to thereby select, under program control, an alterable correlation output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Hypres, Inc.
    Inventor: Deepnarayan Gupta
  • Patent number: 9900134
    Abstract: A user equipment device comprises physical layer circuitry configured to transmit and receive radio frequency electrical signals with one or more nodes of a radio access network, including monitor at least one of a communication channel unlicensed to a long term evolution (LTE) network (LTE-U) or a communication channel of a licensed assisted access (LAA) network and detect a reference signal (RS) of a subframe communicated using the at least one communication channel; and processing circuitry configured to measure a channel metric over at least a portion of the subframe that includes the RS, and process information included in the subframe according to an LTE communication protocol when the measured channel metric satisfies a specified channel metric threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Hwan-Joon Kwon, Youn Hyoung Heo, Seunghee Han, Pingping Zong, Xiangyang Zhuang
  • Patent number: 9883539
    Abstract: A disclosed wireless tunneling system tunnels communications between two processing apparatuses through a wireless link, while maintaining compliance of the communications between the two processing apparatuses with at least two different wired communication protocols. In one embodiment, the wireless tunneling system includes two wireless tunneling apparatuses that communicate with each other through the wireless link. A local wireless tunneling apparatus is coupled to a local processing apparatus through a wired connection and a remote wireless tunneling apparatus is coupled to the remote processing apparatus through another wired connection. The two processing apparatuses may communicate with each other through the wireless link using the two wireless tunneling apparatuses as if the two processing apparatuses were connected through wired connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Sohrab Emami, Brian Henry John, Jean-Marc Laurent, Nishit Kumar, Wen Tang, Hai Zhu
  • Patent number: 9871646
    Abstract: The described technology provides front-end antenna architecture for wireless communication that manages multiple frequency sub-bands in a manner that results in a low insertion loss rate. Further, the components of the architecture are smaller than typical wireless communication antenna architectures, and therefore the described architecture can be accommodated in a smaller area than typical architectures without a decrease in efficiency. A matching circuit is communicatively connected to each frequency sub-band's respective signal path. When two or more sub-bands are requested for high-speed wireless communication, the matching circuits match the impedance of each sub-band with one another. Matching the impedance allows two or more sub-bands to be used to wirelessly communicate while maintaining high efficiency. The matching circuits are disabled when only one sub-band is needed for wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Chen Zhang
  • Patent number: 9867227
    Abstract: A method for indicating discontinuous data scheduling includes receiving discontinuous reception (DRX) indication information on an Iur interface; and sending discontinuous scheduling indication information to a base station according to the DRX indication information. A communication system and a radio network control device for implementing the method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yanyan Chen, Yongqiang Gao
  • Patent number: 9860007
    Abstract: For the purpose of preventing transmission of UL signals in a subframe other than a UL subframe during the fallback operation in Dynamic TDD communication, the present invention provides a user terminal for communicating in Dynamic TDD, the user terminal having: a reception section that receives control information including an indication to dynamically change a subframe configuration of a Dynamic TDD cell and a control section that controls not to perform specific resource transmission in flexible subframes in the fallback operation based on the subframe configuration of Dynamic TDD cell signaled by higher layers or SIB1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shimpei Yasukawa, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 9859945
    Abstract: An antenna switch module includes a radio-frequency input port, a radio-frequency output port, a radio-frequency core connected between the radio-frequency input port and the radio-frequency output port, the radio-frequency core being configured to operate in each of a plurality of operational states, the plurality of operational states including a first subset of operational states and a second subset of operational states, and a decoder configured to receive an input signal indicating a first operational state of the radio-frequency core, the first operational state being of the first subset of operational states, generate an output control signal corresponding to the first operational state, detect a transition of the radio-frequency core to a second operational state, determine that the second operational state is of the second subset of operational states, and insert an intermediate output signal corresponding to an intermediate operational state of the radio-frequency core in response to said determinat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Obkircher, Bo Zhou, Nuttapong Srirattana
  • Patent number: 9854594
    Abstract: A wireless packet switch and methods for controlling the same include a multiple port controllers, each in communication with a respective wireless transceiver, configured to analyze data streams to and from the respective wireless transceiver; a cross-connect switch in communication with all of the port controllers, configured to provide connections between respective port controllers; an arbiter, in communication with all of the port controllers and with the cross-connect switch, configured to control the cross-connect switch, such that the cross-connect switch connects data streams of the port controllers in accordance with packet destination information and scheduling information from the port controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mihai A. Sanduleanu, Laurent Schares