Signaling For Performing Battery Saving Patents (Class 370/311)
  • Patent number: 11006452
    Abstract: A method implemented by a station (STA) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to disregard a Network Allocation Vector (NAV) maintained by the STA. The method includes receiving a first Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) from an Access Point (AP), where the first PPDU elicits an immediate response from the STA, determining whether the NAV maintained by the STA was previously set using a duration indicated in a second PPDU that originated from a same Basic Service Set (BSS) as a BSS that the STA is associated with, and transmitting a third PPDU to the AP as an immediate response to the first PPDU without regard for the NAV maintained by the STA in response to a determination that the NAV maintained by the STA was previously set using the duration indicated in the second PPDU that originated from the BSS that the STA is associated with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yujin Noh, Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 11006364
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit (or a base station may receive) a beam failure recovery (BFR) request based at least in part on detecting a beam failure while the user equipment is in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode; and the user equipment may receive (or the base station may transmit) a response to the BFR request, wherein the response uses a particular structure based at least in part on the beam failure occurring during the DRX mode. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne
  • Patent number: 11006390
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to the present invention, a method by which a transmission device transmits a signal is a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band comprises the steps of: detecting the need for controlling a clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold during the performance of a CCA process; and controlling the CCA threshold used in the CCA process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Min Moon, Sun-Heui Ryoo, Seung-Hoon Park, Jung-Soo Jung
  • Patent number: 10999798
    Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may provide a wake-up beacon to a recipient electronic device. During operation, the interface circuit may provide a wake-up beacon associated with a predefined sub-channel in one or more channels in a band of frequencies, where the wake-up beacon is for a wake-up radio in the recipient electronic device. Moreover, the wake-up beacon may be provided within an associated time interval, such as a keep-alive interval of the electronic device. In some embodiments, the wake-up beacon includes a field with channel information that specifies one or more second channels used by a main radio in the recipient electronic device. Alternatively or additionally, the wake-up beacon may include a field with service information that specifies one or more types of services and/or a field with information specifying a transmit power of the interface circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Yong Liu, Oren Shani, Christiaan A. Hartman, Xiaowen Wang, Christian W. Mucke, Tushar R. Shah, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Matthew L. Semersky, Yoel Boger, Josef Peery, Rajneesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 10993189
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided, wherein configuration information for a transmission is determined based on a configured uplink grant. Information of an assigned one of a plurality of different received by a network entity power levels for each user equipment for a given transmission instance is received. A transmit power offset is determined, based on the received information of the assigned one of the plurality of different received by the network entity power levels. A transmit power for transmission is determined, based on the configuration information of the configured uplink grant and by applying the determined transmit power offset. An uplink transmission is performed using the determined transmit power for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Hossein Bagheri, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 10992489
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, communication circuitry performing wireless connection with an external electronic device, a processor operatively coupled with the display and the communication circuitry, and a memory operatively connected with the processor. Based on executing instructions stored in the memory, the processor is configured to control the electronic device to receive information on a first notification message generated within the external electronic device using the communication circuitry. Based on instructions stored in the memory being executed, the processor controls the electronic device to display the first notification message through the display. Based on the instructions stored in the memory being executed, the processor is configured to control the electronic device to receive one or more second notification messages which have been generated within the external electronic device prior to the first notification message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co, , Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyeok Lee, Taikuin Mun, Jaehoon Lee, Jongkeun Choi
  • Patent number: 10993180
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing wake-up radio (WUR) signals are disclosed. In accordance with some implementations, a base station determines a numerology for WUR signaling and a WUR signaling configuration. The base station may transmit a WUR signal to one or more UEs based on the determined numerology and the signaling configuration. The base station, in response to transmitting a WUR signal, may transmit a paging message to the one or more UEs. Systems and methods for monitoring WUR signals are also disclosed. In accordance with some implementations, a wireless device determines numerology for WUR signal and WUR signaling configuration. A wireless device may monitor a WUR signal based on the determined numerology and the signaling configuration. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Ly, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10986680
    Abstract: A terminal communication method includes obtaining, by a communications device, start information and length information, where the start information is used to indicate a start location of a first time resource. The method further comprises determining the first time resource based on the start information and the length information, where the first time resource is used to indicate a transmit or receive time resource of a sidelink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Cai, Yongbo Zeng, Da Wang
  • Patent number: 10986586
    Abstract: A method of path loss estimation at a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving a downlink cell-specific signal block comprising a synchronization channel and a broadcasting channel demodulation reference signal; receiving control information indicative of a signal transmission power of the downlink cell-specific signal block; and determining an estimated path loss for the UE based at least in part on the signal transmission power of the downlink cell-specific signal block and a received power of the downlink cell-specific signal block filtered using a layer 3 filtering coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhengwei Gong, Javad Abdoli, Mohammadhadi Baligh
  • Patent number: 10986564
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described. A method includes determining whether the apparatus is in a coverage enhancement (CE) mode or a non-CE mode. The method further includes receiving a CE-system information block (CE-SIB) on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on at least one of a known location or at least one known parameter for the CE-SIB, on a condition that the WTRU is determined to be in the CE mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Samian Kaur, Diana Pani
  • Patent number: 10986674
    Abstract: A communication processing system for a working machine, includes a communication device disposed on the working machine, the communication device having a first communicator to transmit a first beacon, and a mobile terminal having a second communicator to be connected to the communication device when receiving the first beacon, the communication device having transmitted the first beacon. The first communicator transmits a second beacon other than the first beacon to the mobile terminal connected to the communication device in accordance with the first beacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Keisuke Egashira
  • Patent number: 10979977
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method at a User Equipment (UE) comprising determining that a current radio resource configuration is of a normal type, and responsive to the determining, prohibiting the UE from sending a Power Preference Indication (PPI) for a radio resource configuration of the normal type. Also disclosed is a method at a UE comprising: determining that a current radio resource configuration is of a power optimized type, and responsive to the determining, prohibiting the UE from sending a PPI for a radio resource configuration of the power optimized type. Also disclosed is a UE including a processor, the UE configured to: determine that a current radio resource configuration is of a normal type, and responsive to the determining, refrain from sending a PPI for a radio resource configuration of the normal type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Gordon Peter Young, Nicholas William Anderson, Eswar Vutukuri
  • Patent number: 10980024
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: a receiver configured to receive a first frame notifying a start of resource unit-based OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) communication via a first channel; and controlling circuitry configured to control, when the first frame is received, the receiver to perform standby operation at least in a first resource unit in a second channel different from the first channel, wherein the first resource unit includes one or more subcarriers among a plurality of subcarriers disposed in the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Tomoko Adachi, Tomoya Tandai
  • Patent number: 10980060
    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: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Stéphane Baron, Romain Guignard, Pascal Viger, Patrice Nezou
  • Patent number: 10979266
    Abstract: Provided is a base wireless communication terminal. The base wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a mixed Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including both data for a Long Range (LR) wireless communication terminal and data for a non-LR wireless communication terminal to the LR wireless communication terminal and the non-LR wireless communication terminal using the transceiver. The LR PPDU including only the data for the LR wireless communication terminal has a narrower bandwidth than a bandwidth of the non-LR PPDU including only the data for the non-LR wireless communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., HUMAX NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Bonho Koo, Kiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 10979973
    Abstract: A power control method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining, by a first station obtaining a transmission opportunity (TXOP), status indication information after determining working statuses of M second stations during the TXOP, where the status indication information is used to instruct a second station in the M second stations that needs to receive data during the TXOP to remain in a listening state, and instruct a second station in the M second stations that does not need to receive data during the TXOP to enter a sleep state; and sending, by the first station, the status indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Liu, Peter Loc, Jia Jia
  • Patent number: 10972976
    Abstract: A station wake-up method including: sending, by a radio access point, a work time extension indication message to wake-up modules of n stations in associated stations, where a station includes a wake-up module and a communications module, the wake-up modules of the n stations are in an awake state, n is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the work time extension indication message is used for instructing the wake-up modules of the n stations to add a new awake window after a current awake window; and sending, by the radio access point, a wake-up message to a wake-up module of at least one of the n stations, where the wake-up message is used for instructing the station to wake up a corresponding communications module, and the wake-up message is sent in a current awake window or a new awake window of the at least one station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoxian Li, Ping Fang
  • Patent number: 10972909
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to synched group key rekeying. A device may determine a first security key used for group-addressed management frames. The device may perform a security key rekeying to use a second security key in place of the first security key. The device may cause to send the second security key to a first station device of one or more station devices. The device may cause to send a first beacon frame comprising a switch announcement information element (IE) associated with the second security key. The device may cause to send a second beacon frame, wherein the second beacon frame does not comprise the switch announcement IE. The device may determine to switch to the second security key based on the switch announcement IE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ido Ouzieli, Stanislav Gens, Emily H. Qi, Izoslav Tchigevsky
  • Patent number: 10972980
    Abstract: An apparatus for implementing power control for a radio device that has multiple radio transceivers operating in different bands, including sub-bands of a single frequency band. The device implements a power control protocol for communications between the device and a similar peer device. The device sets-up the power control protocol by generating a request to use one of the multiple bands to signal power control operations, and to use another one of the multiple bands to transfer data between the device and the peer device. The device sends the request to the peer device and receives a response. Based on the response, the device identifies a control channel band and a data channel band from among the multiple bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Yaron Alpert, Robert J. Stacey
  • Patent number: 10972977
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a high-efficiency short training field sequence generation method, a signal sending method, a signal receiving method, and related apparatuses, where the high-efficiency short training sequence generation method includes: increasing frequency domain density of a frequency domain sequence corresponding to a first high-efficiency short training field sequence to generate a frequency domain sequence with increased frequency domain density; generating a second high-efficiency short training field sequence according to the frequency domain sequence with increased frequency domain density; and using the second high-efficiency short training field sequence as a high-efficiency short training field sequence in a preamble sequence of a data transmission frame in a wireless local area network WLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Lin, Le Liu, Jun Zhu, Weishan Lu
  • Patent number: 10966152
    Abstract: A method, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a base station for transferring small packets are described. The WTRU generates a packet that has one or more of a medium access control (MAC) or a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) header, the one or more of the MAC or the PLCP header including a field. On a condition that the WTRU has data buffered for transmission, the WTRU includes in the field information that indicates a time or a transmission opportunity (TXOP) needed to transmit at least one packet of data that the WTRU has buffered for transmission. The WTRU transmits the packet to another WTRU in the wireless network. The WTRU receives another packet from the other WTRU with a granted TXO) based on the time needed to transmit the at least one packet of the data that the WTRU has buffered for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaofei Wang, Guodong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10966153
    Abstract: A user node comprises a first modem capable of receiving a full set of resource elements and a secondary transceiver modem capable of receiving a subset of resource elements among the full set of resource elements, the subset of resource elements comprising resource element blocks. The first transceiver modem is configured to receive first control information identifying the subset of the resource elements and second control information enabling determination of a currently used resource element block among the subset of resource elements, send the first control information and the second control information to the secondary transceiver modem and enter into a reduced power state. The secondary transceiver modem is configured to receive at least one signal in the subset of resource elements while the first transceiver modem is in the reduced power state, determine a control decision and output at least one command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kari Heiska, Kari Juhani Leppanen, Pauli Seppinen
  • Patent number: 10966150
    Abstract: The application relates to a method for operating a first wireless device (100) in a wireless network. At least one target wireless device (200) is determined which should receive a wake up signal by which a wake up receiver of the at least one target wireless device is informed that a main transceiver of the target wireless device should be ready for receiving at least a first message from the first wireless device, Furthermore a frequency is determined at which the at least first message should be transmitted to the at least one target wireless device, and a frequency information is encoded into the wake up signal with which at least one target wireless device is informed about the frequency at which the at least first message will be received. The wake up signal is transmitted with the encoded frequency information to the at least one target wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Parth Amin, Luis Felipe Del Carpio Vega
  • Patent number: 10966075
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing virtual beacons are presented. According to one aspect, a method for providing a virtual beacon at a first location comprises transmitting, by a transmitter at a second location geographically different from the first location, an information signal using a transmit power level, Pj, and including an advertised transmit power level, PA, both selected to be indicative of a distance, d, between a location of a receiver of the information signal and the first location. The signal transmitted from the second location emulates a signal that would have been produced by a beacon located at the first location. The information signals may be aimed at one or more User Equipments (UEs), and/or may be focused on one or more specific target locations rather than on individual UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Roland Smith, Pontus Arvidson, Leif Wilhelmsson
  • Patent number: 10966249
    Abstract: Distributed resource allocation for devices can be facilitated via a priority sequencing scheme. The priority sequencing scheme can mitigate source device collisions by assigning priority values to source devices and channels associated with the source devices. Various priority sequencing can be used based upon whether source devices can only communicate with a limited number of sink devices or whether source devices can communicate with all sink devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Li Lin, Ching-Yao Huang
  • Patent number: 10964118
    Abstract: Systems and methods of using augmented reality (AR) with object recognition (OR) in a physical environment to advance a narrative may be provided. For example, the system may access narrative data representing the narrative. The system may, for a first node of the one or more nodes: generate a user interface associated with the narrative for the first node and access a first decision rule specifying a first physical object to be recognized to advance past the first node in the narrative. The system may further perform image recognition on an image of the physical environment, determine that the first physical object is in the physical environment based on the image recognition, transition from the first node in the narrative based on the first decision rule and the determination, and update the user interface to a second node in the narrative based on the transition from the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: PARTICLE INK, LLC
    Inventor: Sephi Joseph Shapira
  • Patent number: 10965503
    Abstract: Aspects directed towards wake-up signal (WUS) scrambling sequence design are disclosed. In one example, a time-based scrambling sequence that facilitates a phase shift in time may be generated according to a time parameter associated with a WUS or a paging occasion (PO). A scrambled WUS may be generated by multiplying a WUS base sequence by the time-based scrambling sequence, and subsequently transmitted to at least one scheduled entity. In another example, a scrambled WUS may be received from a scheduling entity. A time-based scrambling sequence associated with the WUS may be identified in which the time-based scrambling sequence facilitates a phase shift in time and corresponds to a time parameter associated with a WUS or a PO. The WUS may be descrambled according to the time-based scrambling sequence. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino
  • Patent number: 10958497
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a modulation symbol. The processing method includes: a transmitter obtaining a transmission power ratio ?j, wherein in the transmission power ratio ?j?{?0, ?1, ?2}, j is a natural number, and ?0, ?1 and ?2 are all positive numbers; and the transmitter modulating a first group of bit sequences b0(i), b0(i+1) and a second group of bit sequences b1(i), b1(i+1), . . . , b1(i+n) according to the transmission power ratio ?j so as to obtain a modulation symbol, wherein i is a natural number, and n?{1, 3, 5}. The present invention solves the problem in the relevant art that an uncertain number of transmission power ratios affects the performance of a system and increases the design complexity of signaling, thereby reducing signaling overheads and improving system stability and demodulation performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hong Tang, Jianqiang Dai, Zhifeng Yuan
  • Patent number: 10959174
    Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may receive a wake-up-radio (WUR)-setup request associated with a recipient electronic device, where the WUR-setup request specifies one or more proposed data criteria or wake-up criteria that indicate when a wake-up frame is to be transmitted to the recipient electronic device. In response, the electronic device may determine one or more data criteria (or wake-up criteria) for use based at least in part on the one or more proposed data criteria. Then, the interface circuit may provide a WUR-setup response intended for the recipient electronic device, where the WUR-setup response indicates acceptance of the one or more proposed data criteria for use as the one or more data criteria or a proposed modification of at least one of the one or more proposed data criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jarkko L. Kneckt, Yong Liu, Su Khiong Yong, Christiaan A. Hartman, Guoqing Li
  • Patent number: 10959176
    Abstract: A system for a tag includes a network controller that, when it has information to send to a tag, is configured to communicate with the tag's neighbors, such as anchors that may be used for communication between the tag and the network controller. In this regard, the network controller may instruct the tag's neighbors to stun the tag upon hearing from the tag. Thus, when the tag transitions out of a sleep state and transmits a status message or other type of message to the network controller or other resource of the network, at least one neighbor of the tag hears the message and, in response, stuns the tag so that it remains awake for a longer period of time, thereby giving the network controller sufficient time to send control information or other information to the tag. Since the neighbors are responsible for stunning the tag, the amount of time required to stun the tag after it awakens from the sleep state is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Synapse Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Coleman D. Bagwell
  • Patent number: 10952139
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus is configured to receive information indicating a wake time period from a STA and use the received wake time period to schedule communication with the STA. The apparatus may use the received wake time period to determine a target transmission time for transmitting a trigger frame to the STA. The apparatus may transmit a beacon to the STA and then transmit the trigger frame to the STA at the target transmission time following the beacon. The apparatus may also indicate an offset from the beacon that the apparatus will use for communication with the STA based on the wake time period of the STA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Simone Merlin, Sandip Homchaudhuri, Zhanfeng Jia, Sumeet Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Yenganti
  • Patent number: 10952158
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing power control of a physical channel in a communication system are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method in a wireless device of performing power control of a physical channel in a wireless communication system may include determining a transmission power for a transmission on the physical channel according to a power control loop. Further, the loop may specify the transmission power based on at least one parameter. Also, a value of the at least one parameter may be dependent on which of different transmission time interval (TTI) lengths defined as usable on the physical channel is selected for the transmission on the physical channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gustav Almquist, Mattias Andersson, Laetitia Falconetti, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 10952140
    Abstract: The power saving method includes storing current connection information of an electronic device corresponding to an access point; disconnecting power supply to designated hardware to form a disconnection state after storing the current connection information; determining whether the disconnection state conforms to a release condition; and connecting the power supply to the designated hardware if the disconnection state conforms to the release condition. The connecting of the power supply to the designated hardware includes loading final connection information of the electronic device corresponding to the access point prior to disconnecting the power supply, and utilizing the final connection information to guide the electronic device to connect the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor Korea Inc.
    Inventor: Chang Hawn Park
  • Patent number: 10945203
    Abstract: This application provides a wake-up method, a station, and an access point. The method is performed in a communications system. The communications system can include an access point (AP) and at least one station (STA). The AP includes a wake-up transceiver (WUR) and a main transceiver. The method can include determining, by a first STA, that the AP is in a sleep state, where when the AP is in the sleep state, the main transceiver of the AP is in an off state. The method can also include transmitting, by the first STA, a wake-up frame to the WUR of the AP, where the wake-up frame triggers the WUR of the AP to wake up the main transceiver of the AP. Therefore, an uplink data transmission latency can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuchen Guo
  • Patent number: 10945107
    Abstract: According to an example aspect, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, with the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to obtain information characterizing physical surroundings of the apparatus, transmit the information characterizing the physical surroundings to a network entity, and responsive to the transmission, receive provisioning information and associate the apparatus with the provisioning information
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Arto Palin, Jukka Pekka Reunamäki
  • Patent number: 10945221
    Abstract: Processing relating to transmit power is efficiently performed. A terminal device includes a reception unit configured to receive a first parameter and a second parameter, and a first MAC processing unit configured to acquire a type 2 power headroom. The first MAC processing unit acquires a value of the type 2 power headroom for a primary cell, in a case that the first parameter is configured and that simultaneous transmissions on a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) and on a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) are configured, and acquires a value of the type 2 power headroom for the primary cell, regardless of whether simultaneous transmissions on the Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) and on the Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) are configured in a case that the second parameter is configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki, Kazunari Yokomakura, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10939310
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus in a wireless network that allow devices, such as client devices and access points (APs), having software defined radios (SDRs) to change operating behavior depending on network RF environment conditions are disclosed. The devices may be instructed to operate according to differently defined behavior profiles that may be chosen based on RF environment conditions. The profiles may be stored in a database. A particular profile may be obtained from the database for one or more devices based on an interference level within an RF environment of the devices. The profiles may be implemented to change device operating behavior so that interference is reduced or minimized in higher levels of interference. The profiles may also be implemented to change device behavior so that interference is reduced in lower levels of interference while also freeing up resources for more efficient use in the network during lower levels of interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Hassan, Paul Mitchell, Aaron Cunningham, Mitesh Desai
  • Patent number: 10939371
    Abstract: A method for power save optimization includes a wireless station receiving a beacon frame from an Access Point (AP), wherein the beacon frame comprises a Traffic Indication Map (TIM) including an Association Identifier (AID) flag corresponding to the wireless station. The wireless station transmits to the AP, a first NULL frame with a Power Save (PS) flag cleared to represent an AWAKE state if the AID flag is TRUE, otherwise the PS flag is set to represent a DEEP SLEEP state. The wireless station receives at least a portion of a data from the AP in response to the AP receiving the first NULL frame during the AWAKE state. The wireless station transmits to the AP, a second NULL frame with the PS flag set to represent the DEEP SLEEP state in response to the wireless station receiving all of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Doru Cristian Gucea
  • Patent number: 10939242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a location-based service technology for a mobile device. The present invention relates to a GPS control system of a mobile device for a location-based service and an operating method therefor, which, even in a state where a GPS receiving unit included in a mobile device for a location-based service is disabled, activates the GPS receiving unit to thus provide the mobile location-based service, and then brings the GPS receiving unit to the original state thereof, and also, when the mobile device moves at a predetermined speed or higher, provides the mobile location-based service by detecting the movement of the mobile device and activating the GPS receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Do-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 10932240
    Abstract: A method by which a terminal transmits a scheduling request (SR) in a wireless communication system, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving information on periodicity of SR transmission and a resource region for periodical SR transmission; receiving downlink control information (DCI) which includes a field related to an SR transmission region in a first subframe; and confirming whether the resource for the SR transmission of the terminal is allocated in the first subframe, even if the first subframe is not the subframe for the periodical SR transmission of the terminal, according to the periodicity of the SR transmission, when a SR field indicates a specific value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangrim Lee, Hojae Lee, Dongkyu Kim, Myeongjin Kim, Kwangseok Noh
  • Patent number: 10932191
    Abstract: A radio terminal (3) can perform carrier aggregation using a first cell (10) of a first radio station (1) and a second cell (20) of a second radio station (2). The first radio station (1) or the second radio station (2) transmits constraint information to the radio terminal (3). The constraint information contains an information element necessary to specify a reception constraint and/or transmission constraint related to the first cell (10) and/or the second cell (20) when the carrier aggregation is performed. The reception/transmission constraint is a constraint related to downlink signal reception/uplink signal transmission by the radio terminal over one or more subframe periods of the primary cell (10) and the secondary cell (20). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to reduction in wasteful power consumption in the radio terminal in the carrier aggregation of a plurality of cells served by different radio stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Hiroaki Aminaka
  • Patent number: 10932229
    Abstract: A method and apparatus may be configured to support coordinated orthogonal block-based resource allocation (COBRA) operations. An access point (AP) may be configured to indicate to a plurality of stations (STA)s that it may support COBRA. Each WTRU may be configured to indicate to the AP that it can support COBRA as well. The AP may be configured to transmit a COBRA controller information element (IE) comprising a plurality of fields to each of the WTRUs. Each WTRU may be configured to transmit a COBRA controllee IE comprising a plurality of fields. STA grouping management, group maintenance, channel access, beamforming, sounding and frequency and synchronization procedures are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Hanqing Lou, Ronald G. Murias, Xiaofei Wang, Nirav B. Shah, Monisha Ghosh, Guodong Zhang, Frank La Sita, Robert L. Olesen
  • Patent number: 10924347
    Abstract: Configuration value persistence management (CVPM) tools and techniques provide faster persistence of networking device configuration values than classic approaches. CVPM consolidates configuration dump events based on certain dump conditions. Configuration value changes are journaled, and running configuration values are dumped to a data store only when the dump conditions are satisfied, instead of dumping all of the running configuration values whenever any of them is changed. Both the persistence of configurations and the restoration of persisted configurations are described. Configuration dump conditions may utilize device availability indicators, device load calculations, configuration change load calculations, dump age, or journal size, for example, or combinations thereof, with various thresholds. Thresholds may be hard, soft, or probabilistic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anish Sagar Narsian, Alberto Gonzalez Prieto
  • Patent number: 10924994
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio communication system wherein radio terminals can communicate using a plurality of component carriers having different frequencies. The communication system has a reception start timing control means for commonly controlling the cycle of reception start timing for predetermined channels in at least some of the component carriers assigned to the radio terminals; and a reception control means for controlling the reception interval of said predetermined channels, said reception intervals being started at the reception start times in at least some of the component carriers assigned to the radio terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Futaki
  • Patent number: 10924254
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a method and a system for long-distance full-duplex wireless communication. The system is mainly composed of a control circuit, at least one wireless transmission module and one or more wireless gateway modules. The wireless gateway module can receive data from a terminal node via one of multiple channels. The control circuit instructs a wireless transmission module to transmit data. The system utilizes the wireless transmission module to deal with the data from the gateway modules. In the method, in order to achieve full-duplex communication, the system obtains transmission parameters of every terminal node, sets up a transmission schedule with respect to signals having various frequencies within designated time slots according to the operating environment of the node, assigns a transmission priority within the time slots and stores the setting in the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KIWI TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Jian-Hong Liu, Chun-Yu Wang, Tsung-Chih Huang
  • Patent number: 10925078
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe configuration and use of sub-physical resource block allocation for physical uplink shared channel and demodulation reference signals. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Debdeep Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 10924912
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving data through a relay in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting and receiving, by a remote user equipment (UE), data to and from a network through a relay UE in a wireless communication system includes: recognizing that small data to be transmitted to the network is generated; performing a discovery procedure through the relay UE and a PC5 interface; and transmitting a PC5 message including the small data to the relay UE when it is verified that the relay UE has an ability to transmit the small data to the network in the discovery procedure, in which when it is indicated that the relay UE supports a small data transmitting procedure by a PC5 discovery message received from the relay UE in the discovery procedure, it may be determined that the relay UE has the ability to transmit the small data to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taehun Kim, Laeyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 10925003
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first communication circuit, a second communication circuit, a processor configured to be electrically connected with the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, and a memory configured to be electrically connected with the processor. The memory includes instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain location information of the electronic device, transmit a first message for requesting to change a state of the electronic device to a network, receive a first response message to the transmitted first message from the network, transmit a second message for requesting a parameter for an operation cycle of the second communication circuit to the network, receive a second response message to the second message from the network, and change the operation cycle of the second communication circuit to a value corresponding to a current state of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Young Cha, Hye Jeong Kim, Jung Hoon Ahn
  • Patent number: 10924900
    Abstract: A charging method, including sending, by a control plane gateway, a first charging trigger event to a user plane gateway, where the first charging trigger event triggering the user plane gateway to generate service usage information, generating, by the user plane gateway, the service usage information when the user plane gateway detects that the first charging trigger event occurs, sending, by the user plane gateway, the service usage information to the control plane gateway, generating, by the control plane gateway, a charging request according to the service usage information, and sending, by the control plane gateway, the charging request to a charging system. Offline charging during packet data network gateway (PGW) control and user (CU) separation is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Li, Runze Zhou
  • Patent number: 10917820
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a wireless communication device and a method for controlling the same and, particularly, to a wireless communication device capable of communicating in different frequency bands, and a method for controlling the same. A method according to an embodiment of the disclosure corresponds to a method for controlling a wireless communication device having a wireless communication unit in accordance with each of a plurality of wireless communication standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventors: Doyoung Jung, Changyeul Kwon, Joosoon Kim, Ilju Na, Yoonjo Oh, Sukjin Yun, Sungrok Yoon, Wonsup Cho, Suyoung Park, Sungchul Park