Signaling For Performing Battery Saving Patents (Class 370/311)
  • Patent number: 11070984
    Abstract: A computing device of a telecommunication network can receive crowd-sourced Wi-Fi reports submitted by user equipment based on scans for beacon signals broadcast by Wi-Fi access points. From the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi reports, the computing device can determine when Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) transmissions over channels of an unlicensed spectrum are safe and are not expected to interfere with Wi-Fi transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Sung Yoon, Jie Hui, Antoine T. Tran
  • Patent number: 11065923
    Abstract: A wheel unit for a system for transmitting data from the wheel unit to a receiver of a vehicle. The wheel unit is configured for mounting to a wheel of the vehicle, and the wheel unit includes the following: a memory for storing wheel type data related to the type of the wheel at which the wheel unit is mounted; a processor for processing the wheel type data stored in the memory; a transmitter for RF-transmitting data telegrams to a vehicle-mounted receiver. The processor determines an RF power value based on the stored wheel type data, and the transmitter transmits the data telegrams with an RF power based on the determined RF power value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Loeffler, Sylvain Godet, Stephane Dufour
  • Patent number: 11071151
    Abstract: The object of the present application is to provide a method for connecting a wireless access point through an application in a user equipment, comprising: obtaining a first wireless connection request regarding a target wireless access point; sending a second wireless connection request regarding the target wireless access point to a corresponding second application, wherein the second application and the first application are installed in the same user equipment; and receiving connection result information of the second application regarding the second wireless connection request. The present application may improve development efficiency and shorten the development process, decreasing development costs and improving the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI ZHANGMEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Su, Fei Wang
  • Patent number: 11071064
    Abstract: Technologies directed to improving power for wireless transceivers are described. One method receives, in a low power mode, a data packet over a wireless link and determines a RSSI value and a receive signal quality indicator (RSQI) value. The method stores a record with the RSSI and RSQI values in memory. The method determines an average RSSI value and an average RSQI value from historical RSSI and RSQI values, respectively, stored in records. The method categorizes received data in a first channel quality indicator (CQI) category using the average RSSI value and the average RSQI value and configures the wireless device to operate in another power mode, responsive to the data being in the first CQI. The method processes a subsequent data packet while in the other power mode. In some cases, the other power mode is less than a maximum power mode specified by a wireless standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Songping Wu, Sai Prashanth Chinnapalli
  • Patent number: 11064547
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to perform a multi-radio access technology (RAT) access (MRA) operation. The apparatus may include a WTRU comprising a transceiver and a processor configured to send a non-access stratum (NAS) access request message to a network node using a first radio access technology (RAT). The message may indicate that the WTRU can connect to both a network node using the first RAT and a network node using a second RAT. The transceiver may be configured to receive a NAS accept message and a message comprising configuration information for the second RAT. The transceiver and the processor may be further configured to connect to a network node using the second RAT based on the received configuration information and communicate with both the network node using the first RAT and the network node using the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal M. Adjakple, Kai Liu, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Peter S. Wang, Mahmoud Watfa, Saad Ahmad, Ghyslain Pelletier
  • Patent number: 11063704
    Abstract: Provided are a control method and device for a data packet duplication function, and a communication device. The control method for the data packet duplication function includes determining, by a communication device, to deactivate or activate a data packet duplication function; and performing, by the communication device, an operation of deactivating or activating the data packet duplication function correspondingly. Further provided is a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Zou, He Huang
  • Patent number: 11064520
    Abstract: The use of PUCCH resources can be more efficient such as by sharing PUCCH resources between URLLC UEs and non-URLLC UEs in a controllable way enhanced with a smart deterministic downlink polling when needed. A method comprises receiving, by a user equipment from a network node of a communication network, information comprising a given physical uplink control channel resource instance allocated to the user equipment, wherein the physical uplink control channel resource instance is allocated to more than one user equipment including the user equipment; signaling the network node using an allocated physical uplink control channel resource instance in a given sub-frame; and, receiving polling form the network node, wherein the polling comprises an uplink grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Vinh Van Phan, Ling Yu, Zexian Li, Peter Rost
  • Patent number: 11057830
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. An access point (AP) may identify a jitter pattern for a wakeup message. A station may listen using a wakeup radio for a wakeup message during wakeup listening periods according to the identified jitter pattern. A station may receive a preamble having a first bandwidth and a wakeup message having a second bandwidth. An AP may transmit an identifier key to a station, and the station may determine a rotating identifier associated with the AP based on the received identifier key. The station may receive a wakeup message from the AP, compare a sender identifier with the rotating identifier, and power on a second radio. A station may also receive a wakeup message that includes an indication of which station are to be activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Linhai He, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 11057916
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide an indication information transmission method and an apparatus, and relate to the communications field. The method includes: generating, by a network device, indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate an existence status of a downlink control signal in a first time period; and sending, by the network device, the indication information to a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tong Ji, Zhe Jin, Weiliang Zhang, Xiaolei Tie
  • Patent number: 11055733
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for data broadcasting. One of the methods includes: receiving a wakeup message broadcast by a broadcast device in a predetermined range, wherein the wakeup message is configured to waking up a corresponding application installed on a terminal device from a sleep mode; receiving encrypted marketing message from the broadcast device, wherein the encrypted marketing message comprises merchant information and promotional information corresponding to the merchant information; determining that the encrypted marketing message belongs to a predetermined category; sending the encrypted marketing message to a server for verifying authenticity of the encrypted marketing message; and receiving the merchant information and the promotional information from the server when the authenticity of the encrypted marketing message is successfully verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhe Han, Lei Yang
  • Patent number: 11057764
    Abstract: A communication device for offloading communication traffic includes: first means for identifying an attribute of a terminal based on information included in a message transmitted by the terminal to connect to a wireless network; and second means for determining whether or not to connect a base station that has received the message from the terminal and the terminal based on the identified attribute, wherein the second means is capable of transmitting the message transmitted by the terminal having a predetermined attribute to a virtual network node operated by a virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Fujinami
  • Patent number: 11051256
    Abstract: A wireless device initiates a random access procedure for parallel transmissions of random access preambles for beams of a cell. A determination is made that a first calculated transmit power exceeds a first power value. The first calculated transmit power comprises transmission powers corresponding to the parallel transmissions of the random access preambles. In response to the determination, a first transmission of at least one first random access preamble of the random access preambles is dropped based on at least one first pathloss value corresponding to the first transmission being greater than at least one second pathloss value corresponding to a second transmission of at least one second random access preamble of the random access preambles. The at least one second random access preamble of the random access preambles is transmitted by the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11051249
    Abstract: A method of a network node is disclosed. The method is for concurrently transmitting two or more wake-up signals (WUS) using an signal generator applying an signal generator symbol rate, wherein each WUS is for reception by a wake-up receiver (WUR) of a respective wireless communication device. The method comprises selecting a respective Manchester coding symbol rate for each of the two or more WUS, wherein all of the selected respective Manchester coding symbol rates are different from each other, and wherein all Manchester codes having the selected respective Manchester coding symbol rates are orthogonal to each other. The method also comprises generating each of the two or more WUS using the signal generator and application of a Manchester code of the selected respective Manchester coding symbol rate, and multiplexing the two or more WUS for transmission in a WUS message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Leif Wilhelmsson, Miguel Lopez, Dennis Sundman
  • Patent number: 11051265
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of communications, and discloses a method and device for synchronization between base stations to reduce listening costs and to make the best use of radio resources. The method is: a slave base station receiving, on a designated symbol of a special sub-frame via a primary radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC), a cell reference signal (CRS) sent by a master base station, and performing synchronization between the slave base station and the master base station according to the acquired CRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jie Chen
  • Patent number: 11051244
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method and a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for operating an ultra-wideband (UWB) device is disclosed. The method involves powering down a first receive path of a multipath UWB device while leaving a second receive path of the multipath UWB device powered up, powering down channel estimation, tracking, and demodulation functions of the second receive path, and performing an acquisition function using the second receive path while the first receive path is powered down and while the channel estimation, tracking, and demodulation functions of the second receive path are powered down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Jun Zhou, Radha Srinivasan, Brima Babatunde Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 11044705
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of wireless communications, and in particular to a method for configuring uplink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), a terminal, and a network side device, for use in solving the problem in the prior art of increased service delay caused by long waiting time after the arrival of a service data packet due to the fact that current uplink SPS may not match the arrival time of the service data packet. In the embodiments of the present application, a terminal sends SPS configuration auxiliary information to a network side device, so that the network side device configures uplink SPS information for the terminal according to the received SPS configuration auxiliary information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Yali Zhao, Fangli Xu
  • Patent number: 11044780
    Abstract: A mobile network entity, such as Mobility Management Entity MME, is for the support of Mobile-Terminated MT Data Delivery via an interface such as the T6a interface between a Service Capability Exposure Function SCEF and the mobile network entity, towards a User Equipment UE using extended idle mode DRX served by the mobile network entity is configured to receive from the SCEF a MT Data Delivery Request including information indicating a time frame within which a MT Data Delivery Response is awaited by the SCEF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Bruno Landais, Laurent Thiebaut, Jean-Jacques Trottin, Michael Dolan, Alessio Casati
  • Patent number: 11044781
    Abstract: A base station device includes: a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with a terminal device; a storage unit; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to refer to discontinuous reception information, stored in the storage unit, which indicates a plurality of discontinuous reception settings, transmit transmission data to the terminal device in at least a portion of a first reception period of time corresponding to at least one of the discontinuous reception settings, and transmit the transmission data to the terminal device in at least a portion of a second reception period of time corresponding to at least another one of the discontinuous reception settings in a case that it is determined that response information with respect to the transmitted transmission data is not received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Ishikura, Yuhsuke Takagi, Atsushi Yamazaki, Hideyuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11044779
    Abstract: A network node and a method therein for configuring a first communications device to monitor reception of an information signal in monitoring time periods of different time durations. One monitoring time period being relatively shorter than another, longer monitoring time period. The information signal is repeatedly transmitted by a Radio Network Node (RNN) with a first periodicity during the longer monitoring time period and with a second periodicity during the shorter monitoring time period, the first periodicity being longer than the second periodicity. The network node determines that the first communications device is to be configured for monitoring reception of the information signal within one or more shorter monitoring time periods. Further, the network node configures the first communications device with a Discontinuous Reception cycle indicating a monitoring time point falling within the one or more shorter monitoring time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Magnus Astrom, Peter Alriksson, Andres Reial
  • Patent number: 11044042
    Abstract: The present invention related to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided to support a higher data transmission rate since 4G communication systems like LTE. The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding a channel in a communication or broadcasting system supporting parity-check matrices having various sizes are provided. The method for encoding a channel includes determining a block size of the parity-check matrix; reading a sequence for generating the parity-check matrix, and transforming the sequence by applying a previously defined operation to the sequence based on the determined block size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seho Myung, Kyungjoong Kim, Min Jang, Hongsil Jeong
  • Patent number: 11044726
    Abstract: In a wireless communication network that operates according to a communication protocol that permits transmissions via multiple channels corresponding to multiple different frequency bandwidths, a communication device receives a packet via a first communication channel that spans a first frequency bandwidth. The communication device determines a second communication channel for transmitting an acknowledgment packet, the second communication channel spanning a second frequency bandwidth that is less than the first frequency bandwidth, the acknowledgment packet responsive to receiving the packet. The communication device transmits the acknowledgment packet via the second communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, Xiayu Zheng, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 11044723
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment may comprise: at least one antenna; a first communication circuit connected to the at least one antenna and configured to communicate using a long term evolution (LTE) signal in a licensed band and an LTE signal in an unlicensed band; and a second communication circuit connected to the first communication circuit and at least a part of the at least one antenna, and configured to communicate using a Wi-Fi signal in the unlicensed band. The first communication circuit is configured to, acquire, from the second communication circuit, information on state of a channel in the unlicensed band associated with the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, and determine a time interval associated with processing of the LTE signal in the unlicensed band. Various other embodiments recognized from the specification are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Park, Dae Ho Kang, Chang Won Nam, Hyung Yeol Lee, Chaiman Lim, Won Joon Cho
  • Patent number: 11039499
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for discontinuous reception (DRX) wake up procedures over millimeter wave (mmW) frequency resources. A base station may use multiple antenna ports to transmit one or more beamformed downlink transmissions to a user equipment (UE). The downlink transmissions may include beam-swept reference signals, and the UE may initiate a wake up procedure prior to a configured DRX-On cycle to receive the reference signals. Based on the reception of the reference signals, the UE may train a set of receive beams and determine a preferred downlink transmit beam. The base station may subsequently transmit at least a portion of a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) in a beam-swept manner, and the UE may evaluate the C-RNTI transmission on the preferred transmit beam. The UE may also transmit an uplink response indicating the preferred transmit beam to receive downlink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Ashwin Sampath, Sundar Subramanian, Juergen Cezanne, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Jianghong Luo
  • Patent number: 11039392
    Abstract: The present description relates to a frequency-based wake-up device and a sensor communication device using such the same. The present invention comprises: a RF signal to voltage converter for receiving a wireless signal including a first signal and a second signal and converting the frequency of the preamble to voltage to generate a driving voltage and provide the same; a decoder activated by the driving voltage and extracts ID information of the sensor communication device by decoding the second signal; and a signal processor that is activated by the driving voltage and compares the extracted ID information of the sensor communication device by the decoder with pre-stored ID information of a pre-determined sensor communication device and notifies of reception of a wake-up signal when the extracted ID information and the pre-stored ID information are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventors: Hoon Oh, Trang Tien Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11039391
    Abstract: A low-power transmission system for periodically transmitted data communicates the periodic data as an interval between two transmitted anchor symbols when the transmitter and associated circuitry are shut down. Meaningful power savings for short data words is obtained by use of a star topology allowing elimination of the receiver power consumption. Multi-bit anchor symbols provide improved error detection and the separation of simultaneous transmission from multiple transmitters by a single receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Wisonsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Bhuvana Krishnaswamy, Yaman Sangar
  • Patent number: 11032139
    Abstract: Examples described herein include methods, devices, and systems which may implement different processing stages for wireless communication in processing units. Such data processing may include a source data processing stage, a baseband processing stage, a digital front-end processing stage, and a radio frequency (RF) processing stage. Data may be received from a sensor of device and then processed in the stages to generate output data for transmission. Processing the data in the various stages may occur during an active time period of a discontinuous operating mode. During the active time period, a reconfigurable hardware platform may allocate all or a portion of the processing units to implement the processing stages. Examples of systems and methods described herein may facilitate the processing of data for 5G (e.g., New Radio (NR)) wireless communications in a power-efficient and time-efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Jaime Cummins, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz
  • Patent number: 11032790
    Abstract: A wireless communications system including a base station and a terminal, the wireless communications system capable of communications between terminals through a first path and communications between terminals through a second path which different the first path, the wireless communications system includes: a plurality of terminals; and the base station including to: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to process related to proximity-based communications between a plurality of terminals; obtain identifiers of the terminal and information enables determination of whether to use the second path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Shinichiro Aikawa, Takayoshi Ode
  • Patent number: 11032871
    Abstract: A control entity in a wireless communications system obtains discontinuous reception information for a plurality of wireless terminals and configures one or more of said wireless terminals, based on the obtained discontinuous reception information, to harmonise the awake periods of the plurality of wireless terminals. The control entity determines a common reception period for the plurality of wireless terminals such that a broadcast or multicast transmission during the common reception period is received simultaneously by the wireless terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Parth Amin, Nicklas Beijar
  • Patent number: 11032767
    Abstract: Embodiments for a module for scheduling sleep/wake intervals for a first one or more communication devices are disclosed. The module includes a computer readable medium having instructions thereon. The instructions, when executed by one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to obtain a coverage prediction for the first one or more communication devices. The coverage prediction indicates intervals during which a second one or more communication devices are predicted to be within range of the first one or more communication devices. The instructions also cause the one or more processing devices to generate sleep intervals and wake intervals for the first one or more communication devices based on the coverage predictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventor: Barry A. Trent
  • Patent number: 11026212
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling wireless connectivity between a user equipment device (UE) and an access node, where the access node supports operation on an FDD carrier and a TDD carrier, where FDD carrier has an uplink bandwidth, and where the TDD carrier has an effective uplink bandwidth that is defined based on an actual bandwidth of the TDD carrier limited by how often the TDD carrier is uplink (e.g., per a frame configuration). A method includes detecting, when the UE is connected with the access node on the TDD carrier, that the UE will engage in a threshold great extent of uplink data communication to the access node and, responsive to at least the detecting, reconfiguring the UE's connection by replacing the TDD carrier with the FDD carrier, based on the uplink bandwidth of the FDD carrier being greater than the effective uplink bandwidth of the TDD carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Hemanth B. Pawar, Krishna Sitaram, Shilpa K. Srinivas
  • Patent number: 11026154
    Abstract: A wireless network comprises nodes, including routers having a tree-shaped communication topology and end devices, communicate in accordance a network protocol, wherein the routers transmit beacons in respective timeslots within a periodic beaconing interval, passively scan for messages, and, in response to receiving a message, transmit an acknowledgement thereof the received message. An end device that has a message that is pending transmission, passively scans for beacons transmitted from any router; and in response thereto, transmits the message, and passively scans for an acknowledgement, repeating those steps if no acknowledgement is received. This provides responsivity in an environment having rapidly changing propagation paths. To reduce power consumption, the end devices do not passively scan for beacons except when they have a message that is pending transmission, and also at predetermined times for reception of a downstream message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SALUNDA LIMITED
    Inventors: Grant Nicholls, Philip Samuel Pickles, Andrew Henry John Larkins, John Mark Newton
  • Patent number: 11026176
    Abstract: Device wakeups can consume a significant amount of power with respect to the device's total power battery lifetime. Aspects of a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are presented herein that provide a solution to the problem of battery strain by improving the manner in which a wireless device coordinates device wakeup for multiple applications or multiple operations. An apparatus receives a wakeup time interval from each of a plurality of applications. The apparatus forms a first device wakeup time interval, the first device wakeup time interval including overlapping wakeup time intervals for the plurality of applications. The apparatus schedules a device wakeup during at least the first device wakeup time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamza Ijaz Abbasi, Ralph Akram Gholmieh, Elmira Mazloomian, Liangchi Hsu, Alan Soloway, Osama Lotfallah, Carlos Marcelo Dias Pazos
  • Patent number: 11026126
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses and computer programs for facilitating MBMS reception. There is provided a method performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining, for a terminal device served by a PLMN, PLMN information related to one or more PLMNs and providing the PLMN information to the terminal device, which can prepare for reception of MBMS from a PLMN other than the serving PLMN among the one or more PLMNs based on the PLMN information. The one or more PLMNs comprise at least one PLMN other than the PLMN serving the terminal device. With embodiments of the present disclosure, performance of MBMS reception can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhang Zhang, Qianxi Lu, Marco Belleschi
  • Patent number: 11026171
    Abstract: A wireless device starts a deactivation timer of a secondary cell based on receiving a MAC command indicating activation of the secondary cell. The deactivation timer is restarted in response to receiving a first DCI comprising: a first field indicating an uplink resource block assignment; and a first trigger field indicating that the first DCI is triggered in response to a second trigger of a second DCI. The second DCI is received and comprises: a second trigger field indicating the second trigger; and a second field indicating a subframe offset value. The deactivation timer is restarted in response to receiving the second DCI. In response to the second trigger, transport block(s) are transmitted using the uplink resource block assignment of a subframe. A position of the subframe is determined based on the subframe offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 11025293
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for data transmission in synchronization slots. A method for use by a base station for data transmission in synchronization slots includes transmitting a synchronization signal (SS) burst, wherein different SS blocks of the burst are transmitted using different transmit beams and performing frequency division multiplexing (FDM) or time division multiplexing (TDM) to include one or more other types of signals that need to be multicast and are also transmitted using the different transmit beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Xiao Feng Wang, Makesh Pravin John Wilson
  • Patent number: 11026175
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices enable coexistence of traffic for collocated transceivers. Methods may include generating, using a processing device, a target-wake-time (TWT) agreement, the TWT agreement being determined based on availability of a first transceiver and a plurality of wireless devices. The methods may also include generating, using the processing device, a medium access schedule for the first transceiver based on a transmission parameter of a second transceiver, the second transceiver being collocated with the first transceiver and sharing a transmission medium with the first transceiver, and the medium access schedule being a TWT schedule. The methods may further include transmitting the TWT schedule to the plurality of wireless devices, the TWT schedule identifying a plurality of wake times and a plurality of sleep times to the plurality of wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Raghavendra Kencharla, Rajendra Kumar Gundu Rao, Sri Ramya Thota, Raghunatha Kondareddy, Kamesh Medapalli
  • Patent number: 11025291
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein are directed to techniques for improving battery life performance of end devices in resource monitoring systems which transmit data using low-power, wide area network (LPWAN) technologies. Further, the techniques include providing sensor interfaces in the end devices configured to communicate with multiple types of metrology sensors. Additionally, the systems and methods include techniques for reducing the size of a concentrator of a gateway device which receives resource measurement data from end devices. The reduced size of the concentrator results in smaller, more compact gateway devices that consume less energy and reduce heat dissipation experienced in gateway devices. The concentrator may comply with modular interface standards, and include two radios configured for transmitting 1-watt signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: APANA Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Rose, Frank Burns, Matthew Maher Peterson, Canyon Daniel Peckham, Valentin Siderskiy, David Royce Humphrey, Thomas Remmers
  • Patent number: 11026172
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for establishing communications with one or more devices. In one aspect, a first device generates a wake-up radio (WUR) frame, the WUR frame including a media access control (MAC) header and a frame check sequence (FCS) having a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) or a message integrity check (MIC). The first device may determine the FCS based, at least in part, on the MAC header and basic service set identifier (BSSID) information associated with the first device. The first device may output the WUR frame for transmission to one or more devices. A second device may receive the WUR frame from the first device and determine whether the WUR frame is directed to the second device based, at least in part, on comparing the FCS of the WUR frame with a calculated FCS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer
  • Patent number: 11019572
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device in a UE and a base station for power adjustment. The UE transmits a first radio signal in a first time window, wherein the first radio signal is used for determining K difference value(s) corresponding to K reference power(s), and the reference power is a power estimated for transmission of an uplink channel. Measurement(s) for K antenna port group(s) are used for determining the K reference power(s respectively), the first radio signal is used for determining position(s) of the K antenna port group(s) in L antenna port groups, the antenna port group comprises a positive integer number of antenna ports, and all antenna ports in the L antenna port groups are used for one same serving cell. The disclosure can support multiple independent closed-loop power control processes for one serving cell or carrier, thereby improving efficiency and performance of uplink power control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11019596
    Abstract: When mobile terminated devices sleep, the devices might not be reachable when needed, for instance when the device is a recipient of data from a third party server. As described herein, a third party application server may inform the network that it has data to send to a particular UE or group of UEs. In an example, the mobile core network (MCN) may use information from the third party server to ensure that the UE is awake when it needs to be. For example, a given UE or group of UEs can be prevented from entering a sleep state before a data transfer is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Michael F. Starsinic, Catalina Mihaela Mladin, Rocco Di Girolamo, Hongkun Li, Chonggang Wang, Zhuo Chen, Dale N. Seed
  • Patent number: 11019566
    Abstract: The present application is directed to computer-implemented apparatus for controlling a power savings mode characteristic of a device on a network. The apparatus includes a non-transitory memory with instructions for controlling power saving mode characteristic of the device and a processor operably coupled thereto. The processor performs the step of receiving a request to update the characteristics of the device. The processor also performs the step of updating the characteristics of the device based upon the request. The processor further performs the step of sending an acknowledgment that the characteristic has been updated. The application is also directed to a computer-implemented apparatus on a network for supporting buffering and data handling for a power savings mode of a device on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Suresh Palanisamy, Michael F. Starsinic, Quang Ly, Jasvir Singh Ramam, Darshan Appajigowda, Nithya Vijay
  • Patent number: 11019507
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processing method for changing an operating mode for transmitting a PPDU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a first station transmits, to a second station, the number of spatial streams supported by the first station, and a first instructional information instructing a change of the operating mode indicating a channel bandwidth. The first station applies the first instructional information after receiving an ACK therefor. The first instructional information comprises an operating mode indicator for indicating whether the operating mode is a receive operating mode (ROM) or a transmit operating mode (TOM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunhee Park, Kiseon Ryu, Suhwook Kim, Jeongki Kim, Hangyu Cho
  • Patent number: 11019660
    Abstract: In 802.11ax networks with access points, a trigger frame offers scheduled and random resource units to nodes for data uplink communication to the access points. To make more effective the usage of the network, the access point may design the trigger frame to force the nodes to send some categories of data. Resource units may be defined in trigger frames to be dedicated to small packets or to some access category data. Adjusting the time length of the resource units helps restricting the type of data that can be conveyed by the resource units. Also, using various frequency widths for resource units in the same trigger frame helps reducing padding in the resource units when various traffic types coexist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Stéphane Baron, Romain Guignard, Pascal Viger, Patrice Nezou
  • Patent number: 11018813
    Abstract: A terminal receives downlink scheduling information of a downlink subframe F(i, j), where a set M of preconfigured downlink subframes in which the downlink subframe F(i, j) is located is divided into N subsets of preconfigured downlink subframes, a bit quantity of a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement HARQ-ACK that needs to be fed back for each downlink subframe in one subset of preconfigured downlink subframes is a predetermined value, and bit quantities of HARQ-ACKs that need to be fed back for any downlink subframes in different subsets of preconfigured downlink subframes are different. The terminal generates a HARQ-ACK codebook according to a receiving status of downlink data. And the terminal generates uplink control information after encoding the HARQ-ACK codebook; and a sending module sends the uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Guan, Yongxia Lyu, Jiehua Xiao
  • Patent number: 11012972
    Abstract: A relay user equipment (UE) linked to a remote UE relays paging to the remote UE. The relay UE transmits paging frame (PF) information and paging occasion (PO) information to the remote UE. The relay UE receives a paging message for the remote UE in a PO of the remote UE or in a PO of the relay UE within a PF of the relay UE on the basis of the PF information and the PO information. The relay UE relays the paging message to the remote UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jongwoo Hong, Jaewook Lee, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 11012932
    Abstract: A data communication method and apparatus are provided. The data communication method includes: receiving, by a station (STA), a wake-up packet sent by an access point (AP), where the wake-up packet includes basic service set (BSS) parameter indication information, the BSS parameter indication information includes BSS parameter change indication information or a target parameter of a primary BSS to which a primary transceiver of the STA currently belongs, and the BSS parameter change indication information is used to indicate whether a critical parameter of the primary BSS changes when the primary transceiver of the STA is in a sleep state; and communicating, by the primary transceiver of the STA, with the AP based on the BSS parameter indication information. The embodiments of the present application can be used to effectively ensure that the primary transceiver of the STA successfully communicates with the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Gan, Meilu Lin, Xun Yang
  • Patent number: 11013020
    Abstract: In embodiments, one or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, i.e., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Embodiments of the disclosure relate to NAN datapath scheduling and NAN pre-datapath operation setup and scheduling. The NAN datapath embodiments described herein provide a mechanism through which stations can communicate and provide services. In particular, embodiments described herein relate to the use of cancelable and non-cancelable further availability windows in conjunction with NAN communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Christiaan A. Hartman, Lawrie Kurian, Peter N. Heerboth
  • Patent number: 11013055
    Abstract: An interface of a terminal switches between at least one active state (283) and a sleep state (281) according to a schedule (200). Uplink control data is transmitted which is indicative of a temporary prolongation (209) of the at least one active state (283).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Lars Nord, Rickard Ljung, Svante Alnas, Linh Trang, Anders Berggren
  • Patent number: 11012945
    Abstract: Methods and devices for allocating power among a plurality of circuits in a communication device, including determining a power budget for allocating to the plurality of circuits from a power supply information; receiving an activity status from a first circuit of the plurality of circuits; determining a first power value based on the activity status; deriving a second power value based on the first power value and the power budget; and allocating power to one or more remaining circuits of the plurality of circuits based on the second power value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Hasholzner, Eugene Gorbatov, Piotr Janik, Ajay Gupta, Ashish Singh, Kenan Kocagoez, Johannes Brendel
  • Patent number: 11013056
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to mechanisms for dynamic prioritization of uplink (UL) traffic at a user equipment (UE). In some examples, the UE may determine to delay transmission of UL traffic by skipping one or more UL transmission opportunities based on one or more factors, such as a power saving indication, a priority level of the UL traffic, a type of the UL traffic, a volume of the UL traffic, and/or current channel conditions. In some examples, the UE may be configured with a parameter controlling the ability of the UE to delay a transmission of UL traffic. In some examples, when the UE is operating in a semi-persistent scheduling mode and a power saving mode, such as a connected mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode, the UE may dynamically interrupt an OFF duration of the C-DRX cycle to transmit UL traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Mutaz Shukair, Linhai He