Signaling For Performing Battery Saving Patents (Class 370/311)
  • Patent number: 10708850
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting and receiving wireless communications over an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band are disclosed, including techniques for transmitting and receiving system information blocks over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, techniques for gaining access to the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band by performing extended clear channel assessments (ECCAs), techniques for transmitting and receiving synchronization signals and reference signals over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, techniques for identifying starting times of downlink transmissions over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, techniques for transmitting and receiving clear channel assessment (CCA)-exempt transmissions over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, techniques for performing random access over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, and techniques for dynamically modifying a transmission mode over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei, Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 10708971
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a mobility management method, user equipment, a storage node, and a base station. The mobility management method may include: determining, by user equipment (UE) in a connected state, a source identifier of the UE, where the source identifier is used to identify the UE; allowing the UE to enter a low consumption state after a low consumption activation condition is met, where in the low consumption state, the UE stores a connection context of the UE in the connected state and performs cell camping based on a cell reselection criterion in a moving process; and reporting, by the UE when a first preset condition is met, the source identifier to a second base station to which a second cell belongs, where the second cell is a serving cell on which the UE currently camps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingzhao Li, Wei Quan, Jian Zhang, Weihua Liu
  • Patent number: 10708069
    Abstract: An Internet of Things (IoT)-based thing management system using block chain authentication, where unit nodes connect to each other through a network, things connect to each other in each of the unit nodes, and control instructions for causing the things to operate are mutually authenticated by the unit nodes. Each of the things performing individual functions separately, and a core which includes n block chain having n blocks recording operation histories of the things thereon. The core generating public and private keys based on the n block chain and providing the keys to each of the things, wherein one of the things includes a controller which has a list of public keys provided by the core. The controller sends a control instruction so as to control operations of the thing. The thing sends the controller a response signal and performs an operation according to the control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Inventor: Sam Gu Chun
  • Patent number: 10701676
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a clear channel assessment (CCA) method, an information receiving method, and apparatuses thereof. The CCA method comprises: sending downlink information on a first carrier, wherein the downlink information comprises first indication information, and the first indication information is used to indicate that at least one part of at least one symbol of at least one subframe is idle; and performing CCA on at least one neighboring carrier of the first carrier in at least a time of the at least one part that is idle. According to the methods and the apparatuses in the embodiments of the present application, a part of channel resources can be reserved when downlink information is transmitted on a carrier, so as to prevent interference caused by local leakage of the carrier to CCA on a neighboring carrier, thereby preventing CCA blocking between carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wentao Liu, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 10701711
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for controlling coexistence interference within a device in a wireless communication system. The method discloses the following steps: performing triggering, in which a transmission, which is generated in a terminal, in a first frequency band of a first network system requests controlling of interference on a reception, which is generated in the terminal, in a second frequency band of a second network system; transmitting to a base station support information including information on a time section that can or cannot be used by the first network system of the second network system, due to the interference; and receiving from the base station reply information for accepting or denying interference control as a reply to the support information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: CORANCI, LLC
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Ahn, Ki Bum Kwon, Myung Cheul Jung
  • Patent number: 10701573
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention are used in a traffic statistics collection process. A traffic statistics collection method includes: when a modem detects a first IP packet, obtaining a first IP address of the first IP packet, and obtaining a packet length of the first IP packet; obtaining, from an in-memory database, an APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet; and when the APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a first PDN, adding the packet length of the first IP packet to a first statistics value of VoLTE traffic, where the first PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yinyuan Jia
  • Patent number: 10694576
    Abstract: A radio release control (RRC) connection release method includes: sending, by user equipment (UE), a first message to a base station, where the first message carries a preset RRC release time determining parameter or a first RRC release time; if the UE adds the first RRC release time to the first message, setting, by the UE, timing duration of a first timer based on the first RRC release time, and starting the first timer; and releasing, by the UE, an RRC connection when the first timer expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Le Yan, Mingzeng Dai, Min Huang, Hongping Zhang, Yi Guo, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 10694573
    Abstract: A system and method provide for receiving, at a radio access network (RAN), a radio resource connection (RRC) connection request from user equipment (UE) in a disconnected/idle state; allocating signaling radio bearer (SRB) resources to the UE; sending an initial UE message to a core network; receiving an initial context set-up from the core network; establishing an RRC session with the UE in an RRC connected state; storing the context information; detecting inactivity in the RRC session while the UE is in the RRC connected state; suspending the RRC session and transitioning the UE device from the RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state based on the inactivity; determining a congested/overloaded state in the RAN; receiving an RRC resume request from the UE; and determining, using the stored context information, whether the UE is to be granted prioritized access to the RAN and transitioned to the RRC connected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Amir Saghir, Frank Jager
  • Patent number: 10694579
    Abstract: A communications terminal includes a transmitter configured to transmit signals via a wireless access interface to infrastructure equipment and to one or more of other communications terminals with a device-to-device communications protocol, a receiver configured to receive signals via the wireless access interface from the infrastructure equipment and from one or more of the other communications terminals with a device-to-device communications protocol, and a controller configured to control the transmitter and receiver to transmit and to receive data via the wireless access interface when in a connected mode and to select one of the one or more infrastructure equipment from which to receive paging messages for down-link communications when in an idle mode. The controller can enter a DRX-connected mode to control the receiver to only monitor a communications terminal acting as a relay node to determine whether the receiver can no longer receive paging messages from that communications terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Brian Alexander Martin, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 10694575
    Abstract: A method may be provided to operate a user equipment device, UE. The method may comprise, when operating with a short Transmission Time Interval (sTTI), and when using connected mode discontinuous reception, DRX, monitoring transmissions from a radio access network node during a first part of a subframe for a UE-specific message for the UE containing first control information. If no UE-specific message for the UE containing first control information is received, the UE may be inactive during a second part of the subframe following after the first part of the subframe. If the UE receives the UE-specific message containing first control information, it may monitor the second part of the subframe for a message containing second control information, for use in receiving or transmitting data from or to the radio access network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gustav Wikström, Niklas Andgart, Henrik Enbuske, Henrik Sahlin
  • Patent number: 10694388
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Torus-Quorum based channel rendezvous method for directional antennas. A pair of directional antennas facing any side initially points to the other party mutually in one Torus-Quorum system cycle through a rotation closure attribute of a Torus-Quorum system; and a receiver and a sender switch to a same available channel according to frequency hopping sequences to realize channel rendezvous. In the Torus-Quorum based channel rendezvous method for directional antennas proposed in the present invention, the directional antennas are rotated based on the Torus-Quorum, and elements are ensured to coincide with each other within limited time through the rotation closure attribute of the Torus-Quorum system, i.e., directions are opposite, thereby effectively shortening channel rendezvous time of the directional antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Wei Liang, Haibin Yu, Bo Yang, Meng Zheng, Shiwei Peng, Shiming Li
  • Patent number: 10691120
    Abstract: This communication system has a transmitter and a receiver for repeatedly transmitting a frame of steering signal having a plurality of channels. The transmitter stores an identification data of a control parameter of a specific operation object in a first empty channel within one frame and stores a characteristic data of the control parameter of the specific operation object in a second empty channel to transmit along with steering data of other channels. Since the identification data and the characteristic data are transmitted at the same time along with the control data, the control parameters can be changed during steering of the operation object. Since the characteristic data and the identification data are transmitted in the same frame as a pair, when at least the one frame is received, the setting of the control parameter can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10693613
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system supports a DRX operating mode for communications between a base station and terminal device, which includes a regular repeating cycle of DRX inactive periods when the terminal device monitors a downlink channel from the base station and DRX active periods when the terminal device enters a power-saving mode not monitoring the downlink channel. The terminal device transmits uplink signaling, triggering subsequent downlink signaling, that may include acknowledgement signalling for a previous downlink transmission or an uplink transmission resources request. The base station receives the uplink signalling, determines time of an upcoming DRX inactive period for the terminal device, and delays transmitting downlink signalling responding to the uplink signalling until the upcoming DRX inactive period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: CONVIDA WIRELESS, LLC
    Inventors: Jussi Kahtava, Derek John Richards
  • Patent number: 10694461
    Abstract: A method and mobile transceiver for asset tracking is provided. In one aspect, a method of operating a mobile transceiver comprising a processor, a memory, a satellite receiver, and at least one wireless transceiver is provided. The method comprises: determining whether the mobile transceiver is in a battery powered mode; activating the wireless transceiver from a low power mode; searching, via the wireless transceiver, for wireless services supported by the wireless transceiver; when more than one wireless service is available and the mobile transceiver is in a battery powered mode, selecting a most power efficient wireless service in accordance with a basic power profile of the available wireless services; when only one wireless service is available, selecting the available wireless service; and sending at least a portion of the data log to an asset tracking service using the selected wireless service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: José Eduardo Korneluk, Sergio Javier Berriz
  • Patent number: 10687282
    Abstract: Embodiments of a low-power wake-up radio (LP-WUR) are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a wireless device is set to a first state or a second state, wherein in the first state the wireless device is configured to receive wake-up (WU) packets, and wherein in the second state the wireless device is configured to not receive WU packets, wherein the wireless device comprises a WLAN radio and a low-power wake-up radio (LP-WUR). In some embodiments, the wireless device is configured to receive a wake-up packet, turn on the WLAN radio and turn off the LP-WUR. In some embodiments, the wireless device is configured to turn off the WLAN radio and turn on the LP-WUR for power conservation. In some embodiments, the wireless device turns off the WLAN radio and turns off the LP-WUR, and can periodically turn on the LP-WUR radio for extreme power saving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Robert J. Stacey, Minyoung Park
  • Patent number: 10687314
    Abstract: A data transmission method of a station (STA) device in a wireless LAN system is disclosed. The data transmission method of an STA device, according to the present invention, comprises: a receiving step of receiving an uplink data frame from a first STA, wherein the uplink data frame includes first receiving operating mode information indicating a receiving operating mode to be changed by the first STA; and a transmitting step of transmitting an ACK frame for the uplink data frame, wherein the ACK frame includes mode change acceptance information indicating whether to accept or reject the change in the receiving operating mode according to the receiving operating mode information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeyoung Choi, Kiseon Ryu, Jeongki Kim, Hangyu Cho, Suhwook Kim
  • Patent number: 10687280
    Abstract: A system of saving battery power in a battery powered Wi-Fi device. The system includes a battery powered Wi-Fi device configured to transmit a customized beacon frame from the battery powered Wi-Fi device to a Wi-Fi enabled device. The customized beacon frame includes battery status information. In another form, a method of saving battery power in a battery powered Wi-Fi device. The method includes transmitting a customized beacon frame from the battery powered Wi-Fi device to a Wi-Fi enabled device. The customized beacon frame includes battery status information. In another form, a system for saving sensor battery power includes a battery powered sensor configured to transmit a customized beacon frame from the battery powered sensor to a Wi-Fi enabled device. The customized beacon frame includes sensor data. Customized beacon frame may be sent from the Wi-Fi enabled device to a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Kumar Singh, Antony Baskar Arul
  • Patent number: 10681632
    Abstract: A station, a method performed by a station and a corresponding method performed by an access point (AP) of a network to allow the station to operate a wireless local area network (WLAN) radio in a sleep state until the WLAN radio is ready to receive a beacon from the AP. The station includes a low power (LP) radio configured to receive a wake up signal from an AP of a network to which the station is connected. The station further includes a WLAN radio configured to operate in a sleep state until the WLAN radio receives an indication from the LP radio that the wakeup signal has been received, wherein WLAN radio is further configured to operate in a fully awake state after receipt of the indication to receive a beacon from the AP indicating a data transmission is pending for the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Ramamurthy, Joonsuk Kim, Yong Liu, Christopher Hansen
  • Patent number: 10681618
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating informing a radio access network of the capabilities of a user equipment device with regard to switching and aggregation of streams received from master and secondary base station devices. Different user equipment device may have different capabilities with regard to aggregated and combining streams received from the base station devices (e.g., split bearer) or switching between the streams (fast switching). The embodiments described herein provide a way for the UE to inform the radio access network about the capabilities of the UE device. In an embodiment, in response to receiving a query from the radio access network, the UE can return via a UE resource capability information element, an indicator indicating the capabilities of the UE device. The indicator can be an integer bit that has different values depending on the capabilities of the UE device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Milap Majmundar, Yonghui Tong
  • Patent number: 10681636
    Abstract: In an embodiment, there is provided a method for optimization of network signalling load and/or User Equipment power consumption in a packet mobile system wherein an User Equipment UE has access to a network comprising a Core Network CN accessed by a Radio Access Network RAN, a method wherein CN assistance information is provided by said CN to said RAN for an UE, said CN assistance information including information determined in said CN based on a learning by said CN of a traffic pattern and/or a mobility pattern of said UE, and said CN assistance information is used in said RAN to adjust RAN parameters enabling to control transitions between idle and connected state and/or power consumption in connected state for said UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Bruno Landais, Alessio Casati
  • Patent number: 10681752
    Abstract: A cellular telecommunications network architecture is described where certain UEs are configured to assist the network to improve coverage in regions of poor radio conditions. In certain embodiments, appropriate UEs are selected to act as a dynamic, out-of-band coverage extensions. Network performance can thereby be improved when serving users at the cell edge (or in other poor radio condition regions of a cell). Data from UEs connected to those assisting UEs is encrypted to allow secure transit of data without requiring modification to the RAN or Core Network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: VODAFONE IP LICENSING LIMITED
    Inventors: Eric Murray, Peter Cosimini, Marco Angelo Pietro Del Bo, Javier Monedero, Tarek Elbasyouny, Maria Vazquez
  • Patent number: 10681723
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a base station. The apparatus may transmit an uplink grant to a UE during a first transmit opportunity. The apparatus may signal, during a second transmit opportunity, a grant trigger to the UE to trigger operations associated with the uplink grant that are uncompleted after the first transmit opportunity. The grant trigger may be associated with a set of UEs that includes the UE. The set of UEs may be a subset of the UEs having pending transmissions. The apparatus may instruct the UE regarding whether to keep or discard resources granted by the uplink grant when the UE switches to a different beam during or prior to the second transmit opportunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Chirag Patel, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Tamer Kadous, Tao Luo, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 10681692
    Abstract: A transmission resource mapping method and a device relating to the field of mobile communications technologies, where resource mapping is performed using a resource element block, a length of the resource element block in time domain is less than a length of a physical resource block in the time domain. Therefore, a mapping granularity can be reduced during resource mapping such that latency in a transmission process can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Sun, Jian Wang, Da Wang, Yanliang Sun
  • Patent number: 10673688
    Abstract: A system and method for improving network resiliency is disclosed. The system includes a network having a plurality of network devices and at least one controller. The controller is configured to create various scenes based on the inputs received from the network devices. The controller is also configured to provide alternate instructions to the network devices in the event that the controller is non-functional. The network devices utilize these alternate instructions when attempts to connect the controller are unsuccessful. In this way, the network is able to operate in a limited way even in the absence of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Salmony Olsen, Jørgen Franck, Peter Shorty, Anders T. Brandt
  • Patent number: 10674449
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for using a signal to wake up a user equipment (UE) that is in a low-power mode in a synchronized wireless communication system operating a shared radio frequency spectrum band. Once a base station wins a contention for a transmission opportunity in the shared radio frequency spectrum band, the base station may transmit a single signal before the transmission opportunity. After receiving the signal, the UE may begin monitoring for control information (e.g., control resource sets) associated with slots in the transmission opportunity. If the control information indicates that the content of the slot is for the UE, the UE may monitor the slot for its content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Taesang Yoo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Tamer Kadous, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 10674535
    Abstract: A system and method of subframe configuration in licensed-assisted access using long-term evolution (LAA-LTE) with carrier aggregation (CA). A wireless device such as an eNodeB (eNB) may transmit control information in a subframe from a secondary cell (SCell) in downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment (UE). The SCell may operate in an unlicensed band. The control information may indicate at least one of a non-ending subframe in a data burst, an ending subframe, and a duration of the ending subframe. The duration may be one of a predefined number of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol durations, and the ending subframe may be a partial or full subframe. A partial ending subframe may use a time slot structure in a time division duplexing (TDD) scheme, e.g., downlink pilot time slots (DwPTS). The eNB may then transmit to the UE data in the subframe according to the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jialing Liu, Weimin Xiao, Yuan Xia
  • Patent number: 10674400
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention relates to a method for performing communication by a terminal in a TDD-based wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises the steps of: configuring a PCell and an SCell, wherein the PCell and the SCell have different UL-DL configurations from each other; receiving information indicating a reference UL-DL configuration; and performing a signal processing operation according to a transmission direction indicated by the reference UL-DL configuration, in only a cell having the same transmission direction as the transmission direction indicated by the reference UL-DL configuration from among the PCell and the SCell, as for subframe # k1 in which transmission directions of the PCell and the SCell are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 10674542
    Abstract: A mechanism is proposed to reduce overhead at the expense of increasing latency for UEs with weak link gain, while the latency for most UEs may remain the same. In one aspect of this disclosure, a UE may determine the number of attempts for transmitting a RACH signal based on one or more of path loss, the transmit power of the UE, the beam correspondence at the UE, or the power of signals received during the synchronization subframe. The UE may transmit the RACH signal in the determined number of attempts. In another aspect of the disclosure, a base station may combine signals of one or more RACH attempts to decode a RACH signal. The base station may inform a UE regarding the number of RACH subframes that the base station uses for decoding the RACH signal through a random access response message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Junyi Li, Sundar Subramanian, Juergen Cezanne, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10674553
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a UE for ProSe communication, the method receiving, from a second UE with which a connection for direct communication with a first UE has not been established, a PC5 discovery message comprising information regarding the second UE resource state, and selecting a relay UE with consideration for the second UE resource state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Taehun Kim, Sunghoon Jung, Laeyoung Kim, Jaehyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10674508
    Abstract: A notification regarding a transition of a User Equipment (UE) from a standby operating mode to an active operating mode is exchanged between a UE and a network element in a communication network. The notification could be an uplink notification that is transmitted by the UE to the network element in response to an operating mode transition criterion for the UE being met at the UE, or a downlink notification that is transmitted by the network element to the UE in response to an operating mode transition criterion for the UE being met at the network element. The UE transitions from the standby operating mode to the active operating mode in response to the operating mode transition criterion being satisfied. The transmitter of the notification, which could be the UE or the network element, could also perform grant-free transmission of data without first receiving a response to the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qinghai Zeng, Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Mohammadhadi Baligh, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 10664130
    Abstract: An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method are provided in which enhanced information regarding an “availability” of a user of a handheld electronic device is provided to another electronic device in a messaging environment. Such availability data provides step-wise indications of the relative availabilities of one or more users of electronic devices in a messaging environment. The step-wise indications can, for instance, range from an availability level of “currently active” to several levels of nonavailability. The device and method can be incorporated into an existing messaging environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Gerhard D. Klassen, Christopher R. Wormald, Darcy R. Phipps, Craig A. Dunk
  • Patent number: 10667237
    Abstract: A method of determining a distance between mobile wireless devices can include determining a format and bandwidth supported by an initiating Station (STA) and a responding Station (STA) and exchanging one or more sets of Null Data Packet (NDP) frames between the initiating Station (STA) and the responding Station (STA) using the determined format and bandwidth. The distance between the initiating Station (STA) and the responding Station (STA) can then be determined based on timing measurements of the one or more sets of Null Data Packet (NDP) frames exchanged between the initiating Station (STA) and the responding Station (STA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Yongho Seok, Chao-Chun Wang, Chih-Shi Yee
  • Patent number: 10667327
    Abstract: A BSS to which a destination wireless communication apparatus of a physical layer frame belongs is identified, and accuracy of preamble detection is improved by changing a reception operation. A wireless communication apparatus includes a reception unit that detects a frame including information for identifying a BSS, and a control unit that switches between a first operation in a case where the frame is a frame which is associated with a BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs and a second operation in a case where the frame is a frame which is not associated with the BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs. Carrier sensing is not performed in the first operation, and the carrier sensing is performed in the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10667322
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for changing a connection state by user equipment in a light connection state using a paging message. The method of changing a connection state by user equipment may include receiving, from a base station, an radio resource control (RRC) message including instruction information for instructing state transition into a light connection state, configuring the connection state of the user equipment in the light connection state based on the instruction information, receiving a paging message for the user equipment, and determining to change the connection state of the user equipment based on a user equipment identifier included in the paging message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung-pyo Hong, Woo-jin Choi
  • Patent number: 10660033
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication at a UE. A user equipment (UE) may perform an initial access procedure to establish a connection with a serving cell. The UE may then arrange a regular transmission schedule with the serving cell including a discontinuous transmission (DTX) cycle and an acknowledgement schedule. The UE may enter a low power mode and refrain from any transmission during the a sleep interval of the DTX cycle. The UE may then wake up and transmit a message to the serving cell after the sleep interval without performing another access procedure. The UE may perform another access procedure to transmit at times not covered by the regular transmission schedule. For example, if an acknowledgement (ACK) for the message isn't received, the UE may perform another access procedure for retransmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Frank Anton Lane, Vincent Douglas Park
  • Patent number: 10660041
    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: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Young Cha, Hye Jeong Kim, Jung Hoon Ahn
  • Patent number: 10660038
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for generating wake-up radio (WUR) frames formats and implementing WUR communications between transmitting and receiving wireless devices. A transmitting wireless device may identify one or more intended receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame. The transmitting wireless device may generate the WUR frame, where the WUR frame has a first portion that includes a first field. The first field may indicate whether the WUR frame is a fixed length frame or a variable length frame. The transmitting wireless device may also determine a frame check sequence (FCS) type for use with a WUR frame for transmission. The FCS portion may be capable of being one of a plurality of FCS types. The transmitting wireless device may transmit the WUR frame to the one or more intended receiving wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Yanjun Sun, Santosh Paul Abraham, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 10660046
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for implementing network adaptation schemes, including small cell on/off adaptation and transmission power control. In an embodiment method for supporting network adaptation, a network component receives a discovery reference signal (DRS) from a network controller that is in a switch-off transmission mode. The network component then performs measurements according to the DRS, and reports the measurements to a network associated with the network controller. In return, the network component receives a radio resource control (RRC) signaling from the network. The RRC signaling includes configuration information allowing a connection between the network component and the network controller. The network component then connects with the network controller in accordance with the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jialing Liu, Weimin Xiao, Qian Cheng, Hossein Bagheri
  • Patent number: 10659132
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may monitor for a beam scanning period indicator from a base station; configure an interval for beam scanning; and beam scan with a set of beams at the interval for beam scanning. In some aspects, a base station may configure an interval for beam scanning by a user equipment; selectively provide, to the user equipment, a beam scanning period indicator identifying the interval for beam scanning; and provide at least one beam from a set of beams in a synchronization codebook to enable the user equipment to perform beam scanning using the interval. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Awlok Singh Josan, Jung Ryu, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 10660035
    Abstract: An improved method of dynamically scheduling clustering operations in a network includes determining if one or more conditions for reclustering are met before deciding to perform the next reclustering operation. Therefore, to achieve load balancing for a network, the method of dynamically scheduling clustering operations schedules reclustering operations only at required times. This may be based on various factors such as remaining node energy, node movements, the number of nodes in the clusters, and/or other conditions of the nodes in the network. Therefore, by, tuning the reclustering time dynamically, the method effectively controls the clustering overhead throughout the network lifetime and handles the mobility of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Inventors: Peyman Neamatollahi, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Saeid Abrishami
  • Patent number: 10652876
    Abstract: A method for receiving, by a terminal, control information in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: receiving search space information for a self-contained subframe having all of a downlink control symbol, a data symbol, and an uplink control symbol; determining control channel candidates in the downlink control symbol of the self-contained subframe on the basis of the search space information; and searching for downlink control information of the terminal from the determined control channel candidates, wherein the determined control channel candidates constitute at least two or more search spaces on the downlink control symbol, and the terminal can search for the downlink control information assuming a transmission scheme specific to a search space to which each control channel candidate belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Kijun Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 10652823
    Abstract: Systems and methods providing a wakeup receiver for latency-critical applications are described herein. An example system includes a wakeup receiver communicatively coupled to a communication channel. The wakeup receiver is configured to monitor an input signal of the communication channel and down-convert the input signal to a DC signal. The system also includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to digitize the DC signal and provide an ADC output. The system further includes a digital baseband (DBB) module configured to determine a received signal strength indication (RSSI) from the signal. The DBB is also configured to, for each packet, determine a respective packet length and compare the RSSI and respective packet length with a two-dimensional template. The DBB is additionally configured to, based on the comparison, determine an interrupt condition and, based on determining the interrupt condition, generate a wakeup signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: IMEC VZW
    Inventors: Ming Ding, Peng Zhang, Yan Zhang, Akio Hirata, Akifumi Nagao
  • Patent number: 10652730
    Abstract: A mechanism which can achieve enhanced network performance in wireless P2P groups is disclosed. A method for group reformation in wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, includes: monitoring traffic of a first device of a first P2P group, the first device communicating with a second device of at least one second P2P group; and altering group formation of the first and second P2P groups so as to put the first device and the second device together in a single P2P group, based on monitored traffic of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prakash Chaki, Masato Yasuda, Kazuaki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10652794
    Abstract: A centralized unit (CU) for handling a handover for a user equipment (UE), executing instructions of: the CU receiving a Handover Request message from a base station (BS) for requesting a handover from the BS to the CU, wherein the Handover Request message comprises the first UE configuration; the CU sending a UE Context Setup Request message comprising the first UE configuration to a distributed unit (DU); the CU receiving a UE Context Setup Response message for responding to the UE Context Setup Request message from the DU, wherein the UE Context Setup Response message comprises a first full configuration indicator and a second UE configuration; and the CU sending a Handover Request Acknowledge message comprising a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message to the BS in response to the Handover Request message, wherein the RRC message comprises the second UE configuration and a second full configuration indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 10652753
    Abstract: An operation method of a base station in a mobile communication system operating in an unlicensed band is provided. The method includes communicating data with a terminal in a first cell, confining signal transmission occasion to a starting symbol of at least one slot of a subframe of a second cell, occupying resources by sensing a band corresponding to the second cell, and communicating with the terminal on the occupied resources based on the signal transmission occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghoon Choi, Jinyoung Oh, Donghan Kim
  • Patent number: 10652840
    Abstract: A wireless device receives a first parameter indicating whether simultaneous physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission is configured for a primary cell of a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells comprise the primary cell and a PUCCH secondary cell. Based on the first parameter and the PUCCH secondary cell being deactivated, a first power headroom (PH) comprising a first Type 2 PH field for the primary cell is transmitted. Independent of the first parameter and based on the PUCCH secondary cell being activated, a second PH report comprising a second Type 2 PH field for the primary cell is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 10645612
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless communication device provided with: a transmission signal generation unit that generates an A-PPDU that has a legacy preamble, a legacy header, data fields allocated to each of a plurality of different STAs, a plurality of non-legacy headers in which various types of information relating to the plurality of data fields are described, and a plurality of non-legacy preambles; and a transmission unit that transmits the A-PPDU in a wireless manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Masataka Irie
  • Patent number: 10645607
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided herein for improving carrier aggregation for wireless networks. A plurality of bandwidth channels are assigned to a basic service set (BSS) for transmissions. Specifically, the bandwidth channels are divided into multiple channel segments corresponding to multiple primary or alternate primary channels. A channel segment possibly further includes one or more additional secondary channels. The locations of the primary or alternate primary channels that correspond to the channel segments of the BSS are then broadcasted in the network. When a station or AP receives this BSS information, it searches for an available primary or alternate primary channel of the BSS to begin transmission. Upon detecting an available primary channel or alternate primary channel that is not used for another transmission, the station or AP transmits data on the channel segment corresponding to the detected primary or alternate primary channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osama Aboul-Magd, Kwok Shum Au, Jung Hoon Suh
  • Patent number: 10645751
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for configuring a DRX timer in a carrier aggregation, the method comprising: configuring with a first cell group including at least one first cell and a second cell group including at least one second cell served by an e-NodeB; receiving two set of DRX timer values, receiving a PDCCH signal from the first cell or the second cell; applying one of the first set of DRX timer value or the second set of DRX timer value to the DRX timer; monitoring PDCCH signals for the first cell and the second cell while the DRX timer is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungjune Yi, Sunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: RE48064
    Abstract: A method for transmitting information data by using a Reed-Muller coding scheme in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes configuring a number of resource elements for transmitting the information data; dividing the information data to first information data and second information data if a bit size O of the information data is equal to or larger than a predetermined number; applying RM coding on each of the first information data and the second information data; concatenating the coded first information data and the coded second information data, and transmitting the concatenated data by using the predetermined number of resource elements, wherein a minimum value Q?min for the number of resource elements is defined by a sum of a minimum value Q?min_1 for the number of resource elements corresponding to the first information data and a minimum value Q?min_2 for the number of resource elements corresponding to the second information data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiwoong Jang, Moonil Lee, Jaehoon Chung, Seunghee Han, Hyunsoo Ko